Music I listen to

[hrcho]

@Gil-Estel: that first one, Sorry, is really good, I liked it very much, the other one I didn't like at all. It's a huge difference between them however, I will check more of this Kyteman

@SomeRandomDude: I consider myself a rocker and I've never heard of half of these bands you listed. I listened to all of it, quite similar to each other, I liked it

as for the music that I listen to... I can find a good song in almost every genre, but I prefer metal and rock. (also a big fan of movie soundtracks) check it out:

Scar Symmetry - The Illusionist - try to listen beyond the screaming part

Blind Guardian - Lord of the Rings - a tribute to TLHH

Blind Guardian - Bard's Song - Another ballad from Blind Guardian

Lisa Kelly - Now We Are Free - Lisa Kelly is a member of Celtic Women which I like very much. Now We Are Free is a Gladiator soundtrack.

CCR - Fortunate Son - a great band and a great song

Gary Moore - The Loner - Gary Moore is a rare talent; one of his instrumental scores I like

Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You - great guitar player; one of his most popular and most beautiful scores

Helloween - If I Could Fly - I had this as a ring tone for a long time

Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change to World -  a little bit of old Woodstock material; also one of the best songs ever made if you ask me

I won't go much longer, although I could
Listen to some metal side of the games soundtrack: POWERGLOVE
Tetris Theme
Power Rangers
Mortal Kombat
Super Mario

And just one for the legends:
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark - listen to the crowd for I will say no more.

I hope you like it. 

[hrcho]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.

Metal music has a lot of sub-genres, it's not just heavy metal. Here are some of them:
heavy metal, power metal, death metal, love metal, goth metal, black metal, white metal and soooo many more...

Did you know that most common black metal song topic (black metal is AFAK the hardest, fiercest and most difficult of all metals to listen to and usually it's just bad noise) after satanism is Lord of the Rings?  

[Legolis]

Got me digging around how about Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto
 "Corcovado" 

"The Girl From Imanema"

You mean The Girl From Ipanema 

lol must have glitched out for a second there!

[MR. Lurtzy]

That's horrible.

[SomeRandomDude]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.

Metal music has a lot of sub-genres, it's not just heavy metal. Here are some of them:
heavy metal, power metal, death metal, love metal, goth metal, black metal, white metal and soooo many more...

Did you know that most common black metal song topic (black metal is AFAK the hardest, fiercest and most difficult of all metals to listen to and usually it's just bad noise) after satanism is Lord of the Rings?  

"White" metal is typically actually referred to as "unblack" metal and, save lyrical content, is identical to black metal and specialized within the Christian metal scene (who want the black metal style without the satan worship). Black metal is not the hardest or fiercest, its typically the most morbid and dissonant, but there are extreme metal band that beat the heck out of black metal for intensity. Death metal for one (yeah, that is a chick "singing" there) as contrasted with the leading Black Metal band (Dimmu Borgir). I typically cut it off at regular metalcore, like August Burns Red, or better yet, metalcore fusions like BFMV- Tears Don't Fall, Demon Hunter- Fading Away, Atreyu- When Two Become One (what? I told you I was a rocker).

Though BFMV and Atreyu have been somewhat derogatorily labeled "pop metal" and Demon Hunter is well-known as "the rocker's heavy metal" since its technically a hard rock/metal fusion (see, say, Carry Me Down).

Love metal? Oh please. Next you'll try labeling Crabcore as a legit metal style. If an alleged "subgenre" is only played by one band, its not a legit subgenre. Power metal is FTW! "Through the fire and the flames we carry on!!!!!!"

What about rap metal? Nu-metal? Thrash?

[MuadDib85]

Metallica:
(I could list pages but I'll just pick my favourite few).
Fade To Black
For Whom The Bell Tolls
No Leaf Clover
Where Ever I may Roam

Guns n Roses:
Sweet Child of Mine
Estranged
Patience
November Rain

CCR:
Up Around the Bend
Lodi
Someday Never Comes
Fortunate Son

[hrcho]

Black metal is not the hardest or fiercest, its typically the most morbid and dissonant, but there are extreme metal band that beat the heck out of black metal for intensity. Death metal for one (yeah, that is a chick "singing" there) as contrasted with the leading Black Metal band (Dimmu Borgir).

You said it way more eloquently than I ever could, but Dimmu Borgir is actually quite melodic compared to some "pure" black metal like Immortal or Mayhem (this won't get a link )

Since you mentioned women singing in non-gothic metal, I love Arch Enemy.
Speaking of melodic death, have you heard Wintersun?

Love metal? Oh please. Next you'll try labeling Crabcore as a legit metal style. If an alleged "subgenre" is only played by one band, its not a legit subgenre. Power metal is FTW! "Through the fire and the flames we carry on!!!!!!"
What about rap metal? Nu-metal? Thrash?

Hahaha, I stand corrected. Dragonforce kicks #$&*@!, although I am still waiting to see if they can really perform all that stuff for real, for that is some very fast playing and they don't use Guitar Hero guitars.

[MR. Lurtzy]

That's horrible.

Not very constructive at all. But considering he is one of the most influential beat-masters ever and this is his magnum opus that he created in the hospital dying of TTP, I think he churned out a pretty sick track.
-wtk

I don't care about the back story. If it sounds like #$&*@!, then it does. No amount of "history" will change that.

[SomeRandomDude]

Ya, I heard about d-force apparently syncing. IDK why they would, I have friends that can play the riffs full speed n prob.

Well, the thing about black metal is that it has a lot of subgenres as well. Black goth, melodic black, ya. Death metal, however, is pretty much just death metal- blast beat is part of the genre.

There is this one song that fascinates me though, its Thank You Pain by The Agonist and its got the extreme metal drum backing, but its presented in Goth style. Very cool, its like Goth death.

[Cw0rk]

David Guetta - Memories

From my point of view, it's the tube of the summer.

[macheteman]

mewithoutYou. listen to their whole discography in chronological order. its SO worth it. early stuff is pretty hardcore, and their later stuff is pretty, folky. and their stuff in between is AMAZING.

and if you need music to study to, the band: Unwed Sailor

[SomeRandomDude]

Eh, mewithoutYou is interesting...but I just can't force myself into it.

[macheteman]

once you get past the strange voice... it's amazing. definitely the best lyrics. i have never found more poetic lyrics. and they make reference to all sorts of things like Shakespeare and St. Francis of Assisi... its a shame is voice is THAT weird.