99PanozAIV Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 I've recently discovered this genre of music and am really fascinated with it. I've always respected the vocal abilities of operatic sopranos and the instrumental skills of many of the heavy metal bands, but I really did not like opera itself and I didn't like the growling male vocalists in most metal bands. So, I can now listen to two things that I have always respected but never found musically to my liking, combined into a single type of music. I'm hooked. Anyway, I discovered this type of music when I found Nightwish. However, since the singer I really liked, Tarja Turunen has left the band, I've been looking for other similar music. So, this is what I've found so far that is to my liking. If any of you have similar tastes and know of other groups I might like, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Also, here's a link to one a couple of the songs from Nightwish's End of an Era DVD if you've not heard of this type of music. Bands: Nightwish.... Amberian Dawn.... Atargatis..... Edenbridge.... Leaves' Eyes..... Coronatus..... ......and how do you create paragraphs in this composition window anyway? All my text just gets jumbled together? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o0O Bill O0o Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 The whole Genre is awesome! Look it up on Wikipedia My recommedation. Kamelot. These guys rock, I have Black Halo and Ghost Opera. _Bill as far as your ability to have more than a block of text, I get advanced feature using IE and Firefox, but not on Safari (booo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skonopa Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Who boy! Where to start! Of course, you already found/listed many of the better/more well known ones: As you probably also already discovered, there is a TON of this stuff out there - you got to know where to look As I've probably got about as extensive of a collection of this kind of stuff on here as anybody else, I also recommend checking out the any/all of the following (most of these are female fronted):: Epica Xystus (especially thier incredible album Equilibrium) Luca Turilli (and by extension, Rhapsody of Fire, which used to be just Rhapsody) Luca Turilli's Dreamquest Mortal Love Lyriel The DreamSide Aesma Daeva Within Temptation Delain After Forever Angtoria Beseech Erben der Shopfung Flowing Tears Katra Lunatica Mercury Rain Orphonic Orchestra Syren's Call Theatre of Tragedy Whyzdom Persephone's Dream The Gathering Beholder Dark Moor Darkwell Dawn of Destiny Ebony Ark Ecliptica Ephemaral Sun (this one is very technical - definitly more progressive than power) Estatic Fear Eyes of Eden Lacuna Coil Sirenia Trail of Tears Without Face Seven Kingdoms There are some pretty darn good bands with symphonic elements that are not necessarily female fronted. Check out some of these for a taste: Stratovarious Sonata Arctica (especially thier most recent one) Symphonity Amaseffer Kamelot (as already mentioned) Sons of Season Susypre Hourglass (although this is also more progressive than power) Beyond Twilight's album For the Love of the Art and the Making Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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