The drummer is currently playing in Opeth. Witchery - None Buried Deeper... Witchery - Omens and a related band. (also related to At the Gates) The Haunted - Bury your dead
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.
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.
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.
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.
Black fucking Metal!; Forgotten Woods- Eclipsed Darkthrone - Kathaarian Life Code Bathory - Hades Burzum - Stemmen Fra Taarnet Bone Awl - In Eternal Dark
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.
Codeon - Shattermind Codeon - Shattermind Death - Lack of comprehension GOAT....Death - Lack of Comprehension
more ; L'Acephale - A Burned Village MZ 412 Maschinenzimmer 412 - Daemon Raging Dead Raven Choir - The Trees They Grow So High Inquisition (Col) - Rituals Of Human Sacrifice For Lord Baal sabbat - Danse Du Sabbat / Envenom Into The Witch's Hole
Iced Earth is the only band you could even call power metal of that list. The rest are definitely doom metal.
Rad avant-garde "side projects" of rad uber-Metal artists; OM -- music from members of SLEEP. Om - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead Om-Pilgrimage Stephen O'Malley of SunnO))) fame, solo exhibitions. Stephen O´Malley Stephen O'Malley live @ Culturgest (1) Byla featuring members of Dysrhythmia & Behold..The Arctopus. Byla - Closer to the center Byla - 0229
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)
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.
I've been listening to a lot of folk influenced metal lately. These guys are really good IMO. To me it sounds like some kind of cluster fuck of black/folk/crust. The songs are pretty long but not boring at all. They're one of those bands that it's best to just listen to the whole album straight through to get the full intended effect. Moonsorrow - Pimeä [1 of 2] Moonsorrow - Pimeä [2 of 2] Moonsorrow - Jotunheim [1 of 2] Moonsorrow - Jotunheim [2 of 2]
More folk influenced stuff but this band has more of speed metal/thrash influence too. I've been listening to these guys a lot lately. Equilibrium - Verrat Equilibrium - Snüffel Equilibrium - Die Weide und der Fluß
Armanenschaft - Eight Bottles of wine (Fungi Revisited) The Ruins Of Beverast - Between Bronze Walls Velvet Cacoon- Laudanum Hades - Alone Walkyng Real Roy, have you ever checked out any of the "Funeral Folk" stuff that's been emerging over the last few years?
Slipknot's bassist died this morning. Maybe they will stop making shitty music now 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.
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 Wrought of Obsidian live @ Andy's 02/05/10 {bLaSe PrOdUcTionS}
xmauinix, you still ever around? Stormcrow- Enslaved In Darkness Mass Grave/Stormcrow Sanctum - Enslaved Assück - Blindspot EP Birdflesh - Coffinfucker
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
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
Bump for Real Roy, and for some more tunes. Some essential 2nd gen Greek Black Metal; Necromantia - Les Litanies de Satan Rotting Christ - Non Serviam Nightfall - Eroding Thou Art Lord - Call To Chaos Varathron - The Tressrising Of Nyarlathotep
Yeah, I'm still around.. now we are talking. The Holy Mountain - "Spilling Currency" Darkthrone - I Am The Working Class CARBONAS Live at No Way fest 2009 GOVERNMENT WARNING-FAT NATION Career Suicide Live ToBeScene Studio 2007 Poison Idea "The Badge" Deadguy - Pins and needles More punk/hardcore than anything else, but meh.. that is what I'm into.
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.
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.
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
been listening to this gwynbleidd album nonstop for like the past week. good shit. Gwynbleidd - New Setting as usual, youtube sound quality is shit
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]
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.
MOAR Agalloch! Agalloch - ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth Agalloch - As Embers Dress the Sky Agalloch - Sowilo Rune Agalloch - Limbs Agalloch - The Wolves of Timberline The next two songs flow together on the album. Agalloch - She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Pt. 2 Agalloch - She Painted Fire Across the Skyline Pt. 3
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.
I think some Ulver has probably already been posted but screw it. This is one of my favorite black metal albums. Ulver - Bergtatt - Ind i Fjeldkamrene Ulver - Capitel III: Graablick Blev Hun Vaer Ulver - I Troldskog Faren Vild
Menace Ruine - Dark Mother Dead Raven Choir "Bluenose" Conan "Satsumo" Fauna "Hunger" Been listening to a lot of stuff off of the Aurora Borealis record label -- Menace Ruine is experimental Black Metal, Dead Raven Choir is cello-driven blackened doom, Conan is pure sludgy monolithic DOOM and Fauna is Black Metal that will appeal to fans of early Ulver for sure.
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
Been on a huge Black Metal kick lately; Barathrum-Bleeding Sky Belketre - Guilty Torgeist - Flame of Hate ildjarn - nat og take Hellhammer - Messiah Beherit - Werewolf, Semen and Blood Zyklon-B - Warfare
Just found this topic 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.
Met the lead singer from this band 5 or so years ago. Strange guy as you could imagine Septic Flesh - Infernal Sun
Some new Death Metal that has some of the great shit that made Morbid Angel and At The Gate's stuff so powerful (no groove-heavy, floor-punching, Xtian metalcore, etc. shit here) -- ILSA-Frosthrower. Grave Miasma - Gnosis Of The Summon Teitanblood - Necrosemen Obliteration - Nekropsalms Evoke The Frozen Age