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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I listened to both tracks from where you suggested. Unfortunately, neither one won me over. I do think it's possible that a symphonic approach to metal could yield results I'd enjoy, but the way this is done doesn't work for me. A huge part of the problem is the vocals, which I felt dominated the music but were the least interesting part of it. I wasn't super excited about the rest of the instrumentation either, but I think if they got rid of the vocals altogether, they could make the music more complex and probably more interesting.
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I get how you feel. There's a lot of music out there that seems to need a pinch of something extra for me to enjoy it. I'm into vocalists and melodic singing in a very big way, so that helps keeping me engaged in the symphonic metal that I do like. Plus I just personally think that Nightwish has a lot of simple, but fun musical hooks. It definitely isn't intricate guitar playing by any means, and neither is the orchestral backing.