Let's talk New Wave of American (or not) Heavy Metal

[steve dave]

mocat, I still appreciate you and respect your right to listen to heavy metal music. I hope it goes well for you!

[Tobias]

That's ok tobias. I found a Human Abstract cover of all three movements of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. It's pretty rough ridin' amazing. Listening on repeat today.

when that burst hits you at 3:00 it really blows your hair back 

[Asteriskhead]

When I get my MP3 player out of my truck I'll see if I can suggest some other bands that might be closer to what you're looking for.

[steve dave]

metalhead was really a lot less help in this thread than I thought he would be

[jtksu]

Yeah, I feel like calling himself Metalhead is a bit misleading.

[Fldermaus]

I would love to help you, mocat.  I enjoy the occasional headbangery, but am very little help with anything that's been released since after the Outhouse became a titty bar.

[kim carnes]

When I get my MP3 player out of my truck I'll see if I can suggest some other bands that might be closer to what you're looking for.

lol

[Bloodfart]

HellHammer could prolly help here.  I will PM him.   

[Perry]

NEKROGOBLIKON

Hadn't heard of them until I saw the No One Survives video a week or so ago. Mostly not up my alley but that song is pretty cool and the video is ridiculous.


Listen to any Strapping Young Lad? All of Devin Townsend's stuff is pretty good but Strapping was his heavier band. The albums City and Alien, specifically. He actually produced a couple of Lamb of God's albums, too.

I don't listen to a ton of new age metal, but someone on ksufans turned me onto Mastodon when Crack the Skye came out and I love that and The Hunter.

[Stevesie60]

The Chariot is probably my favorite metal band. But Norma Jean has put out a lot more albums that have all been top notch.

[HELLHAMMER]

Torn The eff Apart is a band from the KC area that plays the new age, we wanna be badasses junk you like MoCat.  Nothing groundbreaking but at least its heavy and you might find them live if you are from that area.

For something with a little more meat on the bone you could listen to some Hellwell.  It's more eclectic and some decent Doom Metal from Mark Shelton of Manilla Road, who used to be from Wichita.

Goatwhore is a damn good American band as is Averse Sefira if you are man enough to take it.  Europe is the place to find some really great Black Metal though.

[Gooch]

True story saw Cannibal Corpse in high school once.

[EMAWmeister]

Man, I listened to the crap out of Between the Buried and Me in high school.

[HELLHAMMER]

True story saw Cannibal Corpse in high school once.

Hell, I saw them this spring!

[star seed 7]

True story saw Cannibal Corpse in high school once.

ditto   

[star seed 7]

Torn The eff Apart is a band from the KC area that plays the new age, we wanna be badasses junk you like MoCat.  Nothing groundbreaking but at least its heavy and you might find them live if you are from that area.

For something with a little more meat on the bone you could listen to some Hellwell.  It's more eclectic and some decent Doom Metal from Mark Shelton of Manilla Road, who used to be from Wichita.

Goatwhore is a damn good American band as is Averse Sefira if you are man enough to take it.  Europe is the place to find some really great Black Metal though.

goatwhore opened for gwar when i saw them.

gwar   

[steve dave]

I don't like to judge bands based on their name. But I feel pretty comfortable judging most of these.

[michigancat]

Metal seems to be really big in small to medium cities like Wichita and Grand Rapids.

[steve dave]

Metal seems to be really big in small to medium cities like Wichita and Grand Rapids.

it's huge in Iowa...so yeah

[mocat]

Torn The eff Apart is a band from the KC area that plays the new age, we wanna be badasses junk you like MoCat.  Nothing groundbreaking but at least its heavy and you might find them live if you are from that area.

For something with a little more meat on the bone you could listen to some Hellwell.  It's more eclectic and some decent Doom Metal from Mark Shelton of Manilla Road, who used to be from Wichita.

Goatwhore is a damn good American band as is Averse Sefira if you are man enough to take it.  Europe is the place to find some really great Black Metal though.

Yeah I think "metal" is being applied to two vastly different musical genres here.

I'm in to more progressive metal, you know, key/tempo changes, absurd time signatures, guitar harmonies, catchy melodies, etc
Basically, listen to "Faust" by Human Abstract

you are describing more like sludgy type death/black metal. not really my thing

[mocat]

Man, I listened to the crap out of Between the Buried and Me in high school.

Aren't they great. How could anybody not smile at their "Bicycle" cover??
Selkies 
Colors was a good album; I like The Great Misdirect the best

[mocat]

I don't like to judge bands based on their name. But I feel pretty comfortable judging most of these.

Don't lump my bands in with those other weird ones.
I like these ones:

Between the Buried and Me:

The band's name is derived from a section of lyrics in the Counting Crows song, "Ghost Train;" "Took the cannonball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to shining sea/I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation/Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me."

The Human Abstract:

The group's name was derived from the title of a William Blake poem published in Songs of Experience in 1794.

Trivium:

In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The word is a Latin term meaning "the three ways" or "the three roads" forming the foundation of a medieval liberal arts education.