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| | InterviewTRIVIUM |
 | | Trivium performs what has been deemed (by Dew Scented) as "Melodic Death Metalcore." The music can be described as sounding along the lines of a cross of In Flames, Killswitch Engage, Darkest Hour, Arch Enemy, Poison The Well... | | | Bands that inspire Trivium would be: In Flames, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, Poison The Well, Darkest Hour. | | | Which are the bands that have inspire you as a fan and as a band? |
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http://www.geocities.com/manticorabe/InterviewTRIVIUM.html
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| | Caliban : The Opposite From Within |
| | This album is from the band Caliban, who are supposedly known as the "German Kings Of Metalcore!" Well I have never heard about this band, until I found out they had In Flames Vocalist Anders Friden produce this album, and around the same time were touring Europe with In Flames and Devildriver. | | | Caliban had the power with this song of pulling the listener into the music...I actually felt what every note and word of the song was trying to convey. | | | Unless you are a Caliban fan, or fan of emotional metalcore in general, I would recommend skipping this album in the CD racks for the time being. |
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http://www.zrock.com/zforum/about443.html
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| | The Metal Crypt - Reviews |
| | I really hope this is not the last we hear from Nightshade, as this album foretells great things to come from this band. | | | Nightshade do sound a lot like In Flames, but like they used to sound, back when they were good. | | | The way people go on about In Flames, you’d think they were still releasing great albums, but in fact they released one good album: "The Jester Race", that’s it. |
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http://www.metalcrypt.com/pages/reviews.php?revid=795
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| | CoC : Nightshade - Wielding the Scythe : Review |
| | The most obvious influence for Nightshade is derived from the bands that created the Gothenburg sound: At the Gates, In Flames, Ceremonial Oath and other well-known acts. | | | Nightshade is a Swedish band that was formed in 1995. | | | My final judgment on Nightshade is that they sound like a modern mix of old In Flames and the latest Old Man's Child album: thrashy, melodic and a little black. |
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http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-2184
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| | Rough Edge: Himsa CD Reviews |
| | Himsa inject classic metal (Iron Maiden) and soon-to-be classic metal (In Flames) in equal doses along with a history lesson's worth of musical idioms borrowed and teased into a unique formula. | | | Of important note are the lead guitars which take on an important role in Himsa's music in all phases of a song as well as a soloing instrument. | | | Himsa has made an alarmingly crushing offering this time around, pulsating with pounding drums, frenetic guitars, and a guttural growl that puts the evil authority in the driver's seat. |
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http://www.roughedge.com/cdreviews/h/himsa.htm
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| | Vampire-Magazine.com - Himsa |
| | Assembling the finer qualities of bands like Slayer, Iron Maiden, and In Flames, while adding a shot of hardcore undertones, punk rock culture and gothic rock aesthetics, Himsa"s music is as violent and dark as their name suggests. | | | Despite the myriad of setbacks and accidents that have befallen the band, Himsa remain a staple on the touring circuit. | | | In fact, the band have so embraced the touring lifestyle that they"ve dedicated eight months of their lives to touring in support of this album. |
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http://www.vampire-magazine.com/bands/himsa/info/7293_band_information_himsa.html
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| | RockReview :: All Rock, No C**k :: Reviews :: Agathodaimon - Serpents Embrace |
| | The issue gets a bit sticky however when along come an ex-black metal band on an extreme metal label billing themselves as black/death metal, but who clearly take more nu-metal with their tea than the rest of us are used to and yet dont suck. | | | Of course, you have to have a strong stomach to handle the rich sleekness of Agathodaimons keyboard-driven melodic death metal, but once youre in, you can fully appreciate the tuneful groove of Cellos for the Insatiable, the thoroughly In Flames sounding title track or even the soulful piano-lead Solitude complete with female vocals et al. | | | Sure theyd always have their defenders, but modern-day In Flames or Korn couldnt go 5-rounds against their former selves and we all know it. |
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http://www.rockreview.co.uk/album.asp?id=284
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| | Get Ready to ROCK! Interview with Matti Karki of death metal rock band Dismember |
| | We are talking about one of the bands that has defined the Swedish Death Metal sound, and that has also been a great source of inspiration for many Modern Death Metal bands such as In Flames and The Haunted. | | | Dismember is one of the few bands nowadays where you have all of the musicians participating in the recording process, and 'Where Ironcrosses Grow' is the perfect example of that. | | | Bands like you, Entombed and Hypocrisy were the first ones to introduce this very specific sound to Metal music. |
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http://www.getreadytorock.com/pure_metal/dismember_interview.htm
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| | Blink-182 going on indefinite hiatus |
| | Fuel was added to the flames when Dave Navarro, who performed at the benefit with his cover band Camp Freddy, posted on his blog that Blink didn't perform because they had broken up. | | | Rumors that the band had split began circulating after Friday's all-star tsunami benefit concert in Anaheim, Calif. Blink was scheduled to play but pulled out of at the last minute due to "unexpected circumstances." | | | Blink's four studio albums and one live set have sold a combined 10.7 million copies in the United States to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan. |
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http://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/articles/0223blink182.html
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| | Agathodaimon interview @ Tartareandesire.com |
| | One of my favorite bands, and it would be really cool to play together with Dimmu Borgir for example or In Flames, but other musicians I really enjoy are King Diamond and all the black metal stuff generally... | | | I'd like to thank those who supported the band in the past and who listened to our music and are interested to have a listen to our new album. | | | We are not a perfect band, there's lots of things we can improve and will always try to get better with every release, of course, but you could say the sound wasn't very good and the songs were too progressive or whatever, but the press usually likes it and the fans give us good reviews. |
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http://www.tartareandesire.com/interviews/agathodaimon.html
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Music / Great White album pits band against label |
| | Although the original cover of the "Great Zeppelin" tribute did show a shark jumping through flames, Gray insists the band was told that no such image would appear on "A Double Dose." He added that Great White knew this and yet still criticized the record label purely to raise interest in a coming tour. | | | The title "Burning House of Love" was actually the name of a cover song, written by the Los Angeles band X, that Great White recorded for a 2002 album. | | | The release, however, caused a conflict because of what the band says was a disagreement over the cover art. |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/05/13/great_white_album_pits_band_against_label
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| | Neon Dreamers Official Greek Nevermore Fan Club |
| | The band was constantly on the road, sharing stages with Arch Enemy, In Flames and Shadows Fall, Opeth and Angel Dust, and had their 2001 tour with Savatage cut drastically short by the events of September 11th. | | | Warrel Danes visceral, clarion calls leads the band to more limitless heights armed with the indestructible backbone of drummer Van Williams and bassist Jim Sheppard while venom, foreboding, and poignant despair continue to be born from the hands of Jeff Loomis within the confines of one song. | | | The band soon welcomed ex-Monstrosity guitarist Pat OBrien into the fold and 1996s In Memory EP soon proved to critics that volatile melody and aggression could be successfully intermixed. |
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http://www.neondreamers.org/history.htm
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| | Abacus Recordings: Caliban |
| | Most recently, Caliban entered “The Room” studios in Gothenburg, Sweden to record their fourth album, The Opposite From Within, which was produced by In Flames front man Anders Friden and mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap (e.g. | | | The 12-song outing shows the band taking their style even further with crushing breakdowns, a keen sense of melody and dedication to playing with utter ferocity. | | | When the band's second album, Vent, came out in April 2001 the band was invited to play at the famous Beast Feast 2001 in Yokohama together with Slayer, Pantera, Machine Head, Biohazard and Morbid Angel. |
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http://www.abacusrecordings.com/caliban
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| | Worm Gear Zine |
| | With the commercial crap that once decent bands of this genre like In Flames are churning out at present, it's up to hungrier young bands like The Mandrake to keep the torch alight, and with "the burning horizon at the end of dawn" The Mandrake have accomplished just that. | | | Thorazine is a Canadian death/grind band that is comparable musically with mid-era Cryptopsy, but just not as convincing. | | | Their music is similar to other melodic death metal bands, but I think the difference comes in the conviction of the execution. |
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http://www.crionicmind.org/wormgear/pages/reviews_t_body.html
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| | Get Ready to ROCK! Interview with metal rock band Maze of Torment |
| | Sweden is currently known in metal music circles as the main melodic death metal market, with bands such as Soilwork and In Flames climbing to the top of the world-wide metal charts. | | | Erik: I respect the bands for doing their thing, they work hard with their music and deserve all the recognition they get, but I'm not at all into their music, I'm into the "necro" death metal thing, I love bad sound and poor production. | | | You have mentioned in the past that your are happy to keep the activities of the band low-key and would not want to be the centre of attention as far as publicity is concerned. |
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http://www.getreadytorock.com/pure_metal/maze_torment_interview.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Where Ironcrosses Grow: Music: Dismember |
| | Dismember are lumped in geographically with In Flames, At the Gates, etc. as NWOSDM bands. | | | Dismember is back indeed with a sound which is typical for this band. | | | Dismember may not be the most original band, but they keep delivering brutal lyrics and dense guitar riffs aplenty. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001Z3IJE?v=glance
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Santers |
| | During a one week period the band recorded the album 'Shot D own In Flames' later that year. | | | SANTERS, the band, was suspended as a touring/recording en tity and Rick Santers had several of his songs placed on Triumph's 'Sport Of Kings' and 'Surveillance' albums. | | | By 1986 Rick Santers was well on his way to writing material for the band 's fourth album, 'Top Secrecy', when he was asked to formally become a to uring member of Triumph as their second guitarist, additional vocalist an d keyboardist. |
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http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/S/Santers.html
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| | Favorite bands: Opeth, In Flames, Metallica, Flogging Molly, Necro Phagist, Beatallica, Slipknot and Mudvayne. | | | favorite bands: Metallica, Shinedown, In Flames, Godsmack, Alter Bridge, Submersed. | | | About a year and a half later Dave Klein joined the band and it's never sounded better. |
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http://www.crimsonorchid.com/_wsn/page2.html
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| | Librarius Metallicus |
| | Gandalf played (very similar to In Flames) melodic death metal on their first album and then changed their style a bit for the second, the style can be read from the name of the album. |
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http://www.librariusmetallicus.com/?table=band&id=743
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| | TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 5. Revolution Number 9. Mark Greif. |
| | Evil Empire, the band's 1996 album, communicated that radicalism in a way that was fierce, eloquent, and systematic. | | | Reportedly, fans chanted the band's best-known lyric—"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"—as they clashed with state police in the fracas. | | | Inevitably the fence was torn down and torched, and the scenes on the lawn were lit by the flames of bonfires and veiled by a thickening pall of smoke. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/5/greif-m.html
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| | Swedish Metal - News & more |
| | The band is recording their debut album right now at the Dug-out Studio, produced by Daniel Bergstrand (Darkane, In Flames, Meshuggah and others), which is supposed to be released in the middle of November through Nuclear Blast Records. | | | The Swerdish metal band Amaran are in the process of filming a video for the track "Inflict", taken the bands upcoming second album, "Pristine In Bondage", wich will be released during the late summer through the French label Listenable Records. | | | The band have just finished recordings of the drum tracks for their forthcoming album. |
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http://www.swedishmetal.net/scripts/index.asp?sida=18
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| | The Allman Brothers Band |
| | A band that was already capable of slamming out the rhythm patterns of James Brown's Famous Flames didn't need the Rolling Stones to show them how to play blues, but nobody could ignore the advances being made by Clapton and Beck. | | | This is the band that reclaimed rock 'n' roll from the British invasions of the 1960s. | | | The band was persuaded to dress up in psychedelic outfits and cover pop songs from a list offered by the producer. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tn/LSkynyrd/allman1.html
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| | BNR Metal Pages -- Gandalf |
| | But that's not what this Gandalf is about -- instead, this Finnish band is rooted in Gothenburg melodic death metal, inviting some comparisons to bands such as In Flames, but with less emphasis on death metal (except the vocals) and more emphasis on straight-ahead rock riffs. | | | The name Gandalf might conjure images of a German (or perhaps Italian) power/speed metal band, since often such bands are steeped in fantasy lyrical themes. | | | Indeed, their sound has been billed as "At The Gates meets AC/DC", and while they aren't quite as unusual as that tag might suggest, it is not an inaccurate description, particularly on Rock Hell, their second album (the debut, Deadly Fairytales, stays truer to the Gothenburg style). |
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http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/gand.htm
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| | L'Edition Metallique |
| | Throughout the album, you notice the influence that bands such as At the Gates, early Hypocrisy and early In Flames have had on this duo. | | | When a band's influences range from, oh
say Classic 80's Metal, Black, Death and Thrash Metal, you kind of expect them to be a bit all over the place and volatile musically. | | | Another young, American band that is making quite a name for itself this year with the release of their Melodic Death Metal debut: A Celebration of Guilt. |
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http://www.metalzine.com/critiques/arsis_eng.html
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| | The Metal Crypt - Reviews |
| | The band could definitely benefit from some guitar harmonies ala a melodeath band like In Flames, but these moments, though they appear sporadically on tracks like "Come Tonight", are the exception rather than the rule. | | | This band's status as metal is questionable, but their music will certainly appeal to people who like Sentenced, as this is similar to the 'gloomy night of a dying day' stuff that Sentenced has been moping about since what seems like the dawn of time. | | | Every single song on here is a straight up rock song, formulaic and verse-chorus-verse to the core, and while that isn't an indictment of it's quality (or lack thereof), it doesn't offer much value beyond the first few listens, as all the songs tend to blend together. |
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http://www.metalcrypt.com/pages/reviews.php?revid=1855
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| | SnakeNet Metal Radio - Home of the Metal Nation! |
| | The Italian "Epic Hollywood Metal" band Rhapsody, formed under the name of Thundercross in Trieste 1993, has, with their three succesful album releases, 'Legendary Tales'(1997), 'Symphony Of Enchanted Lands' (1998), 'Dawn Of Victory' (2000) as well as their current 'Rain Of A Thousand Flames' (2001), gained a tremendous position in the international metal genre. | | | The band was formed by guitarist Luca Turilli and keyboarder Alessandro Staropoli, and from the beginning, they cleverly combined Rhapsody's music with classical elements as well as film music reminiscent of horror and fantasy sountracks. | | | Worth a special mention is the fact that Rhapsody have never before integrated the sounds of their native tongue, Italian, into the songs. |
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http://www.snakenetmetalradio.com/Bible/artist-bio.asp?id=777
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| | Rip N' Tear |
| | Deadly Fairytales saw the band walking the path of In Flames, with strong melodies tempered with break-neck aggression. | | | Their melodic death tinged music certainly doesn't give one the air of myth and fantasy, nor do the band's lyrics. | | | We know that we have a strong record, but as you know, that your band success isn't always based on what music is on the record, but maybe who has produced the record, or the cover art, or who the manager is or booking agent..." |
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http://www.ripntear.net/articles/gandalf.htm
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| | Amazon.com: The Middle Kingdom: Music: Cruachan |
| | Cruachan is one of the few bands that can actually conjure up images through the use of simple instruments and song, however what sets them on on even higher plateau is that these images coincide so perfectly with the subject matter and with their intent (and album covers). | | | Cruachan is Celtic folk metal, but it is not metal in the sense of Sepultura or In Flames. | | | The music on this album is at times straight folk and a few songs have a little bit of metal intertwined into the mix. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056PQ7?v=glance
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| | The Knifing Assessment |
| | The Knifing Assessment was formed in early summer 2001 out of the ashes of an old cheesy punk band. | | | We all listen to things like AFI, Set Fire to Flames, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Cursive, Dashboard Confessional, From Autumn to Ashes, In Flames, Further Seems Forever, Cave In, The Darkest Hour, Communist Conspiracy Rhythms, Iggy Pop, ska, punk, classical, spanish guitar, blues, everything. | | | Our band consists of 5 individuals: Bryce: Vocals Dan: Bass, Vocals Brandon: Guitar Steve: Guitar Jack: Drums |
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http://www.mbus.com/bands/genadm/The.Knifing.Assessment.htm
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| | 311: Nice Guys Finish First |
| | It's an often-related 311 story, about the disastrous engine fire near Kansas City that took the young band's money, equipment, clothes and RV in flames that engulfed the entire vehicle. | | | Several months before the band's new record, Sound System, was due to be released, a bootlegged copy found its way onto that hotbed of online auctions, EBay. | | | After selling more than five million copies of their records and recently releasing Sound System, the band is geared to take the spotlight again. |
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http://www.drdrew.com/DrewLive/article.asp?id=134
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