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The point is simple.
Which, according to you, is the band that has undergone the most changes in style and writing throughout their entire career? From their first CD to the last.
Also, I'm NOT talking about changing members, a band can actually change it's entire line-up and still sound fairly similar to what it used to be.

The example I'm citing here is Dark Moor
Guitar player has remained constant, but the entire line-up went through a lot of changes in the early 2000's which include a vocalist-second guitar-drummer-keyboardist change.
However, even after that change, their style remained intact, it wasn't until they managed to attain a stable line-up that they started to change their style a lot.

Here's a list of their CD's and an example of a song from each

1.- Shadowland (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rjFqaoy7KM
2.- The Hall of Olden Dreams (2000)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZY9qyuXYgs
3.- The Gates of Oblivion (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZV7IXpaKKE
-This is where pretty much everyone left the band but the guitar and bass player-
4.- The Dark Moor (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVO5pWPu6O4
5.- Beyond the sea (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrjaBEG69E4
-STABLE LINE-UP STARTS HERE-
6.- Tarot (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZgEfQhSpBY
7.- Autumnal (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHPWvAKzPE
8.- Ancestral Romance (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_zjSVmVjQ
9.- Ars Musica (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgRvvVCQGU
10.- Project X (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjWoK1IEeYw
11.- Origins (2018, upcoming) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuOFArN15Ls

Sure as hell there are bands that changed a lot more, I'm just sharing this because this is my second favorite band after DT :biggrin:
Still, I'd like to add that this "change" has upset a lot of fans since at least Ancestral Romance. Also, another note, these songs where picked at random, I actually recommend a lot hearing the albums to get a better a idea, but I think this should work just fine.

Please tell me other examples, I'll be reading/listening!
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2018, 12:46:32 PM »
Katatonia, Opeth and The Gathering are the first ones that come to mind for me.
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2018, 12:51:04 PM »
Hi Ulver

Anathema also definitely counts

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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2018, 12:53:07 PM »
Sentenced - from pure death metal to melodic/folk death metal to gothic/hard rock/metal. 


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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2018, 12:55:51 PM »
Therion - starting as black / death metal, ended up symphonic
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2018, 12:58:59 PM »
Anathema, Amorphis, Sonata Arctica, Opeth...
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2018, 12:59:23 PM »
I can't speak to the bands mentioned in the op.  But as far as bands people have actually heard of, a few that come to mind would be:

-Ministry:  Went from new wave to industrial metal
-Pantera:  Went from hair metal to more brutal metal

I'm sure I could come up with others, given time.  You can kind of make the argument for bands like Metallica, but I'm not sure that really qualifies for the type of drastic shift this thread is talking about.
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2018, 01:02:00 PM »
I can't speak to the bands mentioned in the op.  But as far as bands people have actually heard of, a few that come to mind would be:

-Ministry:  Went from new wave to industrial metal
-Pantera:  Went from hair metal to more brutal metal

I'm sure I could come up with others, given time.  You can kind of make the argument for bands like Metallica, but I'm not sure that really qualifies for the type of drastic shift this thread is talking about.

Metallica has tried some other sounds thoughout their time but they kind of always seek to return to their usual sound, and is not an actual shift in tne.
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2018, 01:08:14 PM »
I think of AFI, who aren't metal or prog so most here probably don't know their music. It seems their sound changes every 2 albums. And they currently sound nothing like anything from their first three albums.

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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2018, 01:14:55 PM »
I can't speak to the bands mentioned in the op.  But as far as bands people have actually heard of, a few that come to mind would be:

Well the only band he mentioned was Dark Moor and I've heard more people talk about Dark Moor than I've ever heard people talk about Ministry. They're actually pretty popular and well known in the metal world
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2018, 01:16:14 PM »
I've heard more people talk about Dark Moor than I've ever heard people talk about Ministry.

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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2018, 01:17:52 PM »
The Beatles and Queen
...going along with Dragon Attack's Queen thread has been like taking a free class in Queen knowledge. Where else are you gonna find info like that?!

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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2018, 01:24:29 PM »
In Flames.
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« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2018, 01:32:06 PM »
Edit - you know, it's not worth it.
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2018, 01:35:37 PM »
Actually yes, Bosk thought I was speaking of several bands, but not, it's actually a single band which people have indeed heard of.
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« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2018, 01:36:42 PM »
Actually yes, Bosk thought I was speaking of several bands, but not, it's actually a single band which people have indeed heard of.

Huh! Good for you!!!11

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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2018, 01:37:17 PM »
Actually yes, Bosk thought I was speaking of several bands, but not, it's actually a single band which people have indeed heard of.

Huh! Good for you!!!11

 :yeahright

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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2018, 01:39:51 PM »
Actually yes, Bosk thought I was speaking of several bands, but not, it's actually a single band which people have indeed heard of.

Huh! Good for you!!!11

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I'm defending you dude, wtf

I know. I'm mocking bosk.  :lol
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« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2018, 01:42:37 PM »
Funny (except not). 

Now let's get the thread back on topic.  Darkstarshades understood my point (although, apparently, *I* misunderstood that the original post was about only one band--I was skimming quickly and misread, and thought those album titles were other bands).
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« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2018, 02:02:39 PM »
Jeeze. Relax.  :lol
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2018, 02:14:52 PM »
I've never heard of Dark Moor.  I would have thought Ministry would be more well known, but just speculating.
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Re: Bands that have changed a lot throughout their career (musically speaking)
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2018, 02:30:13 PM »
let's add:

Ulver
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« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2018, 02:33:23 PM »
I already added Ulver but I mean yeah they're basically impossible to top in this regard  :P
When you go from making black metal to chill electronic to synth pop with some various other things in between, yeah

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« Reply #24 on: November 19, 2018, 02:40:50 PM »
I think Ulver wins mostly because they've reached a point where they could make a new album in just about any music style out there and nobody would be surprised. They would just say "yeah, this is Ulver". Another one would be Kayo Dot, having gone from avant-garde metal to whatever you want to call their last album (synthwave?), personally I love all of it. There's a lot of other good picks like Radiohead, Anathema, The Cure, Swans, Neurosis or King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard as well.

There's a lot of bands who have kinda transitioned from one thing to another (like Anathema/Opeth) but few that have gone through several different phases (Kayo Dot/The Cure/Swans) just as examples.

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« Reply #25 on: November 19, 2018, 03:01:22 PM »
Hi Ulver

Anathema also definitely counts
These were the ones I thought of as well, plus Opeth.

And yeah Ulver is pretty much the winner at this. They were already winning at it after, like, two or three albums.

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« Reply #26 on: November 19, 2018, 03:04:00 PM »
It took them five to release Perdition City, not counting EPs and soundtracks
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« Reply #27 on: November 19, 2018, 03:14:14 PM »
It took them five to release Perdition City, not counting EPs and soundtracks
Sure, but by that point they'd already had their first album be black metal and second album be acoustic folk. :lol

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« Reply #28 on: November 19, 2018, 03:28:12 PM »
That’s not really true. The first is more folk-metal influenced than black metal. The third is all-out black metal.
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« Reply #29 on: November 19, 2018, 03:29:12 PM »
I think their first three albums are all black metal though different flavors of such

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« Reply #30 on: November 19, 2018, 03:38:16 PM »
I have honestly seen the word Ulver more times in this single thread than in any other place in my life combined. Who is this Ulver? is it Mulva's brother?



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« Reply #31 on: November 19, 2018, 03:39:56 PM »
The Gathering are a good choice here.

Within Temptation have also changed a whole lot (and not really for the better).

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« Reply #32 on: November 19, 2018, 03:50:35 PM »
I think their first three albums are all black metal though different flavors of such

My point was that I don’t thinl they really ‘changed’ their style until Perdition City, so I think we agree. Themes (their never spoken about fourth album which is absolutely brilliant) is also more ‘metal’ than all their latter output combined, although you can lready hear some of the experimental stuff in there, so that’s why I took Perdition City as the first shift in style.
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« Reply #33 on: November 19, 2018, 03:59:27 PM »
I was coming here to say Pantera but I knew that was an obvious one!

I'll say RX Bandits, they went from straight up ska punk to a kinda space/prog rock. Their sound has changed a lot.

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« Reply #34 on: November 19, 2018, 04:18:09 PM »
How did we get to this point of the thread and not mentioned Rush, unless it is way too obvious?  Unless going from Canadian Zeppelin to incorporating prog and sci-fi themes in their music to new wave and synths to going Adult Contemporary (and your mileage will vary if you think Counterparts is their way of trying to go Grunge) to adapting with the modern times in their last three albums does not count as changing a lot?  Though I guess one may argue that they have maintained that hard rock sound, but twists and approaches it in many ways throughout their career.
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