Advantages: 2 cds for more content Disadvantages: none
Therion are an excelent band i love them and have most of their albums including vovin, deggial, crowin of atlantis but i think secret of the runes is their best. If you havnt heard them before i think the only way to describe them is opera rock / metal, they have an orcestra, violins, guitars and quite a few diferent singers so you wont get bored with the same vioce. a couple of the songs have this funky singer where they do a sher like effect on him sounds awsome "sand man".
if you like this try searching for:
epica
nightwish
lacuna coil
apcolyptica
and within temptation
they are similar to therion all operatic rock / metal but original in their own ways and just as good ...
Advantages: Plenty of catchy riffs, solid production, great fun Disadvantages: Not very original
Swedish metal band Bewitched's 2006 album 'Spiritual Warfare' starts off with an excellent three and a half-minute breakneck black/thrash number by the name of 'Fucked by Fire', but immediately following this track the album slows down into a series of mid-paced, dirty, punky guitars and tremolo riffs that are hugely reminiscient of Darkthrone's recent efforts, merging this with the murky, downtuned, chugging sound of 'To Mega Therion' era Celtic Frost, even borrowing CF singer Tom G Warrior's trademark 'UGH!'s when the songs demand it.
As with modern Darkthrone, the music is for the main part a mixture of mid-paced heavy metal and sloppy and groove-heavy old school punk, accompanied here and there with the odd melodic rock guitar solo and a combination of hollered punkish vocals and rough black metal screams. There are some fast ...
Advantages: Some nice stand out songs, emotional-driven songs. Disadvantages: Changes style to adapt to mainstream, some songs too long, Operatic singer turned down.
This band is a symphonic metal band hailing from Finland, which is a hotbed for many metal bands existing today. Symphonic metal has been done before- Therion, ManOwar and Pain of Salvation. The difference between these bands and Nightwish is that Nightwish has a very powerful operatic singer. They are mainly responsible for the creation of the subgenre of Symphonic power metal in Symphonic metal.
Right, this album- Once which was released back in 2004 after their successful albums of Wishmaster and Oceanborn. The album topped the charts in Germany, Norway and Greece and entered the charts in the UK for the first time. This album proves to be quite accessible this time unlike the others.
When I first recieved the album, I tried to keep an open mind, regardless of the success they had, they couldn't have possibly changed too much ...
