Recommend me some new bands

F(r)iend

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Hey all! I've been listening to a lot of new bands lately, but none of them have really hit me as hard and I would REALLY like to find some new melodic/folk death bands. Here are some bands that I've listened to:

Ablaze My Sorrow
Amon Amarth
Arch Enemy
Archeon*
Blood Stain Child
Chain Collector
Children of Bodom*
Cipher System
Dawn of Relic
Dark Tranquillity
Deadlock
Disarmonia Mundi (I like a couple of songs)
Dispatched (some stuff is really good)
Duskfall, The*
Edge of Sanity
Embraced
Ensiferum*
Equilibrium*
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Fall of the Leafe (some stuff is really good)
Finntroll
Gates of Ishtar
Hypocrisy
Imperanon
In Flames*
Insomnium*
Kalmah*
Mors Principium Est
Naumachia
Nightrage (some stuff is really good)
Norther*
Omniun Gatherum
Pathogen*
Scar Symmetry
Shadow (some stuff is really good)
Skyfire*
Soilwork (some stuff is really good)
Sonic Syndicate (some stuff is really good)
Suidakra*
Throne of Chaos
Wintersun*

* = bands that stand out

I know that's a long list and I'm sorry to make you read all of that, but if you guys can think of ANY bands, please suggest them! I'm in need of new stuff! It's not that I don't like the bands that don't have an asterik, it's just I think I like certain chord progressions and that makes it stick out for me. Like the intro to the Black Tears song by ETOS (I know it's by Edge of Sanity) is really catchy to me. Disarmonia Mundi, I really like the first three songs on that Fragments album. Hell, I even like Freedom Call a lot because so many of their songs use a similar chord progression that I find really catchy.

Again, don't get wrong, those bands that I've mentioned up there are great and I like them, it's just bands that use a certain chord progression tends to stick out (like the whole Timeless Departure album by Skyfire).

Thanks!
 
Malpractice (prog..but very good)
Moonsorrow (folk/death)
Primordial (folk/death)
Orphaned Land (folk/death)
Turisas (folk)
Therion (operatic/folky)
Solefald (post-black)
Rapture (melodeath)
Novembers Doom (doomy melodeath)
Noumena (in flames-esque)
Falkenbach (folk)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow (melodeath)
Disillusion (proggy melodeath)
Demonoid (old school death-y)
Catamenia (black / death)
Borknagar (blacky folky)
Agalloch (folky)
Amorphis (folk /death)

go nuts.
 
Be sure to check out Textures and Coprofago (both in the vein of Meshuggah), Cea Serin (progressive death metal/metal), Behind the scenery and Disillusion (both death metal).
 
F(r)iend said:
Insomnium*

Insomnium is the shit. I've been addicted to them lately, I think it's unhealthy ...

But anyway, I don't listen to alot of folk metal but Cor Scorpii is a band I've checked out pretty recently and they're actually pretty good. I'm sure I'll have more soon. I haven't been able to check out the new songs I have on my computer yet.
 
I'mma throw out Beyond Twilight, Persuader, Vanden Plas, Twilightning, Runic, Rapture, and Cloudscape. All pretty solid bands, and relatively unheard-of. Runic in particular was a nice surprise - good Spanish...folkamelodeath?
 
arsis - download "diamond for disease" you will not fucking regret it. their full-length is very good too, and of course opeth.
 
I got a nice little list of Scandinavian Metal(not all from there).I'll try not to list ones mentioned already.
First of all, HOW COULD NO ONE MENTION AT THE GATES?
Arise - Melodic Death
Avatar - Melodic Death, not that great
Callenish Circle - Melodic Death
Carcass - Melodic Death on Heartwork other Grind/Death
Ceremonial Oath - Melodic Death
Chronicle Of Tyrants - Kind of like Amon Amarth
Codeon - Melodic Death
Dark Age - Melodic Death
Darkane - Thrash/Death
Dementia - Progressive Melodic Death
Deviated Presence - Technical Melodic Death, but now they use a drum machine which sucks ass
Diablo - Melodic Death
Elenium - Progressive Melodic Death
Enter My Silence - Melodic Death
Eternal Oath - Melodic Death
Evemaster - Melodic Death/Black
Evildoer - Thrash
Gardenian - Melodic Death
The Haunted - Thrash
Kill The Romance - Melodic Death
Meadows End - Melodic Death
Omnium Gatherum - Melodic Death
The Wake - Melodic Death
Withering - Melodic Death
Withering Surface - Melodic Death
 
I was going to say At The Gates. ^^
Also, Carcass is the ancient name of Arch Enemy right? And Ceremonial Oath is In Flames now.

I also heard about Sceptic Boiler, ancient Dark Tranquillity with Anders singing. :)

And theres also Coldseed with Speed from Soilwork.