Looking for shredding metal

[josh green]

My older brother got me into this band called Dragonforce and its pretty cool. The little japanese with the huge hair is NUTS! Anyone else know of any other bands? None of that screaming shit either, these guys actually sing and its WAY better than screamer satanic guy living in his moms basement shit.

[BuBBa DRiFT]

they are crazy, but sooooo tired, im not into that, it sounds good on guitar but the vocals reek of homosexuality

[SpecV_Scott]

its WAY better than screamer satanic guy living in his moms basement shit.

Hater.

You should immediately go get all of Dream Theater's CDs. They're progressive metal, have some of the best musicians in the business, and they're singer is a classically-trained opera singer. They're latest CD is supposedly heavier than their last few, which were pretty much concept albums. Look em up on Myspace or Youtube.

[SpecV_Scott]

You might also want to check out Into Eternity and Three Inches of Blood. Both are really heavy, but have actual high-pitched singing in addition to growl/scream vocals. Great musicians, too.

[Z28]

Good Starting points

Albums

Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Insomnium - Since the Day it All Came Down
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion

Songs

Carcass - No Love Lost
In Flames - Zombie Inc
Dark Tranquillity - Through Smudged Lenses
Children Of Bodom - Bed Of Razors
At The Gates - Blinded By Fear

Essential albums

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
In Flames - The Jester Race
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Carcass - Heartwork

General Recommendations

The Absence - From Your Grave
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side ~ Versus the World
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin ~ Doomsday Machine
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease ~ The Red Sky is Ours ~ Gardens of Grief
Beyond Within - Evil Minds ~ Eternal Pestilence
Blo. Torch - Self Titled
Chain Collector - The Masquerade
Dam - Purity (The Darwinian Paradox)
Dark Tranquility - The Mind's Eye ~ Haven
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
Depresy - A Grand Magnificence
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson ~ Crimson II
Embryo - Chaotic Age
Empyrean Sky - Snow White Rose Of Paradise
Enter Chaos - Aura Sense
Enter My Silence - COORDINATE: D1SA5T3R
Epoch Of Unlight - Continuum Hypothesis
Esquarial - Inheritance
Estuary - To Exist and Endure
Excurses - Devil's Footprints
Imperial Domain - The Ordeal
In Flames - The Jester Race ~ Colony ~ Whoracle
Insomnium - In the Halls of Waiting
Irony Of Christ - Words Of The Forgotten
Kalmah - Swampsong ~ The Black Waltz
Killing Art - Confused Waves
Maledictive Pigs - Soul Surgery
Mors Principium Est - Inhumanity
Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
Norther - Mirror of Madness
Omnium Gatherum - Spirits and August Light
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination ~ Day Into Night
Satariel - Hydra
Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design ~ Pitch Black Progress
Skyfire - Mind Revolution ~ Timeless Departure
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos ~ A Predator's Portrait ~ Steel Bath Suicide
Suidakra - Command To Charge
Textures - Drawing Circles
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
Underthreat - Deathmosphere
Utopia Banished - Night of the Black Wyvern
Vornagar - The Bleeding Holocaust
Warbreed - So Cry Havoc
Wintersun - s/t
With Passion - In The Midst Of Bloodied Soil
Withering Surface - Force The Pace


If you want lighter stuff but still crazy: Yngwie, Steve Vai, Buckethead

[Z28]

And this.

Good starting points

Albums

Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Dragonforce - Valley Of The Damned
Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder

Songs

Symphony X - Sea of Lies
Rhapsody Of Fire - Unholy Warcry
Hammerfall - Hearts on Fire
Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence

Essential Albums
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys pt. II
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Manowar - Kings of Metal

General Recommendations

Adagio - Underworld
Aquaria - Luxaeterna
Angra - Angel's Cry ~ Holy Land ~ Fireworks ~ Rebirth ~ Temple of Shadows
Arthemis - Golden Dawn
Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. II
Biomechanical - Empires of The World
Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World ~ Imaginations From The Otherside
Brainstorm - Liquid Monster
Circle II Circle - Middle of Nowhere
Conquest Of Steel - S/T
Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
Dark Moor - In the Hall of Olden Dreams
Demons & Wizards - S/T
Domine - Stormbringer Ruler: The Legend of the Power Supreme
Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm
Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal
Dream Quest - The Release
Edguy - Mandrake
Elvenking - Heathenreel
Falconer - Chapter From A Vale Forlorn ~ The Sceptre of Deception
Firewind - Burning Earth ~ Nocturnal Symphony
Freternia - A Nightmare Story
Galneryus - The Flag of Punishment
Gamma Ray - Insanity and Genius ~ Land Of The Free
Hammerfall - Renegade ~ Glory to the Brave
Heavenly - Dust to Dust
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Hibria - Defying the Rules
Iced Earth - Horror Show ~ Something Wicked This Way Comes ~ Dark Saga
Intense - Second Sight
Iron Savior - Condition Red
Jag Panzer - Mechanized Warfare ~ Thane To The Throne
Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied
Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath ~ Awakening Worlds
Luca Turilli - Prophet of the Last Eclipse
Kamelot - Epica ~ The Black Halo ~ Karma
Kaledon - Chapter III: Way Of The Light
Manticora - 8 Deadly Sins ~ Hyperion
Masterplan - Aeronautics ~ s/t
Memento Mori - Songs For The Apocalypse Volume 4
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Nightwish - Century Child
Odyssea - Tears in Floods
Olympos Mons - Conquistador
Persuader - Evolution Purgator ~ The Hunter
Reviver - S/T
Rhapsody - Power of the Dragon Flame ~ Dawn of Victory
Royal Hunt - Paper Blood
Russel Allen & Jorn Lande - The Battle
Sacred Steel - Iron Blessings
Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black
Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor
Shaaman - Ritual
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
Steel - Heavy Metal Machine
Stratovarius - Visions ~ Episode
Symphony X - The Dvine Wings of Tragedy ~ The Odyssey
Syth - Warzone
Tad Morose - Matters of the Dark
Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures
Viper - Theatre of Faith
Warmen - Accept The Fact
Wizard - Bound By Metal

^ These you will probably like more. They focus more on technique.

[Hulud]

dragonforce is sooooooo fucking overrated

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[OneSlow5pt0]

dragonforce is sooooooo fucking overrated

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hey,have u ever listened to the bled?

[Hulud]

i have their first cd

that is if you're talking about the band from Az.

Dale Earnharts Seatbelt is a great song lol

[OneSlow5pt0]

i have their first cd

that is if you're talking about the band from Az.

Dale Earnharts Seatbelt is a great song lol

yea,one my friends played me one of the old cds,im not a big fan of hardcore shit...but it wasnt bad

[Hulud]

yea i dont like their new cd as much, but Pass the Flask is good

check out Verses the Mirror of you like the bled

they are along the same lines (singer sounds almost the same)

[ep9716]

they are crazy, but sooooo tired, im not into that, it sounds good on guitar but the vocals reek of homosexuality

Lmmfao +1

[josh green]

sweet suggestions, I will probably download them all. I am a fan of in flames, there shit is pretty cool. I wont really listen to anything with screaming kinda like COF screaming.