hard rock fans, or any rock thats worthy of mention

[Deathwish238]

Originally Posted by Meintz

i always like hearing new bands, so i can take brakes from my current bands

heres a list of some of my favorite bands:
alter bridge
disturbed
defualt
shinedown
trapt
skillet
three days grace
lacuna coil
mercy me
within temptation
submersed

i could keep goin but ill end my list there, and if you want i would appreciate the favorite song

Ah you remind me of what I used to listen to in high school until about my 2nd year of college.

To add to your list, you will like:
Seether - Disclaimer I, Disclaimer II, and Karma and Effect are better than their newest album imo
Linkin Park - Older stuff before A Minute Till Midnight. Check out Hybrid Theory specifically
Chevelle - Again older stuff is better, Wonder What's Next is excellent so is This Type of Thinking Could do us in
System of a Down - I like almost all their stuff. They imo are the best Nu Metal band I have ever heard.


You listen to Nu Metal(Disturbed) and a little Hard Rock(Shinedown).

I don't like the new Disturbed CD...I think they completely lost their element in it and just went pure mainstream. Their first two albums are good and the third was alright. They sucked live, one of my greatest disappointments.

Shinedown...I love Leave a Whisper.

Lacuna Coil - I've seen them live twice. First time they were awesome, second time they were okay. Seems to be a trend here that I like their older stuff as well.

Three Days Grace - They're a great Nu Metal band. Although they go against my trend in that I like all their albums. Seen them live three times, they put on an excellent show.

Trapt...I liked them for a while but I can't stand them anymore. I don't know what I was thinking. Catchy songs I guess. Maybe it killed me when I saw them live and the singer could sing worth a shit. Half the time his mouth would move but no sound would come out.

[Deathwish238]

Originally Posted by Arisen Dragon

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is a very good band

Favorite song from them is probably In Fates Hands.

Also, Metallica of course

Favorite song from them is The Unforgiven.

Red Jumpsuit is Emo....and yeah...

Originally Posted by Meintz

no offense but that isnt rock, funeral doom or death metal whatever it is i dont know how you could listnin to that, i believe the song i heard was called emptiness of god it was kind of a slow song

a couple bands i should have had on my list are
decyfer down
falling up
both are christian rock bands, i havnt heard alot of their songs but the ones i have are good, thanks for posting guys, if you come up with some other bands id love to hear about them

Morbid Angel is a classic Death Metal band. They're one of the fathers of the genre. You would not have a lot of Nu Metal and Hard Rock you have today without bands like them. I have not heard much of them, but one of these days I plan to explore them



Nu Metal is a stepping stone into the world of Metal. There are soooooooooo many metal bands out there it is simply crazy.


You can't expect to wake up one day and enjoy growling. It just doesn't work like that. However, growling adds an element of darkness to music that you cannot achieve anywhere else. If the lyrics are talking about undead spilling onto earth and destroying all that there is and the dude is clean singing...it just sounds stupid. Or perhaps they're talking about eaten alive...once again you can't clean sing that.


My progression went from Alternative, to Hard Rock, to Nu Metal, to Melodic Death Metal and Groove Metal, to where am I now...Death Metal and Black Metal and a bit of Brutal and Technical Metal.


If you want to hear some metal that's good for beginners, check out Lamb of God (Groove Metal and Metalcore) as well as In Flames (newest album is Experimental Metal older stuff is Melodic Death)

Hard Rock/Nu Metal is rather light music



One more thing, I used to hate growling and death metal with a passion...didn't understand how people could call it music. Never did I see myself blaring Nile (Brutal Egyptian Death Metal) as I drive down the street.

[Animostical]

Originally Posted by Meintz

i always like hearing new bands, so i can take brakes from my current bands

heres a list of some of my favorite bands:
alter bridge
disturbed
defualt
shinedown
trapt
skillet
three days grace
lacuna coil
mercy me
within temptation
submersed

i could keep goin but ill end my list there, and if you want i would appreciate the favorite song

IDK if I would considered those hard rock. Maybe disturbed maybe shine down.

[blazedbishop]

Originally Posted by =Dave!

They sound too much like ACDC lol
they're relatively well known in the UK.

Alter Bridge is one of my fave bands... i'd term most of their music as metal though, a lot of heavy stuff.

WoW i really don't know how you could call alter bridge metal. They are far far from it. Metal bands (in the sense of the word, Metal is used to describe alot of bands however i disagree with most) woul be bands like Metallica, Pantera, Killswitch Engage, etc.

Anyways my favs. are Killswitch Engage, In Flames, Veil of maya, and EveryTimeIDie.

Prob a little to heavy of a taste for most of you who are used to your "radio bands" like seether, breaking benjamin, etc. You will never hear any of my fav's on the radio.... EVER lol

[blazedbishop]

Originally Posted by Deathwish238

Red Jumpsuit is Emo....and yeah...





Morbid Angel is a classic Death Metal band. They're one of the fathers of the genre. You would not have a lot of Nu Metal and Hard Rock you have today without bands like them. I have not heard much of them, but one of these days I plan to explore them



Nu Metal is a stepping stone into the world of Metal. There are soooooooooo many metal bands out there it is simply crazy.


You can't expect to wake up one day and enjoy growling. It just doesn't work like that. However, growling adds an element of darkness to music that you cannot achieve anywhere else. If the lyrics are talking about undead spilling onto earth and destroying all that there is and the dude is clean singing...it just sounds stupid. Or perhaps they're talking about eaten alive...once again you can't clean sing that.


My progression went from Alternative, to Hard Rock, to Nu Metal, to Melodic Death Metal and Groove Metal, to where am I now...Death Metal and Black Metal and a bit of Brutal and Technical Metal.


If you want to hear some metal that's good for beginners, check out Lamb of God (Groove Metal and Metalcore) as well as In Flames (newest album is Experimental Metal older stuff is Melodic Death)

Hard Rock/Nu Metal is rather light music



One more thing, I used to hate growling and death metal with a passion...didn't understand how people could call it music. Never did I see myself blaring Nile (Brutal Egyptian Death Metal) as I drive down the street.

Sorry for the double post but reading this reminded me of myself exactly!!!! I used to be the exact same way as you! I used to hate any kind of metal or death metal and couldn't understand how people could listen to it! Thats crazy. but as you can see above my fav bands are all Metal or some variant of Metal lol funny how that works huh! But i fucking love the shit now! it's great! Sounds really really good in a car with a system too!

[Caael]

I cant listen to anything heavier than Cradle Of Filth.

And OP; check out CKY, Brand New Sin, Vains of Jenna, Turbonegro and Slashs Snakepit (Aint Life Grand)

[=Dave!]

Originally Posted by blazedbishop

WoW i really don't know how you could call alter bridge metal. They are far far from it. Metal bands (in the sense of the word, Metal is used to describe alot of bands however i disagree with most) woul be bands like Metallica, Pantera, Killswitch Engage, etc.

Anyways my favs. are Killswitch Engage, In Flames, Veil of maya, and EveryTimeIDie.

Prob a little to heavy of a taste for most of you who are used to your "radio bands" like seether, breaking benjamin, etc. You will never hear any of my fav's on the radio.... EVER lol

Okay so most of their songs are just hard rock, but they have a few songs from the new album that are pretty heavy... which i would term metal.

and I never actually said they were metal... i said i'd term 'most' of their music metal, which i really meant to say 'some' ... sorry for the confusion.

Im no newbie to metal, most of my music taste IS metal... I just see metal qualities in some of Alter Bridges songs..

[Meintz]

Originally Posted by Deathwish238

Ah you remind me of what I used to listen to in high school until about my 2nd year of college.

To add to your list, you will like:
Seether - Disclaimer I, Disclaimer II, and Karma and Effect are better than their newest album imo
Linkin Park - Older stuff before A Minute Till Midnight. Check out Hybrid Theory specifically
Chevelle - Again older stuff is better, Wonder What's Next is excellent so is This Type of Thinking Could do us in
System of a Down - I like almost all their stuff. They imo are the best Nu Metal band I have ever heard.


You listen to Nu Metal(Disturbed) and a little Hard Rock(Shinedown).

I don't like the new Disturbed CD...I think they completely lost their element in it and just went pure mainstream. Their first two albums are good and the third was alright. They sucked live, one of my greatest disappointments.

Shinedown...I love Leave a Whisper.

Lacuna Coil - I've seen them live twice. First time they were awesome, second time they were okay. Seems to be a trend here that I like their older stuff as well.

Three Days Grace - They're a great Nu Metal band. Although they go against my trend in that I like all their albums. Seen them live three times, they put on an excellent show.

Trapt...I liked them for a while but I can't stand them anymore. I don't know what I was thinking. Catchy songs I guess. Maybe it killed me when I saw them live and the singer could sing worth a shit. Half the time his mouth would move but no sound would come out.

i do like the old stuff of linkin park and chevelle, and i dont mind listnin to seether and system of a down. and i agree that disturbed is going downhill for me, but i like the new song "the night". and trapt is alright but the problem i have with them is there songs sound so similar i cant listnin to them for long, but ill listin to a few of their songs once in a great while. and i wouldnt consider alter bridge metal, id hardly consider them hard rock.

[Meintz]

Originally Posted by Animostical

IDK if I would considered those hard rock. Maybe disturbed maybe shine down.

i know what your saying, im a fan of hard rock, but i also like lighter versions of rock as well, thats basically a list of what im listnin to right now, but i was hoping of fans of hard rock, or any rock, would give me some good bands to listin too i hadnt heard before, but i should have titled this thread for any rock lovers, but when i think of rock i cant help but think of acdc and that crap, i cant stand it, and i do favor the heavier stuff more often then the lighter.

[Meintz]

Originally Posted by Caael

I cant listen to anything heavier than Cradle Of Filth.

And OP; check out CKY, Brand New Sin, Vains of Jenna, Turbonegro and Slashs Snakepit (Aint Life Grand)

thanks for all the suggestions guys, its gonna take me awhile to listin to it all tho.

and right now im linstnin to brand new sin, and im likin it so far, they remind me of hurt, so you might like them, they got a few good songs, the chorus on ten ton brick is pretty good, but i havnt listned to many of their songs yet.