What are some of your favorite, lesser known metal bands?!
Question: Please don't put in popular bands such as Metallica, Slayer, etc. I'm looking for some new bands to listen to that are not as well known.
Answers: Please don't put in popular bands such as Metallica, Slayer, etc. I'm looking for some new bands to listen to that are not as well known.
Cruachan (folk metal)
Gojira (progressive death metal)
High On Fire (stoner/sludge/thrash metal)
Acid Bath (sludge)
Tankard (beer drinking thrash)
Armored Saint (heavy metal)
Agalloch (progressive metal)
Amaran (power metal with a female singer)
Avernus (doom metal)
Candlemass (doom metal)
My Dying Bride (amazing gothic doom metal)
Bathory (black/folk metal)
Boris (Japanese stoner/doom/drone metal- with a female musician)
Carcass (melodic death metal)
Dark Tranquillity (amazing melodic death metal)
Cathedral (doom metal that really rocks)
Dark Moor (power metal from Spain, great singer)
Destroyer 666 (stupid name- but total @ss kicking thrash metal)
Evergrey (progressive heavy metal-with one of the best singers in metal today)
Electric Wizard (crazy, psychedelic stoner doom metal)
Entombed (death metal with a strong groove)
Kamelot (power metal. But not girly at all. The lead singer has one of the most impressive voices in metal today)
How Like A Winter (gothic doom metal, with male and female vocals)
Draconian (also gothic doom with male and female vocals)
Metal Church (old school thrash/heavy metal)
Maudlin of The Well (avant-garde progressive metal- really weird but good stuff)
Celtic Frost (also avant-garde but with thrash elements)
Orphaned Land (an amazing progressive deathmetal band from Israel. They have a very unique sound that combines Arabic music with death/heavy metal vocals)
Nile (death metal, also with middle eastern music influence)
Sheavy (stoner doom metal from Canada. They sing about science fiction themes.The singer has a voice similar to Ozzy's- but with more range)
Tristania (gothic/doom/death with male and female vocals)
Winds (neoclassical progressive death metal)
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I don'tknow what you consider lesser known, but Avenged Sevenfold, Shadows Fall, Bullet for My Valentine, and Killswitch Engage are pretty kick ***.
I agree with Jarod... those bands are pretty amazing, and they aren't as "popular" as Metallica, I guess. I especially reccomend Avenged Sevenfold.
The Plasmatics!
SABATON!!
Through the gates of Hell....
Trivium, As I lay dying, Nevermore and Sevendust are just a few good bands that aren't mainstream.
Krokus Badlands Zebra Sun Red Sun King's X China Rain
Flotsam & Jetsam Budgie UFO MSG Hawkwind Montrose
There, a whole slew of totally obscure yet awesome Metal Bands
From the Shallows
Blessed By A Broken Heart
Beneath the Sky
The Chariot
From A Second Story Window
Heavy Heavy Low Low
Edit: Why are people saying that Avenged Sevenfold aren't that well known?? They've been on the radio and MTV!!
there really not metal but priestess is a good underated band
all out war
I am not sure what exactly you mean by "lesser known"
Here are a few:
Symphony X, Kamelot- Prog.Metal
Divine Heresy, Devildriver- Beat your a** Metal!!