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Alternative metal is a genre of heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs; typically, these riffs have a pronounced experimental edge, including unconventional lyrics, odd time signatures, more syncopation than typical metal, unusual technique, a resistance to conventional approaches to heavy music and an incorporation of a wide range of influences outside of the metal music scene.

Alternative metal is a genre of heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs; typically, these riffs have a pronounced experimental edge, including unconventional lyrics, odd time signatures, more syncopation than typical metal, unusual technique, a resistance to conventional approaches to heavy music and an incorporation of a wide range of influences outside of the metal music scene.

The term is used as a very loose categorization, but is usually used to describe artists playing a style of heavy metal music with an "alternative" approach. Many bands categorized as "alternative metal" are equally influenced by alternative rock and heavy metal.

This is a place for news, reviews, videos and discussion of your favorite alternative metal bands.

/r/alternativemetal

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Violet Orlandi - Dead Men Walk Alone (Goth Rock/Alt Metal, Brazil, 2024)

1 Comment
2024/08/14
20:51 UTC

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Sevendust - Silly Beast

10 Comments
2021/06/21
03:25 UTC

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Scar Symmetry - Radiant Strain

3 Comments
2021/06/19
00:26 UTC

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Alive - Pearl Jam influenced bands

0 Comments
2021/06/19
00:03 UTC

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MÜTHERLOAD - Iniquity

1 Comment
2021/06/16
14:10 UTC

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Design19 - 'FFWD' (2002) [FFO: Chevelle, Deftones, TrustCompany...]

1 Comment
2021/06/16
00:48 UTC

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Therapy? - Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)- Re-recorded versions of their biggest songs. Probably prefer the originals to most, but great album nonetheless

0 Comments
2021/06/15
20:07 UTC

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Flyspan - Interlope 🎈 [Alternative Metal/Nu-Metal]

0 Comments
2021/06/10
15:25 UTC

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Stoneside. - 'A History of Violence'

1 Comment
2021/06/08
13:55 UTC

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Sons of Kyuss and Heavy Rockers

0 Comments
2021/06/06
04:17 UTC

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Limp Bizkit - The Story (2005)

0 Comments
2021/06/05
09:00 UTC

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ODDKO - D4TM (Official Music Video)

1 Comment
2021/06/05
06:27 UTC

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ODDKO - Disobey (Official Music Video) [industrial]

1 Comment
2021/06/05
06:26 UTC

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Plush - Stone Temple Pilots influenced

0 Comments
2021/06/04
10:51 UTC

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Fair To Midland - Musical Chairs

4 Comments
2021/06/04
02:45 UTC

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Alive - Pearl Jam influenced bands

0 Comments
2021/06/03
12:56 UTC

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Chris Taylor Brown of Trapt just followed me on Tiktok and commented on a video where I used a Trapt song like a year ago and forgot about it. Oh sh*t oh f*ck. What do I do.

5 Comments
2021/06/02
17:55 UTC

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INK - Persephone

0 Comments
2021/06/02
15:08 UTC

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True Lovers - Blessed Are The Lovesick (alt.rock, industrial, goth)

0 Comments
2021/06/02
05:02 UTC

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My first Musicvideo - SUADELA

1 Comment
2021/06/01
13:07 UTC

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Stoners and Heavy Rockers

0 Comments
2021/05/31
10:17 UTC

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Rest In Dust - Haters (Alternative Nu Metal Music Video)

0 Comments
2021/05/28
23:18 UTC

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Love - The Cult influenced Bands

0 Comments
2021/05/28
19:10 UTC

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Negentropy - The Inevitable (Hey everyone, Its Negentropy here. Discover us.)

0 Comments
2021/05/27
17:47 UTC

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What is the best Alternative Metal album in your opinion? I'm an outsider.

Hi everyone!

I hope this kind of post is allowed here. I'm doing a little project where I go to different subreddits of music genres and I ask the members what the best album of that genre is. After this, I listen to the album that got the most upvotes after 24 hours and write my thoughts about it (I will write this as a comment under this one, so if you want to read it, make sure to check back in 2-3 days. This won't be a professional review btw. I don't know anything about music theory so it's just gonna be the thoughts of a random guy). The list I'm following is Wikipedia's list of the most popular music genres in a randomized order. I'm planning to listen to one album per day and this time the genre is Alternative Metal. So please recommend me an album in the comments. It could be the best one in your opinion, your personal favourite, or the album that best represents this genre according to you, but please, only submit one album. If you submit more than one in your comment, it won't count (If you really want to submit more, do it in separate comments). LPs are preferred, but EPs and mixtapes are also acceptable, even compilations and live albums if they're not too long. I am a metal head, but I don't know much about Alternative Metal so I'm still going in pretty much blind.

This is the 144th day of me doing this. If you want to see what the previous days were, check out my post history.

Thanks to anyone who recommends an album.

TL;DR: I listen to a new genre every day, so recommend me one album and I'll listen to the most upvoted one and write my thoughts about it later.

19 Comments
2021/05/25
12:14 UTC

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Change - Deftones influenceD bands

2 Comments
2021/05/22
05:12 UTC

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Interview With K Enagonio from TikTok. Please like and subscribe!

0 Comments
2021/05/20
19:51 UTC

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