Category: Jam Session
Hey. So I've been getting bvored with the music I've been listening to lately, so can anyone suggest any good hard rock, Power metal, or alternative rock badns to try? Thanks!
I have a lot of suggestions, really. Not sure what you're into, but most these bands ware some of my favorites in the genres. A lot, really. I don't have time to really tell you why I love a lot of these bands, but here's a quick list:
Shadow Gallery
Sonata Arctica
Nightwish
Pain of Salvation
Within Temptation
Van Canto (for something really quite unique)
Trans Syberian Orchestra,
ayreon,
Avantasia
Poets of the Fall
Epica
After Forever
Kamelot
Falcconer
I hope you will enjoy some of them. The nice thing is we now have youtube, and looking up bands is very quick. Though like with any band.
I can add more.
royal hunt
iced earth
eidolon
control denied
agent steel
flotsam and jetsam
heathen
rage
gravedigger
firewind
dream evil
Well there's more where those came from!
Thanks, both. I know and really like a few of these, so your both right in line with what I'm into. I do really enjoy youtubing new bands, so fire away.
Those two guys took care of the power metal genre pretty well, so let me try and give you a few lesser-known alt. rock bands I'm into.
Digital Summer
Silverstone
My Favorite Scar
Silver From the Flames (highly recommended, they're all kids, the oldest being 15 I believe, and they're really talented)
Signum A.d. (their first album, Music for Morphine, not the new EP with their new horrible singer)
Resident Hero
Red Line Chemistry
Sound of Seasons
Burn Season
American Head Charge
Let me know if I'm heading in the right direction, and I'll dig up some more good ones for you.
Yes, Turtle, that's definitely headed in the right direction.
this are some of my faves.
five finger death punch
breaking benjamin
avenged seven fold
dream theater
korn
godsmack
deftones
Rammstein
coal chamber. there old tracks
static-x
sepoltura
and if you like to try to listen to philipino music, try
cheese/queso and wolfgang.
I know that some of this are old, not as heavy, and quite common. but i like em.
just lemme kno if you like more.
I highly recommend the first four sepultura albums, morbid visions, skitsofrenia, beneath the remains and arise.
Thanks all. I really like Digital Summer, that was recommended earlier. I got their albums, but got jipped because the poster claimed all the albums were highest quality and two of them were low quality and no one else has them lol. but a lot of good suggestions here.
The sepultura albums I suggested are from their pre radio friendly period, before chaos a.d record, and deffinatly way before roots bloody roots. Also from flotsam and jetsam, try ttheir first three records, doomsday for the deceiver, no place for disgrace and when the storm comes down. Also check out metal church, their selftitled album, the dark, blessing in disguise, and the human factor.
Definitely Nightwish and within Temptation. There's just somethin about European metal bands with really awesome bad ass chick singers lol. Hmmmm. Domin is good, Idk what genre in which they'd be classified though.
Like I said in quicknotes, benedictum is also another group, they have a female vocalist, but imagine said vocalist with some of the trates of rob halford and matt barlow mixed together, that's what benedictum's vocalist is like.
Now that I have to check out. Never heard of Benedictum before.
Ok, some more rock bands I like, and hell yes, Digital Summer is amazing. I really want to see them live.
Cold Driven
Dead by April
Against all Will
Slaves on Dope
Smile Empty Soul
Diecast
Fall of Envy
Silent Civilian
Royal Bliss
Atlantic Avenue
Saturate
The 7 Method
Stutterfly
Janus
That should keep you busy for awhile, lol.
I agree that Silver from the Flames are quite talented. Just looked them up. I really enjoy vocal rock like that. They sound similar to Breaking Benjamin, probably one of my favorite bands of that genre.
That comparison didn't really cross my mind. The kid's voice isn't nearly as powerful as Ben's, not to mention the subject matter of the lyrics is, in my opinion at least, probably based on video games. Ben may be a hardcore gamer, but as far as I'm aware, he didn't write his lyrics about gaming, but who knows? I can see how you got that from the instrumentation, maybe, but I'm not sure who I would compare them to, personally.
For more power metal and thrash.
blind guardian
valley's eve
stratovarius
primal fear
nuclear assault
gamma ray
brainstorm
haties
melliah rage
brazen abbot
forbidden
sacred steel
3 inches of blood
nightmare
dirty deeds
labarynth
As always there's allot more where those came from!
Thanks for all these and for this topic, Nick. I'm in the same boat as you, so I'll have to check these all out as well. Breaking Benjamin is awesome. I'm a big fan of tool as well, but I'm pissed because their original music isn't on ITunes. If anyone has tool in their music collection and would like to share it through dropbox, let me know. I'd really appreciate it so I don't have to go out and look for the CD's.
Yeah, thanks a lot for all these. Rocker, I'd love to have the insane knowledge of different bands you have lol. Yeah Ryan, Breaking Benjamin are one of my favorite bands too. To go off of Ryan's request, If anyone by the way has the digital summer album Counting the Hours, and could send it through dropbox as well, that would be awesome. I can't find that one anywhere.
Oh there's more power and thrash!
atrophy
ring of fire
zoetrope
arwin
dark moor
overkill
silent force
sinergy
obsession
exciter
savage circus
persuader
manticora
uncle slam
onslaught
exodus
seventh wonder
iron savior
paragon
All this comes from being a broadcaster for eight years, and I hope it's helping!
Yes, Rocker, it is helping a lot.
Speaking of Digital Summer, check out the side project of the singer, Kyle Winterstein. It's called Tragedy Machine, and while it's a bit more electronic, it's not anything shitty like dubstep or something.