Ziltoid the Omniscient by Devin Townsend

It's fine honey, I got this covered.

Hello officer, I got some Elder with me. Never leave home without them!

I offer Witchcraft by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

I request power metal recommendations, please.

Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders

White Zombie - Black Sunshine

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

Slayer - Disciple

Whitesnake - Crying in the Rain

Testament - Souls of Black

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

Armored Saint - Upon My Departure

The Black Mages - Hunter's Chance

Twisted Sister - Under the Blade

Poisonblack - Rush

Megadeth - Take No Prisoners

Tetsuya Kazuki - Bloody Tears

Pantera - Drag the Waters

Ugly Kid Joe - Jesus Rode a Harley

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein

...yes, I'm old.

Some female fronted and maybe not so commonly known Bands:

It Was Metal · A Sound of Thunder

Raid The Universe · Elysion

A Grave for Each One of Us · Lucifer

General of the Dark Army · Unleash The Archers

Chasing The Mirage · Seven Kingdoms

The Ripper in Black · Savage Master

Hexenhammer · Burning Witches

Pray for Fire · Oceans of Slumber

New Evil · Nocturna

Battles In The Night · Frozen Crown

The Killing Joke · Volturian

Life Finds a Way · Helion Prime

Animals As Leaders

I've been on a Spiritbox kick for a while. Chelsea Wolfe scratches an itch I didn't know was there, folk metal, like coffeehouse with the espresso machine grinding out the melody.

Archspire - death metal + speed rap

The Browning - electronicore

Avatar of Hate, Fleshgod Apocalypse - symphonic death metal

Angel Maker - melodic deathcore

Bleed from Within - melodic metalcore

Beast in Black - power metal

Mors Principium Est - melodic death metal

Anubis - Venom and the Viper's Kiss

Exodus - War Is My Shepherd

ANGUS McSIX - Master Of The Universe

Andrew W.K. - Party Hard

Ministry - Let's Go

Joe Stump - Speed Metal Messiah

In Flames - Only for the Weak

Rammstein - Feuer frei!

Trivium - In Waves

Bad Omens - Like a Villian

Not a huge metal person, but coming from a rock background, I've really been into Bad Omens lately. They have a kinda alternative sound to them imo.

I'm going to show my age with this list, and metal is such a large genre I don't always know what counts. Hopefully there's new ones for some folks that you'll enjoy as much as I do.

• Bleed - Meshuggah
• Serums of Liao - High on Fire
• A Colossal Wreck - Every Time I Die I really love this one because I feel like you get 3 songs in 1. Might count as punk instead, I dunno.
• Hypermania - Polaris
• Earth Scar - Decapitated
• Loyal To None - Kublai Khan TX
• Rebuttal - Johnny Booth
• Dark Horse - Converge
• Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
• New Low - Thrown

Here's few of my favorites

Kiuas - Across The Snows

One of my favorites from Kiuas as it also contains part where they sing in Finnish :P More popular songs are "Warrior Soul" and "Kiuassault".

Turmion Kätilöt - Vastanaineet

2 Times Terror - Ikävässä Paikassa (side project of Turmion Kätilöt)

Battle Beast - King For A Day

Egypt Central - White Rabbit

Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?, also Oops I Did It Again! is epic 😁

Lordi - Devil Is A Loser

Stargazer · Blood Stain Child

Korpiklaani - Tequila

Bring Me The Horizon ft. Babymetal - Kingslayer

Star-Lord band - Zero to Hero (from Guardians of the Galaxy game)

the ocean collective, if you enjoy the more progressive stuff

phanerozoic i

phanerozoic ii

holocene

Death Metal Æther Realm, Heaven Shall Burn

Metal is the classic music of tomorrow, my favorite genre since 50 years

• Insomnium
• Be'lakor
• Wolfheart
• Gojira
• Enshine
• Aspherium
• Slumber
• Dark Oath
• Harakiri for the Sky
• Nahtram
• Rotting Christ

and some more

🤘

Merchant of the Void by 3Teeth with Mick Gordon (maker of the Doom 2016 and Eternal soundtrack(

Some sick Pacific Northwest metal/hardcore to checkout:

• lilith.
• Kaizo
• heiress
• Cult Sickness
• Flesh Produce

There’s SO MUCH good modern hardcore music here right now that I’m barely scratching the surface, but hopefully at least one of these does something for you!

Sleep Token

These guys have an incredible range and mix up different styles in a way that is quite unique. I'm not normally someone who pays that much attention to drums but their drummer really is amazing. The singer can do both clean and 'dirty' vocals.

First time in ages I've been excited about a new band!

Chokehold

The Summoning

Take Me Back To Eden

Hypnosis

The Offering

Vore

1. alien weaponry. Kiwi band that have a lot of Maori (nz indigenous people/language) in their music.

2. red. Christian metal band, but still good for non Christians since it's just based on Christian values not directly worship.

• Nickelback
• Steely Dan
• Silversun Pickups
• Goldfrapp

I will never stop worshipping Primus and whatever whacky thing they do.

Compressorhead

Don’t have links atm but

Alpha Wolf (Just released a record today)

Erra (just released an record today)

Cliffside

Knocked Loose

Orbit Culture

Darko US

Aviana

Varials

Invent Animate

Bury Tomorrow

Chamber

Some of recommendations I did not already see, that are not-that-well-known; all of these are various flavors of melodic death metal:

Parasite Inc. - Once and for All

Avatar - Bloody Angel

The Agonist - Panophobia (unfortunately, the band is now defunct)

I recently discovered Fit for a King and I really like them! Actually got to see them live earlier this year :3c

Kardashev - Snow Sleep

"Kardashev is a progressive death metal band hailing from Tempe, AZ, whose lyrics focus on the advancement of the human race through themes of technology, selflessness, love, and altruism. Given their positive take on death metal, their style has been jokingly referred to as “life metal,” and they also embrace the genre tag “deathgaze” (death metal + shoegaze) which perfectly describes their ambient death metal approach. "

Vildhjarta

Humanity's Last Breath

Mirar

Olympus Lenticular

and all i can say is

THALL

Dark Tranquility

Katatonia

Draconian

Omnium Gatherum

Insomnium

I like Dir En Grey, its just a bunch of japanese dads doing heavy metal

I think this is considered prog metal, not sure. But the band Animals as Companions. I think they are fucking awesome. Combat Cartography (iirc) is a awesome track check out.

I'm not into rock/metal enough to know all the genres that well, but alot of the heavier stuff has singers that just ruin it for me. Animals deals with that in Mt favorite way, no singer.

I love Jesters Dance by In Flames, but that seems to be one of the few they have without singing.

Try out some Botanist.

Two instrument black metal. Drums, and hammer dulcimer. Sometimes has Bass guitar. Very atmospheric. Interesting vibes.

here is their upcoming album which has some good singles

here is my favorite release

Hamferð is also pretty slick.

Their new album Men guðs hond er sterk is an absolute banger. Absolutely crushing death-doom. Their previous album, Tàmsins likam was probably my favorite album of the year.

Bloodywood has a hold in my heart. Truly fun metal. Bloodywood - Gadaar

Arka'n Asrafokor is the band I'd push the hardest. Effing talented Arka'n - Walk with us

artist - recommended album (spotify link)

my recommendations:

• Deafheaven - Sunbather (guess my namesake wow)
• Vektor - Terminal Redux
• Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
• Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
• Lantlôs - .neon
• Wilderun - Epigone
• Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
• Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy
• Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
• Virvum - Illuminance
• Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALEEEEES)
• Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence
• Silhouette - Les retranchements
• Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive
• Mgła - Age of Excuse

friends recommendations (maybe slightly more digestible than some stuff on my list):

• Inferi - Vile Genesis
• Vale of Pnath - II
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
• Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
• Fallujah - Empyrean
• Allagaeon - Fragments of Form and Function
• Native Construct - Quiet World

Mandroid Echostar - Catchy prog metal with clean vocals

Anaal Nathrakh - Grind/black metal with industrial influences

The Arcane Order - Long-form melodic death metal

Arcania - Kinda like a thrashier Gojira

Rivers of Nihil - Proggy death metal

Unfathomable Ruination - Brutal tech death

Thantifaxath - Dissonant black metal

We Lost the Sea - Post-metal. I need to give some context for this one:

Departure Songs is inspired by failed, yet epic and honourable journeys or events throughout history where people have done extraordinary things for the greater good of those around them, and the progress of the human race itself. This is a celebration and a tribute. Each song has it’s own story and is a soundtrack to that story.

This is our 3rd album and our first instrumental album. We’re exploring new ground and exploring ourselves in the past 2 and a bit years since Chris went on his own journey. It’s slightly bleak with shimmers of hope and layers of emotion. It’s a tribute and a catharsis of emotion and honesty.

I.e., their vocalist died and this was their way of grieving. Incredibly deep cut IMO.

Alpinist - "heavylowfastslowdark hardcore"

Bandcamp Friday so I’ll post a few smaller bands:

Gorilla Wizard

https://gorillawizard.bandcamp.com/album/titanosaur-x-gorilla-wizard

Kaiju Daisenso

https://kaijudaisenso.bandcamp.com

Titanosaur

https://titanosaur1.bandcamp.com/music

Love Sex Machine

https://lovesexmachine.bandcamp.com/music

Native Daughters

https://nativedaughters.bandcamp.com/music

Grizzlor

https://grizzlordestroys.bandcamp.com/music

It’s prog but Angra with Kiko as lead guitarist is still the greatest of all time for me. Kiko left the band for Megadeth a little while back, their new guitarist is solid but just not on the same level. Rebirth, Fireworks and Temple of Shadows are probably my top 3 favorite albums.