Odd Band combinations

[WNxScythe]

Can anybody name some metal bands with 3 guitarists, 2 drummers, 2 bassists, 3 vocalists etc... stuff like that?

 

[madu]

I read an article on the New York Times website about art metal bands, and I recall it mentioning some band with 3 guitarrists.. it mostly involved stuff like Pelican, Isis, Jesu and Sunn O))), so it was something along those lines.

A lot of these rock opera thingies have 3 (and often well over 3) vocalists, Ayreon, Star One, Avantasia and Genius for example.

If you don't want a rock opera, I think Edge of Sanity's Crimson II has 3 vocalists, and some goregrind bands might? Those have usually at least two.

Some doom band might have several bass players, but I doubt it. I also doubt a band with two real drummers exists. In Dream Theater Portnoy plays drums and LaBrie plays tambourine, though

 

[madu]

Oh, and Kayo Dot and Maudlin of the Well have really many guitarrists. 4 according to metal-archives..

 

[Edgecrusher]

SLIPKNOT!! HAS 3!!! DRUMMERS!!!!1111!!!!111

.....on a serious note, the band Beyond The Embrace has 3 guitarists. They opened for Iced Earth one time and did some neat guitar duets.

 

[KMADD]

Iron Maiden has 3 guitarists. And at one time Lord Belial had 3 guitar players
but not now. there used be weird band called Godhead Silo that had 2 bass players.

 

[KMADD]

Damn I forgot about them!

 

[Edgecrusher]

Nile has three vocalists that all sound the same

at least one of them sounds different. one kinda does the shouting vocals, the others do the deep gutteral (sp?) vocals.

 

[CAIRATH]

Not a metal band (more noisy rock), but Cop Shoot Cop has two bassists and no guitarist. Strapping Young Lad covered their song "Room 429" on City.

 

[TylerTheNuke]

I can think of non-metal bands with multiple real drumset percussionists, but not metal. Metal, umm, it has me drawing blanks.

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

Not a metal band (more noisy rock), but Cop Shoot Cop has two bassists and no guitarist. Strapping Young Lad covered their song "Room 429" on City.

Ah, so that's a cover? I love that song.

 

[CF87]

Atheist has 3 guitarists on 'Elements'. The Alman Brothers have three drummers, who are incredible. Maiden has three guitarists on the last two fullengths.

Mastodon has 10 drummers!!!!

 

[Edgecrusher]

Ah, so that's a cover? I love that song.

For some reason I was thinking that it was a song that they did with the guy from Cop Shoot Cop.

...but yeah it is a great song, that and "AAA".

 

[Menhir]

Electro Quarterstaff I believe has 3 guitarists.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Probably Tri-Siberian Orchestra lol ...

 

[Morbid_Corpse]

Nile has three vocalists that all sound the same

not really, you probably should listen to some more d00d.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Dark Tribe have three vocalists.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Origin at various times has used either two or three vocalists.

 

[Mercy/Severity]

Tristania have 3 vocalists, all doing different styles. They have a male baritone singer, a female singer and also a 'growler' who does all the distorted vox.

 

[Ben_t]

Not really metal (more hardcore/punk) but a band I saw a while back was called Overbass. The had 2 bassists but not guitar player. I guess it was easy to guess with their name.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Probably Tri-Siberian Orchestra lol ...

TRANS-Siberian Orchestra