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Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: BloodMountain on February 13, 2007, 08:58:12 PM
hi

i really like this song, and i know it's by a metal band, but it's not a metal song. you might not like it, but i do, so don't give me "sounds like a tasteless piece of cr@p"!
Is it acoustic folk? is it folk? is it finnish something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTfak_Nv5LE&mode=user&search=

thanks, BM
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on February 13, 2007, 09:13:55 PM
Sounds like an acoustic ballad by a Heavy Metal band
Heavy Metal unplugged?

Rather nice in my opinion

Not a million miles from what Metallica did on the black album
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on February 13, 2007, 09:24:12 PM
Don't know about that song but Amorphis are like Folk death metal if there was ever such a thing.
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: BloodMountain on February 13, 2007, 09:32:39 PM
yeah there probably is, but this song is an exception.
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Philly Q on February 14, 2007, 12:52:27 AM
Never mind genre labels, if it's good it's good.  And that song is good.  

There is a hint of Metallica about it, and I like the "House Of The Rising Sun" organ in the background!
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Elliot on February 14, 2007, 10:33:25 AM
Yeah that's cool - as Jon said like the Black Album, but I would add (being a folky) that the sort of acoustic guitar style can be heard in more melancholic songs by people like Martin Carthy (not that I would recommend you buy any albums as its right proper folk)
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: BloodMountain on February 15, 2007, 06:41:45 PM
sounds good..... what dya mean proper folk? i'm not narrow minded!!!!

any melancholic tracks by this folk dude?

BM
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: BloodMountain on February 15, 2007, 06:42:20 PM
sounds good..... what dya mean proper folk? i'm not narrow minded!!!!

any melancholic tracks you can name for me by this folk dude?

BM
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 15, 2007, 07:13:18 PM
Amorphis is a great band. They started out as a death metal band, and now their music ranges from progressive death to ambient style metal in the vein of VAST and all points in between. They have something like 9-10 albums out at this point.
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Davey on February 15, 2007, 07:54:06 PM
last time i checked em out, they were a power death metal band... LOL that was tales from a 1000 lakes (or what was the title :P )  didnt like it at that point and never looked further into them.

but that's a cool song \m/
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Fubar on February 15, 2007, 08:01:45 PM
Quote from: Crazy_Joe
Don't know about that song but Amorphis are like Folk death metal if there was ever such a thing.



I couldn't say much about Amorphis but Skyclad were a pretty good band back in the day. Thrash with Fiddles and Mandolins!
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: chrisola on February 15, 2007, 11:42:01 PM
Skyclad \m/

Opeth did a whole album like this...

If you want genre defying music... check out stuff like Sculptured... 'avant garde folk death progressive jazz lounge' if ever there was such a sound ;)
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on February 16, 2007, 04:12:20 PM
Quote from: chrisola
If you want genre defying music... check out stuff like Sculptured... 'avant garde folk death progressive jazz lounge' if ever there was such a sound ;)

Check out Anethema, too.
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Kepu on February 16, 2007, 04:19:21 PM
^and uneXpect, now that's a weird band :lol:
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: Muso on February 17, 2007, 01:24:38 AM
sounds like a metallica ballad kinda
Title: What Genre would you call this?
Post by: BloodMountain on February 17, 2007, 10:44:55 AM
too folky for 'Tallica IMO.

and Metallica don't use sitars and organs in their ballads  :)

BM