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Etherhunter
 Post subject: Can you recommend some fantasy/sci-fi-themed albums?
PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:19 pm 
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And I'm looking for more than cool cover art and a track or two about dragons or space colonies. I want a total other-worldly experience :). Preferably a concept album. Any genre.
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Anything by Blind Guardian is other-worldly. Especially Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations From The Other Side and Nightfall In Middle-Earth. I assume you've already heard all of them though.


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The Necrodude
 Post subject: Re: Can you recommend some fantasy/sci-fi-themed albums?
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And I'm looking for more than cool cover art and a track or two about dragons or space colonies. I want a total other-worldly experience :). Preferably a concept album. Any genre.


Then you should check out Ayreon A.S.A.P

Pretty much anything this guy does is a double concept album filled with music from metal, prog, blues, folk and electronica genres.

Try his Into The Electric Castle album as well as....anything else he has done really :D

Go to Arjen's site for samples.

http://www.ayreon.com


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Voivod !!!!

Nothingface and Dimension Hatross !

Kind of extreme if you're looking for Power Metal but an other-worldly experience for sure! :dio:
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Nocturnus-The Key

first death metal album to use synths. A true classic.
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Slough Feg mainly Traveler but also Hardworlder.
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Any album by Rhapsody (Of Fire) will do.
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 Post subject: Re: Can you recommend some fantasy/sci-fi-themed albums?
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The Necrodude wrote:
Etherhunter wrote:
And I'm looking for more than cool cover art and a track or two about dragons or space colonies. I want a total other-worldly experience :). Preferably a concept album. Any genre.


Then you should check out Ayreon A.S.A.P

Pretty much anything this guy does is a double concept album filled with music from metal, prog, blus, folk and electronica genres.

Try his Into The Electric Castle album as well as....anything else he has done really :D

Go to Arjen's site for samples.

http://www.ayreon.com


I was going to say the same thing but The Necrodude beat me to it. Ayreon is probably among the best (if not THE) you can get for modern sci-fi metal, epic in scope and execution and with huntingly beautiful melodies. Follow Necrodude's advice (and mine) and you won't regret it.
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Nocturnus-The Key

first death metal album to use synths. A true classic.


:dio:

Royal Hunt's 'The Mission' sounds pretty sci-fi-ish, as it's based around Ray Bardbury's 'Martian Chronicles'. I'd give it a go.
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BLIND GUARDIAN!!!
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traptunderice wrote:
Slough Feg mainly Traveler but also Hardworlder.
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Fantasy:
Cage - Hell Destroyer
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-earth
Ulver - Themes from William Blake
Root - Kärgeräs
Manilla Road - Atlantis Rising


SF:
Scanner - Hypertrace
Ayreon - The Universal Migrator
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
Septic Flesh - Revolution DNA
Beyond Twilight - Section X
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Voivod !!!!

Dimension Hatross !



Seconded.. Great stuff..

If you like Black Metal, you should check out Darkspace I. Raw yet atmospheric and really capturing a feeling of the cold endlessness of space. Complete with sci-fi references and everything. Stellar in more than one sense.
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EdgeOfForever wrote:
Anything by Blind Guardian is other-worldly. Especially Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations From The Other Side and Nightfall In Middle-Earth. I assume you've already heard all of them though.


Yeah I have all of those albums :) . BG are awesome, though I'm not a huge fan of the Tolkien universe.


The Necrodude wrote:
Then you should check out Ayreon A.S.A.P

Pretty much anything this guy does is a double concept album filled with music from metal, prog, blues, folk and electronica genres.

Try his Into The Electric Castle album as well as....anything else he has done really

Go to Arjen's site for samples.


This is exactly the type of stuff I'm looking for! I've always seen Ayreon albums at the store but hesitated in buying them. Definitely gonna check this out.


Stefan wrote:
Kind of extreme if you're looking for Power Metal but an other-worldly experience for sure!


I tend to lean toward Thrash, Black, Death, and industrial so it's all good :dio: . As for Voivod, I heard their self-titled album a while back. It was kind of whatever. Hopefully those two albums are better :)
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OldSchool wrote:
Fantasy:
Cage - Hell Destroyer
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-earth
Ulver - Themes from William Blake
Root - Kärgeräs
Manilla Road - Atlantis Rising


SF:
Scanner - Hypertrace
Ayreon - The Universal Migrator
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
Septic Flesh - Revolution DNA
Beyond Twilight - Section X


Heard the Ulver, the BG, and the Hypocrisy. Good albums. I'll definitely check out that Septic Flesh since I'm really into their newest.

Gonna look into Scanner and Nocturnus too.
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Etherhunter
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Oh, and if anyone is into hip-hop, Deltron 3030's self-titled album is the fucking shit. Post-Apocalyptic science fiction. Fantastic lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf5yOqEp9OY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_jbluF0qo
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Fantasy albums? Like make some up?

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Manticora - Hyperion (sci-fi concept album the book is very much recomended)
Sabbat - Dreamweaver (Its not really fantasy but its a great concept album).
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