god i hate new metal.

[cdwillis]

Here's a band you might be interested in that I found a while back:

www.myspace.com/hibria

[horns666]

Here's a band you might be interested in that I found a while back:

www.myspace.com/hibria

Hibria is OK, I have it..There is a shitload of bands in that genre (euopean power metal) that are actually much better IMO

There is a female fronted band called Benedictum for example. She's not ALL prissy, nor does she growl like Angela of Arch Enemy. This girl has pipes!!!!!..Jeff Pilson of Dokken produced the cd..check 'em out.

Check the first few pages on my thread (Bill's new home). I posted a big list of "clean" vocal metal style there..it hasn't been revised in years. That was the days before Myspace..

[horns666]

Here's a peek..from page 3.

Adagio
Angra
Arachnes
The Armada
Ark Storm
Angel Dust
Apocrypha
Armageddon
Annihilator
Arch Rival
Ark
Artention
Astral Doors
At Vance ....Olaf Lenk..
Avalon
Avantasia
Axenstar
Andromeda
Antithesis ...these dicks (kidding) are from my hometown ...signed to Massacre ....and where my singer if from
Altaria
Alchemy X
Afterworld
Anguish
Agent Steel
Balance of Power
Beholder
Beyond Twighlight ...Jorn Lande on this one!
Black Majesty
Black Rose
Black Smith
Blaze ...ex iron maiden...he's much better on his own
Blind Gardian
Blue Murder....fuckin' John Sykes man!
Brazon Abbot
Burning Point
James Byrd..
Brainstorm.............one of the best powermetal band there is!!!
Cronic Temple
Cydonia
Chroming Rose
Crystal Eyes ...very good power metal
Cacophony ...of course ...freidman and becker ...
Cage ...Darker than Black is their best singer sounds like Owens.
Candlemass....who in the **** don't own this and why???!!!
Cans ...this is singer from Hammerfall with metal Mike C of Halford ....not bad
Chinchilla .....cool powermetal they have four out.
Circle II circle ..I like this better than anything Tage did since EOT..
Cities "anilhilation absolute ...this is a shred clasic from the 80s that still kicks ass today.
C.O.E ...ex singer iof Angel dust ...not bad stuff.
Conception...these are must have period ..Tore Otsby of Ark and Khan from Kamelot ...amazing stuff!!
Concerto Moon one of the best progessive prog metal shredders in Japan ...amazing ****!!!
Controled Denied ...OK for all you guys that love the late Chuck S. from death nd the music this is Death with Tim Aymar on vocals who is one hell of a powerhouse singer ....he should of been in Iced Earth....but my boy Tim is doing a fine job I must admit.
Conquest...worlds apart ..a littel rainbow/deep purple vibe with a great guitaist ...
Cornerstone ...Dougie white front this classic hard rock / melodic metal....not that hard but
it's good!
Crimson Glory ...the first two release is a must S/T and Trancendence ...amazing upper vox from midnight and awesome song writing and harmonies...
**OK now it's time to slip a little nastyness into the mix ..
This was my first band that turned me on to more extreme vocal styles ....because the music and guitar playing and tone is so perfect and captivating ...it hooks you instanly ...it is...Coroner...."mental Vortex" ...this would kick your ass even if you thought the vox were a little too harsh ...belive me the music is so fuckin' good...you won't mind the vocals at all....I promise!!!
Damned Nation ....
Dark Avenger
Dark Moore ...spanish powermetal their last one is really good!
Deliverance ....yes the christian metal band ...yeah I know I'm a satanist but good riffs are good riffs..
Demon Drive
Demons & Wizards ...you should know this one..
Destillery
Destiny ...swedish prog ..
Destinys End ....James Rivera (Seven Witches , Hellstar) on vox
DGM ...great prog metal band.
Digital Ruin ....they put one great prog metal album out and disappeared..
Dionysus ...shred o' plenty
Dofka ...this is a shred classic ...but good luck finding this one!!
Dived Multitude ...very proficent Prog Metal
Domine ....total anthemic european power metal.
Double Dealer ...Concerto Moon guitarist ...from Japan ...one hell of a player
Dragonforce ....this is solid powermetal ...they just released a new one.
Dragonland ....yep you got it polished anthemic powermetal
Dream Evil ....quirky songwriting with Gus G....he shreds....I like his other projects better but this is still worth checking out .
Dreamtale ...nice powermetal from finland on spinefarm
Drive ...classic metal with and awesome guitarist
Dr. Mastermind ....this has been a favorite of mine for a while ...lots of shred ...but the production is a bit dated ...but I still like it.
Dungeon ...new powermetal band on Limb ....pretty tasty straight foward metal.
Dylesia ....another powermetal gem with great playing ...and they al;so just put out a new one I didn't get yet!
Dyecrest...new metal band on noise ...pretty tasty!
Easy Rider ....they are from Spain ...I recommend evilution..
Edguy ...awesome powermetal veterens....they just get better and better I'm diggin' them more than Helloween right now..
Edendbridge ...another european female fronted melodic metal band ...very good too by the way.
Eidolon - Huge fan of these guys ...This is Glen Drover's (X-King Diamong) dark aggressive progressive metal band ....John and I had the pleasure of meeting and hanging with them when they rehearsed at John's place....we got a free show ....nice!

[horns666]

cont..

Elegy ...bunch of great albulms w Pat Rondat on Geetar
Empty Tremor ...one of many DT prog wannabees but these guys stand out because they are very good ...and have their own style..
Empire ...ahhh Tony Matin and Lance king sang with these guys...
Enertia ....this is a thrahy prog band from chicago that is not really signed to a big label ...but **** I think they are great ...I have all three but I think they may have a new one out..
Enola Gay ...straight foward powermetal band on century media label that has a great heavy guitar tone and cool catchy metal tunes..cool ****
Epica ...I reviewed this thing and praised it ...I still do ...if you like nightwish ...I'm sure you'll love this ...this chick sings awesome ...their like a ten pice orchestra with them ...it a fuckin' light / dark very epic ...nicely produce stuff ...I like it!
Eterna ...italian power metal shredding player ...cool
Evergrey ....do I need to say more ...the best band I mentioned so far ...every album a must ...esp.."Recreation Day" ..awesome band..
Exihibition ...ex seven witches singer on Limp ...pretty decent.
OK this is not powermetal ...it's old school trash with a major kick in the ass.....,
Exodus "Tempo of the damned " ...by far one of my most recent favorite albulms ....I love these guys and this ones my favorite ...it fuckin' crushes!!! ...I drove to the store with this in my stereo (loud)....my neck was killin' me when I got home...
Fair Wairning ...this guy is one of the best guitarist on the entire planet right next to uli ...he is the closest thing to uli and a good freind and fan of Uli ....he had the same Guitar Co. make him a similair guitar as Roth's ...all those frets and seven strings....amazing BUT ...the music is a bit soft (Journey AOR style)....but the guitar playing is amoung the best you ever heard..
Falconer ...a bit cheezy swedish medieval anthemic powermetal ..but they do it with some very likable charm..
Fates Warnibg ...especially their early stuff ...nuff saud here.
Fifth Angel ...great 80's hard rock / metal with a younger James Byrd on on the axe....again , one of the best.
Fight ....Halford ....scott travis ....awesome heavy shredding ....I like!
Firewind ...Gus G and Ex Keziner singer in an amazing neo classical power metal band ...this is like YJM's rising force but more aggressive in music style ...great ****!
Fifth Reason...These guys are in the same camp as Candlemass , Momento Mori , Hexenhouse , Tad Marose , Memory Garden ...Very Mike Wead style player ...dark progrssive metal ..awesome!
Firebird ...this band is a retro 70's styled band fronted by EX Carcass Bill Steer ...very much like Mike Amotts Spritual Beggars and Grand Magus..this sounds totaly authentic ...like you're listening to some killer guitar rock band during the seventies ..like a much heavier Grand Funk ...cool rock / bluesy riffage and tones..
Forbidden ...wow ...This is classic **** but it's amoung my favorite ..if you love bands like Santuary , HelStar , early Nevermore ....this kicks ass ....tghe early stuff sounds awesome but it's shows its' age ...with that very classic thrash style..the later suff Tim Calvert (very nice dude) absolutely smokes ...why this guy never got much attention is beyond me ...he later shared lead duties with Lomis in Nevermore....and some night he wemt head to head with Loomis big time ..He's a airline pilot family man now..that shreds like a b1tch..
Force Of Evil ...This is Classic Merciful Fate without the King ...Period ...this kicks total fuckin ass ...Denner & Sherman ...**** ....Singer from Iron Fire on Vox..
Freedom Call ....Helloweens' drummer is in this band and they are a vey polished power metal band if you're into helloween , gamma ray , edguy and such..
Freternia ..straight forwrad neo classical power metal from Italy with one of many guitaist there that shreds ..they're worth a mention I guess...but there's better out there.
Jack Frost ...Raise you fist to metal ...yeah Jack has his dick stuck in another project and this time it's his own ...Jacks a nuce dude that has some feel amd knows good tone ..(just bought an Uber) ...he's not much of a shredder but he writes a damn good metal song and that's what counts ....he always surrounded by great musicians to support him ...that's cool.
Fozzy ....OK I'm not a fag ...My fuckin' kid likes WWE big Time and this is Chris Jericho (Y2J) band who's basically (stuck Mojo) who I don't like because it's Rap Metal.. So I picked this up used ..It's the Happenstance cd witha few originals on it this time ...It's produced by Andy Sneap and so I put it on expexting to hear something very gay ....and it kicked my ass ...these guys could be more serious and put out and whole original thing instead of fuckin' around playing decently played cover songs...This must be his hobby..The originals are very good!
Gallaglass....polished powermetal on Limb
Gallows Pole ....another half way decnt straight forward metal band on Limb
Gamma Ray ....these are pioneers of Powemetal along with Heloween .....a must have ....nuff said..
The Gathering ....I was introduced to this band on a sampler from Nightime Birds ...I instantly connect with this chick singer ...annekke ...she was amazing ....unbeliveable is more like it ...the only female singer out their that can give me a chill ...even though the're are several other female singers that are incredible (you know who they are ) ...none of them have what anneke has IMO...unfortunately The gathering has evolved into somewhat of a techno darwave style ...to a point ...I don't dig that direction musically but her voice is captivating and better than ever ...if it wasn't for her I wouldn't give a flyin' **** about The Gathering...
GB ARTS ...this is somewhat of a weird project/band ...very epic progressive metal that has moments of greatness then extreme moments of what the **** is this **** ...
Godiva ...total straight forward metal witha singer than sounds like love child of Halford and Bon Scott ...very good for those who love straight forward amthemic metal...very traditional metal style..
Gothic Knights ....these guys are allright and worth a mention ...they just put out a new one on Limb and seems to be fans of classic Savtage and seem to want to make this obvious ....it's not 'old Tage or even close but's it's not bad.
Grand Magus ...Sweden stoner 70s retro fuckers return ...this time darker and heavier ...I love this album ....very catchy and just plain good ...spiritual begarr singer on this again ...if you like their first ...this one is much better...for people into Firebird , Spirtual beggars , High On fire , Tjhe Quill, Sheavy and shit like that..

well, you get the idea..

[Endrik]

If Peter Gabriel ever started playing prog metal I'd be in heaven.

lol, that's pretty funny

but the mastermind behind Peter's production... the great David Bottrill has also produced many metal albums... check 'em out... not as sick as Peter's albums production wise but still pretty out of the box compared to most of the stuff

[Endrik]

my problem with new metal is that there's lack of memoriable hooks... and it doesn't really groove... don't like growling vocals and treadful harmonized guitar lines in every 3 seconds either... but there's some decent stuff out there... you just have to search really hard and keep an open mind

[GodOfRhythm]

I knew he was vaguely involved with SFAM. I've been meaning to get the Bottrill mixes of SFAM for a while now, should probably get round to that. His Tool work is awesome. I'll definitly dig into him a bit deeper. Thanks for the head's up, Endrik!

And I feel you! GROOVE, GROOVE, GROOVE. Everyone's pissing themselves over Porcupine Tree's greatness lately, but I just can't get into them. It was half an hour ago, when listening to FOABP for the umpteenth time, trying to convince myself, that I finally said: 'I just can't connect, this shit doesn't groove'.

95% of bands nowadays just don't groove. It's cookiecutter crap. By FAR the worst area in this is the entire power metal genre. Clone after clone after clone after clone of one-dimensional rhythm guitars (overly saturated, 'upto the speakers', shizzy, fizzy, grainy, overly tight, CRAP tone), gallops, cheesy melodies and digital sounding harmonies. It can get really frustrating at times, but you've got to keep digging, there's lots of awesome stuff out there.

[Endrik]

I knew he was vaguely involved with SFAM. I've been meaning to get the Bottrill mixes of SFAM for a while now, should probably get round to that.

His Tool work is awesome. I'll definitly dig into him a bit deeper. Thanks for the head's up, Endrik!

yep, Tool has awsome production

you should also check out a band called I Mother Earth, Bottrill produced their last album called The Quicksilver Meat Dream... very interesting ideas although not the strongest album that this band has done... the best album is DIG wich was produced by Mike Clink who also did Guns'n'Roses Appetite For Destruction

Bottrill also produced probably the most in your face sounding album I've ever heard, it's Mudvayne's The End of All Things To Come.
The Drums and Guitars are hyper brutal but still the bass is so loud and clear in the mix so that Ryan Martinie's awsome jazz-fusion and funk lines would be audiable.

[Endrik]

Yeah, it's kinda lame that rock bands don't groove anymore... unlike The Stones, Zep, Aerosmith etc. back in the day

I try to show the wonderfull world of funk, soul and rhythm'n'blues to rockers and metalheads to get some rhythmicality in their music.

btw. I Mother Earth is one of the groovies rock bands ever. full of funk basslines and latin drum beats

[Endrik]

I think rhythms/groove is the thing that can unite different people. I've seen a lot of people from hip-hop etc. backround getting into rock... when the rock has some great grooves.

Hip-hop is popular because it has groove.

Kids don't like old school jazz because it swings... so people like Marcus Miller and John Scofield have replaced swing with strong backbeats and r'n'b/funk type of rhythms and tons of kids show up at their concerts

[Strat God]

Lighten up guys
There's GOOD SHIT out there..............................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PzagXsD0Y

[Strat God]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHUFbnMXSpc:ROTF:

[Nuclear Vampire]

Cannibal Corpse rules.

[toejam]

Cannibal Corpse rules.

Yes, indeed! The older stuff is hard to understand, but since The Bleeding album came out in '94, there really isn't much need for a lyric sheet to understand the vocals.

And Alex Webster is one of the best bass players ever!

[emperor_black]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fTpQOZcNASw

Still get a kick listening to CC.