Any recommendations...

[Ghettopunkrocker]

Any recommendations for something on the lines of

Motorhead
DiamondHead
Anthrax
Early Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer

[Chavo]

Hmm, i really didnt have any good suggestions so i did a search of similar bands to the ones you listed and i found this list. Hope this helps. ^_^

Dream Theater
Pantera
Artillery
Symphony X
Suicidal Tendencies
Voivod
Motley Crue
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
Scorpions
Deep Purple
Alice Cooper
Van Halen
Twisted Sister
Kiss
Def Leppard
Blue Oyster Cult
MD.45
Fear Factory
Guns N' Roses
Foreigner
Danzig
Buckethead
Testament
Rush
Queen
Styx
Warrant

[Mr. Kurtz]

You would probably like Man o war or 3 Inches of Blood for operatic, symphonic, zombie- slaughtering metal. There is an early 80's english punk/hc type band called Amebix (i think) who are very reminiscent of Motorhead.
More in the punk/hc vein but still metallish is Doom....sounds satanic but is actually positive!
Cannibal Corpse (thrash) and of course the mighty Gwar, who are possibly the most purely evil metal band to ever desecrate our Mother Earth with their unholy presence.
And of course, Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden kinda make me want to take up my sword and exact bloody vengeance on all the evildoers of the world.

All hail the gods of chaos!

[Compound Egret]

Testament-The New order, The Legacy
Heathen-Victims of Deception(available for free at the bands site)
Forbidden-Twisted into form, Forbidden Evil
Exodus-Fabulous Disaster
Dark Angel-Darkness Descends

[Compound Egret]

Death Angel-Act III
Vio-Lence-Eternal Nightmare
Metal Church-Self Titled album
Stuff by
Kreator
Destruction
Municipal Waste
Lamb of God-especially New American Gospel.

[Darkness Unlimited*]

Yeah, i recommend you listen to:

Bathory (pre-HammerHeart)
The Nifelheim
Laaz Rocket
Pile Driver
Sodom
Destruction
Slaughter
The Possessed
OverKill
Nuclear Assault
Xecutioner(pre-Obituary)
Carnivore(pre-T-O-N)
Order From Chaos
Celtic Frost

For a start...

[Ghettopunkrocker]

Great recommendations everyone but I'm really feeling

Lamb of God
Destruction
Kreator
Municipal Waste
Sodom

GWAR is always great, those are some of the first songs I tried to learn on guitar when I got into Half Step tuning.

[Kamikaze]

dude......
Meshuggah

that is the best band ever. (not their new album)

best song by them : Rational Gaze

i swear, if you listen to this song, it will be on repeat on your itunes for a long time....

[Nick Macklin]

Dude, one word

SPEED-mutherfuckin'-DEALER!!!

They're fast as all-out, meaner than shit and tighter than college pussy!!
Check their album "here comes death", start to finish masterpeace

FTW

[Soulcrusher]

Mr. Kurtz said:

You would probably like Man o war or 3 Inches of Blood for operatic, symphonic, zombie- slaughtering metal. There is an early 80's english punk/hc type band called Amebix (i think) who are very reminiscent of Motorhead.
More in the punk/hc vein but still metallish is Doom....sounds satanic but is actually positive!
Cannibal Corpse (thrash) and of course the mighty Gwar, who are possibly the most purely evil metal band to ever desecrate our Mother Earth with their unholy presence.
And of course, Iron Maiden. Iron Maiden kinda make me want to take up my sword and exact bloody vengeance on all the evildoers of the world.

All hail the gods of chaos!

CANNIBAL CORSPE IS DEATH METAL!NOT THRASH

[Soulcrusher]

FEAR FACTORY
PANTERA
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD
CANNIBAL CORSPE
METALLICA
BURZUM
DIMMU BORGIR
MUSHROOMHEAD­
DARK ANGEL
KORN
OBITUARY
SEPULTURA
LAMB OF GOD
ANTHRAX
NAPALM DEATH
DEATH
CRYPTOPSY
NASUM
LORD GORE
ANAL ****
UNHOLY GRAVE
BLACK ARMY JACKET
DYING FETUS
BRUJERIA
DECAPITATED
LORDS OF ACID
NERCOPHAGIST­
VITAL REMAINS
MAYHEM
SIGH
BURZUM
ABYSMAL DAWN
ABORTED
MISERY INDEX
SUFFOCATION
OVERKILL
ERIC JOHNSON
IRON MAIDEN
JIMI HENDRIX
SLAYER
MEGADETH
DEATH ANGEL
MORBID ANGEL
NILE
DARK TRANQUILITY
EPICA
TODAY IS THE DAY
DISRHYTMIA
SYMPHONY X
SKINLESS
ANNIHILATOR
MEKONG DELTA
MUNPICAL WASTE
BONDED BY BLOOD
EVILE
DECREPIT BIRTH
MESHUGGAH
GAMMA BOMB
AMON AMARTH
CHILDREN OF BODOM
MACABRE
THE BERZERKER
CARCASS
DETHKLOK
VAN HALEN
BLOTTED SCIENCE
MASSACRA
BELIEVER
HOLY MOSES
DEICIDE
THIS ENDING
TOOL
VIRAEMIA
THE FACELESS
SIX FEET UNDER
MESHUGGAH
CANDLEMASS
DIVINE HERESY
MACHINE HEAD
CATTLE DECAPITATION
AGORPHOBIC NOSEBLEED
BLOODBATH
BEHEMOTH
THIN LIZZY
HIRAX
CHANNEL ZERO
RAZOR
MALEVOLENT CREATION
D.R.I
ABORTED
DAATH
ARCTURUS
HYPOCRISY
GRAVE
MASTADON

[Fast Eddy]

Old school Exodus album Bonded by Blood and Possessed Seven Churchez from da 80z.