Who play heavy metal usually.

[Slippy]

Well, I play some heavy metal but most things I play are either.
a) Slow Stuff
b) Rock
c) Pop
d) Heavy Metal

I don't like alot of heavy metal songs. Even though I own like every AC/DC song there is if that do count

I mostly listen to skillet for heavy metal / hard rock

 

[jason]

When I think of AC/DC, I think of "classic rock", not necessarily "metal", but that's because I'm into some pretty hardcore stuff. Glad to have ya here!

 

[Slippy]

Well, what exactly do you call hardcore heavy metal I'm not totally in to Heavy Metail as you see above and I only have about 5 - 10 songs of it as I don't really enjoy playing it.

 

[jason]

Personally, I have a number of classifications of heavy metal music. Bands that would fall under the classification of "hardcore" would be bands like Pantera. Some other classifications I like to personally use (without getting into detail, or matching examples to them) are:

Speed
Thrash
Death/Dark
Classic
Symphonic
Melodic
Groove
etc.

 

[_Dulu_]

I love heavy metal all i listen to im in to the relaly hardcore stuff like... Cradle OF Filth, Pantera, Rammstein, Dimmu Borgir, but i do love all metal genres as well anything from Nightwish (what i primarily sing) to Tool. and i definatly agree with those qualifications Jason

 

[JLS]

I've found musical value in some math-metal, though I'm no expert on the genre.

Is TOOL considered "metal" by the metal crowd? I've always thought it defied classification...

 

[JLS]

When I think of AC/DC, I think of "classic rock", not necessarily "metal", but that's because I'm into some pretty hardcore stuff. Glad to have ya here!

I think it's usually considered "hard rock". I don't think anything lighter than Metallica can really be considered "metal". Of course, there are so many different subsets of metal today that classification is becoming a little silly. Just look at this Wiki article...:grin:

...and this list is hardly exhaustive!

 

[Museo]

I much prefer rock music or indie on a day-to-day basis, but like to listen to Heavy Metal when I need cheering up. It's so loud that it can't help but make me smile.

 

[SecondBass]

I just listen to music that I like and I'm not really bothered which category that they fall into.

"Classic Rock" is a horrible term used by compilation albums. Heavy Metal started at the end of the Sixties. It's a bit like saying that you don't consider Jerry Lee Lewis to be Rock and Roll because Ozzy Osbourne says it - he flipping was.

 

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who plays heavy metal?

I listen to a lot of heavy metal, but how do you define hardcore? Pantera is hardly hardcore.
What about Vardis, Grave Digger, Bolt Thrower, Viking, Sodom & Hellion?!
My range of music, is vast, but all metal!

 

[SecondBass]

Bolt Thrower - Coventry band, woo hoo! I made a thread about bands from your home town and didn't really think of Bolt Thrower. It's good to see a Covvy band name checked as hardcore though.

 

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Hope you like Bolt Thrower, as in my opinion, they are a top band, especially the album "In Battle There Is No Law"...brilliant!!!!