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Good Morrow everyone! I'm italian, I play the guitar. And I love music. And I worship metal music. And also classical music, honestly. My favourite band is Blind Guardian. But I also love Metallica, Theatre of Tragedy (with Liv Kristine), Therion, Nightwish (with Tarja), The 3rd and the Mortal, My Dying Bride. OK, here's my last.fm page, with the music I listen to: http://www.lastfm.it/user/sallydona. I also write music. Here's my youtube page http://www.youtube.com/user/gloomweaver93 So. I hope I'll have a good time here.

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Hi Gloomweaver! Great to have you here! What is the Metal scene like in Italy?
Hi Dilatedmind! Your question is actually difficult. The Metal scene in Italy is not very flourishing. We have 1. Very few great bands: Rhapsody of Fire (epic/symphonic/neoclassical metal), 2. Some good bands, like Elvenking (folk metal, quite good, but a little too "catchy") Ancient Bards (epic metal) Lacuna Coil (metal/rock) 3. A lot of "underground bands" 3a. Some of them are very good. For exemple "Ogen" (black metal). 3b. Most of them consider themselves great, incredible, the best metal band in Italy. In fact, they are technically quite good, but they are all pretty much the same. They have the same sound, the same style. They're not "original". Consequently they're neither interesting nor good. So. You can see we're not very good at metal... But this is just my opinion...
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You're not a fan of stuff like Necrodeath' date=' Paul Chain, Black Hole, Forgotten Tomb, Mortuary Drape, Bulldozer, etc...?[/quote'] Honestly I don't like them much. Probably because I don't like doom metal. I mean, I like gothic doom metal, death doom metal, but pure doom metal "is not my cup of tea". So. (Forgotten Tomb is very good, though) But if I think "Ok, tell me a great italian metal band, known in all the world", only Rhapsody of Fire comes to my mind... If I think "Ok, tell me a great english metal band, known in all the world", a very very long list appears... So...
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Honestly I don't like them much. Probably because I don't like doom metal. I mean, I like gothic doom metal, death doom metal, but pure doom metal "is not my cup of tea". So. (Forgotten Tomb is very good, though) But if I think "Ok, tell me a great italian metal band, known in all the world", only Rhapsody of Fire comes to my mind... If I think "Ok, tell me a great english metal band, known in all the world", a very very long list appears... So...
If you like gothic doom, how about Novembre then? Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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If you like gothic doom, how about Novembre then? Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Actually I have to confess that I tried to listen to them a long time ago, and I didn't like them. But I wasn't really into gothic doom at that time, that is why I didn't like them, probably. But thank you for reminding me of them. I will try to listen to their works again. Not too soon though, because I don't have much time to listen to music, recently.. By the way, I hope I'm not indiscreet, but are you italian? Because you know the italian scene very well...
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1. Very few great bands: Rhapsody of Fire (epic/symphonic/neoclassical metal), 2. Some good bands, like Elvenking (folk metal, quite good, but a little too "catchy") Ancient Bards (epic metal)
Rhapsody of Fire, Elvenking both get regular play on my playlists - Ancient Bards, I can't get enough of. They're at the top of my favorite bands list right now!
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hello laiand welcome Gloomweaver, I can answer your question for you, Blut isn't Italian (to the best of my knowledge) he just has a very, very, very solid metal base, I sometimes think he could name at least one metal band from every country on earth, me not so much though I do know a bit about American, German, British and Swedish metal, really do need to dig more into the scene in my own country though, so few Australian bands in my collection

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