Best of Modern Metal.
 

Which band does the forum think is the best of modern metal? Consider modern to be mid-nineties to present, so that includes Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Trivium and other bands that fit into that era.

Mastodon, Buzzov*en, Kylesa, High On Fire, Sleep, Warbringer, Acid Bath, Eyehategod, Lamb Of God, Municpal Waste, Bison BC, Dark Castle, Unearthly Trance....... I'm gonna stop there because there are too many that I can name.

For myself I'd have to say Mastodon

I love High on Fire and Sleep and really, really need to get me some Bison BC.


Here's my little list:

Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Behemoth
Boris
Destroyer 666
Discordance Axis
Electric Wizard
Genghis Tron
GridLink
High on Fire
Pig Destroyer
Psychofagist
PsyOpus
Sleep
Sons of Otis
Sunn 0)))
Ufomammut
Zyklon

My two favz right now are Baroness and Between the Buried and Me.

Parkway Drive hands down

Nile, Decapitated and Portal. All three have taken steps to continue the progression of extreme Metal (and more accurately, are my three favourite Metal bands of the last 15 years lol)

A few come to mind.

Bongzilla
Behemoth
Crowbar
Dying Fetus
Electric Wizard
In Flames
Kyuss
Mastodon
Opeth
Orange Goblin
Sleep
Tool

Of course Opeth!! I dont know how I forgot them in all honesty, great band.

Conqueror, Revenge, Black Witchery, Drudkh, Bone Awl, Barbatos, & Hate Eternal

****ing Opeth, man.

I know someone's said it already, but ****ing Opeth.

And I'm not totally sure if this is just hard rock with some metal influences but System of A Down. Good ****, man.

Yeah man, Opeth, Lamb of God, Mastodon probably the best three, followed by Bodom and In Flames.

Someone named Kyuss but I'd hardly call them modern...

As for me, really been digging Boris and Baroness lately

Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Opeth, Genghis Tron, Baroness, those are my favorites.

Edit: forgot Between The Buried And Me, they're great too.

Behemoth
Cattle Decapitation
Children of Bodom
In Flames
Dark Tranquillity
Nile
Suffocation
Disgorge
Noumena
Abigail Williams
Antestor
The Funeral Pyre
I Declare War
Amon Amarth
At the Gates
Zyklon
DevilDriver
Lamb of God
Cannibal Corpse
The Black Dahlia Murder
Dying Fetus
Soilwork
Scar Symmetry

I forgot about Soilent Green and Down.

I think Korn have done well and their new album is not all that bad, good live band

Mastodon, In Flames, Shadows Fall, Paradise Lost, Meshuggah

High on Fire ought to be in anyones top 5. As strong a 3 piece as there will ever be.

Defly. Like Motorhead on good drugs.

In Flames (they're 90s stuff more so than they're newer stuff)
Scar Symmetry
Sonata Arctica
Dragonforce
Twilightning
Chimaira
Devildriver
Sevendust
Disturbed (I consider them metal, so **** off)
System of a Down (see above)
Machine Head
White Wizzard
Soulfly

Slipknot, In Flames, Lamb of God, Dark Tranquility, Parkway Drive, As I Lay Dying, Opeth

Sevendust is an awful excuse for a band

I second that.

I know they don't get very much love here at MB, my favorite is "Five Finger Death Punch".

been meaning to check 'em out, a lot of hearty recs from me frens

and Job for a Cowboy as well

job for a cowboy is mostly terrible, entombment of a machine is worth a listen though

Five Finger Death Punch
The Bleeding, is more than likely their most popular mainstream single, they have a new (3rd) album due to be released this fall.

de magia veterum is good. migdal bavel is mega heavy, i got it off emusic after reading a review.:tramp:

You won't get any argument from me

Personally, I hate Job for a Cowboy. The only good song is Entombment of the Machine, and that is only because there is a part where a woman randomly screams. Kinda funny. 5FDP is really good though. I would argue that "Never Enough" is their most popular song but all their stuff is pretty good. I like their second album the better of the two.

I've only heard two of their songs, some random, boring, toned down, metalcore, what-ever-ness and that cheesy cover of "Bad Company".

They certainly are not metalcore. Not even close. Some sort of power groove genre would define their sound much better. Just because they incorporate melody doesn't mean they are "toned down" either. They are an above average band that plays very passionately in their live sets. They only problem I have with them is that the lyrics aren't exactly what you would call "deep."

YouTube - ‪Five Finger Death Punch - The Way Of The Fist‬‏

Jfac go allright, DOOM was exciting when it came out although I'm very glad knowing that they were the first band to turn away from the pile of crap that is Deathcore.

That's not metalcore?! The song starts with a beatdown for Christ's sake! Then the guy starts screaming just like any other metalcore band. Then he starts with the emo singing just like any other metalcore band. So yeah, metalcore.

I think you mean "breakdown" but even then you wouldn't have used the term correctly. A breakdown is when the tempo slows, the beginning of the song begins with a mini solo and only maintains its tempo into the verse. As for the screaming generalization, I guess Cannibal Corpse must be metalcore now because they use harsh vocals. No comment on the "emo singing." Its not worth dignifying with a response.

Dude, I've heard that same thing fifty million times with fifty million other metalcore bands.

Seriously? That's just weak. If you can't see how that singing is just a rip off of Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Trivium, Unearth, etc, etc, etc then I can't help you.

The only slight resemblance I could see from that list is Trivium, MAYBE. Unearth's vocals can be likened to the sound of someone pooping , AILD typically uses a full on death growl, and Killswitch has the whole guttural/operatic dynamic. FFDP's sound is like a worse pantera with more melodic vocals

So because their voices sound different, they are not using similar styles? Just because you like FFDP doesn't mean they're not derivative. I listen to Trivium and As I Lay Dying, but I still understand thay they're derivative.

I recognize that they're derivative, just not from metalcore. The members of the band came from W.A.S.P. and a nu-metal outfit called motograter just for reference