So i listened to Deftones white pony, and I would put them in the same category as Nirvana, Grunge Rock.

Lmao. That’s extremely far off. Grunge died out in the mid 90s. White Pony was released in 2000. Deftones were nu metal then escaped the genre and started doing their own thing.

@Heat Thoughts?

Deftones are kinda their own thing but they fall closest to metal. Alternative metal like SOAD is probably the best way to characterize them.

Are we counting industrial metal? If so, The Downward Spiral is a classic.

Great album but I’d put NIN as industrial rock. They definitely have some heavy moments though.

To each their own my metal friend.

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Lmao. That’s extremely far off. Grunge died out in the mid 90s. White Pony was released in 2000. Deftones were nu metal then escaped the genre and started doing their own thing.

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Deftones are kinda their own thing but they fall closest to metal. Alternative metal like SOAD is probably the best way to characterize them.

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Great album but I’d put NIN as industrial rock. They definitely have some heavy moments though.

Grunge never dies, there bands out there today, doing the same o shit they did in the 90s.

At least we agree on NIN 🤘

A lot of those bands are post-grunge. The only grunge band I know of now that's still touring is Pearl Jam, but there's probably others

HYSTERICA Time for some Ladies of Metal

A lot of those bands are post-grunge. The only grunge band I know of now that's still touring is Pearl Jam, but there's probably others

I can turn on the radio to any rock station, and hear the same stuff they did in the 90s, thats why I don't listen to radio anymore.

Dude that's just...the radio.

Dude that's just...the radio.

Isn't that what i just said ? Your confusing me, and I'm not even high yet. 😎

Yeah but we were talking about touring

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You consider NIN metal?, i like NIN, but i don't consider them metal.

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Great album but I’d put NIN as industrial rock. They definitely have some heavy moments though.

I mean, I'd consider the album to get into metal terriorty enough to call it a metal album. Wouldn't call NIN a metal band, though. I'd say they just dabble in the genre occasionally, they are really more industrial rock. But, y'know, you say pot-a-to, I say pot-ah-to.

Yeah but we were talking about touring

No lol you are, i am talking about the radio playing bands that sound like what the 90s offered 😁

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I mean, I'd consider the album to get into metal terriorty enough to call it a metal album. Wouldn't call NIN a metal band, though. I'd say they just dabble in the genre occasionally, they are really more industrial rock. But, y'know, you say pot-a-to, I say pot-ah-to.

Yeah, exactly. Not everyone will be in agreement, but that's okay, it's not about us, it's about the music we enjoy listening to.

Not everyone agrees that Iron Butterfly was the first step into Metal, they laid the foundation.

NIGHTWISH they have switched lead singers so much, that I don't know who the newest one is, but this is my fave singer, Tarja.

I'm honestly a pleb when it comes to metal knowledge, but there are a handful of metal records that I've honestly enjoyed start to finish:

Metallica:

• Ride the Lightning
• The Black Album
• Kill Em All

Dream Theater

• Octavarium
• Metropolis P2 - Scenes from a Memory
• Images and Words
• Systematic Chaos

Body Count

• Manslaughter

Nevermore

• Dead Heart in a Dead World

Iced Earth - I know Jon is a shit human being now but he and his band has made some killer music, so meh.

• Dark Saga
• Horror Show
• Dystopia

Between the Buried and Me

• Colors
• The Anatomy of...

Rhapsody (of Fire)

• Symphony of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Saga
• The Frozen Tears of Angels

Manowar

• Battle Hymns
• Warriors of the World
• Gods of War

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Agalloch - The Mantle

1184 by Windir
Caledonia by SuidAkrA
Crush the Insects by Reverend Bizarre
Eppur Si Muove by Haggard
Holy Mountain by Sleep
Höstmakter by Mörker
Inferno by Motörhead
Let Battle Commence by Doomsword
L'Ordure à l'état Pur by Kommando Peste Noire
The Mantle by Agalloch
Nailbomb by Nailbomb
Nordland by Bathory
Nordland II by Bathory
Sons of Northern Darkness by Immortal
Uit Oude Grond by Heidevolk
When the Kite Strings Pop by Acid Bath

Recently came across this band...

Bloody Hammers

Bloody Hammers

Hammerfall

REBELLION

Right so I'm just gonna list my favourite album from my favourite 10 metal bands, links are to track I like off of that album, and this list is in no particular order:

The other day was going to add 'Battles in the North' by Immortal and come back to the thread to see two other Immortal records added :)

Nice to see Sleep and Bathory get a mention and I recommend Dopesmoker and Blood Fire Death respectively.

Need some grindcore in this thread now and a classic I go back to is;



There were earlier grindcore albums but this is just perfect and I remember it getting slated upon release but there are some really catchy hooks and under the surface songmanship that would come out in later records. There is a real playfulness and tongue in cheek humour to the lyrics and presentation that sadly spawned a billion imitators and shitty gross out grind / pornogrind who kind of didn't understand what this record was really about.

Also a really underated Death Metal album is Bolt Thrower's 'Realm of Chaos'



It wasn't long after this that every single Death Metal album sounded the same Cong out of Morrisound in Florida and whilst I loved a lot of them this record stands out as being really heavy compared to them. They had the 40K tie in and decades later it still sounds like the perfect soundtrack to eternal pointless war in a bleak fascist universe. It sounds like thundering through deep space in a giant space hulk. One that has definitely aged well for me.