Well I have read quite a few topics like this one, discussing bands, and usually it just reminds me of my age, but at least in this post, I have at least heard of one of them....

but it wasnt devildriver....... so as I couldnt name a single song from disturbed, and I have never heard of devildriver, I just didn't vote.....

Well, this is Devildriver...and if you like metal, particularly the harder shit, you WON'T be disappointed.  At least I don't think you will.

http://www.devildriver.com - http://www.devildriver.com  <----Click on media and audio to listen, or watch the videos, which also kick ass.

Seriously, take the time to check them out.  You don't know what you're missing!  This is the same singer as Coal Chamber, if you know who that is.  DevilDriver's most well-known video was 'I Could Care Less.'  They haven't played their music too much on mtv, but I have fuse, and they played it on there.  And their shows are GREAT!  I saw them at Sounds of the Underground in NJ and I was absolutely thrilled to death.

But like I said, check them out.  My bf is pretty picky about his metal and he loves these guys, and they certainly don't suck, so you should at least check them out!  In the meantime, I'm waiting for my new devildriver hoodie to come in the god damn mail!

Hell yeah, metalbabe.  I have the video for loco on my computer somewhere, along with every other coal chamber video I could get my hands on.  Sounds of the Underground was Lamb of God, Clutch, Poison the Well, From Autumn to Ashes, Unearth, Norma Jean, Every Time I Die, Chimaira, Throwdown, Strapping Young Lad, High on Fire, Madball, Terror, A Life Once Lost, All That Remains, DevilDriver, Full Blown Chaos, The Red Chord, FBTMOF, and GWAR.  I was looking up DevilDriver concerts and we ordered tickets and later on, I saw the setlist, and I swear, lights shone down from the heavens, lol...well, if there was a heaven, lights would have shone down.  Devin Townsend is fucking INSANE onstage, and Gwar kicks ass, too.  But Devildriver was by far my favorite, of course.  The coolest thing was that all the bands were walking around the parking lot where the concert was going on when they weren't onstage, so you could just walk up and talk to them.  There's going to be a SOTU 2006, so I definitely suggest going when it comes around.

http://www.soundsoftheundergroundtour.com - http://www.soundsoftheundergroundtour.com

Everybody on here should go to their local SOTU show and we should all share pics, lol.

Lol, I love Gwar.  Even if you think the music sucks, the show is still excellent.  Nothing better than a band who cuts off george bush's head onstage and rips the skin off our nazi-pope's face.  Not to mention the amazingly gratuitous blood spray.  You can always tell when they're coming on because the cameras get little plastic bags.  I still don't know who some of the people are, cuz I had to leave early.  The sun was so harsh that after a few hours and a round of sun poisoning, I was puking every 3 minutes, literally.  Yeah, norma jean is really screamo...don't think they meant to be, but they ended up sounding that way anyhow.

Lol, I love that....and let it be known that moshing and 'hxc dancing' aren't even close to the same thing.

by the way, xburyxmex, my bf loved your lotr gif thingy. lol

Lol, I won't say that disturbed sucks.  From what I've heard, their guitarist has stepped things up quite a bit with the latest album.  But there's just something Devildriver does for me that Disturbed never could...Maybe it's because I'm dez-biased.

*Girlie Sigh*  Yep...I think that's what it is.

 Ohhhhhhhh, Katatonia....... "Viva Emptiness" was one of those essential albums for me that actually made a deep impact on me. From a songwriting standpoint as well as my musician standpoint.

 Such beautiful emptiness.

Current rekindled obsession: ACID BATH!!!  I haven't stopped listening to Cassie Eats Cockroaches, God Machine, and Jezebel.

Welp, I can't say that I've ever been impressed by anything Disturbed has ever done, though I liked the animal noises in "The Sickness".

OOHH-WAH-AH-AH-AH! UGH! UGH!

But I CAN say that I was floored after listening to DevilDriver, especially keeping in mind that I hated Coal Chamber.

I'd rather listen to Manowar or if I'm going to go harder & faster (nothing is louder than Manowar) then maybe I'll put in some Darkest Hour or Shadows Fall (I saw them on their first tour at... heh, the Essex Town Hall in Vermont. I liked their original singer a lot better).

I'll have to agree that Opeth is an amazing group.

If you're going to stick to that new-metal shit though, Static-X is always a good, progressive choice. Not Disturbed.

But seriously, DevilDriver impressed me. I like to put it on in the morning before work.

Actualllyyyyyyyy....You might want to check their site, cuz I think they're touring canada next.

Edit://  Ok, maybe not.....but they're still touring the US, so if there's a border state that you live close to, you should go to that show.

I presume you're talking about manowar?  Don't think I've ever even heard them.  Don't worry metalbabe, I'm not ignoring you.  I'm having some viral problems on my computer and my browsers aren't working too terribly well.  It's hard enough to get on here.  Could you post the links on my profile page somewhere so I can check them out later?

Have you checked out devildriver yet???

MANOWAR

Best metal band ever? Quite possibly...

Let's examine the evidence--->

1) Manowar has been together and selling out shows, continuously, since the seventies.

2) They got Orson Welles to narrate a track on their DEBUT album in '80

3) These lyrics --> "MAY YOUR SWORD STAY WET / LIKE A YOUNG GIRL / IN HER PRIME"

4) The founding member started out as a Black Sabbath roadie, and they played some of their first shows opening for the Dio-era Sabs.

But last and finally...

5) They broke the Guinness Book's record for loudest concert ever... TWICE (Residents from miles away could hear it plainly)

Fact is, it doesn't matter if it's tight leather, bare chests and big hair, or black eye-makeup, fishnets and bondage spikes.

Metal is gay. Gay like Rob Halford and Freddie Mercury.

But I like it anyway.

So if Manowar is gay, sign me up for buttsex 'cuz I'll crank up Manowar over Disturbed anyday.

Yeah, I know I really went off here, but I love Manowar, even if it is in that good, boy-humping kind of way.

"WE BELIEVE / IN THE POWER AND THE MIGHT / AND THE GODS / WHO MADE METAL / ARE WITH US TONIGHT!"

Such vicious animosity towards a band... you remember of course that they just play music right? With their tongues in their cheeks on the corniest tracks, I'm sure. You really don't have to like it...

But just for the record I won't put Manowar over Black Sabbath, the band who could be considered singlehandedly responsible for creating the genre.

I mean look at what happened back in '67 when Sabbath tried playing in California to a bunch of hippies who were just sitting on their asses. Ozzy told them to "get off your fucking asses, to fucking rock." And then Bill Ward decided to chuck his entire drum set into the audience.

As he told an interviewer in Ozzy's "Don't Blame Me", "We got a reaction allright."

Now that's metal, even if Ozzy has become something of a sad old geezer in modern times. (I say Dio should be back in Sabbath!)

Excellent! Devildriver has tied and prepared to take the lead...

Win one for true metal!

 My final say in this thread....

 Neither Black Sabbath nor Manowar canbe credited for "starting" the genre of heavy metal. Heavy metal music finds it's roots in the British Blues of the 1960's, and that's a widely known and accepted fact to anybody with even the slightest depth of knowledge on the genre.

 Manowar is power metal, a genre I really hold a high disdain for due to the tongue-in-cheek lyrics, stage theatrics, and silly offstage antics. Typically power metal vocalists sound like women and that's just not fucking metal to me. They all have voices 5 octaves above the feminine range, like their balls are in a vice.....which in retrospect they actually are with those super tight lame assed leather pants.

 Manowar being in Guiness proves absolutely nothing other than the incredibly loud range their vocalist has, even though he still sounds like a bitch. I'd be willing to bet that Guiness never heard of, say Strapping Young Lad, as I'd stake my life that Strapping Young Lad's concerts blow Manowar's out of the fucking water.

 Don't believe me? Go find a live recording of "Oh My Fucking God" by SYL and tell me I lied.

 Now I opt out of this thread, like I meant to do a few pages back. BTW, Devildriver is in the lead and I like it that way.

For the record, Black Sabbath WAS the british blues of the 60s, they got together in like '64 and originally called themselves Earth, which Ozzy described as a "blues rock band" It wasn't until a few years later that they saw the Boris Karloff movie "Black Sabbath" and wrote the song "Black Sabbath" which was so succesful they changed the name.