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Defiant Sally posted:Oh boy here we go SA have done some fun stuff, but jesus this song is just full bad mode enabled. Augh. I also wish Kakko would just make a vow of silence and move to a monastery in the Himalayas or something, I just can't stand his bleating anymore.
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Defiant Sally posted:Belakors new tape is sounds like its gonna be pretty wild if you haven't had a chance to listen yet This song is loving boss, absolutely love the guitar leads and the vocalist's growling is convincing as all hell. This is like, the best things about Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum and Before the Dawn rolled into one.
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PutinOnTheRitz posted:I am new to metal. Very new. Entry-level, minimum wage new. I enjoy things in languages I do not or barely speak, it helps me to get them a little better. (German/Swedish are favourites) Aside from Rammstein which I stumbled upon years ago thanks to my strange 90 year old german professor, I've recently been swimming around in Opeth, Dimmu Borgir and Manowar. I'm finding myself more attracted to the grand, orchestral songs with less cookie monster vocals. I can enjoy female vocals to the extent of Nightwish but that's kind of pushing it. Anyone got any suggestions? I have pretty broad music tastes and want to explore metal a little further. As such, I give you Crimfall. They do have a rather harsh growling/snarling male vocalist, but maybe he's not too grating. Also, their female vocalist is absolutely stellar and the orchestrations are really grand. Then there's Kiuas who also get pretty bombastic. It's a drat shame the vocalist has left the band, he was really drat impressive with his powerful and varied delivery. Kamelot aren't that balls-out bombastic, but a lot of their stuff still has a certain sort of melodramatic sound to it. They've gotten a bit meh in the last few years, but albums like Karma and The Black Halo are fantastic. And to conclude I'll just toss out some random recommendations off the top of my head: Wuthering Heights play some sort of power/prog/folk/speed metal hybrid. Really energetic stuff, some ludicrously catchy choruses and one of the best heavy metal vocalists today. Also, much better lyrics than the average power metal band. Here's another song because they're so loving crazyawesome: http://youtu.be/lHpR1m7b9b0 Speaking of great vocalists, Lost Horizon were a band some years ago who sadly only released two albums. They only have some cheesy synths instead of orchestrations, but holy poo poo if they still don't manage to sound larger than life. This is also thanks to the vocalist Daniel Heimann who has some incredible loving pipes. Seriously, god drat that guy can sing. And lastly, the ever awesome Blind Guardian. They started with pretty straightforward thrashy metal in the 80s, then evolved towards, uh, power metal I guess? They keep getting called that, but I've never really understood it. They're just Blind Guardian, one of the more distinct-sounding bands there is. http://youtu.be/1AfNOKQdY-U
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Metalness perhaps debatable, compensating with extra fat.
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Apr 30, 2012 16:44
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Flynn Taggart posted:...is that Alexi Laiho? Sinergy released three albums, the last of which is actually pretty good, because they stopped sounding loving weak and lame and Goss started singing more balls-out intensely: http://youtu.be/DS7VP4EBAB8
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May 1, 2012 06:12
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I stopped reading that "article" Vintersorg pasted in when the guy started going "hurr durr durr all female fronted bands suck by default derr" or someshit. Jeez. As for Huntress, well they ain't bad, but don't really hit my buttons, either. The "HAY GUISE PLAYBOY METAL" thing is pretty meh, too. And she doesn't even look especially hot to my tastes (I'd much rather bed Angela Gossow), especially in those gaudy LARP costumes of hers. I do like her singing, though I've only heard two songs. I find the ball-shredding scream in the beginning of Eight of Swords pretty drat powerful, especially combined with the imagery of the music video at that point. Other than that the song's pretty boring though. On another note, someone mentioned Manowar? I heard they've abandoned the idea of making a concept album, and will just put out a bunch of songs dealing with all the riduculously cheesily badass poo poo Manowar is all about. Which I think is purely a positive thing, really.
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May 11, 2012 16:50
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Hey guys, you've heard that Finland is the promised land of Heavy Metal, right? It's true, I have proof right here! Check out these trve-as-fvck hardcore motherfuckers: http://youtu.be/-4i-NRfg77o Now excuse me for a while, I'll be at the ER to get this ruptured pancreas I got from laughing too hard treated.
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May 11, 2012 22:06
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Not Very Metal posted:holy poo poo, this is the daddest band. EDIT: I also find it hilarious that only about 1600 views in and they've already disabled commenting on the video.
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May 11, 2012 22:20
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Well I just got the new Grand Magus album, and Jesus loving Elvis, it owns so hard I wanna eat my face. God drat. I will be blasting this poo poo a LOT this summer. Also, Sabaton covered Amon Amarth's Twilight of The Thunder God, and it's not half bad. I mean Sabaton are a fine band and all, but what the gently caress. 
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May 23, 2012 17:13
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Wattsamatta posted:Umm... How have I never heard this band. This loving owns. I blame this thread and all of you. ALL OF YOU. Houseplant posted:I was worried a bit when they lost their drummer and picked up the one from Shining, but I like some of the added drum kicks. The album is growing on me but so far I think I like Hammer of the North and Iron Will a bit more. All in all its still solid
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May 24, 2012 12:03
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Former SABATON Members Launch CIVIL WAR. This is pretty drat interesting to me, mainly because of this part: quote:with singer Patrik Johansson (ASTRAL DOORS, LION'S SHARE) Not that I expect the new band to sound exactly like Sabaton, but I can't help but think something Sabaton-ish with Johansson singing could own SO hard. Looking forward to seeing what becomes of this, at any rate.
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May 28, 2012 11:55
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Metal Thread ###: My Dad Is More Metal Than Your Dad. I discovered heavy metal on my own, but since then my dad's helped me appreciate the old classics like Deep Purple and Uriah Heep and such. Conversely, I keep introducing him to stuff like Graveyard and Black Spiders.
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May 31, 2012 12:18
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Defiant Sally posted:Greetings bros, I posted a new Be'lakor tape awhile back and many of you seemed to enjoy it, so I figured I would alert you to the fact that they have posted the entirety of their new album on YouTube Yup, listened to it yesterday and it's just fantastic. The problem now is that I can't listen to both Be'lakor and Grand Magus simultaneously.
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Jun 2, 2012 09:51
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Rion.exe posted:I stumbled upon a weird band you guys might enjoy - Hail Spirit Noir. However, "blackened rock" nowadays immediately reminds me of Djerv. This is good, because Djerv is some great stuff. Kinda like, metalized 90's alternative rock with some black metal overtones. Or something, I'm not very good with describing poo poo like this. Have some links: http://youtu.be/-hXPCYg-XeA http://youtu.be/rNUZcBgDxGw http://youtu.be/Rq3FAy-JTAg
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Non Serviam posted:I had my doubts, but it's really a great album... even if for some reason they couldn't come up with endings for the songs and instead just used fadeouts. I'm really glad they decided to not make it an epic concept album or whatever afterall, because the previous one was just loving boring. But this one? Just straight up no-nonsense Heavy loving Metal like only Manowar can deliver it, and it kicks rear end. I'm pretty surprised by how no-frills and sorta raw it sounds.
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BjornOfBorg posted:Why people (still) care about Korpiklaani is really beyond me. Velocirocktor posted:Anyone who cares about power metal might be interested to know that Kamelot has officially named Tommy Karevik of Seventh Wonder as their new vocalist. I just hope they get their songwriting chops back as well, their stuff after The Black Halo hasn't really done much for me. EDIT: Yeah, Amon Amarth are pretty drat consistent and you won't really go wrong with any of their albums (Fate of Norns is debatable). Versus the World was the album that got me into them, especially Death in Fire which is one of the most badass songs in the history of time. Nordick fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jun 22, 2012 |
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IRQ posted:If you don't get loving pumped listening to Thousand Years of Oppression you're not doing metal right. Drifter287 posted:While we're on the topic of Amon Amarth, I just need to mention that Embrace of the Endless Ocean loving owns bones.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Just ask all the short blonde girls if they're the pit goddess. It'll work.
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henpod posted:Sometimes I enjoy listening to obscure covers of metal songs. I love me some good cross-genre covers.
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To get something more amiable to the table here: A lot of pages back some people were gushing about the debut album of Jess and The Ancient Ones coming out soon. Well, the album's been out for a while now, and JESUS CHRIST GUYS it's so many kinds of amazing. This poo poo is like, if 70's Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had a baby girl who grew up to be totally loving awesome. Okay, yeah, I'm getting carried away here, but it's just because I'm just listening to this song while I type and hhnnnNNNNGGSDGF. http://youtu.be/ofI2heJhcOc
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The last time Korpiklaani were somewhat interesting was when they were still called Shaman and had their lyrics in the Sami language. And that was like 10 years ago. Now, I do love me some good cheesy beer-drinking pagan forest metal, but Korpiklaani were always too loving by-the-books about it, like they read a folk metal 101 and went to studio without really understanding what's the jist of the thing.
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Weaponized Cum posted:Post some god drat Power Metal y'all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6RltOE-JTQ
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Portable Staplefrog posted:Blind Guardian has a great name and I will test them against my ears later. Now, to continue on the slightly folky side of things: Wuthering Heights are amazing and you should try them out too. They have some fantastic guitar leads and melodies, and one of the best heavy metal vocalists around today, imo. Also drat good lyrics. Their latest album, Salt, is one of my favourite albums in many years. Also, since you seemed to like trad metal like Dio and JP, you should try out Astral Doors, who have the same vocalist as Wuthering Heights and are just generally really loving kickass traditional metal. The Best Of-compilation named after this song is a good starter package.
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IRQ posted:It's pretty goddamn awesome being there. You should try to see them live at least once to experience it. There's just something about the connection they have with the crowd that makes it amazing. Saw them in Tuska Open Air a few years back, and everyone (myself included) just kept singing along to all the bloody songs all the time. And yeah, they also played And Then There Was Silence and it loving owned.
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DOOP posted:Another band I like that has awesome/"unique" vocals is Lost Horizon. Heiman's voice is just utterly fantastic and is one of the greatest voices ever in my opinion. His range is amazing and is one of the main reasons why Lost Horizon was so awesome. That wail during Highlander is amazing. Please go back to Lost Horizon and record a new album Daniel And of course the band's music is awesome too. They didn't even need orchestrations, just some spacey synth sounds were enough for the poo poo to sound so much larger than life. I want more of this poo poo, come back Lost Horizon!  And uh, guys, Northern Kings did TWO 80s cover albums actually, and that was a few years ago already. It was the whole idea behind them, really. :P I love the idea myself, especially since three of those four singers are drat great (Kakko can go gently caress himself, he sounds like a guddamn sheep). Too bad the execution of the idea is less than stellar, the tracks just sound so weak somehow.
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So I was just introduced to Falls of Rauros and holy poo poo this stuff is immense and beautiful. Just check it out, especially if you like Agalloch and other such atmospheric black metal stuff. Also wanna mention that the album has some of the best production I've heard in ages. The sound is just so loving crisp and clear. Love it. I'm gonna buy that album first thing when I get some money on my bank account, these guys deserve some drat support.
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Dead Man Posting posted:Also looking for any metal that sounds like Agalloch's The Mantle album. I especially like the motif of using sound clips from films in the song if you know of any that do that.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Are there any other quality bands similar to Ensiferum/Wintersun out there? Bonus points for good female lead singers, since I always enjoy that kind of voice in metal.  Also, Crimfall's female vocalist is just stellar. She sounds loving dramatic and emotional without being over-the-top operatic or anything. Here's another song that's not really all that folky at all, but shows off her voice quite well. EDIT: While browsing Youtube for Crimfall I came across Brymir. You might wanna give them a go as well, they kinda sound like a less folky but more symphonic Ensiferum. Not bad at all, gotta look into them more, myself. Nordick fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Just saw Sacred Reich live at the Porispere festival here in my home city. Wasn't familiar at all with the band before they were announced for the festival, pretty much just listened to Surf Nicaragua and found it a drat good thrash piece. But sweet mother of Moses, they were awesome live. Fantastic synergy with the crowd, really drat tight playing, good sounds. drat intense poo poo.
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Steve Harris is going to release a solo album. Really drat interesting news. Despite some good moments, the two last Iron Maiden albums have been somewhat meh overall, gonna be interesting to hear what he can do with a little change of pace.
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Defiant Sally posted:The new Ensiferum is streaming online!  Holy making GBS threads Christ, that intro track is loving gorgeous. Sounds like something co-written by Nobuo Uematsu and Basil Poledouris. gently caress. Now playing In My Sword I Trust, which I've already heard plenty of times. I understand if a lot of people will find it uninspired and boring, but personally I love it. The orchestrations are bang on, the guitar leads are nice and I like that catchy-if-cheesy chorus. A drat solid Ensiferum track.
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henpod posted:Well, here is a minute of some new Wintersun.
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Slate Action posted:Time I is only 40 minutes long, but yes we will actually be getting some more Wintersun this year. Really? drat, I could've sworn I read 75 minutes somewhere. But yeah, that's hardly relevant to my point.
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Machinae Supremacy's new album coming out in October. Totally loving stoked here. Every one of their studio albums has been better than the previous one, and A View From The End Of The World is already one of my favourite albums ever. Kinda hoping they won't continue the trend, because if they do my loving head is going to explode into rainbow-coloured circuit board fragments. Cover art looks great too, imo.
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I like that fact that they have both serious and silly songs. Such as Indiscriminate Murder Is Counter-Productive and Remnant (March of the Undead IV), respectively. Also, goddamn the buildup at the end of Remnant never fails to give me the chills. It's loving gorgeous.
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henpod posted:I dont know this band and this song is ok, but jesus, look at this concert. People are LAN gaming? 
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Kjorteo posted:Can anyone point me toward some clean, melodic stuff? I realize I'm pretty much living up to the Flower Metal stereotype here, but man, screw it, I just like my metal to be pretty, is that really so wrong. Kamelot are pretty much as sleek and smooth as metal can get. One of the best power metal bands around, or at least used to be. A good album to start with is Karma. If you want bigger stuff with more orchestra and choirs and stuff, try The Black Halo. If you want more regular power metal, The Fourth Legacy. Twilightning did a couple grade A melodic power metal albums before going a bit weird and then disbanding. Namely, Delirium Veil and Plague-House Puppet Show.
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Optimum Gulps posted:edit: poo poo, forgot Lost Horizon. Cheesy as hell, but I'll be damned if the Highlander song isn't unbelievable. I also have this annoying nagging feeling that I'm forgetting some painfully obvious recommendation, but it's eluding me.
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Fingers McGee posted:If I see Eluveitie live can I raid the stage with a battleaxe and take Anna Murphy as my salt wife?
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Zodijackylite posted:Wintersun's 'Time I' has been delayed again, it's release is being pushed back once more. On an unrelated note, what's the general opinion on Satyricon here? I've been listening to Age of Nero and Now, Diabolical lately and I enjoy both quite a bit. Where do I go from here?
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