Heavy Metal Militia

Once more… Thanks to all the Metal Maniacs for playing along!

Here are the results for Round III:

Slayer destroys Kreator
Vio-Lence beats Whiplash
Possessed smashes Sacred Reich
Lamb of God beats Municipal Waste (surprise to me)
Arch Enemy beats Soulfly

Here are the Round IV picks:

1. Arch Enemy vs. Vio-Lence
2. Possessed vs. Lamb of God

Slayer earns a BYE for sheer point volume!

Good luck and see you in Hell!

Smash your enemies with Power!!!!
Metallica missed this one. Maybe next one.
No Shredder, I had to take one band out of this round to make it even out where we come down to a final 2. I have no doubt Slayer will be triumphant!

Sorry about the delay thrashers, but I had some out of town business. Now we’ll get back to the task!

Results for Part II:

1. Slayer beats Exodus
2. Vio-Lence and Sacred Reich (Tie)
3. Possessed and Whiplash (Tie)
4. Kreator beats Onslaught
5. Municipal Waste beats Dekapitator
6. Lamb Of God beats Vader
7. Arch Enemy trashes Deathbreath
8. Soulfly beats Goatwhore

Now for Round III. Since we had 2 ties, I switched those bands up, so hopefully we get a straight vote this time.

Here we Go!

1. Slayer vs. Kreator
2. Whiplash vs. Vio-Lence
3. Possessed vs. Sacred Reich
4. Municipal Waste vs. Lamb of God
5. Arch Enemy vs. Soulfly

Good luck and Thanks so much for your patience and support!!

Thrash Till Death!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my first attempt at a Battle of the Bands so bear with me. Critisicism and advice are definately appretiated!

OK. What I want to do here is run 16 oldschool Thrash bands by you and then 16 newschool thrash bands by. In the end we should have 1 from each genre for the finals!

So here we go:

Oldschool:

1.Exodus vs. Agent Steel
2.Slayer vs. Megadeth
3.Possessed vs. Metallica
4.Whiplash vs. Evildead
5.Forbidden vs. Vio-Lence
6.Savage Grace vs. Sacred Reich
7.Omen vs. Onslaught
8.Kreator vs. Destruction

Newschool:

1.Municipal Waste vs. Skeleton Witch
2.Dekapitator vs. Toxic Holocaust
3.Trivium vs. Lamb Of God
4.3 Inches of Blood vs. Vader
5.Deathbreath vs. Caustic Christ
6.Arch Enemy vs. Children Of Bodom
7.Goatwhore vs. Soilent Green
8. Soulfly vs. Cavalera Conspiracy (Twist!)

I know I missed a ton of bands but there is always room for another one down the road.

Have fun and always THRASH TILL DEATH!!!!!!!
fili- what do you call Arch Enemy? I also said I didn’t get all the bands, if I included all bands called thrash, this list would be miles long.
Also Pantera is not Thrash in my book. And Anthrax is definately one of the missing elements along with Testament. Next time!!!
I wouldn’t put Michael Jackson because Bitc*ers like you would like it too much!

Which group of bands represent metal better?
Megadeth, Slayer, Dark Angel, Kreator, Exodus?
or Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, Kalmah, Arsis, etc.?

or simply, which subgenre do you prefer?

I just started listening to this genre of Death Metal, and I like it a lot more then traditional Death Metal. These are the current Melodic Death Metal Bands Im listening too.Does anyone know of any other really good bands from this genre, let me know.

Carcass
Kalmah
Wintersun
Heres some music videos to get you an idea how this genre sounds.

Ok, here is a list of all my favorite bands, groups.

Opeth
Children of Bodom
Ensiferum
FinnTroll
SIx Feet Under
Meshuggah
Arch Enemy
Amon Amarth
Slayer
System of a Down
Brujeria
Cannibal Corpse
Deicide
Devil Driver
Disturbed
Godsmack
Dragonforce
Dying Fetus
Hatebreed
Job for a Cowboy
Kittie
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Rage against the machine
Sepultura
Therion
Dimmu Borgir
Megadeth
Anthrax
Wintersun
Carcass
Overkill
Exodus
Kalmah
Death
Daath
Cradle of Filth

here r the bands i listen to: cannibal corpse, arch enemy, the black dahlia murder, bloodbath, daath, death, dark tranquillity, deicide, dethklok, entombed, gorguts, in flames, kataklysm, morbid angel, nile, obituary, opeth, divine heresy and heaven shall burn.
i want some more death metal band. GOOD BANDS, and i wanna know their best album.

The early death metal bands.
not the newer death metal mixed with hardcore.
Mine is Death.
i also like Arch Enemy which is newer but keeps the classic feel to it.
oh yea Morbid Angel is awesome.
Suffocation is great too.
Suicide Silence is amazing but i would put them as Deathcore. because of the breakdowns. but i dont care. still very good.

Arch Enemy
Sepultura

How come almost all Deathcore bands suck? All Deathcore sounds the same. Their is very little variety in the sound of say, Suicide Silence. Why is this? Does it have to do with them trying to be "too" hardcore?

I’m getting into Arch Enemy a lot, and decided to explore that genre of music. Recommend me a band and song.

So far, I listen to:
Amon Amarth
Arch Enemy
At The Gates
Children of Bodom
Dark Tranqullity
Gardenian
In Flames
Insomnium
Norther
Soilwork
Sonic Syndicate
Wintersun

Can you recommend any?