HEVYDEVY FORUMS

What are your 10 top ongoing bands?

So I guess by that I mean:
- Have released an album in the last 4 years
- Have not announced their breakup/permanent hiatus
- Have released more than one album

Massive Attack
Arcade Fire
Queens of the Stone Age
The Roots
DJ Shadow
Manic Street Preachers
Nick Cave
Drive By Truckers
The Mars Volta
Beastie Boys

Mine in somewhat of an order:

Baroness
Devin Townsend
Mastodon
Opeth
Red Sparowes
Russian Circles
Mumford and Sons (breaks the one album rule but I don't care that one album is incredible)
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
4-way tie (I couldn't decide): Mogwai, Gojira, God is an Astronaut, Rosetta

You asked specifically for bands, so I didn't include any solo artists (like our old pal Mr T). And I included De La because they're still working and recording even if they haven't released a full album for a while.

Again this is straight off my mp3 player.


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Textures
Seasick Steve & The Level Devils
Mastodon
Gojira
The Beastie Boys
The Roots
Opeth
De La Soul
The Black Keys

I'm just gonna liberate myself a bit here, and include artists.

Devin Townsend Project
Nightwish
Evanescence
Pain of Salvation
Arjen Lucassen
Hans Zimmer
Anneke van Giersbergen
Loreena McKennitt
Kamelot (that is, if I like their future singer)
Eluveitie
Within Temptation

Rush
Devin Townsend something or other
King's X
Alter Bridge
Cloudkicker
Chimp Spanner
Pearl Jam
Arjen Lucassen's something or other
Opeth
Explosions In The Sky

Devin Townsend
Dillinger Escape Plan
Pain of Salvation
Intronaut
Mastodon
Mars Volta
The Ocean
Between the Buried and Me
Opeth
Ulver

Alter Bridge
Karnivool
The Butterfly Effect
Gojira
In Flames
Opeth
Pain Of Salvation
Radiohead
Tom Waits
Amon Amarth

I have problems to think about 10 ongoing bands i care for. Maybe, in no particular order:

Devin Townsend, of course
Gojira
Dethklok
Meshuggah
Nile
Exodus
Testament

Dark Fortress
Satyricon
Maybe something from the Russian CIrcles/Red Sparowes-camp

Devin Townesend (yaa)
Ulver
Gojira
Assemblage 23
The Cure
Massive Attack
VNV Nation
Tool (2006?)
Rush

Disillusion
Devin Townsend
Opeth
Borknagar
Electric Wizard
Agalloch
Wolves in the Throne Room
Lord Vicar
Nile
Vomitory

In mostly no particular order:

DTP
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest (NOT FOR MUCH LONGER HERP A DERP DE DERPITY DO)
Queens of the Stone Age
Katatonia
Alice in Chains (YAAAAAAAAAY)
Modest Mouse
Rush
Devo, motha fuckas!
The Decemberists (but if they keep releasing shit like this last one instead of doing what artistically fuels them a la The Hazards of Love, I'm out.)

This isn't really in order

DTP
Gojira
Meshuggah
Ulver
Agalloch
Riverside
Megadeth (or should I say MegaDave?)
Blind Guardian
Opeth
Ihsahn

In no order:
Dev
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Slayer (walking a fine line though)
Anthrax
Nile
Deicide
Marduk
Ozzy
Sunn O)))

Hard not to include bands that broke up but later re-united (Dev is an exception as he takes many forms).

Eh, current form and no order and excluding the devster. Will change in a few weeks.

Meshuggah
Noisia
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Bloodbath
The Faceless
Pendulum
Zero 7
Black Sun Empire
Massive Attack