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PengPeng
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:44 am 
 

I'm looking for bombastic, triumphant and fanfare-like synth stuff, just like it is often found as intro stuff on various BM albums. Best examples for the style I'm looking for would be Bal Sagoth's "Battle Magic" and "Black Dragons soar...", but also some parts used in more metallic Bal S. songs.
What I "want" is not only intro stuff but if possible complete albums in that style. It would also be ok if metal stuff (as long as it's NOT that baroque shit like Rhapsody or Children OF Bodom ) is included but it's not a must...

This is what I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lSjy5nlOfk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZ1upBaDYI

and in this one the great marching part beginning at about 04:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq3g_nRHGyo

The only band coming to my mind is MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE but there must be more, right?
Oh, of course I know I could find mor of this in various soundtracks but most soundtracks I found only have two or three remarkable songs while the others are too related to specific movie scenes...

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Diamhea
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:43 am 
 

Fairyland?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GweiBjHJpOQ


Check that track out, it isn't really so much Baroque like Rhapsody...although somewhat similar. It is however extremely epic and brimming with cheesy keyboards.
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Arannya
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:55 am 
 

Tell me what you think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaCLWt0EVUM
How about a little bit of Victory Fanfare from the Final Fantasy series, hehe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glu5wr5LRm4

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Rottenrectum
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:38 pm 
 

I think you'd be best off looking through fantasy video game soundtracks.
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Braltika
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:08 pm 
 

It might be a bit far fetched, but Nazgul from Italy has some awesome and epic synth-powered black metal. It has touches of folk but some songs have those empowering epic trumpets that almost make you cream your pants.

One fine example of this would be the song 'In Summis Montibus' which you can hear here (be mindful of the shitty Youtube quality as it does no justice to the nice keyboards):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwAqhkklMmc (check parts 0:22 to 0:56 and ESPECIALY from 2:28 to te end)

The vocals might be a turn off but they are original and sound very Ork-like. The song 'Bellum (Humanes Resistentes Superavit)' has epic trumpets too.

You probably know Summoning already but maybe certain songs, although slow to medium paced, might be up your alley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG7EVvH6TzQ Menegroth for example has some awesome trumpets...as do many of their other songs.

This instrumental also has a nice fanfare/marching theme going on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkd3F4g-Bgg (Obsidian Gate - Dux Bellorum)

And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHCDb-3Kxs (Tanker Mot Tind (Kvelding) by Borknagar

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Thebom
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:24 pm 
 

I think Turisas is very much want you need. Pretty similar to Bal-Sagoth musically, but with clean vocals and (mostly) without the spoken word parts.
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PengPeng
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:32 am 
 

thanks for the recs so far...

FAIRYLAND - great! I love this ultra-cheesey synth stuff. will chekc them out more closely :-)

QUEEN (innuendo) - nice track with some great parts in it

FF Victory Fanfare - great beginning, but the rest is a bit too high-pitched bleep drenched ;-)

NAZGUL and SUMMONING are well known to me, while Summoning is great, the vocals in Nazgul stuff ruin the good synth work in my ears

The stuff by OBSIDIAN GATE and BORKNAGAR is also great (both bands are already known)

TURISAS is also not new to me. While I like their first album Battle Metal quite a lot, their later stuff isn't my cup of tea... Though I like "cheesey" stuff this is just too annoying...

I guess I really should try out video game scores. Any recs for this direction? I guess like many girls I've never been that much into this hobby... ;-)

Further I take any more recs for synth drenched cheesey fanfare like stuff (full albums very welcome ;-) )

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samekh
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:36 pm 
 

PengPeng wrote:
I guess I really should try out video game scores. Any recs for this direction? I guess like many girls I've never been that much into this hobby... ;-)


Personally, I would recommend any of the video game scores by Jeremy Soule. Total Annihilation is one of his earliest and has some great, triumphant battle music.

Some of his later soundtracks that are very good are The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Neverwinter Nights, etc.

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Chaosmonger
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:51 pm 
 

Oxiplegatz?

Also, not metal and not cheesy, but Tangerine Dream's "Atem" starts with an epic fanfare.

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greenandblack
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:49 pm 
 

You might check out L'Ordre du Temple- Summoning-influenced black metal that's very heavy on the triumphant synth-fanfare sound. IMO, they're the best Summoning-worship band I've heard, probably because they aren't just a straight-up clone- L'Ordre du Temple has a "medieval" sound that's rather different from Summoning.

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Acidgoblin
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:28 pm 
 

greenandblack wrote:
You might check out L'Ordre du Temple- Summoning-influenced black metal that's very heavy on the triumphant synth-fanfare sound. IMO, they're the best Summoning-worship band I've heard, probably because they aren't just a straight-up clone- L'Ordre du Temple has a "medieval" sound that's rather different from Summoning.


YES!! Thankyou for recommendng these (sorry to OP for stealing reccomendations). I've never heard these guys, but love Summoning- these guys actually seem better to me. Heart wrenching and majestic. THANKYOU :):)

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PengPeng
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:40 am 
 

Thanks for the further recommendations. Yesterday I listened to the tracks from the videogame music composer Jeremy Soule on LastFM. Definitely some good pieces to be found! Maybe not that catchy and remindeable as I had hoped but maybe I just have to listen more often to these tracks.
As I'm on work right now *sigh* I will check out L'Ordre du Temple (sounds highly interesting!!!) and Oxiplegatz later the day. Oh - and I'm a big fan of Tangerien Dream already ;-)

Oh, and for the readers also interested in this music - found a rec myself ;-) . So - chekc out the elder albums from GAE BOLG & THE CHURCH OF FAND - veeeeeeeery bombastic fanfaric stuff!

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Acidgoblin
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:15 am 
 

Sear Bliss probably fit the bill, more later stuff though- nice trombone and trumpets (real too)....forgot about these guys...:)

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Smoking_Gnu
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:52 pm 
 

If bombastic synths are what you want, Thyrfing's entire "Valdr Galga" CD is a must. Check out "From the Wilderness Came Death"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mp4RF8-phM

The rest of the album follows suit.
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PengPeng
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:25 am 
 

Thanks so far for all your recs! I spent the last days looking out for those stuff on youtube, myspace and lastFM.
Though most of them didn't exactly fit my research (as most of them mostly came out of metal genres with additional keys and not vice versa) there were some nice bands to discover.

The most fitting rec being pointing me towards the Videogamescores of Jeremy Soule.

I personally also found a rec for myself I could share with you:
NOX ARCANA, a band making dark and eerie synthie/string soundscapes and on two albums becoming really bombastic. Maybe one of you also likes them...

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