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[Episteme]

Very good bands recommended here. I personally recommend Farmakon, Dark Suns both have very Opeth-like stylings. Farmakon has a more thrash/melodic death sound and fuses it with jazz and funk. Dark Suns is pretty much a slow Opeth, very very doomy.

My favourite bands right now are Ephel Duath, Maudlin of the Well and Kayo Dot. Ephel Duath have a very jazzy approach towards metal. Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot just own, you'd have to take you time listening to them, they take alot of patience. But when you finally like them, you realize that they're one of the best bands out there these days that's really innovative.

 

[THEM]

Paradise Lost
Sentenced
Charon
Green Carnation
...most of these bands aren't really progressive but they do have alot of melody and emotion. Actually the first Green Carnation album is one big song, so they are bit progressive.

 

[Maq]

I'd say:
Edge of Sanity "Crimson"
Iced Earth "Horror Show"
Neurosis "Times Of Grace"
Cradle of Filth "Midian"
In The Woods "Heart of The Ages" - the first track reminds me of Orchid a bit
Entombed - "Morning Star"
Soulfly - "Soulfly" / "Primitive"
Sth softer:
Queens Of The Stone Age "Songs For The Def"
Amorphis "Elegy"

And sth. stronger, yet brilliant:
Bloodbath
Emperor "Prometheus"
Immolation "Unholy Cult / "Close to a wordl below" - you need to give them some time
Entombed "Clandestine"

Check them out

 

[chaveta]

I'd say

Bjork - "Homogenic"

... i love you guys

 

[ElectricWiz]

Check out Enslaved's Below the Lights.....
Also....like others above, I'd suggest you check out Agalloch

 

[Anti-Everything]

Extol - Undecieved

 

[Evil Ernie]

Lol wtf is hapenning there? Bjork and GWAR?
I don't think that's what you look for...

You must try Death and Nevermore.

 

[Katabasis]

Amorpis was mentioned without Tuonela? That album kicks arse!

(as do the rest of their catalogue of course)

 

[Master_Debater]

Katabasis, Tuonela's IMPOSSIBLE to find!! In stores, or even online!

 

[Plague Witch]

Behemoth
Carcass
Grave
Hypocrisy
Morbid Angel
Decapitated
Vader
Exhorder
Corporation 187
The Crown
Origin
Suffocation
Zyklon

 

[Ra-kot]

Best groups to check up in the (progressive) (doom) (death) corner:

AGALLOCH
RAPTURE
IN THE WOODS
MAUDLIN OF THE WELL
ANATHEMA
SWALLOW THE SUN
KATATONIA

There are surely more good bands, but these are the BEST imo. Havent heard anything as good as these ones at least.

 

[Servo]

I cannot urge you strongly enough towards Dissection. Storm of the Lights Bane and the Somberlain are epic, beautiful, and asskicking all at the same time.

Blind Guardian are really good. A little "happy sounding" and have some power metal trappings, but are among the best power metal bands. I'd recommend Tales from the Twilight World and Nightfall in Middle Earth.

If you haven't heard Emperor yet, go buy In the Nightside Eclipse and Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk right now.

And if you want to hear the best female singer around, check out the Gathering. Their early(with her) albums are gothic-sorta metal. Mandylion is pretty good, Nighttime Birds is phenomenal. Their later albums are more experimental rock and less metal, but still good. How to Measure a Planet? and Souvenirs are my faves.

 

[ViCyniC]

Dark Tranquility? Their album 'The Gallery' is pretty good, though the listener needs to be broken in for a bit.

 

[really******loud]

You want melodic DOOM metal (Desire) are freaks of nature, look at their reviews http://www.doom-metal.com/reviews/desire.html These guys crank it out.

 

[kamik]

You could try out my band, it´s called Methonia and we just recorded a demo, you can listen to it here: www.bjeld.dk/methonia , please tell me what you think about it. Another great band is Pain of Salvation, I recommend the albums "The Perfect Element pt. I" and "Remedy Lane".

 

[Master_Debater]

Hell, this is making me want to check out AGALLOCH.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Mourning Beloveth

 

[The Evil Toucan]

Agalloch - The Mantle. One of the best albums that creates colors and textures with sound that I have ever heard.
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja - Really good, epic sounding stuff.
Enslaved - Below the Lights - phenomonal. breathtaking.

 

[jester00]

i think i know exactly what your wanting. these great melodic albums

definately agalloch - the mantle.
rapture - songs for the withering
anything by dark tranquillity
novembre - novembrine waltz
at the gates - slaughter of the soul
Death- symbolic, the sound of perserverance

 

[Caelum Adustum]

Arsis is a most excellent band, their debut album is coming out in March, the MP3s they have on the site are their newer songs so they're a little less melodic then their demo stuff...but still some damn fine metal. (website is top link in my sig)

Like many others said Agalloch is pretty damn good.

Empyrium. Their first 2 albums were, eh, gothic/doom metal and the last two are acoustic masterpieces (especially the latter one entitle "Weiland") www.empyrium.de

Ulver is great, particularly "Vargnatt" (only if you have a turntable) and "Bergtatt"

Dies Irae (Mexico) is good, though I only have "Etherial" and not their new one.

The last 4 Death albums are fucking brilliant.