Since you like Maiden and power metal, here are some of my favorite corresponding albumsWant some suggestions for possible artists/bands.
Here's who I currently listen to; Iron Maiden, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, Avantasia, Rhapsody, Dragon Force, Beast In Black.
I think you would really like the following, they cover a lot of different ground but based on what you've mentioned they should be of interest:If this were 8 years ago I'd have been able to give more in-depth metal recs. Ah well.
I recommend these:
I'm looking for new gothic metal bands with strong female vocals. Albums I loved a lot recently:
- Annihilator - Alice in Hell
- Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
- Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
- Children of Bodom - Something Wild
- Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
I'm also looking for new doom / avant-garde bands. Albums I enjoyed a lot recently:
- Epica - Omega
- Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear
- Mandragora Scream - Fairy Tales From Hell's Cave (absolute classic)
- Draconian - Under a Godless Veil
- Therion - Leviathan
- Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones
- Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
- Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die
- Lantlos - Melting Sun
I also really like Agalloch and Empyrium if it helps.
listening to dream theater right now. excellent choice.Hello all! I recently submitted my list for Metal-Archives' yearly Album of the Year poll and since I see this thread exists, I thought I'd share it and see what people think.
1. Spelljammer - Abyssal Trip (stoner doom)
2. Monolord - Your Time to Shine (stoner doom)
3. Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World (it's DT lol I hope you know this band)
4. Steel Bearing Hand - Slay in Hell (thrash)
5. Moon Coven - Slumber Wood (moar stoner doom)
6. Kal-El - Dark Majesty (progressive stoner doom)
7. Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst (black metal)
8. Wormwood - Arkivet (melodic black metal)
9. Dvne - Etemen Ænka (progressive/sludge)
10. Lucifer - Lucifer IV (NWOTHM/trad doom)
And since it's only a top-10 and not a top-25 or whatever, some really good shit had to be cut here are some of those in no real order:
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm (black metal)
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim (prog)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana (black metal)
1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet (blackened death metal)
Plaguewielder - Covenant death (blackened sludge)
Silver Talon - Decadence & Decay (heavy/power metal)
Amenra - De Doorn (atmospheric sludge)
Year of No Light - Consolamentum (atmospheric sludge)
Exodus - Persona Non Grata (thrash)
Khemmis - Deceiver (melodic doom)
Obscura - A Valediction (thrashy technical death)
Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm (thrash)
Damn, that song was the shit in 2005 when I was playing need for speed most wanted at the time. Lots of good memories from that game.Let's get some industrial metal in here -
Celldweller has always been a fantastic and underrated artist imo.Damn, that song was the shit in 2005 when I was playing need for speed most wanted at the time. Lots of good memories from that game.
thanks.adramelch - irae melanox
amorphis - privilege of evil + the karelian isthmus
at the gates - gardens of grief + the red in the sky is ours
atheist - unquestionable presence
bathory - under the sign of the black mark + blood fire death
burzum - hvis lyset tar oss + filosofem
carcass - symphonies of sickness + necroticism
cryptopsy - blasphemy made flesh
deicide - self titled
dismember - like an everflowing stream
discordance axis - the inalienable dreamless
drawn and quartered - hail infernal darkness
gorguts - obscura
grotesque - incantation
helloween - walls of jericho
infester - to the depths in degradation
jag panzer - ample destruction
kreator - pleasure to kill
massacra - final holocaust
master's hammer - ritual
repulsion - horrified
sacramentum - far away from the sun
sadus - illusions
sentenced - north from here
think again - never
ulcerate - everything is fire
vektor - terminal redux
vio-lence - eternal nightmare
walknut - graveforests and their shadows
weakling - dead as dreams
windir - arntor