Music For Me To Check Out?

[flying_whale]

i can't stand symphony X too much cheese, guitar cheese, etc, romeo is so fat too....
listen to deicide, i'm doing a deicide night now

 

[RedKef]

I like romero's riffage, but he tries to play faster than he can when he solos.

 

[Shpongled]

Ram-Zet

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Ram-Zet

<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Have my babies.

 

[Lunar Still]

Dark Lunacy incorporates lots of strings in their songs. They're sort of thrashy/death, but you might like 'em nonetheless.

 

[neal]

cob doesn't have orchestral shit at all. the first cd had a mozart symphony number 6 or 9 riff and thats about it.

im faaar too fucking lazy to go song by song, but they have way more than that.

 

[BlueSky]

I dunno why i'm talking about cob but they dont have any "orchestral" stuff at all but they have some classical sounding verses and haven't even done that on the past two cds.

 

[fading]

Ram-Zet

Oh hell yea.............

 

[AngleofDeaf667]

Dream Theater

 

[metalized]

Savatage

 

[Dead Winter]

Yes, but there's a problem I have with the latest winds album. While the orchestrations are really good on it, the rest of the band is kinda bland. The songs don't really go anywhere and remind me somewhat of Dream Theater's worst albums. Again, the orchestrations are quite good, and it's arranged in a decent way, but the neo-classical work is just annoying sometimes.

 

[Dead Winter]

Dark Lunacy incorporates lots of strings in their songs. They're sort of thrashy/death, but you might like 'em nonetheless.

He's right...they incorporate lots of strings in their songs; just not very well, at least on their first album. I haven't heard the last album so I can't judge, but as far as arrangements go, the first album was basically four metalheads wanting to put strings with death metal and not knowing anything about arrangements or structure. I've seen them live and there are no strings live; it's all DAT. Basically, they put a violinist in the studio to play a part, and they stick that part in with another death metal part that doesn't even belong with it.

What I can be sure of is Therion, namely the albums Theli, Vovin, and Deggial. I've seen them live and they are 100% real. Of course the orchestrations are DAT live, but the entire choir is there live.

Someone mentioned Ram Zet. Great, great blackened/gothic/industrial/orchestral band. Structures are fairly simple but done well, nonetheless.

Haggard was also mentioned, and I have also seen them live and they are also 100% real. Great band, great musicians, great structures, great arrangements. It's actually more classical than metal, but there are some pretty heavy parts in there. I think you'll really like it.

If you're looking for something with just a violin in it, look no further than My Dying Bride's albums, "Like Gods of the Sun" and "The Angel and The Dark River". They are very melodic and very musical...and some of my favorite albums. I've seen them live (finally) and they too are a great band live.

Stay away from that Metallica S&M abortion. I'm not even speaking about Metallica, either...the orchestra was arranged so horribly I can't even listen to it. It's classical music in it's most base form, which is why I guess it fit with Metallica.

 

[DriftAlongLiquidSky]

Anyone heard of "Hevein"? Someone told me they were good, but I haven’t been bothered to check them out. Are they any good?

 

[EricT]

Hevein feels like Arch Enemy and COB adopted a red-headed child, and beat the shit out of it till what remained was generic music and very constipated sounded vocals. Not to mention some of the worst clean vocals EVER.

 

[neal]

how could i forget the CONAN THE BARBARIAN soundtrack. mostest epicest music evar. i hear it and want to grab a sword and chop those goddamn snakecult motherfuckers in half!@

 

[Karmic]

two very different bands, but nevertheless

Andromeda

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