This is a newer band that I came across last year when I picked up their second release, Herons on a whim and I loved it. Metal-archives describes them as gothic/folk metal. It seems like having a female lead singer gets that gothic tag automatically stuck on, even though this sounds more like a traditional metal style with folk elements (mostly in the vocal work). But anyway, that doesn't even really matter as long as the music is good.
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Today's video takes a decidedly different direction. Arch Enemy is a long standing, pioneering death metal band. In 2000, they brought in Angela Gossow to do vocals and it worked, with the band becoming as popular as ever over the past 14 years.
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There was lot of crap that happened in 2014 related to domestic violence/harassment of women. When I sent in my letter for the end of the year Friday Music Day, I realized I had purchased a lot of music from female-fronted bands. Heavy metal has always been, and will probably always be, heavily skewing towards males, but it is starting to get much more diverse, gender-wise, these days. So, with all of the crap that happened last year, I thought I'd spend a week celebrating what that type of diversity can bring to music like this.
Up first is Nightwish, who basically made symphonic metal with a classically trained vocalist a thing.
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Well, looks like it's about that time again, kiddos. We're looking for a few sensitive young men and women to spin the black circles. If you want a crack that at whole DJ thing, just let us know below. We will continue following the same selection rules based on previous DJ stints. I re-jiggered the schedule a little in that December will be reserved for a slew of volunteers to showcase their best-ofs (as we did in 2013).
Come be the next opportunistic renegade. Any questions, just ask, yo.
These guys released an album earlier this year under the band name NO (which is kind of a terrible name because it's impossible to search for) before changing their name to Black English (which is kind of a terrible name because it's kind of a terrible name). So hopefully they keep working the name thing out, but in the meantime, they sound pretty good.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq4_g8_QY9k
Dude kind of sounds like a Kiwi Matt Berninger to me.
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I realize I've put up a lot of KEXP videos this week. Not really by design, but they're a good outfit that features a lot of artists I like, so it's natural.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcn-KtL2VSg
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(Spoiler alert: Although it will be somewhere near the top of my 2014 list, I don't think I'm going to get to anything off of Benji this week. That's Koz's punishment for being such a grumpy old dick.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfIN7XBl-4
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I think this album (Trouble) came out back in January. That seems as if it should feel like a long time ago, but it doesn't. Or maybe it's cause I still like the album a lot.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9kilZeagg
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