Need help - making mix-cds for a girl

[Tranquillian]

I'll be making some mix cds for a girl friend of mine who has been into metal for a couple of years, but hasn't been properly introduced to a lot of bands.

She says she likes Iron Maiden, Nightwish, HammerFall, P.o.d. and a few other bands. I'm thinking I should introudce her to better bands than that, (well Maiden is ace as we all know).

Any recommendations. I was thinking of adding stuff like:

In Flames - Ordinary story
Judas Priest - Beyond the realms of death
Amaran - Rusty warhorse

so nothing too extreme please.

 

[NAD]

hammers of misfortune because they are awesome and you can work the trad. metal and female vocal angle with them. the august engine part 2 is pretty much my favorite song by them, but you can much go wrong with any of their stuff.

i once dated a girl who listened to top 40 pop bullshit, when i started making her mix cd-rs i didn't get too weird or extreme, but always snuck in like one carcass song. she'd eventually go to some death metal shows with me, so it worked.

 

[Tranquillian]

I would have to look that song up because the hammers is a band I've overlooked. I tried to listen to them once but can't remember anything.

 

[NAD]

i can upload the track in question in a few hours if you want.

i'd recommend some edge of sanity too, like black tears or sacrificed.

 

[lurch70]

I'll be making some mix cds for a girl friend of mine who has been into metal for a couple of years, but hasn't been properly introduced to a lot of bands.

so you're not giving up on Maren I see

 

[Tranquillian]

Like Maren needs to be introduced to proper metal? She listens to stuff that is even more obscure than I do.

No, this is an entirely different woman.

@Nad: That's ok, I have access to just about any album you can imagine.
some edge of sanity would be nice I s'pose.

 

[lurch70]

Like Maren needs to be introduced to proper metal?

of course she does ... have you seen the list of her faves

 

[Tranquillian]

No, where is it?

 

[NAD]

of course she does ... have you seen the list of her faves

hahahahahahahahahaha it always cracks me up how much you hate that depressing/emotional/whatever music.

 

[lurch70]

it was under some Perfect albums thread or something like that ...

 

[lurch70]

hahahahahahahahahaha it always cracks me up how much you hate that depressing/emotional/whatever music.

i don't hate it, i just don't consider it metal ...

 

[Tranquillian]

Haven't heard any of the albums on that list. However!... she does listen to The ruins of beverast and Secrets of the moon, and how many women do that?

 

[NAD]

i don't hate it, i just don't consider it metal ...

well hates a strong word i suppose, but still.

*awaits someone to post the royal pinkage logo*

 

[lurch70]

i guess that whole "poser" mentality is still in me somewhere from high school.

you would be shuned forever in a corner, if in the hey days of metal, you admitted something like ... "Anathema is my favorite band"

but today, in metrosexual times, its A OK!!!

 

[NAD]

i guess that whole "poser" mentality is still in me somewhere from high school.

you would be shuned forever in a corner, if in the hey days of metal, you admitted something like ... "Anathema is my favorite band"

but today, in metrosexual times, its A OK!!!

hahahaha you sound like borat.

hypocrisy - reversed reflections

i always feel compelled to work the catchy angle when trying to a female into metal. i guess if this girl is already into metal that's not necessary, but hey, that's still a great song.

 

[Ellestin]

Try throw one of the milder tracks off "Omnio". If she falls for that then you know there's a whole world opening up for her (and for you, incidentally)

 

[lurch70]

soilwork, arch enemy ... some exodus and the like

 

[Tranquillian]

Try throw one of the milder tracks off "Omnio". If she falls for that then you know there's a whole world opening up for her (and for you, incidentally)

I love omnio incidentally, and was introduced to ITW by my first girlfriend.

 

[JayKeeley]

Some girls find Cradle of Filth to be an aphrodisiac, no shit. Throw in Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil, and a splash of Evergrey and you can skip the wine, and go straight for the beef curtains.

Now, if it's just for music appreciation (and based on her current likes):

Iced Earth - The Hunter
Arcturus - Chaos Path
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Symphony X - Communion and the Oracle
Cryptopsy - Crown of Horns....you have to throw this in the middle somewhere, just because
ARK - Heal the Waters....jeebus, what an album this is.

In fact, skip the compilation and just give her a copy of "Burn the Sun"....probably in the top 5 releases of the last 10 years I'd say.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

the new akercocke track