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agent_fist
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:36 pm 
 

Is there a band that achieves "technical glam metal"? I searched the archives by genre but found nothing. I'm hoping for intricate riffs, odd time signatures, hairspray, and cheezy fucking songs about getting wasted in Los Angeles or whatever. Imagine Mötley Crüe added Ron Jarzombek and Sean Reinert.

A friend suggested that Cold Lake is probably the closest thing. What do you think?

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EvilIncarnate
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:20 pm 
 

agent_fist wrote:
Is there a band that achieves "technical glam metal"? I searched the archives by genre but found nothing. I'm hoping for intricate riffs, odd time signatures, hairspray, and cheezy fucking songs about getting wasted in Los Angeles or whatever. Imagine Mötley Crüe added Ron Jarzombek and Sean Reinert.

A friend suggested that Cold Lake is probably the closest thing. What do you think?


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HamburgerBoy
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:19 pm 
 

Not exactly metal, but you might like T-Ride, sort of a hair/shred hybrid with pop sensibilities. Maybe imagine Toxik selling out twice in a row after Think This. Their drummer became a big-name pop producer after, and their guitarist was a student of Satriani.

Oh, and everyone seems to hate the Living Death-related project Sacred Chao, but it always gave me a sort of speed/thrashy Van Halen vibe. Not the most technical thing in the world but more than usual.

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agent_fist
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 6:27 pm 
 

T-Ride is great! Thanks for the rec, I'd never heard the name before. Sacred Chao is good as well, though not as immediately striking.

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Temple Of Blood
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:09 am 
 

Yes, technical glam exists! "Cold Lake"? Uh, no .... that's crazy.

Nitro is the epitome of this, especially that first album. Check out "Machine Gun Eddie", "Freight Train".

I would also recommend Vinnie Vincent Invasion "All Systems Go", specifically the song "Ashes to Ashes".

Yngwie's late 80s pop period probably qualifies as this as well. Loudness too.
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Damballah
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:37 pm 
 

Checkout Stallion (GER) or White Wizzard (US)

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dontrushurshot
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:40 pm 
 

Racer X
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Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper (these are glam albums at heart fight me)

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Acrobat
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 12:29 pm 
 

Cold Lake has been called a lot of things, but never technical.
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Opus
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:41 pm 
 

Yeah, I think technical and glam cancel each other out. It would just result in silence.
Shotgun Messiah was glam with a crazy good (and technical) guitarist.

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Zdan
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Joined: Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:05 pm
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:52 pm 
 

Shotgun Messiah was a good band. Even their industrial period was fairly decent.

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Required Fields
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 5:34 pm 
 

I'd say a lot of it had technical guitar work, obviously, but none of it had particularly technical bass work or drumming that I can think of. I'm thinking the OP is looking for stuff that fit this bill with content that could be called technical apart from just guitar solos.
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Rocka_Rollas
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:17 am 
 

Imagine this, but with vocals etc. Holy shit is this instrumental awesome :)


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Lane
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Joined: Sat Nov 09, 2002 11:54 am
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Location: Finland
PostPosted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 2:12 pm 
 

I take Lillian Axe as a metal band. It's both rock and metal, for sure. Check out this old classic!

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xenon8247
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Location: Chicago
PostPosted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:24 pm 
 

Steel Panther is the absolute pinnacle of this niche, even their most accessible songs are fucking impossible to play

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