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I'm looking for black or death metal albums that have predominantly dual guitar harmony riffs. That is, when both guitars play lead parts at the same time. Please, please, must have these:
• a more trad metal feel, without abundance of tremolo, or dissonance, or groovy riffs.
• a sharper guitar note, nothing too bassy or chunky.
• no rhythm guitar playing under the melodies. Both guitars have to be playing a lead part simultaneously. This is non negotiable, if it has chords under the melodies, I don't want to hear it.
• minimal or no blast beats at all. I know this is a bit more beyond the guitar work, but it's also really important.
• I guess I don't have to say this, but the music of course has to be melodic in some form. If it's dissonant or anything, don't even bother.
• Most importantly: the harmonies have to make up the MAJORITY of the music on the album, not just a few throwaway licks here and there.
Some examples of what I'm looking for:
Opeth - Orchid
Ophthalamia - A Journey in Darkness
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Obsequiae/Autumnal Winds - pretty much anything they've done
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
Dreichemere - Despair the Withered Shadows
Autumn Requiem - As I Beheld the Blazing Glory of the Rising Dawn
Fall of the Leafe - Storm of the Autumnfall
Examples of what I'm NOT looking for: Majesties, Amorphis, Edge of Sanity, Eucharist, Insomnium, Mefitis, Arghoslent/Argho-worship bands, Intestine Baalism, Emperor, any melodic black metal in the vein of Dissection, Vinterland, Dawn or Sacramentum, A Canorous Quintet, Rotting Christ, The Absence, Dark Tranquility, Agalloch, The Chasm, Septicflesh.
I know this is super specific and it's likely there isn't much else like what I'm looking for, so thanks in advance!
I'm looking for black or death metal albums that have predominantly dual guitar harmony riffs. That is, when both guitars play lead parts at the same time. Please, please, must have these:
• a more trad metal feel, without abundance of tremolo, or dissonance, or groovy riffs.
• a sharper guitar note, nothing too bassy or chunky.
• no rhythm guitar playing under the melodies. Both guitars have to be playing a lead part simultaneously. This is non negotiable, if it has chords under the melodies, I don't want to hear it.
• minimal or no blast beats at all. I know this is a bit more beyond the guitar work, but it's also really important.
• I guess I don't have to say this, but the music of course has to be melodic in some form. If it's dissonant or anything, don't even bother.
• Most importantly: the harmonies have to make up the MAJORITY of the music on the album, not just a few throwaway licks here and there.
Some examples of what I'm looking for:
Opeth - Orchid
Ophthalamia - A Journey in Darkness
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Obsequiae/Autumnal Winds - pretty much anything they've done
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
Dreichemere - Despair the Withered Shadows
Autumn Requiem - As I Beheld the Blazing Glory of the Rising Dawn
Fall of the Leafe - Storm of the Autumnfall
Examples of what I'm NOT looking for: Majesties, Amorphis, Edge of Sanity, Eucharist, Insomnium, Mefitis, Arghoslent/Argho-worship bands, Intestine Baalism, Emperor, any melodic black metal in the vein of Dissection, Vinterland, Dawn or Sacramentum, A Canorous Quintet, Rotting Christ, The Absence, Dark Tranquility, Agalloch, The Chasm, Septicflesh.
I know this is super specific and it's likely there isn't much else like what I'm looking for, so thanks in advance!
