As I mentioned in Jerry's getting to know you thread, I'm into softer forms of metal (anything too scream-y or growly isn't likely to get me going though... I like to understand what my singers are saying.) industrial music, like Luxt, Nocturne, More Machine than Man, etc. and pretty much anything celtic, expecially harp (as anybody who's been reading my journal for more than, oh.. a day could tell you  ) 
I particularly like music which has female vocals... It's more fun to listen, when I can sing along.

HEE, I have every Loreena McKennitt CD so far released.. I'm waiting for the latest concert cd, nights of alhambra... I don't know when it's supposed to be released, soon though.

I don't know that I've heard of gaelic storm, I shall go look that up now.

It's wonderful to see other people who like Loreena McKennitt's music as well as I do.  Kiraela, I don't have every one released, but I'm working on it! 

My musical tastes are quite varied, ranging from New Age, to Classical (minus most opera), classic rock, alternative, country (mostly the modern stuff), hard rock (but not the kind you can't really tell if it's music or just screaming), goth (is that what groups like Inkubus Sukkubus are lumped under?), a *teeny-tiny* bit of rap (do Kid Rock and Eminem count?), I lose track sometimes.

Has anyone here every listened to anything by the group Bond?  I love their music!

Also, does anyone have any recommendations for other groups with a similar sound/style like that of Lacuna Coil or Evanescence?  I've seen albums that *look* like they might, but with store return policies being what they are for CDs, I hesitate to buy anything new without knowing if I already like it.

RenChick wrote on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 3:21pm:



If you like Lacuna Coil and Evanescence you might like Echoes Of Eternity, Otep (they are kind of on the heavy side though), In This Moment and Nightwish.

If you go to amazon.com you can listen to samples of most songs to see if you like something or not.

Jerry

I'm a Finn, therefore I like heavy metal  

I listen most: Nightwish, Rammstein, Within Temptation, my newest great discovery Turisas, Rhapsody (of Fire, they had to change their name for some legal issues).  I guess I should also mention Alice Cooper and Manowar.

I also like more peaceful music like Era and Adiemus, movie soundtracks (recently I've listened Lady in the Water soundtrack a lot), and then there are some odd bands, especially Finnish, that I just like for some inexplicable reason...like Pohjannaula that has this fantastic shamanic folk rock music...and Viikate.

Modified: RenChick, somewhere in my journal (Galadriel's Mirror Shows Many Things) is a written introduction to Nightwish. Read and do as instructed! 

Oh yes, especially more conservative folks. Finns have traditionally taken Eurovision song contests quite seriously, maybe because our success in there has been so bad it's become a legend. Moreover, the second in Finnish finale was this every MIL's dream guy with pretty little voice, suit and a neat short haircut. So, there were indeed many who thought that sending Lordi to the contest was a national shame.
   After he won though, that talk ended pretty much overnight and national shame become a national heroes (in his hometown, there is now Lordi's plaza, and if my memory serves me right, Amen has a lookalike statue in his home town and so on...). Overall, the whole media circus was quite amusing to follow. I'm not a huge fan of Lordi's music, but it was inspirational to see them succeed in a contest where great many "good", noncontroversial performers had failed miserably over the years.