Already loving Isis as posted above. Will check the others out
For the sake of everything that's holy, stay away from the Isis remix albums though, utter garbage and actually made me stop listening to them for about a year due to the offence it caused my ears!
Don't knock Dave. He's at the cutting edge of fashion. Besides, any criticism of Dave just makes you a Jesus hating arsehole and God will smite you for your sin.
I don't mind how a bad looks mostly, I love the Cure and kiss, and Poison. But christ, even by 'visual metal' standards Susperia look silly. Like Mortis with less self-awareness. I see they've gone away from the face paint now though and have instead resorted to looking like Italian bouncers
Too right. Get on 'em, and Isis. Oh, and Mastodon like RIC has already suggested. And High on Fire. And Down. And...
yeah they do look like itlaian bouncers now, you're not wrong. The facepaint was after they'd not long formed after being kicked out of the their respective black metal bands (well some of them anyway). Susperia have looked, even at their silliest, like the most normal people on the earth compared to the midget 80's trent reznor throwback oddity that was/is mortiis. I shudder to think that he ever played bass in emperor quite frankly.
Then again, Ihsahn's spiky shoulderpads and Samoth in a cape on a horse possibly wasn't their finest ever video moments........
For the greatest ever video for not taking yourselves seriously it's this one, by miles:
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBdAY8eA9w&feature=relatedI love it. One of the best ever live acts, all painted up, dressed up in homemade armour and weapons that Horgh made, i saw them in the astoria 2, blistering set interspersed with brilliant interaction with the crowd and the band genuinely looking like they enjoyed themselves, laughing and fucking about at times. Brilliant!
Deffo get on the new High on Fire (and then work backwards through the amazing back cataloge!), deffo get on Nola by Down as well!
Oh abhred, if you're looking for someone modern, with good technical skills, groovey yet brutal in places, give Daath a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn_aQwQUs2M