I absolutely love how many elements this song blends together. Electronic chorus, metal-core verse, power ballad bridge, thrash metal, then just a brutal ending. Chef’s kiss on this one.

What is your favorite metal song that you just can’t share with your non-metal friends?

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      Sleep and (old) Grand Magus, heck yeah! What do you think of Electric Wizard, if I might ask? Dopethrone is the heaviest album of all time, in my unimportant opinion.

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      Sleep is the shit. I was supposed to see them last year but they cancelled their show. Hopefully they go on tour again at some point

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      Dude if you haven’t already, check out Sleep’s other project OM. The first three albums are other worldly. Lots of meditative aspects to their music which I think works incredibly with the doom metal style droning guitars and slower tempo.

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    waves

    Micro-aggressions by animals as leaders is fucking nuts, but everyone looks st me funny when I play it

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    Hell yes! So happy to find some other metalheads here. I’m sort of “basic”, I guess, in terms of my metal tastes. I haven’t been able to get into any harsh vocals. I can get into Mastodon’s harsh vocals and enjoy some of Gojira and Opeth. But other than that, I’ve never had harsh vocals “click” for me.

    So I mainly love and always listen to Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Megadeth…NWOBHM stuff mainly. But I want to branch out and get into some newer stuff.

    Recently I’ve enjoyed the latest releases from Blood Ceremony, Blood Star and Oozing Wound. Sleep is pretty cool, and I enjoyed Thrice’s newest release.

    So I’m interested in finding some new music to check out with you fine folks!

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    Long time metalhead here, refugee from reddit, ofc. I’ve never listened to Veil of Maya before, but I dug this track, so thanks for sharing. Personally I’m a big fan of classic, symphonic, and power metal, but I enjoy plenty of stuff in other sub-genres as well, depends on my mood. Glad to be here, and glad there are other metalheads around.

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    Can’t have a favorite song but probably my favorite metal album still is Trivium’s The Sin and the Sentence. It’s got nice mix of influences from various metal substyles. Probably my first “real” metal album as well since I listened more to fusions genres.

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      Trivium is awesome! I saw them open for Iron Maiden last year. I need to explore their discography more.

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    I wouldn’t call myself a metalhead, but I’ve been listening to Galneryus a lot lately (japanese powermetal). Any recommendations?

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    So many great songs to choose from, so I dont really have a favorite. One great song I just listened to is called Suicide Machine by Death.

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    I like a lot of what I consider ‘classic’ metal, which I hope is not offensive. Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin. I like a lot of nu metal too, I hope that doesn’t get me banned.

    I’d like to try more, I think it’s just the extreme varieties I can’t really get into.

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      Ideally, I’d love it if we curbed the gatekeeping and “nu metal isn’t metal” circlejerk here before it has a chance to start

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        First one to start the ‘nu metal isn’t metal’ brigade gets my nu foot up their ass lol.

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        It is really great to hear this community is more open, it put me off sharing metal tastes in the past.

        Also turns out I listen to way more power metal than I thought. Started a power metal playlist and recognised loads of bands.

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    I’m basic and most of my favorite metal is pretty accessible. That being said, there’s a couple I don’t usually play for my friends:

    Yodh - Mizmor

    Converge, in general

    Meshuggah, in general

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    I haven’t heard of Veil of Maya so I’ll give them a bash today.

    The metal I’ve listened to has narrowed over the years but I love Gojira and a bunch of instrumental metal bands (rediscovered Deathmole recently and the track “No thanks” goes hard. Also a massive fan of Genghis Tron – every track on their album Board up the house is incredible.

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    Not my favorite of all time but every time I discover some ridiculously heavy and awesome song like Strangled - Defect I’m sad that I can’t share it with any of my friends.