Never before, never again.

Disparaging Dio references are the metal Godwin's Law.

you sure showed him

let's listen to Coldplay instead! :*) twinkletwinkle

No Dillinger Escape Plan Mathcore?

Hard to play keyboard drums that quickly. Or in such weird meters.

I'd love to hear more of that "Folk Metal". Especially a folk metal cover of some simon and garfunkel, or something else that would be appropriately ludicrous.

Yeah, the Folk Metal was good. Makes me want to listen to Rhapsody of Fire again... though they are technically power metal.

When GWAR tried Folk Metal and Power Ballads, the Bohabs I know didn't take to kindly to it (see also: Carnival of Chaos, Ragnarok, We Kill Everything), though Dirk Drakulich (Sleazy P Martini) said in a radio interview "Oh no, GWAR's trying something new and people want the same old GWAR they've listened to a million times..." I was paraphrasing, but it's gist of it. Then, later, GWAR put their man-pants back on and got back to the Thrash, Gore, and Heavy Metal.

But, the Folk Metal this guy's playing reminds me of At That Gates, and if you've not heard them, go listen to them.

Ensiferum is pretty good, if you can excuse their so-cliché-it-hurts lyrics.

I think splatterbabble is thinking of In Flames. The only At The Gates that sounds remotely folkish is Terminal Spirit Disease (coincidentally their "worst" album).

Just listen to Turisas

I was a huge gear junkie in highschool and I loved alot of the goofy stuff they did on WKE and Carnival of Chaos.

Gwar are not technical musicians, and technical musicians make up the best metal bands.

Instead Gwar has alot of latitude, which most metal bands don't have, and I think gwar always worked best when sometimes it was Frank Zappa on steroids, sometimes it was motorhead, sometimes it was lamb of god and sometimes it was doctor suess's pedophile brother.

When Gwar became 'pure metal' after WKE they lost their sense of humor and were left only with their less-than-technical skills to compete with a genre full of people who can just do it better.

one word: Gojira.

oh ok

Also, I love things like Dead Meadow but I figured that went without saying. I want to get into more "traditional" metal if that means anything.

i recommend the album with sharp, jagged edges so you can KILL YOURSELF ON IT

The fuck is 'traditional metal'? You've just watched a video summarizing 10 genres and that's the best guideline you can provide?

I say traditional because I realize that none of the stuff I listed is metal.

And if a couple of guitar riffs all played over the same chords and rhythm is enough to summarize decades of metal then it's probably better that I stay away.

http://tinyurl.com/334c8se

vader - silent empire
bathory - blood, fire, death
slayer - show no mercy
immortal - diabolical fullmoon mysticism

^all personal faves

Bal Sagoth.

Anything from Amon Amarth or In Flames.

I'm biased, these are both folk metal / melodic death metal acts.

Directed at pastorofmuppets, obviously.

Much appreciated.

It's actually Intestine Baalism.

What, you think Avenged Sevenfold wrote something original?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3107GXS3Zbs

I am shamed.