Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Prog Recommendations/Featured albums
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Metal Band Search
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedMetal Band Search
 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Abstrakt View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 18 2005
Location: Soundgarden
Status: Offline
Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Topic: Metal Band Search
    Posted: January 02 2008 at 12:49
I'm looking for a band similar to Blind Guardians albums "Battalions of Fear" up to "Somewhere far Beyond".
I tried Rhapsody, but they were just too much of everything. Opera vocals and Orchestras are just turn-offs for me.
So are there any "fantasy-metal" bands, but more metal and less cheesy operatic/classical music in it?
 
Thank thou! Smile
Back to Top
Abstrakt View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 18 2005
Location: Soundgarden
Status: Offline
Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2008 at 14:00
Oh, and preferly progressive Wink
Back to Top
b_olariu View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: March 02 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 5532 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2008 at 15:26
Try Athena  - Twilight of days - 2000 or Shadow Keep - The chaos theory - 2002, great albums.
Back to Top
rushfan4 View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: May 22 2007
Location: Michigan, U.S.
Status: Offline
Points: 66256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2008 at 18:26

I'm probably not much help here, but the band that first comes to mind for me with Blind Guardian is Symphony X, because I learned of these two bands at the same time (they were on tour together and I read an article that discussed both bands) but there are probably only minor similarities.  Other bands that I associate with Blind Guardian would be Iced Earth, Helloween, Gamma Ray, and Stratovarius but none of these bands probably fall under the "progressive" umbrella or are really that similar to Blind Guardian. 

Back to Top
martinprog77 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 31 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2523 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 03:55
this one is really good !!!!!!
Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.


Back to Top
MikeEnRegalia View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: April 22 2005
Location: Sweden
Status: Offline
Points: 21134 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 05:26
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Oh, and preferly progressive Wink


There is no such band, because BG weren't progressive at that point. You should check out Helloween and Gamma Ray ... they're *very* close in style to early BG. In fact BG started as a Helloween clone ...
Recently listened to:
Back to Top
Abstrakt View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 18 2005
Location: Soundgarden
Status: Offline
Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 05:33
AM i the only one to think that some songs off BG's first album actually is progressive?
Symphony X is one my to-get list, and has been for a good while.
I'll check out Iced Earth, Athena & Shadow Keep.
 
Anyone here really likes Rhapsody!? LOLDead
Back to Top
Bj-1 View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: June 04 2005
Location: No(r)Way
Status: Offline
Points: 31313 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 10:31
I recommend Helloween's Keeper of Seven Keys albums from 1987/88. I haven't heard'em in a good while, but from what I remember it's pretty much in the same style as BG, only a but more thrash influenced at the same time. You will like them, Im sure.
 
As for Iced Earth, Night of The Stromrider and Burnt Offerings are my faves, and both are good introductions to them.
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
Back to Top
MikeEnRegalia View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: April 22 2005
Location: Sweden
Status: Offline
Points: 21134 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 10:43
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

 
Anyone here really likes Rhapsody!? LOLDead


Of course. I really like their earlier albums (Legends, Symphony, Dawn of Victory).
Recently listened to:
Back to Top
Abstrakt View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 18 2005
Location: Soundgarden
Status: Offline
Points: 18292 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2008 at 11:57
Rhapsody was just Dead to me! Even the non-orchestral/operatic passages!
@Blowie: Thanks! Will check them out for sure!
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.242 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.