Please recommend a new band(s)!

[Nihon-jin]

Greetings everyone!

I've fallen out of the 'underground scene' recently, and need to catch up on any great, new (or new to me) bands that may have come onto the scence.

Can someone recommend any bands? I prefer 'clean' vocals, but still do enjoy death-vox such as those of My Dying Bride, Opeth, & Emperor.

My favs are:
Opeth
Anathema
My Dying Bride
Arcturus
Katatonia
Sentenced
In the Woods
the Gathering
Amorphis
Emperor
Lacuna Coil
Ulver


Thanks!

 

[requiem]

While not entirely new, a band you'd love judging by your taste would most certainly be the Danish band Saturnus.

They currently have three releases out in the vein of earlier My Dying Bride etc.

Paradise Belongs to You (1997)
For the Loveless Lonely Nights (ep) (1998)
Martyre (1999)

They're new album has been in the works for ages now.

You can download samples [Edit- they actually have whole songs on there in the discography section] at www.saturnus.dk

Basically they're romantic gothic/doom with a vocalist who ranges from deep slow growls to spoken word pieces.

One of my favourite bands.

 

[Stinkfist]

Finntroll, the best band of all time. They mix black metal with Finnish polka music. Download the songs Jaktens Tid and Kitteldags from http://www.blackmetal.kiev.ua/music.htm

 

[Eirik]

Pain of Salvation

my album is The Perfect Element I but that's the only I've totally gotten into

 

[blakmetalemp]

Myrkskog - Deathmachine (black metal in the Emperor vein)
Hollenthon - With Vilest of Worms to Dwell

 

[samoniac]

Sirius - Symphonic black metal in the vein of old Emperor - Nightside era.
Insomnium - Melodic death metal, like Amorhis and In Flames.

 

[Pilgrim]

Originally posted by Eirik
Pain of Salvation

my album is The Perfect Element I but that's the only I've totally gotten into

Get any and everything from them. You cant go wrong.

 

[random_phil]

Anaal Nathrakh - True brutal necro metal assault (I think that's how they'd describe it!)

 

[StorTroll]

DIABLO!!!!

 

[Peril]

I can recommend The Apparatus, from Trondheim, Norway.
This is intelligent, progressive death metal, and you could catch up with some samples and soundbites at the official homepage:

www.theapparatus.com

 

[samoniac]

DEMIGOD!!!!

 

[dimensionidol]

ATROX-ATROX-ATROX

they are a great really experimental metal band from Norway!

they have female vocals and she is MONIKA EDVARDSEN
sister of ann marie from 3RD AND THE MORTAL

amazing group!

 

[Klemi]

Here's something what I found from my collections...

The 3rd and The Mortal
Agalloch
Beyond Dawn
Fields of the Nephilim
Limbonic Art
Madder Mortem
Paradise Lost
Primordial
Samael
Solefald
Tiamat

 

[Dryad of the Woods]

well I could imagine you liking Winds.

 

[Rosa Negra Imortal]

Try some of these brazilian bands...you can find all of them at Kazaa.

(band name - song)

charlie brown jr - zoio d'lula
lobão - vida louca vida
barão vermelho - o poeta está vivo
heróis da resistência - dublê de corpo
ratos de porão - satanic bullshit
raimundos - andar na pedra
kid abelha - eu tive um sonho

 

[mindflesh]

Green Carnation (if you don't already know them since it's the project of a former member of In The Woods). Check out their album "Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness", it's a one-track epic album, quite good, clean vocals only.

 

[OneFootBlaster]

check out Ludicra- feat. members of Impaled/Hammers Of Misfortune- fucking great BM kinda in the Nightside Eclipse vein with (harsh!) female vocals!
http://www.mp3.com/ludicra
new cd "hollow psalms" out now!

 

[Katatonic]

Blackalicious

 

[OneFootBlaster]

Hell yeah! They rule. They have 2 females in the band- one sings and the other plays guitar... I love them. Those vocals are so fucking pissed!

 

[ProgMetalFan]

Evergrey

Dark progressive metal

They have a forum here...