Foo Fighters or RHCP. Metal and rock are two different types of music, in my opinion.

Metallica (in the 80s), Tool, and Pantera.

On a slightly different, but related topic: Rock has been so awful to me for almost a decade now. Are there any good new bands out there that someone can suggest to me?

Fan of rock artists huh? Cool, I like some rock artists myself also, here are some of my favorites:
Ernestina Gallina, pet rock painter, a talented rock artist from italy.

Some exquisite rock art right there.

Linwell Ford is also a amazing Rock artist:

Linkin Park and Rise Against are my favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of others like Red Hot Chilli Pepper, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age and many more but I'm not super dedicated to them, just know a healthy amount of songs from each.

My favorite band is Foster the People, but they are more pop than anything else.

Some of my all time favorite rock bands / artists of all time are The Police, Pink Floyd, Genesis / Phil Collins, Oasis, Alice In Chains, and Soul Coughing.

Today, there aren't many traditional rock bands that I'm into, aside from Alice In Chains' two most recent albums which IMO are just as good as anything the band put out with Layne Staley .  These days its mostly metal for me... old school bands like Iron Maiden, Helloween and Blind Guardian are still getting it done, while newer groups like Ghost and Keldian are in constant rotation pretty much wherever I go.

Keldian's most recent release "Outbound" was my personal album of the year for 2013...

While not new bands they've only been active in the 2000s and still produce new music. Some of my favorite songs from each and the album they're from.

Avenged Sevenfold

Welcome to the Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGzIcLfRMcY (Nightmare, 2010)
Bat Country - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZy3I6colo (City of Evil, 2005)
Afterlife - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVMkIVtr9U (Avenged Sevenfold, 2007)

Rise Against

Satellite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNv4JChWqA8 (Endgame, 2010)
Re-Education (Through Labor) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLaKoFClGkU (Appeal to Reason, 2007)
Give it All - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLyL0RUM-2A (Siren Song of the Counter Culture, 2004)

Shinedown

Diamond Eyes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Cc8H6Mzlk (The Sound of Madness: 2010 deluxe reissue)
Devour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL334VQB-L4 (The Sound of Madness, 2008)
I'll Follow You -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_CyK3zPigw (Amaryllis, 2012)

Since metal counts my vote goes to judas priest. Love almost all their albums but personally Defenders of the faith is my favorite album.

Nightwish

Metallica is and always will be my top fav. band of all time.

Others include: Queen, Kansas, Megadeth (up to 2001 anyway), Green Day, Sevendust, Alice in Chains (w/Layne), Iced Earth (w/Matt Barlow), Days of the New (even though he dropped off the face of the earth), Blue Oyster Cult, Opeth (their more progressive stuff), Ra, Black Sabbath (w/Ozzy), Anthrax (like both, but wish Bush would have stayed), Testament, Death Angel, Live (before Ed went jerk mode, apparently), etc.


Rock and Metal have never really "gone away" at any point. And as long as modern music exists, they won't, either. But the fact is, you should never base what you think of music on whatever happens to popular at the moment. You should just find what you like, and follow that. To hell with trends.

Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Horse the Band, Minus the Bear, Sublime, and Coheed and Cambria. I couldn't name one, but think i covered every rock genre/sub genre that i listen to.