Comments on: Quality of Heavy Metal

By: thetrooper

thetrooper — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:30:40 +0000

@ ferris
EVERYONE!!!!!!!! SHE IS A WHORE

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:18:42 +0000

I would agree with this graph if “Heavy Metal” was replaced with “Popular Heavy Metal”. The difference today with music in general is that most the good stuff has gone “underground” to some degree or another.

By: xXDarkAngelXx

xXDarkAngelXx — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:58:42 +0000

Metal bands don’t call themselves Heavy Metal anymore and Death Metal is better than ever

By: DG

DG — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:49:47 +0000

ever listen to The Faceless, Within the Ruins, The Acacia Strain, modern Cannibal Corpse, Sylosis, or Burning the Masses? They may be classified as different versions of “death metal”, but they are heavy and they are metal so therefore they are all “heavy metal”. And if after listening to these bands, someone think that the quality of metal has declined, then they are in need of a lobotomy.

By: Andrei Armand

Andrei Armand — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:08:22 +0000

NDH ftw <3

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:51:06 +0000

Obviously you’ve never heard Kamelot

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:38:26 +0000

well today every one lissens to that slobbered guy or something, and spinning a head around, WTF
I listen to METALLICA WOOT
I have mostly rolling stones and metallica and some other new aged metal thats not all just screeming in to the microphone

By: Rekaoi

Rekaoi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:40:08 +0000

Funny graph, made me laugh; It’s also very true.

By: Hans Ruedi

Hans Ruedi — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:31:21 +0000

Ja! Wieso lutschen sie nicht meinen Schwanz?

By: David Michaels

David Michaels — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:27:38 +0000

Death to all but METAL!

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:46:13 +0000

Open anus, remove stick.

By: Eokeer

Eokeer — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:47:11 +0000

What does the BBQ of OMGWTFBBQ mean?

By: Marekatt

Marekatt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:10:30 +0000

So that’s where South Park got the theme for the hallusinations in the cat urin episode!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:08:03 +0000

If I were to reccomend some other songs by these bands, because I think Redneck is a terrible representation of Lamb of God, and I’ve never been a big fan of To Sirius, I would say listen to Laid to Rest or Walk With Me in Hell for Lamb of God and Ocean Planet, Backbone, or Vacuity for Gojira

By: Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:35:14 +0000

Sad But True. New Metal bands (and Nu Metal) are nowhere near as good, with few exceptions.

SOAD, Disturbed, and A7X (after the screaming phase) are good, but nobody else really is. Luckily we have awesome old-school bands that are still rocking hard! Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath), Megadeth, NOT GUNS N ROSES!, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Slayer, etc. are still kicking ass! And of course us from Metallica are too! \m/

By: Daniel McLaurin

Daniel McLaurin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:17:11 +0000

M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C-A

By: KEVIN

KEVIN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:35:27 +0000

BACK IN THE 80S IT WAS IRON MAIDEN ,OZZY ,JUDAS PRIEST MUSIC LIKE THAT. NOW THAT WAS METAL

By: =^-^=

=^-^= — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:35:14 +0000

By: rawr...

rawr... — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:40:05 +0000

I for one like Rammstein…but no one ever asks me. Not exactly metal…see, we need to quit naming bands in genres and need to start just telling people to listen to the dang music. Most of the time, I’ll listen to a band and they’ll grow on me. I have some Jamie T., Why?, the Zelda Twilight Princess OST, Rammstein, and a heck of a lot of other things on my list too…JUST BECAUSE I LISTENED TO THEM INSTEAD OF SAYING “OH THAT’S (insert genre here for easy quotation) AND I HATE (reinsert).

Geebus.

Oh, and I for one don’t quite like Hannah Montana, because she has no talent. Cute though.

By: KP Love

KP Love — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:41:09 +0000

Red is about as metal as Evanescence.

By: Cyrill

Cyrill — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:19:45 +0000

not so funny but it is true

By: winternets

winternets — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:03:15 +0000

Bonus points to you for mentioning Scar Symmetry.

By: Isolated Ass

Isolated Ass — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:26:27 +0000

ATR and BMTH ain’t metal.

I rest my case.

By: ...

... — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:54:18 +0000

Just cuz’ you like new school doesn’t mean you have to rag on old school…

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:25:27 +0000

There is a band called Band, Them, and Yes. I love talking about Them.
“I just LOVE Them!”
“Who”?
“Them!”
“Who is that? And where are they?”

By: Cuisine!

Cuisine! — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:55:41 +0000

I like that you listed only a few relevant bands. Bob marley and mozart are hardcore metal you know…

By: jon

jon — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:57:28 +0000

its a joke graph people!

By: Uzigawa

Uzigawa — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:56:18 +0000

haha, hannah montana, hilarious

By: Leyala

Leyala — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:17:17 +0000

That is death metal, not heavy

By: tyler

tyler — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:22:53 +0000

since you mentioned ATR, your comment wins and shall never, ever be debated.

By: lunar

lunar — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:20:44 +0000

Apparently this graph was made in 2000.

By: Brad:D

Brad:D — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:18:29 +0000

1990s metal was awesome! pantera!

By: Matt Wix

Matt Wix — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:39:18 +0000

Lamb of God. All That Remains. Bring Me The Horizon (To an extent).

I rest my case.

By: CryWolf

CryWolf — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:12:06 +0000

And also Kamelot – Epica got their name from one of Kamelot’s albums. Blind Guardian. Mystic Prophecy. And too many others to name.

I will say that Dragonforce is getting better. They seem to be slowing down, which lets them do stuff other than wail on the instruments, and the singer is staying more within his range.

For fun, compare early and recent albums by some bands, such as Amorphis and Therion.

By: J Hopeless

J Hopeless — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:11:33 +0000

apperently you havent scratched the surface deep enough to find good metal. The “mainstream” metal is very crappy and bands like disturbed, dragonforce, and avenged sevenfold should just stop calling themselves metal cuz they arent at all heavy. But there are bands like Lamb Of God, Daath, and Bring Me The Horizon which would, hopefully, make you reconsider your graph. You can’t tell me that sucky bands like poison sound better than Lamb Of God unless you are experiencing some wierd mid-life crisis or something.

By: anaceofkidneys

anaceofkidneys — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:16:52 +0000

I thought the hot new thing to call your crappy band was “indie”. Or is that old news already?

By: MK1K

MK1K — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:52:54 +0000

No. It’s not opinion, it’s quality, which DragonForce does not have.

By: UofLnMU

UofLnMU — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:45:18 +0000

Yeah, unless you’re a 49 year old man.

Yeah.

By: Zodiac

Zodiac — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:38:38 +0000

i agree 100%. just because you like old school doesnt mean you need to rag on new school

By: monnanon

monnanon — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:18:56 +0000

agreed 110% except for one thing. not really heavy metal but who cares they are BRUTAL

By: monnanon

monnanon — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:16:17 +0000

Tarja was the lead singer with nightwish, her solo stuff is ok

By: monnanon

monnanon — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:15:27 +0000

I don think you have listed any heavy metal bands here but almost all of them are brilliant bands. most are the symphonic rock (nightwish and epica) and tristania and sirena kind of border on death metal.
Heavy metal is the likes of judas priest, Iron maiden and the likes.

What i will say about this graph is maybe heavy metal has got worse but there are a lot of brilliant bands that have sprung up around it that make up for that.

By: Kraas

Kraas — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:18:48 +0000

Let me qualify my previous statement: a lot of it is obscure from a United States point of view. Gamma Ray et al are probably not considered obscure in Europe.

By: Kraas

Kraas — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:17:29 +0000

There is still good Metal around today, it’s just obscure. Which only makes it cooler.

By: Kraas

Kraas — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:10:32 +0000

That’s an oxymoron.

By: Setagana

Setagana — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:55:22 +0000

Nope, Zombie’s right, heavy metal is a specific sub-genre of metal which only lived and breathed in the 70s and 80s. Nowadays it is used interchangeably with the word metal (denoting the entire metal industry) by people (such as yourself?) who don’t know the difference between the two. Metalheads don’t care what terminology the rest of the world uses, we know what heavy metal is and we know what bands are metal and what aren’t, so for people who actually know what they’re talking about the definition hasn’t changed at all.

By: Setagana

Setagana — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:48:55 +0000

People who knock Dragonforce make me laugh, cause I can’t get rid of the feeling that they just don’t get it. Everything I’ve seen about these guys indicates to me that they’re just out there to milk fame for all it’s worth and to travel around the world getting $h|tfaced drunk every night. They’re not out there to make perfect music like everyone seems to assume, I think they’re out there just for sex drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

By: Setagana

Setagana — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:45:03 +0000

Sorry to burst your bubble but RATM, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, Deftones and Soundgarden aren’t metal at all.

There are also plenty of good new metal bands in the industry, try Warbringer, Daath, Brain Drill and Devildriver. If you don’t like actual metal then that’s fine, but don’t say there aren’t any good new metal bands if you consider Deftones and Korn to be metal.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:29:30 +0000

Falconer, Bal Sagoth, Helloween, Edguy, Savatage, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Isengard, Apocalyptica, Bathory, Borknager, Danzig, Entombed, Exhumed, Finntroll, Galloglass, Goat Horn, Hammerfall, Iron Savior, Korpiklaani, LORDI, Morbid Angel, Nile, Onslaught, Powergod, Rage, Rhapsody, Rivendell, Satyricon, Savage Circus, Thor, Vintersorg, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zimmer’s Hole.

Halfway through, I kind of decided to do an A-Z of bands which I have listened to, and consider to be, at a minimum pretty decent. I tried, with some success, to not re-mention any that have been previously listed. Also, almost every band on that list has at either started in the last 10 years, or released an album in the last 5.

You’ll notice that most of my listening is either Power Metal, or Prog power, with a smattering of Norwegian black and/or viking metal. However, the overarching idea of any -blank- metal genre is that it is, at its core, metal.

Metal is as alive and strong today as it has ever been. \m/

By: Vieve

Vieve — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:45:02 +0000

I won’t involve myself in the argument about what is or isn’t metal (which has many of its own categories: heavy, death, thrash, etc.), but I will say Heavy Metal is the best adult cartoon ever made. Heavy Metal 2000 is meh.