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When you're talking about music with your friends, you want to know the meanings for the words they're using. Without going overboard, we can recognize a handful of genres within heavy metal. Here are audio samples and descriptions for each of these metal genres.

An easy guide to heavy metal genres

Bands we talk about include:

King Crimson
Iggy And The Stooges
Blue Cheer
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Cream
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Venom
Dri
Cryptic Slaughter
Fearless Iranians From Hell
Metallica
Exodus
Slayer
Prong
Hellhammer
Sodom
Bathory
Deicide
Morbid Angel
Possessed
Incantation
Emperor
Immortal
Burzum
Skepticism
Winter
Saint Vitus
Cathedral
Necrophagist
Behemoth
Neuraxis
ICP
Slipknot
Korn
DragonForce
HammerFall
Blind Guardian
Jesu
Sunn O)))
Wolves in the Throne Room

In case I get amnesia this list can help remind myself of what bands I've seen live

A Troop of Echoes (x3)
A.C. Newman
Arrington De Dionyso
Broken Social Scene
Chain and the Gang
Dan Deacon
Deer Tick
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Doveman
Dri
Electric Six
Elvis Perkins
Girl Talk
Grand Buffet
Glowkid (x2)
Handsome Furs
Holy Fuck
Islands
Math the Band
Mahi Mahi
Metric
New York Dolls
Ra Ra Riot
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
The Cinnamon Band
The Chinese Stars
The Decemberists
The Gaslight Anthem
The Golden Dogs
The Low Anthem
The National
The Rosebuds
The Tiger Lillies
The Viennagram
The Willowz
Titus Andronicus
Tovarish
Triangle Forest
Village People
Voxtrot
What Cheer? Brigade (x4)
Wintersleep
Wolf Parade (x2)

(and part of first)
up 'till now
i've been listening to some delicious things
Dri
Summerbirds in the Cellar
Maria Taylor
Orenda Fink
Emarosa
Lil' Mama
Foals
Karma Kite
White Flight
Mock Orange
Glass Union
Atlas Sound
Antibalas
Gojogo
Emarosa
Kid Sister

Tue 1 Jul – Modest Mouse, Dri

The opening act, Dri, was kinda cool. The music was just alright (I'm cool on old school R&B at this point in my life), but the lead singer was kind of a striking blond. She looked like some 15 year-old kid's hot mom.

I'm not actually that big a fan of Modest Mouse outside of the singles. I went back and listened to the last few albums the other day, so I wouldn't feel bad about the $45 I spent to see this shit, and come to find out, they're really, really good. Who knew?

Live, I felt like some of less poppy numbers ran together, and I'm pretty sure it's not just because I was hardly familiar with them. Dashboard fucking owned though, even with the typically god-awful sound down at the Pageant.

Note: Just because I have seen an artist multiple times does not mean I enjoy them.

2 Cents
3 Inches of Blood [x2]
3OH!3

A Day to Remember [x8]
A Life Once Lost
A Loss For Words [x3]
A Skylit Drive
The Acacia Strain
The Academy Is... [x2]
Ace Enders And A Million Different People [x2]
Against Me!
The Aggrolites
Airbourne
Alcatraz
Alesana
Alexisonfire [x2]
The All-American Rejects
All Teeth
All That Remains [x3]
All Time Low [x2]
The Almost [x2]
American Eyes
Amon Amarth
Anberlin [x2]
Angels & Airwaves
Animosity
Ankla
Antagonist
Anthony Green
Anti-Flag
The Appleseed Cast
Approach
Architects
Army of Me
Arsonists Get All The Girls
As Cities Burn
As I Lay Dying
As Tall as Lions
Attack Attack! [x2]
At the Gates
Atreyu
Au
The Audition
Audio Out Send
August Burns Red
Aushua
The Automatic
Avenged Sevenfold

Bad Acid Trip
Bad Wizard
Bane
The Bangs
Bayside [x2]
Behemoth
Between the Buried and Me
Big D & The Kids Table
The Big Sleep
Billy Talent
Black Label Society
Black Tide
The Bled
Bleeding Through
Blessthefall
The Blind
Book of Black Earth
Boys Like Girls
Brave Citizens
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs
Bring Me the Horizon [x2]
Broadway
Build us Airplanes
Bullet For My Valentine
Burden of a Day

Cancer Bats
Car Bomb
Cerberus
The Chariot [x2]
Children of Bodom [x2]
Chimaria
Chiodos [x4]
Chris Garneau
Christina Courtin
ChthoniC
Circa Survive [x6]
Circle Takes the Square
Circus Diablo
The Classic Crime
Comadre
Commissure
The Confession
Confide
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band [x2]
Copeland
Cormorant
Crime in Stereo
Cute Is What We Aim For [x3]

D.O.A.
Daath
Daggermouth
Danger Radio
Dangers
Darkest Hour [x2]
Dashboard Confessional [1x Acoustic]
Daughters
Dead Meadow
The Dear Hunter [x3]
The DEAR & DEPARTED
Defeater
The Devil Wears Prada [x9]
Die Young
DIDI Mao
Discordia
Disturbed
Dos Amigos
Draconian Winter
DragonForce
Dri [x2]
Drop Dead, Gorgeous

Early Man
Eisley
Emarosa
Emery [x2]
Emily Jane White
Energy [x3]
Envy on the Coast [x2]
Evergreen Terrace
Every Avenue
Every Time I Die [x3]
Explosions in the Sky
Extinctive
Eye Alaska

The Fall of Troy [x3]
The Famine
Fear Before the March of Flames [x2]
Fight Fair
Finch
Fireworks [x2]
Fishbone
First To Leave
Five Finger Death Punch
Flipper
Foundation [x2]
Four Year Strong [x5]
Foxy Shazam
The Frequency
From Autumn to Ashes
Full Blown Chaos

The Get Up Kids
Gigan
Glaciers
The Glorious Fall
The Gnomes
Goatwhore
God Forbid
God Is an Astronaut
Gojira
Good Old War
Grace Alley
Graf Orlock
Greeley Estates
gunner
Gunsmoke
GWAR

Hatebreed [x2]
Have Heart
Hear The Sirens [x2]
Heavy Heavy Low Low
Hellogoodbye [x2]
Hit the Lights [x3]
HORSE the band
Hot Skin
The Human Abstract [x2]

I Am Empire
I Am Ghost
I Am the Avalanche
I See Stars
I Set My Friends On Fire [x2]
In Fear and Faith
International Superheroes of Hardcore
In This Moment
Into the Sea

Job for a Cowboy
Johanna + Robbie

Keating
Kevin Devine
Killswitch Engage
Kiros

Lacuna Coil
Lamb of God [x2]
Less Than Jake [x2]
Lewd Acts
Lichens
Life Long Tragedy
Light This City
Lights
Lionheart
Living With Lions [x2]
Lockstep
Lordi
Lovedrug
The Love X Nowhere
Ludo
Lydia [x2]

Mae
The Maine [x2]
Maps & Atlases
Maserati
Mayday Parade
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster [x2]
Middlefield
Millions of Dead Comps
Miniature Tigers
Minus the Bear
Misery Signals [x2]
Mogwai
Moneen
Mono
The Morning Light
Motion City Soundtrack
Mount Eerie
Moving Mountains
Municipal Waste
MxPx
MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE

New Found Glory [x3] [1x Acoustic]
nevershoutnever!
Nick Oliveri And The Mondo Generator
Nile
NOFX
Norma Jean [x3]
NUCK FU
The Number Twelve Looks Like You [x2]

Oh, Sleeper
Orchestra of Antlers [x5] [3x Acoustic]
Ordstro
OreSkaBand
Our Last Night
Ours
Over It
Owen

Parachutes
Paramore
Parkway Drive
Pelican [x2]
person L
The Photo Atlas
Pierce the Veil [x4]
Piss Pissedofferson
Pistolita
PlayRadioPlay! [x4]
Please Do Not Fight
Poison the Well
Polar Bear Club [x2]
Portugal. The Man [x4]
Powerspace
Protest the Hero
PsyOpus

Ramparts
The Receiving End of Sirens
The Red Chord [x2]
Relient K
Repulsion
Revenge Is Bond
Rise Against
Rocky Votolato
Rotting Out
Rufio
Russian Circles [x2]
Rx Bandits

Saosin [x2]
Saul Williams
Say Anything
Scale The Summit
Scary Kids Scaring Kids [x3]
second to last [x3]
Senses Fail
Serengetti & Polyphonic
Set Your Goals [x7]
Shwayze [x2]
Sigur Rós
Silverstein [x2]
Shadows Fall
Shai Hulud
Shook Ones
Skin Like Iron
Sky Eats Airplane
Slayer
Sound the Alarm
Sparks The Rescue
Spearhead
Static-X
Steel Trap
Stick to Your Guns [x2]
Stigmurder
The Story So Far
Strapping Young Lad
Streetwalkers
Suicide Silence

Tera Melos [x3]
There For Tomorrow
Therefore I Am
Thine Eyes Bleed
This Is Hell
This Providence
This Time Next Year [x3]
Thrice [x3]
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Thursday [x5]
Tiefighter
Title Fight
Tombs
Touche Amore [x2]
Trainwreck Riders
Trash Talk

Unearth
Underoath [x7]
The Union Trade
Until Your Heart Stops

Valencia [x2]
Veda
VersaEmerge
Vivisection
Vuotan

Walls of Jericho [x2]
What Lies Beneath The Grave
Why?
With The Punches
Wolves in the Throne Room
The Wonder Years [x2]

You Can Do It, Old Boy!
Young Widows [x2]

Zero Hour

[328 Bands]

Not necessarily new but def worth a listen :)

Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
Thao- We Brave Bee Stings And All
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Foals- Antidotes
Lykke Li- Little bits
Outputmessage- Oneiros
The Dead Texan- The dead texan
Swayzak- Some other country
Yelle- pop-up
Mika- Life in cartoon motion
New Young Pony Club- Fantastic Playroom
Dri- Smoke rings
Metronomy- Pip Paine - Pay the £5000 You Owe
Bishop Allen- The broken string
Justice- Cross
M83- Saturday youth
Lindstrom- It's a Feedelity Affair
Honeycut- The day I turned to glass
Lemongrass- Pour L'amour
Nyles Lannon- Pressure
Electric President- S/T
ISAN- Plans drawn in pencil
Pinback- Autunm of the Seraphs
Ratatat- LP3
Crystal Castles- Crystal castles
Hammock- Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
Deathcab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
El Ten Eleven- El Ten Eleven & Every direction north
Sam Prekop- Who's your new professor
Motohiro Nakashima- And I went to sleep
Milosh- You make me feel & Meme
Bibio- Fi & Hand cranked
ATTN- Tour E.P.1 & Remixes and premixes
Walter Meego- Voyager
Family Force 5- Dance or Die E.P.

This past week I also took the time and money to get three of my favorite discographies that I previously had but lost somehow in the past year... RJD2, Quantic, and The Quantic Soul Orchestra

For a more accesable list with myspace links, please visit my blog at http://www.figure8designs.blogspot.com

MAY 6, 2008

akissforjersey Victims (Tragic Hero)
Animal Collective Water Curses EP (Paw Tracks)
Changing Modes Down And Out In Shangri-La (Plague Of Twins)
Charlotte Sometimes Waves And The Both Of Us (Geffen)
Dosh Wolves And Wishes (Anticon)
Dub Pistols Speakers And Tweeters (Defend Music)
Extra Life Secular Works (Planaria)
Firewater The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
Greeley Estates Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go East (Science)
Hereafter An Odyssey Human Is As Human Does (Tribunal)
IAMX The Alternative (Metropolis)
Kayo Dot Blue Lamency Downward (Hydra Head)
Maho Plaza Maho Plaza (Better Looking/East West)
Millencolin Machine 15 (Epitaph)
Mouth of the Architect/Kenoma Split EP (Gilead)
Mouth of the Architect/Kenoma Split EP (Gilead)
No Age Nouns (Sub Pop)
Pattern Is Movement All Together (Hometapes)
Russian Circles Station (Suicide Squeeze)
Shy Child Noise Won't Stop (Kill Rock Stars)
Socratic Spread The Rumors (Drive-Thru)
The Dreamscapes Project Pity In The Heartbeat (Figmental)
The Gossip Live In Liverpool (Kill Rock Stars)
The Last Shadow Puppets The Age Of Understatement (Domino)
The Republic Tigers Keep Color (Chop Shop)
The Ugly Truth Survived Another Winter (Terrorbird)
Tim Fite Fair Ain't Fair (Anti-)
Vayden Children Of Our Mistakes (Silent Majority/East West)
Wolftron Flesh And Fears (Eyeball)


MAY 13, 2008

Abysmal Dawn Programmed To Consume (Relapse)
Aletheian Dying Vine (Ironclad)
Burning Skies Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption (Lifeforce)
Caamora She DVD (MVD)
Cinematic Sunrise A Coloring Storybook And Extended Play Record EP (Equal Vision)
Coalesce 012:2 [reissue] (Relapse)
Coldworker Rotting Paradise (Relapse)
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
Emmure The Respect Issue (Victory)
Fall of Serenity The Crossfire (Lifeforce)
Hail of Bullets Of Frost And War (Metal Blade)
Local H 12 Angry Months (Shout! Factory)
Los Straitjackets Los Straitjackets In Concert DVD (Yep Roc)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Have Another Ball (Fat Wreck Chords)
Nathan Moomaw 26 (Gazebo)
Old 97's Blame It On Gravity (New West)
Set Your Goals Mutiny [reissue] (Eulogy)
Stick to Your Guns Comes From The Heart (Century Media)
Stray From the Path Villains (Sumerian)
Subtle ExitingARM (Lex)
Take The Crown Relapse React (Rise)
The Architects Vice (Anodyne)
The Balustrade Ensemble Capsules (Dynamophone)
The Bangkok Five We Love What Kills Us (Love Live Crime)
The Furious Seasons The Furious Seasons (Eskimo)
The Submarines Honeysuckle Weeks (Nettwerk)
The T4 Project Story-Based Concept Album (Mental)
Toy Gun Cowboy Big Blue (Gutter Groove)
Until the End Until The Beginning, Until The End (Eulogy)
Various Artists Metalmania DVD (MVD)
Venemous Concept Poisoned Apple (Century Media)
Warrel Dane Praises To The War Machine (Century Media)
We Are Scientists Brain Trust Mastery (Virgin)
Ween The Friends EP (MVD)
Young and Sexy The Arc (Mint)
Zodiak Sermons (Translation Loss)


MAY 20, 2008

2*Sweet Sleep Without Dreams (Self-released)
A Skylit Drive Wires (Tragic Hero)
E for Explosion Reinventing The Heartbeat (Eyeball)
French Kicks Swimming (Vagrant)
Ghosty Answers (Oxblood)
Grace Gale Stronger Faster Science (Creep)
Gray Lines Of Perfection Reaching The Ends Of The Earth (Harvest Earth)
Islands Arm's Way (Anti-)
Joan of Arc Boo Human (Polyvinyl)
Mates of State Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk)
Mudhoney The Lucky Ones (Sub Pop)
Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff [reissue] (Sub Pop)
My hero is me Cry Wolf Broadcast (Tragic Hero)
Omni Ghosts (Faux Pas)
Oxbow Fuckfest (Hydra Head)
The Dresden Dolls No, Virginia (Roadrunner)
Tim Lee 3 Good2b3 (The Paisley Pop)
Your Highness Electric The Grand Hooded Phantom (Longhair Illuminati)


MAY 27, 2008

36 Crazy Fists The Tide And Its Takers (Ferret)
Between the Buried and Me Colors Live (Victory)
Dri Corssover 1987 DVD (Beer City)
Fallen From the Sky Tonight We Radiate (Eulogy)
Faster Faster Hopes And Dreams (Oort)
From a Second Story Window Conversations (Black Market Activities)
Gregor Samsa Rest (The Kora)
H2O Nothing To Prove (Bridge Nine)
Hatchet Awaiting Evil (Metal Blade)
Head On Collision Ritual Sacrifice (Beer City)
Jon Foreman Spring/Summer EP (Credential/EMI)
means To Keep Me From Sinking (Facedown)
Men Without Pants Men Without Pants (Expansion Team)
Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia (Astralwerks)
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure (Metal Blade)
Styrofoam A Thousand Words (Nettwerk)
The Shake Well, Oh Well (Self-released)
Turmoil The International Language Of... (Eulogy)


Source: Alternative Press http://www.altpress.com

I am running out of kickass thrash to look for, just cause I've been binging on ebay on a thrash kick.

I want lesser known names. I'm very familiar with the big names.

My thrash preferences are as follows:

I'm currently still looking for:
A couple Death Angel records, but they are expensive as fuck, so I doubt I'll be able to pick em up any time soon. Other than that I'm looking for Intruder and Atrophy records, which I plan to pick up soon. (Also looking for D.R.I., but I'm not looking for more crossover aside from this band.)

I don't like the following (also more, but I don't remember them):
Morbid Saint / Kreator / Sodom / Anthrax / Meliah Rage / Hexx / Nasty Savage / King's Evil

My likes can be found on my top 50 thrash threads, so it would be redundant to list them here. My recent purchases may help though:

Holy Terror - Mind Wars
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Exhorder - The Law
Master (Rus) - With the Noose Around the Neck
Deceased - Supernatural Addiction
Tankard - Kings of Beer
Overkill - Fuck You and then Some

Also if you know any band that sounds remotely like Torture, havoc mass, Necrosis or Holy Terror--I would very much like to hear them.


Thank you all in advance. Your help is most appreciated.

PS And if you want to post something along the lines "All you need is Slayer", please don't.