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Metal!!!
Ixarku:
Bal-Sagoth is great. I'm the only person out of any of my friends who's listened to them a lot. The first song (and still one of my favorites) I ever heard from them is Callisto Rising. That particular album, The Power Cosmic, is probably my favorite by them.
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: froody1911 on March 24, 2012, 01:46:21 PM ---Interesting. I always thought of viking metal as melodic death.
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Nope, combination of Black Metal, (Nordic) Folk and Doom touches for the most part. Often has slow bombastic drums and mid-range growls, along with other things. The best example to exemplify the sound I can think of are Einherjer, but their music isn't as good as other bands. Often one element dominates the sound lending the variation; Equilibrium's Viking/Black, Slartibartfass' Viking/Folk or Moonsorrow's Viking/Doom for example. And yes, Diapsiqur is indeed an acquired taste that usually takes a little while to really understand what they're doing. I love it but can see why a lot wouldn't :P
Anyway, a have a friend whose almost exclusively been listening to Dark Metal since it's origins so I dredged up his list of rec's for you.
(click to show/hide)2) Dark metal
95 AGALLOCH - Ashes Against the Grain
93 KAUAN - Lumikuuro
90 KAUAN - Tietäjän Laulu
90 EMPYRIUM - Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
90 OCTOBER FALLS - The Womb of Primordial Nature
90 AGALLOCH - The Mantle
90 IN THE WOODS… - Omnio
87 FOREST STREAM - Tears of Mortal Solitude
87 FALLS OF RAUROS - Hail Wind and Hewn Oak
87 *FALLS OF RAUROS - Into the Archaic
87 UARAL - Sounds of Pain
87 RAVENTALE - Mortal Aspirations
87 AGALLOCH - The Compendium Archive
87 OCTOBER FALLS - A Collapse of Faith
85 OCTOBER FALLS - The Streams of the End
85 IN THE WOODS… - Heart of the Ages
85 AGALLOCH - The White
85 SVAFNIR - The Heathen Chapters
85 PEORDH - Glaring From Spacious Woods And Mountains Of Eternal Frost
85 AGALLOCH - The Demonstration Archive 1996-1998
85 RAVENTALE - Long Passed Days
83 *NACHTREICH - Sturmgang
83 EMPYRIUM - A Wintersunset…
83 DARKTRANCE - Beyond the Gates of Insanity
80 AGALLOCH - Pale Folklore
80 DARKTRANCE - Ghosts in the Shells
77 THE MORNINGSIDE - The Wind, The Trees and the Shadows of the Past
77 RAVENTALE - On a Crystal Swing
--- Quote from: Ixarku on March 24, 2012, 05:42:40 PM ---Bal-Sagoth is great. I'm the only person out of any of my friends who's listened to them a lot. The first song (and still one of my favorites) I ever heard from them is Callisto Rising. That particular album, The Power Cosmic, is probably my favorite by them.
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I began with Battle Magic but usually listen to Ultima Thule these days. Though it's a hard album to recommend because I can never remember the full name of the title. *looks up* "Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule." Yeah... I can remember foreign names easier than that. But yah, their output is pretty consistent...
abc cuz:
PARKWAY DRIVE
look up any of their songs
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: abc cuz on March 24, 2012, 07:43:12 PM ---PARKWAY DRIVE
look up any of their songs
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The number of Metalcore bands I don't think stink are very small. Combining bland Groove Metal with Bro-fisting New York Hardcore is just a recipe for disaster, and to my mind PD fall into this category. But hey, at least it isn't as bad as Deathcore, which to my current knowledge consists of one little known French band that I like. I counter with 7 Angels 7 Plagues who manage to remain quite creative with it, and latter Converge who started out as Hardcore Punk so have an idea of how to make an energetic song.
froody1911:
I find metalcore really underdeveloped and lacking in variety. When I want unhinged aggression, I'd rather listen to RATM or SOAD.
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