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Macro by the Ukrainian band Jinjer. This has the best modern metal band around today. Their lead singer Tatiana Shmailyuk is an amazing vocalist and can do those extreme metal vocals better than most men. Bad taste in music? I'm joking. I find anything Metallica have done to be highly overrated.

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Why not try to do something original than doing something that's already been done a million times like Black Sabbath or Metallica? If I wanted to listen to something that sounded like Black Sabbath then I'll go listen to Black Sabbath and not a clone. Also trying to make money out of music is as hard as it has ever been. It's not impossible to do but trying to do it in a genre of music that's not once as big as it used to be with less and less young people getting into it (because the gatekeepers have told young people that any new sub style of metal they make and like is not real metal so they just don't get into metal full stop) is going to very, very, very hard. Not saying it can not be done but it's going to be nearly impossible being one of the 200th million clones of Black Sabbath or Metallica.

The band Magnum often get overlooked in discussions like this so I'll mention them here. On a storyteller's night is a great album.

I'll chime in on this and say hell yes. Bands like Rammstein, Faith No More and Type O Negative were all the better for having humour in their songs and live shows. Rammstein's lead singer chasing around the stage the bands keyboardist with a fake knife before catching him and placing him in a giant cooking pot and then pretending to cook him alive was one of the funniest things I ever saw live. That sort of humour which Rammstein puts into their live shows is what helps make them the greatest band to see live.

I love that album so very much. Love? sounds like pop music and extreme metal mixed together and I love that.

I don't listen to music through youtube because I only listen to music through my hi-fi separates system and none of my computers are hooked up to it. Plus I need to listen to an album by a band to see if I like them or not (not to mention youtube compresses sound quality) so I have brought a copy of Paracletus and The synarchy of molten bones on CD to listen to. Some of my favourite bands were discovered by me buying their CD's because I thought I take a change on the band despite not knowing anything about them (I like discovering new music that away) so not having heard then first before buying two albums by them does not bother me one bit.

I do enjoy the black metal band 1349 so going on that will I enjoy Deathspell omega?

As someone who listens to a lot of music on vinyl and CD, that is the biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard. The only reason I listen to music on vinyl and CD is because I have a hi-fi separates system and I can by vinyl and CD cheaply, mostly CD's cheaply. If I only listened to my music through my computer or a streaming system (which I do own on my hi-fi rack) I would still have the same joy and experience I get from listening to my music through my vinyls and CD's. Most of my favourite albums like October rust by Type O Negative or The dreadful hours by My Dying Bride have rubbish album art and if I wanna find the words to a song I always use the internet to do so.

Italian industrial metal band Dope Stars Inc defiantly do.The song Digital warriors has the lyrics We are the ones who ride the edge We have no boundaries to defend We are a nuclear drive of viral strength We are the offspring of a dream We have to fight and we can win We own the sharpest weapons of the grid We are the punks We are the first We are the drill And thousands are the holes Where we can find a trick Because we are We are the digital warriors We are the children of the zero and one We are the ones who rule the web We have nobody who commands Among the bits and bytes we roam we dwell We are the core we are the stream In endless bytes we own light speed We have the fastest weapons of this eve We are the punks We are the weird We are the shit And all around the globe We are gonna make a blitz Because we are We are the digital warriors And underground we are gonna kill the sys We are the punks We are a twist We are a kiss Who's gonna make a blitz And win the rights we need If a film is ever made about the computer hacker group Anonymous then this song has to be it's main theme song.

My Dying Bride: Doom metal legends The Gazette: Japanese metal band who dress in the visual kei style that's popular amongst japanese metal bands. Versailles: Another stellar Japanese metal band who dress in the visual kei style. I really wish that western metal bands took their style as seriously as this band do. Jinjer: A metal band from Ukraine who has a female lead singer who can do extreme metal vocals better than most men can. Lacuna Coil: Italian gothic metal legends who are my all time favourite band.

Hey. I love Hammerfall and power metal band Iced Earth, don't know if your a fan of that band? I Love Electric Wizard, Dopethrone is an amazing album. what's your favourite Electric Wizard album? I use to big a mega fan of Nightwish but then Tarja left and I lost interest in the band. Still a massive fan of Tarja tho. Have fun here.

Unleashed memories by Lacuna Coil I've no I idea who Deathspell Omega are but the name makes me want to cheek them out as that's sounds a very cool name for a band.

Hey, I'm new here too. Hope you have fun here.

As a male I have lots of female friends who are into metal music as I prefer to have female company to male company. I see lots of females that attend metal gigs when ever I go to one too. I suppose it depends on what style of metal you listen to. I listen and go see a lot of gothic metal bands live so that could be a reason. When I went and saw Lacuna Coil last, I went with 3 of my closest female friends. When I saw The Birthday Massacre live (they have metal songs like Blue, Red stars, Pins and needles and Lovers end before anyone says they are not a metal band) there were lots and lots of females in the audience And there were lots of females in the audience when I last saw Tarja Turunen. Also I went to Japan a few years a go to watch the amazing Japanese metal band The Gazette play live and the audience was mainly full of females as is very normal for Japanese metal bands who dress like The Gezette do, look up visual kei if you don't know what that is. You need to just look harder because there is a world full of female metal fans. Also I dress very feminine for a male and in the past I have been made fun of that fact by male metal fans. Well my response to her answer proves that her answer was not great as she just needs to look harder as this world is full of female metal fans.

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Some of my female metal friends like pop music (l like pop too) but they prefer metal so would much rather be in metal bands given the choice.

I have the Roundhouse Tapes on double CD by Opeth which is a live gig record at London in 2007 and on there Åkerfeldt says before playing one of the slower non heavy songs "This is the song that is going to get us laid backstage." So yes he did have a sense of humor. Ghost Reveries would be my second favourite Opeth album and Blackwater park my third.

I love the solo from The river dragon has come. I will never ever understand how Nevermore did not become a household name in the metal scene selling million upon millions of albums. They are a million times better than the overrated Metallica or Pantera.

Such a underrated band, How if Jeff Loomis not a guitar God in the metal world is beyond me. I'm listening Dead heart in a dead world by Nevermore right now.

It's not like females don't like metal as I know lots that do, so why? Is it because deep down metal still is sexist?

I'll happily listen to mainstream pop, classical music, country music, hip hop and jazz when not listing to metal music.

When people tell me that the 80's was the heyday of metal I tend to give them weird looks as I think the 90's was better. The 90's is when 80's gothic music fused with metal to create gothic metal, my favourite sub style of metal. What sub style of metal is your favourite tends to determine what decade you think metals heyday was in. Another reason I tend to think the 90's were better than the 80's for metal was that metal took lots of ideas from other styles of music in the 90's and fused that with metal and out of that you got such awesome bands like Rammstein, Rage Against The Machine, Nightwish, Rob Zombie, System Of A Down, Type O Negative and countless others. It was not until the the 1999 album Still life (what an amazing album) that Opeth became the band we know and love today. Their albums before Still life are all just very average black metal sounding albums.

Never ever judge anything by looks alone alone because if you do your often miss out on some great things. I bet if I showed the October rust album cover to people who had never head a Type O Negative song before I bet most if not all would never guess it was a gothic metal album.