Originally posted by Draklar
Originally posted by Pogopuschel
Yes, tell him! If I had a Euro for every time I argued with him about that...
...You\'d have one Euro.
Two now. Go on, I\'ll be rich.
Now:
Originally posted by Draklar
Norther
Kalmah
CoB
Norther
Kalmah
CoB
The bands are categorized as power metal. If you\'d check the forums of those sites, you\'d see that people there give solid argumentation why they\'re power metal. I mean, c\'mon... Compare them to In Flames, Amon Amarth or Mercenary (the actual melo-death bands)
I see metalstorm.ee-Links as a reference... That\'s like saying that Microsoft invented the Personal Computer.
But then again, they also say
metalstorm.ee
Now that the history of this genre is clearer what is melodic death metal musically? Melodic death metal is a genre that has grown more international throughout the years. Suceeding the waves of Gothenburg melodic death metal came the Finnish wave. This consisted of the bands I said earlier (Children Of Bodom, Norther, Eternal Tears of Sorrow), and featured a different influence from the Swedish waves. The Finns kept the dual guitar attack which was less brutal and more melodic from most Swedish bands, and put more of what is considered today as a power metal style of play. The Finns also used the screaming style of vocals perfected by Mikael Stanne, Tomas Lindberg, and company, but with a more clear tone and slightly higher in pitch. These things alone sound allow for the classification as melodic death metal bands.
So in my opinion you are partially right. While the guitar style is lent from classical \"Power Metal\", the rest doesn\'t fit in at all. So either you need to say the genre doesn\'t exist, and that these bands are somewhere in between the \"major styles\", taking elements of both into their music, but then again you might as well give it a name, and that\'s Melodeath.
I\'m not a friend of too many too witty names for genres, because like Izzy*dot said before, you can\'t put a band that has had a couple of albums out into just one genre because they tend to evolve or change (usually to something far worse
). Sometimes, you can\'t even label a single album with a certain style. So whenever someone asks me what style a band plays, I use
- Black
- Death
- Melodeath
- Power/Melocic
- Progressive
- Gothic
- Doom
- Viking
- New Metal
- Hardcore
- Thrash
- Folk/Middleage
- Hard Rock/Heavy
which, with can be considered the major subgenres of \"Metal\" exception of Melodeath (with the exception of Melodeath perhaps, as it\'s already a mix-form, then again there\'s so many bands out there who do just that mix that they might as well open their own genre). If a band doesn\'t fall directly into one of those, I say \"a little bit of X and a little bit of Y\". I refuse to acknowledge \"Puritanical Melancholic Funeral Metal\" and all the other crap names as genres, until hell freezes over. :P
Wisekran & yayoo
- Im just waiting for this thread to die so something new and interesting will take its place on the forums.
- Yeah this thread went on long enough lets talk about something interesting.
The forum supports more than one concurrent active thread, you know... ;)
