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I've been listening to these entire albums at least once a day each:

Maroon 5!! Cobra Starship, Destination: Verona, All American Rejects, the Almost, the Matches, the Academy Is, Straylight Run, Dave Matthews (he's got like 20 albums), All Time Low, Anberlin, Basic Rock Outfit, Bleed The Dreem, Blood Brothers, Brand New, Cartel, Chiodos, COHEED & CAMBRIA!!, Counting Crows, Dance Gavin Dance, Fall Out Boy, The Format, The Forecast, Mae, Mute Math, My Chemical Romance, RED JUMPSUIT!!!, Saosin, Spoken, Senses Fail (not everyday), The Used, Underoath..



HOW do I manage to listen to all that? I listen to at least 1 album by each of these artists every day - Simply because I start my itunes at the A's, and it runs through over the course of my sometimes-14-hour-days.
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I listen to music pretty much all day too. Nearly 120,000 tracks listened to logged on Last.FM so far. :)
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Mordred wrote: Dude, you don't wanna know!
Don't underestimate Kieran - he listened to Nirvana, R.E.M. and RHCP :)
But what do you listen to? I honestly can't call myself metal-head, but interested anyway :)
Mordred wrote: Aqua de Annique
Nah... too soft and atmospheric to my taste.
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[UW] Jake wrote:Maroon 5!
No offense, there's something about this band that makes me want to go deaf.

EDIT: Holy Crap! Anybody into Opeth? Listening to their new album right now... WOW. Pretty awesome.
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Weirdan wrote:Don't underestimate Kieran - he listened to Nirvana, R.E.M. and RHCP :)
But what do you listen to? I honestly can't call myself metal-head, but interested anyway :)
Mordred wrote: Aqua de Annique
Nah... too soft and atmospheric to my taste.
Actually, I'm not exclusively a metal-head either, but the things I like the most are usually of that flavour. Currently listening to Opeth though, which are very interesting music-wise - mixing death metal - grunts and all - with other strange influences, very prog-metal like. Also, sometimes the singer does clean vocals - and he's quite good at them too - with a stunning effect.

Other favourites are The Gathering (which their singer left to make Aqua de Annique), Ayreon (one guy who writes the songs and then invites TONS of famous singers and musicians, he makes marvellous prog-metal-operas with tongue-in-cheek, yet somtimes serious sci-fi stories), Dissection (heavy stuff), Pain of Salvation (prog-rock stuff), Therion (mellodic death metal meets classic musicians), some "classics" like Manowar, Pantera, Rhapsody

I enumerate them, because my LastFM profile shows many things I've put on to try, then forgot looped over the weekend - bam "Black Tape for a Blue Girl" - I don't even recall what it was ;) Also it contains many "single song" entries, listened to many times (I make my own compilations) - like Nocturnal Mortum (I think they're from your part of the world) which are total <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, except for one song which I quite like. Most of the black-metal bands come from a huge compilation I made of metal instrumental works. I'm also intensely annoyed by most songs of Ljube (Любэ), with the exception of a handful, which I adore :)

Here's a singable English translation of "Kon" (an old Russian word for "horse") along with a fair-use mp3 sample for all that dared read this post up to here: http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=58. The song is multi-layered Russian acapella singing which ... I can't explain it, just listen to it ;)

Wow, this was supposed to be a short post. Tells you something about me and music, eh ;)
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Can you guys recommend bands/songs that are like Dimmu Borgir's The Serpentine Offering and Progenies of the Great Apocalypse? I like epic/symphonic sounding stuff. I like some metal but not when you can't understand what they're saying.
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First, the easy one - try older Dimmu Borgir albums ;) Esp. "Puritanical Euphoric Misantropia" (I swear these titles are generated by software!) and the previous one, "Spiritual Black Dimensions" (but I suspect you won't like it if you know what they're saying ;) )

I'm always confused when people talk about "symphonic" metal, so I may be off in my recommendations :)

More epic stuff:
Rhapsody
Turisas
Manowar (this is the Bulgarian anthem, hehe :), as epic as most of 'em go ) Actually, you want to hear their song "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts"

More symphonic/classic music stuff:
Therion (terrible quality), find yourself the Theli album. Therion doing Carl Orff's most famous piece from Carmina Burana, "O Fortuna!". A piece with a full-blown symphonic orchestra and choir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsx9mMtcfoM
and
Haggard (more)

More Dimmu Borgir-like stuff:
Arcturus, Ancient Wisdom, Borknagar

Let me know if any of these worked for you :)
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Today I'm listening to Pearl Jam. Makes me want to find my Nirvana albums.
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My first supremely crappy band used to play a lot of Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden, with occasional Pumpkins & others. Ah, memories....

Was / is anyone else in a band? Mine had many names; each more stupid than the last.
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JAB Creations wrote:Can you guys recommend bands/songs that are like Dimmu Borgir's The Serpentine Offering and Progenies of the Great Apocalypse? I like epic/symphonic sounding stuff. I like some metal but not when you can't understand what they're saying.
You might like Krypteria then... or Rhapsody of Fire or Luca Turilli.
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Mordred wrote: Actually, I'm not exclusively a metal-head either, but the things I like the most are usually of that flavour. Currently listening to Opeth though, which are very interesting music-wise - mixing death metal - grunts and all - with other strange influences, very prog-metal like. Also, sometimes the singer does clean vocals - and he's quite good at them too - with a stunning effect.
Indeed - I'm listening to them as I'm writing this.
Other favourites are The Gathering (which their singer left to make Aqua de Annique), Ayreon (one guy who writes the songs and then invites TONS of famous singers and musicians, he makes marvellous prog-metal-operas with tongue-in-cheek, yet somtimes serious sci-fi stories), Dissection (heavy stuff), Pain of Salvation (prog-rock stuff), Therion (mellodic death metal meets classic musicians), some "classics" like Manowar, Pantera, Rhapsody
Will check them - except Manowar, Pantera, Rhapsody and Therion, since I'm familiar with them already.
I enumerate them, because my LastFM profile shows many things I've put on to try, then forgot looped over the weekend - bam "Black Tape for a Blue Girl" - I don't even recall what it was ;)
It's nothing worth remembering :)
Also it contains many "single song" entries, listened to many times (I make my own compilations) - like Nocturnal Mortum (I think they're from your part of the world) which are total <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, except for one song which I quite like. Most of the black-metal bands come from a huge compilation I made of metal instrumental works. I'm also intensely annoyed by most songs of Ljube (Любэ), with the exception of a handful, which I adore :)
I can't stand Ljube myself, as well as most Paganic Metal bands.
Here's a singable English translation of "Kon" (an old Russian word for "horse") along with a fair-use mp3 sample for all that dared read this post up to here: http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=58. The song is multi-layered Russian acapella singing which ... I can't explain it, just listen to it ;)
Great translation btw. Except you're wrong, 'Kon' is not an 'old Russian' by not any means, it's a word still in wide use, meaning 'male horse'. The use of it might have diminished, but only because you don't meet horses often in modern cities.

If you're interested in Russian folk I would recommend you Raznotravie band (http://www.last.fm/music/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D ... 0%B8%D0%B5) - absolutely fascinating, modern and original but heavily traditional nevertheless. Melnitsa (http://www.last.fm/music/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D ... 1%86%D0%B0) is also nice, but their music is more of a crossover between russian, nordic and celtic music.
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Ha, thanks for kon = stallion. I have thought that лошадь is the common word, and конь an anachronism. At least I translated from Russian, so the meaning is not lost ;)

The reason I've ever heard of Nocturnal Mortum, is that I wanted to find a particular performance of the "Black Raven" folk song, the one they sing in "Pecularities of the Russian Hunt" - here, at about 1:00.

I'll try the bands you mention, I like to hear other peoples' folk, sometimes there are real gems to be found (and a refreshing walk away from the mainstream).

If you like Opeth, may I suggest Edge of Sanity's album Crimson (and Crimson II) - Mike Akerfeld from Opeth even sings a bit in it, and it's somewhat similar - very mellodic death metal and a concept album with a fantasy-in-the-future story.
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Mordred wrote:Ha, thanks for kon = stallion. I have thought that лошадь is the common word, and конь an anachronism. At least I translated from Russian, so the meaning is not lost ;)
On the second thought, actually конь!=stallion because it could be applied to horses in general ("кони резвые"). But when talking about a single horse it kinda suggest it's male.

Another folk suggestion would be Altan Urag - I would describe them as Mongolian Apocaliptica.
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Hey how about Chuk & Gek? I know they're electronica (not metal) but since you guys are further out there and know the languages and I don't do you suppose you could please tell me their name in Russian? I have on song called "no name" and it's absolutely frigin brilliant! :mrgreen:
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JAB Creations wrote:Hey how about Chuk & Gek? I know they're electronica (not metal) but since you guys are further out there and know the languages and I don't do you suppose you could please tell me their name in Russian?
'Чук и Гек' I suppose. Or 'Чук & Гек'
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