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Hot chicks of goth/symphonic/etc metal

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Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: ifesfor
Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
What about Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy or Janis Tanaka and Emily Burton from Fireball Ministry?
Although, they're heavy metal, instead of that pop junk.
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LOL - 'pop junk'? Sorry, but I can't see any talent in Arch Enemy. The group sounds for all intents and purposes like a couple guys rubbing sheet metal across their guitar strings while someone growls into a microphone.

While some amount of growling is fine and all, the ability to carry a note is ALSO important.
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WE WILL RISE- ARCH ENEMY.Only good song 😀
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Link to some Arch Enemy videos, although I still don't see any talent.

IMHO, if you go for that kind of thing, Kittie is MUCH better. At least they sound like they are thinking about singing.
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Hahaha, thanks for reminding me. I'm going to dig up the clip of Kitty, where the singer loses it mid grunt and changes to an adolescent squeal. Still gotta give them props for trying, can't be easy for a chick to growl.

I don't particularly like the style of music here, and IMO Evanescence is not in the same genre as Nightwish, Lacuna Coil etc. That said, vote goes to Nightwish for vocals.

 
Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
:thumbsup: for a dedicated gothmetal thread, although you'd do better to call it what it is, rather than pop metal, so we all know WTF we're walking into.
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LOL - 'goth metal' is SO OFTEN used in a derogatory way, didn't want to use it. 'Symphonic Metal' is a better way to put it that I actually prefer....but some of the groups don't really fit that description, so....
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Okay, how does "nameless northern-european sub-genre with hot chicks singing and at least two of the following: orchestra, chorus, loud grunting" sound?

 
Added 'After Forever' - they definitely count in this group.

As for Kittie - wasn't holding them up as a high standard. "What I always wanted", though, is pretty good and a good example of why what they were doing was technically challenging. Switching rapidly, back and forth, from deeply growling and also really singing (actually hitting the right notes and all) must be EXTREMELY difficult.
 
Originally posted by: dderidex
Added 'After Forever' - they definitely count in this group.

As for Kittie - wasn't holding them up as a high standard. "What I always wanted", though, is pretty good and a good example of why what they were doing was technically challenging. Switching rapidly, back and forth, from deeply growling and also really singing (actually hitting the right notes and all) must be EXTREMELY difficult.
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Didn't mean to be rude, I just remember one hell of a funny clip 🙂. And yes, they do a great job, just that I don't think they're songwriting is particularly great.

Anyway, these bands are mostly beyond me. I might look some of them up when I'm home, but chick metal has never really been my thing. I'll let the rest of you enjoy the thread
 
Originally posted by: kazeakuma

Hahaha, thanks for reminding me. I'm going to dig up the clip of Kitty, where the singer loses it mid grunt and changes to an adolescent squeal. Still gotta give them props for trying, can't be easy for a chick to growl.
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Kittie... lol, saw them once
In this day and age when most guy bands are putting out whiney rock about how they lost there their girl and how prozac isn't doing it for them... chick bands like Kittie and The Donnas are least singing about real rock and roll, like getting drunk and getting a little sum-sumthin.

I think the song you're looking for is their cover of Pink Floyd's 'Run.'
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
What about L'âme Immortelle? Windows hates them, though; always forces you to name the files "lame" LOL.
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Very YES!

Never knew about them before! Wonderful, this thread has served ME well!! Sweetness....
 
Originally posted by: kazeakuma
Anyway, these bands are mostly beyond me. I might look some of them up when I'm home, but chick metal has never really been my thing. I'll let the rest of you enjoy the thread
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Due note that Kittie is NOT listed, here. The topic isn't so much "chick metal" - I mean, check out Nightwish and Within Temptation ESPECIALLY - a few of the others, too - if you haven't heard them before.

Some good stuff.
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
gothic is so lol.

Marketing suits everywhere are popping boners.
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Meh, you're lucky if you can buy half this stuff in the US. It's completely unrelated to the fad here, except that a few fundamentals were stolen when it was mainstreamed for the US (grunting).

But if you're going to pass it over based on naming and mistaken association with 12 year olds writing on themselves, slitting their wrists and wearing all black, your loss.
 
I have never heard of anyone of those people on that list, then again, I don't listen to pop music of any form.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Insomniak
gothic is so lol.

Marketing suits everywhere are popping boners.
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Meh, you're lucky if you can buy half this stuff in the US. It's completely unrelated to the fad here, except that a few fundamentals were stolen when it was mainstreamed for the US (grunting).

But if you're going to pass it over based on naming and mistaken association with 12 year olds writing on themselves, slitting their wrists and wearing all black, your loss.
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I listen to half of these bands.


That doesn't change the fact that gothic is lol.
 
Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: kazeakuma
Anyway, these bands are mostly beyond me. I might look some of them up when I'm home, but chick metal has never really been my thing. I'll let the rest of you enjoy the thread
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Due note that Kittie is NOT listed, here. The topic isn't so much "chick metal" - I mean, check out Nightwish and Within Temptation ESPECIALLY - a few of the others, too - if you haven't heard them before.

Some good stuff.
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Umm read up. I voted Nightwish. I've heard Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation and L'ame Immortelle. It's passable music, but just not my thing man (Nightwish I prefer overall). Too many years of listening to death I guess. I'll try the ones I don't recognise when I get home though, it's not like I'll automatically will hate them or anything 😉
 
well Tarja is the best singer, but Liv Kristine looks better. She can sing quite nice as well. "Velvet Darkness They Fear" was great, also isn't she the one in that "Nymphetamine" music vid by Cradle of Filth?
 
Originally posted by: Rudee
I have never heard of anyone of those people on that list, then again, I don't listen to pop music of any form.
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LOL - okay, I'll remove the 'pop' misnomer.

Like was stated, you'd be LUCKY if you could find half the bands on the list in the US. In fact, I *know* several of them you can't even order online in the US - Amazon/eBay/whatever has to import them to get them here.

This is far from any definition of 'pop' I know of - I just wanted to make sure the thread wouldn't be flooded with the death metal listeners going "oooh, this is pansy music, this isn't REAL metal" like happens pretty much everywhere else.
 
Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: Rudee
I have never heard of anyone of those people on that list, then again, I don't listen to pop music of any form.
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LOL - okay, I'll remove the 'pop' misnomer.

Like was stated, you'd be LUCKY if you could find half the bands on the list in the US. In fact, I *know* several of them you can't even order online in the US - Amazon/eBay/whatever has to import them to get them here.

This is far from any definition of 'pop' I know of - I just wanted to make sure the thread wouldn't be flooded with the death metal listeners going "oooh, this is pansy music, this isn't REAL metal" like happens pretty much everywhere else.
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I just call it prog Metal..not entirely accurate either, but they all have that in common..
 
pop metal I think is probably the most accurate nomer.

It IS metal, it's just not what your "metal snobs" (pretentious c*cksuckers) will call metal. It's not hard enough for them, and there are women there, so it makes them insecure.

Don't let the penis-inflicted self-doubt of these jarheads fool you - pop music isn't synonymous with bad. Some of it is quite good. Pop just means it's easily accessible, and widely popular through it's demographic, which these bands pretty much are. Their demographic being small (excepting Evanescence, who, honestly, I've never been impressed by) is another matter.
 
Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: Rock Hydra
What about Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy or Janis Tanaka and Emily Burton from Fireball Ministry?
Although, they're heavy metal, instead of that pop junk.
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LOL - 'pop junk'? Sorry, but I can't see any talent in Arch Enemy. The group sounds for all intents and purposes like a couple guys rubbing sheet metal across their guitar strings while someone growls into a microphone.

While some amount of growling is fine and all, the ability to carry a note is ALSO important.
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Huh.

Arch Enemy > Any of that weaksauce junk posted above. 😛

Please note this is all in jest. I know everyone has different tastes in music.
 
Arch Enemy, for whatever reason, does not light my fire. I'm more of a melodic metal/black metal person myself.


And of course, there's always Opeth, who sort of wander in and out of whatever f*cking genre they feel like doing this month, with great results.
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
And of course, there's always Opeth, who sort of wander in and out of whatever f*cking genre they feel like doing this month, with great results.
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:laugh:

I do wish they'd wander back into the Damnation-esque genre, its my fav of their albums. Though Blackwater Park is quite good as well.
 
Originally posted by: Martin
Originally posted by: Insomniak
And of course, there's always Opeth, who sort of wander in and out of whatever f*cking genre they feel like doing this month, with great results.
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:laugh:

I do wish they'd wander back into the Damnation-esque genre, its my fav of their albums. Though Blackwater Park is quite good as well.
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I have not yet met any Opeth I don't like.
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
Originally posted by: Martin
Originally posted by: Insomniak
And of course, there's always Opeth, who sort of wander in and out of whatever f*cking genre they feel like doing this month, with great results.
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:laugh:

I do wish they'd wander back into the Damnation-esque genre, its my fav of their albums. Though Blackwater Park is quite good as well.
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I have not yet met any Opeth I don't like.
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Well, "My Arms, Your Hearse" is ok. This reminds me, I still don't have Deliverance. I will go and get it now 🙂
 
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