Sean Nye your my hero!
Music is music.. I dont idolize scenes, like genres, or certain bands just because everyone else likes it. If it tickles my nutz... then it tickles my earz! Ya heard?
These are some good bands.
3 Inches Of Blood
A Perfect Circle
Abigail Williams
Amon Amarth
Anal Cunt
Angel Corpse
Animosity
Apocolyptic Christ
Arch Enemey
Arsis
As Blood Runs Black
As I lay Dying
At The Gates
Becoming The Archetype
Behemoth
Between The Buried And Me
The Black Dahlia Murder
Black Sabbath
Blood Red Throne
Callenish Circle
Cannibal Corpse
Cattle Decapitation
Caustic Christ
Celtic Frost
Cephalic Carnage
Children Of Bodom
Cky
Cock And Ball Torture
Cradel Of Filth
Cryptopsy
Dark Funeral
Dark Throne
Dark Tranquility
Darkane
Darkest Hour
Dead To Fall
Dead Will Rise
Deicide
Dissection
Doom
Dragonforce
Dream Theater
Dying Fetus
Earthcorpse
Edge of Sanity
Elysia
Emperor
Empyrean Eclipse
Exodus
The Faceless
Finntroll
Gnarkill
Gorgoroth
GUT
Gwar
Hammerfall
Iced Earth
Impaled
Impending Doom
In Flames
Insomnium
Into Eternity
Iron Maiden
Job For A Cowboy
Kaaos
Kalmah
Kataklysm
KillWhitneyDead
Marduk
Mastadon
Mayhem
Megadeth
Metallica
Mindless Self Indulgence
Morbus Deus
Morbid Angel
Napalm Death
Nasuea
Necromantix
Necrophagist
Nile
Obituary
Opeth
Origin
Pantera
Scalafrea
Skyfire
Slayer
Through The Eyes Of The Dead
Trivium
Unearth
Underneath The Gun
Vehemence
Vital Remains
WeCameWithBrokenTeeth
And a hell of a lot more.