Sturgeon Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 More Polish music: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 So here's Japan's Linkin Park. Maybe it's just an anime thing that Japanese women raise the pitch of their voice up to fingernails on chalkboard levels? Huh, and me I thought MacArthur replaced their women with a breed of sentient squeak toys that could only communicate by giving themselves the Heimlich. Pretty cool though, most of the Japanese music I've heard has been totally ruined for me by the vocal delivery even though it was otherwise pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 Shivaree is a respectably obscure... pop? Alt? Whatever, it's a band you probably haven't heard of from the late nineties and early 2000s. But while you haven't heard of them, you have heard them before. This is because they were featured in the Kill Bill vol. 2 sountrack, from the Halcyon days of several years ago when Quentin Tarantino made movies worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o__GNHtJ1qM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mogensthegreat Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 I was recently introduced to the genre of folk metal, and some of it is actually quite good. It's interesting to see different bands of different nationalities and how they deal with the genre. For instance, Grai's songs are more towards the folk side of the spectrum, Tengger Cavalry (who include Throat Singing in much of their music) is more metal, and Heidevolk falls somewhere in the middle. They are Russian, Mongolian, and Dutch, respectively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQWNPhu81I xthetenth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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xthetenth Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 You somehow missed Germany when mentioning folk metal. There's a bunch from there though it's often more rock than metal. Main one I can think of to link right now is In Extremo which has been steadily progressing towards a mix from a start that's real heavy on the folk to stuff like this; Folk + Other Genre has one of the great highlights of Germany's ongoing commitment to being really weird, too. There's a band floating around that's mixing folk and progressively more metal with electro-industrial, and in stereotypical German fashion has been very fucking weird in incredibly efficient fashion, releasing seven full length concept albums about a templar who gets turned into a vampire, something something. (The only reason I mention that is that the second album's named Kadavergehorsam which amuses me way more than it should). Also they've got a song that's the St. Crispin's Day speech. Because why not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 SOMEONE SAID FOLK METAL IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER SORRY NOT SORRY And of course there is Finnish folk metal; the song is about smithing, the name itself means something like "strike" IIRC Swedish folk metal; this song is actually a very old ballad, about a maiden (although I'm not sure jungfrun means exactly the same thing as the English translation 'maiden') who gets eaten by a werewolf. Different versions of the ballad end differently, sometimes all that's left to help her beloved kill the werewolf is a talking eye, or a tongue, or other things. Till Eulenspiegel (literally 'Till Owl-mirror') is a well-known trickster hero of German folklore. Russian folk metal; no idea what it's about Folk metal from China, easy enough to follow with lyrics in English Botswanan folk metal band, I wish I knew more about African folk traditions, but the song exposits pretty decently Tunisian folk band Austrian band, they generally do folkish stuff, but they really obsess over the Roman empire I hesitate to call Powerwolf folk metal, it's more like 'these guys really like to be edgy with religious iconography metal', but Strigoi are a folk thing, so maybe? Japanese folk as interpreted by a Swede? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKltawQoeVc Faroese folk metal band, I think we are all familiar with what Ragnarök is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvF2sgjuD4o Týr gets edgy sometimes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-fUv1ZDKI Skálmöld are Icelandic, they also really like singing about Norse mythology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXivuGXXrM0&index=2&list=PL2QdWlqtZbKCEgMdKpFw-vGuApaAKwr7V I think Tobias Sammet's Avantasia counts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlhQZFTvAn4 I don't know that Gloryhammer is technically folk, in that I don't know that they're singing about any actual existing folk tradition, but they're pretty fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TKyNTwD3Yk And of course 'bacon powered pirate metal' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Ni-wrFwVs Spanish folk metal, song obviously about Jeanne d'arc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f8V1QSf7yg German a capella power metal, definite folk-metalish sound, but not really explicitly folk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKELDVRJDY I mean tarot cards are technically folk, but we're starting to stretch it here, so I'm gonna call it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 ISIS made a chinese nasheed. Because why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 And to compensate for that nasheed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Dirigibles: fucking metal Vanagandr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Dirigibles: fucking metal I made an observation a while back that german metal bands like to reference historical events, but maybe that's just every band that isn't American instead Am I garbage for thinking this is neato? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 In 1982, Don Henley wrote a song about the 2016 news media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sturgeon Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 I know I've ranted and raved about Ne Obliviscaris before, but I've seen them live twice now, and I have to point out how excellent and flawless they are live: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 So my dad linked this to me for whatever reason; am I wrong in thinking these dudes look like neos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 So my dad linked this to me for whatever reason; am I wrong in thinking these dudes look like neos? Gosh, how could you be so bigoted? That music tanz-metal, which is a degenerate variant of negro music! Therefore, they cannot be true National Socialists, who would only ever play the pure Aryan tunes of Wagner and other composers from the master race. #notallnazis #stopthehate #waitIthoughtwewereallabouthate? #umwellit'slikeavictimcomplexthingyouknowlikehowwe'revictimsoftheinternationalzionistconspiracy? #Iguessthatmakessense... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Oh shit I didn't realize I was being derogatory towards National Socialists and their message of friendship, peace, and tolerance Somewhere there's an image of someone talking about how Nazism is really misunderstood and we're just gonna have to pretend I linked it because I don't want to google "nazism ideology of peace" Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 When I disguise my body in the shape of a plane.... This 7 inch is one of my prize possessions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 I have been listening to this awful crap this evening: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 You guys need some good ol' Texas Country right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 I've been going on a female front binge recently, pretty pleased with what Pandora has been giving me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 WT is somewhere between a guilty pleasure and legitimately good. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 WT sings STALKER/Metro themed symphonic metal with Tarja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanagandr Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 WT is somewhere between a guilty pleasure and legitimately good. That's honestly probably the best way of describing WT; I feel like people passing in the street look to each other and say "that guy listens to off-brand Evanescence" And because ballads are the best form of music known to man, here is some solid metal ballad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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