Unsucky Melodic Metal
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How 'bout the Xcursion LP, Ready to Roll? I like that one a lot better than the Skull Queen EP, which is a shame, because it's a lot harder to find.....
Another one might be X-Caliber - Warriors of the Night, especially the second side.... although, I've had it for more than a year and still haven't decided if it's good or crap!
Another one might be X-Caliber - Warriors of the Night, especially the second side.... although, I've had it for more than a year and still haven't decided if it's good or crap!
i think the EP is the best thing they've done! nice raw recording w/ a touch of that AOR sound; be sure and get the original press and not the CBS 'remix'!Nightlock wrote:
About Pretty Maids though pity they went in the more poppy direction with each new release. Am still to hear the s/t MLP but it's at the top of my list. How does it size up to Red, Hot and Heavy?
i'm surprised nobody mentioned SORTILEGE, dude out-shrieks Halford half the time
SORCERY from Cali were decent melodic hardrock/metal; check out the "Stuntrock" cd, which is a soundtrack to an obscure film nobody saw..
Q5 rules!!!!
Shadows of the Night is one of my all-time faves too. I must admit I always thought they had a haunting type of feel in alot of their songs, especially Shadows... and Don't Break The Circle. So I kinda' know where Dan is coming from. One of my other faves is TOKYO BLADE-Night of the Blade. Some really great songs on that one!Fucking Åmål wrote:No i don´t think of a special evilness about this band.What makes you say such a think?I am very curious to find what found you so evil or occult?Ok it is not a TRALALA band but if you say such a thing about DARK HEART what someone can say about BLACK HOLEDaN wrote: I aslo enjoy DARK HEART "Shadows Here, here. A killer albums that sounds so "normal" at first listening but then slowly gets darker and more special with every listening. Something about those vocals me thinks.. That guy is up to no good. Someone should check his back yard for bodies of dead children. Just to be sure.
Hmm, I think this thread is rather flawed to be honest.
Technically any band with any sort of melody in their music could be deemed "melodic".
Although, arguable, if you were to deem "Melodic Metal" a sub-genre, much like like "NWOBHM" a sub-genre, because both have a specific fixed, formulated sound that is common among them, I would say bands like:
Hawk
Fifth Angel (especially "Time Will Tell")
Axel Rudi Pell
Madison
Agentz (although more Hardrock)
fall into this category.
Technically any band with any sort of melody in their music could be deemed "melodic".
Although, arguable, if you were to deem "Melodic Metal" a sub-genre, much like like "NWOBHM" a sub-genre, because both have a specific fixed, formulated sound that is common among them, I would say bands like:
Hawk
Fifth Angel (especially "Time Will Tell")
Axel Rudi Pell
Madison
Agentz (although more Hardrock)
fall into this category.
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Well, then any band with a melodic solo could be listed here.ION BRITTON wrote:I think we mean bands that sound more melodic than your typical/common metal band.
That's boring...
bigfootkit wrote:"Your Steel Is Not True"
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Well, if it's only a melodic solo among several not-so-melodic songs i think they can be excluded from the list.Avenger wrote:Well, then any band with a melodic solo could be listed here.ION BRITTON wrote:I think we mean bands that sound more melodic than your typical/common metal band.
That's boring...
The question is when one band is considered more melodic than another. For example AXEGRINDER might sound quite melodic to a grindcore fan, but they might as well be considered as ''noise'' by a fan of hard rock.
It would be better if bands of the same sub-genre were compared, otherwise it's all relative.
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This was quite a cool melodic metal album. Jorn Lande and Russell Allen are the vocalists with Magnus Karlsson on guitars/bass and Keyboards.
TNT "My Religion" album from 2004 was also good. Catchy songs, choruses and hooks.
Also both Starbreaker albums. Tony Harnell sings on these albums and is a great melodic metal singer in my opinion
I guess this is my idea of what melodic metal is. To others it is probably Mind wars by Holy Terror
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