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theoak01 said:
Oh, christ. Umm... what are you musical interests, broadly speaking?
E.g., do you prefer a fast or slow tempo? Do you like male or female vocals? Are you inclined to a certain type of singing - operatic, gutteral, clean, screaming, mixed, etc.? If you mainly listen to popular music, is a clean production important to you? Are you concerned about lyrical content?
The metal scene is quite vast: from the satanic Deicide to the christian death metal outfit Mortification, the operatic Blind Guardian to the violin-driven My Dying Bride. Manowar, for example, did an excellent cover of the Italian opera classic Nessun Dorma. They also covered An American Trilogy (ya know, the famous "glory, glory, hallelujah" chorus. Elvis did this song a lot, as well), not totally uncommon for a band whos previous work included a song called Bridge of Death ("Satan, don't forsake me, I wait for you to take me, grant me wings, and as your messenger I'll fly").
There's just so much out there that I couldn't just recommend something I think is good at random. Hell, with christian death metal and even, umm, "love-metal" like Crematory, with lyrics such as:
"I would die if I couldn't feel your love
Couldn't feel your love
Couldn't feel your love
I hear you smile
Your voice in my dreams
When i wake day and night"
This post probably wasn't much help, but it hopefully gives you a better idea of what's really out there. Death metal has nothing to do with worshipping satan, and the gore-metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse are really few and far between.
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samoth said:Oh, christ. Umm... what are you musical interests, broadly speaking?
E.g., do you prefer a fast or slow tempo? Do you like male or female vocals? Are you inclined to a certain type of singing - operatic, gutteral, clean, screaming, mixed, etc.? If you mainly listen to popular music, is a clean production important to you? Are you concerned about lyrical content?
The metal scene is quite vast: from the satanic Deicide to the christian death metal outfit Mortification, the operatic Blind Guardian to the violin-driven My Dying Bride. Manowar, for example, did an excellent cover of the Italian opera classic Nessun Dorma. They also covered An American Trilogy (ya know, the famous "glory, glory, hallelujah" chorus. Elvis did this song a lot, as well), not totally uncommon for a band whos previous work included a song called Bridge of Death ("Satan, don't forsake me, I wait for you to take me, grant me wings, and as your messenger I'll fly").
There's just so much out there that I couldn't just recommend something I think is good at random. Hell, with christian death metal and even, umm, "love-metal" like Crematory, with lyrics such as:
"I would die if I couldn't feel your love
Couldn't feel your love
Couldn't feel your love
I hear you smile
Your voice in my dreams
When i wake day and night"
This post probably wasn't much help, but it hopefully gives you a better idea of what's really out there. Death metal has nothing to do with worshipping satan, and the gore-metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse are really few and far between.
well i dont like screaming,id probably like more operatic type stuff with violins etc female or male vocals are acceptable,and fast or slow,doesnt matter, i listen to a bit of everything i guess you could say,from trance and hard house to country,so im very open to different types of music
Ocean surf.
n.b. Black Metal, however, is by definition anti-christian -- not to be confused with satanic. Black Metal's roots are founded by the beliefs of those who started the scene in the late 80's and early 90's, a musical genre intrinsically tied to its native Norway with people who still look back upon the christian conquest of their lands, churches, and religions that happened many centuries ago with great spite. Thus, Black Metal is much more confined in lyrical and musical content than it's sibling Death Metal, which, ironically, need not have anything to do with the subject of death nor the musical trappings considered metal.
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theoak01 said:
Like the new avi bor.
theoak01
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StickFigure said:Like the new avi bor.
thanks brolly,im rather fond of it myself
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theoak01 said:
Older My Dying Bride is very violin-driven, although much of it consisted of gutteral vocals in conjunction. The Angel and the Dark River saw the union of their famous violin work with all clean vocals.
The genre known as Power Metal (aka Traditional Metal) is oft joked at for being overly preoccupied with operatic-styled vocalists and harmonized choruses. In this genre bereft of the popular extremeness of other forms of metal, I would point you towards newer Blind Guardian, such as Nightfall in Middle Earth or A Night at the Opera.
For bands fronted by a female vocalist, Lacuna Coil seems to be a polular one, as well as The Gathering. The underground metal scene lost one of their most notable female vocalists, Kari Rueslatten, to the pop/rock scene several years ago. I've never seen her newer stuff on U.S. shelves before, but her earlier works with 3rd and the Mortal are still popular, albeit a bit too slow-paced for my liking.
For anything with a Euro trip-hop beat, look no further than the aforementioned Garm, of way-too-many-bands-to-mention-here fame. Ulver released A Marriage of Heaven and Hell and stunned the entire metal scene with a completely non-metal, techno, trip-hop 2-disc album putting William Blake's famous work of the same name to music. Much of Arcturus' newer stuff is similarly dissonant from the metal scene from whence he came, namely La Masquerade Infernale and the above-mentioned The Sham Mirrors. He's also composed a couple soundtracks for Norweigen movies, among other musical projects.
In Flames, once part of the powerful Gothenburg metal scene, have become increasingly radio-friendly despite their melodic Death Metal roots. If ever I were to recommend a Death Metal band to someone who hates Death Metal, this would be it. Sweden's Sentenced, although now recently defunct, have a melodic Gothenburg-tinged metal-but-not-metal sound to them which helped them build a reputation as one of the most popular metal bands in the world.
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