Rock & Pop: What are your thoughts on metal?

Metal is my favorite musical genre, along with something else certain, but it is undoubtedly what I listen to most. I started listening to it with two bands you mentioned, Metallica and Tool, which remain two of my favorites (Metallica up to and including the black album, of course).

To classic metal I approach in small steps, I don't like everything, but I find some things fundamental and I am attached to it (such as Black Sabbath, Bathory, AC/DC, WASP, etc.)

currently my mind has opened up to avant-garde/progressive metal, and blackened death metal, so I'm listening to many albums of bands such as Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, Oranssi Pazuzu, Portal, Bergraven (etc, I have an elephant-list of things I still want to hear ).

BQ: Agalloch, Altar of plagues, Drudkh, Paysage d'hiver, Immortal, Tool, Katatonia, Death, Carcass

BQ2: old school death metal, atmospheric black metal

BQ3: too long to explain in an already long answer, I should divide the explanation by many fragments, moreover, there are many subgenres, many bands, different atmospheres and sensations .. maybe that's what I like

BQ4: not my favorite mixture, but some things are good, I appreciate Cripple Bastards, Heaven in Her Arms, Harakiri for the Sky, Karg (I feel some screamo post-hardcore inside them )

I started with Black Sabbath and Judas Priest in the 70's and have progressed through the decades and still love it today.

 BQ:

Allegaeon (Technical Death)

Amorphis (Progressive)

Insomnium (Melodic Death Metal)

Madder Mortem (Progressive Gothic)

Ne Obliviscaris (Progressive Extreme)

Saurom (Folk)

Subway To Sally (Medieval Folk)

The Vision Bleak (Gothic)

BQ2:

Death Metal

Progressive

Folk/Medieval Folk

BQ3: It's ability to seep loudly into any genre

BQ4: Let's add to the controversy okay? Thrash to me is little more than a bunch of sell-out Hardcore bands, at least Metalcore/Deathcore keeps it real. Lately I've been getting into some of the newer Post-Hardcore bands like Patient Sixty-Seven and Take Flight. 

Btw, it was Hair Metal that nearly killed Metal. Thank God it made it through the 80's!

sorry to say once rock music and heavy rock was king long ago

now no one wants to hear it , its just does not sell well rap is number one now

Well, I'm afraid metal is one of those genres that I have a really hard time with to appriciate. I really fail to see the beauty of it. I don't know, I usually just get a feeling of being stressed and a bit annoyed when I hear it, but hey... That's my loss.

Hi Brandon. Welcome back man.

Metal is growing on me too. I blame 'Cain with his Opeth posts. But actually I had been enjoying some of the same Post Metal as yourself. I will admit, I can't binge listen any of it, but the odd album i can do for sure.

BA. Rolo Tomassi & Deafheaven

BA2. I can't say I am over the various sub-genre's personally, but I'm guessing Blackgaze would come as no surprise.

BA3. Nothing really. i just look to it as something a harder alter to the usual styles of music I like.

BQ4. Like BA2, i'm not that knowledgable.

Cheers man.

" I prefer genres such as doom metal, post-metal & black metal."

Actually dude if you've moved towards those genres, them you are even more metal now tham you were when you were listening to thrash. 

BQ: RIGHT now, Destruction and Judas Priest.

BQQ: Doom Metal

BQQQ: Hard to say man. Its just always been there. 

BQQQQ: YUCK! That was the worst thing to ever happen to metal. That whole New York punk metal scene in the 90z were crap. And everything after that (Emmure, Avenge Sevenfold, etc) was crap too. 

Metal and hardcore just cant mix without there being severe flaws (metal is technical and melodic, punk is simple and sounds sloppy). 

For metal and punk to mix well, it has to lean one way (Disrupt, Infest, Extreme Noise Terror, Siege, Larm) or the other (Discharge, Motorhead, Napalm Death via "Scum"). 

Take Avenge Seven Fold. You cant mix progressive metal guitars with punk pop vocals without it sounding flawed. Avenge Seven Folds weakspot, are their vocals. 

I like good music, regardless of genre. I don't like bad music, regardless of genre.

Aloha Brandon!

I like what I think of as “heavy” music, but there’s a lot of “metal” that’s just too extreme and grating.  I generally like clean vocals, even if it’s heavy music (there are exceptions, though; like Opeth, for example).

Tool is my very favorite music act; their sound just hits me perfectly and they’ve been my #1 for many years now.

I like progressive, alternative, and post metal the best.  But I also like thrash, groove and “power” metal (the best descriptive term for Iron Maiden/Judas Priest type metal).

Most death and black metal is a joke; and if it’s not a joke, it’s too extreme for me and not a scene I want to support.

I have found that pretty much any genre of metal that ends in “core” is not something I tend to care for. 

Likewise, I don’t tend to care for “nu-metal”.  Rap and electric guitars were not meant to go together.

I used to like Metal as a teen but sadly I found I just grew out of it.  I just find it a bit repressed, especially lyrically, I'm sure I'll get shot down in flames for this but yeah, still enjoy some old school stuff but can take or leave most of it.

BQ: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeth.

I like Ozzy Osbourne,meatloaf,and even soft rock such as the rasmus,I would describe it as music for the soul.