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Apr 28, 2012 - 9:41 AM
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Sirusjr
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The recent thread on ambient music got me thinking I should start a good metal thread to gather the people here who enjoy quality metal. Of course any true metal head would be asking by now "but what type of metal are you talking about?"
Primarily I like European metal, lots in the Power Metal and Progressive Metal style. Some of my favorite bands include Kamelot, Sonata Arctica, Tarot, Dream Evil, Jorn (and most of his stuff with other bands), Firewind, Stratovarius (later stuff mostly), Within Temptation, Dream Theater (later stuff mostly), Accept (later stuff, two newest albums were great), Freedom Call, Wuthering Heights, and of course a ton of other bands that only ever released one album.
To keep the thread metal focused, I will try to stay away from discussion of hard rock bands I enjoy, although the lines are blurred significantly. For example, some Jorn music I classify as rock and others as metal. His masterplan stuff is certainly metal and some of his later solo works but his Allen-Lande albums are in the middle.
To start out with suggestions from new bands that came out of no where, here is a track from the debut album of an amazing Progressive Metal band called Beyond the Bridge out of Germany!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDPNW8o3WSU
Please make a note if you are going to post anything that is in the death/thrash/black/hardcore style or with harsh vocals. I know plenty of metal fans who enjoy those genres but I tend to stick to clean melodic vocals as you can see from my list.
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Apr 28, 2012 - 10:32 AM
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losher22
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Sirusjr, wonderful topic, thank you!
My interests in the metal world these days mostly revolve around black, along with a slight sprinkling of death, but I used to and still do have intense interest in a select few power/progressive/dark metal bands. I've heard some music from all the bands you referenced and used to be a massive Dream Theater fan to boot.
Some of my faves in the aforementioned genres include nearly all of Dream Theater's early works (primarily "Images and Words" and "Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory," but they're all great), "The Fragile Art of Existence" by Control Denied (the power metal project of Death's Chuck Schuldiner before his untimely demise), some of the works (at least those I own) of Sweden's Evergrey, for example "Recreation Day," Communic's "Conspiracy in Mind," and the entire catalog of Finnish band Sentenced, who were almost solely responsible for getting me into death and black metal more than 10 years ago. Are you a fan of any of them?
Not many recent acquisitions outside the death/black genres save one of note: "Skylight" from Atoma. Atoma's members used to make up the core of death/doom outfit Slumber, who only released one masterpiece in 2004 entitled "Fallout," still one of my absolute favorites in that subgenre. Atoma is different, almost strictly power metal, but fused with electronica and post-rock. Very engaging and highly recommended, if you like that type of thing. I can think of only one song with harsh vocals (and only for about two minutes at that), and there's a couple instrumental tracks. Based on your love of symphonic-type bands like Kamelot and Stratovarius, you'd probably really dig these guys. Thoughts?
Again, great post my friend!!!
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Apr 28, 2012 - 2:52 PM
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Sirusjr
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Sirusjr, wonderful topic, thank you!
My interests in the metal world these days mostly revolve around black, along with a slight sprinkling of death, but I used to and still do have intense interest in a select few power/progressive/dark metal bands. I've heard some music from all the bands you referenced and used to be a massive Dream Theater fan to boot.
Some of my faves in the aforementioned genres include nearly all of Dream Theater's early works (primarily "Images and Words" and "Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory," but they're all great), "The Fragile Art of Existence" by Control Denied (the power metal project of Death's Chuck Schuldiner before his untimely demise), some of the works (at least those I own) of Sweden's Evergrey, for example "Recreation Day," Communic's "Conspiracy in Mind," and the entire catalog of Finnish band Sentenced, who were almost solely responsible for getting me into death and black metal more than 10 years ago. Are you a fan of any of them?
Not many recent acquisitions outside the death/black genres save one of note: "Skylight" from Atoma. Atoma's members used to make up the core of death/doom outfit Slumber, who only released one masterpiece in 2004 entitled "Fallout," still one of my absolute favorites in that subgenre. Atoma is different, almost strictly power metal, but fused with electronica and post-rock. Very engaging and highly recommended, if you like that type of thing. I can think of only one song with harsh vocals (and only for about two minutes at that), and there's a couple instrumental tracks. Based on your love of symphonic-type bands like Kamelot and Stratovarius, you'd probably really dig these guys. Thoughts?
Again, great post my friend!!!
I've never really gotten into Evergrey or Communic or Sentenced.
Atoma sounds too ambient for my tastes. Even the vocals are subdued. I'm not really digging what I'm hearing on a few of the tracks I found on youtube. It doesn't really sound metal to me either, more post-rock like you said.
Here is an extremely cheesy song from the new Freedom Call album! The new album is so very cheesy but I love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4XkdpwTE-o
And here is a track from the newest Accept album 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz1AYLQNf4M
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Apr 28, 2012 - 4:14 PM
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losher22
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By the way, I've long-adored your avatar; Lost Odyssey is one of the best RPGs I've ever played!
Two of the other bands I got into at the same time, before my metal interests started to divert, were Iron Maiden and Iced Earth. I own nearly every album from Iron Maiden, but still haven't procured their latest ("Final Frontier," I believe?). Are you into them at all? And I was never a huge fan, but recognize quality music when I hear it: any Judas Priest in your catalog? Their "comeback" album, "Retribution," is fantastic and I recommend that as well. You may also like the aforementioned Iced Earth; I especially recommend any album with Matt Barlow doing vocals, and my faves include "The Dark Saga" and "Horror Show." Aggressive power metal at its absolute finest.
I really wish I could discuss this topic more deeply, but again, I don't have a lot of interests in these genres much anymore. I coincidentally listened to one of my all-time favorite power metal albums last week, which has gotten me thinking about the genre again: Chroming Rose's "New World." These guys are a now-defunct German band and "New World" is from 1995 if I recall, but the entire record is amazing. I'd be shocked if you didn't enjoy it sir.
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Apr 29, 2012 - 12:00 PM
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scrapsly
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The metal scene to me seems to be better outside of the US. Maybe I missed it, but I have not seen anyone mention Epica yet ? I love Epica. I like many of the bands listed and some of them are still at it from when I was in high school like Slayer and already mentioned Accept and Iron Maiden. I loved Savatage and play Jon Olivas Pain, Circle II Circle, and Chris Caffery a lot. I would not catagorize them as metal, but I also enjoy rock bands like Seether, Saliva, Breaking Benjamin, Burn Halo, ect. It isn't metal, but Ten Man Push is a good rock band. I think the the rock/metal scene is much better across the pond. I wish it were better here in the states.
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