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Permanent Solution · 01-25-2009, 10:43 PM

Use this thread to get suggestions for new bands to try out. Genre headers are rough approximations and if you comment about how band x is not in such and such genre, you will be banned.

Hard Rock/Nu-metal
Bands you may already like:
Linkin Park
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace
12 Stones
Trapt

Bands you should like:
Therapy?
Project 86

Bands to expand your tastes:
In Flames
Children of Bodom
Dragonforce
Iron Maiden
Metallica

Power Metal
Bands you may already like:
Dragonforce
Avenged Sevenfold
Iron Maiden

Bands you should like:
Blind Guardian
Sonata Arctica
Rhapsody
Helloween
Gamma Ray
Crimson Glory
Nightwish
Iced Earth

Bands to expand your tastes:
Children of Bodom
Iron Maiden
Falconer
Eluveitie

Doom Metal
Bands you may already like:
Black Sabbath

Bands you should like:
Candlemass
Pagan Altar
Pentagram
Trouble
Saint Vitus
Solitude Aeturnus
Solstice
While Heaven Wept
Pale Divine
Argus
Penance
Warning
Reverend Bizarre

Bands to expand your tastes:
Anathema (early)
Ataraxie
Decomposed
Disembowelment
Forgotten Tomb
Inborn Suffering
Katatonia (early)
Mourning Beloveth
My Dying Bride (early)
Sol
Winter
----------
1000 Funerals
Asunder
Colosseum
Esoteric
Evoken
Funeral (early)
Loss
Mournful Congregation
Shape of Despair
Skepticism
Thergothon
Worship

Metalcore
Bands you may already like:
Misery Signals
Killswitch Engage
Norma Jean
Underoath

Bands you should check out:
Taken
7 Angels 7 Plagues
Architects
Botch
Converge
Drowningman
Skycamefalling
Intronaut
Knut
Cave-In
Unbroken
Indecision

Industrial
Bands you may already like:
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Pitchshifter
Black Light Burns
Rob Zombie

Bands you should like:
Ministry
KMFDM
Skinny Puppy
Godflesh
Flesh Field
Acumen Nation
Numb

Bands to expand your tastes:
Front 242
Einstürzende Neubauten
Chrome
Foetus
Front Line Assembly
Laibach
Swans
Throbbing Gristle
Cabaret Voltaire
Boyd Rice/NON
SPK
Clock DVA
Z'ev
88MM
Severed Heads
Chris and Cosey
Die Krupps
Prurient
Brethren
Whitehouse
Genocide Organ
Brighter Death Now

Post-Rock

Bands you may already like:

Explosions In The Sky
Sigur Ros
Jaga Jazzist
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Talk Talk
Cul de Sac
Mogwai
Don Caballero

Bands you should check out:

And So I Watch You from Afar
Yndi Halda
Mono
Red Sparowes
This Will Destroy You
Heirs
Human Bell
The Gentleman Losers
Grails
A Silver Mt. Zion/Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
If These Trees Could Talk
Crippled Black Phoenix
Envy
Gastr Del Sol
God is an Astronaut
Lights Out Asia
The Non
Vanessa Van Basten

Bands to Expand Your Taste:

65daysofstatic
Cloudkicker
Kammerflimmer Kollektief
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
The Dead Texan
Morkobot
Om
Paik
Pan American
Goldmund

Post-Metal

Essential and Obvious:

Isis
Pelican
Neurosis
Russian Circles
Cult of Luna

Bands you should be listening to:

Mouth of the Architect
Carontte
Fields of Locust
Seven Nautical Miles
Void
Rosetta
Year of No Light
The Ocean
Omega Massif
A Storm of Light
We Made God
The Psyke Project
Fall of Efrafa
Callisto
A Swarm of the Sun
Minsk
Buried Inside

Thrash Metal
Bands you may already like:
Metallica
Megadeth

Bands you should like:
Slayer
Anthrax
Testament
Forbidden
Destruction
Sodom
Kreator
Exodus
Mastery
Heathen
Fastkill
Anacrusis
Watchtower
Exhorder
Coroner
Dark Angel
Evile

Deathcore
Bands you may already like:
Despised Icon
The Red Chord
Animosity
Whitechapel

Bands you should like:
Graves Of Valor
Embrace The End
Veil Of Maya
Burning The Masses
The Red Shore
Rifles At Recess
Velvet Dawn
Knights Of The Abyss
In Death We Rise
A Blood Stained Novel
Dead Man In Reno

Sludge Metal

Bands you may already like:

Queens of the Stone Age
Isis
Pelican
Kylesa
Weekend Nachos
Year of No Light
Mouth of the Architect
Callisto
OM

Essential:

Corrupted
Grief
Neurosis
EyehateGod
Noothgrush
Graves at Sea
Boris

Bands you should check out:

Accept Death
Church of Misery
Fistula
Harvey Milk
Lair of the Minotaur
Moss
Swallow the Ocean
Thou

Stoner Rock
Bands you may already like:
Queens of the Stone Age
Kyuss

Bands you should like:
Electric Wizard
Spiritual Beggars
Sleep
High on Fire
OM
Fu Manchu
Ufomammut
Bongzilla
Weedeater
Alabama Thunderslightly confuzzled sea lion
Boris
Dead Meadow

Death Metal
Bands you may already like:
Amon Amarth
At the Gates
Behemoth
Cannibal Corpse
Death
Morbid Angel
Nile

Bands you should check out:
Angelcorpse
Arghoslent
Asphyx
Atheist
Autopsy
Autumn Leaves
Bolt Thrower
Carcass
Carnage
Celtic Frost
The Chasm
Dead Congregation
Deicide
Demigod
Demilich
Dismember
Entombed
Garden of Shadows
God Macabre
Gorguts
Immolation
Incantation
Intestine Baalism
Mantas
Massacra
Massacre
Monstrosity
Morpheus Descends
Necrophobic
Nunslaughter
Obituary
Pestilence
Possessed
Ripping Corpse
Sinister
Suffocation
Unleashed
Winter
Cadacross

Bands to expand your taste:
Assück
Brutal Truth
Cynic
Destroyer 666
Destruction
Dissection
Grand Belial's Key
Kreator
Napalm Death
Novembers Doom
My Dying Bride
Profanatica
Slayer
Sodom
Terrorizer

Technical Death Metal
Bands you may already like:
Meshuggah
Atheist
Nile
The Faceless

Bands you should like:
Neuraxis
Necrophagist
Martyr
Illogicist
Origin
Spawn of Possession
Theory in Practice
Gorod
Hieronymus Bosch
Augury
Quo Vadis
Arsis
Anata
Psycroptic
Atherethic
!T.O.O.H.!
Crimson Massacre
Gorguts

New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Bands you may already like:
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Judas Priest

Bands you should like:
Diamond Head
King Diamond
Grim Reaper
Budgie
Angel Witch

Bands to expand your tastes:
Legend
Manilla Road
Cloven Hoof
Exciter
Griffin
Heir Apparent
Helstar
Jag Panzer
Night Sun
Omen
Pagan Altar
Stormwitch
Trouble
X Japan
Zions Abyss
Elixir
Running Wild

Progressive Metal
Bands you may already like:
Dream Theater
Pain of Salvation
Rush

Bands you should like:
Queensryche
Fates Warning
Symphony X
Dark Suns
Opeth
Riverside
Cynic
Suspyre
Spiral Architect
Quidam (Not very metal but they're very good)

Bands to expand your tastes:
Watchtower
Blotted Science
Spastic Ink
Behold... The Arctopus
Dysrhythmia

Black Metal
Bands you may already like:
Dimmu Borgir
Cradle of Filth
Burzum
Darkthrone
Satyricon
Mayhem
Emperor

Bands you should like:
Basilisk
Bathory
Beherit
Darkspace
Drudkh
Enslaved
Gorgoroth
Grand Belial's Key
Inquisition
Lunar Aurora
Mercyful Fate
Peste Noire
Sombres Foret
Summoning
Thesyre
Ulver (first and third album)
Venom

01-25-2009, 10:43 PM	#1
Permanent Solution Feb. PPOTM \m/ Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In a theater near you Posts: 41,441	Official Suggestions/Recommendations Thread Use this thread to get suggestions for new bands to try out. Genre headers are rough approximations and if you comment about how band x is not in such and such genre, you will be banned. Hard Rock/Nu-metal Bands you may already like: Linkin Park Breaking Benjamin Three Days Grace 12 Stones Trapt Bands you should like: Therapy? Project 86 Bands to expand your tastes: In Flames Children of Bodom Dragonforce Iron Maiden Metallica Power Metal Bands you may already like: Dragonforce Avenged Sevenfold Iron Maiden Bands you should like: Blind Guardian Sonata Arctica Rhapsody Helloween Gamma Ray Crimson Glory Nightwish Iced Earth Bands to expand your tastes: Children of Bodom Iron Maiden Falconer Eluveitie Doom Metal Bands you may already like: Black Sabbath Bands you should like: Candlemass Pagan Altar Pentagram Trouble Saint Vitus Solitude Aeturnus Solstice While Heaven Wept Pale Divine Argus Penance Warning Reverend Bizarre Bands to expand your tastes: Anathema (early) Ataraxie Decomposed Disembowelment Forgotten Tomb Inborn Suffering Katatonia (early) Mourning Beloveth My Dying Bride (early) Sol Winter ---------- 1000 Funerals Asunder Colosseum Esoteric Evoken Funeral (early) Loss Mournful Congregation Shape of Despair Skepticism Thergothon Worship Metalcore Bands you may already like: Misery Signals Killswitch Engage Norma Jean Underoath Bands you should check out: Taken 7 Angels 7 Plagues Architects Botch Converge Drowningman Skycamefalling Intronaut Knut Cave-In Unbroken Indecision Industrial Bands you may already like: Nine Inch Nails Marilyn Manson Pitchshifter Black Light Burns Rob Zombie Bands you should like: Ministry KMFDM Skinny Puppy Godflesh Flesh Field Acumen Nation Numb Bands to expand your tastes: Front 242 Einstürzende Neubauten Chrome Foetus Front Line Assembly Laibach Swans Throbbing Gristle Cabaret Voltaire Boyd Rice/NON SPK Clock DVA Z'ev 88MM Severed Heads Chris and Cosey Die Krupps Prurient Brethren Whitehouse Genocide Organ Brighter Death Now Post-Rock Bands you may already like: Explosions In The Sky Sigur Ros Jaga Jazzist Godspeed You! Black Emperor Talk Talk Cul de Sac Mogwai Don Caballero Bands you should check out: And So I Watch You from Afar Yndi Halda Mono Red Sparowes This Will Destroy You Heirs Human Bell The Gentleman Losers Grails A Silver Mt. Zion/Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra If These Trees Could Talk Crippled Black Phoenix Envy Gastr Del Sol God is an Astronaut Lights Out Asia The Non Vanessa Van Basten Bands to Expand Your Taste: 65daysofstatic Cloudkicker Kammerflimmer Kollektief The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble The Dead Texan Morkobot Om Paik Pan American Goldmund Post-Metal Essential and Obvious: Isis Pelican Neurosis Russian Circles Cult of Luna Bands you should be listening to: Mouth of the Architect Carontte Fields of Locust Seven Nautical Miles Void Rosetta Year of No Light The Ocean Omega Massif A Storm of Light We Made God The Psyke Project Fall of Efrafa Callisto A Swarm of the Sun Minsk Buried Inside Thrash Metal Bands you may already like: Metallica Megadeth Bands you should like: Slayer Anthrax Testament Forbidden Destruction Sodom Kreator Exodus Mastery Heathen Fastkill Anacrusis Watchtower Exhorder Coroner Dark Angel Evile Deathcore Bands you may already like: Despised Icon The Red Chord Animosity Whitechapel Bands you should like: Graves Of Valor Embrace The End Veil Of Maya Burning The Masses The Red Shore Rifles At Recess Velvet Dawn Knights Of The Abyss In Death We Rise A Blood Stained Novel Dead Man In Reno Sludge Metal Bands you may already like: Queens of the Stone Age Isis Pelican Kylesa Weekend Nachos Year of No Light Mouth of the Architect Callisto OM Essential: Corrupted Grief Neurosis EyehateGod Noothgrush Graves at Sea Boris Bands you should check out: Accept Death Church of Misery Fistula Harvey Milk Lair of the Minotaur Moss Swallow the Ocean Thou Stoner Rock Bands you may already like: Queens of the Stone Age Kyuss Bands you should like: Electric Wizard Spiritual Beggars Sleep High on Fire OM Fu Manchu Ufomammut Bongzilla Weedeater Alabama Thunderslightly confuzzled sea lion Boris Dead Meadow Death Metal Bands you may already like: Amon Amarth At the Gates Behemoth Cannibal Corpse Death Morbid Angel Nile Bands you should check out: Angelcorpse Arghoslent Asphyx Atheist Autopsy Autumn Leaves Bolt Thrower Carcass Carnage Celtic Frost The Chasm Dead Congregation Deicide Demigod Demilich Dismember Entombed Garden of Shadows God Macabre Gorguts Immolation Incantation Intestine Baalism Mantas Massacra Massacre Monstrosity Morpheus Descends Necrophobic Nunslaughter Obituary Pestilence Possessed Ripping Corpse Sinister Suffocation Unleashed Winter Cadacross Bands to expand your taste: Assück Brutal Truth Cynic Destroyer 666 Destruction Dissection Grand Belial's Key Kreator Napalm Death Novembers Doom My Dying Bride Profanatica Slayer Sodom Terrorizer Technical Death Metal Bands you may already like: Meshuggah Atheist Nile The Faceless Bands you should like: Neuraxis Necrophagist Martyr Illogicist Origin Spawn of Possession Theory in Practice Gorod Hieronymus Bosch Augury Quo Vadis Arsis Anata Psycroptic Atherethic !T.O.O.H.! Crimson Massacre Gorguts New Wave of British Heavy Metal Bands you may already like: Iron Maiden Motorhead Judas Priest Bands you should like: Diamond Head King Diamond Grim Reaper Budgie Angel Witch Bands to expand your tastes: Legend Manilla Road Cloven Hoof Exciter Griffin Heir Apparent Helstar Jag Panzer Night Sun Omen Pagan Altar Stormwitch Trouble X Japan Zions Abyss Elixir Running Wild Progressive Metal Bands you may already like: Dream Theater Pain of Salvation Rush Bands you should like: Queensryche Fates Warning Symphony X Dark Suns Opeth Riverside Cynic Suspyre Spiral Architect Quidam (Not very metal but they're very good) Bands to expand your tastes: Watchtower Blotted Science Spastic Ink Behold... The Arctopus Dysrhythmia Black Metal Bands you may already like: Dimmu Borgir Cradle of Filth Burzum Darkthrone Satyricon Mayhem Emperor Bands you should like: Basilisk Bathory Beherit Darkspace Drudkh Enslaved Gorgoroth Grand Belial's Key Inquisition Lunar Aurora Mercyful Fate Peste Noire Sombres Foret Summoning Thesyre Ulver (first and third album) Venom Last edited by Tyler; 09-27-2010 at 11:30 AM.