3 Days Grace, Breaking Benjashit all fucking suck. Please take a listen to the classics like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Mercyful Fait, Iron Maiden, Slayer, OLD Metallica, Megadeth and others.

As far as newer stuff, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall, The Black Dahlia Murder or for you non metalheads, Velvet Revolver(the saviours of hard rock) is a fine fine choice.

Tool and A Perfect Circle need to be listened to more.

Please please please listen any of the following bands...enough with the shitty fucking pop rock trendy bullshit. Oh and most HxC sucks major dick.

• 1349
• AC/DC
• Alice In Chains
• All That Remains
• Amaran
• Amon Amarth
• ...And Oceans
• Andrew W.K. (this guy is the man)
• Anthrax
• Arch Enemy
• Arsis
• As I Lay Dying
• At The Gates
• Asmodeus
• Atreyu
• Avenged Sevenfold
• Beyond The Embrace
• Black Dahlia Murder
• Black Label Society
• Black Sabbath
• Bleeding Through
• Blind Guardian
• Blood Has Been Shed
• Bloodbath
• Borknagar
• Brujeria
• Caliban
• Cancer
• Cannibal Corpse
• Cantrell, Jerry
• Carcass
• Carnal Forge
• Cattle Decapitation
• Children Of Bodom
• Chimaira
• Corosion Of Conformity
• Crisis
• Danzig
• Dark Tranquillity
• Darkest Hour
• The Darkness (along with VR, saviours)
• Death
• Death Angel
• Deftones
• Deicide
• Devildriver
• Dew-Scented
• Devin Townsend Band
• Dimmu Borgir
• Dio
• Disarmonia Mundi
• Dissection
• Down
• Dream Theater
• Drowning Pool
• Dry Kill Logic
• Edguy
• Emperor
• Ensiferum
• Evergrey
• Exodus
• Faith No More
• Fear Factory
• Fight
• Finntroll
• Fireball Ministry
• The Forsaken
• God Forbid
• Hatebreed
• The Haunted
• Himsa
• Hypocrisy
• Iced Earth
• In Flames
• Into Eternity
• Iron Maiden
• Judas Priest
• Kataklysm
• Kreator
• Killswitch Engage
• Lacuna Coil
• Lamb Of God
• Machine Head
• Martyr A.D.
• Mastodon
• Nailbomb
• Megadeth
• Marcyful Fate
• Meshuggah
• Metallica
• Misery Index
• Morbid Angel
• Mushroomhead
• Nailbomb
• Napalm Death
• Nevermore
• Nightrage
• Nightwish
• Opeth
• Otep
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Pantera
• Prophanity
• Queens of the Stoneage (one of the best hard rock bands ever)
• Saytricon
• Sepultura
• Sevendust
• Shadowsfall
• Six Feet Under
• Slayer
• Sodom
• Soil (one of the best hard rock/on the verge of metal bands today)
• Soilwork
• Strapping Young Lad
• Suffocation
• Superjoint Ritual
• Susperia
• Symphony X
• Testament
• TooL
• Trivium
• Type O Negative
• Unearth
• Vader
• Velvet Revolver
• Vital Remains
• Voivod
• Vehemence

I could go on forever, but Im not going to go into a million death and black metal bands that I know most of you wouldn't give a chance.

PS: Im not trying to be a dick, just saying what I feel

(note: this list of bands was taken from my CD collection on the net, so I did not sit hear for hours type this out, enjoy)

I agree with a lot of this list...lots of good bands that we don't hear enough about...Queens of the Stone Age is my favorite band for sure...I don't recall seeing Clutch on that list though. Also, you should check out the Dirty Americans...they'll fit right in with your list.


- ALeC

DA are great, had tracks sent to me by the band