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Therapy
Acid Reign
Clutch and just get their entire back catalogue. Absolutely brilliant band and every album is different yet quintessentially Clutch. One of their more recent songs (Hot Bottom Feeder) is a recipe for crab cake. No other band could pull that off.
Highly Suspect and Idles if you want something from the last few years.
To pick any is to miss out on too much, but any excuse to post up some videos 😁
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_QCjmZnUmM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tOUxDN8cvto
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=up0_z448pkc
Oh yes, now this is what I call a proper thread😁 Pretty much every band I’d recommend has already been mentioned - has Sepultura already been mentioned?
If you like a bit of late 70’s stuff, Overkill by Motörhead is an absolute classic album. Remember going to see them live in ‘79 with a pal who was a Genesis prog fan - he was not impressed....I f***in’ loved it!
p.s. that Budgie vid brought back some memories😄
Anthrax
Queens of the Stone age
Another few, Swedish Metal/Rock bands that were formed in the era you know so well.. and are still going strong. Suppose the moral of that story is good music is simply good music
Electric Boys... probably best if you search for the 90’s stuff then come right up to the current stuff..
Treat... Early stuff was excellent, then they went through the thashy phase but came out all rock n roll.. classy.
Europe... WOW now hold on!! Yeah buttttttt, they really are very good and the guitarist plays some sublime rock chord sequences.. listen out for them.
TNT... yeah! One of my early fave bands of that era, just loved the harmonies and drilled rhythm riffs.. worth checking out Tell No Tails and ignoring the very mediocre mixing..
Moving more stateside:
White Lion... obvz is obvz, awesome band... simply awesome. Thick rhythms, chunky riffs, searing leads, off beat 5ths, and Mike..
Ratt... My all time favourite Metal/Rock band of that era... I can recite all the words off Invasion of your Privacy (no, they don’t value it) Listen to Warren chunk out those riffs on Lay It Down.
Dokken.. Early to mid stuff before the fall out, George Lynch is one of the greatest unsung guitar players of that era... and the simple 4 piece structure certainly cranked out pure metal with sublime harmonies..
Great White... a few searing tracks, some great writing and more rock n roll than most could poke a g-string at.
and ...
Tesla.... oh boy, did I wear out that tape of Mechanical Resonance... Modern Day Cowboy will be played at my funeral... a swan song if ever there was one to write.
One of their more recent songs (Hot Bottom Feeder) is a recipe for crab cake. No other band could pull that off.
No other band could appropriate mundane text and use as lyrics? Skeptical 🤨 (Just joking, I get it was hype/rhetoric)
Reminds me, Brit proggers Thumpermonkey took a 419-type Nigerian spam mail as the lyric and wrote an epic with it
My two favourites at the moment are Parkway Drive and Lamb of God. Off to see Airborne in Cardiff next weekend not heard the new album yet though. Slipknot's new album is good, got tickets for them in the new year too
Flussbarsch Panzer if you like a bit of eurometal
Seether, Shinedown.
Lots of great stuff already mentioned - I'll +1 to Five Finger Death Punch, Rammstein, Alter Bridge.
Pixies. Maybe not the same vein but inspired a generation
The Wildhearts the intro is epic on this but theres sooo many
Cant link s video...
Those damn crows are a good shout.
Wildhearts. Yes!
Tesla. Yes!
Europe. Again, yes! Some of their recent stuff is ace.
Jamesoz beat me to it with Acid Reign, North Yorkshire's metal peak, Scarborough to Harrogate covered
The new album is a bit of a cracker in my opinion. Saw them last time round and the reboot, great fun live.
Apologies for any repeats...
Architects
At the Gates
All That Remains
Alter Bridge
Boysetsfire
Deftones (pre-White Pony)
Jinjer
Killswitch Engage
A Day to Remember
Arch Enemy
As I Lay Dying (new album is a banger)
Burn the Priest
Lamb of God
In Flames
Clutch
Devildriver
Down
Hatebreed
Ignite
Mudvayne
Sepultura
The Blueprint
Earthtone 9
Thrice
White Zombie
Tool
Slipknot
One Minute Silence
Machine Head (not Catharsis which is a total turd)
Life of Agony
Vision of Disorder
Earth Crisis
Misfits
Pennywise
Korn
Loving this a lot at the mo...
Ooh there are some gems on here, loving the oh sees, mighty hawkwind, Motörhead.
Nobody’s said these guys, much under rated, lost within the cock rock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAIMlISHhU
And, if we can have the oh sees, let’s have these guys, getting more metal as they go
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_Si21ig7c
Then, following on from the pixies suggestion, there is this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=59Rf8ICjDKU
Was going to mention the WizardGizzardLizards but they are all over the place with genres. Not a bad thing in my book. From full on retrometal ie ‘Rattlesnake’, through prog and winsome pop rock, to the more Afro-Cuban rock/Santana-ish stuff, esp ‘The River’. As always - the best live recordings IMO are captured by the amazing engineers at KEXP. This is ace, in the hole and in the pocket:
Mastodon
This was pretty much how it was done BITD.. A fabulous rock n roll band, a stage, some really bloody random video sequence that made no sense whatsoever... yet, the music just blitzed it.
I posted above Tesla and Modern Day Cowboy, here's the vid:
It seems one band has been missed off this massive list we've constructed... Yeah, can you guess who they are?
Well, spandex was their game, coke n hookers most certainly their aim, hairspray and bandanas their costume... but what a lot of people miss is they were exceptional songwriters, musicians of a genre where riffology meant chugging B-flats meant "muso" but these guys just made Rock sound like Rock.. They played from the heart, and were the Real Deal.
Motley Crue.. yeah I know right...
But Yeah, mega awesome...
Blind melon
Live
Smashing pumpkins
Mate theres just soooooo much.
It's one of the reasons spotify is quite useful
but they are all over the place with genres
Covers band danger, but sometimes a copy is as good as, or better than, the original, as it in the nutty
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtTi_uyYynA
Anyway, these guys rock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R44Qh2P7wo0
Bloody love Dream Theater!
That's it, I'm in the mood for listening to Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence on the 'loud' headphones now, both discs back-to-back 😎
Oh and if you can find them on a streaming site try Kerbdog, thier On The Turn album is also heavily repeated in the car regularly.
Rage Against The Machine
Lacuna Coil
Pearl jam
Possibly the finest band still touring
Killing Joke never get enough mentions in metal threads. They are legends. Saw/heard ‘Extremities...’ live in Digbeth on launch - it was like a ****ing tsunami smacked to pieces by a hurricane. Best hard rock performance I’ve ever witnessed, bar none. Martin Atkins (PiL) was on drums. Three hours of precise destruction.
Gojira.
Opeth - Bleak.
Danzig - first 2 albums.
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing.
Senser - Stacked Up.
Slayer - Reign in Blood.
Deep Purple - best of!
Testament - Practice What You Preach.
Death Angel - Act III.
Metallica - Puppets.
Living Colour - Cult of Personality.
Forgot a few...
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise.
At The Drive-In.
And some Radio Birdman
Porcupine Tree. Good call.
Fear of a Blank Planet is full on sonic assault.
Especially Anaesthetize. Plug it in to a good system, and go to eleven.
I'm not sure if Rabea has been mentioned yet, but he and his mates are excellent muso's and by that I mean exceptional...
Not really my "thing" but I just admire his playing ability and they certainly "do" metal.
Toska:
Overkill and on parole were classic albums, my older sister won the original motorhead album in a radio 1 competition from before they signed to a major label, it was printed on white vinyl (white line fever album). I think it got released by their original record co once they'd left and had some success elsewhere. Many years later I took it to a record collectors fayre believing it to be a priceless one off only to be shown a wad of them in his rack and valued at £5 max.
No other band could appropriate mundane text and use as lyrics? Skeptical 🤨 (Just joking, I get it was hype/rhetoric)
Tongue firmly in cheek and anything but mundane 😀
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTrHrGSeNM
And one about recycling bins
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2cLEykjKJs
Alice in chains. For something a bit different give Nine inch Nails, Fugazi and the Minutemen a spin. On you tube nine inch nails have a superb concert titled Vevo presents- well worth a watch.
There are a lot of fantastic bands listed so far but I don’t see
Periphery
Monuments
Devil wears Prada
Sylosis
Meshugga
Cult of Luna
After the Burial
Malefice
Northlane
Chelsea grin
Whitechapel
Anyone mentioned Papa Roach? Their newer stuff is great.
I saw Chelsea Grin in the tent at Download a few years ago. Surprisingly entertaining.
Bring me the Horizon.
If you like Motely Crue, then Black Veil Brides. Oh, Sixx:A.M. obvs.
Volbeat.
Parkway Drive are pretty awesome. The Sword, Red Fang, And bizarrely its a yes to Babymetal as well.
Anyone mentioned Papa Roach? Their newer stuff is great.
I saw Chelsea Grin in the tent at Download a few years ago. Surprisingly entertaining.
Bring me the Horizon.
If you like Motely Crue, then Black Veil Brides. Oh, Sixx:A.M. obvs.
Bring me the Horizon’s latest album is an absolute turd! Bloody love Sempiternal though.