Extreme albums with guitar work like Thin Lizzy?

Basically what the title says. Extreme metal bands, be they black or death metal, that have riffs characteristic of Thin Lizzy's style: dual guitar harmonies. It'd also help if they kept the hard rock feeling by not having too many blast beats or tremolo picking, and ideally none at all.

Some examples of what I'm looking for would be: In Flames - Lunar Strain, Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon, Opeth - Orchid, and Fall of the Leafe - Storm of the Autumnfall.

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like I'm just looking for stuff "like Thin Lizzy", I mean bands (specifically albums) that arrange harmonies just like they did: dual guitar harmonies, no rhythm other than the bass and drums, without tremolo or blast beats. The albums I mentioned as an example do that for the most part. I mean something like that.

Edited by Orchidphile - August 03 2024 at 15:57

Arch Enemy - "Burning Bridges". That album has the 70s hard rock/heavy metal feel and harmony guitar work.(function(){function c(){var b=a.contentDocument||a.contentWindow.document;if(b){var d=b.createElement('script');d.innerHTML="window.__CF$cv$params={r:'8adc8bdb5a0b9fa5',t:'MTcyMjc1MzUyNS4wMDAwMDA='};var a=document.createElement('script');a.nonce='';a.src='/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(a);";b.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(d)}}if(document.body){var a=document.createElement('iframe');a.height=1;a.width=1;a.style.position='absolute';a.style.top=0;a.style.left=0;a.style.border='none';a.style.visibility='hidden';document.body.appendChild(a);if('loading'!==document.readyState)c();else if(window.addEventListener)document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',c);else{var e=document.onreadystatechange||function(){};document.onreadystatechange=function(b){e(b);'loading'!==document.readyState&&(document.onreadystatechange=e,c())}}}})();< height="1" width="1" style=": ; top: 0px; left: 0px; border: medium; visibility: ;">

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0NpmOhLYm0

Orchidphile wrote: It sounds nothing like Thin Lizzy because it's not like the type of riff I asked for. I'd recommend you check both the link to a Thin Lizzy harmony I posted earlier, and some songs from the albums I mentioned in the initial post. Otherwise there'd be no reason to keep dwelling on Arch Enemy, a band that just accidentally stumbled upon that type of harmony a couple of times in an album. Or the entirety of the Swedish melodeath scene, for that matter, because I already mentioned all the albums from that scene that apply to my request (Lunar Strain and Orchid). Look, I appreciate your intention to help, but if you're out of your depth you shouldn't feel forced to come up with something.

Well, it is crucial for you to understand that there actually are no bands that merge the melodic hard-rock sensibilities of Thin Lizzy with the nature of death metal without losing the essence of either genre. These two worlds—Thin Lizzy's melodic hard rock versus extreme metal—are fundamentally different in their approach to music creation. While bands from the aforementioned Swedish melodeath scene (like Arch Enemy, In Flames, or Dark Tranquillity) may utilise melody within their compositions—often drawing on harmonised guitar lines—they still operate within a framework that emphasises heaviness and gloominess over melody.