The Metal Thread

I actually don't know, I was just doing some youtube surfing and came across them in one of those Top 10 Female Death Metal Vocalist type videos. I was trying to find a video for a band called "Bottom" that I thought U.S. Millie might like (female fronted sludge rockers) no luck there* but I did discover Malsain. it appears they are Norwegian and not French (or English).

EDIT: Looks like Kvele Seg is on the They Never Die EP

Someone slowed down songs off Death Magnetic and it's AMAZING.

Goddamnit, how have I gone 10 months without seeing this thread? So yeah.

Fans of female-fronted vocal metal, here's my Pandora station. You're welcome.

http://www.pandora.com/station/226403969742446455

BTW, your current appreciation of old posts reminded me about the Witchcraft album I talked about a few pages back. I missed its release date, so thanks to your reminder I just picked it up (downloading from Amazon now).

Witchcraft is one of the favorite things I've found thanks to this thread kerzain, despite your attempts to get us to love muddy screamgasm vocal shite. ;)

On a more serious note though, if you like Witchcraft, have you heard Ghost? 20-30 years ago I don't think anybody would have thought of these bands as sounding similar at all (one having more of a southern tinge, with the other more of a halloween ambiance), but when compared to most of the rest of my metal catalog my brain tends to group them together. I tend to go for either one when I'm in the mood for a certain style of music (all clean vocals btw):

So I had planned on posting something along the lines of "whatever, brah, Japanese Ghost is best Ghost", but then I remembered that they did a decent cover of Cromagnon's "Caledonia", which isn't really metal, but if you squint really hard, belongs in this thread. Maybe proto-industrial?

Behold, some hippies being really fucking weird:

Okay, try this one on for size.

I can't stop laughing at this one because of the flute, violin, and hurdy-gerdy juxtaposed with the growling lyrics. Too dissonant for my taste. I could listen to this sans vocals all day long though.

It's more a novelty than anything else Charles, but pretty awesome that it works. I'd love to see how doom-metally one of their slower songs would sound given the same treatment.

Anyways, as alluded to earlier, I'm a big fan of metal/rock with a female vocalist. People have covered some of the big ones; Lacuna Coil, Epica, Gathering, Leaves' Eyes, Within Temptation, I'm going to assume you guys have already explored the basics.

Here are my fav picks that I've found through Pandora and elsewhere in the last few years. This is gonna be a huge video dump, so I'm spoiler tagging it.

Well, that was fun! Turns out I can't use the Media embed more than 5 times in the message, so you'll have to click the video links. Sorry.

Why is there no Therion in your list?

Looking at your list you might want to listen to Amberian Dawn. Have fun.

Hasn't come across my plate. Recommend me some Therion!

These tracks are pretty representative of their sound:





I would also refer you to their ABBA cover:

Hmm....not digging their male vocalist. Does he always split singing duty 50/50 with her?

Not bad. Gonna have to look into that a bit more.

The earlier stuff was almost entirely choir-based.

Later albums did go for individual vocalists more, and weren't quite as good.

Holy shit I have a massive progressive metal loving boner right now.

Female-fronted metal bands you say?





The lead singer was a finalist on Canadian Idol.

Has anyone mentioned In This Moment?

Canadian Heavy Metal Chicks should not shop at Hot Topic. I say this as someone who owns most of the Kittie Discography.

anyway...Did I ever tell you iwrestledabearonce ?

HipsterCore? Annoymetal?

While I'm at it, and for no good reason, I always liked this one LK posted in the old Qt3 Metal Thread -

Blizzard at Sea has finally released their next album, a 36min long E.P. called Individuation. You can listen to (and buy) the whole thing here. If I remember correctly, Charles dug their first album, so I'll just tag him for this one too.

If you're into post-metal, or have been waiting for someone to pick up the reigns where Isis left off, these guys might appeal to you. Here's one track off the album titled Accelerating Returns. You'll have to set aside 12 minutes to listen to the whole thing:


Another band I've been listening to lately is Tombs. They released their third album last year, and it's called Path of Totality (not to be confused with the Korn release of the same name that came out six months later). They label themselves as Black Metal/Sludge, but unlike traditional black metal their vocals sound more akin to something you'd hear from a post metal/hardcore outfit (which is probably why they appeal to me):

You can listen to the whole album here.

Here's a sample:

Fans of Fallout, rotoscoping, and awesome heaviness should behold:

Path of Totality was one of my favorites of last year. I also recommend going back to their earlier album Winter Hours, which is similarly excellent.

Is this the thread where I can comment on my admiration of a band called Be'lakor? A friend introduced me to them with this track called Remnants



I ended up grabbing the whole album after reading numerous positive reviews across the internet, plus I do what I can to support the local talent. Oh, and the cover art of Red Riding Hood caught me eye. Needless to say, it is now one of my favourite albums to just listen through from start to end. The first track is kind of weak, but it rapidly picks up from the second track (Remnants) and has a very strong finish; In Parting being my favourite track on the album. Admittedly, I'd enjoy this more without the growly vocals, or even with just no vocals at all, there is plenty going on with the music as it is.

Been listening to the newest Coheed & Cambria Album, 'The Aftermath: Ascension'. It is pretty kickass. In related news, Coheed is coming to town with Between the Buried and Me as well as Russian Circles. Woo!!

the news that they've released a new album this year brought me back to listening to Diablo Swing Orchestra.

It's fun. It's really, really, REALLY fun.

Marvelous:

That's goddamned remarkable. From "you're going to lose your arm" to playing again in what? 4, 5 months?

Science is awesome.

So I was browsing Wikipedia, looking for Coheed and Cambria's discography, and stumbled upon this:

A movie based on a comic book based on some song lyrics by a heavy metal band.

Not sure if awesome or super awesome.

Scrape Records (local metal shop), just posted its top 50 best-selling albums of 2012.

1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
2. Wintersun - Time I
3. Lamb of God - Resolution
4. Mastodon - The Hunter
5. Meshuggah - Koloss

Gojira came in at #6. I was surpised to see Storm Corrosion so high at #16 (beating out Baroness who were 23rd). Wintersun at #2 isn't so surprising since there was a meet-and-greet with the band at the store back in November. The full list is on their Facebook page.

That list makes me sad.

MUNICIPAL WAAAAASTE

Unfortunately, he doesn't actually perform. :(

OR DOES HE

Clearly I didn't read the entire article.

Have been listening to an outfit called Revocation lately. The music is pretty much thrash (older stuff is a bit more technical oriented), and although there are moments of vocal harmony (which in my opinion is when they sound their best, if even a bit powermetally), the majority of their vocal work has a tendency to take on the typical atonal qualities of grindcore and/or death metal.

There's a promo running at this site (link) which is giving away their latest E.P., entitled Teratogenesis, for free. Okay, now there's both good news and bad news: The good news is free music, and the bad news is the site wants an email address from you. Another sort of bad news item is that the free E.P. isn't up to par song-writingwise with their full length albums (plus they take a few steps away from thrash and head towards the death metal end of a spectrum a bit more than they probably should have), but hey it's free.

Here's a couple samples from the band's back catalog (be sure to note the classic dueling guitars "solo" late in the first song):




In most of their videos they're wearing t-shirts featuring 80s thrash bands like Testament and Slayer and the like, and that's pretty representative of the style of music they seem to be aiming for. I don't usually watch the videos though, because watching some guy garglemarbles into a microphone just makes me feel silly.