[ShaneB]

Could anyone recommend some bands with vocalists that have an operatic style of singing, similar to Dickinson or Halford?

I really don't think Operatic style is the most appropiate word choice, but you'll get plenty of recommendations from everyone from plenty of folks of power/prog bands, etc.

A couple quick recommendation, Pagan's Mind and Symphony X

unless you really do mean "Operatic" and maybe my recommendations are completely off! Who knows.

[mickcenary]

MetalGaf, can you steer me in the direction of stuff like this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhKrhukloQ

The band is Grey Waters. A small Australian group with only an EP, but it's such awesomely catchy stuff. I'm not sure what to categorize it as. Kinda just rock-ish? You know, one drum beat for the whole song, but with a lot of layering and emotional drive. Give them a listen.

EDIT: Scratch doomy; I barely even know what Doom metal is half of the time.

[Witchfinder General]

Sweet, managed to score tickets to the Devin Townsend show in Sydney. This means that over three consecutive days I will be seeing Devin, Meshuggah, Dredg, Cathedral, Paradise Lost, Turisas, Gojira and Mastodon.

I'm going to be deaf.

[maxxpower]

MetalGaf, can you steer me in the direction of stuff like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhKrhukloQ The band is Grey Waters. A small Australian group with only an EP, but it's such awesomely catchy stuff. I'm not sure what to categorize it as. Kinda just rock-ish? You know, one drum beat for the whole song, but with a lot of layering and emotional drive. Give them a listen. EDIT: Scratch doomy; I barely even know what Doom metal is half of the time.

Ah yes, I recently discovered this band, and I really liked their EP. To me they sound like post-rock/blackgaze metal similar to Alcest, Amesoeurs, Lantlos, Heretoir, Fen, and maybe Solstafir. Why don't you check out those bands and let me know what you think.

[mickcenary]

Ah yes, I recently discovered this band, and I really liked their EP. To me they sound like post-rock/blackgaze metal similar to Alcest, Amesoeurs, Lantlos, Heretoir, Fen, and maybe Solstafir. Why don't you check out those bands and let me know what you think.

Spanks, man. I've only heard Alcest out of that list. Percees de Lumiere and Ecailles de Lune (II) are really the only songs of theirs that I care for, but they are pretty damn fantastic. They can get a bit samey, which may sound stupid after rating Grey Waters so much, but GW's limited material is just that infectious.

[Subprime]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B7eDhaYOoY

Light bearer is fucking amazing. The get the whole "symphonic" (I hate the term when applied to rock) thing so much better than any band that labels themselves as symphonic metal or whatever. These guys actually understand dynamics, and they don't reak of disgusting 80's cheese.

[Dicer]

http://loudwire.com/anthrax-drummer-...e-mother-dies/

Just found this out last night, my thought go out to Charlie and Frankie...


Worship Music is such an awesome comeback record and should get more praise around these parts.

[OmegaDragon]

MetalGaf, can you steer me in the direction of stuff like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhKrhukloQ The band is Grey Waters. A small Australian group with only an EP, but it's such awesomely catchy stuff. I'm not sure what to categorize it as. Kinda just rock-ish? You know, one drum beat for the whole song, but with a lot of layering and emotional drive. Give them a listen. EDIT: Scratch doomy; I barely even know what Doom metal is half of the time.

That sounds pretty nice. I agree with maxx, it's got elements of blackgaze/post-rock like the bands he mentioned. Except this sounds a lot more rockish and you won't find that in Alcest, Solstafir etc.

[TyrantGuardian]

Just felt like posting one of my favourite songs of all time, to celebrate the fact that I finally wised up and subscribed to this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI3Wy5loiWo

Dem riffs, indeed.

[Giant Robot]

Just felt like posting one of my favourite songs of all time, to celebrate the fact that I finally wised up and subscribed to this thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI3Wy5loiWo Dem riffs, indeed.

my good man.
Love me some Dark Angel. If i remember correctly, that album had a sticker advertised on the cover "over 224 riffs" or some shit.

[MetalGuardian]

This thread has been way more active than usual lately, and I highly approve

Has anyone heard of the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse festival? My friend just tipped me off to it today, and it seems like it will be a fucking awesome show

Edit: Holy shit that image is huge. Anyway here is a link to the promotional poster with all of the bands that will be performing. And it's only $40 for the whole shebang! Splendid.

Edit 2: I also maid (har har) an Iron Maiden thread. I figured some of you would like to participate in basking in the glory that is the ultimate classic metal band

[mickcenary]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTsuyRDDFbk

6.20

Dat piano over dat riff. Big chills.

Vanden Plas are so fucking great.

[TyrantGuardian]

Hey, MetalGuardian! Our names are a bit too similar! Speaking of names; massive brofistcuddle to anyone who can point out which metal song inspired my username.

[DanaInPurple]

Percees de Lumiere and Ecailles de Lune (II) are really the only songs of theirs that I care for, but they are pretty damn fantastic.

Those songs are just Beautiful, Every time I listen to them is just like so relaxing, I love Alcest, one of the very few french bands I know and that I actually would pay to see.

[mickcenary]

Hey, MetalGuardian! Our names are a bit too similar! Speaking of names; massive brofistcuddle to anyone who can point out which metal song inspired my username.

Blind Guardian and Tyrants by Immortal are the obvious ones... Just a straight-up brofist for trying?

[TyrantGuardian]

Blind Guardian and Tyrants by Immortal are the obvious ones... Just a straight-up brofist for trying?

Both parts are from the same song. It's not that obvious. No brofist for you, but you can have the cuddling part!

Hint: Arcana awaits.


Edit: You sir, are a god among men, and yes, we are! <3

[MetalGuardian]

Hey, MetalGuardian! Our names are a bit too similar! Speaking of names; massive brofistcuddle to anyone who can point out which metal song inspired my username.

Are we best friends now? :O

[HammerOfThor]

Just discovered Hysterica

http://www.hysterica.se/

A bunch of hot women playing metal, you cant go wrong.

[xist]

Just lately i've come to realise that Bandcamp is one of the greatest ways to experience new music from people you've never heard of before...

Browsing through the Black Metal tags i found Oak Pantheon. They play a brand of atmospheric black metal with folk elements that's pretty damn good. I expect if you like Agalloch then you're in with a chance of liking these guys.

I also found Issachar who remind me of a less good version of Between the Buried and Me

[HammerOfThor]

http://www.wrif.com/webcam/

You can listen to Megadeth's sound check for tonight. Its supposed to be a stream for an acoustic performance, but I think someone forgot to turn the camera off.

My God Mustaine is such a dick.

[strafer]

Which Black Sabbath box set is worth buying? There is so many of them on Amazon.

[DanaInPurple]

One word: Sonata Arctica; And I do not care what ppl say :P

[Mr. Sandman]

Which Black Sabbath box set is worth buying? There is so many of them on Amazon.

Just get all of the Ozzy Era albums and all of the Dio Era albums and you're set.

[Blackheim]

Which Black Sabbath box set is worth buying? There is so many of them on Amazon.

The Black Box = All Ozzy era albums, kinda pricey these days though.

The Rules of Hell = All Dio era albums and can be had for a reasonable price.

Those are what you want >_>

[eudaemonic]

http://www.wrif.com/webcam/ You can listen to Megadeth's sound check for tonight. Its supposed to be a stream for an acoustic performance, but I think someone forgot to turn the camera off. My God Mustaine is such a dick.

Awww... I missed it. What happened?

[Flynn]

Another Watain song in Rock Band.

Alestorm too.

[ShaneB]

One word: Sonata Arctica; And I do not care what ppl say :P

Ecliptica and Silence are awesome, and still are awesome, but everything after that just never clicked with me. Few great tracks here and there, but all the albums just were so forgettable.

[HammerOfThor]

Awww... I missed it. What happened?

He sounded like that dick boss who you can never make happy and always gives you shit haha.

[Bloodrage]

Just lately i've come to realise that Bandcamp is one of the greatest ways to experience new music from people you've never heard of before... Browsing through the Black Metal tags i found Oak Pantheon. They play a brand of atmospheric black metal with folk elements that's pretty damn good. I expect if you like Agalloch then you're in with a chance of liking these guys.

Architect of the Void Pt. 1 is seriously great stuff. Thanks.

One word: Sonata Arctica; And I do not care what ppl say :P

Dana... Dana... Dana... Daaana!

Only really liked Ecliptica.

[makingmusic476]

I've decided they need to make a shirt out of this album cover:



Only not the usual lame "album cover on black" motif. They need to have the devil/demon in the center, with the flames around him wrapping all the way around the shirt. The entire shirt should be flames.

It'd be awesome. I'd buy two.

[Subprime]

He sounded like that dick boss who you can never make happy and always gives you shit haha.

have you seen his guitar rig? its fucking pathetic. He has a tech guy whos job is to just switch effects / amps for him. I mean fuck, do it like ac dc. you plug your guitar into a marshall stack, and you mic that.

[bounchfx]

new Shroud of Despondency http://shroudofdespondency.bandcamp.com/album/pine

LOVED their previous release 'Dark Meditations in Monastic Seclusion' so I have really high hopes for this.

[NGAMER9]

have you seen his guitar rig? its fucking pathetic. He has a tech guy whos job is to just switch effects / amps for him. I mean fuck, do it like ac dc. you plug your guitar into a marshall stack, and you mic that.

And even with all this, his live guitar tone is absolutely terrible, as is the band's mixing live. He used to have decent guitar tones, now he's endorsing that horrendous Zoom pedal and using massive stacks of digital modelers, it's embarrassing.

[Subprime]

And even with all this, his live guitar tone is absolutely terrible, as is the band's mixing live. He used to have decent guitar tones, now he's endorsing that horrendous Zoom pedal and using massive stacks of digital modelers, it's embarrassing.

It is beyond me why the guitar wankers feel the urge to use huge effects racks like that. the best guitar sounds I've ever heard have pretty much been from either medium wattage amps used for a high gain but high harmonic based sound (think jesus lizard), or high wattage amps turned up to eleven to push the shit out of the power amps (austerity program, isis, mastodon, etc). the only exception to the "digital models fucking suck" rule seems to be jesu, but his use is so different from the other types its hard to compare (he uses a pod xt, but he doesnt use it to copy the meshugah sound, shock/awe).

[NGAMER9]

Speaking of Meshuggah, they're doing some viral thing over on reddit and leaked a new song from the album: http://iamaleak.com/

I'm digging the slower tempos, very excited for Koloss, and the tour.

[Subprime]

Speaking of Meshuggah, they're doing some viral thing over on reddit and leaked a new song from the album: http://iamaleak.com/ I'm digging the slower tempos, very excited for Koloss, and the tour.

haha the waveform

[Mr. Sandman]

Speaking of Meshuggah, they're doing some viral thing over on reddit and leaked a new song from the album: http://iamaleak.com/ I'm digging the slower tempos, very excited for Koloss, and the tour.

Fuckin a.

[NGAMER9]

haha the waveform

They suffer from terribly squashed dynamics and compression to the point of clipping throughout their discography. It's a shame, but most metal is okay with mastering albums to sound horrid. Still great music either way, though.

[Sonki.]

Pimping my friends band.



OLD SCHOOL DEATH n' THRASH.

They are blowing up in the underground scene.

This was filmed early last year.
http://youtu.be/TRwTLYRRlrQ

This is a song off their new album. Self-titled track. This is the way I like my Death Metal. With small touch of cross-over.

SAVAGE STREETS - SAVAGE STREETS

[SoulPlaya]

Everyone hear has given the Heavy Eyes a chance, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuS5CyMybno

[DanaInPurple]

Dana... Dana... Dana... Daaana! Only really liked Ecliptica.

Lawl! I think my favourite album is Silence, but I love the band, can't help it and love them 'til the bone, but is true, the have changed a lot since Ecliptica.

[ridethepiggy]

Another Watain song in Rock Band. Alestorm too.

What say what?

How'd I miss that? I gotta run back and see what other Watain songs are in the game.

[TheLastCandle]

One word: Sonata Arctica; And I do not care what ppl say :P

LOVE Sonata Arctica. And actually, I enjoy all of their albums. I prefer the older stuff, though.

I've decided they need to make a shirt out of this album cover: Only not the usual lame "album cover on black" motif. They need to have the devil/demon in the center, with the flames around him wrapping all the way around the shirt. The entire shirt should be flames. It'd be awesome. I'd buy two.

I prefer the original cover, but this one is still pretty cool.

[Yoona]

going to Iced Earth/Symphony X on the 26th \m/

[Verano]

One word: Sonata Arctica; And I do not care what ppl say :P

they blow just like symphony zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. :D

anyways, Im diggin Rhapsody of Fire's album The Frozen Tears of Angels

[DanaInPurple]

they blow just like symphony zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. :D anyways, Im diggin Rhapsody of Fire's album The Frozen Tears of Angels

I love Sonata even with symphonic arrangements lol

And about Rhapsody, Danza di Fuoco e Ghiaccio, is just beautiful <3

[Melchiah]

For those who might be interested, here's an experimental song we recorded with my band Black Dawn in 2008.

http://kiwi6.com/file/y3w9yx3aci

Lyrics:

THE WRITING ON THE SKIN Dark atmospheres, black backgrounds, drapery, hands suspended in the void. The fixity and the immobility of death. Silence. The solitude of the empty body. Skin that changes colour over the course of a few days (white, greenish, dark blue, brown, purple). The serenity of the desperation of the moment of death impressed on the face. Hairs, tendons, muscles, humours, which can barely manage to hang on in the pores of the skin. And, again, skin: skin upon which we begin to see the first signs of an inevitable decomposition; skin devastated by disease, skin ripped open in the autopsy and badly stitched back together. Foot, child's hand, bruised lips, legs, eyes closed forever: dead people put in a pose for the occasion. In this manner, by redusing death to so many neutral, impersonal details, the artist strips the corpses of their identity, and what remains is only the flesh, the skin, the hair and the veins. "I asked myself: can I cut someone that I did not know when they were alive?" The knife cut runs as long as it wants. It is through my stomach. I keep looking at it. I have more colours than I would have thought. The hole is large enough for my head. The hole was big enough for their hands to move freely. C: Miglietti, Serrano, Holzer

The lyrics have been compiled from the writings in Extreme Bodies - The Use and Abuse of the Body in Art.

[Gaspode_T]

Japanese power metal/operatic metal:

Galneryus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galneryus

Liv Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QammBsMHk04

There is even an "RPG Metal" genre of music in Japan.

[mickcenary]

they blow just like symphony zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. :D anyways, Im diggin Rhapsody of Fire's album The Frozen Tears of Angels

Haha. Look, I've not heard any recent Rhapsody "of Fire", but slagging on Symph Sex/Arctica and then proceeding to tell us that you're digging RoF... That just doesn't add up to me.

Of what I've heard, Symphony X are by far and away the best of the 3; they're shit now, but songs like The Edge of Forever, Accolade I/II, The Eyes of Medusa, Egypt, etc are fucking rad.

Actually, I think the only RoF song I've heard is Under the Rain of a Thousand Flames and it kinda sucks balls :S

[ShaneB]

Japanese power metal/operatic metal: Galneryus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galneryus Liv Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QammBsMHk04 There is even an "RPG Metal" genre of music in Japan.

I remember checking out Galneryus before, but first I've heard Liv Moon, that Black Ruby track is pretty solid, great riffs, and killer guitar tone.