Help with a vague request.

[KonkeyDong]

Hello,
I need help finding some new bands.
I am looking for something familiar but refreshing, and I'm not a big fan of 80's hair metal or extremely high pitched vocals.

These are some of the bands I currently enjoy, listed in alphabetical order for your viewing pleasure:

Abysmal Dawn
Amon Amarth
Be'lakor
Blind Guardian
Dark Tranquility
Devildriver
Hypocrisy
Insomnium
Kiuas
Lamb of God
Lost Soul
Machine Head
Miseration
Opeth
Powerwolf
Rammstein
Septic Flesh
Sylosis
The Absence
Torchbearer
Vader
Vore

Many thanks to those who have contributed to my collection

 

[SkeletonWitch]

Craig David.

 

[Avigrus]

A few accessible & decent selections below;

Iced Earth - Dark Saga or Something Wicked this Way Comes
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Crom - Vengeance

 

[KonkeyDong]

Thanks Avigrus.

I'm really liking Insomnium and Be'lakor.
I'm going to pick up some of their albums when more money makes itself available.

 

[six_]

ghost brigade - isolation songs
swallow the sun - new moon
heaven shall burn - iconoclast
chimaira - chimaira

 

[KonkeyDong]

I tried to get into Chimaira a while back, but the vocals irritate me for some reason.

The other bands you mentioned don't 'click' with me.

Thanks for the recommendations though.

 

[Deveianse]

Blinded Colony - Bedtime Prayer ( melodic death metal)
Engel ( modern metal with industrial elements)
In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading
Opeth - Blackwater Park / Watershed

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Anything by Scar Symmetry.

 

[Dak]

Soilwork
Disarmonia Mundi

 

[KonkeyDong]

I spent the last three days listening to Opeth.
Very unique music, thanks for the recommendation.

I used to listen to Scar Symmetry but once Christian left it just wasn't the same anymore and I couldn't really get into his new bands.

Soilwork and DM aren't really my cup of tea, thanks for the recs though

 

[theoden236]

MERCENARY!!!

 

[KonkeyDong]

Mercenary I like. Thank you.

 

[NecropsyX]

In Flames
Unexpect
Barren Earth
Draconian
Soulfly

 

[KonkeyDong]

Not really my thing, thanks anyway.

I don't like female vocals in my music, with a few exceptions.

 

[Janga666]

I see some power metal in your list... try these:

Kiuas - The New Dark Age
Iron Savior - Condition Red/Battering Ram
Pharaoh - The Longest Night

 

[-CC-]

Animals As Leaders

 

[KonkeyDong]

Thanks

 

[Ryuuzaki]

Behemoth
Bloodbath
Kalmah
Rapture
Septic Flesh

 

[KonkeyDong]

Thank you.

I like Septic Flesh and Bloodbath is also quite good.

 

[KonkeyDong]

More music is needed.