Members DirtyBird Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Soilwork > Norther Arch Enemy > Children of Bodom Dark Tranquillity > Kalmah Amon Amarth > Wintersun Opeth > Sonata Arctica The Swedes have way more groove it seems... Unfortunately it seems like a lot of the Swedish bands have gone to {censored} in recent years... Soilwork and In Flames being prime offenders... but I'll take new Soilwork and In Flames over the icepicky black metal vocal'd over-keyboarded treble fiesta that tends to be Finnish metal. Who agrees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeëlzeM Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Finnish metal is lame, more than often they're just a bunch of girly men with long blonde straight hair. Keyboards are also ghey. But I kinda really hate folk, especially the extreme kind, so that probably rules out 95% of all Finnish metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeadNight Warrior Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Dark Tranquillity have gone to {censored} too IMO. Nothing good since Haven, except for Ex Nihilo (I think it's called). Still, The Gallery, The Mind's I, Projector and Haven were all great. I pretty much wouldn't put Arch Enemy above anyone though. I'd rather listen to COB than Arch Enemy, even their crapper stuff. Soilwork put out what, one or two good albums? After Chainheart they started with the bull{censored} growly verse, clean voice chorus repetitive crap. Besides that... I'm trying to think of some good Finnish bands. Beyond Twilight are Finnish aren't they? But then Sweden also has the likes of Andromeda, Pain of Salvation, Diablo Swing Orchestra... I think from memory Machinery are Swedish, and that whateverthe{censored} album they put out wasn't bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DirtyBird Posted April 15, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Im a big Mike Ammott fanboy of sorts. Arch Enemy hit a slump after Angela joined, but Rise of the Tyrant is a good album. Way better than anything since Burning Bridges. I also think Soilwork was excellent up until Figure Number 5. Steelbath, Chainheart, A Predator's Portrait, and to a lesser extent, Natural born Chaos are all good. So their discography is pretty much split. That's 3 good albums, 3 bad albums, and an okay one in the middle.I'd have listed In Flames, but I prefer to think that modern In Flames doesnt exist. Sweden also has Scar Symmetry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keshav dhar Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Meshuggah. 'nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeadNight Warrior Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Im a big Mike Ammott fanboy of sorts. Arch Enemy hit a slump after Angela joined, but Rise of the Tyrant is a good album. Way better than anything since Burning Bridges. I also think Soilwork was excellent up until Figure Number 5. Steelbath, Chainheart, A Predator's Portrait, and to a lesser extent, Natural born Chaos are all good. So their discography is pretty much split. That's 3 good albums, 3 bad albums, and an okay one in the middle. I'd have listed In Flames, but I prefer to think that modern In Flames doesnt exist. Meh, I've got Burning Bridges.. to me it sounds like cool riffs, slapped together randomly, some wankery added in, and then a {censored} vocalist over the top of some of the riffs (and now they've got Angela, who's even worse). Some cool ideas, just none of it happens to be at all relevant to anything else that's happened around it. I prefer Chris's playing to Mike's too, not that it really has anything to do with anything.Steelbath I never got into much, although I still give it a listen now and then. Chainheart I think is a great CD. I still like putting that on here and there, and it still sounds great to me. From there on, they just fell into a forumla IMO. A few good songs on Predator's, but mostly it just bores the tits off me.In Flames were never any good IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NITROHOLIC Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 children of bordum is more like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Your comparisons are totally {censored}ed. Opeth versus Sonata Arctica? Anyway... off the top of my head... Demilich Ensiferum Torso{censored} Rotten Sound Amorphis Wintersun Impaled Nazarene ... Yeah Finland's got a lot of good bands. Obviously Sweden wins in terms of death metal, but Finland wins in terms of power metal (if you're into it) and Demilich is godly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Say Ocean Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Sweden > Finland not cause I'm of Swedish descent or anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Silverfox Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Soilwork > Any finnish band /Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DirtyBird Posted April 15, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Your comparisons are totally {censored}ed. Opeth versus Sonata Arctica? Anyway... off the top of my head... Demilich Ensiferum Torso{censored} Rotten Sound Amorphis Wintersun Impaled Nazarene ... Yeah Finland's got a lot of good bands. Obviously Sweden wins in terms of death metal, but Finland wins in terms of power metal (if you're into it) and Demilich is godly... Well none of them are directly analogous per se, I was just picking random, popular ones. Most popular swedish bands are better than most popular Finnish bands, IMO.And Rotten Sound? Are you serious? I saw them live with Carcass and Suffocation and came away wondering if their whole act was a joke. I kind of felt bad for them since everyone in the crowd pretty much just stared at them, confused as to what exactly they were doing. Just complete sonic mud and nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TearsOfTheDead Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 I agree that the majority of Swedish bands are better than Finnish, but Kalmah is one of my all time favorite bands. I like them better than Dark Tranquility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Finland wins in terms of power metal (if you're into it) ... THIS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Killzone Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Hey you forgot about Insomnium, Synestesia, Enter my silence, and nomena. All very kick ass finnish bands!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vicknott Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Hey you forgot about Insomnium, Synestesia, Enter my silence, and nomena. All very kick ass finnish bands!!!! And STAM1NA http://www.myspace.com/stam1na Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeëlzeM Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 And STAM1NA http://www.myspace.com/stam1na Still has to be one of the worst bandnames I've ever seen. I mean, Stamina by itself is lame, then there is a {censored}ing 1 instead of the i. Totally original though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doittoday Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 arch enemy > children of bodom .. arch enemy is a girl singer -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Toshiro Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Kiuas is pretty bad-ass and Finish. The lastest 2 Norther CDs are better than recent Soilwork, IMO. Theory doesn't seem probable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thinkpad20 Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 And Rotten Sound? Are you serious? I saw them live with Carcass and Suffocation and came away wondering if their whole act was a joke. I kind of felt bad for them since everyone in the crowd pretty much just stared at them, confused as to what exactly they were doing. Just complete sonic mud and nonsense. Well they are a grindcore band, so a certain degree of "nonsense" is to be expected, but they are quite intelligible (musically). Here's a clip of them with their old drummer (now in Wintersun).SHoY51VCluI Teh song:Jp-NBfsfq8o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FalseRevRG Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Try again when you're comparing bands that are actually similar-ish. Opeth vs. Sonata? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members msormune Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Still has to be one of the worst bandnames I've ever seen. I mean, Stamina by itself is lame, then there is a {censored}ing 1 instead of the i. Totally original though.Kind of like your username, then Anyway, I'm Finnish and like Swedish metal better. Probably because my favorites are old school Entombed and Dismember from Sweden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lostmenoggin Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 I like the Swedes. RAWKIN metal! At The Gates/The Haunted, Soilwork (newer stuff is "meh" but they rocked out live last month), older In Flames (Clayman & earlier) Darkane, Arch Enemy... The only band I kinda liked from Finland was Amorphous, and they only had a couple good songs (Divinity was pretty good). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rleechb Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Dark Tranquillity have gone to {censored} too IMO. Nothing good since Haven, except for Ex Nihilo (I think it's called). Still, The Gallery, The Mind's I, Projector and Haven were all great. I pretty much wouldn't put Arch Enemy above anyone though. I'd rather listen to COB than Arch Enemy, even their crapper stuff. Soilwork put out what, one or two good albums? After Chainheart they started with the bull{censored} growly verse, clean voice chorus repetitive crap. I'm going to have to politely disagree. Character and Fiction are great albums; I don't think they've lost a step at all.I agree about AE though... they bore the hell out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nakedzen Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 Swedens music industry is about 100x bigger so I'd guess they'd have more bands too. And a lot finnish bands get promoted only in Finland and maybe Sweden and Germany. DnWnoi3IX_w qFCgiCuL2Gg BVCVazFOmoU jHXxUsqkDdE dNP68roEQBY nmslk0coiRk pThZtPZLnJI 9jbpZtE-Zm8 8dXgGkmnJOE KPZGMqWqbyk [YOUTUBE]s5xpug_lrno[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teemuk Posted April 15, 2009 Members Share Posted April 15, 2009 IMO, most of Swedish metal is just boring and anemic melodeath (not that Finnish metal is any better). Arckanum and Bathory {censored}ing rule, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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