Metal thread

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Oh boy, an opportunity to talk about music - huzzah for thread necromancy. I shall hereby make ordered lists!

Spoiler: Metal albums I own (in spoiler tags for the sake of page length, heh).

[small]Listed alphabetically by artist, and chronologically by album release date.[/small]
[hr]
After Forever
Prison of Desire
Decipher
Exordium [small](EP)[/small]
Invisible Circles
Reimagine
Mea Culpa [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
After Forever

Amberian Dawn
The Clouds of Northland Thunder

Angtoria
God Has a Plan for Us All

Apocalyptica
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Inquisition Symphony
Cult
Reflections
Apocalyptica
Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
Worlds Collide

Arjen A. Lucassen's Star One
Space Metal

Artrosis
Hidden Dimension
In The Flowers' Shade
In Nomine Noctis
Fetish

Ascension Theory
Regeneration
Answers

Avantasia
The Metal Opera Pt. 1
The Metal Opera Pt. 2
The Scarecrow

Axel Rudi Pell
Shadow Zone
Mystica
Tales Of The Crown

Ayreon
The Final Experiment
Actual Fantasy
Into The Electric Castle
The Universal Migrator - Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
The Universal Migrator - Part 2: Flight Of The Migrator
Ayreonauts Only [small](compilation)[/small]
The Human Equation
01011001
Timeline [small](3-disc compilation)[/small]

Beyond Twilight
The Devil's Hall Of Fame
Section X

Blind Guardian
A Twist In The Myth

Brazen Abbot
Guilty As Sin

Celesty
Time Before the Ice [small](Demo)[/small]
Reign Of Elements
Legacy of Hate
Mortal Mind Creation

Celldweller
Celldweller

Christopher Lee [small](seriously, Christopher Lee just released a symphonic metal concept album today)[/small]
Charlemagne

Cloudscape
Cloudscape

Communic
Waves Of Visual Decay

Coronatus
Porta Obscura

Dark Moor
Shadowland
The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
The Gates Of Oblivion
Between Light And Darkness [small](EP)[/small]
Dark Moor
Beyond The Sea
Tarot

Delain
Lucidity
April Rain

Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards
Touched By The Crimson King

Devin Townsend Project
Addicted

Dragonforce
Inhuman Rampage
Ultra Beatdown

Edenbridge
My Earth Dream

Eden's Curse
Eden's Curse
The Second Coming

Elis
Dark Clouds In a Perfect Sky

Epica
The Phantom Agony
Consign To Oblivion
We Will Take You With Us [small](compilation)[/small]
The Score - An Epic Journey
The Divine Conspiracy
The Classical Conspiracy
Design Your Universe

Eyes Of Eden
Faith

Falconer
Falconer
Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
The Sceptre Of Deception
Grime vs. Grandeur
Northwind
Among Beggars And Thieves

Freedom Call
The Circle of Life

Gravity Burn
Weight And Sea

Heavenly
Coming From The Sky
Sign of The Winner
Dust To Dust
Virus

Hydrogyn
Deadly Passions

Jorn
Starfire
Worldchanger
Out To Every Nation
The Duke
Live In America! [small](2-disc live album)[/small]
Unlocking The Past [small](cover album)[/small]
Lonely Are The Brave

Kamelot
Karma
Epica
The Black Halo
Ghost Opera

Karmakanic
Who's The Boss In The Factory?

Katra
Beast Within

Krypteria
Bloodangel's Cry

Lacrimas Profundere
Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts

Lacuna Coil
Shallow Life

Luca Turilli
King of the Nordic Twilight
Prophet of the Last Eclipse
The Infinite Wonder of Creation

Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Lost Horizons

Lullacry
Sweet Desire
Be My God
Crucify My Heart
Vol. 4

Lunatica
New Shores

Masterplan
Enlighten Me [small](EP)[/small]
Masterplan
Back For My Life [small](EP)[/small]
Aeronautics

Midnattsol
Where Twilight Dwells

Millenium
Hourglass

Mundanus Imperium
The Spectral Spheres Coronation

Myrath
Hope

Nemesea
In Control

Nightwish
Angels Fall First
Oceanborn
Wishmaster
From Wishes to Eternity [small](live album)[/small]
Over the Hills and Far Away [small](EP)[/small]
Century Child
Once
Dark Passion Play

Nocturnal Rites
In a Time of Fire and Blood
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
The Sacred Talisman
Afterlife
Shadowland
New World Messiah
Grand Illusion
The 8th Sin

Nuclear Blast Allstars
Into the Light

Octavia Sperati
Grace Submerged

Operatika
The Calling

Orphaned Land
The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR

Pain
Pain
Rebirth
Dancing With the Dead
Nothing Remains the Same
Psalms of Extinction
Cynic Paradise

Passionworks
Passion Play
Blue Play

Queensryche
Empire

Redemption
Snowfall On Judgement Day

Rhapsody Of Fire
Triumph or Agony

Ride The Sky
New Protection

Allen/Lande
The Battle
The Revenge

Satyrian
Eternitas

Savatage
Dead Winter Dead
Poets and Madmen

Serenity
Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
Fallen Sanctuary

Shadow Gallery
Digital Ghosts

Silent Force
The Empire Of Future
Infatuator
Worlds Apart
Walk The Earth

Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens

Sonata Arctica
Ecliptica
Silence
Songs Of Silence [small](live album)[/small]
Winterheart's Guild
Reckoning Night
Unia

Stratovarius
Elements Part 1
Polaris

Stream Of Passion
Embrace The Storm
The Flame Within

Symphony X
The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Paradise Lost

Tarja
My Winter Storm

Tarot
Spell of Iron
Follow Me Into Madness
To Live Forever
To Live Again [small](live album)[/small]
Stigmata
For the Glory of Nothing
Suffer Our Pleasures
Crows Fly Black
Undead Indeed [small](2-disc live album)[/small]

The 69 Eyes
Back In Blood

The Snakes
One Bitten
Live In Europe [small](live album)[/small]

Threshold
Dead Reckoning

Thunderstone
The Burning

Todesbonden
Sleep Now, Quiet Forest

Tristania
World of Glass

Unsun
The End Of Life

Virgin Black
Requiem - Mezzo Forte

Within Temptation
The Silent Force
The Heart Of Everything

Spoiler: All the other metal bands I listen to (again, in spoiler tags to avoid ridiculous post length).

Agathodaimon
Alestorm
Angra
At Vance
Ava Inferi
Axenstar
Battlelore
Beautiful Sin
Beseech
Brainstorm
Crystal Ball
Darkwell
Dream Evil
Dreamland
Dreamtale
Dream Theater
Echoes Of Eternity
Edguy
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Evergrey
Excalion
Falkenbach
Fatal Force
Gamma Ray
H.I.M.
Hammerfall
Harmony
Iced Earth
Imperia
In Tenebris
In This Moment
Karelia
Korpiklaani
Kotipelto
La-Ventura
Leaves' Eyes
Machines of Grace
Manticora
Maroon
Mercenary
Metallica
Mob Rules
Mortal Love
Miseration
Orden Ogan
Pagan's Mind
Paradise Lost
Primal Fear
Raintime
Revolution Renaissance
Requiem
Royal Hunt
Scar Symmetry
Siegfried
Silentium
Steel Attack
Suspyre
Tapping The Vein
Theater of Tragedy
The Crest
The Gathering
Therion
To-Mera
Turisas
Twilightning
Urn
Visions Of Atlantis
Walls of Jericho
Wolfcry
Xandria

As you might have noticed if you clicked either of those boxes, I rather like metal. I stick mainly to the Symphonic, Gothic, Power, Folk, Melodic, and Progressive varieties, though I like the odd Black, Melo-Death, or Metal-core bands as well (and of course some bands combine those elements with several other sub-genres to produce something unique).

 

[The Spectator]

Dark Tranquillity, on the other hand, continue to put out great music. It's slipped a little, but how the hell do you follow Damage Done, Character and Fiction? The guitar's aren't as good, but the keyboard is is pretty nice, and once again the sense that their sound is perhaps becoming a little stale is overridden by magnificient songwriting and a fantastic vocal performance from Stanne.

And thank you for reminding me that they have brought out a new album. Though Haven, The Mind's I and The Gallery are quite good too. Never favored Stanne's clean voice. Makes me cringe. Which is why I never liked Projector.

OT: A metal band I rediscovered lately is Disarmonia Mundi. And I most say that I prefer Björn in this band rather than Soilwork. The Isolation Game is what you call 'perfecting its genre(s).'

 

[Rusty Bucket]

And thank you for reminding me that they have brought out a new album. Though Haven, The Mind's I and The Gallery are quite good too. Never favored Stanne's clean voice. Makes me cringe. Which is why I never liked Projector.

OT: A metal band I rediscovered lately is Disarmonia Mundi. And I most say that I prefer Björn in this band rather than Soilwork. The Isolation Game is what you call 'perfecting its genre(s).'

His clean vocals have improved so much on their latest album. It doesn't sound anything like his old stuff at all. I haven't gotten into The Gallery all that much, although after watching their live DVD and hearing some of the stuff from it I may give it a better listen.

Oh boy, an opportunity to talk about music - huzzah for thread necromancy. I shall hereby make ordered lists!

Spoiler: Metal albums I own (in spoiler tags for the sake of page length, heh).

[small]Listed alphabetically by artist, and chronologically by album release date.[/small]
[hr]
After Forever
Prison of Desire
Decipher
Exordium [small](EP)[/small]
Invisible Circles
Reimagine
Mea Culpa [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
After Forever

Amberian Dawn
The Clouds of Northland Thunder

Angtoria
God Has a Plan for Us All

Apocalyptica
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Inquisition Symphony
Cult
Reflections
Apocalyptica
Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
Worlds Collide

Arjen A. Lucassen's Star One
Space Metal

Artrosis
Hidden Dimension
In The Flowers' Shade
In Nomine Noctis
Fetish

Ascension Theory
Answers

Axel Rudi Pell
Shadow Zone
Mystica
Tales Of The Crown

Ayreon
The Final Experiment
Actual Fantasy
Into The Electric Castle
The Universal Migrator - Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
The Universal Migrator - Part 2: Flight Of The Migrator
Ayreonauts Only [small](compilation)[/small]
The Human Equation
01011001
Timeline [small](3-disc compilation)[/small]

Beyond Twilight
The Devil's Hall Of Fame
Section X

Blind Guardian
A Twist In The Myth

Celesty
Time Before the Ice [small](Demo)[/small]
Reign Of Elements
Legacy of Hate
Mortal Mind Creation

Celldweller
Celldweller

Christopher Lee [small](seriously, Christopher Lee just released a symphonic metal concept album today)[/small]
Charlemagne

Cloudscape
Cloudscape

Communic
Waves Of Visual Decay

Coronatus
Porta Obscura

Dark Moor
Shadowland
The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
The Gates Of Oblivion
Between Light And Darkness [small](EP)[/small]
Dark Moor
Beyond The Sea
Tarot

Delain
Lucidity
April Rain

Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards
Touched By The Crimson King

Devin Townsend Project
Addicted

Dragonforce
Inhuman Rampage
Ultra Beatdown

Edenbridge
My Earth Dream

Eden's Curse
The Second Coming

Elis
Dark Clouds In a Perfect Sky

Epica
The Phantom Agony
Consign To Oblivion
We Will Take You With Us [small](compilation)[/small]
The Score - An Epic Journey
The Divine Conspiracy
The Classical Conspiracy
Design Your Universe

Eyes Of Eden
Faith

Freedom Call
The Circle of Life

Gravity Burn
Weight And Sea

Hydrogyn
Deadly Passions

Kamelot
Karma
Epica
The Black Halo
Ghost Opera

Karmakanic
Who's The Boss In The Factory?

Katra
Beast Within

Krypteria
Bloodangel's Cry

Lacrimas Profundere
Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts

Lacuna Coil
Shallow Life

Luca Turilli
King of the Nordic Twilight
Prophet of the Last Eclipse
The Infinite Wonder of Creation

Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Lost Horizons

Lullacry
Sweet Desire
Be My God
Crucify My Heart
Vol. 4

Lunatica
New Shores

Midnattsol
Where Twilight Dwells

Mundanus Imperium
The Spectral Spheres Coronation

Nightwish
Angels Fall First
Oceanborn
Wishmaster
From Wishes to Eternity [small](live album)[/small]
Over the Hills and Far Away [small](EP)[/small]
Century Child
Once
Dark Passion Play

Nuclear Blast Allstars
Into the Light

Octavia Sperati
Grace Submerged

Operatika
The Calling

Orphaned Land
The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR

Pain
Pain
Rebirth
Dancing With the Dead
Nothing Remains the Same
Psalms of Extinction
Cynic Paradise

Passionworks
Passion Play
Blue Play

Queensryche
Empire

Redemption
Snowfall On Judgement Day

Rhapsody Of Fire
Triumph or Agony

Ride The Sky
New Protection

Allen/Lande
The Battle
The Revenge

Satyrian
Eternitas

Savatage
Dead Winter Dead
Poets and Madmen

Serenity
Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
Fallen Sanctuary

Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens

Sonata Arctica
Ecliptica
Silence
Songs Of Silence [small](live album)[/small]
Winterheart's Guild
Reckoning Night
Unia

Stratovarius
Elements Part 1
Polaris

Stream Of Passion
Embrace The Storm
The Flame Within

Symphony X
The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Paradise Lost

Tarja
My Winter Storm

Tarot
Spell of Iron
Follow Me Into Madness
To Live Forever
To Live Again [small](live album)[/small]
Stigmata
For the Glory of Nothing
Suffer Our Pleasures
Crows Fly Black
Undead Indeed [small](2-disc live album)[/small]

The 69 Eyes
Back In Blood

Threshold
Dead Reckoning

Thunderstone
The Burning

Todesbonden
Sleep Now, Quiet Forest

Tristania
World of Glass

Unsun
The End Of Life

Virgin Black
Requiem - Mezzo Forte

Within Temptation
The Silent Force
The Heart Of Everything

Spoiler: All the other metal bands I listen to (again, in spoiler tags to avoid ridiculous post length).

Agathodaimon
Alestorm
Angra
At Vance
Ava Inferi
Avantasia
Axenstar
Battlelore
Beautiful Sin
Beseech
Brainstorm
Darkwell
Dream Evil
Dreamland
Dreamtale
Dream Theater
Echoes Of Eternity
Edguy
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Evergrey
Excalion
Falconer
Falkenbach
Fatal Force
Gamma Ray
H.I.M.
Hammerfall
Heavenly
Iced Earth
Imperia
In Tenebris
In This Moment
Jorn
Karelia
Korpiklaani
Kotipelto
La-Ventura
Leaves' Eyes
Machines of Grace
Manticora
Maroon
Masterplan
Mercenary
Metallica
Mob Rules
Mortal Love
Miseration
Myrath
Nocturnal Rites
Pagan's Mind
Paradise Lost
Primal Fear
Raintime
Revolution Renaissance
Requiem
Royal Hunt
Scar Symmetry
Shadow Gallery
Siegfried
Silent Force
Silentium
Steel Attack
Suspyre
Tapping The Vein
Theater of Tragedy
The Crest
The Gathering
Therion
To-Mera
Turisas
Twilightning
Urn
Visions Of Atlantis
Walls of Jericho
Wolfcry
Xandria

As you might have noticed if you clicked either of those boxes, I rather like metal. I stick mainly to the Symphonic, Gothic, Power, Folk, Melodic, and Progressive varieties, though I like the odd Black, Melo-Death, or Metal-core bands as well (and of course some bands combine those elements with several other sub-genres to produce something unique).

Holy crap. Those are some damn fantastic lists. I can't really comment on the content of them since I haven't heard of most of the bands though. Although this does say something about the variety of metal. I have nearly 5 days worth of metal on my Itunes, but you've just given me a massive list of bands that I've never heard of.

 

[pantallica95]

Anyone hear news of In Flames? I wanna know what's happening with the new album now that the guitar player left. I always liked their stuff. Sometimes the keyboards got annoying, but other than that their new stuffs good. Old stuff is great of course: classic Gothenburg death metal.

 

[pantallica95]

His clean vocals have improved so much on their latest album. It doesn't sound anything like his old stuff at all. I haven't gotten into The Gallery all that much, although after watching their live DVD and hearing some of the stuff from it I may give it a better listen.

What's the verdict on the new album? Like not so much "good or bad" because I know it'll be good--it's Dark Tranquillity--but I wanna know how it compares the their other stuff. And The Gallery is another Gothenburg scene classic.

And I always liked his clean vocals, but that's me.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Oh boy, an opportunity to talk about music - huzzah for thread necromancy. I shall hereby make ordered lists!

Spoiler: Metal albums I own (in spoiler tags for the sake of page length, heh).

[small]Listed alphabetically by artist, and chronologically by album release date.[/small]
[hr]
After Forever
Prison of Desire
Decipher
Exordium [small](EP)[/small]
Invisible Circles
Reimagine
Mea Culpa [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
After Forever

Amberian Dawn
The Clouds of Northland Thunder

Angtoria
God Has a Plan for Us All

Apocalyptica
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Inquisition Symphony
Cult
Reflections
Apocalyptica
Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
Worlds Collide

Arjen A. Lucassen's Star One
Space Metal

Artrosis
Hidden Dimension
In The Flowers' Shade
In Nomine Noctis
Fetish

Ascension Theory
Regeneration
Answers

Axel Rudi Pell
Shadow Zone
Mystica
Tales Of The Crown

Ayreon
The Final Experiment
Actual Fantasy
Into The Electric Castle
The Universal Migrator - Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
The Universal Migrator - Part 2: Flight Of The Migrator
Ayreonauts Only [small](compilation)[/small]
The Human Equation
01011001
Timeline [small](3-disc compilation)[/small]

Beyond Twilight
The Devil's Hall Of Fame
Section X

Blind Guardian
A Twist In The Myth

Celesty
Time Before the Ice [small](Demo)[/small]
Reign Of Elements
Legacy of Hate
Mortal Mind Creation

Celldweller
Celldweller

Christopher Lee [small](seriously, Christopher Lee just released a symphonic metal concept album today)[/small]
Charlemagne

Cloudscape
Cloudscape

Communic
Waves Of Visual Decay

Coronatus
Porta Obscura

Dark Moor
Shadowland
The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
The Gates Of Oblivion
Between Light And Darkness [small](EP)[/small]
Dark Moor
Beyond The Sea
Tarot

Delain
Lucidity
April Rain

Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards
Touched By The Crimson King

Devin Townsend Project
Addicted

Dragonforce
Inhuman Rampage
Ultra Beatdown

Edenbridge
My Earth Dream

Eden's Curse
Eden's Curse
The Second Coming

Elis
Dark Clouds In a Perfect Sky

Epica
The Phantom Agony
Consign To Oblivion
We Will Take You With Us [small](compilation)[/small]
The Score - An Epic Journey
The Divine Conspiracy
The Classical Conspiracy
Design Your Universe

Eyes Of Eden
Faith

Freedom Call
The Circle of Life

Gravity Burn
Weight And Sea

Hydrogyn
Deadly Passions

Kamelot
Karma
Epica
The Black Halo
Ghost Opera

Karmakanic
Who's The Boss In The Factory?

Katra
Beast Within

Krypteria
Bloodangel's Cry

Lacrimas Profundere
Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts

Lacuna Coil
Shallow Life

Luca Turilli
King of the Nordic Twilight
Prophet of the Last Eclipse
The Infinite Wonder of Creation

Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Lost Horizons

Lullacry
Sweet Desire
Be My God
Crucify My Heart
Vol. 4

Lunatica
New Shores

Midnattsol
Where Twilight Dwells

Mundanus Imperium
The Spectral Spheres Coronation

Myrath
Hope

Nightwish
Angels Fall First
Oceanborn
Wishmaster
From Wishes to Eternity [small](live album)[/small]
Over the Hills and Far Away [small](EP)[/small]
Century Child
Once
Dark Passion Play

Nuclear Blast Allstars
Into the Light

Octavia Sperati
Grace Submerged

Operatika
The Calling

Orphaned Land
The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR

Pain
Pain
Rebirth
Dancing With the Dead
Nothing Remains the Same
Psalms of Extinction
Cynic Paradise

Passionworks
Passion Play
Blue Play

Queensryche
Empire

Redemption
Snowfall On Judgement Day

Rhapsody Of Fire
Triumph or Agony

Ride The Sky
New Protection

Allen/Lande
The Battle
The Revenge

Satyrian
Eternitas

Savatage
Dead Winter Dead
Poets and Madmen

Serenity
Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
Fallen Sanctuary

Shadow Gallery
Digital Ghosts

Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens

Sonata Arctica
Ecliptica
Silence
Songs Of Silence [small](live album)[/small]
Winterheart's Guild
Reckoning Night
Unia

Stratovarius
Elements Part 1
Polaris

Stream Of Passion
Embrace The Storm
The Flame Within

Symphony X
The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Paradise Lost

Tarja
My Winter Storm

Tarot
Spell of Iron
Follow Me Into Madness
To Live Forever
To Live Again [small](live album)[/small]
Stigmata
For the Glory of Nothing
Suffer Our Pleasures
Crows Fly Black
Undead Indeed [small](2-disc live album)[/small]

The 69 Eyes
Back In Blood

Threshold
Dead Reckoning

Thunderstone
The Burning

Todesbonden
Sleep Now, Quiet Forest

Tristania
World of Glass

Unsun
The End Of Life

Virgin Black
Requiem - Mezzo Forte

Within Temptation
The Silent Force
The Heart Of Everything

Spoiler: All the other metal bands I listen to (again, in spoiler tags to avoid ridiculous post length).

Agathodaimon
Alestorm
Angra
At Vance
Ava Inferi
Avantasia
Axenstar
Battlelore
Beautiful Sin
Beseech
Brainstorm
Darkwell
Dream Evil
Dreamland
Dreamtale
Dream Theater
Echoes Of Eternity
Edguy
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Evergrey
Excalion
Falconer
Falkenbach
Fatal Force
Gamma Ray
H.I.M.
Hammerfall
Heavenly
Iced Earth
Imperia
In Tenebris
In This Moment
Jorn
Karelia
Korpiklaani
Kotipelto
La-Ventura
Leaves' Eyes
Machines of Grace
Manticora
Maroon
Masterplan
Mercenary
Metallica
Mob Rules
Mortal Love
Miseration
Nocturnal Rites
Pagan's Mind
Paradise Lost
Primal Fear
Raintime
Revolution Renaissance
Requiem
Royal Hunt
Scar Symmetry
Siegfried
Silent Force
Silentium
Steel Attack
Suspyre
Tapping The Vein
Theater of Tragedy
The Crest
The Gathering
Therion
To-Mera
Turisas
Twilightning
Urn
Visions Of Atlantis
Walls of Jericho
Wolfcry
Xandria

As you might have noticed if you clicked either of those boxes, I rather like metal. I stick mainly to the Symphonic, Gothic, Power, Folk, Melodic, and Progressive varieties, though I like the odd Black, Melo-Death, or Metal-core bands as well (and of course some bands combine those elements with several other sub-genres to produce something unique).

Holy crap. Those are some damn fantastic lists. I can't really comment on the content of them since I haven't heard of most of the bands though. Although this does say something about the variety of metal. I have nearly 5 days worth of metal on my Itunes, but you've just given me a massive list of bands that I've never heard of.

Oh good, that was exactly the effect I was going for and the utility I hoped somebody might derive from those lists (though honestly I just like making lists no matter how useless, heh) - validation, whee! [small]Also: All together my current collection of metal can play for just over a week without repeating - thanks for prompting me to do the math, heh.[/small]

I found the majority of those bands via the front end of the Music Genome Project, Pandora [http://www.pandora.com], which is a wonderful resource for discovering music you've never heard yet clearly would enjoy given the commonalities it shares with music you know about now. One that sadly won't help you much given your listed location of the UK, since Pandora doesn't broadcast in your region thanks to royalty issues (there are probably ways around that of course, but you didn't hear that from me).

In other metal related tangents: You (and anyone else posting in this thread that actually likes metal) should consider joining The Metal Group here on the Escapist - the more the merrier!

 

[Ironboot]

I found the majority of those bands via the front end of the Music Genome Project, Pandora [http://www.pandora.com], which is a wonderful resource for discovering music you've never heard yet clearly would enjoy given the commonalities it shares with music you know about now. One that sadly won't help you much given your listed location of the UK, since Pandora doesn't broadcast in your region thanks to royalty issues (there are probably ways around that of course, but you didn't hear that from me).

In other metal related tangents: You (and anyone else posting in this thread that actually likes metal) should consider joining The Metal Group here on the Escapist - the more the merrier!

Another great music recommendation thingy is last.fm [http://www.last.fm/home]. It tracks the music you listen to with a simple application and recommends similar bands. It's also a great site to simply show others your music taste and compare it. My profile [http://www.last.fm/user/Ironboot], if anyone's interested.

I'll join the metal group immediately!

 

[Rusty Bucket]

His clean vocals have improved so much on their latest album. It doesn't sound anything like his old stuff at all. I haven't gotten into The Gallery all that much, although after watching their live DVD and hearing some of the stuff from it I may give it a better listen.

What's the verdict on the new album? Like not so much "good or bad" because I know it'll be good--it's Dark Tranquillity--but I wanna know how it compares the their other stuff. And The Gallery is another Gothenburg scene classic.

And I always liked his clean vocals, but that's me.

Well, I don't think it's as good as their last few albums, but then how the hell are you supposed to follow those? Not being as good as Damage Done is perfectly acceptable. I think the new album has a bit too much filler, and the guitars have been toned down a bit to make way for more keyboards, but even the worst songs on the album are still perfectly listenable, and since it's Dark Tranquillity they're substantially better than a lot of other bands efforts. Well worth picking up.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Classic Metal,
ya know,
Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Metallica
and
Gamma Ray, Twisted Sister (I know, its hair metal), Bon Jovi, the list goes on and on

But I cant stand Death Metal and "new metal", ya know, crap like SlipKnot, cant stand them

 

[Outright Villainy]

At the moment I really like more Progressive stuff, like Protest the hero, Sikth and Gojira. I love Machine head, and In flames or soilwork's older stuff. And of course anything by Devin townsend. I can't really pin down any specific style of metal I like, I like at least one band from nearly every style, even the more maligned ones like Metalcore (early killswitch Engage) or nu-metal (Korn and Soulfly).

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Oh good, that was exactly the effect I was going for and the utility I hoped somebody might derive from those lists (though honestly I just like making lists no matter how useless, heh) - validation, whee! [small]Also: All together my current collection of metal can play for just over a week without repeating - thanks for prompting me to do the math, heh.[/small]

I found the majority of those bands via the front end of the Music Genome Project, Pandora [http://www.pandora.com], which is a wonderful resource for discovering music you've never heard yet clearly would enjoy given the commonalities it shares with music you know about now. One that sadly won't help you much given your listed location of the UK, since Pandora doesn't broadcast in your region thanks to royalty issues (there are probably ways around that of course, but you didn't hear that from me).

In other metal related tangents: You (and anyone else posting in this thread that actually likes metal) should consider joining The Metal Group here on the Escapist - the more the merrier!

A week is pretty damn impressive. I'll admit I'm quite fussy when it comes to what metal I like, so my collection progresses somewhat slower than most people's.

Ahhhh Pandora. I used to use it all the time before they cut off access to the UK, if only for the hilarious descriptions for some bands (how does 'Abrasive male vocals, downtuned guitars, unintelligible vocal delivery' sound?). I have tried a few times to access it via proxy's, but it always comes up with an error. I have to settle for Last.fm, which I don't think is quite as good.

I had actually joined that group minutes before I checked this quoute, but thankyou for the reccomendation. It looks like a decent place to chat, even if it does make me question the validity of this thread somewhat.

 

[The Spectator]

And thank you for reminding me that they have brought out a new album. Though Haven, The Mind's I and The Gallery are quite good too. Never favored Stanne's clean voice. Makes me cringe. Which is why I never liked Projector.

OT: A metal band I rediscovered lately is Disarmonia Mundi. And I most say that I prefer Björn in this band rather than Soilwork. The Isolation Game is what you call 'perfecting its genre(s).'

His clean vocals have improved so much on their latest album. It doesn't sound anything like his old stuff at all. I haven't gotten into The Gallery all that much, although after watching their live DVD and hearing some of the stuff from it I may give it a better listen.

Also found The Gallery to be the one hardest to get into. But once you do, it's great. And yes his vocals on The Mundane and the Magic is great along side with Nell Sigland. As long as he keeps it to a minimum, then it's fine with me.

 

[Hyper-space]

fucking A' mang, King Diamond is where its at

 

[pantallica95]

I think everyone here should listen to Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss. That is hands down their best album. It mixed the ferocity of Reign in Blood with some of the tempos and melodies of South of Heaven. Awesome riffs are peppered throughout every song, and nothing compares to listening to the whole thing beginning to end.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

You know, I'm fed up of waiting for The Absence's new album now. They've released two studio diaries that consist of them doing pretty much bugger all and have yet to release any album info other than the name. Maybe that's just how they roll, but god damnit, it's frustrating.

Edit:

I think everyone here should listen to Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss. That is hands down their best album. It mixed the ferocity of Reign in Blood with some of the tempos and melodies of South of Heaven. Awesome riffs are peppered throughout every song, and nothing compares to listening to the whole thing beginning to end.

I've never really listened much to Slayer, but I kind of feel like I should given their reputation and influence. Any songs you'd suggest starting with? Bear in mind I've not really listened to anything similar to their genre before, I usually listen to Death Metal.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

My favorite kind of metal is mainly melo-death. My absolute favorite metal bands are:
1. In Flames
2. Children of Bodom
3. John 5
4. Dark Tranquillity
5. Trivium

Other metal bands I like include Rob Zombie, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce, Nightwish, Slipknot, Adversary (pretty unknown band, I highly recommend checking out their album Singularity), Engel, Ministry, Everytime I Die and a bunch of other stuff.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

Revived. Again.


Finntroll are awesome.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Revived. Again.

Finntroll are awesome.

Worst. Revive. Ever.

On an actually related note, The Absence have finally anounced a date for their new album. 14th September, incidentally the same day as the release of Halo Reach. that's a fucking awesome day right there. They've got a new song up on their Myspace, go take a listen people.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

Revived. Again.

Finntroll are awesome.

Worst. Revive. Ever.

On an actually related note, The Absence have finally anounced a date for their new album. 14th September, incidentally the same day as the release of Halo Reach. that's a fucking awesome day right there. They've got a new song up on their Myspace, go take a listen people.

How it a bad revive? I made it, so it is good by default.

And when should we expect Necrophagist's album? Derp.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Revived. Again.

Finntroll are awesome.

Worst. Revive. Ever.

On an actually related note, The Absence have finally anounced a date for their new album. 14th September, incidentally the same day as the release of Halo Reach. that's a fucking awesome day right there. They've got a new song up on their Myspace, go take a listen people.

How it a bad revive? I made it, so it is good by default.

And when should we expect Necrophagist's album? Derp.

I just checked their official site and their myspace. The latest news is from April last year. They're like the Valve of the music world.