quantiq:
Cathedral, Green Carnation, In the Woods..., My Dying Bride, Opeth, Elend, Type O Negative, Ulver
I have to agree with all these, especially In The Woods... - good to see another ITW fan
Also Cathedral. In Australia we don't get may of the bands I like coming here - but Cathedral came downunder for their Carnival Bizarre tour so I could not miss that one. The did a double bill tour with Paradise Lost so I was stoked!! Unfortunately when Cathedral were on stage there were about ten people at the stage front - everyone else was standing around at the bars watching (I were too - I were ripped at the time). I felt so bad for them, and paranoid as I was one of the few there wearing a Cathedral t-shirt, I had go in the pit - still got to see a fair chunk of their gig though ;) Lee Dorrian is one weird looking person on stage.
I'm a bit of a doom fan, though mainly the older 90's bands, been following doom since the beginning of My Dying Bride and Anthema, but I also get into a bit of the more mainstream metal or even rock too. Some of my favourite bands at the moment would have to be (the first few are probably my favourites, but the list is not really in an order)...
Anathema
Novembre (awesome band)
Muse (not "metal", but I love Muse, they rarely do a bad song)
Kyuss
In The Woods...
Cathedral
Tool
The Tea Party ('Transmission' is one of the best albums I've ever heard, it's not metal, but it was much more metal for them)
Opeth
Tiamat
My Dying Bride (Turn Loose The Swans is a classic album)
Apocalyptica
Metallica
Megadeth
Manowar (dont laugh
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Damaged
Paradise Lost
Disembowelment
Pink Floyd
and I apologize, but yes I do like (and consider them metal, despite their popularity)...
Korn
Evanescence
Bullet For My Valentine (one of the better new metal bands for a while IMO)