Best metal out there
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RedB4Black
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Middle eastern scales and metal are such a great combination. You may like these guys. They are from Jerusalem which is where I am from so I am a bit biased.
Usually not a big fan of these type of vocals but I dig the song overall.
stratjacket
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Hers newish stuff that I really like.
Deathwhite - 2 albums, little doomish but really cool. Love the guitar tone.
New Amorphis, one of my favorite all time bands. This is off their new album to be released in February
For Power Metal, Powerwolf always delivers, their new album is really cool
They did this cool remake of Demons are a Girls Best Friend (with Alissa White-Gluz from Arch Enemy) on the new album, love this song
The new John 5 album is really cool too
Deathwhite - 2 albums, little doomish but really cool. Love the guitar tone.
New Amorphis, one of my favorite all time bands. This is off their new album to be released in February
For Power Metal, Powerwolf always delivers, their new album is really cool
They did this cool remake of Demons are a Girls Best Friend (with Alissa White-Gluz from Arch Enemy) on the new album, love this song
The new John 5 album is really cool too
stratjacket
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For Middle Eastern with a mix of power metal, check out Myrath, lots of cool tunes mixing in middle eastern melodies and epic sounding arrangements. Cool stuff.
NOTE: Skip about 45 secs to the song.
Again, skip the first 50 secs to the song...
ultimatemetalguitartones
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fucking epic death stuff
RaceU4her
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Rex Rocker
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Former In Flames guys with Dark Tranquillity singer.
Rex Rocker
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Speaking of (good/old) In Flames,
And Dark Tranquillity,
Love me some metal from Gothenburg.
And Dark Tranquillity,
Love me some metal from Gothenburg.
Rex Rocker
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Soilwork are great too!
Jack Luminous
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I'm a big fan of old-school technical death-metal but recently I've been listening to this :
Smashedguitaris⸸
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never heard of deathwhite, but that is cool as hell. i am not against doom or stoner shit. I just never listen to it because haven't really been exposed. But the simple scale arpeggio is badass, and that is some awesome cinematography. Feels like you are going on a journey.. Kind of an experience vs just listening to a song.
Amorphis made me laugh. I thought it was going to be more like the vocals on the first clip. Then you get that guy doing some raunchy metal vocals. my son actually loves it. He ran in and had to get up to the computer.
He is a huge fan of powerwolf, too, it would seem. (he's 4, btw). Meshuggah Bleed makes him happy, But Tool is his fav band.
I think that powerwolf is some cool stuff. It seems that you have a style with metal. What do you call this genre?
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Smashedguitaris⸸
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yeah. I think a lot of the old death metal is badass. I have listend to these guys a bit.
Smashedguitaris⸸
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Ok. That opening riff episode 666. That is where the fuck metal lives.
Smashedguitaris⸸
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I like wormhole. kinda djenty. The other one went a tad too metalcore for me personally. But cool band.
Smashedguitaris⸸
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This is a deathcore band I think is pretty cool
japetus
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Id love to sit down with him and bbq and riff maybe someday, I loved Nile and still do
stratjacket
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For Powerwolf, I’d call it Power Metal.
Amorphis has a lot of other tunes with normal type vocals as well. Huge catalog, been around 20+ years and still rocking.
Bardagh
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Lots of great shit in this thread. All the kinds of stuff I like. I didn't think as many guys were into power metal as much as I am, although honestly I haven't liked much of what's new in that area for many years. I always go back to my favorite albums after giving them a rest for a good while so they can really hit me again. Late 90's through the mid 2000's there were just so many killer albums.
Sonata Arctica was one of my absolute favorite bands up until Unia. Even though they started out obviously aping a lot of "window dressing" from Stratovarius, what always set them apart from everyone else IMO was Tony Kakko's approach to melody in songwriting and his atypical voice. He wasn't singing in a light head voice all the time or trying to sound like Rob Halford. The melodies in their songs are so good and catchy and bring a lot of emotion as well, they are able to overcome the sometimes laughable english-as-second-language lyrical content. You come to accept that in a good hearted fashion in general if you listen to a lot of European bands. Hard for me to pick between Silence and Winterheart's Guild as a favorite album.
This song has some of their classic unintentionally funny lyrics but you can't deny the vocal melodies and harmonies:
My other favorite power metal band was probably Kamelot. They've been very hit or miss for a long time post-Ghost Opera. I actually love Tommy Karevik as a vocalist in general but to me there's no real replacing Roy Khan. Again this a band that for me was strongly defined by the approach to melody and the unique voice of the iconic singer. The melodic approach was a colaboration between Roy and Thomas Youngblood, the guitarist and main force behind the band, so some of that remains in the post-Khan period, but I really just don't like a lot of where the band has gone in its current iteration. I can always go back to albums like Karma and Epica though and get blown away by what they did.
The first time I got a hold of this album it hadn't been out too long and I wasn't really that into this kind of music yet. I had been so focused on underground death metal for years and had only just thawed towards more melodic death metal and some black metal and was simultaneously getting back into more traditional heavy metal stuff. The opening track of this album grabbed me hard and I probably hit repeat like 10 times.
Sonata Arctica was one of my absolute favorite bands up until Unia. Even though they started out obviously aping a lot of "window dressing" from Stratovarius, what always set them apart from everyone else IMO was Tony Kakko's approach to melody in songwriting and his atypical voice. He wasn't singing in a light head voice all the time or trying to sound like Rob Halford. The melodies in their songs are so good and catchy and bring a lot of emotion as well, they are able to overcome the sometimes laughable english-as-second-language lyrical content. You come to accept that in a good hearted fashion in general if you listen to a lot of European bands. Hard for me to pick between Silence and Winterheart's Guild as a favorite album.
This song has some of their classic unintentionally funny lyrics but you can't deny the vocal melodies and harmonies:
My other favorite power metal band was probably Kamelot. They've been very hit or miss for a long time post-Ghost Opera. I actually love Tommy Karevik as a vocalist in general but to me there's no real replacing Roy Khan. Again this a band that for me was strongly defined by the approach to melody and the unique voice of the iconic singer. The melodic approach was a colaboration between Roy and Thomas Youngblood, the guitarist and main force behind the band, so some of that remains in the post-Khan period, but I really just don't like a lot of where the band has gone in its current iteration. I can always go back to albums like Karma and Epica though and get blown away by what they did.
The first time I got a hold of this album it hadn't been out too long and I wasn't really that into this kind of music yet. I had been so focused on underground death metal for years and had only just thawed towards more melodic death metal and some black metal and was simultaneously getting back into more traditional heavy metal stuff. The opening track of this album grabbed me hard and I probably hit repeat like 10 times.