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[NovembersDirge]

Hey, just curious as to what some of your non-Vintersorg favorites are. I'm always interested to know if the Vintersorg fanbase are hardcore folk-metal types, or progressive fans, or what have you..

As of right now, mine are as follows (though, not necessarily in any specific order)..

Opeth, Iron Maiden, Shining, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Enslaved.. I'd probably say Turisas, too, but we'll see how the next album is. Any suggestions are great, too. I'm always a fan of discovering new music...

 

[Agah]

I'm into a lot of different metal.
Borknagar, Negura Bunget, Drudkh, Wardruna, Bathory, Solefald, Primordial. To mention some.

 

[NovembersDirge]

I really, really like Primordial a lot. Their last record was very good.. well, I mean, all their records are very good.

 

[XxNecroNegroxX]

This is a broad question for me as I am into so many different types of metal. But I guess some of the non-Vintersorg bands I listen to are:
Enslaved, Storm, Ensiferum, Tyr, Drudkh, Kroda, Solefald, early Ulver, Ved Buens Ende, Cynic...ok, I'll just stop now.

 

[Draugen]

Right now:
Grimm, Satyricon, Radioaktiva Räker, Lik, Dog Fashion Disco, Arcturus, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Yggdrasil, The Coffinshakers, Sentenced, Candlemass etc.

 

[Allfader]

On metal:

Arcturus
Kampfar
Arckanum
Ulver
Borknagar
Burzum
Death
Hypocrisy
Empyrium
Enslaved
Spiral Architect
Solefald
Ásmegin
Otyg
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Vader
Ancient Wisdom
Sirius
Emperor
Yngwie Malmsteen
Code
Estatic Fear
Dissection....etx

Classic composers like Chopin, Bach, Liszt, Paganini, Verdi, Mozart, Händel, Beethoven, Albeñiz, Brahms, (I dunno if this can be considered 'classic' too, but I like a lot the compositions/transcriptions on classic guitar from Tárrega, Barrios, Segovia, Yepes, etx).

Bassists solo works and their bands' albums from Steve Bailey, Victor Wooten, Gary Willis, John Patitucci, Marcus Miller, Percy Jones, Sean Malone (mostly Cynic, Gordian Knot and Aghora), Steve Di Giorgio, Michael Manring, etx etx.

 

[XxNecroNegroxX]

Bassists solo works and their bands' albums from Steve Bailey, Victor Wooten, Gary Willis, John Patitucci, Marcus Miller, Percy Jones, Sean Malone (mostly Cynic, Gordian Knot and Aghora), Steve Di Giorgio, Michael Manring, etx etx.

Whats up my friend! Spectacular line-up of bass players you have here! We have discussed this many times before I believe. hehe. I actually recently started to listen to Obscura. They have a mad bass player named Jeroen Paul Thesseling. I believe he also played on the Pestilence album called 'Spheres'. Give it a listen; I think you'll dig it. Also, if you haven't already, check out Rainer Landfermann from Pavor; sick stuff going on with that dude.

 

[Disgustipated]

I don't listen to that much metal these days to be honest. At the moment I've been listening to a bit of Modest Mouse, Spinnerette and The Arcade Fire mainly, but that by no means makes them 'favourites'. I like all my music; I go through stages of listening to different genres/albums for weeks at a time.

 

[lefay82]

it's quite hard to make a short list, because i don't listen only to folk or viking stuff, even if those two genres are my favourite in the last period.
regarding folk and viking my fav bands are: agalloch, moonsorrow, ulver, tyr, asmegin, enslaved, falkenbach, finntroll, manegarm, ancient rites, arkona, trollfest, fejd, eluveitie, mithotyn, storm....

for the other genres: king diamond, mercyful fate, dark funeral, emperor, immortal, dissection, rotting christ, arcturus, solefald, death, control denied, carcass, edge of sanity, bloodbath, deicide, cannibal corpse, gorguts, neuraxis, hypocrisy, candlemass, haggard, testament, kreator, death angel, rage, sodom, slayer, nevermore, sanctuary, overkill, nuclear assault, metal church, blind guardian, omen, falconer, axel rudi pell, dio, motorhead, and many others than i'm forgotting now

 

[Azzor1911]

Besides metal, I listen to a lot of stuff. I think I spend more time listening to non-metal than metal, as a matter of fact.
trip hop (Massive Attack), reggae (Bob Marley), IDM (Autechre), dub (Scorn), ambient (Brian Eno), EBM (VNV Nation), drum 'n bass (Makai) etc, etc..

But as far as metal concerned: Solefald, Arcturus, Red Harvest and Neurosis are godlike.

 

[XxNecroNegroxX]

it's quite hard to make a short list, because i don't listen only to folk or viking stuff, even if those two genres are my favourite in the last period.
regarding folk and viking my fav bands are: agalloch...

Oh, I completely forgot about Agalloch!! One of my preferred listens hands down. I should be purged for such an atrocity.

 

[lefay82]

Oh, I completely forgot about Agalloch!! One of my preferred listens hands down. I should be purged for such an atrocity.

i have to admit that i'm agalloch-addicted
when i knew that they would come for the first time in italy this year (last march) i totally freaked out, i was in a AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! mood for months
to see them live has been an amazing experience

 

[XxNecroNegroxX]

i have to admit that i'm agalloch-addicted
when i knew that they would come for the first time in italy this year (last march) i totally freaked out, i was in a AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! mood for months
to see them live has been an amazing experience

I am in deep envy right now!!! I can only dream of seeing them live. That is, without a doubt, one of my goals in life. If I would ever see them play 'Dead Winter Days' live, I would probably spontaneously combust.

 

[lefay82]

I am in deep envy right now!!! I can only dream of seeing them live. That is, without a doubt, one of my goals in life. If I would ever see them play 'Dead Winter Days' live, I would probably spontaneously combust.

now i'll tell you what i had to do for being able to see them.
i don't like ac/dc, i mean, i find them quite boring on cd.
my boyfriend loves them and hates agalloch.
someone up there, i will not call it god, had the brilliant idea the put together agalloch and ac/dc one day and the following, at a quite near distance, in the north of italy.
so we (my man and i) made a deal: i would go to see ac/dc and he would bring me to see agalloch.
so we took our car, drove 3 hours to get to Milano, i paid 75 fucking euros to see ac/dc (well i have to admit it was a great show but 75 euros are still 75 euros) then paid 70 euro to sleep in a hotel that night. the following day we went to Brescia (about 100 km from Milano) and finally had my agalloch concert, which was cheaper of course (15 euros) and also more interesting....
we slept again in a hotel (other 70 euros) and drove home the day after for about 4 hours more.
now...i've lost the count of how much this concert costed to me, including fuel, food, beers and motorways tickets
but IT WORTHED!!!

i can put here some photos i made just to confort you (forgive me but the photos aren't that good, lights were horrible....NO! being honest there were no lights on the stage, only four candle-like small lights, i hate doing photos with flash, but sometimes you're obliged )


at the end of the concert i've made some photos with haughm and had my autograph on the show's ticket with "heaten pride" written on it...i felt like an happy girl in a candy's shop

 

[XxNecroNegroxX]

now i'll tell you what i had to do for being able to see them.
i don't like ac/dc, i mean, i find them quite boring on cd.
my boyfriend loves them and hates agalloch.
someone up there, i will not call it god, had the brilliant idea the put together agalloch and ac/dc one day and the following, at a quite near distance, in the north of italy.
so we (my man and i) made a deal: i would go to see ac/dc and he would bring me to see agalloch.
so we took our car, drove 3 hours to get to Milano, i paid 75 fucking euros to see ac/dc (well i have to admit it was a great show but 75 euros are still 75 euros) then paid 70 euro to sleep in a hotel that night. the following day we went to Brescia (about 100 km from Milano) and finally had my agalloch concert, which was cheaper of course (15 euros) and also more interesting....
we slept again in a hotel (other 70 euros) and drove home the day after for about 4 hours more.
now...i've lost the count of how much this concert costed to me, including fuel, food, beers and motorways tickets
but IT WORTHED!!!

i can put here some photos i made just to confort you (forgive me but the photos aren't that good, lights were horrible....NO! being honest there were no lights on the stage, only four candle-like small lights, i hate doing photos with flash, but sometimes you're obliged )


at the end of the concert i've made some photos with haughm and had my autograph on the show's ticket with "heaten pride" written on it...i felt like an happy girl in a candy's shop

Great pics you took regardless of the lack of lighting on the stage. Thank you so much for this! This is about as close as I will get to see them live...well at least for now. And whatever you had to do to see them on that epic and glorious night, like you said, it was MORE than worth it!! Haughm is my hero!

 

[NovembersDirge]

Huh. Actually, I listen to a lot of different stuff, but the only Agalloch record I could ever really get into was The Mantle, and even that was.. well, I had issues with the very Bergtatt-esque man trudging through snow thing.. I dunno, it didn't feel as original as it could've. Though, I guess one could accuse Hedniskhjärtad of sounding a little too much like early Ulver as well.

This year has been a little bit more death metal for me.. though, I have to say that I really loved the new Amorphis record. But thus far my favorite albums of the year have been Fleshgod Apocalypse's Oracles and Gorod's A New Process of Decline (aside from Skyforger which I think is a really fantastic album. I'm really looking forward to the new Ihsahn album that's coming out in January of 2010 as well...

 

[Allfader]

Huh. Actually, I listen to a lot of different stuff, but the only Agalloch record I could ever really get into was The Mantle, and even that was.. well, I had issues with the very Bergtatt-esque man trudging through snow thing.. I dunno, it didn't feel as original as it could've...

Same here. I'm not an Agalloch fan for that reason...I always prefer those 5 tracks from Bergtatt, but I kinda like a little Pale Folklore. The same happens with October falls (specially The Streams Of The End; the first track it's a shameful ripoff from I Troldskog Faren Vild ).

@ Necro: Of course I know Jeroen since his days with Pestilence. I always remember how bashed was Spheres and Cynic's Focus on those years, called gay and all that shit but Spheres it's the only album I liked from them until now. His style is too damn Malone-ish for my taste but still I liked (since Sean did nothing on Traced in Air...it's like a compensation). I heard Cosmogenesis a lot but it died fast. The first time was like a fresh air for technical death metal, but it carries too many influences under his sleeve and it turned awful at the end. There's so many Death-Cynic-Necrophagist moments that I was thinking on a moment that I was hearing a remix instead original songs (excepting Orbital Elements).

 

[Vampyrian]

According to my last.fm profile, my top fifteen since november 2007 are: Vintersorg, Ensiferum, Bumblefoot, Two Gallants, The White Stripes, Persuader, Chastisement, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, Evangeli, Nevermore, Hibria, Amon Amarth, Moonsorrow and Asmegin.. My top fifteen during the last three months: Wolf, Ensiferum, Tyr, Moonsorrow, Death, Mithotyn, Crimson Glory, Faith No More, Behemoth, Megadeth, Samael, Hate Eternal, Crown The Lost, Stratovarius and Goatwhore. Nice and varied.<3

 

[NovembersDirge]

According to my last.fm profile, my top fifteen since november 2007 are: Vintersorg, Ensiferum, Bumblefoot, Two Gallants, The White Stripes, Persuader, Chastisement, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, Evangeli, Nevermore, Hibria, Amon Amarth, Moonsorrow and Asmegin.. My top fifteen during the last three months: Wolf, Ensiferum, Tyr, Moonsorrow, Death, Mithotyn, Crimson Glory, Faith No More, Behemoth, Megadeth, Samael, Hate Eternal, Crown The Lost, Stratovarius and Goatwhore. Nice and varied.<3

This is my "paste your taste" since March, 2006: Iron Maiden, &#26893;&#26494;&#20280;&#22827;, Opeth, Amorphis, The Beatles, R.E.M., Vintersorg, Radiohead, Vienna Teng, Katatonia, Sonata Arctica, Blaze, Simon & Garfunkel, Nine Inch Nails, Murder by Death, Kent, Anathema, Beirut, Pink Floyd, Propagandhi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Blind Guardian, Bad Religion, Antonio Vivaldi, Symphony X, Amon Amarth, Ulver, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Europe, Billy Joel, Iced Earth, System of a Down, Enslaved, Muse, Jethro Tull, Turisas, Yann Tiersen, In Flames, Månegarm, Orphaned Land, Kris Kristofferson, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Theatre of Tragedy, Prince, Finntroll, George Winston, Shining.

I'm pretty ecclectic, actually.

Right now I'm listening to Arjen Lucasson's Guilt Machine.. surprisingly good prog rock (especially given his Ayreon project.. blah).

From the last three months, but this is skewed by the stuff that I'm listening to because of doing reviews: Amorphis, Sonata Arctica, Vienna Teng, Crimfall, Vader, Hackneyed, Black Sun Aeon, The Dear Hunter, Swashbuckle, Behemoth, Fejd, Antonio Vivaldi, Riverside, Iron Maiden, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Æthereal, Type O Negative, Sepultura, Indukti, Enslaved, Valkyrja, Europe, God Forbid, BeardFish, Diemertus, Jethro Tull, Opeth, Portishead, The Beatles, Mastodon, Vintersorg, Blackguard, Devin Townsend Project, Propagandhi, SuidAkrA, Wolves in the Throne Room, Pink Floyd, Amon Amarth, Death Maze, Pain of Salvation, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Napalm Death, Luna Mortis, Shining, Voivod, Threat Signal, Life of Agony, Nahemah.

 

[Thidrek]

Agalloch ist one of my favorite bands ever! I saw them the second time this year and their concerts are just amazing!

But all in all I'm getting more and more into Electronica and stuff