Metal in all its forms and colours

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Mendalla said:
Some of the best metal music gets pretty primal, yes. Death and black metal come particularly to mind.
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I see Sam, Red Hair flying and canon hole where his navel used to be ... and he never said "Uncle!" The a diabolical Psyche is persistent through the ages, time and all that humus ... clash of cymbalist?

What does it take to get his attention ...?
 
Vancouver's Spiritbox continue to be a growing force in metal. They've landed a second Grammy nomination though, once again, they are up against some heavy hitters (including metal legends Judas Priest and French band Gojira with their Olympic performance) and a win would be a stunner to say the least. Yesterday, Spiritbox announced a March 7, 2025 release for Tsunami Sea, their second studio LP. Their first landed them two Junos so crossing fingers for another home run. Along with the announcement came "Perfect Soul", the second single from the album. "Soft Spine" the first had lead singer Courtney Laplante in full death metal mode, all growls and screams, but the new one lets us hear her lovely clean singing voice. The song still comes in pretty heavy, though. And the video is dark as all hell.

 
Happy ape today. New song from Dutch symphonic goth metal band Blackbriar. The band is on the darker end of symphonic metal and features the truly unusual and beautiful voice of Zora Cock, who also wrote this song. This is the first single from their next album, their third, but no date or title has been announced as of yet. Looking forward to it. I loved A Dark Euphony, their last album.

 
Can perfect soul exist only in transparency? 1st command ... secondly the item on not being proud about having some clarity ... even though those with brane fog will complain ...

Such things carry well on cold nights in the north ... just a whisper in the trees ... Pynes? These are loaded with isoprene ... making people distraught because of components they are not WOKE to ... steroids can do that as they act as endogenous matter ... tightly associated with tissues and dah genes, etc. Djinns in old diagnoses ... there are even genes for light browned hares ... toasted rabbits? They are deficient in some genes how ever ... expect rabbits to howl ... it is a text of mental dissonance ... maybe even OCD!

Some of us are occupied with such etudes ... de Moes unusual?
 
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With most of the big acts coming from continental Europe, symphonic metal's fascination with Celtic music is a bit curious. Finnish greats Nightwish even brought a musician onboard just to play Irish flute and uillean pipes. This is a new track from German symphonic metal band Xandria, one of the founding acts of the genre, honouring their love of Scotland and Scottish history. They even add a Scottish flautist and violinist as session players.

 
BetteTheRed said:
Loreena McKennit often explains parallels between Celtic and Spanish music.
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It's an odd, or funny thing how people cannot grasp what was cleaved by mystery ... keeps the mortals occupied ... while they are being evaluated from their beyond portions ... the unconscious elf? Do not repeat it ... as it may have been a mistake ... as all mortal items are gifted with the sense of imperfection and guilt of having fallen out ... essence 've folly!
 
Following up their Halloween spectacular "The Ghost in Me" with another, original, high-powered piece of symphonic metal, Epica show us once again why they are up there with Nightwish as the most symphonic of symphonic metal. This is the live debut of "Arcana", their new single, at a concert in Amsterdam that they called Symphonic Synergy. In a couple weeks, they will hop across the pond and repeat it in Mexico City. Orchestra, choir, and above it all, one of the finest voices in all of popular music, the band's lead singer Simone Simons. I could probably get banned from Floorworld for saying it, but Simone is probably Floor's equal for both skill and raw power at this point in her career. Fortunately, there is no rivalry here. The two Dutch powerhouse vocalists are friends and were even roommates at one point I have heard.

 
New metal for this week, all featuring strong female singers.

First up, Ukrainian band Jinjer have a new album coming up in February. "Green Serpent" is the latest single. This band features Tatiana Shmayluk on both clean and harsh vocals. While the band did cease operations early in the invasion of their country by Russia, they are now touring with permission from the Ministry of Culture as musical ambassadors for the country.


Visions of Atlantis have been releasing some nice videos from their latest tour. "Heroes of the Dawn" is actually an older song dating back two or three albums but as you can hear, it's a crowd-pleaser. Female singer here is French beauty Clementine Delauney paired with Italian male vocalist Michele Guaitoli.


And Beyond the Black was founded and is led by German singer Jennifer Haben. They have been around for a decade and feature solid, melodic metal highlighted by Jennifer's strong vocals.

 
Speaking of strong female vocalists, Linkin Park continues their rebirth with new singer Emily Armstrong. This is from Sao Paolo, Brazil on their current tour, and was the live debut of the single "Two-Face" from the their new album From Zero. Emily and band co-founder/rapper/vocalist Mike Shinoda play off each other very well in this track.

 
In 2023, Germany sent metal to Eurovision. "Blood and Glitter" by Lord of the Lost finished dead last in the final, but that reflects more on Eurovision's conservatism than on the song or band. It's a heck of a banger and kudos to the German judges and voters for giving it a shot. Here's a live performance from this past summer's Summer Breeze festival. It's a home crowd (the festival is in Bavaria) and the band used "Blood and Glitter" to close off their set.

 
And keeping it live, here's Gothenberg, Sweden melodeath greats In Flames from the 2024 Rising From The North tour that saw three of the seminal bands of the "Gothenberg Sound" touring together. Besides In Flames, there were Arch-Enemy and Soilwork.

 
To no one's surprise, least of all mine, my Spotify Wrapped came out today and my most listened-to band was Nightwish (with lead singer Floor Jansen at number 3) and all five of my most listened-to songs were from their September release Yesterwynde. To be fair, I was only on Spotify for the last six months of the year, which coincided with the release of the album and all four singles, so it's arguably a bit biased. But Yesterwynde is a magnificent album and the band is in peak form. Now if only they would tour again. Looks like 2026 at the earliest now, given band composer/keyboardist Tuomas is taking his other act, Auri (which also includes Nightwish male vocalist and multi-instrumental wiz Troy Donockley), on tour next year. There has been some buzz about a 30th anniversary tour, which would be 2027. Anyhow, Nightwish wins 2024 in my world, at least.

Here is my most listened-to song of the year on Spotify. No shocks. It is my favourite song on the new album, the video has been picking up awards at film festivals, and it stands as a magnificent celebration of how we are the heirs to the generations that have gone before. "We are their heirs, dust on their palm. We are because of a million loves. We're the perfume of the timeless." Now if only I did not have to wait probably two more years to hear it done live. They are a truly great live band and this song is going to rock on stage.

 
Waterfall said:
I must confess I'm not into headbanging music, but this I enjoyed and occasionally a few others.
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Nightwish released orchestral versions for the entire album (they actually use an orchestra and choir for their backing tracks, not just licensed samples) and the orchestra in Tampere, Finland is doing the full orchestral album in an upcoming concert. To listen to them, you probably would not even realize it was supposed to be metal. More like contemporary orchestral music. The band has even put out a Spotify playlist of all their orchestral music, which includes the orchestral versions for various albums plus All The Works of Nature Which Adorn the World, the orchestral suite that is the second disc of their album Human :||: Nature.

(Why Tampere? The city is also the scene of a major metal festival and Nightwish recorded one of two DVDs of their 2015-16 tour there.)
 
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