Any suggestions for new bands I should listen to?

[UsefulIdiot127]

I enjoy a wide variety of metal, just not really the metalcore type stuff. I enjoy technically complex music, as well as melodic stuff. Mixes of light/mellow with dark/heavy is a huge plus.

My favorite bands at the moment:
Dream Theater
Opeth
Between the Buried and Me (Yes I know, convenient that these three bands happen to be touring together)
Guitar guys like Satriani
Old metallica, megadeth
Big Iced Earth fan
Anathema has sounded promising
Maiden
Sonata Arctica
Symphony x
As for other genres, I like tool, radiohead, muse, etc

So yea, I'd appreciate any and all suggestions. I'm wiling to listen to anything no matter how obscure it is. I just need some new life pumped into my repertoire of bands.

thanks

 

[Lord Kur]

vrolok

 

[mutantllama]

Demons and Wizards. It's Jon Schaffers and Hansis project.

 

[muzmaze]

Some of the best new stuff is Pyramaze, Communic, Hibria, & Olympos Mons.

 

[Black Friday]

You might try Queensryche. Great Prog-Metal band, get Operation: Mindcrime.

 

[UsefulIdiot127]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check some out. Also I forgot, I like Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur a LOT

anything else like that out there?

 

[The Ozzman]

You might try Queensryche. Great Prog-Metal band, get The Warning.

FYP

 

[Lord Kur]

why? did he mention he worked for a circus?

 

[The_Quadfather]

Psychotic Waltz - Probably heard of them but a great prog band, nonetheless

 

[Alter]

Pelican
Boris

 

[UsefulIdiot127]

Psychotic Waltz - Probably heard of them but a great prog band, nonetheless

Never have actually, i'll check it out

 

[Black Friday]

FYP

I don't have that album yet, is it a similar style to the stuff they made just after it?

 

[Einherjar86]

Also I forgot, I like Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur a LOT

anything else like that out there?

Do you like Borknagar? He sang for them for a few albums.

Empiricism
Epic

However, their album right before Empiricism is my favorite:

Quintessence

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

try Heavenly - Sign of the Winner, and Heavenly - Dust to Dust

 

[Thrashard]

hi!

i recommend:

Tourniquet (Psycho Surgery, Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm)
Mortification (Relentless)
Hades (Exist To Resist)
Fearscape (Sleeping In Light)
Skyfire (Spectral)
The Experience (Insight, Realusion)
Orphaned Land (Mabool)
Into Eternity (Buried In Oblivion)
Deep Inside Myself (At A Late Hour)

 

[Methanium]

You'd probably like Evergrey and Judas Priest. Always Judas Priest.

 

[scytheavatar]

If you are looking for great progressive metal:
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

Great progressive death metal:
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Persefone - Core

Great Thrash:
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

Great Power metal:
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the other side, Nightfall on Middle Earth
Kamelot - The Black Halo, Karma

Great Progressive rock
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Great Progressive Black metal
Enslaved - Isa, Below the Lights
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors, La Masquerade Infernale

 

[waif]

I enjoy a wide variety of metal, just not really the metalcore type stuff. I enjoy technically complex music, as well as melodic stuff. Mixes of light/mellow with dark/heavy is a huge plus.

My favorite bands at the moment:
Dream Theater
Opeth
Between the Buried and Me (Yes I know, convenient that these three bands happen to be touring together)
Guitar guys like Satriani
Old metallica, megadeth
Big Iced Earth fan
Anathema has sounded promising
Maiden
Sonata Arctica
Symphony x
As for other genres, I like tool, radiohead, muse, etc

Orphaned Land
Testament, Savatage, Anthrax, Kreator
Blind Guardian, Edguy, Avantasia, Tad Morose
Judas Priest, Fates Warning

 

[Dem0n0id]

Riverside
Fates warning
Moonsorrow
Pain of salvation
Bathory
Ayeron
Nevermore
3 inches of blood

 

[MetalHordes666]

I enjoy a wide variety of metal, just not really the metalcore type stuff. I enjoy technically complex music, as well as melodic stuff. Mixes of light/mellow with dark/heavy is a huge plus.

I just found these guys sounds like you'd love them.

SAETITH

heres their sites
www.saetith.tk
www.myspace.com/saetith