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Some Good Female Fronted Metal Bands?

fair enough' date=' though the more you listen to bands with harsh covals the less confronting theybecome, limiting yourself t only bands with clean vocals then skipping over power and progressive metal seriously limits your range mate, just saying[/quote'] Im actually liatening to some power and progressive at the moment but only running wild and dream theater. And i enjoy those.
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The reason that I joined this forum is pretty simple.... I need new tunes and want to check out new bands etc. I am stuck in a bit of a time warp right now and can't seem to get onboard with anything put out in the last few years. Just to give a bit of background on me, I am one of those guys that believes that 2006 can never be repeated (for me anyways). 2006 saw more than a few of my favorite (and still in steady rotation) albums produced and I can't let them go.

  1. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals.
  2. It Dies Today - Sirens.
  3. Trivium - The Crusade.
  4. A Love Ends Suicide - In the Disaster.
Everything lately just sounds like crap. As of 2009, there is nothing other than the odd track here and there that seems even decent, although I still listen to Trivium (all albums), Slipknot (the melodic stuff. ie. 'Duality'), Slayer (always), Reveille, Hatebreed, Atreyu...you get the idea. Melodic-Death-Metal-Core ...... What happened ? I am stuck in pre-2009. Help me discover new stuff that won't dissapoint me as much as 'All that Remains (2012) A War You Cannot Win' did.... Cheers.
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maybe you're stuck in a loop because you aren't venturing outside the bands you already now, there's plenty of good stuff out there if you just look for it, Megadeth - Endgame is a good one from 2010, Anthrax - Worship Music, Angel Witch - As Above, So Below, Borealis - Fall From Grace, Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol, Overkill - Iron Bound, you can even go back and look at stuff from before 2006 that you hadn't heard of, by the way none of the bands mentioned above sound anything like the bands you mentioned (a good thing in my opinion) and much like BAN I can't recommend any metalcore at all because I simply don't listen to it

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now there's your problem, mate if you keep listening to the same stuff all the time you'll burn out, my advice is to have a look through the various recommendation threads on here and see if there's anything you like, BlutAusNerd's vid-lists are brilliant across the board and I'll even give you a list of threads to search for recommendations (Black Metal) suggestions (Death Metal) Doom 101 (Doom Metal) Folk Metal Essentials (Folk Metal) great albums (Power Metal) intro to prog (Progressive Metal) advanced thrash (Thrash Metal)

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