big changes that bands made THAT YOU LIKE!

[Zephyrus]

DsO goes without saying.

I actually listen to Dark Tranquillity's last two albums more than their early stuff.

Dimmu Borgir, with the exception of ISD I find their music enjoyable.

 

[Einherjar86]

The one that comes to mind first is Amorphis. I love the alt-goth/melodeath thing they're doing, or whatever you want to call it.

I also agree with Bathory, and would throw out Samael (at least, I like their move to Passage and Eternal, even if they've made a few bad moves since then).

 

[celestialelixir]

Cynic: Focus -> Traced in Air
Edge of Sanity: Infernal/Spectral Sorrows -> Crimson 2 (Well it's basically just Dan Swano's change, but I like it nonetheless)
Katatonia: BMD -> TD/LFDGD

 

[Death Aflame]

Anathema
Katatonia
Agalloch
Enslaved

 

[Dagon666]

Sodom (from black to thrash)

 

[byrne]

Tiamat - I equally like Sumerian Cry and The Astral Sleep but also enjoy Wildhoney which is completely different from their first two, but still stands on its own rights.

 

[Eligos]

Gorguts, dude.

 

[The Ozzman]

Carcass

This. Heartwork is fucking amazing.

 

[Belligerent]

Katatonia and Enslaved without a doubt progressively got better. I hardly ever listen to their early material. I'll throw in Death and Carcass as well, except Swansong was quite a disappointment.

 

[Eligos]

Blut Aus Nord too.

 

[Belligerent]

Blut Aus Nord too.

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[Personified Hatred]

Hypocrisy (all their changes except the Nu Metal one), Bathory, Burzum, Kreator and Slayer.

 

[ArneZ]

This was a hard one. I guess there are some, but if I enjoy a band with a change of sound I usually enjoy their old stuff just as much. Like many have said Katatonia, I can agree with this. But I also enjoy their old sound just as much as the new.

 

[Sven Pakkanen]

I second Bathory. I'll add Abigail Williams dropping (most of) their american "core" sound with "In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns."

I also enjoyed Opeth's transition from Orchid to Deliverance, up until everything after Deliverance. I found each album to be consecutively more enjoyable, with the exception of Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse being my favorites.

Judas Priest dropping their poppy sound and releasing a concept album was great too. 80% of Nostradamus was great.

 

[Personified Hatred]

I was forgetting: THERION!!!

 

[damnromulans]

Amorphis, Bathory, agree with Paradise Lost, Tiamat, Theatre of Tragedy (after Aegis it all went to hell though).

 

[Xorv]

ulver
katatonia
amorphis

 

[Mort Divine]

ToT's only good album IS Aegis

 

[Sven Pakkanen]

ulver

As in switching to the electronic stuff? Really? Bergtatt is the only album of theirs I can do.

 

[Death Aflame]

Ulver'd fit the bill I think. Folk, electronic, black metal --mostly quality music.