Comments on: Quality of Heavy Metal

By: clom666

clom666 — Sun, 08 May 2011 01:54:05 +0000

oh hang on forgot Miss May I

By: clom666

clom666 — Sun, 08 May 2011 01:51:24 +0000

hey does sevenfold count as metal what about ADTR disturbed what about lordi ,slipknot ,papa roach and i know im straining myself but Skindred

… oh yeah and System of A Down

By: Crossbones

Crossbones — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:36:31 +0000

don’t be hatin’ on the core scene now. As I Lay Dying? good stuff. I’m a metalhead through and through, but also like (good) metalcore

By: Crossbones

Crossbones — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:33:15 +0000

“Heavy Metal” has pretty much fallen into disuse, as the metal genre has splintered in the last 30 years ish. In just the Melodic Death subgenre, there are good 21st century acts like Scar Symmetry, Kalmah, Arch Enemy, Insomnium, Dulcamara, Made of Hate, and Mors Principium Est. Sure most of these bands started in the 90s but really hit their stride in the past decade. Stop looking at the iTunes charts and you’ll see that there’s some good stuff out there.

By: Crossbones

Crossbones — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:22:37 +0000

love Red but it ain’t metal. Maaaaybe you could possibly construe it as borderline Alternate Metal, but that’s it. Fundamentally, they’re a rock band (although their concerts have the intensity of a metal gig).

If any of you are into the aforementioned Melodeath and like underground bands, Check out Dulcamara, out of Toledo, Spain.

By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:12:36 +0000

back then it wasn’t just metal, there was glam, thrash, speed, heavy, hard rock, black, NWOBHM

and there are good new groups out there. There’s a new wave of thrash metal Gama bomb, Crysys, Bonded by blood, Aggression.d rock bands In sweden there’s a a lot of good hard rock bands. all you have to do is try that little bit harder to find them, dig a little bit deeper get past all of the commercialized metal and you’ll find pure metal

By: thetrooper

thetrooper — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:30:40 +0000

@ ferris
EVERYONE!!!!!!!! SHE IS A WHORE

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:18:42 +0000

I would agree with this graph if “Heavy Metal” was replaced with “Popular Heavy Metal”. The difference today with music in general is that most the good stuff has gone “underground” to some degree or another.

By: xXDarkAngelXx

xXDarkAngelXx — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:58:42 +0000

Metal bands don’t call themselves Heavy Metal anymore and Death Metal is better than ever

By: DG

DG — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:49:47 +0000

ever listen to The Faceless, Within the Ruins, The Acacia Strain, modern Cannibal Corpse, Sylosis, or Burning the Masses? They may be classified as different versions of “death metal”, but they are heavy and they are metal so therefore they are all “heavy metal”. And if after listening to these bands, someone think that the quality of metal has declined, then they are in need of a lobotomy.

By: Andrei Armand

Andrei Armand — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:08:22 +0000

NDH ftw <3

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:51:06 +0000

Obviously you’ve never heard Kamelot

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:38:26 +0000

well today every one lissens to that slobbered guy or something, and spinning a head around, WTF
I listen to METALLICA WOOT
I have mostly rolling stones and metallica and some other new aged metal thats not all just screeming in to the microphone

By: Rekaoi

Rekaoi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:40:08 +0000

Funny graph, made me laugh; It’s also very true.

By: Hans Ruedi

Hans Ruedi — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:31:21 +0000

Ja! Wieso lutschen sie nicht meinen Schwanz?

By: David Michaels

David Michaels — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:27:38 +0000

Death to all but METAL!

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:46:13 +0000

Open anus, remove stick.

By: Eokeer

Eokeer — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:47:11 +0000

What does the BBQ of OMGWTFBBQ mean?

By: Marekatt

Marekatt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:10:30 +0000

So that’s where South Park got the theme for the hallusinations in the cat urin episode!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:08:03 +0000

If I were to reccomend some other songs by these bands, because I think Redneck is a terrible representation of Lamb of God, and I’ve never been a big fan of To Sirius, I would say listen to Laid to Rest or Walk With Me in Hell for Lamb of God and Ocean Planet, Backbone, or Vacuity for Gojira

By: Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:35:14 +0000

Sad But True. New Metal bands (and Nu Metal) are nowhere near as good, with few exceptions.

SOAD, Disturbed, and A7X (after the screaming phase) are good, but nobody else really is. Luckily we have awesome old-school bands that are still rocking hard! Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath), Megadeth, NOT GUNS N ROSES!, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Slayer, etc. are still kicking ass! And of course us from Metallica are too! \m/

By: Daniel McLaurin

Daniel McLaurin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:17:11 +0000

M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C-A

By: KEVIN

KEVIN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:35:27 +0000

BACK IN THE 80S IT WAS IRON MAIDEN ,OZZY ,JUDAS PRIEST MUSIC LIKE THAT. NOW THAT WAS METAL

By: =^-^=

=^-^= — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:35:14 +0000

By: rawr...

rawr... — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:40:05 +0000

I for one like Rammstein…but no one ever asks me. Not exactly metal…see, we need to quit naming bands in genres and need to start just telling people to listen to the dang music. Most of the time, I’ll listen to a band and they’ll grow on me. I have some Jamie T., Why?, the Zelda Twilight Princess OST, Rammstein, and a heck of a lot of other things on my list too…JUST BECAUSE I LISTENED TO THEM INSTEAD OF SAYING “OH THAT’S (insert genre here for easy quotation) AND I HATE (reinsert).

Geebus.

Oh, and I for one don’t quite like Hannah Montana, because she has no talent. Cute though.

By: KP Love

KP Love — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:41:09 +0000

Red is about as metal as Evanescence.

By: Cyrill

Cyrill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:19:45 +0000

not so funny but it is true

By: winternets

winternets — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:03:15 +0000

Bonus points to you for mentioning Scar Symmetry.

By: Isolated Ass

Isolated Ass — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:26:27 +0000

ATR and BMTH ain’t metal.

I rest my case.

By: ...

... — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:54:18 +0000

Just cuz’ you like new school doesn’t mean you have to rag on old school…

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:25:27 +0000

There is a band called Band, Them, and Yes. I love talking about Them.
“I just LOVE Them!”
“Who”?
“Them!”
“Who is that? And where are they?”

By: Cuisine!

Cuisine! — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:55:41 +0000

I like that you listed only a few relevant bands. Bob marley and mozart are hardcore metal you know…

By: jon

jon — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:57:28 +0000

its a joke graph people!

By: Uzigawa

Uzigawa — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:56:18 +0000

haha, hannah montana, hilarious

By: Leyala

Leyala — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:17:17 +0000

That is death metal, not heavy

By: tyler

tyler — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:22:53 +0000

since you mentioned ATR, your comment wins and shall never, ever be debated.

By: lunar

lunar — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:20:44 +0000

Apparently this graph was made in 2000.

By: Brad:D

Brad:D — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:18:29 +0000

1990s metal was awesome! pantera!

By: Matt Wix

Matt Wix — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:39:18 +0000

Lamb of God. All That Remains. Bring Me The Horizon (To an extent).

I rest my case.

By: CryWolf

CryWolf — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:12:06 +0000

And also Kamelot – Epica got their name from one of Kamelot’s albums. Blind Guardian. Mystic Prophecy. And too many others to name.

I will say that Dragonforce is getting better. They seem to be slowing down, which lets them do stuff other than wail on the instruments, and the singer is staying more within his range.

For fun, compare early and recent albums by some bands, such as Amorphis and Therion.

By: J Hopeless

J Hopeless — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:11:33 +0000

apperently you havent scratched the surface deep enough to find good metal. The “mainstream” metal is very crappy and bands like disturbed, dragonforce, and avenged sevenfold should just stop calling themselves metal cuz they arent at all heavy. But there are bands like Lamb Of God, Daath, and Bring Me The Horizon which would, hopefully, make you reconsider your graph. You can’t tell me that sucky bands like poison sound better than Lamb Of God unless you are experiencing some wierd mid-life crisis or something.

By: anaceofkidneys

anaceofkidneys — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:16:52 +0000

I thought the hot new thing to call your crappy band was “indie”. Or is that old news already?

By: MK1K

MK1K — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:52:54 +0000

No. It’s not opinion, it’s quality, which DragonForce does not have.

By: UofLnMU

UofLnMU — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:45:18 +0000

Yeah, unless you’re a 49 year old man.

Yeah.

By: Zodiac

Zodiac — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:38:38 +0000

i agree 100%. just because you like old school doesnt mean you need to rag on new school

By: monnanon

monnanon — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:18:56 +0000

agreed 110% except for one thing. not really heavy metal but who cares they are BRUTAL

By: monnanon

monnanon — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:16:17 +0000

Tarja was the lead singer with nightwish, her solo stuff is ok

By: monnanon

monnanon — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:15:27 +0000

I don think you have listed any heavy metal bands here but almost all of them are brilliant bands. most are the symphonic rock (nightwish and epica) and tristania and sirena kind of border on death metal.
Heavy metal is the likes of judas priest, Iron maiden and the likes.

What i will say about this graph is maybe heavy metal has got worse but there are a lot of brilliant bands that have sprung up around it that make up for that.

By: Kraas

Kraas — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:18:48 +0000

Let me qualify my previous statement: a lot of it is obscure from a United States point of view. Gamma Ray et al are probably not considered obscure in Europe.

By: Kraas

Kraas — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:17:29 +0000

There is still good Metal around today, it’s just obscure. Which only makes it cooler.