Metal/Rock Enthusiasts Report Here!!!

I know there have obviously been threads like these many times before and they've all fallen pretty quickly, but I figured what the hell? I'll give it a try! I was just wondering what it is about rock and metal that you love so much, what it is that drives you? Give us some bands and songs!!!

I just love rock and metal because it's so satisfying to listen to and it just completely liberates you. It takes away your troubles for 5 minutes, which is always good .

My favorite groups:

Judas Priest - Quite possibly my favorite metal group, one of the first metal bands as well!
They just sounded so fresh and new for their opening years (early 70's).
My favorite songs by these guys would have to be:

Painkiller - http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=...&vback=Results

Breaking the Law (obviously) - http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=...&vback=Results

Turbo Lover - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvQmpID0fg

There's SO much more rock and metal that I love. The Beatles, Aerosmith, Zepplin, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, The Scorpions, Accept, Van Halen etc. etc. Modern stuff like Breaking Benjamin, Tool and Godsmack as well.

Less about me, more about you, post your favs and tell us WHY rock and metal is so near-and-dear to you.

well umm i also enjoy rock and heavy metal

my fav bands

judas priest best songs are

painkiller

breaking the law

hellrider

judas is rising and many others


also

iron maiden fav songs

the trooper

run to the hills

hallowed be thy name

and lots of other bands and old school style SAXON FTW!!!

You obviously know what you're talking about. Those are all good songs. You ever hear of Breaking Benjamin?
I kind of doubt it because they haven't done any European tours yet, only American ones.

Here's a couple of their songs. (If you've played Halo 2 You've most likely heard them before, they did "Blow Me Away".)

So Cold (Abbridged Version) - http://www.ifilm.com/player/?ifilmId...3&refsite=7063

The Diary of Jane (Can't wait until their album Phobia hits on Aug. 8th) - http://grouper.com/video/MediaDetails.aspx?id=998147

no i havent heard of them before but ill listen to the songs and edit post later


there alright but the lyrics were kinda rubbish but overall not to bad

my favorite priest song is the sentinel. painkiller is a close 2nd. my favorite maiden song is caught somewhere in time. if u are a maiden fan and never heard this song, for the love of god download it. its frikken awesome, its fast, its has some of steve harris's best galloping lines and steve and daves solos are awesome.

misfit you heard judas rising or hellrider if you haven't i implore you to do so.

Originally Posted by hunter260859

misfit you heard judas rising or hellrider if you haven't i implore you to do so.

yea those songs kick ass, metal gods is also a sick song.

NWOBHM was pretty awesome. america has topped the thrash/speed metal but motorhead and maiden were huge influences on the genre.

Well, my favourite metal band is the legendary Iron Maiden. Too many songs to list that I like. OTher "heavy rock" bands that I like are System of a Down


As for rock.....well, just look at my signature. Along with others like Queen, etc. I like predominately British bands

this could be my biased side talking but i do belive when it comes to rock/heavy metal i think british bands just completely own the genre i mean america has all the rap pop and such they can have that but we have the rock sharing with alot of the scandanvian bands *alot of them about*

now im not saying there aren't alot of good U.S. bands im sure there are

anyone else agree

I like AC/DC. Hells Bells

Disturbed-10000 Fists, Dropping Plates, Meaning of Life, and Prayer.

Godsmack-All of theirs but here are a few- I Stand Alone, Speak, Awake and Re-align.

Staind-ditto- Right Here, Mudshovel, Waste, and Reality.

There are alot more but, thats all I'll put for now.

I don't feel like puting links right now but if you really want to hear any I'll put them if I can.

Long live the Almighty Maiden. I myself love Aces High and The Evil that men do.
Steve Harris is one of the bassists ever, wish i could play his riffs

Priest are brilliant. Saw them live in Manchester, AWESOME! Turbo LOver is their best song, Got to love the cheesiness of the Breakin the Law video, but Ram it Down has one amazing solo, Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing rule.

Halen, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Queen, AC/DC the list goes on.
I do love a large piece of Bon Jovi from time to time also.
Cheers
LG

Nice to see other Defenders of the Faith. \m/

Heavy metal groups that I listen to: (mostly of the NWOBHM - New Wave of British Heavy Metal).

• Judas Priest.
• Iron Maiden.
• Dio.
• Dream Theater.
• Iced Earth.
• Megadeth.
• HammerFall.
• DragonForce.
• Helloween.
• Bruce Dickinson.
• Metallica.
• GammaRay.
• Demons & Wizards.
• Blind Guardian.
• Opeth.
• Children of Bodom.
• Liquid Tension Experiment.
• Manowar.
• Black Sabbath.
• Halford.
• Motörhead.

Hard, classical, and progressive rock:

• Rush.
• Pink Floyd.
• AC/DC.
• Guns N' Roses.
• Led Zeppelin.
• Jimi Hendrix Experience.

I would say my favourites are Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. I personally can't wait for Maiden's and Priest's next studio albums, A Matter of Life and Death and Nostradamus.

I just hear a lot of rock/metal bands form many different styles and I just here this type of music because It's has all that suits me in music : variety, instruments, and a "power" like the classical (A bit different tought ).

I hear and like I like a lot scandinavian bands :
- Godsmack
- Disturbed
- Chimaira
- Iced earth
- Soulfly
- Sepultura
- Blind guardian
- Rapsody
- Lacuna coil
- Rage against the machine
- System of a down
- Korn
- Therion
- Cradle of flith
- Soundgarden
- Sentenced
- Dimmu Borgir
- Opeth
- Tristania
- Borknagar
- The Kovenant
- Old man's child
- Amon armath
- Dark tranquility
- Hypocrisy
- Meshuggah
- Vintersorg
- Soilwork
- Tiamat
- Apocalyptica
- Children of Bodom

Those are my "classics" :
- Black sabath
- Mettalica
- ACDC
- Deep purple
- Helloween
- Kiss
- Venom
- Iron maiden I just like some of thier songs like "number of the beast".
- Nirvana (less than I was younger)

exodus testament anthrax old metallica megadeth maiden priest acdc annihilator BLS sabbath buckethead death dio iced earth zeppelin racer x slayer ted nugent van halen malmsteen satriani venom nuclear assault

"Nice to see other Defenders of the Faith. \m/" -Matt

Somebody's gotta. I don't know what I'd do without metal. As long as I'm alive, I will NEVER let rock and metal die out. All this gansta rap **** that's out there today should be illegal. Look what it tells this world's youth to do. Join a crypt, join a blood, get girls pregnant (preferably as many as possible), kill everyone who dislikes you and everyone who you feel like killing. My god, it's not even MUSIC! At least in rock and metal you can be creative with your work. In rap it's all about the same thing over and over. Sex, violence, sex, violence, sex, violence, sex, violence, sex, violence, sex, violence, sex, violence. Oh yeah, did I mention violence? That's all that rap is about. You wonder about these guys and the people who listen to it. "Do you ever get bored?".

Anyway, about 5 weeks ago I was playing in my cousin's band, covering for his rhythm guitarist who is currently recovering from a broken wrist. We played all sorts of good stuff.
We played in a "Battle of the Bands" out in an open field in Andover, MA.

-Painkiller, Judas Priest (The place went nuts when we started playing, my cuz was insane on the drums, and his lead singer was hitting those high notes like nothin' It was so great!)

-Breaking the Law, Judas Priest

-So Cold, Breaking Benjamin

-Breakdown, Breaking Benjamin

-Sugarcoat, Breaking Benjamin

-Believe, Breaking Benjamin

All of the Breaking Benjamin songs were absolute crowd scorchers, a huge mosh pit was formed during Breakdown. They loved it so much!

-Back in Black, AC/DC

-Dirty Deeds, AC/DC

We played a few more, I can't even remember.

Overall we were given the awards for the best choice of songs, best sense of rhythm, and best drums. Overall we came in 2nd place .

nice one necromancer seems like you had fun

should of played hellrider

I am 18 years old and in school I never liked music at all, the people I would hang around with liked metal/rock I just never cateched on til I went to college were I got into it. I like Rock, Metal and sometimes Club Anthems to calm me down. Some of my favorite and artists are as follows.

• Trivium,
• Metallica,
• 36 Crazy fists,
• Evanescence,
• Green Day,
• Him,
• Iron Maiden,
• Slipknot,
• System of a Down,
• God Forbid,
• Machine Head,
• Rage againist the machine.

I also like old 80's music rock as if it was not for that we'd not have it today, also playing Grand Theft Auto Games on the PS2 got me into it as there'd have it on the radio's inside the cars. Where people think that if you like metal then you have to wear black is so wrong it's nor funny as I like it and I don't have any black clothing whatsoever. One thing I do not like and will never like is rap. It's like in my town if you listen to rap then your stupid and don't understand anything then think fighting is the way forward so you carry a pocket knife. I know thats Stereotyping but it's true.

ya well there's Metallica, System of a down, Mushroomhead, and plenty of more just giving you guys a couple of more bands!!

Death to False Metal!! i got free tickets to ozzfest today in Virginia Beach, Va. i disliked all the bands there. ozzfest is so terrible now. so many nu-metal, screamo crap. the only good band was BLS. zakk wylde did pretty good, he did his star spangled banner solo. if you like to listen to *****, go to ozzfest.

Venom fans give me a hell yea!

i totally agree with you there old school for the win!