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Here are some more to get through eventually, whenever you have time. Some of these are pretty big bands though.
Atlas Pain (also North for the Folk Metal)
Coven (the one from Michigan - also posted in Fallen since they're right in the middle)
Judicator
Keldian
Lancer
Nocturnal Rites
Persuader
Root (like Coven, also posted in Fallen)
Timeless Miracle
Valhalore (like Atlas Pain, could also be North for Folk Metal)
Any chance you could fill out the Chevelle discography, particularly just by adding the Sci-Fi Crimes and Hats Off To The Bull albums? I don't think they're different enough from the others to warrant being the only ones excluded. Chevelle pretty much always have the same general rock/metal sound.
When I added Chevelle, I didn't have the option to add non-clan releases. Now I do, so I'll sort that out for you this week.
Much appreciated! Thanks for your work on this site, it's very impressive.
And take your time. I'll probably have you guys busy this week with all my suggestions across the clan boards :P
No huge hurry on any of these, I just wanted to get lists of missing names I noticed on paper before I forget them
Hello there, old Ben. Here are some bands I noticed missing as I added my ratings:
Aether Realm (would also have a claim to North and Guardians)
Entombed A.D.
Hoth (also North)
Luciferion (also Infinite)
MyGrain
Necrophagia
Noumena
Skeletal Remains
Triumvir Foul (please include 2019 EP "Urine of Abomination")
Unhuman (also Infinite)
Venenum
Whispered (also Guardians)
Zyklon
Adramalech (Finland)
Damn, sounds like I need to finally check out World Downfall...
Anyways, my first positive experience with death metal came when I was in high school and still mainly just into alt metal and metalcore. Unsurprisingly, I discovered In Flames' modern stuff and immediately started like them. While listening to something from Come Clarity or Playground Fading on YouTube, I distinctly remember seeing the striking, foreboding red sky artwork of Colony in the suggested videos sidebar and being drawn to it. I didn't know I was listening to Melodic Death Metal at the time, but I could immediately tell "Coerced Coexistence" and "Insipid 2000" were an entirely different energy than what I'd heard from In Flames before. I spent the next month rocking out to that album and, thus, a Melodeath addict was born. The prime Gothenburg shit is still some of my favorite music.
Death was the next step in my progression a few months later, and then before long I was digging into shit like Cynic, Demilich, Entombed, and Atheist.
Sludge metal is definitely Mastodon lmao
Hahaha this
Candlemass was the other big Fallen gateway band for me.
I saw "Doom Metal" listed as a subgenre on Wikipedia and had never heard of it, so I looked up the first Doom Metal band on YouTube and it happened to be Candlemass. I was immediately transfixed by the slow, sinister riffs and general macabre atmosphere.
A bit later, bands like Theatre of Tragedy, Woods of Ypres and Cradle of Filth would get me into the Gothic side.
Any chance you could fill out the Chevelle discography, particularly just by adding the Sci-Fi Crimes and Hats Off To The Bull albums? I don't think they're different enough from the others to warrant being the only ones excluded. Chevelle pretty much always have the same general rock/metal sound.
Hi, new guy here! As I was adding my ratings to the site, I noted a few personally significant entries that were missing.
Baroness - Yellow & Green (this is a heavy record and totally has metal on it, but it got left out because the primary tag is Heavy Psych on RYM.)
Coven (Detroit one) - should also fall under Guardians, they straddle Traditional Doom and Heavy Metal with some gothic/deathrock undertones
Kylesa
Root - should probably fall under Guardians and North too, although I think Fallen should be first
Silent Stream of Godless Elegy - could do under North too, they essentially are a gothic/folk hybrid
Stillborn
Woods of Ypres (one of my favorite bands, please add ASAP)
I came here to suggest exactly this. Clicking through all the numbers of pages to get back to specific letters of bands was a little tedious as I was alphabetically filling out my ratings over the last week.