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We really needed a thread for the world's premier type of music, so I created one, and here it is.

Rock on!

Hedfix wrote:
> RATM

I wouldnt really class Rage as heavy metal. They're not quite rock, not quite hip-hop. Funk maybe? Whatever you want to call them, they were a damn good band. It really sucks that the american government blackmailed Zakk De La Rocha into breaking the band up, or so go the rumors in several chatrooms ive been in....i dunno.

for those that like hardcore style metal,
check out a Canadian band called "Swallowing Sh*t" (obviously with an "i" instead of the * :) ). they're brilliant. the album is fairly cheap as it's not released by a huge label and it's a blistering 15 tracks of mischief. none of the songs are very long, but some of the titles include:

"if assholes could fly, this place would be an airport"
"Christian rock = Nazi reggae"
"i heard songs about animal rights aren't cool anymore"

and if there's one thing i love it's a band in a usually "serious" genre that have a sense of humour, whilst still making excellent music.

so yeah, check out "Swallowing S**t", and also "The Almighty Punchdrunk" (www.hevydevy.com), they're also fantastic :)

From Zero are a great band I discovered a few months back. They're somewhere around Drowning Pool/Linkin Park in sound.

Damn. Whoever was advocating listening to Finger Eleven was right!

If you want some really heavy stuff, I reccomend Gorgasm: Perfect moshing music. Heavily influenced by Napalm Death, but a bit more musical.

I'd class RATM as Hip Hop Metal.

Not "Rap Metal", Hip Hop metal.

Cause frankly, in my personal opinion RATM stand out as one of my faveourite band's of all time. Amazing lyrics, Amazing guitarist, Amazing band.

Awesome.

Damn Slayer rock too much :P

Not particularly to do with metal, but fans of heavy music with an open mind may like Error. They have one of the guys outta Nine Inch Nails and Brett Gurewitz out of Bad Religion. They've only got a 5 track self-titled EP out at the mo, but I got it and it's great. The sticker on the front describes it as 'Electro-Hardcore-Punk', but there's influences from Digital-Hardcore and Industrial metal. Some moments in the tracks 'Burn in Hell' and 'Jack The Ripper' kinda remind me of Marilyn Manson (not particularly a fan of him, but my brother is so I've heard much of his stuff).

Anyway, you can download the first track of the EP if you go to www.epitaph.com and scroll on the bands list to Error. Then there's some more info about the band as well as the tracklisting so you can download the first track 'Nothings Working'. Tis good.

The Download Festival at Donnington would HAVE to be classed as a metal concert. Slipknot, korn, metallica, not too sure about linkin park though, more sort of....nu-metal than heavy metal, and nu-metal is quite definitely dead.

Poison The Well

Slayer are there too. Metallica and Slayer on my birthday. Pity I have no money. And AS level exams over the following week. Maybe next year.