Song writers

[Alter]

Everyone knows John Lennon as a great song writer and there are various other good song writers. What i want to know is who writes good songs in metal. By that i dont mean riff,riff,chorus,riff,solo. i mean stuff that stays in your head. Something like imagine if you will.

 

[naboo]

Steve Harris.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Wrest.

For immediate satisfaction go to www.myspace.com/leviathanx666x and listen to The Fourth Blind Wound.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

devin townsend for pure songwriting genius/creativity. no one else comes close.

 

[tagradh]

Augury, Arcturus, Opeth, Winds, Lykathea Aflame, Ann'Sannat.

 

[Gold]

neige, opeth

 

[Triton]

Mikael Akerfeldt (too lazy to type out right accents)
Here's an example...

Seven milestones.....
Under a whatching autumn eye
Contorted trees are spreding forth
The message of the wind

With frozen hands I rode with the stars

With anger the wind blew
Giving wings to my stallion
Clouds gathered across the moon
Blazing, the white light

Passing the lake I know so well
I am near, yet so far away

Arrival.....

I saw her shadow (standing) in the darkness
Awaiting me like the night
Awaits the day
Standing silent smiling at my presence
A black candle holds the only light

Darkness encloses
And the candleseem to expire
In her cold, cold hand
And as a forlorn soul
It will fade away

Touching her flesh in this night
My blood froze forever
Embraced before the dawn
A kiss brought total eclipse

And she spoke
Once and forever
I am so cold
In mist enrobed the twilight
She was standing....

 

[WNxScythe]

My two best friends (seriously)... the metal/post-metal world is gonna shake at its roots when we finally manage to get the album out in 4 years or whatever hehe.

Other than that, Akerfeldt is great, though I'm not quite as obsessed with him as I used to be. Really I could name any and all of my favorite bands here.

 

[Crapples]

The Chasm!

 

[Reaping Clarity]

Insomnium, here's an example:

Drawn To Black

Wreathed in silence, laid down in shades
Swathed in regrets, deluded astray
Forgotten in half-light, drawn in despair
Soothed in slumber so dreadful and fair

Rending and searing and twisting my dreams
Alone in the gloom with the nightmares unseen

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done

Worthless the pledges, all vows but lies
Fateful her kisses, where a serpent hides
First beckoned to step from the twilight to glare
Then left in the dark for the demons to share

Only the stars see, only the moon hears...

And quietly the water-lilies sigh
Like the last breath of a weary soul
And the weed sway in the dreary waters
Like a girl’s dark hair they wave about

And the black stones under my bare feet
Cold and smooth like her milk-white palm
And the silence which falls upon this shore
Resounds now louder than oncoming storm

For all is gone
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[Mort Divine]

I always laugh when people think song writing means lyrics.

Daniel Gildenlow, John Haughm, and A.A. Nemtheanga are my favorites.

 

[Valerie]

John Haughm

Instant win.

 

[Alter]

I always laugh when people think song writing means lyrics.

Daniel Gildenlow, John Haughm, and A.A. Nemtheanga are my favorites.

Yea everyone I mean music also.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

early metallica
black sabbath
judas priest
iron maiden
opeth
augury
morbid angel

 

[Hatebreeder]

I always laugh when people think song writing means lyrics.

lol indeed.

I think Satyr has written some great tunes for Satyricon. Of all black metal riffs, his I find myself humming most.

Children of Bodom are also good at writing catchy black metal-influenced Finnish melodeath songs.