Who are your Big 5 metal bands?

LiveeviL2000 said:
Oddly, I was never a Tool fan.

Scorpions was always considered Metal, but by comparison to some other bands they would be like an easy listening metal.
Sort of like Godsmack, great band, love their music, but they are on that cusp of metal, grungy hard rock ... I guess nu-metal maybe?
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i dont like to over categorize music.
to me, theres rock, metal, country, jazz, and blues.
i further simplify music into only 2 categories .....that which i like and that which i dont like.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Iron, I tried to stay within the rules or else I would have put Sepultura, Tool, Dream Theater, Pantera, Metallica, Ozzy, Volbeat
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I get that. If we expanded it to top 25 I'm sure Sepultura would have been there a lot more.

On that note, I would have also added Pestilence, Destruction, Opeth and a handful of others...
 
Oh, I see.
I get shipped off to an island with 5 bands in my play list.
Everyone else get 25 … I see how this goes for the newbie ambassadors
It’s, “newbie, fetch me a drink”
“Plebe, sweep the floors”
“prospect, the toilet needs fixin’ “
…“You only get 5 bands and an 80s Sony Walkman on a desert island.”

I feel like I got married again!
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
Oh, I see.
I get shipped off to an island with 5 bands in my play list.
Everyone else get 25 … I see how this goes for the newbie ambassadors
It’s, “newbie, fetch me a drink”
“Plebe, sweep the floors”
“prospect, the toilet needs fixin’ “
…“You only get 5 bands and an 80s Sony Walkman on a desert island.”

I feel like I got married again!
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Wait? You got a Walkman? They gave me this:

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Sapient said:
You still need to add this ....

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:ROFLMAO:

Ha!

True story: When I first decided I seriously wanted to sing in a band (10th grade), I begged my parents for a microphone for Christmas. I wanted a Shure SM58 even though at the time I didn't know the model number. They got me something very similar to this Radio Shack one - (a no name I later found out it cost $24), except it had a Polarity Reverse feature, where you could connect the XLR cable right side up or upside down to reverse the polarity. Absolutely no idea why that would be a desired feature on a vocal mic, but it was what it was.

So, I get this mic and I'm all excited to use it, but I wasn't in a band, had no PA and didn't know anyone in a band with a PA. So, I hung onto this POS mic for about 2 years til I joined my first real band. I'd been dying to use this mic for what felt like ever to my teenage mind, I couldn't wait to finally plug it in and let 'er rip.

Get to practice, and they had a decent AKG mic there (don't recall the model, but it was maybe one step down from an SM58). They suggested I use it, but I wasn't having it - I wanted to use this crapola mic I'd gotten for Christmas.

So, we plug the cheap mic in and try one song and it sounds like utter garbage - like singing through an old Ma Bell telephone call if not worse. I couldn't figure out why, cause #inexperienced and the guy running the sound board couldn't either. Then I remembered the "super cool feature" where you could reverse the polarity. I unplug the mic, turn the XLR connector over, plug it back in and we go again. It sounded even worse. :ROFLMAO: After a few minutes of all of us examining this mic, I grabbed the AKG and set the Christmas mic down. Ended up using that AKG for about a year til I got my SM58 (which I still have to this day - and it still works just like it did when I bought it in the late 80s). Last I saw, that Christmas mic was in the corner of our practice room under a pile of empty beer cans... no idea what ever became of it.
 
Iron1 said:
:ROFLMAO:

Ha!

True story: When I first decided I seriously wanted to sing in a band (10th grade), I begged my parents for a microphone for Christmas. I wanted a Shure SM58 even though at the time I didn't know the model number. They got me something very similar to this Radio Shack one - (a no name I later found out it cost $24), except it had a Polarity Reverse feature, where you could connect the XLR cable right side up or upside down to reverse the polarity. Absolutely no idea why that would be a desired feature on a vocal mic, but it was what it was.

So, I get this mic and I'm all excited to use it, but I wasn't in a band, had no PA and didn't know anyone in a band with a PA. So, I hung onto this POS mic for about 2 years til I joined my first real band. I'd been dying to use this mic for what felt like ever to my teenage mind, I couldn't wait to finally plug it in and let 'er rip.

Get to practice, and they had a decent AKG mic there (don't recall the model, but it was maybe one step down from an SM58). They suggested I use it, but I wasn't having it - I wanted to use this crapola mic I'd gotten for Christmas.

So, we plug the cheap mic in and try one song and it sounds like utter garbage - like singing through an old Ma Bell telephone call if not worse. I couldn't figure out why, cause #inexperienced and the guy running the sound board couldn't either. Then I remembered the "super cool feature" where you could reverse the polarity. I unplug the mic, turn the XLR connector over, plug it back in and we go again. It sounded even worse. :ROFLMAO: After a few minutes of all of us examining this mic, I grabbed the AKG and set the Christmas mic down. Ended up using that AKG for about a year til I got my SM58 (which I still have to this day - and it still works just like it did when I bought it in the late 80s). Last I saw, that Christmas mic was in the corner of our practice room under a pile of empty beer cans... no idea what ever became of it.
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Is it weird that I feel for that little orphaned mic.
 
My exposure to metal is pretty white bread, meaning I haven't sought out much more than I hear on FM & Sirius.
I'm not a big fan of cookie monster vocals.
First & foremost is Sabbath.
then... Metallica
Pantera
Rammstein
Rage

If honorable mentions can be included, UFO and Slayer.
 
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