CraigM
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Funny, I actively disliked it compared to their older work. Vocals did nothing for me.
https://youtu.be/IfbIAJy9kF8
It seems Avantasia is going to release a new album.
The music and vocals are great, however he’s been stealing compositional bits from his past work for a while now, which, while making it instantly recognizable as Avantasia, it’s also starting to run together for me, and has been for the past few albums.
The lyrics are where I’m having the most problems with recent Avantasia output. They just don’t make much sense. Which is a shame, since he has written some fine lyrics in the past, both in Avantasia and in Edguy. But in the past several years, the lyrics have been pretty awful.
Which makes me wonder if Amanda Somerville might have been helping him with the lyrics in the past, as I seem to remember her saying something to the effect of helping him transfer his meaning into English more properly. I’m only speculating here though, as a way to make this sudden downturn in meaning make sense to me.
Still, the lyrics here are better than the god-awful Mystery Of A Blood Red Rose, which made me wince when I first heard it.
Example: “While the hour don’t wait for a blink to cram the past.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjRq72ZBZxs
The greatest mistake you can make is listening to lyrics!
Thanks god I’m not English-native, so for me ignoring the lyrics is the default, usually it’s the other way around for me: I have to focus on what I’m listening to really get the lyrics (and how silly they can be).
ShivaX
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It’s been 35 years since this record came out and I have been listening to it along with the follow up Fire Fire recently. It still sounds like an incredible slice of modern metal all these years later. In 1987 it was straight from some crazy Japanese led dystopian Metal future that I wanted to live in.
https://youtu.be/HWwxNf6oOH0
If you know E Z O then you know. If not, it’s about 36 minutes. Give it a listen and then check out Fire Fire which is a somewhat different kind of record but had similar massive highs, especially Black Moon which is probably my favorite E Z O song ever.
Way ahead of its time.
Have some stoner rock? with a female singer
Something new I didn’t know had arrived…
Moon Tooth seem like a band many here would adore. I think this one’s even more accessible than the last. It’s prog metal… kinda. It has a NYC edge via Long Island. It’s just… cool. Enjoy.
I had never seen them live. Jesus Christ… it’s amazing.
Not sure anyone here knows, but Skid Row hired the singer from Swedish group H.E.A.T. this year and it’s like they’ve been reborn…
Lighter… for the vocals
Heavier because this song still fucking grooves…
I was poking around Youtube looking for a nice playlist I could leave running in the background while I was doing other stuff, and lo and behold, “Doctrix” has delivered with the Female-Fronted Symphonic Metal list. It runs to 300 videos, of which I’ve gone through about 120 so far, and it’s about a 70% hit rate on stuff I’ve very much enjoyed. And the other 30% isn’t terrible, just not in my wheelhouse. For my fellow symphonic metal people, there’s plenty here to like.
Another Soilwork video
https://youtu.be/UBpZy6myvu8
Different than usual!
New symphonic project that has some potential, The Erinyes. Video is a bit much but I suppose if you’re gonna name your project after the female furies, there’s gonna be some sexy domination themes.
ShivaX
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Somehow there is already new Spiritbox.
Edit:
Apparently there is even more?
I’m so confused, but happy.
Edit2:
Okay, I got nothing.
3 singles out of nowhere on the same day?
I mean I love it, but
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It’s about time for some cleansing death metal. Golgothan Remains are a nice little Aussie band doing the lovely cavernous dissonant style with beautifully evil touches.
Won’t find wide appeal in the thread, but if you like Ulcerate, Gorguts, Immolation, Dead Congregation, you’ll probably like this. :)
Lyrics are pretty fascinating to me. I don’t think you can ever totally disregard them - at least if the vocals are somewhat clean - but I also think that songwriting is sort of a dark art. You don’t actually have to be good at writing, you can totally hack it.
My point of view is that you don’t have to write Blood Meridian, but you do have to write something that’s interesting. It doesn’t even have to be clear, all it takes is a line that people can catch onto.
For example, I think a band like Nunslaughter are great at writing stuff that sticks in your head.
(Three Nails, One Liar is another winner)
I think my best bid for a consummate metal song would be The Sentinel. It’s like reading a comic book and listening to a metal song all in one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ksksu9JDkg
I’m about that life!
And let’s be clear, this thread has a pretty wide range, I think that’s pretty cool. You never know what someone else is listening to that might grab you :)
Golgothan Remains has a pretty blackened feel to them, I dig it!
Most of the deathier stuff I love has that blackened feel. :)
The Priest song reminds me, the last couple of weeks (prior to relapsing back to heavier stuff) I’ve been back on a bit of a Tad Morose kick again (a regular thing). The earlier albums with Urban Breed on vocals* are absolute classics to me. Especially Modus Vivendi, which I think is their best, and just great chunky-riffed metal songs start to finish.
Highly recommended to all.
** A Mended Rhyme (1997), Undead (2000), Matters of the Dark (2002), Modus Vivendi (2003). Their albums after 2003, I don’t really like. :)
I’m a sucker for blackened speed metal, or just speed in general. The bands don’t even have to be good, they just need to play hella fast and bring some mean sounding guitars.
Content warning for excessive UH!'s:
Hell yeah, same here. The rawer and dirtier the sound the better. I basically get into anything that sounds cold or evil, or has interesting extreme vocals. :)
There seemed an overabundance of black thrash not so long ago, but it’s been a while since I’ve been sucked into a really good one.
