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- Mercyful
Fate
- Genius band from Danmark. They play beautiful, while little
satanic, songs, with a unique sound. And you must also add the beautiful King
Diamond's voice here...
Recommendations: all, especially Melissa, Don't Break The Oath, The
Beginning and Time
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- King
Diamond
- And here is King himself, along with his second band. Similar
sound and genial lyrics.
Recommendations: all, especially Fatal Portrail, "Them" and
Abigail
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- The
Gathering
- Great Dutch band playing, say, Gothic metal. Plus beautiful
voice of Anneke van Giersbergen.
Recommendations: Mandylion, Nighttime Birds, Always
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- Vanessa-Mae
- Good music is not only metal. Vanessa-Mae beautifully plays
violin and is really worth listening.
Recommendations: all, especially The Violin Player
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- Emperor
- Believed to be the best black metal band by many people.
Recommendations: all, especially Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk and
In The Nightside Eclipse
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- Burzum
- Another norwegian black metal classic.
Recommendations: all, especially Hvis lyset tar oss and
Filosofem
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- Anna Maria
Jopek
- Magnificent artist mixing popular music with jazz. Great
voice.
Recommendations: all
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- Tori Amos
- Another non-metal artist on this list. Tori beautifully sings
and plays piano in a rock manner. My recommendation.
Recommendations: all, especially Little Earthquakes and Under The
Pink
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- Mylène Farmer
- One of the best known french vocalists.
Recommendations: Anamorphosée, L'autre...,
Innamoramento
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- The
Corrs
- Irish family band playing popular music with some pieces of
folk.
Recommendations: Forgiven, Not Forgotten
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- Mortiis
- Norwegian musician playing dark ambient music.
Recommendations: Crypt Of The Wizard, The Stargate
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- Lacuna
Coil
- Great metal-gothic band from Italy.
Recommendations: Lacuna Coil, In A Reverie
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- Tower
- Great polish band playing gothic metal.
Recommendations: all, especially The Swan Princess
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- Obituary
- One of the best death metal bands of the world. And, of
course, the vocalist, John Tardy, has the most deathly voice of the
world.
Recommendations: all, especially Cause Of Death
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- Julita &
Paula
- Another example to prove that modern violin music can be
excellent. Julita and Paula play classical music in new (often very heavy!)
versions. My recommendation.
Recommendations: Julita & Paula
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- Stille Volk
- French band playing a mixture of heavy alternative rock with
folk music.
Recommendations: all
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- Vader
- The best Polish band, plaing death metal. Vader is one of the
very few Polish bands known (and popular!) outside Poland.
Recommendations: all, especially De Profundis
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- Macabre
- So called murder metal - twisted rock'n'roll-metal-grindcore
songs about serial killers.
Recommendations: Sinister Slaughter
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- Linda
Brava
- Or really Linda Lampenius - one more, this time Finnish,
violinist.
Recommendations: Linda Lampenius (very hard to get,
though)
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- Voivod
- Techno-thrash from Canada. Nice music, interesting
lyrics.
Recommendations: Nothingface, Dimension Hatröss
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- Secret
Garden
- Beautiful music inspired by, amongst others, norwegian and
irish folk.
Recommendations: Songs From A Secret Garden
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- Kreator
- Nice thrash from Germany. Especially old LPs are worth
listening.
Recommendations: Extreme Aggression, Coma of Souls
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- The Great
Kat
- Magnificent guitalist and violinist, playing her own kind of
speed-metal.
Recommendations: Beethoven On Speed
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