Quote Originally Posted by N. Abstentia
HeadBangers Ball is cool, I Tivo it every week hoping to see somthing cool. It comes on Saturday nights at 11 I think. You just have to seperate the crap from the good when watching it. Some modern metal bands to check out are:

Killswitch Engage
Seemless (they are just barely metal..more hard rock but they are amazing)
Shadows Fall
Hurt
Opeth (probably the most musical metal band out there and have the best chance of any as going down as 'metal gods' forever!)
Yeah, I like all these bands - I'd throw in Lamb of God, who most Killswitch Engage fans I know seem to like.
Opeth, and Hurt would be my favs or this batch.
I also like Mastodon at times...thought they remind me too much of Pantera for some reason.

If you really want some good, traditional metal with less self-indulgence or "nu" influence, Megadeth's last 2 albums have been surprisingly very, very good - which I find especially funny since they've accomplished what Metallica's been desperately trying to do for the last 15 years...