Metal Reviews

Lately I have been quite bored listening to the same band and what is worst is knowing that out there there is great bands i'm missing out.

My favorites bands:
Wintersun
Equilibrium
Moonsorrow
Blind guardian
Children of bodom (the first three)
Kiuas
Nightwish
Ensiferum
Edguy
Orden ogan

Other bands I like:
Dream theater
Suidakra
Dark forest
Eternal tears of sorrow
Vader
In flames (the first two)
Kamelot
Mithotyn
Rhapsody of fire (few but still)
Slough feg
Bolt thrower
etc, etc...

To summarize: I like it melodic if not symphonic, harsh vocals and blasts beats ftw, black metal infused and a touch of folk is always welcome. Forgive me for my bad english and thanks in advance.

P.S. Please dont recommend generic melodic death of any kind

It sounds like Bal-Sagoth is missing from your life. Should be perfect for what you're searching for, I think, they're easily one of my top five favorite metal bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5K8jfmu_7Y

You'd probably also dig Gothmog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwlWqDq ... re=related

Haha love bal sagoth and gothmog is not bad at all. Do you have any album recommendation for bal sagoth?

The Cthonic Chronicles!

Oh and the more epic the music is the better (dont take the cheese factor into account)

Already ordered it from amazon. Thanks to Kyle and Thomas

Yeah, Cthonic Chronicles is great, probably their least melodic though along with their debut. The Power Cosmic is my personal favorite, and Starfire Burning Upon the Ice Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule is a close second.

Also, everyone loving Bal-Sagoth, check these guys out. Burning Earth.

http://www.myspace.com/onceburningearth

Oh yeah, someone on the forum is in that band, right?

Season of thunder is a great song even though the talked part turn me a bit off. And i am curious to know who on MR play in that band.

Holy jesus fuck!!!! Love Bal-Sagoth. Listened to various songs from all the albums and... wow... that is some kickass music there
(surely gonna order the whole discography soon)

Speedyjx, plays in the band. The EP is great, read my review of it.

Any other suggestions !? take liberties, its not absolutely necessary to find something has precise as i have written. And great review Thomas (as always).

Okay, I'm just gonna throw out a bunch based on all the bands you listed (and some other stuff). The red ones is stuff I recommend you to look at at once.

Aspera - Ripples
Winter's Verge - Tales of Tragedy
Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian
Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance
Status Minor - Dialouge
Obitus - March of the Drones
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children of the Dark Waters
Pathosray - Sunless Skies
Crom - Vengeance
Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
Overkill - Ironbound
Dark Quarterer - Symbols
Destroy Destroy Dedstroy - Battle Sluts
Hibria - The Skull Collectors
Hibria - Defying the Rules
Astra - From Within
DGM - Different Shapes
Wizard - Thor
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

Grand Magus - Iron Will

And this:

REBELLION - Arise: From Ginnungagap To Ragnarok - History of the Vikings, Vol. III

Already checked out eternal tears of sorrow, crom and overkill and love'd em all. The rest is gonna keep me occupied for a bit. Thanks. Any other recommandation is appreciated

You might wanna check Whispered - a mix of Children Of Bodom and some Turisas singing about samurai, Bushido and stuff like that. The songs they have on MySpace are the better ones from their debut. Faceless is my fav. Not perfect but you might enjoy it.

Other bands to consider:
Turisas - MySpace - Battle Metal is better than The Varangian Way imo but the cheese factor is high on both.
Ancient Rites - MySpace - Everything from Rubicon rules so check that album first.
Dragonlord - MySpace - Similar to Dimmu Borgir and Keep Of Kalessin.
Finntroll - You MUST know about them. Pure awesome. Just in case you don't - MySpace
Hollenthon - MySpace - I'd go for With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell first, then Opus Magnum.
Kalmah - MySpace - Their new album is awesome.
Stormlord - MySpace - Ignore The Gorgon Cult - that album is plain bad, but Mare Nostrum put the band back on track.

Almost all of the bands I mentioned fit in with your summary of what you are looking for.

already know kalmah (in fact I have all the records since swamplord), finntroll (fortunately i have known them for quite a while now) and turisas wich isnt much my cup of tea. Gonna check the rest soon but you really got my attention with Whispered and im eager to try them out. Love the fueodal japanese them.

Thanks a lot pyro

So far, bal-sagoth and whispered are the definite highlights. Out of all the good bands you guys came up with, they are the one who achieved with the greatset sucess the following :Thechnicality and brutality combined with a good use of orchestration and clever melody usage. Wow those two bands are something. And I just decided to give a real listen to rotting christ to realise I love it

I'm gonna be putting the Burning Earth EP up for free at some point soon. The band's splitting up sadly, and the new stuff we've been working on isn't going to be released for various reason :(.