borderline metal, but michael afkerfeldt from opeth loves them so that has to count for something. other than the intro, fuck Rock You Like a Hurricane, though scorpions - only a man - Animal Magnetism Scorpions - No One Like You no one has touched the two most epic metal genres yet, POWER METAL and (female-fronted) SYMPHONIC METAL Kamelot - Edge Of Paradise Flames Of Revenge - Rhapsody The Other Half (Of Me) (Black Symphony) - Within Temptation Operatika - Last Quest winding guitar solos + medieval themes + female vocals = i call it Evanescence for grownups
Tolkien-type-Metal Isengard - Neslepaks Summoning - Long Lost To Where No Pathway Goes Gorgoroth - Funeral Procession Burzum - Stemmen Fra Taarnet
Really though, if you haven't given Opeth a listen, do yourself a favor and check out Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, or the Watershed. All are pretty accessible as far as death metal goes. I'm certainly not dumb enough to say that they're the best, but I'd like to think that i listen to a lot of music, at least, and Opeth is easily in my top 5 overall, let alone metal bands. They're technically great without being too showy and Mikael Akerfeldt has been as good as anyone in any genre over the last decade in terms of talent and originality. The dude is a monster on the mic but also has a pretty damn good clean voice as well. Their recent albums have been produced really well, making them even more accessible to people who don't like the low-budget sound of some death/black metal.
Saw them live in Houston for the 1st time in 2003, and came away impressed. A little more melodic than I'd have thought they'd be but very good nonetheless. Suprising they don't have a bigger following here in the
I saw them and Dream Theater last year in Seattle for Progressive Nation (p.s. never see a show at the Wamu Theater), and then saw them again this past May in Portland at a legit venue. They're getting more melodic and prog-ish as they go along, which I have no problem with. The death metal purists hate it, I'm sure, but those guys are usually douche bags anyway.
(I know your post wasn't directed solely at me, Joe) Personally, technical Metal usually isn't for me. There's a few exceptions (posted below), but over all, I respect Opeth's talent but their music doesn't hold my interest. I saw them in 2000 in Milwaukee and they did a great job reproducing their work live but over-all, beyond a few cuts from Orchid, Morningrise & My Arms, Your Hearse, they're just not for me. I usually like my Metal in the atonal, primitive, chromatic variety. As a progressive Metal band, theyre one of the better ones in my opinion though. Technical Metal bands that I do like; Demilich-When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water Gorguts - Earthly Love At The Gates - Ever - Opening Flower (Though I don't care for At The Gates post-With Fear....) Eucharist - A Velvet Creation Mithras - Worlds Beyond The Veil - Worlds Beyond The Veil
it's heavy, instrument-driven (in most cases) music also, in most cases (especially as you get more and more obscure/underground) the music isn't about instant gratification. there aren't cheap, catchy hooks or choruses. it feels less like it was churned out of some record company machine and more like it was composed as a piece of art. i'm sure most genres are this way as you delve deeper into them, but i like good electric guitar riffs and drums.
Grim metal with grim Lilith vocals Nuclear Death - The Corpse Tree Bethlehem. 1998. Teufelverr?ckt Gottdreizehn MONARCH! live @ Bracara Extreme Festival - 2007
no one has touched the two most epic metal genres yet, POWER METAL and (female-fronted) SYMPHONIC METAL I seriously like all kinds of metal. Except bullshit metal core floor puncher bullshit. Sometimes my friends make fun of me for rocking out to it but I love me some epic power metal. Edguy - Golden Dawn Gamma Ray - Dethrone Tyranny And you got to post this one for the video alone. I seriously laugh out loud everytime I see it but it fucking rules. (Oh shit I forgot this video is NSFW. Been a long time since I've actually watched it. Just a little bit of tittie action. Sorry guys. Not sure how to put the icon on someone else's thread.) So. NSFW Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames And for a female fronted band. You can't forget about Nightwish. I don't think they have the same same singer anymore but the one in this video NIGHTWISH - Nemo
TRRW, you have good taste. Here's a couple of classics (in my eyes) from a legend - dio- heaven and hell Dio - Holy Diver (Live) Dio We Rock
Thanks 6 Seconds and Dio is classic for sure. I'm glad you started this thread. I had been thinking about it with all the other music threads. Hopefully we can get more posters to contribute. Ok gotta change it up with some death metal for now. EXHUMED - "The Matter of Splatter"
Just saw these guys play live last night in OKC. They're touring with Cannabis Corpse. Both bands were pretty badass. Ramming Speed is pretty straight forward thrash but they put on a great performance. I thought they stole show personally. Here is a live clip from one of their shows. Ramming Speed All in All fest 7
For you power metal, symphonic metal fans, you guys may dig this act; Havayoth - Fallen These guys only had one album, the singer is Andreas Hedlund. The other players are Marcus Norman and Morgan Hansson (both of Naglfar) You guys may be familiar with Hedlund's other projects; Vintersorg (Symphonic Viking Metal), Otyg (More Viking inspired Metal/Folk), and he took over vocal duties for Borknager. ***FIXED (wrong link) _____________________________________________ I usually don't prefer symphonic Black Metal but here are some good examples IMO; Limbonic Art - Beyond The Candles Burning Obtained Enslavement - Torned Winds From A Past Star Emperor - The Loss And Curse Of Reverence Emperor - The Loss And Curse Of Reverence Abigor - Weeping Midwintertears Abigor - Weeping Midwintertears
Trappist: I really like the stuff you just posted. Just listened to a little of each song but sounds really cool to me. I'll be checking some of those bands out for sure. I've listened to a lot of Emperor but hadn't heard the others. I'll have to listen to some of the other stuff you've posted more closely. Some of the stuff sounds really obscure. A lot different than the stuff I usually listen to, but I'll need to take the time to really listen to it and let it soak in. We're getting some good variety in here though. That's for sure.
Joe Pesci - Here's one for you power metal - check female vocals - check medieval sounding - check Dark Moor (from Spain I believe) They have a male vocalist now and they've never been the same since. Dark Moor - Silver Lake In the Heart of Stone
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition As I Lay Dying- Morning Waits As I Lay Dying- Nothing Left (NEW VIDEO EXLUSIVE!!)
514, glad to see you in here. This thread cant have too much AILD in it. I get all these sub-genres confused sometimes. Some good stuff in those last few posts from TRRW and Trappist that I've never heard of. Def gonna check them out further. I like this band right here too - Bullet For My Valentine - 4 Words (To Choke Upon)
I know they're pretty mainstream but I think Arch Enemy fucking rules. Doesn't sound like nu-metal to me. Maybe it's just a chick that can growl like that that gets me. ARCH ENEMY - Nemesis (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Damnit more people need to help with this thread. I know we have some metal heads on here. Or at least people open to different kinds of music with inquiring minds. Help a out. These guys put on a pretty good show. Rumpelstiltskin Grinder- Orange and Black Attack
Celtic Frost - Into The Crypts Of Rays (Live) Entombed - Left Hand Path Acid Bath Scream of the Butterly DEMO 1996 Omaha Lutomysl- The Blade of Reality
Yeah, the symphonic Black Metal stuff is more immediately accessible. You should really look into Summoning also. I posted one of their songs earlier in the thread and tried to post one yesterday but I'm on this shit computer at work and it runs so slowly on a thread like this that it's even hard just to copy and paste (which explains why I posted Emperor & Abigor twice and meant to post Satyricon "Mother North" and Summoning "Farewell" instead and why I posted Monarch first before fixing the link to Havayoth). I'm not big on Emperor post-Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk but their stuff prior to that is fantastic symphonic Metal. Obtained Enslavement really only have one good album, Witchcraft but it is hard to come by. I suggest looking it up because its on tier with the best symphonic Black Metal ever released. There's definitely a digestion period with some of the more noisy, atonal stuff I posted. I think it is very rewarding music but it may just be not for you. Some people look for musicianship, virtuosity, and musicality in Metal and most of the first things I posted (aside from the old-school underappreciated post) lack most of that. The Wigrid, Xasthur, Velvet Cacoon stuff is more musical than the Aluk Todolo, Ildjarn, Dead Raven Choir stuff. I tend towards Metal that is either soundscape-fueled or punk-fueled (as its compositional basis).
Melodic Swedish Black Metal influenced by At The Gates; Thy Primordial Where Only The Seasons Mark The Paths Of Time Dawn - The Knell And The World Setherial - In The Still Of A Northern Fullmoon
Nachtmystium Your True Enemy (Nachtmystium Album) Neurosis "Locust Star" live Nasum - Resistance Misery Index - Retaliate
Post-Rock/Shoegazer Metal (inspired by Neurosis posted above); Isis - Oceanic - 7 - Weight Russian Circles - Campaign Red Sparowes- Like The Howling Glory Of The... Rosetta - Wake Jesu - Silver Nadja - Stays Demons
Cool. I've heard some of the stuff that you've posted but a lot is new to me. I will be going back through to fully digest this thread as it progresses but it will take time. Most of the time that I'm on here is while I'm at work too so I can't spend my whole day on the internet, though sometimes I'm tempted. I generally lean toward the musicianship aspect first and foremost but I will give anything a chance. I just haven't really had time to really listen yet. I am totally with you on the punk-fueled metal. I grew up playing/listening to punk rock and my preferences progressed more and more into metal as I grew up. Now I listen to all kinds of metal but mostly play grindcore, crust, thrash, with my ever growing fondness for speed metal and power metal slipping it's way into some of my new songs. I guess metal with a punk vibe. These are some bands that were very influential to me. Capitalist Casualties - Stupid ass punk Dystopia-Stress Builds Character CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE manufactured citizen
Arch Enemy - We Will Rise (Live) Arch Enemy - Nemesis (Live) Arch Enemy - Dead Eyes See No Future (Live) Arch Enemy - Dead Bury Their Dead (Live) HEAVEN SHALL BURN - Black Tears (OFFICIAL VIDEO) Heaven Shall Burn...Architects Of The Apocalypse (W/Lyrics)
I have clearly seen the rift between black/death metal fans and power metal fans. Most of the time they can't stand each other or each others' music. I appreciate a lot of different genres but I do agree with you that epic power metal kicks ass. So here is some more (there is already quite a bit in this thread if you haven't gone through the whole thing) Lost Horizon - Think Not Forever Sonata arctica - Wolf and Raven Sonata Arctica - The End Of This Chapter
I'm more of a hardcore punk man myself, but I love me some metal. here is come more post-rock/shoegaze/black metal Gas in Veins - Amesoeurs Alcest - Les Iris Lantlôs - Kalte Tage Líam - A Decision Irreversible - Sins
Good stuff above. Disrupt - Protest (Conflict) Aus Rotten-The System Works for Them Dropdead - I will stand
Siege - Conform Deep Wound - You're False Infest - Where's the Unity? Crossed Out - He-Man disgust(d-beat) Disfear - Misanthropic Generation
You guys into this d-beat crust punk stuff should look into Black Metal acts like Vordr, Bone Awl, Akitsa, Malveillance, Baratharum, Revenge, One Tail, One Head, and Furdidurke.
More good new Black Metal; Skuggeheim - Vinterrikets Konge One Tail, One Head - Splendour Of The Trident Tyger Kladovest - Tead Of Silk Leviathan - At The Door To The Tenth Sub Level Of Suicide Part 1
Cool. Lots of stuff that I've heard and lots that I haven't in this thread. I'm on a crust/hardcore/powerviolence tangent now. I'm sure I will switch back to metal before too long. I like this thread. As long as it's heavy and rocks. We should be able to keep this thing going over time. code 13 - days of rage Spazz - Let's Fucking Go!!!! Charles Bronson(Band) Deaf and Dumb/Youth Attack
Infernal Stronghold - Nun Gasser Bathory - A Fine Day to Die Ash Pool- Sin of Life Judas Iscariot - An Eternal Kingdom of Fire
IN DISGUST - SPEED TRIALS 2009 GODSTOMPER - Live at Gilman 3/10/07 Insect Warfare - Human Trafficking MAGRUDERGRIND Burden HATRED SURGE January 6, 2006 Berkeley, California (Gilman St.) Iron Lung @ Pokez on 1.17.08 Extortion @ Pokez on 1.17.09
Nice stuff. Just saw magrudergrind a few months ago with Unholy Grave. Awesome. Phobia was supposed to be there too but didn't show. :curses: I did see them a several years ago and it was brutal. Some morning grindcore in honor of the Sooners tearing up KU yesterday. Napalm Death | Suffer the Children Rotten Sound - Burden (Grindcore) Phobia-Who´s the enemy Catheter - Dimension 303 BIRDFLESH - Nightmare on Bahamas
Change of pace. Folk metal. FINNTROLL - Trollhammeren (OFFICIAL VIDEO) FINNTROLL - Nedgang (OFFICIAL VIDEO) This band kicks ass. The metal onslaught doesn't really start till about the 3:00 minute mark but the into is cool and this song rules. The braveheart clip works ok with song. Better than others that have tried to put braveheart clips to metal music. Ensiferum - Blood is the Price of Glory More Ensiferum - Folk/Viking Metal ensiferum-iron