The keyboards thread

[genocide roach]

nokturnal mortum as well. although there is such a thing as too much keys...
~gR~

 

[Sigma]

Uriah Heep

 

[genocide roach]

age of silence
winds
~gR~

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

OK we always have drumming and guitar threads, so what about keys/pianos etc? Who are your favourite keyboardists and which bands use them well?

My favourite use of keyboards would have to be Arcturus' Sham Mirrors album. Steinar Sverd Johanssen is a genius, and the intro to 'Star-Crossed' is amazing.

I agree with that, absolutely. The keys at the end of Radical Cut are beyond words.


Devin Townsend is also proficient with keys and synth

Bal Sagoth have to be the best band who infuse keys into their music because they actually do it RIGHT.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Malefic (Xasthur)

 

[Zephyrus]

i always liked emperor's key parts. especially on anthems. the keys on the later borknagar albums (like empiricism) are great too.
~gR~

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[The Heartbreak Kid]

Nightwish and Stratovarius.

 

[Iron Chef Sakai]

Isahn does keyboards. Gotta give'em props for that.

 

[Fury of the Storm]

Janne Warman of Children of Bodom?

 

[Matt]

And Oceans
Summoning
Bal-Sagoth
Borknagar
Spiral Architect
Emperor
Lord Wind/Graveland
Negurã Bunget

Especially Bal-Sagoth.

If we're going into rock territory don't forget The Doors

Or Yes' Rick Wakeman or Boston's Scholz, who did all the keys.

Uriah Heep

Bal Sagoth have to be the best band who infuse keys into their music because they actually do it RIGHT.

Yeah. There are some brilliant parts in their music, totally unexpected in the metal genre.

 

[Zephyrus]

Fury of the Storm I love your avatar. I listened to that album last night for the first time and I was very delighted.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

nearly every symphony x song has brilliant keys

michael pinnella is as good as it gets.

 

[Fury of the Storm]

Fury of the Storm I love your avatar. I listened to that album last night for the first time and I was very delighted.

Yeah dude, one of my favorite Black Metal albums. I'm glad you liked it.

 

[Sigma]

Thou Shalt Forever Win is such an outstanding song!

 

[Zephyrus]

Indeed. I wish Behemoth would do more songs in Polish.

 

[challenge_everything]

Yes! Was he on the first 2 albums? They were great

Yeah Widow's Weeds and Beyond the Veil are the two when Morten Veland was playing keys and doing most of the songwriting. Two shining examples of how to play gothic styled metal RIGHT amidst so many terrible, terrible albums.

 

[challenge_everything]

Per from Opeth is the man

No no no.

 

[Zephyrus]

Per doesn't really add much depth to Opeth's sound. The guitars were always the most necessary element and they are certainly played skillfully enough that adding keyboards full-time is more of an insult than anything.

 

[Fury of the Storm]

Yeah songs by Behemoth does seem to have this awesome feeling when the are in Polish, I have to agree with that.

The keyboards in Opeth's new stuff just says that they are too lazy to make that same atmosphere on the guitar (which they have done before) by depending on electronics and keyboards.

 

[Zephyrus]

Hiring a keyboardist is proof that they'd rather be more like their proggy contemporaries than forging their own musical path.