I like Nightwish a lot too, I actually first heard them when Sym gave me an 08th MS team music video with their song Tenth Man Down on it.

The Mars Volta - Great prog/punk band. Has some of the band members from At The Drive In, and is fairly different from most music I hear today. I especialy like their song eriatarka. My mom keeps telling me they sound like Led Zepplin, but then again she has compared AFI to Enya...

I love those guys!
It's grand, much faster than my other favorite satanic metal band Cradle Of Filth.
These guys are unknown to most of the metal scene, but among goths and hardcore metalheads - they're quite well known.

Thanks Soyaabi! These guys fucking smoke. It's all like....GAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not even a metal kid. Naglfar f'n smoke.

I wouldn't exactly call these guys unknown… they're Zakk Wylde's band, for Chrissakes! Any metalhead worth their headbanging abilities should know who Zakk Wylde is and what he means to music!

Plus… they really aren't that great. Without Zakk they'd suck ass.

Not bad, not bad at all.
Reminds me of the stylings on the Guilty Gear soundtrack (copious amounts of different instruments) and has vocals similar to Iron Maiden.

I'll see if I can have him burn me a copy, right now I don't have anything of theirs.

There's one little clip on the site that's kinda cool, I'll probably send you that.

LOL - for a minute I thought you were speaking Yiddish.

Nope. That's a band. My favorite band.


Sharks Keep Moving, We Vs. Death, Explosions In The Sky, A Minor Forest, Cerebus Shoal....all of them are depressing Post-rock bands...kinda like Mogwai...but...really depressing, lol.


SIGUR ROS!!!!!

Shai hulud is in no way dark, lol. They are another band that has emerged from the post-hardcore era. they are decent, just not dark.

Too bad the lead singer left.

let me put up some of the bands I'm into:

1349, 30 seconds to mars, 7 angels 7 plagues, a long winter, a perfect circle, a thousand falling skies, aes dana, agalloch, allan holdsworth, amon amarth, anal cunt, anathema, and oceans, arcturus, barden powell, bjork, borknagar, botch, brutal truth, burn it down, calexico, cali gari, cancer conspiracy, candiria, cannibal corpse, catamenia, cephalic carnage, chimaira, cibo matto, coheed & cambria, computor girl, confusion, converge, cradle of filth, curl up and die, d'espairs ray, david bowie, deadman, death metal, decepticonz, dillinger escape plan, dir en grey, doom metal, dragon ash, due le quartz, every time i die, extol, fantomas, gackt, gorguts, grindcore, hopesfall, hyde, illnath, impaled nazarene, in flames, it dies today, jaco pastorius, joe stump, john zorn, judy & mary, k-os, kagrra, katatonia, keiko mitsui, klaha, l'arc~en~ciel, lacuna coil, malice mizer, meshuggah, mike patton, miyavi, moi dix mois, mr. bungle, mucc, my dying bride, napalm death, nightmare, nile, nuclear rabbit, obituary, old man's child, opeth, orsus, pierrot, planet x, plastic tree, postman syndrome, potshot, refused, romero lubambo, satyricon, scar culture, scary german guy, schwarz stein, selfmindead, shadows fall, shai hulud, sigur rós, soilwork, stefan lessard, sunseth sphere, the blood brothers, the pizzicato five, the project hate, the shizit, there were wires, therion, tony macalpine, training for utopia, tristania, type o negative, utada hikaru, vanden plas, vintersorg, while heaven wept, willhaven, yellow machine gun, zao, HORSE the band, The Locust, Gojira...

...there are still a hell's lot more...like...

One thing one wrong with that: Cradle of Filth is not black metal (any more).

Black metal is: Immortal, Mayhem, Burzum, Emperor, Naglfar, Carpathian Forest, Nokturnal Mortum, etc. However, like Dimmu Borgir, they were black metal in their earlier days, then betrayed their style. However, they got me into the black metal scene. Anyway, my favorites bands include the above as well as:

Symphony X -- Good Progressive Metal from the US
Fintroll -- "Folk Metal," black metal mixed with polka and folk influences
Manegarm -- Viking Metal, much like Black Metal
Therion -- Creators of "Greek" Metal
Nile -- Death Metal with amusing Egyptian sounds and influences
Ancient Ceremony -- Good ol' Satanic black metal from Germany
Emperor* -- Masters of rhythmic Black Metal, they made the genre intelligible
Immortal -- One of the founding fathers and largely inspirational band amongst Black Metal
Burzum* -- Solo member project of Varg Vikernes aka Count Grishnackh, killed a member of Mayhem (below) and arguably was the best Black Metal band. While in prison he made two ambient soundtracks (Balder's Dod and Hlidskjalf) which immersed the listener into a pagan realm of sounds, all done on a synthesizer.
Mayhem -- with the death of two band members and one of the founding father's of Black Metal they are well known among black metal circles
Dissection* -- Great black metal from the Swedish, the vocalist and guitar player Jon Nodveit was put in prison and will soon be released
Dimmu Borgir -- While still called "Black Metal" even by themselves, these men betrayed their roots - much in the same fashion as Cradle of Filth - and ultimately became mainstream (their Black Metal albums include: For All Tid and Stormblast)
Nokturnal Mortum* -- Ukrainian Black Metal with pagan influence(early) and National Socialist (nazi, later) themes, their sound is unique
Ulver -- More Black Metal goodness.
Suidakra -- Great Black/Death metal from Germany
Graveworm -- Excellent Gothic Metal from Italy
Profanum* -- Extreme Satanic and Pagan themes encompass their lyrical writing. Their first release was a slow Black Metal, but they changed to ambient music using violins and orchestral instruments in place of guitars and bass. One of the most underrated bands I've heard, rather rare.

There are so many more bands out there that I enjoy listening to, but I'm much too lazy to post them all. If you're actually interested in what I like, or just want a list of bands to check out, PM me. (I know this is a bit old, but I figured I'd post what I like.)

Also, a great site for real metal, check out www.metal-archives.com.

Keep those heads banging. \m/

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