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Hey. I'm mostly into black metal, but I'll pretty much listen to anything. The only genres I don't listen to at all are metalcore/hardcore/deathcore stuff. I got nothing against them, they just don't appeal to me. I listen to a lot of rock as well. I'm always looking to discover bands I haven't heard of before, so recommendations are always welcome. My favorite two bands are Cradle of Filth and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Recently I've been listening to a lot of Darkthrone, and a lot of heavy metal bands like OZ, Satan and Grim Reaper. I'm hoping to pick up the electric guitar sometime this year. I've never learned to play an instrument before and I can't read music or anything, so if anyone can help me out with advice that would be appreciated. And uhm.. Yh.

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welcome, gotta say I can't think of a bigger contrast then Cradle Of Filth and Joan Jett, like you I'll listen to anything except metal/hard/deathcore or nu metal, favourite black metal bands for me are Melechesh and Necromantia with learning guitar the best advice I can give is firstly get a teacher who knows what they're doing (I've just recently learned that five years of my life have been wasted on guitar lessons that weren't worth it since my playing is still at beginner level) and secondly practice, practice and then practice some more

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Hello mate considering your name how about this band?
haha. Pretty cool. Haven't heard them before.
Sphynx is probably the easiest to come by (all their albums are on iTunes but apparently their older stuff' date=' especially As Jerusalem Burns, is very difficult to track down)[/quote'] I checked out Sphynx... And wow. Definitely one of the best bands I've discovered in a while. I think I'm going to be listening to them a lot.
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haha. Pretty cool. Haven't heard them before. I checked out Sphynx... And wow. Definitely one of the best bands I've discovered in a while. I think I'm going to be listening to them a lot. Thanks. Awesome signature by the way. Did you write that?
Haha! Blut you know there is an option on your phone to change that. Maybe a link to your forum here? :-)
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nah NTNR has the links to their band Dilated @Hydra BAN is in a band called Nevertanezra and his signature is lyrics taken from the song In The Face Of Despair (annoyingly one of the few Nevertanezra songs not yet on youtube) they're also worth checking out if you're interested in doom metal

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haha. Pretty cool. Haven't heard them before. I checked out Sphynx... And wow. Definitely one of the best bands I've discovered in a while. I think I'm going to be listening to them a lot. Thanks. Awesome signature by the way. Did you write that?
Melechesh is awesome, I like Emissaries just a tiny bit more than Sphynx, but they're awesome overall. And yes, those are my lyrics in my signature. As Relentless said, they're from my band's longest song Solace In the Face of Despair. I didn't write all of the lyrics on the album, but I probably will in the future. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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shame they're probably out of copies of the album, Nevertanezra were actually the first doom/death band I had heard and only the second doom band after Type O Negative, before joining this forum I was stuck in a serious rut listening to the same bands over and over, this place has been good to me, I've tripled my album collection since joining

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The Fading? Great song. Great job. :cool: I can definitely hear Paradise Lost in there.
Thanks, if we had to pick a favorite out of the songs from that album, that would probably be our vote. I wrote the lyrics for that one as well, even though I didn't do the vocals on that album. We're big Paradise Lost fans, but love and take influence from all kinds of doom, some of our favorites being Worship, Evoken, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Cathedral, Candlemass, Trouble, etc...
shame they're probably out of copies of the album' date=' Nevertanezra were actually the first doom/death band I had heard and only the second doom band after Type O Negative, before joining this forum I was stuck in a serious rut listening to the same bands over and over, this place has been good to me, I've tripled my album collection since joining[/quote'] No, we still have copies of the album and the EP left, as well as tshirts. Anybody who is interested can send me a PM and I'll arrange the sale and shipping.
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