RegularBonoFan said:
Interesting. I like little to no metal post-1990.
Edit: Except Trent Reznor.
I wouldn't consider Reznor metal in the first place!
As far as the pre-1990 thrash, glam, NWOBHM stuff goes, it doesn't appeal. Some of the proto-doom and proto-prog metal is decent.
As for post-1990 metal, my main interests are:
- Death metal, especially the progressive bands (e.g. Opeth and Cynic), though some of the Gothenburg melodic scene is awesome too (looking at you, At The Gates).
- Avantgarde metal primarily rooted in death or black metal, such as Sculptured, Arcturus, and Subterranean Masquerade.
- Middle Eastern metal, namely Orphaned Land and to a lesser extent Melechesh. Orphaned Land rule so fucking much. I'm listening to an acoustic gig they did right now.
- Black metal, especially the atmospheric side from bands like Woods Of Ypres and Wolves In The Throne Room. I'm also a black metal heretic as I like the Christian/unblack metal style of Antestor.
But my two favourites are unclassifiable. Agalloch draw on doom, death, pagan, and black metal to create something extremely atmospheric and incorporate aspects of post-rock too. And Alcest is a marriage of positive black metal with shoegazer that has to be heard to be believed.