Tell me a band thats gonna blow me away

Steoob

hey all im sick of not finding any new bands lately.. well good ones anyway.. i'll never forget when i first heard opeth..they were the last band to freak me out in terms of sending shivers down my spine...im actually coming to the point were i think ive heard and judges pretty much every metal band there is... ive used last.fm for months now and i still haven't found anyone new... maybe like strapping young lad are the only band to come close but theyre still not what im looking for...

help me please!

Karl Hungus

Have you heard Atheist?

Laguna

Girls Aloud... oh!, you said blow you away

Doctor J

Symbyosis

Cynic

Aghora

Mastodon

John

In addition to the Doc's and Mr Hungus' suggestions I'd tell you to listen to Death. I'd also highly recommend Pelican.

Necronomicon

You into Testament? They definately blew me away when I first started listening, still do.

Pugsley

Athiest, Pelican, Death, Morbid Angel, Opeth, Behemoth, Mithras.

Shiminay

Beneath The Massacre - I was absolutely astounded by them the first time I heard them - it was relentless!

Lump Basher

Laguna wrote:

Girls Aloud... oh!, you said blow you away

hilarious......and totally unpredictable.

Steoob

ive heard athiest...think theyre great... im not too fond of death i LOVE testament.. but as for the rest i shall check them out now.. thanks y'all

Tar.Aldarion

Isis, pelican, thomas konner, godflesh, Tim Hecker, Swans, Neurosis, Codeine, J.k Broderick are my suggestions atm.

John

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Isis, pelican, thomas konner, godflesh, Tim Hecker, Swans, Neurosis, Codeine, J.k Broderick are my suggestions atm.

You may as well through Jesu in there for good measure. I was going to suggest Swans but I think Steoob likes things fast. Still, more people should listen to Swans. They cure cancer.

Dathai

Samael, Svartsyn, Vader.

moonboy

samael \m/ mastadon \m/ pelican \m/ entombed \m/

LightofDarkness

Beneath The Massacre (as mentioned before), Cryptopsy, Gory Blister, Demilich (all material recently made freely available on their website), Infester, !T.O.O.H.!, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Arsis, Behold... The Arctopus, Enslaved, Deathspell Omega, Hate, Necrophagist, Psychotic Waltz, Psyopus, Spawned By Rot, Spawn of Possession, Ephel Duath, Pestilence, Mr. Bungle, Psycroptic. Try all that out for now. If you think you've heard all metal has to offer then think again!

Mystic Fibrosis

Carcass.

That is all.

EpiphoneSpecial

We Are Scientists
Seether
Nine Black Alps

senordingdong

Trivium?

If you're into that sort of thing.

Shiminay

One more - Fantomas! Madness

Per Liefsonson

The Meads of Asphodel! Black metal mixed with Eastern and medieval music!

ANarcho-Munk

Steob, check out Munincipal Waste.

Doctor J

Listen to Symbyosis here

adox

http://www.sikth.com/

Den_M

Nevermore will blow you away.
Simply the best band around today.

Hmm that wasn't meant to rhyme..

Mystic Fibrosis

Den_M wrote:

Nevermore will blow you away.
Simply the best band around today.

Hmm that wasn't meant to rhyme..

I fully endorse this product/service.

The Bollox

well Trivium are the **** IMO I'm going to see them for the second time in March

another band I recently got into are Dragonforce, brilliant stuff! I mean check out their lead guitarist, Herman Li's, hair!

pbsuxok1znja4r

The Fall Of Troy, Saosin, Thrice, The Mars Volta, Finch, Pelican, Glassjaw, Refused.
All are bands that I would place in the "blow me away" category.

Steoob

ok so ive checked out alot of the bands here...pelican are very cool although its seems like theyre trying to emulate opeth too much... their song structures are all the same its odd...

doc i really wanna check out symbyosis but the files in that link dont work...

never are ****in class!...but i just cannot listen to them due to the gayest singing ive ever heard...why do band let their singers **** them up like that? *cough* trivium *cough*

once again sikth..dont like the singing...

checkin out carcass now ive heard very good things about them so im hopin theyre good...

thanks for the suggestions i really thought nevermore came close to blowing me away but then it was like NO hate the singin..but o well

on the plus side ive fallen back in love with opeth... i heard april ethereal the other day for the first time in ages and when i heard the solo/post solo i nearly squirted myself and when i heard the outro i did....

John

Steoob wrote:

ok so ive checked out alot of the bands here...pelican are very cool although its seems like theyre trying to emulate opeth too much... their song structures are all the same its odd...

Really? I don't get an Opeth vibe off them at all (apart from them both having really long songs!).

Steoob

John2 wrote:

Really? I don't get an Opeth vibe off them at all (apart from them both having really long songs!).

ya thats what i meant they dont really sound the same they rip off their structure...almost exavtly actually...theres some song with a creepy fade in...acoustic breakdown...piano outro... sound familiar?

The Free Man

scouser.tommy wrote:

The Mars Volta

yay!

Shiminay

I can see your point...

Trivium - there's a band I don't get. Was watching one of the TV channels (Kerang or Scuzz - can't remember which) and heard the start of one of their songs and thought "funk me!" Then the "take me to the prom" singing started and it just destroyed the whole thing It is NOT a good idea to try and *sing* over metal or in the middle of a metal song, it just upsets the balance (and this listener).

Dragonforce are worthy of a listen, might not blow you away, but if you like guitar, it'll certainly impress. They're playing over here in March I think too, might check them out.

Pugsley

Kharn wrote:

Dragonforce are worthy of a listen, might not blow you away, but if you like guitar, it'll certainly impress. They're playing over here in March I think too, might check them out.

That could be a gig worth going to, even if just to cry over how much better their guitarist is than you could ever hope to be

Tar.Aldarion

Only starting to listen to carcass now steoob! took it as a given that you had...
Try isis, they are better than pelican imo.

Den_M

Yeah it seems a lot of people don't like Warrel Dane's singing in Nevermore.
I happen to think it's great and suits the riffs and intensity really well. I appreciate when someone can actually sing strongly as opposed to grunt/shout/scream. Although I listen to plenty of bands who do that too.

You gotta admit the riffs and solos are unbelievable though!!

EDIT
http://mp4.centurymedia.com/final_product.wmv

That's the video for Final Product. The songs isn't their best but still rocks.
The mp3 was also hosted on their official site but seems to have been taken down.

Nightwish

I see you like Slayer, so my boyfriend recommends you listen to Carnal Forge

projectmayhem

adox wrote:

http://www.sikth.com/

here here

LightofDarkness

I forgot Gojira. Accessible but bloody excellent stuff. It's kind of like if Neurosis decided to play their version of thrash/death metal. I agree with the Sikth recommendation too, "The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out" is brilliant (a bit worried about the next album having an overly emo nature, though).

Shiminay

Saw Sikth live, they're savage. "The Trees..." is an album that I really took to.

Will defo check out Gojira - any mention of Neurosis piques the interest straight away

slssprite

The Berzerker.
Awaaaay!....:D

wanwarlock

if ur into grind, try nasum!! groovy breakbeats and fast as hell drumming...

shame the singer died in the tsunami last year....

Den_M

Other bands.
Any of the first 4 Danzig albums are great.
The Deadlights have a self titled album that I listen to all the time. They got lumped in with the nu-metal crowd a few years back and I haven't heard anything from them in ages.

Down, early Fear Factory, Celtic Frost, Cathedral, Iced Earth, Snot, Malevolent Creation, At The Gates, Mayhem and S.O.D.(Stormtroopers Of Death) are all worth checking out if you haven't already.

Davei141

Den_M wrote:

early Fear Factory

Definitely. Try Soul of a New Machine, Demanufacture or Archetype.

Den_M

Obselete is my personal favourite, but Fear Factory are a great band.

Bad Brains, Amen, Faith No More, CKY and Mad Capsule Markets rock my world as well.

Shiminay

Den_M wrote:

Malevolent Creation, At The Gates are all worth checking out if you haven't already.

Thumbs up there. Both of them are Death Metal with a bit more "brains" than stuff like Deicide or Cannibal Corpse (warning, I like Deicide and CC, but that's for it's frantic pace and ability to allow me to punch strangers in the face when I see them live ).

mc nuggets

Kharn wrote:

warning, I like Deicide and CC, but that's for it's frantic pace and ability to allow me to punch strangers in the face when I see them live .

Whats not to like about punching strangers:) . I'd recommend mastodon, best band iv'e heard all year.

petethedrummer

I recommend KYUSS,

or try Prophecy the heaviest band to ever come out of north Louth

http://artists.cpu.ie//bands/663/

and pelican don't in any way shape or form sound like Opeth.

Black hole sun

faith no more
mr bungle

Arucard

Nevermore are amazing. Jeff Loomis is a god, and Warrel Dane is a fantastic vocalist. you can listen to some tracks on www.nevermore.tv
of the downloadable tracks, i recommend:
The River Dragon Has Come (off Dead Heart in a Dead World)
I, Voyager (off Enemies of Reality)
Final Product (off This Godless Endeavor)

Karl Hungus

I agree, Nevermore are one of the best bands going at the moment.

gizmo

Indeedy, the first two songs I heard by Nevermore were The Heart Collector and Believe In Nothing, both were class but I was even more pleasantly surprised when I heard the likes of The River Dragon Has Come, Final Product and indeed the rest of their heavier material, its all fantastic stuff.