yeah I'm all about the fringe metal ALCEST etc but occasionally I just want to put on Darkthrone's FOAD and cheese the fuck out.

oh yeah man the original really grindy black metal bands are hilarious/awesome at the same time. I especially enjoy some of Mayhem and Burzum's albums haha

also viking metal is really entertaining

stoner/doom/sludge metal

electric wizard
sleep
boris

and so on. . .

in "linley's dungeon crawl" there is a race called "sludge elf" and my motivation to play as them is the same as yours when you made that post (SLUDGE!)

Bort that is a very cool avatar

thanks!!! it's the cover of flying saucer attack's first album, either self-titled or called "rural psychedelia" depending on the release, with the colors fucked with and saturation turned up.

it's accurate that they called it "rural psychedelia" because it's what everything looks like on an acid trip. i live in florida, and it's very flat here, so you can see lots of sky. that and my town is sort of on an island between the beach and a river/strait/whatever on one side, so the weather and clouds are always interesting. so sunsets are great here, tripping or sober. there are tons of tall trees on my street and driving up it when the sun's setting so they're all black silhouettes is my favorite thing to do.

and it's not heavy metal but above britpop fan headphonics would maybe love flying saucer attack's cover of suede's "the drowners"

a two sides // same coin type situation yes?

thanks!!! it's the cover of flying saucer attack's first album, either self-titled or called "rural psychedelia" depending on the release, with the colors fucked with and saturation turned up.

i knew it looked familiar! you and your saturation.

Essentially, Opeth and anything Devin Townsend touches.

Speaking of which, he may well be booming out of retirement. I can't imagine much of a tour or anything, but he's bringing out a new album which is pretty instrumental and huge, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Townsend#New_Album:_Late_2008

I can't stand metal. Well, most metal. My older brother blasted it all the time. It's too cheesy.

I kidn of like gay metal like angra, stratovarius, blind guardian, iron maiden, dream theater and regular metal like van halen and megadeth. I really like the amount of technique/energy/cheesiness they display but it gets tiring if you listen too much of it.

whats some good NEW prog metal?

There is no such thing

I found a pretty cool less heard of melo/prog death band a little while ago;

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=91332824

They're pretty good. Eternal Fall is a sweet track.

btw theres this french heavy metal band i kinda like, but it is only because their myspace classifies them as POST-PUNK//NEW WAVE//BLACK METAL and you are like what??? because one of their songs is really good and entirely post-punk and the next one starts off good but then suddenly and inexplicably devolves into black metal and i just do not know how you make a band like that.  maybe it is two brothers and one likes postpunk and the other likes black metal and they each get 90 second turns

Are you talking about Amesoeurs? Although Amesoeurs doesn't have many black metal moments... Maybe Poete Maudit?

I really love how one of you guys said death metal is all samey and then goes off saying but melo death and metalcore are awesome. I respect your opinion on what you like but dude... melo death and metalcore sounds so much the same and all the metalcore bands rip off At The Gates so bad. Also, Beneath The Massacre are really bleh. They used to actually trigger their guitars from what I heard.

I still love metal but I tend to like stuff that most metalheads dislike or just don't really know. Here's a list
Alcest
Amesoeurs
Anathema
Anorexia Nervosa
Deathspell Omega
Draconian
Empyrium
Estatic Fear
Foreshadowing
How Like A Winter
Katatonia
Longing For Dawn
My Dying Bride
Paradise Lost
Swallow The Sun
Warning
And a lot of other bands too.