What Are Your Top 5 Music Groups?

[dsheinem]

You should listen to Explosions in the Sky.

I do my best writing while listening to this band.

[TheyCallMeTheSwede]

Hmm rough one but I'll list these bands as these are the ones that I have been listening to lately:

Satan
Grim Reaper
Judas Priest
Diamond Head
Steeler

Remind me to buy you some beer when I see you, you sir got a good taste of early 80s heavy metal music, especially NWOBHM

[Weekend_Warrior]

The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Boards of Canada

[KholdStare]

Hmm rough one but I'll list these bands as these are the ones that I have been listening to lately:

Satan
Grim Reaper
Judas Priest
Diamond Head
Steeler

Remind me to buy you some beer when I see you, you sir got a good taste of early 80s heavy metal music, especially NWOBHM

Haha fuck yeah dude. I love NWOBHM! I've been blasting Persian Risk allll day!

[ParameterBreach]

aesop rock

[pepharytheworm]

I am on the road a lot, so it is just me and my iPod on these trips. I never get sick of these bands, ever since I was a wee lad...


5. Slayer
4. N.W.A.
3. Pantera (And related bands with Pantera members: Rebel Meets Rebel, Down, Damage Plan, etc)
2. Metallica (Old stuff and new stuff, I don't care, I am not one of those fans)
1. (tie) Faith No More and NIN (Mike Patton and Trent Reznor are musical geniuses)

Runners up; Tupac, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Mono (Japanese band), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Sepultura.

Looking for recommendations on metal, too. Like Bleeding Through, Lamb of God, A Perfect Murder, etc

I love Slayer. Did you get there new album or is it released in Japan yet?

Since it seems like you like the heavier thrash sound:
1. Testament - alot of people call them a Metallica clone but I find them much better and they still release new albums. Their music still has an old-school sound without sounding old. Plenty of greatest hits out there if you want to give them a listen.
2. Exodus - I love this band they are straight metal no ballads. They still release albums. I don't think there newer stuff is as good as the 80's stuff but you like some of the newer metal bands so you might like the new singer.
3. Destruction - This band seems sound better and better with age one of the first if not the first German thrash band. Still releasing albums that sound modern and old-school at the same time. There older recording don't have the best sound quality so if that bothers you stay away from there early to mid 80's stuff and buy their 00's releases.
4.Kreator - probably the second german thrash group. Older recording sound better quality wise then destruction but their 90's stuff started turning Industrial /gothic but they returned to form in the 00's
5. Annihilator- A very intersting band that albums change metal genres throughout while the backbone staying Thrash. there is a differnt singer almost every album but thats okay because the guitarist write the lyrics and melodey so they still have a similiar sound.

Since you are in Japan check out Ritual Carnage, they are a Japanese band fronted by an american living in Japan.

[J T]

aesop rock

One of my favorite lyricists. He ranks up there with Leonard Cohen and Tom Waitts in my book.

[Original_Name]

Really Red

hell yeah!

WOW! Out of all the bands I listed, Really Red was the one I least expected anyone to know anything about. Well played, sir!

Man, I just realized I don't know who half of these bands you guys are posting are. And all of the bands in my list got started at least 20 years ago. I think that makes me old.

Hahahahaha, that doesn't make you old! I'm 19 and the most recent band on my list formed three years before I was born.

[Luke]

Since it seems like you like the heavier thrash sound:
1. Testament - alot of people call them a Metallica clone but I find them much better and they still release new albums. Their music still has an old-school sound without sounding old. Plenty of greatest hits out there if you want to give them a listen.
2. Exodus - I love this band they are straight metal no ballads. They still release albums. I don't think there newer stuff is as good as the 80's stuff but you like some of the newer metal bands so you might like the new singer.
3. Destruction - This band seems sound better and better with age one of the first if not the first German thrash band. Still releasing albums that sound modern and old-school at the same time. There older recording don't have the best sound quality so if that bothers you stay away from there early to mid 80's stuff and buy their 00's releases.
4.Kreator - probably the second german thrash group. Older recording sound better quality wise then destruction but their 90's stuff started turning Industrial /gothic but they returned to form in the 00's
5. Annihilator- A very intersting band that albums change metal genres throughout while the backbone staying Thrash. there is a differnt singer almost every album but thats okay because the guitarist write the lyrics and melodey so they still have a similiar sound.

Crap. I thought if anyone else would include classical music, it would have been you.

I used to love, love metal and industrial from 6th grade to Senior in H.S. If I wasn't wearing a NIN shirt, I was wearing Skinny Puppy, Metallica, Helmet, and the occasional Primus shirt.

These days... Not so much. Try not to throw a lot of hate at me, but I think metal band's music ages horribly. I literally laugh when I hear metallica these days. It sounds like ass. I can't see how anyone can still rock out to master of Puppets.

AC/DC still sounds like music to me, as does Primus. Hell, I still think Eliminator (the cd not the band) holds up. NIN has aged okay, but haven't listened to them in years. Years.

I might say the same thing about Aphex Twin in a decade or two, but I still enjoy his stuff from the early 90's, so perhaps not. This all probably goes back to my love of classical music, which is odd because AC/DC usually puts out 4 chord songs, but to me, most metal bands don't stand the test of time.

[Hobie-wan]

I do my best writing while listening to this band.

more *I do this activity to this band* that I'm too lazy to go back to quote

Generally loud, fast, and noisy lyricless electronic music will help me get work done if I need to concentrate. Bogdan Raczynski, Venetian Snares, Hellfish/Producer, and the like will make the day fly.

Really noisy stuff like certain releases from Controlled Bleeding, the Dry Lungs compilations, and other power electronic acts were fantastic for getting homework done in high school. I'm sure my parents wondered WTF was wrong with me with all that screeching and throbbing coming out of my room though.