Metal Bands?

[Lash]

Do you consider groups like Poison, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Twisted sister, Kiss, and so on... to be 'Metal Bands'?


I was watching VH1'S "Top 10 Metal Bands" and when Poison, Motley Crew, and Kiss came in @ 10, 9, & 8 I though to myself "WTF" and quickly switched the channel. I think calling bands along those lines metal bands is a pretty far stretch. Hard Rock band or Hair Band sure....but Heavy Metal????

[Voodoo Chick]

"Back in the day" we always called it "Hair Metal."

[SSDude]

At the time they came out they were referred to as "Metal" later to be referred to as Hair/ Hair metal

[Reverend Cooper]

back then metal was metallica,megadeth,slayer,testament,ozzy,anthrax.
thats just hair bands

[Lash]

back then metal was metallica,megadeth,slayer,testament,ozzy,anthrax.

Thats exactly what I think.

[Yooformula]

back then metal was metallica,megadeth,slayer,testament,ozzy,anthrax.
thats just hair bands

thats how I remember it from back then. the rest were hair bands and those listening to hair bands all drove either metoomustangs or the infamous Iroach.

[InvisibleCobra]

thats how I remember it from back then. the rest were hair bands and those listening to hair bands all drove either metoomustangs or the infamous Iroach.

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[Voodoo Chick]

Then there were the weird, grey area bands that didn't fit anywhere......like WASP, too heavy/crude to be "hair metal," and King Diamond/Mercyful Fate, Accept, etc......Damn, I love those bands........I SOOO miss the 80's........

[Deggy]

Me being one of the younger guys on here...

What is considered "metal" now are bands like:

Bring Me The Horizon
After The Burial
August Burns Red
As I Lay Dying
A Day To Remember
Heaven Shall Burn
Sea Of Treachery

Those are what my age range consider metal.

All of those bands have myspace pages..check them out..

[wikked]

And it sounds like shit :P - saw BMtH with Thursday the other week, and it was just gutteral throaty screaming, couldn't understand a word he was saying.
Those are more death/black metal, than metal, I think.

The 2nd wave of metal after the 80's, were bands like the deftones, KoRn, coal chamber, sevendust, chevelle, reveille, kittie, godsmack, slipknot, disturbed, etc.

Nowadays, i'd say the "emo" bands are closer to metal than anything else, like Senses Fail, The Used, Alexisonfire, Thrice, Underøath, Avenged Sevenfold, Finch, Silverstein, My Chemical Romance, Emanuel, Chiodos, etc.

2¢

Me being one of the younger guys on here...

What is considered "metal" now are bands like:

Bring Me The Horizon
After The Burial
August Burns Red
As I Lay Dying
A Day To Remember
Heaven Shall Burn
Sea Of Treachery

Those are what my age range consider metal.

All of those bands have myspace pages..check them out..

[Rocket Power]

Could be worse. I remember Bon Jovi being called metal

[SSDude]

And it sounds like shit :P - saw BMtH with Thursday the other week, and it was just gutteral throaty screaming, couldn't understand a word he was saying.

Whats BMtH?

[Rocket Power]

Me being one of the younger guys on here...

What is considered "metal" now are bands like:

Bring Me The Horizon
After The Burial
August Burns Red
As I Lay Dying
A Day To Remember
Heaven Shall Burn
Sea Of Treachery

Those are what my age range consider metal.

All of those bands have myspace pages..check them out..

Never heard of any of those

It was slayer,maiden, testament, anthrax, Metallica(pre black album) ,etc. back in my 80's days throw in some Pantera for "newer" stuff

[DRK]

New real metal is shit like OTEP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qec8gmj12xg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D79pe...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLnD...eature=related

[Voodoo Chick]

I hated the "bubblegum pop-metal," like Poison, Firehouse, Trixter.......that stuff just made me gag. I always gravitated to the "swords and sorcery" metal, like Dio, King Diamond, Iron Maiden, Yngwie Malmsteen.....Anything that had a feel of the arcane to it. I played bass guitar with a death metal band years back, and some of the sh*t that went on in those days......ah, memories, lol.........

[HITMAN]

I I always gravitated to the "swords and sorcery" metal

You would be a big fan of Manowar and Savatage then.

[Voodoo Chick]

You would be a big fan of Manowar and Savatage then.

I love them!! Both excellent bands.....there's just something about that type of metal, it really is awesome, like the soundtrack to go with Frank Frazetta artwork, if that makes any sense......

[HITMAN]

I love them!! Both excellent bands.....there's just something about that type of metal, it really is awesome, like the soundtrack to go with Frank Frazetta artwork, if that makes any sense......

Oh, I know EXACTLY what you mean.
I used to hang out at a place called the Moon Fun Shop at Southgate Mall and stare at the posters of those half-nekid warrior chicks while checking out the magic tricks and the "Smoker's paraphernalia" I really miss those days and that store...

[Voodoo Chick]

Oh, I know EXACTLY what you mean.
I used to hang out at a place called the Moon Fun Shop at Southgate Mall and stare at the posters of those half-nekid warrior chicks while checking out the magic tricks and the "Smoker's paraphernalia" I really miss those days and that store...

I remember a few shops like that.......sad that they are all gone. Seems like all the really good stuff, music, shops, everything, are all gone and over. I remember when I was really young, me and my friends listening to that music, and at the time, we really believed maybe it was about some ancient, magical prophecy, that the bands that performed it really knew something arcane........it was fun to be that innocent, and those times were great.

[JRink]

I still listen to all that stuff constantly. King Diamond (who I met on two occasions! ... and I walked around with a giant upside-down cross on my jean-jacket for years, lol), Maiden, Anthrax, Megadeth, Dio, etc.

Nowadays I listen to a ton of progressive metal. Royal Hunt, Shadow Gallery, Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Serenity, and tons more.

There's still some good sh** out there being recorded.

JRink

I hated the "bubblegum pop-metal," like Poison, Firehouse, Trixter.......that stuff just made me gag. I always gravitated to the "swords and sorcery" metal, like Dio, King Diamond, Iron Maiden, Yngwie Malmsteen.....Anything that had a feel of the arcane to it. I played bass guitar with a death metal band years back, and some of the sh*t that went on in those days......ah, memories, lol.........