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[Iowa]

So let me get this straight, Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast" and Metallica's "Master of Puppets" are pretty much Slayer's "Reign In Blood"? (That being their most appraised album)

[DeathDude]

Well for Metallica that is probably their generally regarded best album. Iron Maiden that's debateable although The Number Of The Beast is generally regarded as their best, there is a lot of praise for Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, and Powerslave as well, those two are regarded just as high.

[Iowa]

Hmm...

What's your least favorite metal band? Mine would probably have to be...I dunno, what i've heard of Arch Enemy is pretty crappy...

[Himmler]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Iowa @ Sep 19 2006, 12:15 AM) [snapback]255949[/snapback]</div>

Arch Enemy is pretty crappy...
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HA HA HA! LOL

[Shunk Eat Enemy]

Arch Enemy is pretty crappy... [/b]

No waii!? There old stuff may be crap but there newest album (Doomsday machine) is very good IMO.

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I think Dir En Grey is the crappest band i've heard. I saw them at Family Values Tour yesterday, and there terriable. I enjoy bands that sing in different languages but Japanesse just isn't good for heavy metal.

[Cloudy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shunk Eat Enemy @ Sep 19 2006, 03:26 AM) [snapback]255963[/snapback]</div>

No waii!? There old stuff may be crap but there newest album (Doomsday machine) is very good IMO.

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I think Dir En Grey is the crappest band i've heard. I saw them at Family Values Tour yesterday, and there terriable. I enjoy bands that sing in different languages but Japanesse just isn't good for heavy metal.
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Hey!

Dir en grey are one of my favourite bands ever! There is so much variety to their music, so many different influences from punk rock, metalcore, electronic, there's even a few piano ballads. Their vocalist has one of the best voices ever, he can do so many different styles, from singing to screaming. And the interplay between the two guitarists is incredible, they are almost never playing the same thing, sometimes playing completely different things, but it always sounds beautiful. The lyrics are also very good, if you can find translations of them, they are very cryptic at times and sometimes have several different meanings for one song.

Anyways if you were expecting a metal band you probably would hate them, cos.. what can I say? They're not a metal band. Their recent stuff is somewhat metalcore influenced, but they still are very hard to pin down into one genre.



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As for metal bands that I don't really like.

Hmm.

Metallica for one. Although their older stuff is decent-ish.

I don't like new In Flames much, although their old stuff is ok.

Trivium are awful.

Exodus are pretty awful too from what I've heard.

[DeathDude]

Yeah new Metallica since Load has stunk and agree with new In Flames, their older stuff is much much better, although Come Clarity their last album was decent not superb but decent, my least fav band though right now, Dragonforce cause of their awful vocalist bleh.

[Mighty Midget]

Just a side note on Iron Maiden: Some also hail "Piece of Mind" (sic) as their greatest album.... I tend to agree

[DeathDude]

It is one of my favourites too. But compared to Powerslave and Seventh Son, lot more people like those albums than Piece of Mind unfortunately, (Songs that hurt Piece of mind unfortunately is the too chessy quest for fire and To Tame A Land which isn't that great of an epic compared to other written by Steve Harris) least from many of the posts have seen on different boards, another one that also gets a lot of praise forgot to mention was Somewhere in Time, another stellar album.

[Iowa]

So...if I may be so bold as to ask for guidance from all of you: what are some bands slightly reminiscent to Fear Factory, Mudvayne, or Slayer that you think i'd like?

Oh, and I forgot to mention Rammstein as one of my favorites, those guys freaking rock! :w00t: