If you were to say that your favourite bands were Metallica, Guns N Roses, The Offspring, Bon Jovi, RATM, Millencolin and Hundred Reasons, I'd look at you weirdly and run away. Or so
Err, anyway, my infinite wisdom and far superior taste (
, to avoid confusion) shall give you a few recommendations nontheless. I remember that some Mogwai fan once said that some of their songs sounded quite similar to Metallica without vocals. I can't really tell because I don't care for Metallica (
) but Mogwai are wonderful. If you like them, similar groups include Explosions In The Sky, Mono, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, maybe also Sigur Rós, My Bloody Valentine, Bardo Pond...hmm. Or maybe Slint. Balton should have mentioned them (and Tortoise) when talking about David Pajo's (in other words, Papa M's) former bands, but instead he chose to mention the far inferior Zwan and shall be exposed to the last Limp Bizkit single for the next few days. Although, he shall be forgiven because he mentioned the first two words that appeared in my mind when reading your jazz question (i.e. "Miles" and "Davis"). Unfortunately, I know even less about jazz than I do about Metallica (even though I prefer it by, erm,
miles... bad semi-unintentional pun, indeed.), so I won't be of any real help here either
(Btw, Balton: Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austrian throne who was shot in Sarajevo in 1914. His assassination was amongst the events that triggered (not
caused, as some shallow weirdos tend to say) WW1.)