I’ve always been a fan of metal, like you guys. I haven’t been listening to any as much lately, though. I find that a lot I’ve been listening to, especially lots of new stuff that I’ve heard, is just boring and repetitive. No offence intended towards anyone.
I tend to go back listening to what I liked when I was young, ten or fifteen years ago. Lots of thrash, death, power, and folk metal. I was at an awesome folk metal show at a small venue not long ago, actually. Even then I get tired of it easily. I find it more fulfilling to listen to things like jazz, classical, dub (not dubstep), trance, and ethnic folk music. There just seems to be more variety to my ears, looking elsewhere, and I don’t care much for overly negative themes, angst, and “brutal” vocals.
That said, here is some metal of late: Arkona, Cabrakaan, Helloween, Manowar, Heidevolk, Judas Priest, Dio, Odinfist, Megadeth, and others.