sounds so exactly like Filosofem and Hvis Lyset tar oss combined it doesn't even make sense



this album literally has a 25 minute ambient track

Yeah, they are such a clone, it's pointless.
Plus the ambient tracks on the Burzum albums are already overlong, no need to copy that.

I love TOBC

They are certainly not bad, I just expect listening to them and thinking all the time that I could just be listening to Burzum, who is after all superior.
But I'll check out the albums anyway, don't want to miss something good because of some stupid preconceptions. Thanks!

Of all the albums newly discovered on my BM binge the last two days I've so far enjoyed "Il Etait Une Foret" by Gris and "Dead As Dreams" by Weakling the most.
So if that rings someones bell recommendationwise it'd be great.

I don't know what I'm hunting for, so I'll leave it broad. Throw some suggestions at me (nothing similar to White Chapel though).
I really enjoy bands like Chevelle, A Perfect Circle, Fozzy, and In This Moment to give you a bit of an idea.

I recommend Silencer

I didn't mind until the vocals came in, just not my cup of tea. Any others?

It appears that you like atmospheric/depressive black metal.

Try these:

Thanks!
Had already checked those out. Ulver are great, no question about it, have been a fan for years, Woods Of Desolation are too melodic for me, Shining aren't bad, but neither the music nor the vocals really grab me.
Your diagnosis about ABM/DBM seems right. But what I mostly enjoy about Gris and Weakling (and Burzum) are the anguished, almost failing vocals. I'm not that big a fan of "classic" BM vocals.

@grindy what do you think of Asmodeus?

Never heard of those guys.
Really enjoy the atmosphere and the rawness.
Thanks! I'll have to check them out.
Too bad the split seems to be their only release, although it seems they later became Potentiam, whom I also haven't heard. Yet.

They have two albums, actually, Phalanx Inferna and Imperium Damnatum. Glad you liked it though.

That's what I also thought at first, but this is the unrelated Austrian band, while the other one is Icelandic.

Aw shucks. I thought they just changed their sound a bit.

Anybody heard of Title Fight before? You guys definitely need to check em out! They have cool riffs, they mix heavy riffs with some good rhythms.

I'm just going to bulk list metal I love (I'll tag Asian stuff with an A, Scratch that tagging EU stuff with a U, because some of Asian bands have identical names to other EU bands), and hope someone knows of something I'd like, or more importantly, hasn't heard of the stuff I'm listing. I'm trying to break out into metal genres other than Powermetal currently. I'll try to list favorites first. Some of the Asian Metal listed is very obscure on sites like Youtube.

Dragonforce (U) - Inhuman Rampage
Galneryus (A)
Diablo Swing Orchestra (U) - They are more other genres than Metal, but whatever.
Cthonic (A), Taiwanese Black Metal
Machinae Supremacy (U) - Rise of a Digital Nation.
Marty Friedman (A), the guitarist for Megadeath. Its odd because I found his solo stuff first, and only really listen to his solo/ duo stuff not involving them. I just started listening to Megadeath 10 sec ago, because I just thought to..
Nightmare (A) - The World
Zigoku Quartet (A)
Takayoshi Ohmura (A) - Emotions in Motion. The first song has alot of riffs.
Tokyo Jihen (A)

5150 (A), Albion (A), The Algorithm (U), Animetal (A), Anthem (A), Area51 (A), At the Gates (U), AvelCain (A), Babymetal (A), Blitz (A), Bloodstain Child (A), Born (A), Ch'aska (U), Concerto Moon (A), Cross Hard (A), Cycle (A), Cynthia (A), D (A), D A M (U), Dark Avenger (U), Death Rabbits (A), Deathgaze (A), Decapitated (U), Derdian (A), Destrose (A), Dialectic Soul (U), Diesear (U), Eluveitie (U), Folkheim (U), Frosty Eve (A), Fumihiko (A), Gunhaioque (U), Gunbridge (A), Hibria (U), I AM I (U), Infinite Tales (U), Jupiter (A), Kamelot (U), Kissing the Mirror (A), Light Bringer (A), Lightning (A), Lilith (A), Masaaki Endoh (A), Mind of Asian (A), Minstrelix (A), Mistery Circle (A), Moi dix Mois (A), Myrath (U), Mykgrav (U), Nocturnal Bloodlust (A), Norther (U), Noveria (U), Oathean (U), Panther (A), Rentrer en Soi (A), Sadie (A), Samsas Traum (A), Sex Machine Guns (A), Virgin Killer (A), Skiltron (U), Skywings (A), Striker (U), Synk;yet (A), Syu (A), Turisas (U), Vandroya (U), Versailles (A), Wizards (U)

I ended up listing more than I wanted because I am bad at picking favorites. The stuff at the top is the stuff that stands out to me, but thats only because I found that stuff first. I love every band listed!

From the looks of the larger list underneath it seems you got into some Folk Metal, so I'll recommend a few Folk Metal albums/bands that didn't appear on your list. Try out Ensiferum's self-titled album and Iron, Forefather's album Steadfast, Manegarm's albums Vredens Tid and Vargstenen, as well as Bran Barr's album Sidh.

Since you liked At the Gates, try In Flames' EP titled Subterranean. Another good Melodic Death Metal band that has some Power Metal influences is Kalmah, check out their albums Swamplord, They Will Return, and Seventh Swamphony.

Also, since you said you like Power Metal but didn't mention these two bands, try out Blind Guardian's albums Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations From the Other Side, and Nightfall in Middle-earth. Plus the band Persuader's albums Evolution Purgatory, and When Eden Burns.

Also, try out some good Thrash Metal like Overkill, Vektor, Testament, Artillery, and Kreator.

Also, for the sake of recommending something to you I'm more uncertain of you possibly enjoying. Try out the band Sigh and start off with their albums Imaginary Sonicscape, Gallows Gallery, and In Somniphobia.


Edit: also since it seems you want to branch out into Extreme Metal (as in Black Metal, Death Metal etc.) here are a few other recommendations more along those lines.

Try out Gorgoroth's classic Black Metal album Pentagram. Try out Death's classic Death Metal album Leprosy. Try Necrophagia's classic Death Metal album Season of the Dead. Try out some landmark Technical Death Metal albums like Demilich's album Nespithe, Atheist's album Piece of Time, and Lykathea Aflame's album Elvenefris.

Try out some Melodic Black Metal like Dissection's album The Somberlain. Also, Windir's album Arntor.

Try out some Atmospheric Black Metal like Ulver's album Bergtatt: Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler, Nocte Obducta's Lethe, and Summoning's Old Mornings Dawn.

Tbh I wasn't really expecting a good reply considering the number of bands I l listed, but this is an amazing collection of metal recommendations! I haven't listened to it all yet, not even half, but I don't think theres a band listed that I won't like here. I'm not sure why I, or why anyone wouldn't like Sigh btw. I didn't mention Blind Guardian because I used to find them a bit underwhelming, but not after listening to Somewhere Beyond Imagination, they sound different in album format! I forgot to mention Ensiferum because they aren't in my library atm for some strange reason. Thanks again! (Also is it customary to thank in thread here or via PM? I don't want to clutter future threads if it isn't the norm!)

Mind of Asian rocks man.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't need to PM me your reply as long as it pertains at least a bit to the topic/thread that you're replying to me in, which your reply did pertain to.

Yeah, I also think some of Sigh's stuff would be widely enjoyed by many people if they were even better known, but there are some people that do dislike them like Black Metal Purists (people who can't stand other genres mixed with Black Metal or avant-garde experimentation in Black Metal) as well as people who will disregard any band with harsh vocals or won't even give Metal a try. Though Gallows Gallery doesn't have any harsh vocals on the main album, (I think one or two bonus tracks do have harsh vocals,) but the vocals on Gallows Gallery aren't exactly standard Rock/Metal style vocals so there's always a chance someone would find them off-putting, but I personally love every single one of Sigh's albums.

Here're some more recommendations. Also, if possible, it might help me get an idea on what to recommend to you next if you provide feedback on what bands/albums that I've recommended to you that you've enjoyed the most.


Melechesh is a good Blackened Thrash Metal band with Sumerian/Mesopotamian/Middle-eastern Folk influences, try out their albums Sphynx, and Emissaries.

Absu is also pretty similar in style to Melechesh in them being Blackened Thrash Metal with Folk influences, but they also have some Celtic Folk influenced albums along with Mesopotamian and other folk influences. They deem themselves "Mythological Occult Metal." A few albums of their's worth checking out is Abzu; which is a very fast intense album of theirs, Absu; which is pretty atmospheric and a little more varied, but still with a Blackened Thrash Metal sound, and Tara; their probably most critically acclaimed album. The Third Storm of Cythraul is a good album if you're in for a kinda low-fi Blackened Thrash Metal mood as its production brings a good/raw atmosphere. All of Absu's albums are worth checking out, though.


Also check out the band Gire, they're an interesting Avant-garde Death Metal band that only released one LP in 2007 that's self-titled. They add interesting electronic and folk music to their Extreme Metal sound in a way that's very tactfully executed. The keyboardist in the band is also the leader/head of the band Thy Catafalque which also makes some good Avant-garde Extreme Metal/Black Metal. The three Thy Catafalque albums I'd recommend the most are Microcosmos, Sublunary Tragedies, Tuno Ido Tarlat.


Also, I'm a little bit confused by your mention of Blind Guardian's albums' titles sort of in a mashed together way, because they have one album titled Somewhere Far Beyond that was released in 1992, and Imaginations From the Other Side that was released in 1995, so I'm just a little confused on if you listened to both those albums, just one of them, or something else. No worries though, I'm just glad you're enjoying them.

I meant Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond. Somehow their albums got messed up in my notes.. I guess I was pretty excited to get some good Metal recommendations. Anyways, I'm really bad at picking favorites, and writing about these on an album by album basis seems like a bad idea as well, so I'll just list what I thought was lack luster.. The Thrash Metal bands like Overkill, Vektor, Testament, Artillery, and Kreator were alright but I have a harder time enjoying Thrash anyways, I'll give them another listening to and see if I change my mind. A few of the Black Metal bands were harder to listen to, mostly the ones with vocal styles I hadn't heard before, or ones with slow repetitious styles: Gorgoroth, Demilich, Ulver, and Necrophagia. I liked pretty much everything else, but I can't really pick any favorites without giving their albums a second listen to! Generally speaking, I like faster stuff, and I like slower stuff when it has alot of substance.

I'm not sure but I think I've heard of Melechesh before.. hmm. I think you called them and Absu Thrash, but they're the only Thrash that you listed that I've really liked so far. Maybe its because it has Black Metal mixed in.

I've kinda been debating internally whether to even really call Melechesh or Absu Blackened Thrash Metal because it puts more emphasis on the Thrash aspect, when I really see them more as energetic aggressive Black Metal bands with high technical skill. I guess I'd probably feel better with a label like Thrashing Black Metal to be honest.

For some new recommendations try out Ænigma by In Vain, No World Order by Gamma Ray, Temple of Shadows by Angra, The Serpent's Manifolds by Transcending Bizarre?, Theogonia by Rotting Christ, Wintersun by Wintersun, Time I by Wintersun, Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower, Surgical Steel by Carcass, Mare Nostrum by Stormlord, and Kraft by Vreid.

I'm curious what songs you've listened to from those 5 thrash metal bands because some of their stuff is quite fast and even melodic, but I know those bands have also released some fairly weak albums, and I hadn't recommended anything specifically from them, so try out (if you haven't already) the albums The Electric Age by Overkill, By Inheritance by Artillery, and the songs "True American Hate", "Electric Crown", "Souls of Black", and "Alone in the Dark" by Testament. Plus the two Vektor songs "Tetrastructural Minds" and "Cosmic Cortex.

I like the bands but theres something about the musical composition of Thrash that just grates on me. Its hard to explain (and I'm bad at explaining why I like or dislike something to begin with), but I think its more the rhythm of the guitarists and bass than whether its melodic. The instruments keeps roughly the same rhythmic pace for the entire album, with a few breaks that speed up or slow down. Some of these also have random slow atmospheric parts which I honestly think don't add anything to the album as a whole. Maybe I've just listened to way too much Thrash lately! Although maybe I just dislike something inherent to the genre. I heard someone say that if you like Jazz or Classical you'll probably like Power Metal, and if you like slower Rock you'll like Thrash, and I really don't like slow Rock! So at some point I'll listen to all the Thrash you recommended back to back and see if I can't break through my natural dislike of Thrash. These are more enjoyable than most of the Thrash I've listen to though.

I'm used to listening to Metal like Galneryus - The Ironhearted Flag. The number of tempo changes in this is absurd. Not to mention the number of amazing guitar solos (or instrumentals), personally I love their ascent but some people don't as a word of warning. (Don't take terms like tempos, rhythm, pacing and other terms as if I actually know what they mean. I'm just trying to describe what I'm hearing and failing ^^) Honestly though I can't explain why I like one thing over another except in broad concepts. There have been songs that I can objectively tell are very similar to eachother, but I'll love one and hate the other. Its weird that I typically like Death Metal and Black Metal more than I like Thrash though. They do everything I can identify in Thrash that I don't like.

I liked Overkill. Probably because they are playing really fast. I also liked Transcending Bizarre?, Carcass, and Stormlord. Bolt Thrower is nice but hard to listen to. Thanks for the recs!

Edit: I meant The Ironhearted Flag Vol. 2. Not that Vol. 1 is bad or anything, I think every Galneryus album is amazing actually.

Hi, i'm looking for some bands/songs that have Heavy Guitar Rhythm with a scary or mystic theme. Thanks alot =w=
*Sorry for my english* TT

You need Candlemass in your life.

New to Rock
 

I'm new to rock...switched from rap...having trouble finding music that's the type I like. What I've found so far I really like is Hellyeah Moth..Five Finger Death Punch wrong side of heaven..Breaking Benjamin I will not bow..Papa Roach face everything and rise..Three Days Grace I Am machine..The Family Ruin let's go..any suggestions ?

The only rock I listen to is christian rock. The music you listen is very popular in rock stations in last.fm, so you can check that out.

Rock's too wide a genre to suggest bands. You could end up being into heavy metal, post rock, punk rock, indie, progressive rock ... there are literally hundreds of subgenres in rock. Depends on what you want to hear: loud, aggressive, intricate, calm, ambient, soft, catchy, depressing, morose, angsty, happy, dreamy...

Rock's too wide a genre to suggest bands. You could end up being into heavy metal, post rock, punk rock, indie, progressive rock ... there are literally hundreds of subgenres in rock. Depends on what you want to hear: loud, aggressive, intricate, calm, ambient, soft, catchy, depressing, morose, angsty, happy, dreamy...

You could try starting here http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-meta...endations.html

I've noticed I seem to like hard rock music n vocals that go hard n soft like tha songs I posted..I've been tryin to figure out a sub genre but too new to figure it out lol been a rap fan since I was 8 and I'm 32 so it's a new experience

Well I started with Led Zeppelin (I'm talking about decent rock, not boy bands I used to listen when I was 11/12 years old). You should start by listening famous songs by famous classical rock bands. Listen to "We Are The Champions", "We Will Rock You", "Stairway To Heaven", "Light My Fire", "Another Brick In The Wall", "Let It Be", "Satisfaction", etc.

I don't trust people from Finland. I feel like they're secretly a race of man-sharks who will one day rise up and consume us all.

I want to recommend Turkish rock singer and band. You should listen them :)

Turkish rock singer, Şebnem Ferah. I adore her.










Yet another Turkish rock singers and bands:

Kaçak

Kül

Cin Seddi

Mavi Sakal

Nükleer Başlıklı Kız

Malt

Sakin

Melek İrdem

Redd

Neyse

Dorian

Vega


Enjoy :)

I hear that Metallica is looking for a new member.

You should probably tell us where you are, post a few links of you playing, and invest in a spell checker.

Also, make a new thread, that isn't what this is for...

Also, post a video of you windmill headbanging. If you can't do that properly then what the **** am I supposed to do with you?

Try listening to Edguy's album Mandrake, it's really amazing

Just checked this out. Super derivative of a number of bands, most notably, Queensryche. Pass.

Not so much Queensryche as every power metal band ever.