Any metalheads in here?

Love me some metal. I also love other music but metal is my center. I'm not a stickler for subgenre - there's just bands I like and others I don't. Lately I've been on a kick with Dyscarnate and Leprous.
 
I'm not really keen on a lot of newer metal. It feels like a lot of it is just like a droning guitar, like it's all imitation and no soul. But I'm a thrash metal fan so I don't think my opinion counts.
Here's some great tracks anyway;

Madhouse:
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

For Whom The Bell Tolls
Disciple

Post Mortem/Raining Blood

Skeletons Of Society
Electric Funeral

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Computer God

Heaven and Hell

Only 10 videos allowed in a post? Gay.
 
Dying Fetus will hold the number one spot on my list to the end of time, though I don't think I could stand another line-up change. They've really made something great as a trio.

I think that if Archspire keep doing what they're doing, they're going to get attention from the outside world for it. I'm not sure how or in what form, but if Slipknot and their music can become a household name, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility for even grandparents to become aware of the new Micro Machines Metal subgenre.

I fear King Parrot may have had their blip on the radar and are on the way down. If that's just me, then I'm thankful to be wrong. If it's not, then I blame them being too silly with their skits and personas. Weird Al's the only person who can make funny and music work together as a career.
Bonus:

Havok is a band that very nicely fills the space that was left by Marty Friedman not releasing Rust in Peace over and over again every couple years for eternity.

EDIT: @Fucks Capacitor Hell yeah, listening to Dyscarnate feels like getting hit with a brick.

EDIT: Part II

Dream Tröll released their second album a few months ago, and while this year is a pretty good one for metal, Second to None I think will stay my favorite overall. It's not the fastest nor the most technically profficient, but rather than a sum, its parts come together in a Pythagorean way.

I'm not usually a fan of Bruce Dickinson-style crooning. The vibrato for every vocal note longer than a second sets off a primal something's-wrong flag in my brain. That's being said, Paladin really pulled off a phenomenal power metal record in their eponymous debut. Though it isn't present in the following song, the mix of the clean vocals with snarling growls is pretty novel and makes for a pleasing juxtaposition of the two when a song has it.

I'm not really sure how they do it, but Gygax can really write a song that makes me want to roll a 20-sided die.
 
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They're a parody band, but I thought I'd share this
This just reminded me of a couple good parody metal bands.

Obviously Dethklok's one of them. Their music toes the line between over the top parody and genuine love letter to metal, which is pretty much why people enjoy Metalocalypse in the first place. Though mentioning Dethklok might be cheating a little because they're the one parody band everyone knows about.


Then there's Okilly Dokilly, a death metal band themed around Ned Flanders, and their songs' lyrics are just Ned Flanders quotes.

 
This just reminded me of a couple good parody metal bands.

Obviously Dethklok's one of them. Their music toes the line between over the top parody and genuine love letter to metal, which is pretty much why people enjoy Metalocalypse in the first place. Though mentioning Dethklok might be cheating a little because they're the one parody band everyone knows about.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vvLDLusWXBIhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=KdZd-FwYWVw
Then there's Okilly Dokilly, a death metal band themed around Ned Flanders, and their songs' lyrics are just Ned Flanders quotes.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2BEvh6HSQc0

I adore Dethklok and Metalocalypse for exactly those reasons.
 
Metal is my jam. I do find that a lot of metal bands tend to stick to a very narrow sub-genre and have everything sound the same, so seek out metal that combines loads of different genres and sub-types of metal to do its own thing and get creative. Examples:

Ihsahn - Former frontman from Emperor now makes these weird but brilliant solo album that combines prog, death and black metal as well as jazz, opera, and whatever the fuck he feels like:


Opeth - Death metal, prog rock, classical guitar, funk, jazz, often all at the same time:


Devin Townsend - does whatever he wants. Apparently his next project is a $10m symphony about dicks. He may not be joking. (This song is from a concept album about a man meeting the Devil and arguing with him about cheeseburgers):


Uaral - Chilean duo who combine funeral doom metal, Spanish guitar, Andean pan pipes, and recordings of the vocalist crying/screaming in pain. This is the closest I've heard to pure despair expressed in music:

 
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