well i've never listened to power metal but they say that they are SID-metal... i have no clue what it meansBlargh McBlargh said:
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Some of these bands might not be exactly what you're looking for, but they're all great, so you should check them out anyway.
Allow me to introduce you to Moonsorrow. If you don't give a shit about lyrics and just want music, this should be a half hour of excellence for you.
Aside from that, there's The Project Hate, an amazing industrial death metal band.
Another amazing death metal band would be Gorguts, which is pretty much the best technical death metal band to ever exist. There are many bands that are still trying (and failing) to catch up to their album Obscura. A warning though, if you aren't already a huge fan of death metal, you will probably hate this, and even if you are, it still might take a few listens to start enjoying it.
For black metal, you need look no farther than ...And Oceans.
And one more band that you need to listen to is My Dying Bride. Pure awesomeness.
Allow me to introduce you to Moonsorrow. If you don't give a shit about lyrics and just want music, this should be a half hour of excellence for you.
Aside from that, there's The Project Hate, an amazing industrial death metal band.
Another amazing death metal band would be Gorguts, which is pretty much the best technical death metal band to ever exist. There are many bands that are still trying (and failing) to catch up to their album Obscura. A warning though, if you aren't already a huge fan of death metal, you will probably hate this, and even if you are, it still might take a few listens to start enjoying it.
For black metal, you need look no farther than ...And Oceans.
And one more band that you need to listen to is My Dying Bride. Pure awesomeness.
I'm guessing most people around here are more likely to give you black and power metal than metalcore, so here's a big metalcore video dump.
^This one is super NSFW by the way.
SID - Sound Interface Device. The Commodore-64's sound chip. While horribly outdated now, it was one of the crowning features of the 64's capabilities back in the day of the TI-99/Commodore/Atari 400 wars. Some of my favorite tunes were composed on this 8-bit synthesizer.Laurents van Cauwenberghe said:
There's two bands I'll add. Manowar during their sellout years, because they did a lot of mythologically-based songs during that time, you could always get a discography somewhere and preview the songs on YouTube. Van Canto might be another band worth previewing because they also do some medieval-themed stuff, but they're essentially an acapella metal band with a drummer, more well known for their covers than their original material.
Aside from that, I'd agree that Nightwish and Iron Maiden also have some good medieval themed stuff.
I was late to the party. Was the first thing that came to mind when someone said "Medieval-themed metal"King of Asgaard said:
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ragonforce is also a good one, even if they can't play their own stuff live.
fair enough. but honestly i don't think it matters really, as long as it's awesome music it can be called wooptiedoo for all i careBlargh McBlargh said:SID Metal is not a genre, as they'd pretty much be the only band that would play it. SID refers to the Commodore 64 sound chip that they use to get those distinct beeps and boops in their music.Laurents van Cauwenberghe said:
Genre-wise they're power metal with a gimmick.
I suggest you check out the genre though, it has some awesome and extremely melodic bands in it.
They're either prog death or tech death depending on the song.5-0 said:
Technical death metal fits much better. As a general rule, prog refers to bands whose focus is composition, so you'll get long songs with lots of sections and which don't have a simple structure, unusual instrumentation, unusual time signatures, etc. Technical bands are just as complex, but they focus on the raw technicality of what they're playing, so you end up with lots of polyrhythms and songs that usually centre around a single insanely difficult pattern rather than lots of different sections.Scrustle said:
Math metal refers to bands who write using time signatures generated by equations or based around specific numbers, like pi.
I don't really like the term because it could easily apply to any style of band that used that guitar tone, whereas what it's supposed to mean is that crunchy polyrhythmic chugging based music. Technical death is the term I'd use.Blargh McBlargh said:
My suggestions:
Opeth
Gojira [sub]I know they've been suggested but they deserve repeating[/sub]
Serious Beak
I thought this said Ancient Beards....... now i think i'm going to have to start a band just to name it ANCIENT BEARDS!Tallim said:
Architects are another good metalcore band.
And definitely seconding children of bodom. Completely kickass. As piinyouri said their early albums are much better, but there are a couple of great songs on the newer ones.
EDIT: Oh my. How could I forget this.
And definitely seconding children of bodom. Completely kickass. As piinyouri said their early albums are much better, but there are a couple of great songs on the newer ones.
EDIT: Oh my. How could I forget this.
Well, I have one that nobody has recommended yet.
It's completely instrumental though, so I hope you really prefer the music to lyrics.
It's completely instrumental though, so I hope you really prefer the music to lyrics.
If were going to name doom metal (MDB is awesome no doubt) :ohnoitsabear said:
One of my personal favorite bands.