Alternative metal, in my book.

That and/or funk metal. Same goes for RATM.

How could I forget how much I love me some Rage?

I would consider them Alterna-funk. I never got into metal except for a brief minute in HS when I bought this Type O Negative single.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO9aD...eature=channel

When you start making subgenres of a subgenre of a subgenre I get all confused...as I am now. Its all rock & roll to me, or as they say, the devil's music.

Here's my List of some real serious metal: old and new
Metallica
Megadeth
Killswitch Engage
Arch Enemy
Gojira
Demon Hunter
Otep
Walls of Jericho
Suffocation
Hatebreed
Kataklysm
Static X
Lamb of God
In This Moment
Kittie
Lacuna Coil
Anthrax
Slayer
Living Colour
Pantera
Avenged Sevenfold

I get it all confused, too. It's just music to me. I wouldn't call it "the devil's" music, though, because some of the devil's people/minions listen to Christian music, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QcgCSkExEI :cool:

God is first in my life but....
I can still rock to this :cool::p

Or you know, Christians can play and write metal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...an_metal_bands

One of my favorite acts, August Burns Red, is Christian.

If you guys want a laugh, check out the differences between black metal and white/unblack metal.

http://i54.tinypic.com/sqqhjq.jpg

My current list of favorite bands:

Abigail Williams (Symphonic Black)
Act as One (Thrash/Pop Punk)
After the Burial (Technical Metalcore)
The Agonist (Melodic Death)
As I Lay Dying (Metalcore)
At the Throne of Judgement (Deathcore)
August Burns Red (Metalcore)
Between the Buried and Me (Progressive Metalcore)
Brother von Doom (Metalcore/Thrash)
By Blood and Iron (Deathcore)
Conducting from the Grave (Melodic Deathcore)
Dark Moor (Symphonic Power)
Dragonforce (No, really) (Speed/Power)
Equilibrium (Blackened Folk)
The Faceless (Technical Deathcore)
Fleshgod Apocalypse (Technical Death Metal)
I Killed the Prom Queen (Deathcore)
Sea of Treachery (Deathcore)
van Canto (A Cappella/Power)
Wintersun (Blackened Folk/Melodic Death)
Within the Ruins (Melodic Deathcore)

I like As I lay Dying. I heard some of their songs on itunes' radio. I got Dragonforce's CD. it's pretty cool.

AILD's new album blows everything they've done out of the water. As far as Dragonforce is concerned they're very predictable, write music that has to be edited in the studio, and solo in the exact same key, but enjoyable if you turn your brain off. Their first two albums are much better than their last two.

Oh man After the Burial's new album is so gooooooood.

http://i56.tinypic.com/14kk7m1.gif

I might have to buy AILD's lastest CD.

^ Do it. It feels like their earlier albums showed potential, but this new one they actually put their heads down and wrote some great stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLd6h5td8G4

Huge bump, but here is my list for a Best Of 2010

After the Burial - In Dreams
Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
Conducting From the Grave - Revenants
Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Galneryus - Resurrection
Mutiny Within - s/t
Pathfinder - Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time
Periphery - s/t
Versailles ~Philharmonic Quintet~ - Jubilee
Within the Ruins - Invade
Wrath and Rapture - s/t