For any fans of old school 80's thrash metal, here's the band that nearly made the big 4 ('tallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth) the big 5. Testament are an amazing band and their early records are on a par with Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood. A highly overlooked band here's some songs from their early years.

 

Over The Wall

 

Raging Waters

 

Trial By Fire

 

Practice What You Preach

I really like Damage as of right now. Their sound reflect their emotive lyrics.

nothings been reccomended in a while so....

 

 

there is never enough talk about Ska Punk acts here so i'll reccomend one...

 

 

Streetlight Manifesto

 

a ska-punk act from from New Jersey, they are led by songwriter Tomas Kaloky who was in Catch-22 once upon a time. Streetlight quite often have dark lyrics and an amazing horn section, here are some of their best tunes...

 

Point/Counterpoint

 

Down Down Down to Mephistos Cafe

 

One Foot On The Gas, One Foot On The Grave

 

Everything Went Numb

 

 

^ Quite like those songs (above)

 

Gojira (French metal band)

 

Vacuity - Taken from the 2008 album "The Way of All Flesh"

 

Backbone - Taken from 2004/5 album "The Link"

 

The Heaviest Matter of the Universe - Taken from 2006 album "From Mars to Sirius"

 

Flying Whales - same as above

Edited February 21, 200916 yr by funmaker11

Gojira... they seem a bit meh, maybe of all there instruments werent all playing one note on every beat at the exact same time the music would be more exciting, they need to differ the instruments more.

Gojira... they seem a bit meh, maybe of all there instruments werent all playing one note on every beat at the exact same time the music would be more exciting, they need to differ the instruments more.

That's not true... the instruments follow the beat in a different way or something like that.

Listen to their albums, you will see the variety. :D

Edited February 21, 200916 yr by funmaker11

Ok this band isnt exactly small but i love them...

 

Anti-Flag

 

American punk band started in 1988 been known since like late 90's, here are some cool tracks:

 

Turncoat

 

Die For The Government

 

Underground Network

The JB Conspiracy, great Ska Punk band i saw the other night.

 

Not really a recommendation, as everyone already probably knows it! But for the last couple of days I've been hooked on Jimi Hendrix 'Purple Haze' :wub:

Small Faces

 

Tin Soldier

 

 

 

I'm not sure how people take to black metal on here but one of my favourite black metal bands that no-one seems to know about is Dekadent from Slovenia. Thing about them is they have their melodic stuff (e.g A cry of revolt) but they have their insanely heavy stuff (e.g Vigred) But anyway, check these video's out and see what you think.

 

 

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Edited December 21, 200915 yr by Severin

We Die Tonight - Post-hardcore 4-piece.

 

Based in London, their debut EP 'Fall From Grace' is out now on iTunes.

 

Check it out, have a listen. Buy it if you like it.

 

Come to the EP release show at The Earl of Camden (NW1 7PN) - Tuesday 27th April 2010 (20:30).

 

Fans of Underoath, Vanna, A Day To Remember, A Static Lullaby - you'll love this.

 

Link for iTunes:

 

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A Dutch band called MagnaCult.

 

Had a two song set at the FFDP and Shadows Fall gig I went to in Camden.

 

Shotgun Revolution. Find them on Myspace (shotgunrevolutiondk)

 

Saw them in Denmark and I haven't stopped raving about them since. They're coming over to the UK this summer and they are probably one of the best rock acts i've seen live. Ever.

 

Check them out!

HOLY BLOOD

 

I like to stay with Rock.As for Metallica, i'm a big fan of them.

Hole: Live through this album

 

Smashing Pumpkins : Siamese Dream Mellon Collie

 

Edited July 25, 201212 yr by zero

A while ago I tried a sort of roundtable thread just to try and introduce some new music that maybe didn't warrant a thread of it's own (yet!) but that crashed and burned without much comment so how about a thread where if you find a decent track that you want to share, you can.

 

So to kick it off...

 

 

Loving this at the moment.

And I now this came out last year but I thought I'd sneak it in here while it was still relevant!

 

Great tune too.