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Re: Underrated or Unknown Metal

Re: band t'shirts! Too many to count! lol. My favorite are: Anathema - Serenades Anathema - Eternity Avernus - Where Sleeping Shadows Lie Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic Helloween - Better than Raw Morgion - Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth Morgion - Trillium Rune Cradle of Filth - Praise the Whore Cradle of Filth - Lord Abortion Cradle of Filth - Vestal Masturbation Cradle of Filth - Touched by Jesus Cradle of Filth - (I can't recall the title of) Paradise Lost - Gothic Moonspell - Irreligious My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory Type O Negative - (various tour shirts) There are more but I can't think of then all.

Re: Manowar

Re: What Are You Listening To? My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun

Re: Bal-Sagoth Oi, yet another silly label derived from bands that are either "black" metal and/or viking/folk with perhaps less organic keyboard flurishes. Rhapsody is simply 'Dinner Theatre Metal' by that standard. Bal-Sagoth is good but awful live, or at least the vocals are.

Re: Devin Townsend If it wasn't for the silliness I'd have ignored it as I have the rest of his material.

Re: What Are You Listening To? That was the second DT album I got and I've always liked it. Its more mainstream than what came before and after it but it's still got some great songs. NP: Type O Negative - Dead Again

Re: Cannibal Corpse

Re: Manowar I love Manowar! I've got most of their material and it's simply killer IMO. 'Hail To England' blows goats however. Hammerfall was good up to and including 'Crimson Thunder'. They really stopped trying after that album. Although 'Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken' & ' Threshold' did have some good songs but were mostly miss. They've degenerated into a relatively heavy Hair band.

(This is a "ported" topic from the old board written by Ryan Henry not me. However I have added to parts of this.) For those who have never heard funeral doom, but are curious as to what it's all about, here are some general characteristics of the genre. I can tell you that it's not for everyone... - Very slow, heavy music; with few "riffs". Relies more on chording or a few riffs to eventually build into a soundscape. - Snail-slow drums with sparse fills; traditional drums are often replaced with timpani (Skepticism does this frequently) - Almost always employs keyboards or organ. - Vocals are usually guttural, almost to the point of being indecipherable; often sound pitch-shifted; will also employ chanting or spoken verse - Lyrics are as sparse as the music; often not following traditional song structure at all - Songs usually clock in at anywhere between 8 to 14 minutes, and are often intentionally repetitive Very quickly, funeral doom unofficially "began" with the recordings of the Finnish band Thergothon in the early 1990s. The production was horrendous; the songwriting, stellar. From here, a number of bands emerged. Skepticism, another Finnish act, would follow in the vein of Thergothon. Esoteric, out of the UK, would release some very essential work as well. diSEMBOWELMENT would mix the "funeral doom" pace with grindcore and ambient/world music. Funeral doom peaked in the early 2000s, with the release of Shape of Despair's "Angels of Distress" -- often held up as the gold standard of the style. Finland is considered the "nexus" of this style of doom. If you are still interested in exploring this style, here are the best albums to start with: Colosseum - Chapter 1: Delirium** Colosseum - Chapter 2: Numquam** Colosseum - Chapter 3: Parasomnia** Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency** Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum Evoken - Shades of Night Descending* Evoken - Embrace the Emptiness*,** Evoken - Quietus Evoken - Antithesis of Light Hierophant - The Tome Mistress of the Dead - Weeping Silence of the Dead** Mistress of the Dead - White Roses, White Coffin Mistress of the Dead - I Know Her Face from the Tombstone Panthiest - 1000 Years Pantheist - O Solitude Reclusiam - Reclusiam Stabat Mater - Stabat Mater Shape of Despair - Shades of...** Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress Shape of Despair - Illusion's Play Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet** Skepticism - Lead and Aether Skepticism - Aes Skepticism - Farmakon Thergothon - Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens** Tyranny - Bleak Vistae Tyranny - Tides of Awakening Until Death Overtakes Me - Symphony III - Monolith Wormphlegm - Tomb of the Ancient King Worship - Last Tape Before Doomsday Worship - Dooom *Not considered "pure" funeral doom, but borrows elements from the genre ** RECOMMENDED starting points for the FD initiate

Re: Your favorite death metal bands? Death Cannibal Corpse Obituary Disincarnate Carcass Dismember Atheist Pan-Thy-Monium Massacre Immolation Morbid Angel Torture Killer Diabolic (live only)

Re: What Are You Listening To? My Dying Bride - Trinity (European version, to work) Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (at work)

Re: Theory Buffs or "All Ears"?

Re: Candlemass Indeed. That whole album is pretty good.

Re: Underrated or Unknown Metal Avernus Aarni Alice in Darkland Aphotic Forest Stream Hierophant In Ruins Loss Necare Neolithic Mythic Legend I could go on....

Re: What Are You Listening To? Trouble - Trouble (on the way to work) Process of Guilt - Renounce (at work)

Re: Theory Buffs or "All Ears"? I've been playing guitar for over half my life and I've never used any theory. There is a place for that sort of thing but its so narrow minded in its spectrum. Shooting from the hip is the best way to get anything done IMO.

Re: Cannibal Corpse I've always had a soft spot for them. I've seen them 3 or 4 times and they put on excellent shows every time. I've got all their CD's and for a while they were my favorite Death Metal band. Obituary is my all time favorite now.

Re: What Are You Listening To? Helloween - The Dark Ride

Re: What Are You Listening To? Helloween - Mrs. God Helloween - Better than Raw Evoken - Quietus

Re: What Are You Listening To? Aarni - Tohcoth

Re: female metal vocalist? Floor Janson - After Forever Lisa Johansson - Draconian Vibeke Stene - Tristania Kari Rueslatten - The 3rd & the Mortal Runhild Gammelsæter - Thorr's Hammer Anneke Van Giersbergen - The Gathering Ailyn - Sirenia Dana Duffey - Mythic Anette Olzon - Nightwish Those are the best off the top of my head but I know I'm missing a few...

Re: Favorite bands? Iron Maiden Type O Negative Paradise Lost Mar de Grises Judas Priest

Re: cannibal corpse art work I love all their covers but I think their best is 'Gallery of Suicide' followed by 'The Wretched Spawn' & then 'Tomb of the Mutilated'.

Re: What Are You Listening To? Legend - Death in the Nursery