Rock is dead

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Get satellite radio. I have Sirius and get exposed to a new (to me anyway) awesome band every week on one of the 300 stations. These are bands that never get play on terrestrial radio because they don't fit the pre-teen female demographic, yet completely blow other "popular" bands out of the water.

[CallMeIshmael]

There is a ton of good music being made today that flies just under the radar of the mainstream. If you search around on the net you'll find a ton of great stuff in all genres

[Andy Ross]

I think you're wrong. Good rock is where you find it. Nowadays it's much less popular than it once was, but there are plenty of good bands out there. Others have pointed you to Mastodon etc., so I won't bother. All these bands have had at least one new release in the past year or so.

High on Fire - Matt Pike's band. Very heavy, and very good.
Abdullah - Cleveland based Sabbathy band.
Place of Skulls - Victor Griffin's (of Death Row and Pentagram) band. Just released their third album.
Alabama Thunderpussy - Great oldschool styled rock band.
Cathedral - They're still making excellent stuff. Saw them tour for their latest release last year, and loved it. Some of my friends were the supporting act too.
The Hidden Hand - Scott Weinrich's project. Very atmospheric, cool and downright brilliant music. They released an EP+liveDVD on limited release a few weeks ago, and it's brilliant.
Clutch - Their release (Robot Hive/Exodus) last year was another excellent one.
Spiritual Beggars - Michael Amott's hard rock band. Love their stuff.

I don't listen to a huge amount of the following stuff, but it's great stuff when I'm in the mood:

Amon Amarth - great Viking metal out of Sweden. Bonecrunching riffs, and they actually write really good lyrics.
Arch Enemy - Swedish death metal from Michael Amott. Amazingly good riffs and solos.

I don't think that rock is dead at all, but if you want to listen to good rock it definitely takes effort. I've probably forgotten some of my favourite (and current) bands in the list as well.

[Losing all]

Thanks for the list, I'll try em out. I figured I'd get some reccomendations by starting this. Maybe the problem is that I'm old, and the guys I used to go to tool and clutch and slayer concerts with every month are now changing diapers and buying mutual funds.

[daveymck]

Others to try on the heavy front

In Flames
Dark Tranquility
Soilwork
Children Of Bodom
Norther
Mendeed
Sentenced
Edge of Sanity
(if you like this lot start going through the bands at Swedishmetal.net)

More Prog Metal

Anathema
Opeth
Riverside
Borknager
November Doom
Coheed and Cambria

More Traditional

3 Inches of Blood
Trivium
Blaze
Cradle of Filth
Dragon Force

The new Stone Sour Record is pretty good as well, I think the last Slipknot is pretty decent as well but might not get past their image.

Some more Goth metal stuff some has operatic vocals which may be a problem.

Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Tristiana
After Forever
Epica
Crematory
Deathstars

Also some older bands have record out recent Exodus, Death Angel etc.

Most of these you should be able to get samples on myspace or videos on youtube.

Also try Dimmu Borgir and Emporer are black metal but at the more listenable end, can give more recommendations if you like these.

[JaBlue]

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Hard Rock/Heavy Metal that gets radioplay has always been terrible. You aren't going to find your replacement for Slayer on the radio.
You should definitely try out Mastodon. I would guess you would really like their newest album, Leviathan.

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kind of, KIND OF in the same vein is baroness. Baroness rules hardcore. Very heavy, not lame at all. check em out.

[Ben Young]

In Flames

[Wynton]

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I grew up on zepplin, sabbath, and all the great 80's metal (metallica, slayer, maiden) and still listen to all of it.

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Actually, rock died sometime in the 70s, I think it was 3/17/75.

[TheRover]

[Georgia Avenue]

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I grew up on zepplin, sabbath, and all the great 80's metal (metallica, slayer, maiden) and still listen to all of it.

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Actually, rock died sometime in the 50s, I think it was 2/3/59.

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Fyp.

But really I think there is more good music being made, and more importantly, HEARD right now than at just about any point since the early 90s. The late 90s, when indierock died, was an absolute wasteland. Just because your favorite genre stopped being popular you seem to think that means something dire about music in general? I hate to say it, but Dynasty is right. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]