Just out of curiosity what are all your music tastes like since i know we are all different so how would you all desribe your tastes in music?
For me even though i like multiple genres the main two (yes 2 but they dont frequently cross over so kinda counts as one) i find myslef in is Power Metal and Femme Metal (you know metal fronted with a female lead singer) i adore them just the pace and upbeat sound that the music gives, and just some of the epic masterpieces some bands produce and the concept albums are just breath taking Period
I do listen to alot of stuff, OSTs, J-Rock, Anything Exit Trance do, Metal as a whole mainly though. I like my music and if anyone has any recommendations feel free
Some of my fav bands are:
Kamelot, cant wait for Poetry of the Poisoned to be released i mean thats another album which has Simone Simons as guest vocals, hell yeah that album will be brilliant! Hoping that for thier European tour 2011 they do another UK date since i was able to go back in March and adored them more so than normal
Highly recommend thier albums Epica and Karma (both my 2 fav dont get me wrong i like Ghost Opera and Black Halo but just really prefer the other 2, along with Fourth Legacy)
Epica, asweoms esound and the flow of growly male female vocals to Simones heavenly like voice is just so beautiful, having her sign my Consign to Oblivion and shaking her hand made me nervous, i mean her hair! Its bloody radient, especialy when live
Oh and the music is nice, maybe upon your prefence not as good as (old) Nightwish or Lacuna Coil but comes down to preference i suppose.
Symphony X, first band that introduced me to any form of metal, thier album tThe Odyssey is just stunning, the title track in particualr being a 24min epic, seriously. Maybe even better than Divine Wings of Tragedy. Highy recommend anyone who fancys power metal are some thing upbeat combined with a few solid concept albums give them a try.
Van Canto, jsut for the sheer orgionality of this awesome band they have to get a mention, its a lead female and male vocalist, 3 'rakkatakka' vocalists and a drummer, seriously they are just awesome, they get the 'rakkatakka' vocalists to impersonate the sounds of a guitar and bass. I know it sound wacky to some of you, but seriously it goes so well, i mean brilliantly well, a few loyalists think that their covers of Metallicas Battery and Master of Puppets, Maidens Fear of the Dark or Nightwish' Wishmaster are a sin, but credit to the band for trying to be striahgt up orgional with their covers, seriously just give them a try.
A few more notible mentions would be Helloween, Sabaton, Alestorm, Emerald Mind, Nightwish (old)
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