Various metal

[possible]

Amorphis was one of those bands to successfully change genres, kind of like Ulver:



They used to be awesome death metal.

[Rica86]

That Korpiklaani track is awesome. One of the few bands I still want to see live(that I haven't yet that is), I keep missing paganfest though.

[Seventh]

Originally Posted by possible

Amorphis was one of those bands to successfully change genres, kind of like Ulver:



They used to be awesome death metal.

Wow, I guess so. That's pretty badass. \m/

Majestic Beast (on their MySpace) is a pretty direct Opeth / Grand Conjuration ripoff. Still a badass tune.

[Killswitch]

New Iron Maiden DVD/Blueray Comming out June 5th in US. Audio is in HD as well and Bruce is flying a big ass Iron Maiden plane.


Iron Maiden - Flight 666

[Disp]

Love Amon Amarth and these are my two favorite songs of theirs. Neither one is new, but still awesome.

[Hathe]

Synchronized headbanging, go!

[Killswitch]

Just got turned to onto these guys from Australia - Synthetic Breed



Another band called Droid from longbeach,Ca -

[possible]

A good American band that actually somewhat innovates black metal? Surprised I haven't heard of them until recently, very awesome stuff either way.

Also, new Amorphis album is pretty awesome and it's around in pretty decent quality.

[FulorianC]

Amorphis did something really weird... they went from pure death metal to pure progressive metal, then suddenly merged the two and their progressive death metal was better than anything they'd done before.

[Astennu]

Amorphis sort of mirrored In Flames for me. Totally enjoy Karelian Isthmus, Privilege of Evil and Tales From the Thousand Lakes, but everything after was not interesting to me at all. Kind of like In Flames where everything after Whoracle = fail.

[ToeMissile]

In Flames was the first 'real' metal band I got into. It was sometime between Clayman and Reroute to Remain. I'm not too into the stuff that's pre-Whoracle, Colony was hit and miss, Clayman might be my favorite and then it just depends after that.

I had heard of The Funeral Pyre before, don't think i'd heard any of their music though. I'm enjoying it so far though.

[ToeMissile]

Originally Posted by Hathe

Synchronized headbanging, go!

I wasn't a fan of AA when I first heard them, but they've grown on me quite a bit.

edit: Meh, shoulda combined my two posts. lame.

[Seventh]

Originally Posted by ToeMissile

In Flames was the first 'real' metal band I got into. It was sometime between Clayman and Reroute to Remain. I'm not too into the stuff that's pre-Whoracle, Colony was hit and miss, Clayman might be my favorite and then it just depends after that.

I had heard of The Funeral Pyre before, don't think i'd heard any of their music though. I'm enjoying it so far though.

Try as I might to like the last couple of In Flames discs, I saw them live and their keyboardist was turned up so much louder than the rest of the band I was looking around for dickbags with pacifiers in their mouth twirling glowsticks.

Ever since, I just can't NOT hear the damn keyboard all the time.

Edit: Killswitch, I think I actually saw that band play at an Irish Pub (of all places) in Sydney. I got stuck at the airport after missing my connecting flight home, and did the noble thing and got fucking plastered and wandered around. Found an Irish pub (score, I'm Irish, but more than that, I love beer) and lo and behold, they had a pretty sick stage setup and were having some sort of metalfest there that night. Australia has a pretty sick metal scene apparently, just about every band was awesome.

(Would rep you for that post, but blah blah spread more around bug )

[Killswitch]

Originally Posted by Seventh

Edit: Killswitch, I think I actually saw that band play at an Irish Pub (of all places) in Sydney. I got stuck at the airport after missing my connecting flight home, and did the noble thing and got fucking plastered and wandered around. Found an Irish pub (score, I'm Irish, but more than that, I love beer) and lo and behold, they had a pretty sick stage setup and were having some sort of metalfest there that night. Australia has a pretty sick metal scene apparently, just about every band was awesome.

(Would rep you for that post, but blah blah spread more around bug )

I got to hand it to Australia for putting out some good bands of late. Parkway Drive is another great band. The song boneyards is just so fucking sick esp at 2:50. Go figure a Irish guy who likes beer? Cant be!! blashempy !

[possible]

Eh, never liked the hardcore influenced stuff.

Here's some (apparently categorized as) avant garde death/black metal from Australia with a pretty unique sound and an audible bass: Stargazer. They have some older tracks on there, but everything from latest album is just awesome.