Bands that put out exactly what you expect; and it's awesome.

[Leuchty]

Fear Factory
As I Lay Dying
In Flames
Soilwork

 

[kris_jammage]

Agree with the OP for TBDM. I love how they stick to what they do best and nail it every album!

 

[piggins411]

BTBAM for sure

 

[sear]

Bolt Thrower, Vader, Unleashed, Absu, Ribspreader, Lost Soul, Malevolent Creation, Immolation.

 

[Blackhearted]

Disturbed

 

[Aztec]

Gojira and Trivium

 

[berserker213]

As I Lay Dying, from "An Ocean Between Us" onward. Shadows Are Security was great, but I was blown away by how much they'd left the "-core" behind (ie, breakdowns) on Ocean. I've been thoroughly pleased with their past three (full length) albums and hope they continue in this direction.

 

[Varcolac]

Iron Maiden. Damn your eyes if you don't think it's awesome.*



*Apart from that Blaze Bayley shit, fuck that noise.

 

[DXL]

Grave, they're old school death metal and still old school death metal but their stuff still sounds amazing. They didn't turn to technical death or melodeath or deathcore yet

 

[DXL]

Gojira and Trivium

nah trivium have definitely became much more thrashy throughout the years, except for the In Waves album, they kind of turned back to core on that

 

[skisgaar]

As I Lay Dying. Always know where they stand.

 

[Hankey]

Definitely As I Lay Dying and Every Time I Die. I'd also add 36 Crazyfists to that list...

 

[SenorDingDong]

Radiohead.

 

[CrownofWorms]

Cannibal Corpse. Always been the most consistent band of their sound but have progressed to do better and better on each album.

Dying Fetus.

 

[LamaSabachthani]

Errr. Machine Head? Really? They went out towards nu-metal and commercialism away from their conventional sound in a very blatant way. Then when heavy music came back round again, and a heavier more abrasive strand of metal came back into fashion in the mid 00s they went back to it.

I think they earned their penitence with The Blackening - although I must say that, even though it wasn't their best musical effort, I still don't think Supercharger was an altogether terrible album.

 

[sawtoothscream]

Between the buried and me.

 

[WhiteWalls]

Symphony X

 

[Dawn of the Shred]

Mastodon

 

[Force]

Running Wild
Sonata Arctica
Rage
Helloween
King Diamond
Gamma Ray
Accept
Rush
Pagans Mind
Angra

 

[Xarn]

Suffocation - Delivers crushing death metal on every record. Love all of them.

Scar Symmetry - Haven't changed their sound much at all through the years, except for two new vocalists. Love every cd they've put out so far.

The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Crushing progressive/electronic/death metal. Think they've changed their vocalist for every album they put out, still brilliant records.