I'm bored so I decided to blog a bit about the only thing i like more than wasting time with BW, music, or to be precise metal music. I have listened to countless bands and I always enjoy discovering new ones, here I will list some of my more recent discoveries and why they kick so much ass, they might not all be new bands, but they are new to me.
1.System Shock
These guys were formed in 2003 in Sweden and play melodic death metal, now since melodic death metal has quite a few meaning these days it might not mean much to some people, but what they play is not the standard American/Gothenburg variety of MDM. Its a nice blend of fast riffs and melodies with a guitar sound I don't hear too often, the vocalist does his job quite good although he doesn't really stand out from the crowd of similar singers. Their debut album - Arctic Inside - was a very enjoyable listen for me, especially the song - DevilWish -.
Here we have another melodic death band that has caught my ear with their album - Anatomy Of Life -, they were formed in 1998 and are based in Finland. I usually have reservations about Finish MDM bands since after the success of Children of Bodom a lot of bands are copying their style and passing it of as MDM, but there are also exceptions like Noumena. The Finish sound is recognizable in their music but not to much, and they play quite nice melodies with a solid rythm background and throw in female vocals here and there, usually the qualm i have with Finish MDM is that they have weak guitar sound and rather sharp lead guitars compared to Swedish MDM, but Noumena is quite up my alley. From their album Anatomy of Life i recommend the songs - Retrospection - and - Misanthropolis -
take a listen here
3. Novembre
Now here we have a band that has forced its way into my heart since the moment i heard their first tunes, i have gotten all of their albums and enjoy them a lot. They play gothic/doom metal but with a lot of various influences in between, the band was formed in 1993 in Italy. Its hard to describe their music, in some ways its similar to Opeth with clean vocals and very nicely done acoustic passages, but they can also break out the growls and fast paced rythms and melodies, its just something you have to hear, and love <3. I love all their albums so its hard to pick a few personal favorites among the songs, but if i had to I would pick - Verne, The promise (Arcadia cover) and Valentine. Check them out if you like Opeth and similar bands (even though judging them on the base of genre does not do them justice)
Take a listen here:
There we have it folks, my first blog entry, If there is any response I will make more, in fact I will probably make more since I have to practice my English before the state finals . Technical data on the bands was taken mostly from Metal archives.
EDIT : in related news it turns out I dont know how to handle links since they all end up at the bottom of the page one after the other, so I put the rest of the links down here.
its not emo !!!! Although if you wish the next update could be emo for your pleasure ! Nah I think I will make it about doom, but there will be no Muse involved thats for sure !
lol wtf i heard of novembre too haven't really listened to them but these days i really like daylight dies and swallow the sun i never knew doom metal was so good -_-
of alffla dont get me started, il probably put those bands in my next update, Daylight dies and STS are soooo good, btw you woudnt happen to have the new daylight dies album ? Also if you like those bands listen to Novembre, Draconian, Tristania and Saturnus for sure
hahah oo nice yeah man i listen to wide variety of music mostly emo stuff, hardcore, metal, even indie (coldplay, travis? lol) just a lot of subgenres of rock basically (oh plus i love electronica too lol trance and house <3). anyhow i discovered daylight dies and sts like 2 months ago maybe? haha they fucking own lol when i read about doom metal it was all like 'really really really really slow metal' im like lol it cant be that good must be boring as hell nevertheless i gave it a try and found out doom metal is fucking amazing lol
anyway no i dont have their latest album if you're referring to their 2008 album which is due June? i only have dismantling devotion.. :o
i read somewhere that the new album was out in february, guess im misinformed. yeah i listen to pretty much everything, trance too its awesome, Draconian is very similar to STS so you should check them out first here ya go ^^
haha i didnt even know they had an album coming out i just checked wiki and it says june... i'll make a note to check out all those bands sometimes thanks!
hi, sorry this is off topic but the first thing I thought of when I read this thread title was bands on a chromatography column. like the separation bands due to the affinity of the compound to the media on the column based on the structure of the cmpd...man, I feel like a nerd.
Anyway, on topic, I don't know any of those bands.
well raithed thats okay, but you could have said * i dont like them * instead of they are all bad, you cant just label music as bad because it does not fit your taste.
Yeah, they're great too, but I'm more into neo-thrash things such as The Haunted, The Crown or Lamb of God because I find them to be more powerful and aggressive. Nice to see some real metalheads anyway
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. Technical data on the bands was taken mostly from Metal archives.
i just checked wiki and it says june...
