Oh, your right. They aren't power metal. They're just the band that inspired practically the entire genre.

I'm still here guys.

Exactly.

Oh, you are... I had a funeral planned for you...

That's sweet. Do They play Killed By Death in it? We can also talk metal recommendations? I feel I've steered this thread offtopic enough.

This is music banter. We only stay off topic. Lol.

Dawww!

Wring thread bat... or is it?

Nope.

New stoner band from Denmark, cool sounds

Ever Circling Wolves

Here's some cool doom, Ever Circling Wolves, from Finland. They're releasing a new album later this year.

Not that into the deeper, growlier vocals here but the shriekier ones are better, aside from that the music is pretty badass https://ecwdoom.bandcamp.com/

Clean Vocal Groups?
 

Sup everybody,

I'm new to the site but I've been listening to metal ever since my buddy introduced me to metal when I first met him in Wisconsin and he had nothing but metal CDs. Started off with Forever Sets the Sun, and Amity Affliction and it's since branched out quite a bit. However, I'm not a fan of most screaming in metal songs and lately I've been turning away from the screaming altogether even if songs have clean vocals.

So, basically, I'm looking for groups or bands that do most songs as clean vocals or maybe the better way to put it is soft vocals?

To give you guys an idea of what I listen to, here's a list:

Amity Affliction, Issues (Tyler Carter), Hands like Houses, I the Mighty, Emarosa, Crown the Empire, Too Close To Touch, Aaron Gillespie, Landon Tewers/Before Their Eyes/TPIY, The Word Alive (Tyler Smith). Some of the following; Dream on Dreamer, The Color Morale.

Almost all of them have clean vocals that are higher pitched, or vocalists that hit the higher notes. If anybody has recommendations I'd love to hear them.

P.S. I realize that some groups I mentioned do have screaming (like Amity Affliction) but I think I've started to pull away from them because I've been finding bands that are predominantly clean, soft vocals and that sounds so much better to me. Again, I'd love to hear suggestions!

I don't know... I like metal bands without screaming too, but it's harder when I'm considering your particular preferences. You could easily find more yourself if you just want more that sounds just like those emo bands you mentioned (or whatever genre it is), so I'm not sure if that's what you're asking for. I assume it isn't. Here's a few suggestions - all picked to be a bit different from eachother and the bands you mentioned (variety is good):

Leprous

Voyager

Sukekiyo (not really 100% metal, but there's a clear influence. A scream might sneak in here or there, but only because they're so stylistically varied.)

Kobra and the Lotus

King Diamond (you must have heard him already, but here it is)

There are better kinds of metal with clean singing than what you're listening to.

I don't know if you were dissing me or the guy above, but I'd like to point out that I don't listen to Leprous and Voyager myself. I can still recommend them though, since I know them and think they've got talent and style.

Also, Type O Negative rules!!

You ninja'd me.

Recently decided to give metal a try, having never really looked to deep into it, because of a friend of mine. I get the impression that a lot of the metal he listens to would be classified as melodic metal core, which i gather is kind of looked down on by some. Examples would be bands like Five Finger Death Punch.

I do find it pretty easy to listen to most of that music though, and if that's the gate to some deeper cuts and more interesting stuff, then I'm fine with it. I will say that some of the technical musicianship and unique sounds that are in metal are what are getting me to try it.

As a starting point I just bought Periphery's Juggernaut Alpha Album. I'm kind of addicted to the track MK Ultra.

Five Finger Death Punch isn't melodic metalcore.

Check out Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, Suicide Silence, and Zao.

Do you wanna listen to more metalcore? I've got way many bands who are not the kind of bull**** melodic metalcore your friend probably listens to (metalcore is a varied genre with more sounds than 95% of people are aware of).

I could also give you plenty of thrash, death, black, power, doom, stoner, sludge, etc metal. Just tell me if you want to continue on the path your friend has set you or if you want to explore... everything.

Haven't given FFDP that much of a listen past the radio singles, but I understand their first two albums are indeed melodic metalcore, but then their vocalist had to have surgery and lost the ability to scream, and so they had to switch to what you hear on the radio.

Ignore all of this but Zao, cause Zao are amazing. Suicide Silence are ass, Bring Me the Horizon are not for people with taste (though I do like some of their ****), and I don't know about Asking Alexandria but I haven't heard anything about them that made me think they were worth listening to. But Zao are gods.

Nah. I'd say they're groove metal with alternative metal sound. And the new stuff is more hard rock with alt metal. Though he still does the "scream". He just doesn't do it as often.

**** me I was thinking about Avenged Sevenfold for some reason, but yeah FFDP are not metalcore at all. They're just groove metal with aspects of melodic metalcore meant to appeal to that fanbase.

Lol. I'd agree with that. I was thinking I don't remember a surgery. But I didn't care enough to check that. Lol.

Good thinking. Why would you care enough about either band to research them?

I'd be interested in hearing the range of what metal has to offer. After diving a little bit deeper I'm already finding it's pretty diverse. I really liked Zao, was amused to read that they started off as a Christian metal band.

Coming into this I already have some taste for Hardcore Punk, and I can kind of hear the fusion and am finding it appealing in that sense. I recognize Bring Me the Horizon as one of the bands my friend listens to, and I like quite a few of the songs that I've heard of them too.

Also read someone somewhere on here recommended a band called "Enslaved", which I really like.

Enslaved rule.

Well there's traditional heavy metal, such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. That leads into thrash, such as early Metallica and Slayer. I assume I don't have to post examples of those.

Then we have extreme metal such as black metal, death metal, grindcore, and certain bands in other genres.

Black Metal





Death Metal





Grindcore




On the more melodic side we have power metal.






Slowing things down with doom metal, a genre of largely Sabbath worship, closely related to stoner and sludge metal. Stoner metal being... like, fuzzed out doom... and ****... don't worry about it since the two genres are so closely linked it can be hard to tell the difference for anyone at times. Sludge metal is sort of like both the above genres but with a heavy hardcore punk influence.

Doom Metal



Stoner Metal



Sludge Metal




Plenty of other kinds of metal out there, but those are some of the biggies and will give you a good start.

You know Batty, if you actually applied yourself you could probably make something of your metal knowledge. You lazy ****er.

Opeth are awesome. Otep are also awesome.

Any recs for good BM (preferably the atmospheric, hypnotic kind with long songs) with a female singer?

The whole song is perfect

I forgot to specify that I like my BM raw as hell, not really into the whole melodic/symphonic stuff.
Thanks for replying though.

How about some Ulver worship with a female singer?

Speaking of Ulver, Nattens Madrigal > Bergtatt

Awesome.

Not bad, but those "ethereal" vocals are really off-puting to me.