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Metal is not really my kind of music, but once I heard this group called Pelikan (I think it was with a 'k') and I really liked it. It was really good. I was told they did some type of metal (honestly, I can't remember which 'branch' they were).
Sorry if it isn't metal at all! Maybe it's rock, but as I said I'm no connoissseur.
Meshuggah is awesome as well, Opeth (sort of, not really metal)
Meshuggah is literally the heaviest band I've ever heard. And Opeth...
Opeth is the best. I disagree about them not being metal, though. They're metal as hell, but so much more. Apart from their beautiful melodic side (which nearly all metal bands try and fail miserably) I think Martin Lopez's jazzy, latin drumming style throws people who are more into traditional rush-the-beat triggered pounding that's ubiquitous within the genre.
I'd call Blackwater Park my favorite album of all time if I have such a thing--it should be required listening for any metalhead. It's mature metal with purpose, aesthetic purity and what compositional brilliance can be attributed to a metal band while lacking the corniness that pervades MANY metal bands who are too caught up in being \M/
I'm a major metalhead, but as a musician myself I'm very critical of the genre. It seems to create both the best and worst current music available.