r/Metal101

Hello,

I want to get into the Metal Core Genre. I love the energy. What Bands to you recommend?

Thank you.

This is my categorized list of metal discoveries. I’m looking for more industrial metal suggestions, or just if people have comments!

🌲 **The Northern S**ky
Atmospheric black metal, winter landscapes, melancholy, forests, and distant horizons.
Agalloch (*The Mantle*)
Drudkh (*Autumn Aurora*)
Summoning
Paysage d’Hiver
Striborg
Falls of Rauros
Borknagar
In the Woods…
Xasthur

⚒️** The Iron Constellat**ion
Industrial metal, mechanical rhythms, electronics, and concrete.
Godflesh
Jesu
Front Line Assembly
Sister Machine Gun
Noise Unit
Pitchshifter

⚰️** The Cr**ypt
Death metal, death-doom, cavernous production, and subterranean heaviness.
Krypts
Crawl
Tomb Mold
Dead Congregation
Malignant Altar
Death

🕯️** The Cath**edral
Sacred themes, liturgical atmosphere, epic grandeur, and spiritual weight.
Crypt Sermon
Crimson Thorn
Impending Doom

🪨 **The Monoli**th
Sludge, doom, and riffs that feel tectonic.
Crowbar
Eyehategod
YOB
Grief
Brainoil
Fistula
Down
Burning Witch
Khemmis

🌑 **The Eclip**se
Music that bends genres or occupies its own strange corner of the sky.
A Canorous Quintet
Agriculture
Dissection
Gojira
Depressive Silence
Ruins of Beverast

This is probably going to sound ott and stupid but whatever, I’m feeling feels rn.

A few months ago I stumbled into the wider meta genre by accident. I was listening to Linkin Park while reading and when the playlist finished, Chop Suey! came on through shuffle... BRUH,
Incredible! Couldn't believe the eargasm that song subjected me to. I dove straight into SOAD.
Since then I've just been finding random bands and working through them. Some click, some don't. I'm still completely ignorant and can't really tell the subgenres apart yet.

Then I randomly played FATA's "Everything I Need", and that was a profoundly moving experience akin to a spiritual baptism in the sound frequencies smuggled straight outta heavens halls. Been going through their albums and their style was incredibly powerful. When I I'm truly listening and get swept by the music it's like experiencing art that is living and does everything in its power to stay as close to its moment of purest creation. It's genuinely reversed time for me. I walk home from work and I'm walking what I envision the streets of 1990s to be. Amazing.

I searched them on here and saw they get posted to post hardcore quite a lot, so I'm guessing they fall under that?

Two questions:

-Any recommendations for similarly amazing bands?
-Best way to truly learning about and contextualising the subgenres? History, sounds, and all

🔥ALBUM REVIEW🔥 My deep dive into the gothic romanticism of Far From God, the upcoming album from Moonspell.

Listen as in listening to the lyrics, the music and everything. Not to mosh not as background music while you clean, just listen.

So, I want oldschool death metal bands that doesn't have blasphemy in their lyrics. I also don't like things like necrophilia. I's rather listen to lyrics which have violence and death and are still "thoughtful" like what Death did in Leprosy. I don't like melodic death metal and prog death metal (the only prog death band I like is Death). I also don't like metalcore, deathcore and anything related to metalcore. I don't want grindcore and goregrind recommendations, I'm looking for straight up death metal (It can be deathrash, tech death metal or brutal death metal too.) Some non-christian bands I like are: Death, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Gorguts, Pestilence, Jungle Rot and Frozen Soul. I'm thinking about starting to listen to Entombed, but I'm still checking if their lyrics are "safe". What do you guys think?