FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Yeah, that's exactly what I said... Just like how anything with electric guitar is death metal and anything with clean guitar is flamenco :Smug:
Looking for some well-produced death metal.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I said... Just like how anything with electric guitar is death metal and anything with clean guitar is flamenco :Smug:
Awake_In_Animosity
Fearing a Blank Planet
What I was getting at Ferret was I would like to hear a Death Band with clean vocals, musiclly death metal is not power metal or thrash with growls.
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
What I was getting at was that "death metal" requires "death vocals" to be "death metal".
Capharnaum are probably the closest thing that comes to mind as having some songs with vocals on the cleaner side of thrash while still being distinctly 'death metal'. I wouldn't consider Control Denied to be death metal but then again I wouldn't consider Death to be either but many do and either way Control Denied are a mad band with the odd death metal tendency and clean vocals so perhaps that'll be what you're looking for. The thing is once you change the vocals from growls you're changing one of the core things which make death metal what it is and you're stepping into crossover territory (see: melodic death, death/doom etc). I imagine you're already well versed in the likes of Amorphis and Dark Tranquility and clearly their material stops being anything close to death metal in the songs where the vocals are dropped back.
Perhaps the best way to explain how futile proper death metal with clean vocals would sound is the reverse: death metal with clean instrumentation (see: ).
Capharnaum are probably the closest thing that comes to mind as having some songs with vocals on the cleaner side of thrash while still being distinctly 'death metal'. I wouldn't consider Control Denied to be death metal but then again I wouldn't consider Death to be either but many do and either way Control Denied are a mad band with the odd death metal tendency and clean vocals so perhaps that'll be what you're looking for. The thing is once you change the vocals from growls you're changing one of the core things which make death metal what it is and you're stepping into crossover territory (see: melodic death, death/doom etc). I imagine you're already well versed in the likes of Amorphis and Dark Tranquility and clearly their material stops being anything close to death metal in the songs where the vocals are dropped back.
Perhaps the best way to explain how futile proper death metal with clean vocals would sound is the reverse: death metal with clean instrumentation (see: ).
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Awake_In_Animosity
Fearing a Blank Planet
Contol Denied is possibly a good example of what I am looking for but still leaning more towards the musical style of death metal, Capharnaum have too many "core" elements(mainly vocally) to it for what I am looking for, that said I do like what they did and were 10,000 times better than Trivium. What I had in mind was the death part of Opeth with clean vocals...I guess there is not much out there. Amorphis and DT are not what I am looking for, I do like both bands earlier material but not for this instance, you are definatly right in regards to death/doom like later Katatonia etc
btw that video was horrible and the opposite of what I am getting at.
btw that video was horrible and the opposite of what I am getting at.
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Another local band just came to mind: http://www.myspace.com/ironwoodband
Again, still death vocals present but still featuring a substantial amount of clean vocals and, again, the 'death' feel is lost once that happens.
I'm aware the video is horrible
that was the point.
Again, still death vocals present but still featuring a substantial amount of clean vocals and, again, the 'death' feel is lost once that happens.
I'm aware the video is horrible
that was the point.
Awake_In_Animosity
Fearing a Blank Planet
I think that it is possible to have an awesome death metal band with clean vocals, I may have to work on that myself though and add another horrible band to the world.
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Would Strapping Young Lad and Fear Factory count? Again not really what I'd consider death metal as such but, again, it's not death without growls anyway.
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Tom
Awake_In_Animosity
Fearing a Blank Planet
No Nevermore, SYL or FF. None are death metal. Nevermore are closer to power or prog metal, SYL is well SYL and Fear Factory were Industrial/Death Metal then Nu-Metal.
Think more along the lines of Opeth - Deliverance with clean vocals.
Think more along the lines of Opeth - Deliverance with clean vocals.
stefan86
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Awake_In_Animosity
Fearing a Blank Planet
Hey Annt, yeah I have heard Gojira, I have got From Mars to Sirus. Not really what I am looking for in this though.
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