Best Heavy Metal Band of all time. (Do people still listen to metal?) (1 Viewer)

[BroKV]

My 12 year old son got into guitar this year and has taken a turn to metal and specifically Metallica. Just bought our tickets for Metallica in Pittsburgh - ROAD TRIP!!!

That’s so awesome, gotta post some pix for us!!!

 

[faceman]

And I'm in complete agreement with uncletravellingjim's categorization of Zeppelin (except that I can't stand their music at all, and consider Page just a flat out thief).

I disagree, but respect this opinion. All music preferences are in the opinion of the person. I will say in my opinion LZ
is one of those bands who improved with age. Two tragic events halted it. The deaths of Robert Plants son and John
Bonham. I put Bonham'ss death up their with Jimi Hendrix's death for stifling the progression of a great band

 

[nolaspe]

Bands I grew up with so I refuse to get into the whole 'best band of all time' thing since opinions are just that, subjective:
Pantera (and later Down, but it's more Southern/sludge metal, Damageplan didn't do it for me though and RIP Dimebag and Vinne Paul)
Sepultura pre-Igor Cavalera leaving
pre-Black Album Metallica
Megadeth
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Ministry (industrial metal)
Anthrax (and S.O.D.)
Helmet
Prong
Biohazard
White Zombie
Slayer
Ozzy
Crowbar (also sludge metal)
Corrosion of Conformity
Danzig to a degree is metal IMO
GWAR (I was stained green for a few days after seeing 'em live lol)
Testament (some of the guys at my school also were into Manowar, but I found them to be goofy as hell)
Exodus
King's X
My skate rat buddy had me check out D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies (who I really liked)
Ice T gave a solid effort w/ Body Count


Probably the heaviest show I've been to was Motorhead w/ Morbid Angel at UNO on the floor in high school lol.

Outside of Morbid Angel and Obituary, I really didn't stray much into death metal.

Rage Against the Machine def had some metal elements in some of their songs, they def pioneered 'rap metal' which probably is part of what led to some of nu metal i.e. KoRn (their first album is one of my all time favorite albums by any band)

Early Deftones were heavy as hell, and they remain one of my favorite bands to this day.

Tool can be sonically crushing so they have metal in their DNA, I call them 'math metal' b/c of how complex their signatures are and how songs switch between them so flawlessly. Hell, the song Lateralus uses the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio.

Lateralus by Tool

Tool, a modern day rock group decided to create a song solely based on the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio. The lyrics of the song follow a Fibonacci Sequence in terms of the amount of syll…

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The lyrics of the song follow a Fibonacci Sequence in terms of the amount of syllables in each verse, for example, “thee syllables in the first
verse count 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 13, 8, 5, 3,” which are all numbers in the series. [5]

In the chorus of Lateralus, the time signatures change from 9/8 to 8/8 to 7/8. Originally, this song was named “987” for the change in time signatures. Non-coincidentally, the number 987 is the 16th term in the Fibonacci Sequence.

The band’s singer begins to sing at the 1 minute 37 second mark of the song. This is equivalent to around 1.617 minutes, which is approximately equivalent to phi, the Golden Ratio.

More recent (as in after that first main list) that I listen to:
Slipknot/Stone Sour
Mudvayne
Sevendust
Meshuggah
Jinjer
Mastodon
Lamb of God
Hatebreed
Gojira
The Dillinger Escape Plan
As I Lay Dying
Parkway Drive
System of a Down

 

[faceman]

Alice Cooper once said the first heavy metal/acid rock song was good vibrations by the Beach boys. The first response is
to say Wtf?. Then you listen to it again and realize he's right .

 

[nolaspe]

This kid is going places, he's already nailing the double bass drums...

 

[tjharris]

Can I nominate Dave Mustain and Cliff Burton?
So basically Metallica's first 3 albums.

 

[CajunInVA]

That’s so awesome, gotta post some pix for us!!!

Be glad to. It’s in August. I’ve never been into metal, but listening to him learn the songs has got me a little interested. He was trying to convince us to take him to a Slip Knot show, but no way in hell am I interested in that.

 

[sfidc3]

Sorry to disagree, but you're wrong there.

Deep Purple and Black Sabbath are considered to be the originators of Heavy Metal rock music. Sure, metal has gone through changes over the decades, but you can't suddenly decide one of the two bands that originated the sound creating the rock sub-genre isn't heavy metal anymore.

And I'm in complete agreement with uncletravellingjim's categorization of Zeppelin (except that I can't stand their music at all, and consider Page just a flat out thief).

Hey man, you have a right to your opinion. DP has some heavy metal like songs but I never considered them a metal band. More of a hard rock band....I can classify bands however I want to....whomever considered them to be the originators of metal were/are wrong....IMO...

King's X

Totally underknown, underappreciated, and underrated band....very unique sound....influences from all over the place....

 

[Hedon James]

Bands I grew up with so I refuse to get into the whole 'best band of all time' thing since opinions are just that, subjective:
Pantera (and later Down, but it's more Southern/sludge metal, Damageplan didn't do it for me though and RIP Dimebag and Vinne Paul)
Sepultura pre-Igor Cavalera leaving
pre-Black Album Metallica
Megadeth
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Ministry (industrial metal)
Anthrax (and S.O.D.)
Helmet
Prong
Biohazard
White Zombie
Slayer
Ozzy
Crowbar (also sludge metal)
Corrosion of Conformity
Danzig to a degree is metal IMO
GWAR (I was stained green for a few days after seeing 'em live lol)
Testament (some of the guys at my school also were into Manowar, but I found them to be goofy as hell)
Exodus
King's X
My skate rat buddy had me check out D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies (who I really liked)
Ice T gave a solid effort w/ Body Count


Probably the heaviest show I've been to was Motorhead w/ Morbid Angel at UNO on the floor in high school lol.

Outside of Morbid Angel and Obituary, I really didn't stray much into death metal.

Rage Against the Machine def had some metal elements in some of their songs, they def pioneered 'rap metal' which probably is part of what led to some of nu metal i.e. KoRn (their first album is one of my all time favorite albums by any band)

Early Deftones were heavy as hell, and they remain one of my favorite bands to this day.

Tool can be sonically crushing so they have metal in their DNA, I call them 'math metal' b/c of how complex their signatures are and how songs switch between them so flawlessly. Hell, the song Lateralus uses the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio.

More recent (as in after that first main list) that I listen to:
Slipknot/Stone Sour
Mudvayne
Sevendust
Meshuggah
Jinjer
Mastodon
Lamb of God
Hatebreed
Gojira
The Dillinger Escape Plan
As I Lay Dying
Parkway Drive
System of a Down

Nolaspe has an excellent filter for heavy metal vs hard rock genres. I agree 100% with his extensive list of heavy metal bands!

 

[BarBar]

Interesting points being made here.

For me it is probably Metallica....based on a modern standard of what Metal is.

My preference for listening is Black Sabbath. While being the godfathers of metal, they sound quite tame in comparison to the metal that would come later.

A lot of bands mentioned here aren't even metal at all. Just rock bands, IMO.

 

[Goatman Saint]

I guess I should’ve thrown Ozzy himself in with Black Sabbath. And how in the heck is it not screamingly obvious that when it comes to this genre Randy Rhodes is not the choice for by far the best guitarist?

 

[Brandon13]

Early Deftones were heavy as hell, and they remain one of my favorite bands to this day.

Outside of three or four songs I knew and liked I'd never paid much attention to them but I've actually gotten into them in the past month or so and it's good stuff. I started with Ohms actually then worked back to White Pony and Around the Fur.

 

[nolaspe]

Outside of three or four songs I knew and liked I'd never paid much attention to them but I've actually gotten into them in the past month or so and it's good stuff. I started with Ohms actually then worked back to White Pony and Around the Fur.

There are so many fantastic songs that I can't list them all, but then again, I started listening to them when Adrenaline came out. They also put on one of the best live shows that I've ever seen from a pure musical effort and performance.... They tragically lost their original bassist Chi after a terrible car accident in '08 that left him in a prolonged semi-coma until he passed in '13...

 

[faceman]

I guess I should’ve thrown Ozzy himself in with Black Sabbath. And how in the heck is it not screamingly obvious that when it comes to this genre Randy Rhodes is not the choice for by far the best guitarist?

VH1 had an excellent documentary on Ozzie. His wife told a great story about Rhodes. Rhodes showed an interest in
guitar at an early age. His mother signed him up for lessons with a teacher in classical guitar. A few weeks later the
teacher cut him from class and told his mother " I cannot teach him any more". Rhodes was born with "it". To quote
one of Ozzy's lyrics he was a bad bad boy. He left us way to early just like Hendrix

 

[Zaphod]

It's not any band from the U.S.