Been checking out a lot of new music lately. Best recent pick is Twilight of the Thunder God by Amon Amarth. Rocks hard and cool lyrics.

Another good one is Grand Magus. Check out the song The Kingslayer.

Another is Benedictum. Check out Shell Shock.

All three of the newest Iron Maiden albums are really good. Bruce Dickinson came back in 2000, and Matter of Life and Death, Dance of Death and Brave New World are all really good.

Check them out.

J

Amon Amarth is awesome.

Other solid/amazing music picks (if you like melodic/progressive/standard Death/Deathish metal)

Opeth (!!!!!!)

Dark Tranquillity (!!!!!)

Arch Enemy

Bolt Thrower

Non-death metal, but great

Therion (operatic symphonic metal)

Tristania

Dimmu Borgir (melodic doom)

Machine Head (newest)

My Dying Bride (Doom)

amon amarth is freakin' awesome. i listened to the album 4 times the first day i bought it. oh, if you guys like opeth, check out bloodbath. its more traditional death metal, but a few of the albums have opeth's singer. if you like the real melodic stuff, get wintersun.

I checked out Wintersun. You weren't kidding when you said melodic. I am digging it.

Which Opeth do you recommend? I checked out a bunch of tunes on iTunes and wasn't able to tell if I liked anything or not.

J

Which Opeth don't I recommend? Honestly though, Opeth is listen to the full album music. To this day, I struggle to listen to just one song as most of their albums are concept albums where one song feeds into the other.

If I had to list the best albums to start off with...hmm....

Blackwater Park

Still Life

Ghost Reveries

Watershed

Each is different...especially Watershed (their newest)

Tell ya what...drop me an email...I can hook you up with something that will help you get familiar with Opeth.

nabentroth at far.midco.net