Lamb of God

You can check out the new Lamb of God cd here:  They are a killer band, not exactly what I'm looking for but they are cool.  Ghost Walking and Insurrection are my favs but the rest of the songs I'd probably skip.
http://music.aol.ca/new-releases-full-cds#/3

Possibilities...

I've checked out a couple of bands in the last few days.  The first was Nightfall, music was promising but the vocals are too consistently shouty, their newer stuff was better but again the vocals just didn't do it for me.  Vocalist is not a strong singer.
The next was Psycho Choke and I really like them.  Their vocals are a mixture of growling and singing and he's not bad.  The music is strong and the lyrics are cool.  They are kinda strange to look at, seems to be a character to suit everyone, the guitarist has a face cage, another guy has slightly creepy makeup and the singer just looks like a trucker.  I'm not really into the character thing, I find it a little too theatric but whatever.  I'll be keeping an eye on these guys for sure.
And the quest continues...

Why?

I'm starting this blog in an effort to find some good metal bands.  I seriously didn't have a favorite band for years...it was sad.  I'd hear a couple of pretty good songs on the radio and look for more from the artist only to find that the one song they had on the radio - was the only one that kinda sorta kicked ass.  It was enough to almost

make me want to listen to rap...I'm kidding, I'd rather stick needles in my eyes and listen to country!

Anyway, my quest continued until I heard the Bad Company remake by Five Finger Death Punch.  I'd heard the song on the radio several times and was intrigued by the vocals and the guitar work, so I decided to look them up on-line to see if they had anything else worth listening to, and was ecstatic to discover that they were

exactly what I'd been searching for.  I love this band and instantly became a Knucklehead!  You should know that I have a short attention span and get bored easily but I can listen to their cd's over and over again without having to skip any songs! These guys do not have any lame ass songs...amazing!  This hasn't happened since Appetite for Destruction by Guns n Roses.  It's been a long time coming and I started wondering how many other bands are there out there that I've missed?  So in case there's anyone else out there looking for some killer metal bands, I thought I'll blog about my hair whipping, head banging journey along the heavy metal road.  You can suggest bands and I'll check them out and I'll find some on my own as well.  Hopefully together we'll make metal mainstream like it should be!  

Something else you should know is that I refuse to fall into the categorizing crap trap.  I like what I like and I like to call it metal.  End of story. 

My criteria is simple: for a band to keep me listening, the vocals have to be dynamic, the melody has to be strong, the lyrics should be aggressive, the guitar riffs must kick ass and double kicks on the drums from time to time are a definite plus.  Oh and they absolutely must not take themselves too seriously. 

'Nuff said...Bring it!