I NEED TUNES!! (in Contests)

50k to everyone who introduces me to a new band that I like... gotta be heavy, but not so heavy that it can't be played around children (i have 3)

Breed 77? ;)

Check out the Heroin Dairies by Sixx AM.

Has some really good stuff on it.

Niki Sixx is awesome

Pendulum

You're Going Down - Sick Puppies.

just downloaded that yesterday WW

RED - Fight Inside

Warmen - The Evil That Warmen Do and Unknown Soldier Hematovore - Blasting Through the Back Nine Peccatum Therion Flaw - Medicate Octavia Sperati Krypteria - time to bring the pain Praxis - Transmutation Bloodsimple - Running From Nothing Dark Tranquility Katatonia

'Heavy' music that I like:

Alkaline Trio, American Nightmare (2) (now: Give Up The Ghost), As Friends Rust, As I Lay Dying (2), At The Gates (1), Atreyu (1,2), Caliban (1), Darkest Hour (1,2), Envy, Faust Again (1), From Autumn to Ashes, Funeral For A Friend, God Is An Astronaut, Heaven Shall Burn (1,2), Interstate 5, Morning Again, One King Down (1), Planes Mistaken For Stars, Red Sparowes, Selfmindead, The Spirit That Guides Us, Thrice, Thursday (2), Toboggan, Unearth (1), Waterdown, Zao (1)

(1) : stuff (maybe) not suited for children
(2) : bands I _highly_ suggest

red jumpsuit apparatus, avenged sevenfold

Buckethead (start with Pepper's Ghost then Monsters and Robots)
Dethklok (seriously -- The Dethalbum is amazing)
The Murder City Devils (check out In Name and Blood from 2000, you may recognize the first track Press Gang)
ohGr (Welt > SunnyPsyOp, haven't heard Devil in My Details yet)
Porcupine Tree (Arriving Somewhere But Not Here off of 2005's Deadwing is a fantastic song)
The Spittin' Cobras (just found out about these guys, straightforward hard rock)

Nevermore
Outworld
Megadeth
Suicide Silence
Whitechapel
Children of Bodom
Black Dahlia Murder

So, do I win? I mean, all those bands are sick. :D

COG
http://www.youtube.com/user/cogrockmusic

all 3 of them are dutch but make music in English:

Krezip
Kane
Di-rect

Smile Empty Soul
In Loving Memory by Alterbridge
Ill Nino
Shinedown has some cool songs like Metalingus and The Crow and the Butterfly