Extreme Metal you can feel good about

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Can anyone recommend a good extreme metal band that isn't totally ridiculous?

I want mildly extreme voxx (The Black Dahlia Murder sorta thing), with responsible use of double bass and blast beats (rather than just constant double bass and blast beats for the whole album), heavy guitar riffs (fast or slow, but fuckin' heavy), melody is a plus, and overall, thrash-y. Don't care about speed (like it fast, like it slow). Vocals can be either high (like Anders Friden (In Flames):worship: or Johan Hegg's (Amon Amarth):headbang: higher stuff) or low (like the vocalist of Vader:kickass:, The Black Dahlia Murder, or Johan Hegg's lower stuff).

I don't mind violent lyrics or anything, but I prefer lyrics that aren't just slasher flick bullshit (NO CANNIBAL CORPSE!:zombie:), Satanic idiocy (NO DEICIDE!o_O), or all around assholery. Though a little Satan, little grotesquery, or a little bullshit is fine. And NO EMO SHIT! :cry:TRIVIUM SUCK!:cry:

I think there are other people out there who would also love to hear something along these lines. I would recommend Burn To Black and Dew-Scented (check out Issue IV) but don't know much else...in terms of thrash, I know Slayer, Exodus, and Kreator (although that's not quite what I'm looking for). Please, if you find something, post it up here.
 
Can anyone recommend a good extreme metal band that isn't totally ridiculous?

I want mildly extreme voxx (The Black Dahlia Murder sorta thing), with responsible use of double bass and blast beats (rather than just constant double bass and blast beats for the whole album), heavy guitar riffs (fast or slow, but fuckin' heavy), melody is a plus, and overall, thrash-y. Don't care about speed (like it fast, like it slow). Vocals can be either high (like Anders Friden (In Flames):worship: or Johan Hegg's (Amon Amarth):headbang: higher stuff) or low (like the vocalist of Vader:kickass:, The Black Dahlia Murder, or Johan Hegg's lower stuff).

I don't mind violent lyrics or anything, but I prefer lyrics that aren't just slasher flick bullshit (NO CANNIBAL CORPSE!:zombie:), Satanic idiocy (NO DEICIDE!o_O), or all around assholery. Though a little Satan, little grotesquery, or a little bullshit is fine. And NO EMO SHIT! :cry:TRIVIUM SUCK!:cry:

I think there are other people out there who would also love to hear something along these lines. I would recommend Burn To Black and Dew-Scented (check out Issue IV) but don't know much else...in terms of thrash, I know Slayer, Exodus, and Kreator (although that's not quite what I'm looking for). Please, if you find something, post it up here.

Lykathea Aflame
Kalmah
Catamenia
Negura Bunget
Novembre
Moonspell

Also, I love your style. FUCK SATAN! GO IN FLAMES, MY FAVORITE BAND EVER!!!
 
Thanks a ton, Kalmah is sick!
Lykathea Aflame is cool, but the drum machine thing is a little off-putting, and the vocals are a little brutal...sounds a little like Hates Eternal.
Catamenia is pretty beastly...totally epic, like Wintersun, but more black metal-y.
Novembre is kinda emo/goth-y...where's the metal, I ask you?

Thanks a lot, man. Gotta get some of this Kalmah and Catamenia...also, check out http://www.swashbuckle.info/shanties.html
Amazing pirate thrash metal. From New Jersey. Have to hear it to believe it.
 
Thanks a ton, Kalmah is sick!
Lykathea Aflame is cool, but the drum machine thing is a little off-putting, and the vocals are a little brutal...sounds a little like Hates Eternal.
Catamenia is pretty beastly...totally epic, like Wintersun, but more black metal-y.
Novembre is kinda emo/goth-y...where's the metal, I ask you?

Thanks a lot, man. Gotta get some of this Kalmah and Catamenia...also, check out http://www.swashbuckle.info/shanties.html
Amazing pirate thrash metal. From New Jersey. Have to hear it to believe it.

Dude, it's not a drum machine, it's a real human lol. Corn is a freak!

There are so many bands that fit what you described, and I like that style too, I'll give you some recs after I get back from uni haha
 
Thanks a ton, Kalmah is sick!
Lykathea Aflame is cool, but the drum machine thing is a little off-putting, and the vocals are a little brutal...sounds a little like Hates Eternal.
Catamenia is pretty beastly...totally epic, like Wintersun, but more black metal-y.
Novembre is kinda emo/goth-y...where's the metal, I ask you?

Thanks a lot, man. Gotta get some of this Kalmah and Catamenia...also, check out http://www.swashbuckle.info/shanties.html
Amazing pirate thrash metal. From New Jersey. Have to hear it to believe it.

:lol: for some reason what you said sounds really funny. Yea Kalmah kicks so much butt it's not even funny. Lykathea Aflame might be too heavy for you I understand, they're one of the heaviest metal bands to exist right now. Umm Novembre's a lil heavy haha, I know a lot of people who are In Flames fans who like Novembre.
 
Lykathea Aflame do not have a drum machine, the drumming on Elvenefris is extremely well done (plus, that would be very hard to program purposely :p).
 
Yeah, I guess Lykathea Aflame do have a drummer...whew!
I actually bought In Their Darkened Temples by Nile...great, except that the vocals are waayy too deep. Great lyrics, music is brutal but within my tolerance, especially since the musicianship is so impressive, but the vocals just kill it for me.
I listened to the first couple samples on Novembre's myspace, sounded like some sorta alt rock. I looked again...not bad, but not great. Can't find any samples of Moonspell!
Lykathea Aflame is really good, except for two things; the drum sound is terrible (which is part of why I thought it was a drum machine) and the vocals are incomprehensible. I would still buy it, though...pretty awesome, but would be better if vocals were a little less gutteral, imo.
 
Listen to the songs "Aquamarine", and "Materia" by Novembre. Now. Or just go buy the whole Materia album. I think I should take back my recommendation of Novembers Doom since the vocals are pretty deep , which I like when it comes to doom.
 
Yeah...listened to some of the heavier Novembre...not bad, but not really my cup of tea. Not that I drink tea or anything. Novembers Doom is actually fine. Deep, but totally comprehensible. Pretty badass, too...I like it. Thanks. Norther is cool too. Enslaved, Ensiferum, Amon Amarth, and of course Bathory are my favorite viking metal bands. The Berzerker is cool, but not really my thing...not a big industrial fan.
 
Demigod is pretty intense, I like some, think I might try getting some. I like the vocals on the Shadow Mechanics album, voxx on Slumber a little deep (although good) and on the new album not death enough. Stargazer is technically solid but doesn't really grab me. Can't find any Tormentor samples. Thanks, though; Demigod is exactly what I want.
 
Zyklon is pretty fuckin' brutal...awesome
Arkhon Infaustus is also crazy intense...not bad, but not as good as Zyklon, imo
Kronos is a little too brutal, but really good.
Thanks, guys, you've all been really helpfull...now I just need to hunt this stuff down
 
Adramelech - Psychostasia
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Necros Christos - Triune Impurity Rites
Macabre - Dahmer
Seance - Fornever Laid To Rest
 
Unleashed is badass...I love Viking Metal..
Adramelech is pretty awesome death metal, cool old-school feel
God Macabre a little too doom-y and deep vocals, but pretty solid
Macabre is hilarious but a little too sick-and-twisted
Can't find samples for Seance :(