actually before 'happy metal' Van Halen introduced 'teeth metal' because they were always smiling.

Metal never went away

\m/

At the risk of splitting hairs, neither Bon Jovi nor Twisted Sister perform anything remotely approaching metal.

thegauntlet: actually before 'happy metal' Van Halen introduced 'teeth metal' because they were always smiling.

THIS.

Did someone say Bon Jovi?

I think Dee Snider has been huffing his old hairspray again ;)

If you call all that Trivium, Lamb of God, and Shadows Fall stuff metal...

No thanks.

Oh, and Avenged Sevenfold.

I'd take Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax over those bands any day.

Joystk: If you call all that Trivium, Lamb of God, and Shadows Fall stuff metal...

No thanks.

I don't really like Trivium, but LoG and Shadows Fall have made some great albums the last few years.

I also grew up with Slayer (7 concerts, all albums, most of their DVDs, met Kerry King totally at random at a mall), Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, etc.

Let's not forget Sepultura, Pantera, and Machine Head who all came to prominence in the 90s.

East coast metal like Sworn Enemy and God Forbid have been on my playlist for a while now too.

Big hair /= Metal

Bon Jovi isn't even rock 'n roll, IMHO. I went backstage 10 years ago with a friend of mine who used to tour with them when he crewed for the Scorpions. We couldn't even find a beer. Pussies.

Stompn_Tom: Metal never went away

\m/

Amen. Amazing metal is put out every year. I'm not talking about that Americanized Mallcore shiat. I'm talking about amazing bands such as (name dropping time):

Therion
Dark Tranquility
Opeth
Amon Amarth
Vintersorg
Borknagar
Summoning
Amorphis
Kalmah
Agalloch
Symphony X
Blind Guardian
Nightwish
Dissection
etc.

For the record Bon Jovi was NEVER metal.

Kliffoth: For the record Bon Jovi was NEVER metal.

But his HAIR was!

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R.A.Danny: Kliffoth: For the record Bon Jovi was NEVER metal.

But his HAIR was!

um, no. they were a hair band and none of those were "real" metal bands

To this day I still despise guitars/basses with the down turned headstocks.

80s MTV metal was pathetic and lame as hell. Too L.A. and "sunny" for real Heavy Metal. That crap had none of the dark and sublime threat of earlier metal bands.

I remember this following 80s "metal band" as being ok.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3xpJ8tmzm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVaSFtw8Fww&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxrH2zmy84&feature=related

They were pretty much hated by everyone.
Critics who gave Big F lousy reviews gave garbage like Poison and Warrant 4-5 stars.

No, Metal is all serious like serious cat..

Didn't rappers once say the same thing about MC Hammer?

NYRBill: um, no. they were a hair band and none of those were "real" metal bands

I was being facetious, Mr. Rocky McRockman.

Ooh, is this thread where people list their favorite bands and someone else comes in and claims that those bands aren't REALLY metal?

Metal fans are so insecure.

degreeless: I lol'd

Bullshiatter: Big hair /= Metal



Bingo

There's a huge difference between heavy metal and metal.

Mastodon is an awesome newer metal band. Can not wait for the new album.

I always preferred heavy without the metal.

Fark Twisted Sister AND Bon Jovi.

Metal is boring.

Rev. Skarekroe: Ooh, is this thread where people list their favorite bands and someone else comes in and claims that those bands aren't REALLY metal?

Metal fans are so insecure.

Queensryche. I like them a lot. They definitely did the "hair" thing, but never the cheeky, stupid thing. How do they fall out in this? I mean "Silent Lucidity" certainly wasn't metal, but it was a good, sincere song. All their music sounds like Seattle... gloomy but not ugly.

Prog metal?

Between the Buried and Me

/Thread over

Kliffoth: Stompn_Tom: Metal never went away

\m/

Amen. Amazing metal is put out every year. I'm not talking about that Americanized Mallcore shiat. I'm talking about amazing bands such as (name dropping time):

Therion
Dark Tranquility
Opeth
Amon Amarth
Vintersorg
Borknagar
Summoning
Amorphis
Kalmah
Agalloch
Symphony X
Blind Guardian
Nightwish
Dissection
etc.

For the record Bon Jovi was NEVER metal.

You forgot Nevermore and Arcturus

craigdamage: Critics who gave Big F lousy reviews gave garbage like Poison and Warrant 4-5 stars.

I promise you, having been there at the time, nobody gave Poison and Warrant 4-5 stars.

/Metal Edge doesn't count. Gerri was a cheerleader, not a critic.

happy metal. :)

Stompn_Tom: Metal never went away

\m/

Came in here to say that and only that.

Fake metal fans, please continue to not like it. We're doing just fine being better than you.

I still have the original LP of Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum, with the embossed cover. Now that was metal. I taped it to my very first cassette player. Now that was recording. Get off my lawn.

BEHOLD...Heavy Metal Parking...they are older now!

True power metal is timeless - and it's doesn't get any better than this.

THIS.

What rhymes with "back"?

Interesting.....I didn't see any heavy metal bands listed in that article.

Anyway I prefer it when people look at me funny when I am tuned into liquid metal while driving around town.

Bon Jovi's New Jersey album is terribly underrated. As is Far Beyond Driven from Pantera. I like both but for different reasons.

/Neither are as good as Vulgar Display of Power, though!

forget that


Metal??? Norway is where it's at

Rev. Skarekroe: Ooh, is this thread where people list their favorite bands and someone else comes in and claims that those bands aren't REALLY metal?

Metal fans are so insecure.

We are, aren't we! Anyway, if metal - even what many might consider "fake" metal - rises in popularity again and supplants all this whiny stuff currently standing in for "rock," I think that's a good thing.

here's my most recent disc selection...

/shamelessly hotlinked

Heavy Metal may be coming back, but it had best be better than the Julie Strain version.

nobody gave Poison and Warrant 4-5 stars.



yep...they did.
I speak of mainstream rags though.

Just for the record (and potential abuse)...

Favorite albums in no particular order:

Dokken--Back for the Attack
Metallica--And Justice for All
Queensryche--Operation Mindcrime
Scorpions--Blackout
Judas Priest--Painkiller
Iron Maiden--Somewhere in Time
Pantera--Vulgar Display of Power
Def Leppard--Pyromania (yes, I said it)

No death metal for me, thanks.

50mm: At the risk of splitting hairs, neither Bon Jovi nor Twisted Sister perform anything remotely approaching metal.

Because Twisted Sister is not one of the memorable faces of that horrible era called Hair Metal

Well Allllriiiiihiiiight.