"Well at least this will be over soon. Also a nice way of showing how the whitest people on Earth think that throwing some stereotypical Middle Eastern bits in is in any way creative or justifies calling a song "Arabesque". Gag."

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I have no problem with melodic singing. In fact, as you probably realise by now, I'm just the opposite. In general, aggressive doesn't do very much for me.
Yeah well in fairness that was Xandria, and they are ****. Not the ****, but just ****. Awful, awful band.
Thing is, Syphillis Metal can be great on one song, but **** on another. It's really a matter of taste and, in some cases, tolerance and/or endurance. I've suffered through plenty of bad tracks on SM albums just waiting to get to the good stuff. Occasionally, it's even been worth it.
I think it's probably unlikely. Love it or loathe it, it has to be accepted that most SM bands follow the same formula, much as power metal does. If you don't like one, you're probably not going to like the others.
Nightwish is a terrible example. Almost everyone here (bar Ki, who's gone now) hate Nightwish, and mostly, they're right to. I think I listened to Dark Passion Play and it was ok, but the others are just terrible in general. Quite laughable. The problem being mainly that they take themselves way too seriously for what Batty would call, and has called, correctly, goofy metal.

Trollheart dad joke in three, two, one...
Who calls their child Floor? Jesus! She's going to be walked all over for the rest of her life!

My answer (sort of) to Batty's thread. Worth a read to see how it all went completely not to plan, ie to ****. :D

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...atty-want.html

If you're gonna be silly, melodic metal that isn't just self-consciously cheesy then you best come the **** correct. Blind Guardian is the perfect example. They make LOTR concept albums but can actually pull it off while sounding like they actually should be taken seriously, but they still know that they're goofy and aren't too pretentious about it. Perfect balance of seriousness and fun I suppose, and there are far too few who can strike that balance which is what makes Blind Guardian so special.

And they're even symphonic.



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Again, my work here is done. I go where I'm needed. It's an awesome responsibility...

Comalies is a unicorn: it has all the elements people hate about Evanescence but somehow the songwriting makes it all work. Rest of those bands...not so much.

That being said, Roy Khan-era Kamelot has some good **** going on. And like Batty mentioned, Blind Guardian are a lot of fun.

Yeah but Kamelot are more Prog Metal really. I wouldn't consider them symphonic at all.
They're also guilty of taking themselves way too seriously. Have you listened to Silverthorn?

Oh and anyone into symphonic metal (and by god therefore into power metal unless they suck cock) should hear Elvenking's Heathenreel. It's goofy, poppy, and ridiculous as any Nightwish album, but knows that's it's supposed to be fun and not take itself too seriously and is all the better for it. Also it's one of the best PM albums of all-time and I'm just taking any opportunity to spam it and I don't even give a **** how relevant this post is.

Just please ignore the kinda sorta extreme metal vocals that very occasionally pop up for no good reason but are so innocuous that they really do nothing but just sit there to be ignored.

No disagreements there. They've made my ears bleed more than once.

I don't understand the idea that Nightwish supposedly take what they do "too seriously". Seems to me they're having a ton of fun with it.

"Hello, is this the Netherlands? I have a message from some guy in Ireland. He thinks your language is stupid. Bye."