**HEAVY METAL** Official Thread.

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  1. TLWSloughFeg

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  2. Joe_Pesci

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    Here's my dilemma metal heads: Harsh vocals are good most of the time, but do you guys know of any bands that are heavy like, say, Opeth but feature clean vocals? I've been looking for this band literally since I was like 12 or 13. Maybe clean vocals just don't mesh well with bands like that. Or maybe my true calling is to form this band and take over the world. :smile:
     
  3. greenmonkies

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    There are a lot of bands that use both like. I personally like Isis and World Under Blood.
     
  4. TLWSloughFeg

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    Iced Earth, The Sword, Candlemass, and (for the most part) My Dying Bride come to mind. Lot of the older thrash stuff is pretty clean too.
     
  5. Joe_Pesci

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    That's all cheesy power metal, which isn't bad, but I wouldn't say it's heavy like Opeth. I am familiar with old thrash, too. Basically I'm looking for Opeth with Steven Wilson on vocals.
     
  6. the Weimar Beer Belly

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    I wouldn't call Candlemass or My Dying Bride "cheesy power metal". I'm not a huge fan of MDB (love Candlemass) but their album The Angel & The Dark River is amazing.

    As for clean vocals in extreme Metal, yeah you're mostly out of luck I imagine. You could look into stuff involving Andreas Hedlund [Vintersorg, Otyg, Havayoth, Borknager], Enslaved has been making extensive use of clean vocals after the album ELD, the most successful attempts were on the album Mardraum: Beyond the Within in my opinion. Ulver's album Bergtatt does a very successful job intermingling clean vocals and raw screaming.

    The avant-garde Black Metal band Circle of Ouroborous has unique, clean vocals. They remind me more of something you'd hear in mid-70's kraut/post-punk music than any Metal album. But I think most clean-vocals are relegated to prog Metal, which doesn't interest me much. I guess I feel like I get plenty of clean vocals in other styles of music, so when listening to Metal I don't really crave it.
     
  7. The Real Roy Williams

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    Bump. No contribution but I thought I'd put it on the front page for the guy asking about metal. Some new faces and kick ass looking new contributions since I last checked this thread. I'm about to leave but I'll have to check out the more recent posts when I have time and add some more songs myself. Six Seconds you created a monster. This thread is the shit. :beerchug:
     
  8. 00:06:00

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    I started it but you and several others have turned it into a diverse plethora of good
    fuckin shit.

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  10. Lambert

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    Iced Earth is the only band you could even call power metal of that list. The rest are definitely doom metal.
     
  11. Odin

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    I wouldn't exactly call Iced Earth power metal
     
  12. the Weimar Beer Belly

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  13. Lambert

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    Some consider them to be very much power metal although I agree with you in way.
     
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    Welp, she took a hit but I believe it will survive. Feel free to re-post anything that was lost and keep bringin the new shit. I'll start with the news of Peter Steele's passing, brought to the thread originally by Trappist Nights. The lead singer of Type O Negative died Apr 14 from apparent heart failure. He was 48.

    RIP

    Type O Negative-Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity

    Type O Negative- Stay Out of My Dreams

    Type O Negative - Tripping a Blind Man

    Type O Negative- Black No. 1(Little Miss Scare-All)
     
  15. The Real Roy Williams

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    What can't kill it will only make it stronger. The thread will survive. I haven't contributed in quite a while but I'm gonna try to add some songs after I get back from lunch. Been busy as hell at work lately.
     
  16. The Real Roy Williams

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  18. the Weimar Beer Belly

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  19. 00:06:00

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    Slipknot's bassist died this morning. Maybe they will stop making shitty music now :idk:

    Kinda crazy though because I was just talking to one of their percussionists yesterday and he seemed like he was clean, guess the whole band wasn't.
     
  21. The Real Roy Williams

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    Hey sorry it took so long to respond. I've been out of town for work with minimal internet access. I'm not familiar w/ the term. Do you have any good examples you could post? I like the folky stuff as a change of pace but I don't listen to it as much as thrash and grind.

    I like the bands in your last post. I dig almost all the black metal you post. Good stuff.

    Ok, this is a totally different direction from my last several posts. This is one of my friends new band. (well he is new to the band at least) They're from Denton, TX. It's just pretty straight forward metal. It does get a little melodic in parts. I like it. It's good but a little glossed over for my taste.

    Wrought of Obsidian

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  22. Joe_Pesci

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    still on my quest to find an Opeth sound-alike
     
  23. 00:06:00

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    w/comprehensible vocals...me too.
     
  24. Joe_Pesci

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    vocals are just the icing on the cake for me. they don't necessarily "make" a metal song, but they can certainly "break" it. i dont know what it is about Opeth... they're just awesome. Mikael Akerfeldt is cocky as fuck and it comes out in their music... so much swagger.

    yes i know i'm a huge Opeth homer and that they're the progressive-death equivalent of Tool, but i dont really care, i'm gonna keep My Arms, Your Hearse on repeat
     
  25. the Weimar Beer Belly

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    I figured you may like some of the stuff I was posting, because of its general crusty punk direction.

    Funeral Folk is a loose-genre term to describe a largely Belgian group of musicians who combine clanky, fucked up quasi-folk with psychedelic kraut-rock and Black Metal imagery. I thought you may be into it because of its punkish/blackmetal attitude.

    Funeral Folk

    Bands like Silvester Anfang, Bear Bones Lay Low, Hellvete, Per & Oystein, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Mollenhauer, Ignatz, etc.

    Here is some examples;


    Sylvester Anfang

    Bear bones, Lay low track 1 live @ Madame CLAUDE 12th April 2010

    Ignatz: The Water

    Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat - You Will Reap A Whirlwind
     
  26. Joe_Pesci

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    got any good melodeath suggestions? more At the Gates than In Flames is what i'm lookin for.
     
  27. the Weimar Beer Belly

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    For these ears, you're never going to find anything as rad as At The Gates first 3 albums (including the Grotesque/Gardens of Grief album) for Melodic Death. The only things that come to mind are these, if you haven't already heard them;

    Dismember - Sickening Art

    Unleashed - Before the Creation of Time

    Unanimated - In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead

    Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

    Eucharist - Greeting Immortality

    And this band, DAWN, emerged in the late 90's and had a great melodic blackened/death sound;

    Dawn The Knell And The World

    Dawn (Swe) - Soil Of Dead Earth



    I imagine you have or are, but have you ever listened to/checked out artists like Vordr, Circle of Ouroborous, Furdidurke, Bone Awl, Ildjarn, Sump, Nuit Noire, Raspberry Bulbs, Hiver Noir, etc? Great punkified, primitive Black Metal.
     
  28. Joe_Pesci

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    :beerchug:
     
  29. the Weimar Beer Belly

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    Swede Melodic DM is definitely my favorite style of DM, and other than a handful of other acts, really the only style I can still get into. I just hate how it's been co-opted into this fucking floor-punching Metalcore shit.
     
  30. Joe_Pesci

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    bringing this thread back to life with a homer pick:
    The Moor- Opeth

    and something that i recently stumbled upon. the mp3 tags say "Progressive Folk Black Metal" but whatever it is, i like it:
    Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia
     
  31. Joe_Pesci

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    been listening to this gwynbleidd album nonstop for like the past week. good shit.

    Gwynbleidd - New Setting

    as usual, youtube sound quality is shit
     
  32. The Real Roy Williams

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    Man it's been forever since I've been in here. Dusting off the old metal thread.

    Yeah, I really like a lot of the folk influenced stuff that you've posted Trappist. The black metal too. I can't believe that I had never heard of Agalloch before this thread. Their music is a lot different than the stuff I usually listen to but it's incredible. Seriously, I've had The Mantle and Pale Folklore pretty much on constant repeat for the last month and half. Amazing.

    Oh and Pesci, not saying these guys sound like Opeth, but you might dig it.

    Agalloch - You Were But a Ghost in My Arms

    Agalloch - I am the Wooden Doors

    Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion [1 of 2]

    Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion [2 of 2]
     
  33. The Real Roy Williams

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    :respek: Just thought I'd say what's up. Nice selections. You always post good stuff.

    I'm gonna try to start posting some more music in here. Get myself pumped up for football season.
     
  34. the Weimar Beer Belly

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    Posting in this thread to come back to it later tonight when I'm home -- I'm at work and YouTube makes these shite work computers freeze up.
     
  35. The Real Roy Williams

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  36. the Weimar Beer Belly

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  37. Joe_Pesci

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    Ulver is good. love me some Garm
     
  38. Joe_Pesci

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    random bump

    gotta get my opeth plug since their live album came out a few weeks ago. sound quality is excellent, akerfeldt's vocals are noticeably fading. guitar solo still has swag, though... tried to get it to skip to the right part, but swag engages at 2:50
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJiUtc30ynI#t=2m50s

    been getting into Morbid Angel a little bit, too. they have some pretty good riffs and their style isn't so in-your-face it's intolerable like a lot of death metal is to me lately.

    since that prog thread is dead, these guys came up in my Last.fm recommended station a few weeks back. sound kind of like a blend of the good parts of Tool and Dream Theater
    Riverside - Driven to Destruction
     
  39. TC

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    Just found this topic :thumb:

    Hoping to get some new music. Loved metal growing up but haven't heard many good new bands the last few years. I think the last metal album I even got was Mastodon. Yes I post in the indie/hip hop threads too but I am a worthy metal poster; played guitar and keyboard in a prog metal band for two years.
     
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  41. the Weimar Beer Belly

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