#sympho black metal

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and here we have some more black metal which I swear is something I'm not obsessed with and don't post about too much. this one's got an eastern esoteric sort of theme going on with a bit of instrumentals and melodies to match. links at bottom of post!

featured artists: Melechesh, Al-Namrood, Darkestrah, Nightbringer, Order of Orias & Arallu

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Necromantia Greece Photos of the two members named The Magus, and Baron Blood, alongside the cover for their 1995 LP, "Scarlet Evil Witching Black" Instead of the usual 6-string guitar, Necromantia favored the 8-string bass instead, creating a very original sound to separate them from the rest of the rising 2nd wave black metal scene of the early 90s. This album uses a good deal of synths, and is considered a classic of the sympho-black genre.

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best unexpected dayoff activity: watching an educational vocals related video and finally hearing dat pretty guy* from Lorna Shore. scheiße, we like this abyss we've jumped into)))) thx a certain user from the eepy fandom (you know who you are 😁)

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upd: consider us vanilla pop shit, we appreciated the skills and the melodies, but this amount of extreme vocals makes us sleepy. literally *yaaaaaawns* the vibes of the subgenre are similar to that sympho black we liked to listen to ten yrs ago or so. if we speak abt metal stuff... will keep listening to our fav monotonous post metal, some doom and whatever Katatonia are. and metalcore as vanilla as Annisokay, oops.

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hmm

The thing about metal is that I love it but I don't love all of it. Tbh that's pretty normal, most metalheads have their pet subgenres. But as someone who's very conscious of the elitism within the scene and who thinks it's stupid, I like. Deliberately try to resist being dismissive and shitty in that way. I don't wanna be a hater! It's like SO easy to be That Guy and I know because I was That Guy from like ages 14 - 20.

Another thing about metal is that while I still love the stuff that got me into the genre way back when my tastes have also grown a lot! My love for metal now is much more expansive! There's stuff I adore (grindcore, for one!) that I absolutely couldn't stand like 15 years ago. And that's cool! I want to encourage this in myself.

So then there's power metal. I've always had a hard time. It activates my shitty metal jock brain like nothing else. And I KNOW that reaction is stupid and arbitrary. The fact is that there's no "cool" genre of metal - it's all goofy as shit. And that's fine. But power metal...

But like I've been getting more into this new wave of trad bands. And I've always loved melodeath. And Sona has even sent me some cool sympho stuff this year that I've been warming up to. All this stuff shares the same DNA. And there are always exceptions to any rule - I generally like Unleash the Archers. I like Crystal Viper. Last month I listened to an entire Orden Ogen album and even mostly liked it! I listened to that new Stratovarius album last year and thought it whipped ass! And again - like getting more into Epic Heavy Metal and stuff. That's a breath away.

So y'know I'm thinking - oh am I finally opening my heart to power? Am I growing? Is this the year I learn how to love like that?

There's a Fellowship record that got a 5.0 on AMG*. I'm like - I'll try it, sure. And within the first 40 seconds I'm so angry my heart is thumping, jaw clenched, I wanna flip over a table and beat someone to death with my fists like a mad gorilla.

So I guess I'm not there yet.

*AMG is bullshit 90% of the time and I know this but every now and then I like to go see what they're doing. Generally actually I don't like their 5.0 albums bc it's all bullshit like this or avant-garde black metal BUT I can usually find something good in 3.0 - 4.5

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Band Interview: Arctic Dreams

Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life bring you an interview with sympho-industrial-black-death-metal band, Arctic Dreams.

Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life bring you an interview with sympho-industrial-black-death-metal band, Arctic Dreams. Answers from Alexander Alex_Y Järvinen (vocal/guitars/music/lyric) and Igor Sydius Pokatilov (back-vocal/guitar). 1. How did you get started as a band? Alex_Y: The history of our group begins in 2009. That year I moved to St. Petersburg and met Igor on one of the music…

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Metal, Part One

To make this a bit easier on myself, and also because my right hand isn’t working that well right now, I’m going to divide this into multiple posts. So this some of the power, symphonic, sympho-folk, gothic and power-prog artists in my main playlists.

I should note that I am an autistic with auditory processing disorder, so I do not listen to music primarily for lyrics and cannot promise that any one of these songs won’t contain problematic content.

I didn’t include Nightwish or Amaranthe because I know that you know of them, @dps-winston, but if you want my recommendations on either I can provide that. It’s also worth noting that I’ve often gone for bands’ lead tracks to give some idea of what their general sound is like. Also, not all these bands are actively together or recording.

Also, as someone who’s been listening to symphonic metal for a long time, I am not always a fan of the genre’s shift away from gothic metal undertones into pop-metal undertones, so the songs I list demonstrate that. There are other songs by bands like Sirenia, Xandria and Delain that are going to have that pop-metal tone if that’s what you enjoy. It’s just that I--while I shake my cane and ramble on about the good old days--came into the genre when it was paying homage to gothic metal, and I miss that.

Amberian Dawn: Mythological/fantastic gothic power metal. Unlike most of the bands here, they don’t go for anywhere near the same degree of orchestration, but there’s still backing choral pieces. Earlier songs are more often operatic; later songs are a bit less so.

Examples: River of Tuoni (early), Fame and Gloria, Cherish My Memory (Remastered)

Amanda Somerville and Michael Kiske: Two of metal’s famous melodic voices join up in that soft/melodic corner of power metal. Their first album is slow and blah, in my opinion, but City of Heroes has some rocking songs, and the title track is pretty much the Hero’s Journey set to song.

Examples: City of Heroes, Walk on Water.

Avantasia: A long-running (usually concept album) project from power metaller Tobias Sammet and a range of guest vocalists from the power, symphonic and prog corners of metal. More symphonic-power and power-prog than true power metal. Songs like “Runaway Train” are fucking epic.

Examples: Runaway Train, Twisted Mind.

Ayreon: Pretty much the epitome of melodic prog concept album projects, by Arjen Lucassen and another range of famous metal guest vocalists. It’s still power-prog, but it leans more into the prog than Avantasia. I very much recommend listening to Ayreon as a whole album first over individual songs, as much as I adore Day Three: Pain.

Examples: I’ll always recommend first The Human Equation.

Crimfall: Folk-with-a-bit-of-symphonic metal. I’d say something like the later Nightwish sound combined with early Eluvitie and a dash of Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings with even more outrageous bombast and shifts between clean and grunt (beauty and the beast) vocals. This band goes all out between softer breaks, so it isn’t just a wall of noise. (Although the start of “Until Falls the Rain” is fucking massive.) If you don’t like grunt vocals or harder folk, this may not work for you, but if you do, Crimfall.

Examples: Until Falls the Rain, The Last of Stands, Wildfire Season, Where Waning Winds Lead

Dark Princess: Gothic metal with ... well, I can only say emo undertones, but a similar sort of pop-metal sensibility as Amaranthe. They’re a pretty accessible entry to the melodic metal genre for folks new to the idea in terms of hardness, comprehensible vocals and song lengths.

Examples: Cry, Stop My Heart, The Key.

Delain: Symphonic/goth metal in their earlier albums; gothic power-pop metal, more like Amaranthe, in their later ones. I prefer their earlier albums, and their songs that lean hardest on the pop metal rarely do it for me so I won’t list them here, but Charlotte Wessels always sounds gorgeous. Damn do I love “Sleepwalker’s Dream”.

Examples: Sleepwalker’s Dream (early), Here Come the Vultures (later), Masters of Destiny (current)

Edenbridge: Symphonic/operatic metal, more like early Nightwish. I don’t like all their songs, I admit. They’re at their best, in my book, when they’re willing to move away from a close adherence to the Nightwish or Epica sound with more diverse instrumentation; “Wild Chase” is seriously good fun.

Examples: Wild Chase, Remember Me, Higher

Elis: Gothic metal. A lot of their songs sound fairly similar to me, but if you want less orchestration and more gothic sounds with grunt vocals, chorus and guitar, they’ll provide. (RIP Sabine.)

Examples: The Burning, Salvation

Elvenking: Folk meets light power metal with some acoustic songs between, and I have to say there’s something a bit Pratchett-esque elvish or Goblin Market about the weirdness of some of their songs, lyrically. But they’re light, fantastic, folky fun; just don’t expect them to always fit the Tolkien mould. High fantasy Elvenking are not, and that’s why they work.

Examples: The Wanderer (acoustic version), The Cabal, Trows Kind

Epica: If you’re looking for a more existential/spiritual/philosophical take on Nightwish, Epica will provide in the symphonic/operatic/gothic metal sphere. They’re bit more classical-feeling than Nightwish and, at the same time, more gothic, with grunt vocals threaded through the operatic elements. They’re big, bombastic and dramatic, with a touch of Therion about their music.

Examples: Our Destiny, The Essence of Silence, Tides of Time

Kamelot: Symphonic power-slightly-prog metal with a fair bit of drama. We don’t talk about Roy Khan, but I do like his vocals slightly better than that of his replacement, Tommy Karevik. (Karevik is still good, though.) They almost always have One Really Big Romantic Power Ballad, often with a guest female vocalist; it’s practically a contractual obligation.

(Epica are named after Kamelot’s Epica album, FYI.)

Khan examples: The Human Stain, March of Mephisto, A Sailorman’s Hymn

Karevik examples: Insomnia, Under Grey Skies (with the aforementioned Charlotte Wessels), Vespertine (My Crimson Bride)

Leah: A one-woman soft/melodic Celtic metal band, often with doom and prog undertones. Not all her stuff is quite as metal as I prefer, but if you want a break from the bombast melodic metal likes to throw at you with vocals more akin to Enya than Tarja, Leah will do that.

Examples: The Northern Edge, This Present Darkness

Leaves’ Eyes: Symphonic Norse metal, most of the time, but there’s a few albums between that are more like symphonic folk or Norse/Celtic rock. I vastly prefer them when they’re leaning harder to metal, like King of Kings. (Their best album, in my book.) We also don’t talk about Liv Kristine, but I do prefer her as frontwoman.

Examples, all Liv Kristine: Halvdan the Black, Blazing Waters, Froya’s Theme, Elegy (which, because pronouns, sounds like a sapphic love song)

Pyramaze: Fantasy-style softer power metal with a slight dash of prog. It’s very traditionally DnD/fairy tale fantastic, but it’s more toned down compared to Dragonforce. You’re all but required to sing “blood will be shed” and “the UNICORN” in the same way Shakespeare demands you holler “dishonour not your mothers”.

Examples: Tears of Hate, Legend.

Serenity: They’re Kamelot’s brand of symphonic power metal with a more power-metal-leaning vocalist and fantasy or historical vocals. They’re pretty much what power metal would be if it stayed power metal in theme but tried for Kamalot’s sound and styling. For all that it’s hard not to see them as a Kamelot knock-off, I do enjoy their music.

Examples: Velatum, Rust of Coming Ages, When Canvas Starts to Burn

Sirenia: Gothic metal evolving to symphonic metal. I vastly prefer their earlier albums; their middle albums have lost uniqueness (in my opinion) as they moved towards the Nightwish-adjacent mould, just with grunt vocals. Morten Velend’s vocals, though, are good: he’s deep and gravelly while still being clear. And the recent album has that discordant note again, albeit now over Amaranthe’s pop-metal base. Sirenia is a Revolving Door of Female Vocalists, though!

(If you like Morten’s vocals and want Sirenia’s orchestral gothic stylings sans female lead vocals: Mortemia’s Misere Mortem. If you prefer the earlier Sirenia songs, see early Tristania below.)

Examples: In My Darkest Hours (early), A Shadow of Your Own Self (early),  Sirens of the Seven Seas (middle), Dim Days of Dolor (recent), Love Like Cyanide (recent)

Sonata Arctica: Power metal, sometimes with fantasy or historical themes, but a bit toned down compared to Dragonforce or Rhapsody of Fire. This is why I listen to them a lot more than I do the others, as full-out power metal isn’t really my jam. Also, you have got to listen to “Fullmoon” because werewolves.

Examples: Fullmoon (Revisited), Flag in the Ground, The Last Amazing Grays

Tarja: For the sake of completeness, I should mention that Nighwish’s former frontwoman has recorded several of her own albums, but the first two are only ever okay for me, and I don’t connect to the later gothic-pop-metal tones of the later ones. I really notice the lack of Tuomas in her songs.

Examples of songs I don’t hate: Until My Last Breath, Die Alive

Therion: Unclassifiably melodic? Well, there’s fantasy, symphonic, orchestral, choral, prog, mythological and spiritual elements bound into something that’s wild and unique. Nothing else sounds quite like Therion, and their tracks vary in terms of additional tone, instrumentation, theme and styling. It’s as dramatic and all out as all fuck.

Examples: Call of Dagon, Enter Vril-Ya, Son of the Staves of Time, Adulruna Rediviva

Threshold: Soft power-prog, somewhat like Kamelot but sans orchestration. I do find a lot of their songs to be similar, and their early stuff doesn’t speak to me at all, but the songs I like I really like.

Examples: Stars and Satellites, Small Dark Lines

Tristania: Their early (Morten) albums are discordant gothic metal with doomier-style orchestrations, mostly grunt vocals against a choral background. Their later albums ... they’re just standard goth metal. If you like harder vocals leaning into doom but with more orchestration and symphonic elements, Tristania’s early albums are great. Not a fan, at all, of their later stuff, but I’ll link a song for comparison!

Examples: Beyond the Veil (early), Opus Relinque (early), Year of the Rat (later)

Visions of Atlantis: This is another band that’s had a few different vocalists and have changed tone along with them, but they’re mostly fantasy/mythological symphonic metal. (The earlier albums have a consistent operatic power metal vibe not present on songs like “The Deep and the Dark”.) I don’t mind when autoplay offers me their songs, but they’ve never been a band whose discography I absolutely have to own.

Examples: Mermaid’s Wintertale (early), Return to Lemuria (recent), The Deep and the Dark (recent)

Within Temptation: If you’ve heard Nightwish and Amaranthe, you’ve probably heard WT, but just in case you haven’t, they’re a symphonic metal stalwart. Not all their albums work for me--sometimes they sound far too same-ish and sometimes their more experimental songs don’t hit the mark--but Hydra is fantastic.

(I do love And We Run as is. Ironically, I can’t stand What Have You Done; I wish they’d gotten Mikael Stanne or Morten Veland over Keith Caputo. Just think what that song would sound like with grunt vocals!)

Examples: Edge of the World, The Last Dance, Murder and, because I’m contractually obligated to mention it, Paradise (What About Us)

Xandria: A fairly standard gothic/symphonic/operatic metal band, but they’re another Revolving Door of Female Vocalists Band with resulting shifts in tone, so the mood of their albums shifts from gothic to full-out operatic depending on vocalist. I don’t always like all their songs for this reason! Neverworld’s End is my favourite, probably because it’s the most Nightwish-esque.

Examples of songs I like: The Nomad’s Crown, Forevermore (both from Neverworld’s End), Nightfall, Voyage of the Fallen

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Tag Game!

Rules: Tag ten followers/people you want to get to know better.

I was tagged by @purebloodprincess​, thank you dear!

Name: София (man, I love Cyrillic alphabet lol).

Gender: Female.

Star sign: Pisces.

Height: 161 cm.

Age: 27.

Sexuality: Hetero.

House: Pottermore says I’m Hufflepuff.

Element: Water (I’m Pisces, what other element can I choose?).

What image do you have as your wallpaper? I love the wallpaper on my laptop so much, I have to share it with you because it’s beautiful:

And as a wallpaper on my smartphone I have a red Batman logo (not because I’m a huge fan but because I just love bats, their symbols and other things, lol), and on my lockscreen there’s a picture from Archie comics with the Core Four. Have you ever had a crush on a teacher? No.

Where do you see yourself in ten years? A respectful HR manager with happy family. Pretty banal. :)

What was your coolest Halloween costume? We do not celebrate Halloween in my country, but in Christmas period we have days when children and teens visit houses in costumes of characters from old native fairytales and sing for cookies and sweets. I did it once and was dressed as a Slavic bride.

What was your favorite 90′s show? Friends and Charmed I guess.

Have you ever been stood up? No.

Have you ever been to Vegas? Never been to the US yet.

Fav pair of shoes? Pink anti-rain spring boots with black laces.

Fav fruit? I never can decide between apple, banana and orange, so I usually cut them into slices, mix with condensed milk and enjoy lol.

Fav book? Oh no, it’s impossible to pick up just one, I don’t even want to try.

Stupidest thing you’ve ever done? An hour of brainstorming didn’t give me anything, so I have to answer that I don’t remember but it doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything stupid. XD

All time favorite shows? Game of thrones, Spartacus, the Tudors, Supernatural, Riverdale, Stranger things, Black Mirror, Heroes, Lost, 10th Kingdom... I stop here. :)

Last movie you saw in theaters? Black Panther, and I liked it very much.

Favorite bands? Well, it depends on the style. Like, fav NDH band is Oomph!, fave metalcore band is Bullet For My Valentine, fave sympho-metal band is Apocalyptica, fave nu-metal is Linkin Park (well, old good Linkin Park), fave gothic rock is Lacuna Coil, and I can continue.

10 people I’m tagging:

Not 10, but -

@yumikuran11​, @dimichan​, @white-queen-lacus, @the-princess-button​, @eternalyumelove

No pressure, just if you want to! ^_^

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Black Messiah - First War Of The World (2009) Lossless

Black Messiah – First War Of The World (2009) Lossless

Artist: Black Messiah  Title Of Album: First War Of The World  Year Of Release: 2009  Country: Germany  Genre: Sympho Black / Folk / Viking Metal  Quality: FLAC (image+.cue, scans)  Size: 537 Mb (more…)

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🦇 Vampyric Black Metal 🦇

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a third chapter finally emerges for "kingdom ov the darkest past", my 90s black metal series... this time with heavy vampyric undertones, almost as if the playlists themselves have returned from the grave to haunt 4 hours of your night.. links below!

featured artists: Black Funeral, Tiamat, Obtained Enslavement, Mysticum, Nargaroth, Judas Iscariot, Abyssos, Lord Belial & Aeternus

🜏 spotify 🜏 apple 🜏 youtube 🜏

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Anorexia Nervosa - Sodomizing the Archedangel

Nul doute que cet EP n’est pas la meilleure façon de découvrir Anorexia Nervosa, surtout à cause de la production beaucoup moins percutante que sur l’album qui le suit, mais qu’il reste efficace.

Sa durée est une force considérable, 17 minutes de créativité folle. Riffs, breaks, lignes symphoniques, enchaînement endiablé et ce chant, tout est superbement original et même encore aujourd’hui peu de groupes ont réussi à laisser une image aussi forte qu’Anorexia Nervosa dans un black sympho autre que celui d’Emperor/Dimmu/Cradle, surtout pour un black sympho qui garde du black la violence.

Parce que oui, il faut en parler, l’agression chez Anorexia période Sodomizing the archangel et Drundehaus est dingue, merci au Drudenhaus Studio, car je ne crois pas que le résultat aurait été similaire en passant par Abyss studio ou autre grosse production du début des années 2000.

Et puis il faut rendre hommage aux musiciens et aux compositions qui rendent cette violence avec une précision sans failles, seule la production les tiens un peu en retenu, défaut qui sera corrigé sur Drundehaus l’année suivante.

19 ans plus tard, cet EP s’écoute encore si bien. Après 17 minutes il se termine doucement par les râles d’agonie de Hreidmarr et quoi de plus logique finalement, puisque logiquement l’auditeur se trouve dans le même état.

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Dimmu Borgir - Eonian (2018) [24bit Hi-Res]

Format : FLAC (tracks) Quality : Hi-Res 24bit stereo Source : Digital download Artist : Dimmu Borgir Title : Eonian Genre : Sympho Black Metal Release Date : 2018 Scans : not included Size .zip : 824 mb

https://losslessbestmusic.biz/32208-dimmu-borgir-eonian-2018-24bit-hi-res.html

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Welicoruss dodat programu večeri ruskog folk metala

Welicoruss dodat programu večeri ruskog folk metala

Kako je već najavljeno, veče ruskog folk metala u organizaciji Marena Fanzine, na kojem će nastupiti bendovi Грай, СатанаКозёл i Anabioz, biće održano 1. oktobra tekuće godine u beogradskom klubu Fest. Novo ime koje će pojačati line-up je sibirski sympho black metal sastav Welicoruss.

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