They are, for the Big Four Tour [http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/03/15/final-big-four-tour-date-arrives/].silver wolf009 said:
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I can see what you mean there, it's definitely an interesting listen. That said, for me there's something missing from it. I don't really know how to describe it, it just feels a bit empty, a little too clean and precise. I enjoy listening to it, but for me it'll never keep me coming back like A celebration of guilt has.Sightless Wisdom said:
Oh boy, an opportunity to talk about music - huzzah for thread necromancy. I shall hereby make ordered lists!
As you might have noticed if you clicked either of those boxes, I rather like metal. I stick mainly to the Symphonic, Gothic, Power, Folk, Melodic, and Progressive varieties, though I like the odd Black, Melo-Death, or Metal-core bands as well (and of course some bands combine those elements with several other sub-genres to produce something unique).
[small]Listed alphabetically by artist, and chronologically by album release date.[/small]
[hr]
After Forever
Prison of Desire
Decipher
Exordium [small](EP)[/small]
Invisible Circles
Reimagine
Mea Culpa [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
After Forever
Amberian Dawn
The Clouds of Northland Thunder
Angtoria
God Has a Plan for Us All
Apocalyptica
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Inquisition Symphony
Cult
Reflections
Apocalyptica
Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
Worlds Collide
Arjen A. Lucassen's Star One
Space Metal
Artrosis
Hidden Dimension
In The Flowers' Shade
In Nomine Noctis
Fetish
Ascension Theory
Regeneration
Answers
Avantasia
The Metal Opera Pt. 1
The Metal Opera Pt. 2
The Scarecrow
Axel Rudi Pell
Shadow Zone
Mystica
Tales Of The Crown
Ayreon
The Final Experiment
Actual Fantasy
Into The Electric Castle
The Universal Migrator - Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
The Universal Migrator - Part 2: Flight Of The Migrator
Ayreonauts Only [small](compilation)[/small]
The Human Equation
01011001
Timeline [small](3-disc compilation)[/small]
Beyond Twilight
The Devil's Hall Of Fame
Section X
Blind Guardian
A Twist In The Myth
Brazen Abbot
Guilty As Sin
Celesty
Time Before the Ice [small](Demo)[/small]
Reign Of Elements
Legacy of Hate
Mortal Mind Creation
Celldweller
Celldweller
Christopher Lee [small](seriously, Christopher Lee just released a symphonic metal concept album today)[/small]
Charlemagne
Cloudscape
Cloudscape
Communic
Waves Of Visual Decay
Coronatus
Porta Obscura
Dark Moor
Shadowland
The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
The Gates Of Oblivion
Between Light And Darkness [small](EP)[/small]
Dark Moor
Beyond The Sea
Tarot
Delain
Lucidity
April Rain
Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards
Touched By The Crimson King
Devin Townsend Project
Addicted
Dragonforce
Inhuman Rampage
Ultra Beatdown
Edenbridge
My Earth Dream
Eden's Curse
Eden's Curse
The Second Coming
Elis
Dark Clouds In a Perfect Sky
Epica
The Phantom Agony
Consign To Oblivion
We Will Take You With Us [small](compilation)[/small]
The Score - An Epic Journey
The Divine Conspiracy
The Classical Conspiracy
Design Your Universe
Eyes Of Eden
Faith
Falconer
Falconer
Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
The Sceptre Of Deception
Grime vs. Grandeur
Northwind
Among Beggars And Thieves
Freedom Call
The Circle of Life
Gravity Burn
Weight And Sea
Heavenly
Coming From The Sky
Sign of The Winner
Dust To Dust
Virus
Hydrogyn
Deadly Passions
Jorn
Starfire
Worldchanger
Out To Every Nation
The Duke
Live In America! [small](2-disc live album)[/small]
Unlocking The Past [small](cover album)[/small]
Lonely Are The Brave
Kamelot
Karma
Epica
The Black Halo
Ghost Opera
Karmakanic
Who's The Boss In The Factory?
Katra
Beast Within
Krypteria
Bloodangel's Cry
Lacrimas Profundere
Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts
Lacuna Coil
Shallow Life
Luca Turilli
King of the Nordic Twilight
Prophet of the Last Eclipse
The Infinite Wonder of Creation
Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Lost Horizons
Lullacry
Sweet Desire
Be My God
Crucify My Heart
Vol. 4
Lunatica
New Shores
Masterplan
Enlighten Me [small](EP)[/small]
Masterplan
Back For My Life [small](EP)[/small]
Aeronautics
Midnattsol
Where Twilight Dwells
Millenium
Hourglass
Mundanus Imperium
The Spectral Spheres Coronation
Myrath
Hope
Nemesea
In Control
Nightwish
Angels Fall First
Oceanborn
Wishmaster
From Wishes to Eternity [small](live album)[/small]
Over the Hills and Far Away [small](EP)[/small]
Century Child
Once
Dark Passion Play
Nocturnal Rites
In a Time of Fire and Blood
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
The Sacred Talisman
Afterlife
Shadowland
New World Messiah
Grand Illusion
The 8th Sin
Nuclear Blast Allstars
Into the Light
Octavia Sperati
Grace Submerged
Operatika
The Calling
Orphaned Land
The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Pain
Pain
Rebirth
Dancing With the Dead
Nothing Remains the Same
Psalms of Extinction
Cynic Paradise
Passionworks
Passion Play
Blue Play
Queensryche
Empire
Redemption
Snowfall On Judgement Day
Rhapsody Of Fire
Triumph or Agony
Ride The Sky
New Protection
Allen/Lande
The Battle
The Revenge
Satyrian
Eternitas
Savatage
Dead Winter Dead
Poets and Madmen
Serenity
Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
Fallen Sanctuary
Shadow Gallery
Digital Ghosts
Silent Force
The Empire Of Future
Infatuator
Worlds Apart
Walk The Earth
Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens
Sonata Arctica
Ecliptica
Silence
Songs Of Silence [small](live album)[/small]
Winterheart's Guild
Reckoning Night
Unia
Stratovarius
Elements Part 1
Polaris
Stream Of Passion
Embrace The Storm
The Flame Within
Symphony X
The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Paradise Lost
Tarja
My Winter Storm
Tarot
Spell of Iron
Follow Me Into Madness
To Live Forever
To Live Again [small](live album)[/small]
Stigmata
For the Glory of Nothing
Suffer Our Pleasures
Crows Fly Black
Undead Indeed [small](2-disc live album)[/small]
The 69 Eyes
Back In Blood
The Snakes
One Bitten
Live In Europe [small](live album)[/small]
Threshold
Dead Reckoning
Thunderstone
The Burning
Todesbonden
Sleep Now, Quiet Forest
Tristania
World of Glass
Unsun
The End Of Life
Virgin Black
Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Within Temptation
The Silent Force
The Heart Of Everything
[hr]
After Forever
Prison of Desire
Decipher
Exordium [small](EP)[/small]
Invisible Circles
Reimagine
Mea Culpa [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
After Forever
Amberian Dawn
The Clouds of Northland Thunder
Angtoria
God Has a Plan for Us All
Apocalyptica
Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
Inquisition Symphony
Cult
Reflections
Apocalyptica
Amplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello [small](2-disc compilation)[/small]
Worlds Collide
Arjen A. Lucassen's Star One
Space Metal
Artrosis
Hidden Dimension
In The Flowers' Shade
In Nomine Noctis
Fetish
Ascension Theory
Regeneration
Answers
Avantasia
The Metal Opera Pt. 1
The Metal Opera Pt. 2
The Scarecrow
Axel Rudi Pell
Shadow Zone
Mystica
Tales Of The Crown
Ayreon
The Final Experiment
Actual Fantasy
Into The Electric Castle
The Universal Migrator - Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
The Universal Migrator - Part 2: Flight Of The Migrator
Ayreonauts Only [small](compilation)[/small]
The Human Equation
01011001
Timeline [small](3-disc compilation)[/small]
Beyond Twilight
The Devil's Hall Of Fame
Section X
Blind Guardian
A Twist In The Myth
Brazen Abbot
Guilty As Sin
Celesty
Time Before the Ice [small](Demo)[/small]
Reign Of Elements
Legacy of Hate
Mortal Mind Creation
Celldweller
Celldweller
Christopher Lee [small](seriously, Christopher Lee just released a symphonic metal concept album today)[/small]
Charlemagne
Cloudscape
Cloudscape
Communic
Waves Of Visual Decay
Coronatus
Porta Obscura
Dark Moor
Shadowland
The Hall Of The Olden Dreams
The Gates Of Oblivion
Between Light And Darkness [small](EP)[/small]
Dark Moor
Beyond The Sea
Tarot
Delain
Lucidity
April Rain
Demons & Wizards
Demons & Wizards
Touched By The Crimson King
Devin Townsend Project
Addicted
Dragonforce
Inhuman Rampage
Ultra Beatdown
Edenbridge
My Earth Dream
Eden's Curse
Eden's Curse
The Second Coming
Elis
Dark Clouds In a Perfect Sky
Epica
The Phantom Agony
Consign To Oblivion
We Will Take You With Us [small](compilation)[/small]
The Score - An Epic Journey
The Divine Conspiracy
The Classical Conspiracy
Design Your Universe
Eyes Of Eden
Faith
Falconer
Falconer
Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
The Sceptre Of Deception
Grime vs. Grandeur
Northwind
Among Beggars And Thieves
Freedom Call
The Circle of Life
Gravity Burn
Weight And Sea
Heavenly
Coming From The Sky
Sign of The Winner
Dust To Dust
Virus
Hydrogyn
Deadly Passions
Jorn
Starfire
Worldchanger
Out To Every Nation
The Duke
Live In America! [small](2-disc live album)[/small]
Unlocking The Past [small](cover album)[/small]
Lonely Are The Brave
Kamelot
Karma
Epica
The Black Halo
Ghost Opera
Karmakanic
Who's The Boss In The Factory?
Katra
Beast Within
Krypteria
Bloodangel's Cry
Lacrimas Profundere
Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts
Lacuna Coil
Shallow Life
Luca Turilli
King of the Nordic Twilight
Prophet of the Last Eclipse
The Infinite Wonder of Creation
Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Lost Horizons
Lullacry
Sweet Desire
Be My God
Crucify My Heart
Vol. 4
Lunatica
New Shores
Masterplan
Enlighten Me [small](EP)[/small]
Masterplan
Back For My Life [small](EP)[/small]
Aeronautics
Midnattsol
Where Twilight Dwells
Millenium
Hourglass
Mundanus Imperium
The Spectral Spheres Coronation
Myrath
Hope
Nemesea
In Control
Nightwish
Angels Fall First
Oceanborn
Wishmaster
From Wishes to Eternity [small](live album)[/small]
Over the Hills and Far Away [small](EP)[/small]
Century Child
Once
Dark Passion Play
Nocturnal Rites
In a Time of Fire and Blood
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
The Sacred Talisman
Afterlife
Shadowland
New World Messiah
Grand Illusion
The 8th Sin
Nuclear Blast Allstars
Into the Light
Octavia Sperati
Grace Submerged
Operatika
The Calling
Orphaned Land
The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Pain
Pain
Rebirth
Dancing With the Dead
Nothing Remains the Same
Psalms of Extinction
Cynic Paradise
Passionworks
Passion Play
Blue Play
Queensryche
Empire
Redemption
Snowfall On Judgement Day
Rhapsody Of Fire
Triumph or Agony
Ride The Sky
New Protection
Allen/Lande
The Battle
The Revenge
Satyrian
Eternitas
Savatage
Dead Winter Dead
Poets and Madmen
Serenity
Words Untold & Dreams Unlived
Fallen Sanctuary
Shadow Gallery
Digital Ghosts
Silent Force
The Empire Of Future
Infatuator
Worlds Apart
Walk The Earth
Sirenia
At Sixes And Sevens
Sonata Arctica
Ecliptica
Silence
Songs Of Silence [small](live album)[/small]
Winterheart's Guild
Reckoning Night
Unia
Stratovarius
Elements Part 1
Polaris
Stream Of Passion
Embrace The Storm
The Flame Within
Symphony X
The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Paradise Lost
Tarja
My Winter Storm
Tarot
Spell of Iron
Follow Me Into Madness
To Live Forever
To Live Again [small](live album)[/small]
Stigmata
For the Glory of Nothing
Suffer Our Pleasures
Crows Fly Black
Undead Indeed [small](2-disc live album)[/small]
The 69 Eyes
Back In Blood
The Snakes
One Bitten
Live In Europe [small](live album)[/small]
Threshold
Dead Reckoning
Thunderstone
The Burning
Todesbonden
Sleep Now, Quiet Forest
Tristania
World of Glass
Unsun
The End Of Life
Virgin Black
Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Within Temptation
The Silent Force
The Heart Of Everything
Agathodaimon
Alestorm
Angra
At Vance
Ava Inferi
Axenstar
Battlelore
Beautiful Sin
Beseech
Brainstorm
Crystal Ball
Darkwell
Dream Evil
Dreamland
Dreamtale
Dream Theater
Echoes Of Eternity
Edguy
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Evergrey
Excalion
Falkenbach
Fatal Force
Gamma Ray
H.I.M.
Hammerfall
Harmony
Iced Earth
Imperia
In Tenebris
In This Moment
Karelia
Korpiklaani
Kotipelto
La-Ventura
Leaves' Eyes
Machines of Grace
Manticora
Maroon
Mercenary
Metallica
Mob Rules
Mortal Love
Miseration
Orden Ogan
Pagan's Mind
Paradise Lost
Primal Fear
Raintime
Revolution Renaissance
Requiem
Royal Hunt
Scar Symmetry
Siegfried
Silentium
Steel Attack
Suspyre
Tapping The Vein
Theater of Tragedy
The Crest
The Gathering
Therion
To-Mera
Turisas
Twilightning
Urn
Visions Of Atlantis
Walls of Jericho
Wolfcry
Xandria
Alestorm
Angra
At Vance
Ava Inferi
Axenstar
Battlelore
Beautiful Sin
Beseech
Brainstorm
Crystal Ball
Darkwell
Dream Evil
Dreamland
Dreamtale
Dream Theater
Echoes Of Eternity
Edguy
Elvenking
Ensiferum
Evergrey
Excalion
Falkenbach
Fatal Force
Gamma Ray
H.I.M.
Hammerfall
Harmony
Iced Earth
Imperia
In Tenebris
In This Moment
Karelia
Korpiklaani
Kotipelto
La-Ventura
Leaves' Eyes
Machines of Grace
Manticora
Maroon
Mercenary
Metallica
Mob Rules
Mortal Love
Miseration
Orden Ogan
Pagan's Mind
Paradise Lost
Primal Fear
Raintime
Revolution Renaissance
Requiem
Royal Hunt
Scar Symmetry
Siegfried
Silentium
Steel Attack
Suspyre
Tapping The Vein
Theater of Tragedy
The Crest
The Gathering
Therion
To-Mera
Turisas
Twilightning
Urn
Visions Of Atlantis
Walls of Jericho
Wolfcry
Xandria
Rusty Bucket said:
And thank you for reminding me that they have brought out a new album. Though Haven, The Mind's I and The Gallery are quite good too. Never favored Stanne's clean voice. Makes me cringe. Which is why I never liked Projector.
OT: A metal band I rediscovered lately is Disarmonia Mundi. And I most say that I prefer Björn in this band rather than Soilwork. The Isolation Game is what you call 'perfecting its genre(s).'
His clean vocals have improved so much on their latest album. It doesn't sound anything like his old stuff at all. I haven't gotten into The Gallery all that much, although after watching their live DVD and hearing some of the stuff from it I may give it a better listen.Savory said:
Holy crap. Those are some damn fantastic lists. I can't really comment on the content of them since I haven't heard of most of the bands though. Although this does say something about the variety of metal. I have nearly 5 days worth of metal on my Itunes, but you've just given me a massive list of bands that I've never heard of.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Anyone hear news of In Flames? I wanna know what's happening with the new album now that the guitar player left. I always liked their stuff. Sometimes the keyboards got annoying, but other than that their new stuffs good. Old stuff is great of course: classic Gothenburg death metal.
What's the verdict on the new album? Like not so much "good or bad" because I know it'll be good--it's Dark Tranquillity--but I wanna know how it compares the their other stuff. And The Gallery is another Gothenburg scene classic.Rusty Bucket said:
And I always liked his clean vocals, but that's me.
Oh good, that was exactly the effect I was going for and the utility I hoped somebody might derive from those lists (though honestly I just like making lists no matter how useless, heh) - validation, whee! [small]Also: All together my current collection of metal can play for just over a week without repeating - thanks for prompting me to do the math, heh.[/small]Rusty Bucket said:
I found the majority of those bands via the front end of the Music Genome Project, Pandora [http://www.pandora.com], which is a wonderful resource for discovering music you've never heard yet clearly would enjoy given the commonalities it shares with music you know about now. One that sadly won't help you much given your listed location of the UK, since Pandora doesn't broadcast in your region thanks to royalty issues (there are probably ways around that of course, but you didn't hear that from me).
In other metal related tangents: You (and anyone else posting in this thread that actually likes metal) should consider joining The Metal Group here on the Escapist - the more the merrier!
Another great music recommendation thingy is last.fm [http://www.last.fm/home]. It tracks the music you listen to with a simple application and recommends similar bands. It's also a great site to simply show others your music taste and compare it. My profile [http://www.last.fm/user/Ironboot], if anyone's interested.Gildan Bladeborn said:
I'll join the metal group immediately!
Well, I don't think it's as good as their last few albums, but then how the hell are you supposed to follow those? Not being as good as Damage Done is perfectly acceptable. I think the new album has a bit too much filler, and the guitars have been toned down a bit to make way for more keyboards, but even the worst songs on the album are still perfectly listenable, and since it's Dark Tranquillity they're substantially better than a lot of other bands efforts. Well worth picking up.pantallica95 said:
Classic Metal,
ya know,
Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Metallica
and
Gamma Ray, Twisted Sister (I know, its hair metal), Bon Jovi, the list goes on and on
But I cant stand Death Metal and "new metal", ya know, crap like SlipKnot, cant stand them
ya know,
Black Sabbath, Dio, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Metallica
and
Gamma Ray, Twisted Sister (I know, its hair metal), Bon Jovi, the list goes on and on
But I cant stand Death Metal and "new metal", ya know, crap like SlipKnot, cant stand them
At the moment I really like more Progressive stuff, like Protest the hero, Sikth and Gojira. I love Machine head, and In flames or soilwork's older stuff. And of course anything by Devin townsend. I can't really pin down any specific style of metal I like, I like at least one band from nearly every style, even the more maligned ones like Metalcore (early killswitch Engage) or nu-metal (Korn and Soulfly).
A week is pretty damn impressive. I'll admit I'm quite fussy when it comes to what metal I like, so my collection progresses somewhat slower than most people's.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Ahhhh Pandora. I used to use it all the time before they cut off access to the UK, if only for the hilarious descriptions for some bands (how does 'Abrasive male vocals, downtuned guitars, unintelligible vocal delivery' sound?). I have tried a few times to access it via proxy's, but it always comes up with an error. I have to settle for Last.fm, which I don't think is quite as good.
I had actually joined that group minutes before I checked this quoute, but thankyou for the reccomendation. It looks like a decent place to chat, even if it does make me question the validity of this thread somewhat.
Also found The Gallery to be the one hardest to get into. But once you do, it's great. And yes his vocals on The Mundane and the Magic is great along side with Nell Sigland. As long as he keeps it to a minimum, then it's fine with me.Rusty Bucket said:
I think everyone here should listen to Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss. That is hands down their best album. It mixed the ferocity of Reign in Blood with some of the tempos and melodies of South of Heaven. Awesome riffs are peppered throughout every song, and nothing compares to listening to the whole thing beginning to end.
You know, I'm fed up of waiting for The Absence's new album now. They've released two studio diaries that consist of them doing pretty much bugger all and have yet to release any album info other than the name. Maybe that's just how they roll, but god damnit, it's frustrating.
Edit:
Edit:
I've never really listened much to Slayer, but I kind of feel like I should given their reputation and influence. Any songs you'd suggest starting with? Bear in mind I've not really listened to anything similar to their genre before, I usually listen to Death Metal.pantallica95 said:
My favorite kind of metal is mainly melo-death. My absolute favorite metal bands are:
1. In Flames
2. Children of Bodom
3. John 5
4. Dark Tranquillity
5. Trivium
Other metal bands I like include Rob Zombie, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce, Nightwish, Slipknot, Adversary (pretty unknown band, I highly recommend checking out their album Singularity), Engel, Ministry, Everytime I Die and a bunch of other stuff.
1. In Flames
2. Children of Bodom
3. John 5
4. Dark Tranquillity
5. Trivium
Other metal bands I like include Rob Zombie, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce, Nightwish, Slipknot, Adversary (pretty unknown band, I highly recommend checking out their album Singularity), Engel, Ministry, Everytime I Die and a bunch of other stuff.
