Metal bands that sound nothing like where they're from
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Posted by Graveheart, 16.03.2007 - 21:48
Once I was wondering if every country had an original sound in metal, and also realised there are always some bands that somehow stand apart from their fellow countrymen. It's not specifically about who can hide their accents better than the rest or something. Instead I'm asking if you have ever listened to a band and only later found out about their homeland and then felt really surprised. That could be because their metal represents a completely another style that their home country isn't known to produce (such as progressive metal from Finland) or they do something familiar in a different way which is more characteristic to a band from some other country. Probably the most obvious example is Agalloch who sound far different from a typical American metal band.
Of course this thread requires you to know something about different metal scenes around the world. No one can blame you for trying, however it would be a lot safer to talk about French metal bands (for example) only after you have heard enough French metal to say which band from there is or isn't exactly like the rest of their offerings. At first I was going to advise you to avoid making stereotypes, but then I thought it over again and decided that we might actually need them. After all, this is all about stereotypes. It will result in hurt feelings and angry PMs, but stereotyping seems to be something that will keep this discussion going. It would also be interesting to see what kind of images people have about foreign metal scenes (native ones too) in an international scale.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62028  |
Written by Throne Dweller on 26.04.2009 at 05:25 Yes they are from Australia, werry good bands
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| Throne Dweller Posts: 159  |
Written by Bad English on 26.04.2009 at 10:35 I think you're confused. Most, if all of them are not from Australia, or even the same country. ._.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Throne Dweller on 10.05.2009 at 13:27  As far as I know, or at least the bands I know from the list Bad English posted are from Australia.
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| Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2437  |
Written by Throne Dweller on 10.05.2009 at 13:27 marcel is right, they are from australia. you may just don't know them...
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| Konrad Mormon Storm Posts: 707  |
I know this has probably been said, but Agalloch sound too good to be American.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62028 |
Written by Throne Dweller on 10.05.2009 at 13:27 Yes they are from Australia I hafve mp3 and those 80's bands are in vib of doom site even mono sound quality Belive I ceck all bands in metal-archives from Australia and download all what I could from home page and listen all what could in myspace , of corse only bands wht i like, what didnt like I left behind, so all bands what I mention comes from Australia and in old doom-metal.com there can you browse country to in band list so I know many doom bands from Ausie
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| Throne Dweller Posts: 159 |
Written by Bad English on 10.05.2009 at 22:53 I checked the first five and I couldn't find them on myspace or the archives. I think the first one was from Austria? ._. I must have been smoking crack. :C
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62028 |
Written by Throne Dweller on 11.05.2009 at 10:16 All is from Australia, maybe check my spelling but those all are from Australia and many of bands has no myspace because those are old bands
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| Dane Train Beers & Kilts Elite Posts: 8902  |
I was thinking about this thread the other day while driving because I was listening to Riverside. They always stuck me as a band that should be from the USA and not Poland. Maybe from California?
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| akvan Posts: 186  |
Tuatha de Danann , They are Brazilian and their songs are European folk
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
If there is ever such a band it is White Walls. they hail from Romania (Constanta) but are the ONLY band that plays deathcore(or any possible variant of metalcore) that i know of from around here. they're not too bad though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=babEklQj6KA&feature=player_embedded
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Account deleted Written by Dane Train on 25.05.2009 at 17:58 interesting, but I disagree as I don't know any American bands that sound like Riverside.
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| Evil Chip Posts: 505  |
I have to say Riverside too for a strange reason I don't know. Maybe just because its from Poland. And well the obvious and popular choice... Agalloch, beacause they have a tree-hugger nordic sound which I don't relate at all to USA.
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| Yasmine Posts: 1485  |
Communic, totally influenced by American power metal.
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| Balthazine Posts: 58  |
The first band that pops into my head is the Finnish melodic death metal band, Whispered. They are from Finland, but incorporate a lot of traditional Japanese folk instruments into their music and sing about Samurai and Japanese folklore. But are NOT from Japan. I mean just listen to this, would you automatically think, "Oh Finnish Melodic Death Metal!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v19v6446jVY&feature=related
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by [user id=111774] on 19.04.2011 at 04:28 Abysmal Torment (brutal death) for one, and Thy Legion (blackened death). Prayer of the Dying is another Maltese blackened death metal band. Of the 47 bands that come up using MA's search function, those are the only bands (and Beheaded obviously) that I'm familiar with. I'd say Malta is good for death metal.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 19.04.2011 at 04:47 Malta's best bands by far are Forsaken (epic doom) and Nomad Son (epic doom with loads of traditional heavy metal nwobhm touches)
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
I'd agree with you old-timer but I'm not big on traditional or non-extreme doom (with some exceptions of course).
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62028 |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 20.04.2011 at 23:11 and those bands are best from Malta , there wont be better and there is Doom fest over there I think Marceö has attendet it(or was it Pim) dont remeber
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306 |
They're the best if you like that sort of music. I prefer brutal death to traditional doom, so in my opinion Abysmal Torment is the best Maltese band.
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