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Band: Orphaned Land

Genre: Folk Metal (Middle Eastern Folk)

Album: Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (2004)

Track Listing:

01. Birth Of The Three (The Unification) 6:57 

02. Ocean Land (The Revelation) 4:43           

03. The Kiss Of Babylon (The Sins) 7:23       

04. A'salk 2:05           

05. Halo Dies (The Wrath Of God) 7:29        

06. A Call To Awake (The Quest) 6:10         &n......

Drums are a core instrument in metal music. By default the drummers in this field are forced to have a great amount of creativity and technical ability. I want to share with you what I consider to be the best drummers in the metal scene. They are musicians that take skills to a higher level and they continue to amaze me in every listen.

The features that I consider to form a great drummer are polyrhythmic drumming, variation, creativity and technical difficulty in the performance. As it is logical, most of the drummers in the list are from the technical/progressiv......

Samantha Escarbe is the lead guitar player of the extraordinary doom/gothic metal act Virgin Black. Along with singer and keyboardist Rowan London, she founded this Australian band back in 1995, gaining fans and critics praise since their first demo that same year.

She also plays the cello in the band's albums and she shares the weight of the composition with Rowan. Virgin Black plays an obscure and melancholic form of metal based primaryly in gothic and symphonic elements plus some clear doom metal influences (mainly in the slow tempo and oppressive, sad atmosphere).

Samantha's guitar playing technique is simple and effective.......

Band: Symphony X

Genre: Progressive Power Metal

Discography: "Symphony X" (1994), "The Damnation Game" (1995), "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" (1997), "Twilight in Olympus" (1998), "V: The New Mythology Suite" (2000), "Live on the Edge of Forever" (Live Album, 2001), "The Odyssey" (2002), "Paradise Lost" (2007)

When getting to know metal music, one good strategy is to find the landmarks for every subgenre in order to get the ear use to the large number of styles and variations of the metal spectrum. With a classification system that is not clear and often......

Band: Necrophagist

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Discography: "Onset of Putrefaction" (1999), "Epitaph" (2004)

What happens when talented musicians mix brutal death metal vocals with neoclassical/technical guitar playing and progressive bass and drums? To find the answer one just needs to listen to the twisted german band Necrophagist. Resting comfortably in the elite of death metal, Necrophagist is one of the more influential bands around when entering the technical field. With only two demos and two studio albums at their behalf, they raised the standard line so high that nothing less than great musicians can say......