I'm actually not going to write about albino pornography. I've decided to give some of my posts strange, suggestive titles to see if anyone out there in the world at large is searching for things like albino pornography or hermaphroditic lycanthropes.
No, I mostly just wanted to say that I've been listening to the album Skyforger from Amorphis, and I personally hear a fairly strong echo of Insomnium. And if you know anything about me and my devotion to Insomnium, you'll know that this means that I like Amorphis. It's the same basic quasi-melancholic sound derived from melodic death metal, with the chief difference that Amorphis tends to feature vocals sung clean while Insomnium never moves away from the basic death metal gurgle or throaty whisper.
This isn't death metal that'll warm the cockles of those who dig classic Carcass, Dismember, or any of the Florida bands. Nor will it please the doom/doomdeath folk, as it isn't really either of those (paranthetically, is it even fair to say that good doom metal pleases the doom metal fans? Wouldn't good doom metal cause them even greater despair? Wouldn't it be the ultimate dismissal for a doom metal fan to say "Yeah, I kind of like Warrant..."?)
My point is that Amorphis and Insomnium aren't really death metal or doom metal, but something more like "melancholic metal" that I happen to like a lot.
Is That All?
11 years ago
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If you like newish Amorphis, you might want to check out fellow Finns Sentenced. I particularly like their album "The Cold White Light."
I sampled Sentenced on iTunes and yes, I like what I heard. What would you call that general style? I know people who would swear it's gothic metal, which means it's the same general thing as Lacuna Coil, which I reject utterly.
Is this merely post-modern doom metal and I missed the memo describing the genre?
As an aside, I remember reading a while back that Insomnium was trying to create a whole new metal genre called "Karelian metal", but I don't think they were successful, perhaps in part because the average American can't find Paris on a map, let alone Karelia.
And strictly as an aside, I'm amused to note that the vocalists for Amoprhis and Sentenced sometimes sound more like James Hetfield than James Hetfield himself does.
Not that that's bad. Just interesting.
I guess I would call latter-day Sentenced's music something like "Melancholic Metal" or "Suicide Metal." That's kinda specific, but every one of their songs on the last two albums is basically about offing yourself. However, despite that, they're not melodramatic enough to be gothic metal, in my opinion.
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