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Old 09-17-2013, 04:45 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Dark Moor is a male fronted symphonic band which I've found to be pretty amazing. Their Tarot album had a couple great tracks on it, including:



I guess they would be considered more neo-classical, but still. Worth a listen.
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Old 09-17-2013, 06:30 PM   #12 (permalink)
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...for teenage girls who cut themselves. But seriously, Nightwish were just a novelty band. There wasn't really much to them besides putting an opera singer over second-rate melodic metal. I haven't cared much about listening to their new singer since the one song I remember hearing was just kinda meh. Nightwish have had some good songs in the past, but they were never anything more than a novelty.
So is that what you think of symphonic metal in general?
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Old 09-18-2013, 03:38 PM   #13 (permalink)
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So is that what you think of symphonic metal in general?
It's not a genre I listen to much. At least the non-power metal bands. Nightwish is one of the only ones that I'm familiar enough with to have a strong opinion on one way or the other.
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Old 09-18-2013, 05:15 PM   #14 (permalink)
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It's not a genre I listen to much. At least the non-power metal bands. Nightwish is one of the only ones that I'm familiar enough with to have a strong opinion on one way or the other.
The last time I saw you post about them, I didn't agree too much with your opinion, but then once I thought about it and listened to them again, I found your opinion to be of closer accuracy than I gave you credit for. And the fact that I dove into Symphonic Metal more in depth at the same time.
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Old 09-19-2013, 03:56 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Shadow Gallery are great but not that symphonic. Stratovarius are power metal but have symphonic elements, as do a lot of power metal bands and then there's Diablo Swing Orchestra, though they're kind of a category onto themselves! Adagio are pretty damn fine, as are Iced Earth, Narnia, Fairyland, Lacuna Coil, Redemption, later Savatage, TSO of course, Silent Edge, Theocracy, Tyr, Rhapsody, most of Erik Norlander's stuff, Star One, Sonata Artica, some Devin Townsend, Eden's Curse, Freedom Call, Stormbringer, Validor, Visions of Atlantis, loads more...

Good female fronted bands include Nemesea, Edenbridge, Dark Moor, and so on.
Oh, it seems I will have a lot to check out. I haven't heard of most of bands you've listed.
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Old 09-19-2013, 03:57 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Yeah, you might want to look into a different genre and just stick with those few bands that you DO like.

A few that haven't been mentioned so far are Apocalyptica, Xandria, some of Dimmu Borgir, Leaves' Eyes and Seraphim
Yeah, but sticking to these bands is slowly becoming boring, this is why I wanted to find something new.
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I think he means that bands like Nightwish and Lacuna Coil are really just "metal" for teenage girls who cut themselves.
Yep, you guessed well. Although I like old Nightwish, most of their songs sound like mediocre manistream rock played in the radio. My opinion about most of these so called female fronted metal bands are is the same. This is because of these vocalists who sound the same and try to be dark.
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And yet Nightwish is one of the best symphonic metal bands
The old Nightwish - yes. It is.
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Yeah, but sticking to these bands is slowly becoming boring, this is why I wanted to find something new.
well switch sub genres then after you have check out all of our suggestions and you still don't find anything you like that's the last resort then.

Try out different sub genres.
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well switch sub genres then after you have check out all of our suggestions and you still don't find anything you like that's the last resort then.

Try out different sub genres.
The fact is I have been listening to symphonic metal for around 6 years and changing it disturbs me. But I hope I will find something new that pleases my ears.
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