First, I tried to use the search as best I could. Dug around for quite a few hours comparing bands in the discussion with their legal music demos. It seems rare to find darker themed music that is executed as well (I think it's the timeless sound of acoustic passages). Songs like "When", "Moonlapse Vertigo" set the bar so ridiculously high.
Everything that comes close seems to have rock-opera vocals (there really is nothing worse, imho) or some kind of contrived theme. Where are all the great "metal hippies"?
Everything that comes close seems to have rock-opera vocals (there really is nothing worse, imho) or some kind of contrived theme. Where are all the great "metal hippies"?