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Hey Yobo' date=' do you know A Canorous Quintet? "Silence Of The World Beyond" and "The Only Pure Hate" are some really awesome old-school melodeath, if you like old DT and In Flames you might really dig them.[/quote'] Nope, never heart of them. I'll check them out. Do you know "The Moaning"? Kinda the same, but they've released only one album. But you might like it :)
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Nope, never heart of them. I'll check them out. Do you know "The Moaning"? Kinda the same, but they've released only one album. But you might like it :)
The Moaning?! What kinda band name is that... :D No, I'll look for them on youtube. I know there's a full album stream of Silence Of The World Beyond, you should definitely give it a listen. No clean vocals, though...
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The Moaning?! What kinda band name is that... :D No' date=' I'll look for them on youtube. I know there's a full album stream of Silence Of The World Beyond, you should definitely give it a listen. No clean vocals, though...[/quote'] Haha, I don't know, but they've split up. And will do, but that's something for tomorrow, as I am right now in a more black metal mood :)
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There's a bit of black metal in their sound - in fact that's why I got into them when I was a teenager, it was the trem-picked black metal melodies and blasts, higher vocals, but arranged in a less straightforward death-metal way. That's what I loved about the Gothenburg scene, and that's what I feel is missing from everything after the mid-to-late 90s - it's not that I don't like new music, I love new music, but I feel like the bands that stuck around from that scene kept the boring parts, supplemented them with some really lame shit, and stopped doing the good stuff.

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There's a bit of black metal in their sound - in fact that's why I got into them when I was a teenager' date=' it was the trem-picked black metal melodies and blasts, higher vocals, but arranged in a less straightforward death-metal way. That's what I loved about the Gothenburg scene, and that's what I feel is missing from everything after the mid-to-late 90s - it's not that I don't like new music, I love new music, but I feel like the bands that stuck around from that scene kept the boring parts, supplemented them with some really lame shit, and stopped doing the good stuff.[/quote'] It seems that there aren't many (new) bands around which still have that sound in their music. At least, I don't know them. As you see with thrash and heavy metal, there are also new bands which have the old-school sound. But new bands playing melodeath like this away, it doesn't seem that they exist.
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It seems that there aren't many (new) bands around which still have that sound in their music. At least' date=' I don't know them. As you see with thrash and heavy metal, there are also new bands which have the old-school sound. But new bands playing melodeath like this away, it doesn't seem that they exist.[/quote'] I know, and it sucks. A Canorous Quintet put out their last (I think?) album in 1998, though I hear rumors of some other new recordings. I'm trying to keep that black metal influence alive in my own music - very much a 90s kid in that regard. To me, the old DT stuff, ACQ, old At The Gates, all those albums are influential classics. I miss that sound.
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I know' date=' and it sucks. A Canorous Quintet put out their last (I think?) album in 1998, though I hear rumors of some other new recordings. I'm trying to keep that black metal influence alive in my own music - very much a 90s kid in that regard. To me, the old DT stuff, ACQ, old At The Gates, all those albums are influential classics. I miss that sound.[/quote'] I agree, they all have specific, recognizable sound from that period. But At the Gates is also working on new material, hope it will be nice.
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Wow' date=' I haven't even thought about those guys in years! I'll have to go listen to that now.[/quote'] I secretly checked out A Canorous Quintet (which sounds really nice as far as I heard) and saw that one in the suggestions on youtube and just had to listen to it. For me, it was also a long time ago, since the last time I've listened to that album.
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I agree' date=' they all have specific, recognizable sound from that period. But At the Gates is also working on new material, hope it will be nice.[/quote'] I agree, I hope so too - unfortunately it's easy to blame Slaughter Of The Soul for the dumbing-down of the Gothenburg sound, they lost a lot of what I liked when Alf left. I'm looking forward to the ATG album but I can't get my hopes up too high.
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I agree' date=' I hope so too - unfortunately it's easy to blame Slaughter Of The Soul for the dumbing-down of the Gothenburg sound, they lost a lot of what I liked when Alf left. I'm looking forward to the ATG album but I can't get my hopes up too high.[/quote'] To be honest, I think that the chance is big that it will be like a 'Slaughter Of The Soul Part II'. Commercial seen, that sells better.
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'The Chant of Mighty Offspring' by A Hill To Die Upon. You'd think it's a deathcore band name, but they're actually black metal. These guys got rave reviews so I'm checking them out. It's pretty coherent and progressing well; at least after the first song, which was pretty mediocre. I'm still waiting for the brilliance that led people to given them 99% and 100% ratings on Encyclopedia Metallum.

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