DEATH!

+1 to H the B, Between the Buried and Me, Protest the Hero, and 3 Inches of Blood. 
 Here's some my favorite stuff. 
 
The Dillinger Escape Plan: Amazing band. Finally got to see them live about a month ago and they were INSANE. Really nice guys too. 
  

I wish no would ever bring up metal on these forums again, half the shit posted on here is emo/nu-metal or just plain shit, that's all fact son.
 
 
*** There are some good picks here though ; )***

" have you heard the band "3 Inches of Blood" yet? 
  

   
  

   These arent the only good stuff they have. :D "

Nobody saidBetween The Buried and Me yet? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8Aoy8dH-A
 
Here is The Dillinger Escape Plan if you don't mind Mathcore
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEYLlDThZU

 And heres Soulfly (who work with a lot of artist like Slipknot, Fear Factory, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and more.)
 
 Soulfly with Greg of TDEP
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0MUQh3lAvc
 
Soulfly with Corey of Slipknot
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXTwnzGCNY
 
Soulfly with Dino (guitar) and Burton (vocals) ofFear Factory

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-bfGJZBdJQ 
 
Hope you enjoy at least one of these songs.
 
And on a related note, I'm still not sure who to post videos on this site :P

I have been listening to Alcest.
 
 

Anything from Megadeth.

I'd go with Mastodon and Between the Buried and Me. 

" TipTipTippaRoo, I bet you never thought this innocent thread about music would be over 300 posts, did you?  :-D  "

When I listen to metal metal, not just hard rock / nu-metal, I stick to things like Sonata Arctica, Hammerfall, Elvenking, Nightwish, stuff like that.

DevilDriver 
 

Check out this sick piece of tech/blackened death metal (As well as the rest of the album!): 

" @TipTipTipaRoo said:

" @HandsomeDead:  
What the fuck don't u understand? I said i liked VNV.. ur presence is irritating me..

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Just ignore him, he is annoying in most music threads. "

If you're big on progressive metal, try out Tool, Threshold, Queensryche, Ayreon, Shadow Gallery, Beyond Twilight, Pain of Salvation, and Royal Hunt.

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  How 'bout some pop sludge?

• Modern Life is War
• Comeback Kid
• Evergreen Terrace
• Your Demise
• August Burns Red
• We Came as Romans
• Walls of Jericho
• Twelve Tribes
• The Warriors
• Architects
• Dead Swans
• Terror
• Donnybrook
• Sworn Enemy
• Silent Civillian
• Soilwork
• Bleeding Through
• Five Finger Death Punch
• Protest the Hero
• Oh, Sleeper
• More Than Life
• Madball
• Ligeia
• Kingdom of Sorrow
• Crowbar
• Lacuna Coil
• Inhale Exhale
• Into the Moat
• Hell Within
• I Killed the Prom Queen
• Grave Maker
• Haste the Day
• God Forbid
• For the Fallen Dreams
• Four Year Strong
• Fellsilent
• Sikth
• Everytime I Die
• In Flames
• Death Before Dishonor
• Deadlock
• Darkest Hour
• Dead Man in Reno
• Have Heart
• Verse
• Caliban
• Lamb of God
• Carpathian
• Champion
• Cancer Bats
• Bury your Dead
• Bleed from Within
• A Textbook Tragedy
• Across Five Aprils
• Dead by April

A Dozen Furies

If you like the sound of any of them PM me and I'll send you some of their songs.

Ehh I know you said Hard Rock to Heavy Metal..little thrash metal's always fun.
 
Sepultura's early stuff's pretty raw and energetic.  
 
  

" @TipTipTipaRoo:  Nice! A fellow horse fan.  As for parkway drive, they seem like a decent band. "

I would also suggest checking out Holographic Universe by Scar Symmetry.  Great album, and too bad they lost a great singer as well.  It's got a bit of Gothenburg influence in it, but it's really just good melodic metal.
 
    

" I would also suggest checking out Holographic Universe by Scar Symmetry.  Great album, and too bad they lost a great singer as well.  It's got a bit of Gothenburg influence in it, but it's really just good melodic metal.
 
    

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greatest cd of all time

" If you're big on progressive metal, try out Tool, Threshold, Queensryche, Ayreon, Shadow Gallery, Beyond Twilight, Pain of Salvation, and Royal Hunt. "

I mostly stick to Christian music. Outside of Demon Hunter and August Burns Red amongst a few others, I haven't seen much of it posted so here's some for you to look into. I'd have to agree that Demon Hunter's "The World Is A Thorn" is one of my favorite albums of the year. 
 
Becoming the Archetype - End of the Age from their album Dichotomy.
 

I'm not sure if this is the sort of things you're after as it's sort of prog/power metal. 
 
Still, I can't get enough of this guy at the moment, so I might as well share:  Sequester  
It's really not bad at all for one guy making metal based on RPGs. :)

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" The last two Mastodon albums are pretty bitchin. "

I hate Metal Songs! D: 
 
Hehe, sorry I couldn't help though! ^__^

Between the Buried and Me - Autodidact.

" The last two Mastodon albums are pretty bitchin. "

Posted this song a couple of times.
 

If not already recommended.  Definitely check out Throwdown they have that Pantera sound. 
  

also this 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDYfX5D_O_w  
 
and this 
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qz8e7pgy_Y