Metal Mania (music)

I'm a big fan of melodic death metal. I listen to a lot of In Flames and Dark Tranquility.I also love Otep - you don't hear a lot of female metal vocalists. "Special Pets" is just about my favorite song atm.Dimmu Borgir has a few good ones - "Puritania" and "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" are a few of my favorites. What can I say? Blasphemy tickles me.Iron Maiden is just classic.Even though they're a joke band from a cartoon, I love Dethklok.The Minibosses do metal covers of old Nintendo themes. This makes them awesome. Check out their Mega Man 2 medley.

The fact that you're a Creationist Christian listening to Satanic Death Metal makes me cackle with maniacal glee.I'm finding myself listening to music more and more now that I've finally gotten off my old cell contract and gotten an iPhone - having a good quality MP3 player on me at all times makes music far more convenient than when I had to carry an extra device (I already need to carry a work phone and my personal phone, and my old Helio Ocean was both an obscenely large brick and had terrible sound quality when playing music).

Best thing about threads like this: I can expand my library of metal with everybody else's suggestions.

I've actually heard Epica, and they're pretty good. The female vocalist actually sings classically, which makes a nice contrast with the male vocals (the typical metal "growl") and the metal music (with some orchestra thrown in). It's like Metallica's S&M mixed with In Flames mixed with Evanescence (without being lame).

HEard some Nightwish, the others in the list don't sound familiar.I have a mild hearing problem: I cannot understand lyrics easily. I can hear them, I just can't process the sounds into words as easily as most people are able to. By contrast, I can pick out individual instruments and so on from a song pretty easily.This means that I listen to music primarily for the sound, not the lyrics. For this reason I like a lot of pure instrumentals ("Ex Nihilo" from Dark Tranquility is great; "Whoracle" from In Flames; I also listen to lots and lots of original scores from movies and such), and often have no idea what a given song is actually about. Which is occasionally embarrassing.

It doesn't seem to be a problem with my hearing, per se - I can pass hearing tests, I can hear quiet sounds, etc. I can hear the vocals, but they just don;t get processed as language unless I really concentrate. Something similar happens with lots of background noise, especially where lots of people are talking. You can be talking to me from a foot away, and I might not be able to understand you even though I can hear you. It's rather lame.And oddly enough, I don't crank my metal (or other music) very high. I don't want to add more issues to my hearing - I try to use lower volumes with noise isolation or cancellation headphones so that I can still hear the fullness of the music without popping my eardrums.Yes, I'm weird.

I think either Mermaider (it's about Mermaid murder)or Awaken Mustakrakish is my favorite.Kastratikron is just effing hilarious.And of course, since tax day was just a little while ago, Detharmonic was very appropriate.Listening to more Nightwish after the recommendations here and (coincidentally) from another friend. Starting to really, really like them.

Is there an emote for a middle finger?Whatever man. To each his own. My musical tastes have always been different from most of the people I associate with, and frankly I'm past caring. If it sounds good to me, I'll listen to it.But Dethklok rules. Say otherwise at your peril!