I recently discovered Halestorm, so I'm into that right now, but I was wondering what music you guys listen to, hopefully we can introduce each other to new bands. Look forward to the discussion.
I am enjoying Viking Metal at the moment. Ex: Falkenbach, Rhapsody Of Fire, ManOWar, Falconer, AleStorm (fits into pirate metal, but I still like 'em), ect...
Give Ensiferum a try. It's folky, if that's what your seeking
Ah, that's the one I missed
You should check out Enslaved if you haven't
Turisas has some good epic folkish metal. Korpiklaani is pretty fun, and Finntroll is good too. But thats only a few of all the bands out there.
Iron Savior, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Nocturnal Rites, Hammerfall, Primal Fear, Blind Guardian, Saxon, Orden Ogan, Sabaton, Iced Earth, Van Canto, Nightwish, Yngwie Malmsteen, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche, Grave Digger, Ocham's Razor. I'm sure Im missing a few
ATM i'm really getting into progressive metal. Like Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Between the Buried and Me, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Dark Angel, Megadeth, Mastodon, Tool, and stuff along those lines.
I'm a big guitar aficionado and where the crazy metal guitarists are is in prog/death/thrash metal, especially a combination of the 3. So my judgement is a little biased, usually whatever instrument you find to enjoy the most is where you wanna focus your music choice because you'll start finding the sounds you like the most.
Styptic!
My friends are in the band, so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcHbX5g-jq0
Hard to single out a few. Just off the top of my head: Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, Devin Townsend, Gojira, occasional Dream Theater, Noisia, Spor, Foreign Beggars, I Am Legion, Jason Becker (Gotta put Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Malmsteen, Gilbert etc now lol), Antoine Dufour (and most Candyrat artists really), Opeth, Scar Symmetry, Biome, Phace, Commix, Steven Wilson, lots of OST's. Many of the great OST's are a huge part of my upbringing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBOu7XaEPwI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1lXdLus2WI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGQiGEYl4Y