Power/Symphonic Metal - Speed = ??? Genre....

[magnusdeus123]

I'm very fasicinated by melodic nature of the various Power and Symphonic metal bands , such as Angra , Dragonforce and Nightwish and such . Still , I find that the great factor that turns me off them after a while and why I cant go on listening to them time and again is the speed factor . The double bass drums and the shred guitar at insane levels really gets my brain to ache . I really start thinking to a point that these guys are making fantastic music, but this sort of music can be made without it needing to be over before I can gather my wits of what the guitarist is doing . In any case , is there any genre of music , which contains the melodicity of the above mentioned , but with a more slower , grounded feel like rock or along the lines of what sabbath used to operate on , only more melodic along the lines of nightwish....

[lemur821]

You might look into bands like Sigh, Chthonic, and maybe !T.O.O.H!. They tend to be uptempo, but since they're not boring like those bands you mentioned, it's worth listening a little faster to hear them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndYc10_co4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WycugwlW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M-vB_r9Z2o

You might also give Ulver a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdcf_XUAKM

I know Ahab can't be too fast for you.
http://www.myspace.com/ahabdoom

You might also look into bands like Isis, Star One, early Unexpect (their later albums have gone over the edge to madness. It's fast), and Russian Circles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7Ez7yCyA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3q7lwl5nSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wHkkWJ0Q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2-hJtJrXxc

[funkalicious101]

Maybe give Diablo Swing Orchestra a shot. I'm not sure if its what your looking for but they are definately worth listening to.

http://www.myspace.com/diabloswingorchestra

[Matt Till]

Look into the genre of Melodic Doom. I'm not familiar with the genre too much, but bands in this genre tend to fit that bill.

[Darkstrike]

Blind Guardian?

[Johnny Crab]

Although greatly influenced by Nightwish, Delain is somewhat less "hectic":

Possibly Marco(Nightwish) played bass on this recording:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I4Jads5ShMM

Video vocal track is slightly different than the CD
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LCgcX_km8zA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hilQCpSlNk0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LuUzLSzHLV8

[Foxworthy925]

Take a listen to Opeth. They do a lot of melodic death metal stuff, but also have tons of pure acoustic music. All of it is very melodic and absolutely amazing imo. Probably my favorite band...

[magnusdeus123]

Well I've heard of opeth a lot , so will check them out . I'm just kinda wary of growling vocals though , they give me a pain in the A.....

To get an idea of what I'm talking about : http://youtube.com/watch?v=d-fE-WfM66E

Edit : I checked Delain . God awesome . It's a perfect example of what I'm trying to get at this point . Almost like the speed of rock , but the melodicity of metal . No(or less) Double bass drumming , and more focus on slow , understandable composed melody . Thanks Johnny .

[lemur821]

You might like Arcturus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7Tz...eature=related

[Johnny Crab]

Another Delain update:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.nl/page/Media

They put different vocals on some parts(different than the CD).

[dvs20]

how about H.I.M. ??? and those, I think, it's avenged sevenfold and that bat song I prefer him though some good ol fashioned "love metal"

[Ramstien]

Firewind is similar to DragonForce, except that they don't have sexual fetishes for dragons and for the most part it is not too fast.

[El-Bob]

+1 for Firewind and Arcturus, maybe check out rhapsody of fire if you can handle the super nerdy D&D type metal

[roflol]

Originally Posted by lemur821

You might look into bands like Sigh, Chthonic, and maybe !T.O.O.H!. They tend to be uptempo, but since they're not boring like those bands you mentioned, it's worth listening a little faster to hear them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndYc10_co4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WycugwlW4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M-vB_r9Z2o

You might also give Ulver a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdcf_XUAKM

I know Ahab can't be too fast for you.
http://www.myspace.com/ahabdoom

You might also look into bands like Isis, Star One, early Unexpect (their later albums have gone over the edge to madness. It's fast), and Russian Circles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7Ez7yCyA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3q7lwl5nSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wHkkWJ0Q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2-hJtJrXxc

listen to this man and +1 on arcturus you'd prolly like head control system to, garm is a god among men ;o also get some clutch, zozobra, sasquatch and om ;p

[dreadheadbass]

i'll be checking some of these bands out tonight i loves me power metal i do
give me songs about vikings and slaying dragons any day of the week it beats hearing songs about breaking up with girlfriends
you might also want to try

iced earth
demons and wizards
black majesty
kamelot
hammerfall
manowar
helloween
sonta arcitia
tarot

[crazyfish]

My friend is a huge fan of The ****ing Champs, you might want to check them out. I've heard them described as melodicish metal, and based on what I've heard from them there isn't any uber speed shredding.