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Title: Metal Music
Post by: Calebark on December 08, 2017, 05:41:24 pm
It's about time we get one here! Lurkers, feel free to post here. I'll start by going through some of the subgenres and my favourite bands, albums, and songs of each, so it'll be easier to find mutual interests :)

Power Metal  -- higher vocals, fast tempo, and an uplifting sound
Band: Blind Guardian
Album: Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Song: Mirror Mirror

Band: Stratovarius
Album: Infinite
Song: Hunting High and Low

Band: Sonata Arctica
Album: Winterheart's Guild
Song: The Cage

Folk Metal -- metal mixed with folkier instruments, like flutes, fiddles, and hurdy-gurdies
Band: Eluveitie
Album: Origins
Song: The Call of the Mountains

Band: Ensiferum
Album: Iron
Song: Tale of Revenge

Band: Finntroll
Album: Blodsvept
Song: Ett Folk Förbannat

Black Metal -- shrieking vocals, distorted guitars, edgy persona
Band: Carach Angren
Album: Death Came Through a Phantom Ship
Song: Bloodstains on the Captain's Log

Band: Emperor
Album: Prometheus : The Discipline of Fire & Demise
Song: The Prophet

Band: Summoning
Album: Old Mornings Dawn
Song: Flammifer

Progressive Metal -- metal that... progresses? i d k
Band: Ne Obliviscaris
Album: Portal of I
Song: And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope

Band: Opeth
Album: Ghost Reveries
Song: Ghost of Perdition

Band: Persefone
Album: Spiritual Migration
Song: The Majestic of Gaia

Death Metal -- aggressive, growling, deep guitars
Band: Death
Album: Symbolic
Song: Crystal Mountain

Band: Behemoth
Album: Demigod
Song: Towards Babylon

Band: Necrophagist
Album: Epitaph
Song: Only Ash Remains

Melodic Death Metal -- death metal with a lighter sound and more melody
Band: Children of Bodom
Album: Follow the Reaper
Song: Hate Me

Band: Soilwork
Album: Figure Number Five
Song: Distortion Sleep

Band: Mercenary
Album: 11 Dreams
Song: 11 Dreams

Other
Band: Cellar Darling
Album: This is the Sound
Song: The Hermit
Description: Not too heavy. Has a hurdy-gurdy. Female vocals. Melodic.


Band: Sólstafir
Album: Svartir Sandar
Song: Fjara
Description: A bit proggish. Sung in Icelandic. Very sad.

Band: Orphaned Land
Album: All is One
Song: All is One
Description: Kinda proggy-deathy, but with a lot of Middle Eastern influence.

Any similar interests? Different interests? Recommendations?
Title: Re: Metal Music
Post by: keltingmeith on December 08, 2017, 06:27:57 pm
Needs more rap metal.
Title: Re: Metal Music
Post by: Seno72 on May 11, 2018, 08:35:35 am
No one cares about Rap metal/ Nu metal these days anyway. Most of them have become pop acts (like Linkin Park)
Title: Re: Metal Music
Post by: Calebark on May 11, 2018, 10:57:25 am
Quote from: Seno72 on May 11, 2018, 08:35:35 am
No one cares about Rap metal/ Nu metal these days anyway. Most of them have become pop acts (like Linkin Park)

As indicated above, there's at least one person who cares, which is all that counts. It doesn't matter if a type of music is popular to the masses, people can still listen to it. Hell, pretty sure this counts for all but the biggest metal acts anyway.

Art is swell that way.
Title: Re: Metal Music
Post by: Seno72 on May 16, 2018, 12:12:51 am
I guess so. Probably being too harsh lol. But to be fair, no one really talks about rap metal nowadays, maybe except Rage Against The Machine.
Title: Re: Metal Music
Post by: Calebark on May 16, 2018, 06:26:02 pm
Do you have any recommendations for me, Seno72? Preferably if you know any smaller bands that need the love and attention!
Title: Re: Metal Music
Post by: Seno72 on May 16, 2018, 06:43:43 pm
I pretty much listen to progressive metal mainly. Some others I listen to sometimes are Between the Buried And Me (tech death), Soen, Storm Corrosion, Barren Earth, Bloodbath (death metal), Scale The Summit. Most of these aren't any underground bands though.