TOTrev, you have excellent taste in music.
I’d suggest some Opeth and Dark Tranquillity. Both are melodic (somewhat) death metal.
I’ll echo Breaking Benjamin and add Mudvayne. You might also try Finntroll, Fear Factory, Crossfade, and Nightwish.
Specifically…
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dies Irae - The Sin of War
Velvet Revolver is also a winner.
Aeon has some good recommendations, however I don’t think Opeth makes good lifting music but they do kick major ass. Try Strapping Young Lad…their live albums make me want to kill shit (No Sleep Till Bedtime or For Those Aboot to Rock).
lifting music…
i listen to music all day, i lift to silence and the sound of metric tons smashing the earth.
I went all old school yesterday and bought some more lifting music. Picked up the following:
…And Justice for All - Metalica
Lest we Forget - Best of Marilyn Mason
Significant Other - Limp Bizkit
Sound of White Niose - Anthrax
Motely Crue - Motley Crue
Go the old school shit!!!
[quote]tveddy wrote:
I’ve never heard of Helmet. I’ll give them a try. Who do they sound like.
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I’m gonna assume you’re joking, unless you’re a teenager. At any rate, many bands sound like Helmet, not the other way around. Anything except their latest is great. Check out downset. as well
I’ll try to profile you as a serious Tool fan. Nine Inch Nails should be obvious. Maybe Type O Negative, Chevelle, Deftones, System of a Down. “Get Away” by Earshot has some Toolness but the rest is lame.You might try the Melvins, their mid to late stuff. You would probably like Mike Patton stuff, perhaps the more straightforward, hard stuff, like Tomahawk, and the album, “Irony is a Dead Scene” with Dillinger Escape Plan. If you can appreciate prog-metal , and the wild, intense, complex times and arrangements, and like to feel exauhsted when your done listening, you might like Meshuggah. Singing usually sounds like early-mid Metallica. For music that is not as hard or kind of different, you might like, Dredg, KMFDM, The Mars Volta. In fact, if anyone doesn’t like The Mars Volta, they are wrong. If you just can’t get enought Tool, there are a few string tributes to Tool and one to A Perfect Circle.
You can’t go wrong with metal core or just hardcore.
Throwdown, Atreyu, Evergreen Terrace, Hatebreed, Silverstein…or go to
I must say 36 crazyfist is a perfect match to your music specs.
anything by judas f*&#$@ priest. they have been tearing it up for 30 years…
check out these…
1.screaming for vengeance
2.painkiller
3.british steel
4. angel of retribution
outstanding musically (you can actually understand what the hell they are singing but heavy enough to blow your head off.
[quote]Pretzel Logic wrote:
I’ll try to profile you as a serious Tool fan. Nine Inch Nails should be obvious. Maybe Type O Negative, Chevelle, Deftones, System of a Down. “Get Away” by Earshot has some Toolness but the rest is lame.You might try the Melvins, their mid to late stuff. You would probably like Mike Patton stuff, perhaps the more straightforward, hard stuff, like Tomahawk, and the album, “Irony is a Dead Scene” with Dillinger Escape Plan. If you can appreciate prog-metal , and the wild, intense, complex times and arrangements, and like to feel exauhsted when your done listening, you might like Meshuggah. Singing usually sounds like early-mid Metallica. For music that is not as hard or kind of different, you might like, Dredg, KMFDM, The Mars Volta. In fact, if anyone doesn’t like The Mars Volta, they are wrong. If you just can’t get enought Tool, there are a few string tributes to Tool and one to A Perfect Circle. [/quote]
Mars Volta rule, also try from England One Minute Silence, Ima Robot, Deftones, Deftones, Deftones, Hatebreed, Lamb Of God, sick Of It All, SOD/MOD, Exodus (am i dating myself or what), old 311, CKY, GWAR (BUT BEST SEEN LIVE) seems like we should have the first annual Testosteroneapaloza soon, all kick a$$ entries!
SeaCrest Out!
Death From Above 1979 - the entire “you’re a woman, i’m a machine” album is good, especialy “romantic nights”
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Just got Mastodon “Leviathan”. It’s a heavy metal telling of Moby Dick. Brutal.
Blessing the Hogs “The Twelve Gauge Solution”. A driving hard core album.
Anything by Hatebreed. Slayer is king.
On the other side…
Morphine “Cure for Pain” is just an amazing album, start to end. Two-string bass, drums, saxophone and vocals. My second favorite album ever.
Miles Davis “Kind of Blue”. Best album period. Nothing is more mellow and relaxing than this record. Everyone should listen to this NOW.
Frank Sinatra. Anything by the CEO baby.
Also, anything by “The Haunted” is great.
i downloaded some metallica, mars volta, helmet–that’s kinda cool; mudvayne, meshuggah, coal chamber, crazyfist–not so much, i dont like death metal.
i do like deftones and audioslave a bit. sweet resident evil perfect circle outsider remix. haven’t decided on judas priest yet.
got prophecy soulfly, didn’t like it cuz i dont dig the death metal singing, but i hear they got track with no singing and cool instrumentals. true? if so, anybody have an example or two?
as i said, my DSL sucks prince albert fatties so it might be a while before i can download anymore, but i appreciate all the feedback and will check out all the recommendations when the opportunity presents itself.
Give Misistry a try. Album with “Psalm 69” is very good one. And I don’t know if it was mentioned, but Linkin Park is pretty good too. I know some have bashed these guys, but I like both of their first two albums.
try avenged sevenfold
just got Waking The Fallen and am loving it.
Iron Maiden type guitar stuff, some really fucking awesome riffs
yes to metallica, fear factory, try danzig too, if you listen to metal then you know megadeth as well, they’re very kickass
ALSO not in the same genre at all, but just to throw the name out there: The Postal Service is some very relaxing/depressing/hopeful music, very nice.
forgot prodigy, very good lifting music.
ive downloaded all the available songs and a few tracks from all the recommended artists on the first page.
ive come away with particularly liking mars volta, helmet, deftones, audioslave, metallica, finger eleven, and breaking benjamin. some of the others (judas priest, velvet revolver, etc.) i like but am not sure how much yet.
i dont have much taste for classic rock, pop-esque rock, and death metal…so most of those are kinda out.
thanks again for the recommendations!
i dont listen to rap very often, but if your lookin to get pumped up before/during lifting Bonecrushers “Never Scared” and “Back Up” and YoungbloodZ “Damn!” are pretty good, but otherwise I really like death metal/hardcore, so I guess i can’t help you there…
Bleeding Through, Throwdown, It dies today, As I Lay Dying, Pantera, some Atreyu. Those are some of my favorite bands.