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Offline Liampie

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(Synth) Pop Metal
« on: January 16, 2015, 08:37:25 AM »
edit: This topic is now about all pop metal.

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Someone sent me this video a few days ago, Touch in the Night by Battle Beast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSmON-pcpA

Everything puts me off about that band. The name, the artwork, the horrible lyrics... But the song! I love 80's synthpop and I love the energy in power metal. Battle Beast nailed the synth pop sound here, even the vocals in the verses. This song is fucking fantastic and I want more.  :hefdaddy Sadly, it seems this song was a special occassion for Battle Beast. All their other songs are shitty stereotypical power metal.

Is anyone aware of similar 80's synth pop metal music? Songs, albums, artists... You name it. Anything, anyone?
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Re: Synth Pop Metal - Is there any outside this ridiculously awesome song?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 08:41:47 AM »
You mean...you don't like Black Ninja??
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Re: Synth Pop Metal - Is there any outside this ridiculously awesome song?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 08:43:47 AM »
^ Yeah, Black Ninja is f'ing incredible.
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Re: Synth Pop Metal - Is there any outside this ridiculously awesome song?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2015, 08:56:00 AM »
Ironically incredible?

Check out Amaranthe. Pop Metal at its finest. They do contain growls though.
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Offline Liampie

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Re: Synth Pop Metal - Is there any outside this ridiculously awesome song?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2015, 09:08:59 AM »
I've heard a few Amaranthe songs. Pop metal is an amazing idea, but I don't like their style. The songs are littered with unnecessary double basses, aggressive guitar riffing and death metal vocals. They have this wannabe badass attitude vibe like too many metal bands, trying to look and sound tough... Damn shame. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I think scattered over a his last few albums, Devin Townsend made a couple of way superior radio friendly pop/metal/popmetal songs. Ih-Ah!, Juno, Where We Belong, Save Our Now, Heatwave, Fallout, Silent Militia, among others...

Aside from that, I think Alestorm is the closest to party music I know in metal. Hangover is a pop cover, and Magnetic North apparantly is a deliberate Lady Gaga ripoff just so Bowes could make this mindblowing mashup video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKF2oc9h3o4


So yeah, there's pop metal to be found here and there. Synth pop metal though? Much rarer it seems.
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Re: Synth Pop Metal - Is there any outside this ridiculously awesome song?
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 09:17:49 AM »
Im in the Amaranthe and Devin Townsend boat for this.  Im a fan of this genre of music as well and would like to know of more music like this.
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Re: (Synth) Pop Metal
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2015, 09:33:29 AM »
Vanilla Ninja are about the only "band" I can think of. See: Liar and Tough Enough for reference.
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Re: (Synth) Pop Metal
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2015, 09:39:38 AM »
Alright, this topic is now about pop metal in general. If more replies and suggestions are coming, I'll keep a list in the opening post.

So to kick this thing off here's some more poppy metal songs/things that I know of.

- Jolly, definitely Jolly. Joy is very radio friendly
- Splen, Alestorm's Christopher Bowes' pre-Alestorm 'make weird music in my spare time' project is fucking amazing. Synth pop and metal influences. I recommend this album: https://splen.co.uk/album/songs-for-children-to-sing
- asdfgfa is Splen's successor, though I'm not sure if it fits the metal tag anymore. NASA is a cool Splen remake. Shotgun in the Bum hasn't got anything to do with metal but is worth a mention as well.
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Re: (Synth) Pop Metal
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2015, 12:24:10 PM »
Destiny Potato is my fav djent-pop band - it even has female vocals.
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Re: (Synth) Pop Metal
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2015, 01:02:25 PM »
Quote from: Sacul on January 16, 2015, 12:24:10 PM
Destino Potato is my fav djent-pop band - it even has female vocals.

I'll give a big second to these guys, awesome album. Another solid band with a killer female lead would be 13.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4uJQ4MPd0g
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Re: (Synth) Pop Metal
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2015, 01:57:29 AM »
Symbol of Life by Paradise Lost is a great pop metal album - if Erased doesn't get stuck in your head, then nothing will. :P
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