Brutal/loud/nasty music that rules.

helofloki wrote: any other fans of things like Black metal, Death metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, and other genres that tear away at the ears, often with screeming vocals and brutal heavy guitars? I'm personally a big fan of bands in this area. A lot of whom are technically impressive and take nods from progressive bands, then again a lot who completely go in the other direction. Either way there's deffinitely an exhileration you can only get from these type of styles. Some of my favorite bands include Emperor, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer Cephalic Carnage, Brutal Truth and many others. Anyone else enjoy this kind of stuff?

Why of course I am. I discovered prog before metal, but at the age of 12 I discovered metal and have been addicted to it ever since (now 28).

I don't like a lot of that ridiculously heavy metal stuff. There are a few representative bands of the styles I don't mind on occasion, but I can't take a lot of it at once, nor can I listen to a lot of different bands in that realm. Well, I can, but choose not to. Pig Destroyer and Nasum do well enough for me when it comes to Grind. Aborted is the only death metal band I enjoy, but that's partly because it makes me laugh sometimes.

I don't know if anyone knows about them, but Arsis is a great melodic death metal band that's pretty new. Very technical, but more interesting and well rounded than, say, Necrophagist, who are still very respectable for their technicality.

I'm trying to remember some more of these bands I still appreicate a bit, and here's what I can think of: The End, Mare, Burst, Converge, Nile, Transmission0, Wintersun, Buried Inside.

I don't listen to any of them anymore, but I still have an appreciation for what they do in their genres.