Upon noticing the notable amount of metal heads here at Racketboy, I thought it appropriate to start a thread for us. Let us gather here to have our rituals of discussing what is the most brutal and what sub-genres metal bands REALLY belong to. Let us bang heads together and share the names of metal bands we've found or bands we belong to that qualify in some way as metal. While not necessarily just for pure elitists, douches, or metal dorks scrawny or barbaric, a handful of us probably are one of those and this is the place to talk about it, instead of shedding blood in every music related post.
Here goes...
I'm into mOStly "tech metal" of sorts and grindy stuff, bands I enjoy are: As the Sun Sets, Assjack, Beneath the Massacre, Blood has Been Shed (Novella of Uriel), Breather Resist, Burnt By The Sun, Car Bomb, Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Ghengis Tron, Into the Moat, Ion Dissonance, Iwrestledabearonce, Pig Destroyer, The Sawtooth Grin, Tower of Rome... the list goes on. I effing hate "metal core" bands like Killswitch Engage (I know they have the former Blood Has Been Shed singer)... I think they're crap. Older metal hasn't held my attention too much, I grew up on some Metallica but stopped listening to them a while ago.
I'm currently involved in a metal band of sorts called Beat the Doll. I play guitar and my buddy Shane is the drummer. Our singer, Tom, is appropriately crazy. As much as I'm into the techy-grind stuff, it's not what we play. That sort of skill is not within my capacity. We still need a bass player so if any of you are one of those and are in the Waterbury area of CT PM me. Click the link in my sig to hear us!