What music to listen to

Trogdor

Hi, i'm really into music and am nearly always listening to something, but recently i've found that some of the songs are getting a bit boring, as i've heard them so many times. I was just wondering if anyone could recommend any other bands apart from what's listed below that might be similar.
Thanks in advance:)
Flaw
Savatage
Dream Theater
Metallica
Megadeth
Pantera
Liquid Tension Experiment
Queens of the stone age
System of a down
and
Rodrigo y Gabriella, although that's completely different:rolleyes:

ec18

Try Anthrax, Disturbed or AC DC.........if you want somethin completely different go with Thin Lizzy or The Answer

Karl Hungus

Try some of the following:

Opeth
Devin Townsend
Pain Of Salvation
Testament
Meshuggah
Death
Green Carnation
Spiral Architect
Cynic

red_ice

open hand
kyuss
motorpsycho (early stuff would be heavier)
silverchair (arguable, but i like em - get frogstomp)
death from above
screaming trees
pan!c at the disco

lol, only joking about the last one

red_ice

lol, how could i forget

alice in chains

might not be THAT Similar to what your lookin for, but generally allround rockin bands

LightofDarkness

For Thrash Metal (ie. Metallica, Megadeth):
Testament
Dark Angel
Death Angel
Overkill
Municipal Waste(for a newer band)
Kreator
Slayer

For Prog Rock/Metal(kind of like Dream Theatre/LTE):
Symphony X
Adagio
Camel
Opeth
King Crimson(masters of all that is prog)
Jethro Tull
Mahavishnu Orchestra

There's an abundance of prog waiting to be tapped, as it arches over many influences and genres (Opeth are one such band).

Acoustic(ie. Rodrigo y Gabriela):
Preston Reed
Michael Hedges
Justin King
Pierre Bensusan
Eric Mongrain
Michael Manring, Victor Wooten, Jeff Schmidt (play bass)

If you're looking to expand your tastes, I would suggest the following:

Mastodon (on their own here, as they are hard to classify)

Power Metal:
Blind Guardian (CHEEEEESE!)
Hammerfall (CHEEEEESIER!)
Lost Horizon
Falconer
Edguy
Tad Morose
Helloween

Death Metal:
Death(Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic etc. contain progressive elements)
Cynic (jazz+prog+death=timeless art)
Atheist(some more jazzy death)
Opeth (again,so we're clear on how amazing they are)
Cryptopsy (technical as FVVK)
Necrophagist (see above, but neo-classical)
Suffocation
Deicide (thrashy)

Black Metal:
Emperor (first and foremost, godly band)
Immortal (may take some getting used to)
Enslaved (see:godly, includes progressive elements)
Abigor (ANGRY young men)
Deathspell Omega
Drudkh

Math/Progressive hardcore music:
Dillinger Escape Plan
Ion DIssonance
Sikth(HIGHLY resommended)
Psyopus
Behold...The Arctopus

Jazz:
Pat Metheny
John McLoughlin (see: Mahavishnu)
John Scolfield
Allan Holdsworth
Ornette Coleman

If you need any more recommends in any genre, I'll happily oblige. I consider these as good starting points.

It wasn't me!

Y'know, I spent a while thinking about what little subgenre type thing Mastodon fell into, then I realised, they're just metal. Proper balls-out metal. That's all. It was a good feeling.

Smegball

Led Zeppelin have to be recommended.

Civilian_Target

In no particular order, I recommend to you: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Sevendust, Nonpoint, Taproot, Disturbed, Fear Factory (are they nu-metal? ) In Flames, The Desert Sessions, Kyruss, Queensryche, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Dio, Rage Against The Machine, Deftones, Machine Head, Therapy?, John Petrucci, Tool or Mastadon

If you want to branch out, here's what I listen to and recommend: theres a bit of everything!
http://www.last.fm/user/Civilian_Target/

*tOpLaSs

I'd say:
Anthrax
Lamb Of God
Alice In Chains
Slayer
Machine Head
Iron Maiden
Disturbed
José Gonzaléz (he's about the most like Rodrigo y Gabriela I can come up with right now...)
Mastodon
Deftones
Unearth
Slipknot
Tool
Trivium
Scar Symmetry
Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein
In Flames
Children Of Bodom
Dragonforce
Bullet For My Valentine

and the like!
I love Coheed & Cambria also...
Hope this list is of use!

Trogdor

Thanks everyone:D, i will start listening to a few samples and try to decide on my favourites

Karl Hungus

trogdor wrote:

Thanks everyone:D, i will start listening to a few samples and try to decide on my favourites

Have a listen to this, and see what you think.

Oh yeah, and here's some Devin Townsend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGtd6WQVb0

Can't get enough of his stuff lately.