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Fantasy And Metal

  • 04-04-2002 11:28pm
    #1
    Ruaidhri
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    Dont the two art forms complememt themselves perfectly?
    Black metal..the dark athmosphere is the perfect ambiance for fantasy.Anyone agree?


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  • #2
    azezil
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    Not all fantasy, but fantasy with a sci-fi twist generally works quite well.:alien:


  • #3
    Khynareth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Khynareth


    Agreed with that, various type of music can fit fantasy (Celtic, classical, Metal...). Now Dark Fantasy as The Necroscope Series (From Brian Lumley) and other books/films the same type fit perfectly with Black (Metal).


  • #4
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Yes.
    Especially considering the amount of bands named from Tolkien's works:

    Burzum
    Morgul
    Gorgoroth
    Cirith Ungol
    Isengard


  • #5
    Ruaidhri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭Ruaidhri


    has to be more athmospheric though..like doom/black metal.
    Khynareth,what is The Necroscope Series like..i read the first book..did not know what really to make of it


  • #6
    SYL
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    Have read Robin Hobbs 'Assassin' series and Terry Brooks Heritage of Shannara and Jerle Shannara series listening to Anathema and My Dying Bride to good effect.


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  • #7
    Khynareth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Khynareth


    Originally posted by Ruaidhri
    what is The Necroscope Series like..

    I really enjoyed it. The concepts behind it is very well studied and documented. He has several interesting theory (one remarquable about death).

    The story is very interesting, a bit predictible sometimes, but always catchy. He is great at setting the decors and atmosphere...

    I think that on the last volumes I read, he was a bit running out of material though...

    I'm still looking for the last 3 volumes (Don't have a CC, so can't get them on the net), so I don't know then 'end' yet...


  • #8
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    sheesh, ya didn't mention blind Guardian AW.


    most of their songs are based on one fantasy series or another, with themost popular theme being tlotr.

    they made an album " nightfall in middle earth" in 98, which tells the story of the silmarillion.
    tis great :)

    they have a few mp3s on mp3.com i think

    they have a new album out now, " a night at the opera" which has a song, "and then there was silence" 14 minutes long, about the Illiad.

    absaloutely fupping amazing


  • #9
    Ruaidhri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭Ruaidhri


    well the type of bands i was thinking about really was black metal..death is my favourite type of metal..but it just does not set the scene..it grabs your attention to much and makese you listen to it.but black and doom and ambient are great background music, like at dawn they sleep ( mp3.com/adts ) or ater draconis ( mp3.com/aterdraconis ) are really cool..(yeah free plug!!)i especially liked ater draconis and opeth for setting a relaxed mood to read.

    oh yeah..do lyrics really matter? it is just that you would not be listening to the lyrics and reading at the same time,that's why ater draconis are good for that,because they are mostly instrumental

    do you know any other good athmospheric/doom instrumental bands?


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