Shit how didn't i find this thread before
anyway, to "introduce myself": I've been listening to metal for more or less 3 years, I started with more mainstream bands, but later on I discovered more obscure genres and less "accessible" bands. That's what I
mainly listen to now:
Thrash: Slayer, (old) Metallica, Testament, Overkill, Sodom, and the almighty Kreator (my favourite band). I also love Lamb of God, which some classify as thrash
Many subgenres of Death Metal: Melodeath (At the Gates, Amon Amarth, and old albums by In Flames and Edge Of Sanity), blackened (Behemoth *-*), Technical Death (Necrophagist, Cryptopsy), and more...I also love other Polish bands such as Vader and Decapitated and other scandinavian bands such as Entombed. My favourite album remains None So Vile by Cryptopsy, by far.
Black: Immortal, Marduk, Dissection (who does not love Dissection?), Watain, Emperor.
I also listen to miscellaneous stuff from other genres such as Opeth, Candlemass, and Blind Guardian.
Ok I'll stop rambling...This is a melodeath band I discovered not too long ago which I deem pretty solid