Irepress - Samus Octology(instrumental post-metal)
This whole album is absolutely wonderful.

Guano Apes come to mind.

Oh What A Night (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TilW9kN2E0c

Here's a compilation of older singles, to get an overview what to expect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQly4OVNys

.. and in ;-) Thx.

Therion (it's a multi singer symphonic rock-opera kind of thing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huOhqgYAKDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-0zOuvabm8

The 91 year old legend Christopher Lee (Saruman in LOTR movies) released a metal album called Charlemagne, here's an album preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTfFXrVJcNQ

Not very original, and might not be metal enough, but what the hey, here's Ann Wilson:
Heart - Barracuda

For something newer (yet from a classic band) I really liked the last Accept album, Stalingrad, especially this song:
Accept - Twist of Fate

Metal cheers!

Let the real music play
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one of the first names in heavy metal you need to try
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast 1982

back to the roots of thrash metal
Sodom - M-16
Sodom - M-16 2001

good album
Kreator-Violent Revolution
Kreator-Violent Revolution 2001

classic meets Yngwie in perfect harmony
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Sarabande
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E flat minor Opus1 1998

Great masters at work
G3 live fron Denver Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwe Malmsteen
G3: Live in Denver 2004

Solid power metal
Avantasia - Farewell
Avantasia - The Metal Opera 2001

Metal Heart represents Accept's career pinnacle.
Accept - Metal Heart
Accept - Metal Heart 1985

maybe one of the best power ballads of all time
Scorpions - Wind Of Change
Scorpions - Crazy World 1990

One of their best albums, a must have
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - Painkiller 1990

Epic Classic US band
Manowar - Battle Hymn
Manowar - Battle Hymns 1982

One of Helloween's best albums
Helloween As long as I fall
Helloween - Gambling with the Devil 2007

one of the best live albums
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith 1981

Victorious Power Metal
Stratovarius - Nemesis
Stratovarius - Nemesis 2013

epic album
Rhapsody Of Fire- Power of the Dragon Flame
]Rhapsody Of Fire- Power of the Dragonflame 2002

Words cannot describe Black Symphony' you must be there or get the Blu-ray
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Within Temptation - Black Symphony Live 2008

Simone Simons one of the beautiful voices in Gothic
Epica - The Phantom Agony
Epica - The Classical Conspiracy Live 2009

Again Simone
Epica - Cry For The Moon
Epica - The Phantom Agony 2003

Vibeke Stene probably BEST female voice in the world
Tristania - World of Glass
Tristania - World of Glass 2001

After all this time Tarja Turunen stil makes you cry, Now Nightwish in tour with Floor Jansen (ex After Forever)
Nightwish-Ever Dream
Nightwish - End of an Era 2006

Morten Veland still a genius after leaving Tristania
Sirenia - Sister Nightfall
Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens 2002

Great band too bad they slit... Pete Johansen also played violin on Sirenia,
The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Forever
The Sins of Thy Beloved - Perpetual Desolation 2000

One great song!
Krypteria - Liberatio
Krypteria - Liberatio 2005

Masha she is young and powerful, you'll love Arkona
ARKONA - Goi, Rode, Goi!
Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi! 2009

Cristina Scabbia good voice, sexiest woman in goth metal
Lacuna Coil - Our Truth
Lacuna Coil - Manifesto of Lacuna Coil 2009 (best of)

Liv Christine still great after leaving ToT
Leaves' Eyes - New Found Land
Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga 2005

Xandria never disappointed
Xandria - Widescreen
Xandria - India 2005

A great band from Switzerland, big band now Eluveitie
Eluveitie - Omnos
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion 2009

Helen Vogt she is also good, rip the 2 band member that died
Flowing Tears - Rain Of A Thousand Years
Flowing Tears - Thy Kingdom Gone 2008

Not bad for 1 band singer
Hildr Valkyrie - All mighty Gods
Hildr Valkyrie - Shield Brothers of Valhalla 2008

Floor Jansen good opera singer
After Forever - Discord
After Forever - After Forever

Another good band from Netherlands
Stream of Passion - The Scarlet Mark
Stream of Passion - Darker Days

Nuf' said: didly didly dum dum dum dum :))
Van Canto - Wishmaster
Van Canto - Metal A Capella 2011

Gothic Doom Metal powerful ex-member Lisa Johansson
Draconian- Through Infectious Waters (A sickness elegy)
Draconian - The Burning Halo 2006

Begins with a Bram Stoker's pasage in romanian :d
Mandragora Scream - Dark Lantern
Mandragora Scream - Madhouse 2006

New shooting star of gothic metal
Katra - One Wish Away
Katra - Out of the Ashes 2010

again Tarja Turunen
Beto Vázquez Infinity feat Tarja Turunen - Until Dawn (Angels Of Light
Beto Vazquez Infinity - Beto Vazquez Infinity 2001

Gothic Metal from Germany
Atargatis - Angels Crying
Atargatis - Wasteland 2006

Great long lasting singer Doro
Doro - Nothing else Matters
Metallica - A Tribute to the Black Album 2011

interesting symphonic gothic to newer albums
Trail Of Tears - Deceptive Mirrors
Trail Of Tears - Existentia

good song
Angelzoom - Fairyland
Angelzoom - Angelzoom 2004

long lasting band, cool song names (ie too drunk to f**k)
Holy Moses - Angels In War
Holy Moses - Agony of Death 2008

Angela one of the best harsh female vocals
Arch Enemy- Under Black Flags We March
Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions 2011 (Melodic Death Metal)

3 sexy ladies from Greece sing black metal /blackened death metal
Astarte - Black at Heart (ft Angela Gossow -from Arch Enemy)
Astarte - Demonized 2007

Runhild... she recorded the album at 17 -- reaping EVIL female vocals --
Thorr's Hammer - Norge
Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt 1996

L'Ame Immortelle french name, Austrian band, German language, vid filmed in Romania
L'Ame Immortelle - 5 Jahre
L'Ame Immortelle - Gezeiten 2004

Gothic rock /metal
Lacrimosa - Lichtgestalt
Lacrimosa - Lichtgestalt 2005

Romanian band :)
Tiarra - Ielele
Tiarra - Post Scriptum 2008

A very good song
Memoira - Destiny of Yours
Memoira - Memoira.2008

Medieval Folk Metal
Lyriel - Promised Land
Lyriel - Autumntales 2006

Again operatic voice from Vibeke
Tristania - Evenfall
Tristania - Widow's Weeds 1998

Theatre of Tragedy - Venus
]Theatre of Tragedy - Aégis 1998

Folk Metal from Sweden
Valkyria - Förfäders stämmor
Valkyria - Förfäders stämmor

Floor Jansen solo project
ReVamp - Precibus
ReVamp - Wild Card 2013

Darkwave gothic
Theatres des Vampires - Moonlight Waltz
Theatres des Vampires - Moonlight Waltz 2011

Good album
Magion - Greed
Magion - Close to Eternity 2010

And finally some cool guys from Europe
Amarth - Varyags of Miklagaard
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God 2008

Experience mixed with progression gave an amazing album
Samael - Slavocracy
Samael - Solar Soul 2007

some fine Gothic-rock-metal
Crematory - I Never Die
Crematory - Act Seven 1999

And of course the Mighty Therion now goes symphonic metal
Therion - The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah
Therion - The Miskolc Experience Live 2009

And we all know and love Haggard.
Haggard - Herr Mannelig
Haggard - Eppur Si Muove 2004

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US bands i think you know them already...
I'm IN!
wont let me post more...
happy birthday

In but only if trading is allowed (mostly interested in Rogue Legacy but you can't get that for $9.99 :( )
Anyway, do you like Manowar-style metal at all? If so, then check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38zmdwd5K3E Battle Beast - Black Ninja
The female vocalist is quite versatile.

And another one, more in the style I personally prefer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpweFnWQSvg 2 Times Terror - Ikävässä Paikassa
This is a side project from MC Raaka Pee, who you might know of Turmion Kätilöt fame

Strangest thing you've seen... or not... this is Japan after all...

BABYMETAL - Doki Doki Morning

Lunar Path - In the End

Mena Brinno - Blackmail

Emilie Autumn - Fight Like a Girl (Official Music Video)

The Storyteller - Dark Legacy 2013 Album Preview

I like this one a little bit more:
HeadBanger

Sorry, I don't know any of the new stuff.

Here's some good (very) old stuff though: Black Sabbath
-- War Pigs
-- Paranoid
-- Iron Man


Edit: actually, scratch that -- there is one band: Rammstein
-- Sonne
-- Benzin
-- Mein Land
-- Amerika

Pretty Maids
Little drops of heaven
Mother of all lies

My favourites:

Girlschool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dAyPoYax4

They used to tour with Motorhead alot. Kim still looks great. And they had one of their albums produced by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea.

Warlock (Doro)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWcbo4PV6M

She still looks great (and sounds great)

I do not listen to music (metal or otherwise) so I cannot make any suggestions, but I would still like to enter, thank you.