Hello

[Elerax]

Hey, I just wanted to join a community to get into metal even more than I am right now. I'm looking for new bands to listen to, because I've been stuck on the same few for months now, and can't seem to find any good bands that aren't whiny or too heavy. 

Some of my favorite bands are August Burns Red, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, In Flames, Trivium, Parkway Drive and As Blood Runs Black.

[FatherAlabaster]

Welcome. Are you looking to get away from that sound? We have recommendation threads with a bunch of stuff, but nothing geared towards that style. I might try to steer you towards some older (early to mid 90s) melodeath, first, and see what you think of it.

[FatherAlabaster]

Specifically:

At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease, The Red In The Sky Is Ours, With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness

Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I, The Gallery, Skydancer

A Canorous Quintet - Silence Of The World Beyond, The Only True Hate

Sentenced - North From Here

Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil

Amorphis - Elegy, Tales From The Thousand Lakes, The Karelian Isthmus

and if you like some of that, you might go in different directions from there, towards Opeth if you haven't heard them (highly recommend anything up through Ghost Reveries), Death and Atheist, melodic doom like October Tide, Daylight Dies, Rapture, or Atten Ash, melodic BM like Vinterland, early Naglfar, or Diabolical Masquerade, Rotting Christ's third album... many possibilities. 

[RelentlessOblivion]

G'Day and welcome to the forum. As FA said there's very little said about melodic metalcore such as you've listed there and what is said seldom has positive connotations. We have a recommendations thread fro pretty much every subgenre of metal stickied to the top of their respective subforum (At the very least we have black, death, doom, folk, power, progressive, and thrash metal covered). I'm going to take a slightly different approach to FA and offer up some variety in both subgenre and era but I'll stick to melodic bands for the time being.

 

Judas Priest (heavy metal): Sin After Sin, Sad Wings Of Destiny, Stained Class, Killing Machine, Defenders Of The Faith, Painkiller

Iron Maiden (heavy metal): Iron Maiden, Killers, Number Of The Beast, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time, Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

Saxon (heavy metal): Strong Arm Of The Law, Wheels Of Steel, Denim & Leather

Mercyful Fate (first wave black metal): Don't Break The Oath, Melissa

Artillery (thrash metal): By Inheritance

Testament (thrash metal): The Legacy, The New Order, Souls Of Black

Candlemass (traditional doom metal): Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Nightfall

Solitude Aeturnus (traditional doom metal): Through The Darkest Hour

Blind Guardian (power metal): Imaginations From The Other Side, Nightfall In Middle Earth, Somewhere Far Beyond

Crimson Glory (progressive/power metal): Crimson Glory, Transcendence

[GorboGorboze]

Welcome to the forum Elerax, I was born a little outside of Philadelphia.

Edited September 17, 2015 by GorboGorboze