Metal Reviews

I know there prolly has been a thread for this a million times but what bands are on your top 20. I'm just curious to see what every one is diggin at the moment, you know? I know its also hard to think of a list but if you absolutely had to. Well here's my List:
1. Rammstein
2. Cattle Decapitation
3. Katatonia
4. Daughters
5. Cradle Of Filth
6. Dimmu Borgir
7. In Flames
8. The Locust
9. Napalm Death
10. Enslaved
11. NOFX
12. Wolves In The Throne Room
13. Wormrot
14. Underoath
15. Swallow The Sun
16. Agoraphobic Nosebleed
17. Amon Amarth
18. Anaal Nathrakh
19. Alcest
20. Behemoth

Cool thread. Bands (composers) that immediately come to mind, not in any specific order:

Enslaved
Esoteric (UK)
Emperor
Mayhem (Norway)
Dissection (Sweden)
Ihsahn
Amon Amarth
Windir
Skepticism
Primordial
Katatonia
Wolves in the Throne Room
Rotting Christ
Agalloch
Pink Floyd
Goblin
Sibelius
Brahms
Therion
Iron Maiden
Angel witch (UK)
Candlemass
Winds (Nor)
Insomnium
Negura Bunget
Doom: Vs
Opeth
Camel
Colosseum (Norway)
Shinning (BM)
Moonsorrow
King Crimson
Darkthrone (first three albums)
James Murray (England)
Eternal Lies
Mercyful fate
King Diamond
Aphrodite's Child
Destroyer 666
Wagner (later Operas)
Hades (Norway)
Absu
Pain of Salvation
Forest of Stars
While Heaven Wept
Unleashed
(Old) Carpathian Forest
Bethlehem (Germany)
Celtic Frost
Devil Doll
The Chasm
Incantation
Disembowelment
Sunn O)))
(New) Burzum
Dark Sanctuary
Dead Can Dance
Ulver

Currently like in the last six months I'd say this. All time? Fuck that decision-making process.

1. Trapped Under Ice
2. iwrestledabearonce
3. Cloud Rat
4. Enabler
5. Panopticon
6. Red Fang
7. Despise You
8. Touché Amoré
9. Pig Destroyer
10. Trap Them
11. Cattle Decapitation
12. Nails
13. Dillinger Escape Plan
14. PJ Harvey
15. Kylesa
16. Megadeth
17. High on Fire
18. Leviathan
19. Origin
20. Rihanna

boy you Trollin with Number 20?

Hell no I'm not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJISr_tiQY

And replace Megadeth with Indian and HoF was kinda a bogus addition, given that I haven't listened to them recently. Probably ANb would fit there.

I'll do last six months as well...NO PARTICULAR ORDER GUYZ

Thrice
Nujabes
BADBADNOTGOOD
Cloudkicker
Animals as Leaders
Elliott Smith
Protest the Hero
Cynic
Trophy Scars
Frank Ocean
Mastodon
Tyler, the Creator
Mouse on the Keys
Letlive
Touche Amore
Have a Nice Life
Kimbra
Battles
Exemption
Cobalt

Taking all questions as to what gay music I listen to.

trapt, that song stanks. "Only Girl in the World" is her best...

Add Hellhammer to my list. I've been enjoying them a lot recently.

Always fun to list this stuff and see where your tastes are at this point.

Not doing this in order and limiting myself to metal...

Emperor
MDB
Enslaved
Therion
Negura Bunget
Moonsorrow
Anubis Gate
Blind Guardian
Dolorian
Esoteric
Nile
Xasthur
Windir
Limbonic Art
Abigor
Summoning
Drudkh
Rotting Christ
Death
Akercocke

Still love Opeth and Morbid Angel of course, but I'm really mad at the latter and sorta annoyed with the former.

Rush
Morifade
Dungeon / Lord
Angra
Ayreon
Kamelot
Vision Divine
Labyrinth
Dream Theater
Gamma Ray
Dio / Black Sabbath / Rainbow
Boston
Nevermore
Odyssea
Edguy
Axcel Rudi Pell
Yngwie Malmsteen
?

Thanks to emperor's list I also have to add Summoning and Drudkh (how could I ever forget those two!). I realize it's much more than the "top 20" but I've never been a fan of form and numbers that much.

La Dispute (Whenever I have time to listen to music I have a hard time thinking of something else to listen to. They're definitely winning.)

Kimbra, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, Trophy Scars, The Middle East, Grammatics, Beirut (Super catchy music with great lyrics that throws awesome curveballs at you)

Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Kenny Dorham, Dizzie Gillespie, Max Roach, Cab Calloway, Clifford Brown, Ahmad Jamal (jazz)

Claude Michel-Schonberg (musicals)

The Mars Volta (they're always getting played regularly)

Orbit Service, These Arms are Snakes (Listening to them tons is kinda dying off although new Orbit Service album will prolly change that)

I hardly listen to metal anymore. Even new Zebulon Pike, East of the Wall, and Hammers of Misfortune didn't catchy my attention like I thought they would. :(

I forgot about Lost Horizon, Human Fortress, Savatage, Dionysus and probably a dozen more bands too.

I love when these threads go up, now everybody can tell each other how much non-metal we listen to. Awesome!

It is...

I like Random pop songs. Maybe a couple hundred acts at 1-10 songs over the entire career. I think I keep around 1000 oif these types of songs around.

I have so much less music than ever before. I stick with about 350 albums and prefer to have the entire discography of bands and basically shun live material.

I think it's an awkward position to be in. I really love all the different genres, but I love to study Prog and power metal. The theory, the production, the lyrics, researching where they got their ideas and who's basically saying the same things and finding the connections in the lyrics that tell quite a damn story, our story.

All in all though, if both those subgenres never happened there would still be so much good material around that I simply don't have time for. It is unfair but since there's unlimited time, all will be appreciated if that's what you want, so I'm not sweating the fact I haven't heard the Testament discography hundreds of times. I'm focused in another area. I probably will have enough to study for many years to come, but some stuff gets priority over others for some reason.

My top 20 bands are just a tip of the huge iceberg that I have chosen to become extremely involved with and the other facets, other lifetimes really that could have been or may well be still lurk around. Who knows where it will all end up year after year. It seems stagnating to listen to the same stuff again, but when I compare the time periods I notice a huge amount is added to the "pool" of material that is really always on my mind.

Tis ok, bro, I made sure to only list metal.

In no order,
1. Killing Joke
2. Discharge
3. Godflesh
4. Christian Death
5. Genesis
6. Faith No More
7. Deep Purple
8. diSEMBOWLMENT
9. Cloven Hoof
10. Angel Witch
11. Sir Lord Baltimore
12. Uriah Heep
13. Bauhaus
14. Cryptopsy
15. Aphrodites Child
16. Electric Wizard
17. Entombed
18. Skeletonwitch
19. Hawkwind
20. Ministry

According to Last Fm, here's the 20 artists I played most in the last 6 months:

1 - Queen
2 - Marc Ribot
3 - Slough Feg
4 - Bob Marley
5 - Rush
6 - Anthrax
7 - Steve Hackett
8 - Thin Lizzy
9 - Charles Mingus
10 - Nits
11 - Bill Frisell
12 - Antonio Carlos Jobim
12 - Peter Gabriel
12 - Genesis
15 - Elliott Carter
15 - Valient Thorr
17 - John Zorn
17 - Tom Waits
17 - The Easybeats
20 - Motorpsycho

It gets a little weird in the second half with some artists I wouldn't have thought would be here.
Other than that, it's pretty much spot on as a recent favorites list.

Fuck off.

Same ol' shit I've been listening to for 20 years!