Music recommendations? (Asking about a specific band.)

[cupcake_goth]

Look, everyone knows I have a tragic weakness for bombast. This is not a secret. Give me power chords and overwrought lyrics with gothy clichés^* and I will be gleeful.

With that disclaimer out of the way: One of the munchkins over on the Emilie Autumn forum asked me if I had ever heard the song "Jillian" by Within Temptation. Er, no? I said, but checked it out on iTunes. I liked it enough to investigate more by the band. Do any of you listen to them? Or have suggestions for bands like them?




^*Bands I would list in the "Bombast!" category include the Sisters Of Mercy, Queensryche (especially the Rage For Order album), HIM (yes, I own a lot of music by them, and grin whenever I listen to any of it), and Autumn Tears. My Chemical Romance would almost be placed in the "Bombast!" category (especially The Black Parade), but are a little too ... punk-influenced to be strictly Bombast kids.

Comments

[deadrose.livejournal.com]

were I you, I'd head to Last.fm and start plugging in tags to see what comes up. Symphonic metal, folk metal, goth metal, and of course bombast. It'll play you stuff, find a song you like, click to the band station and it will play you similar material as well as that band. Or you could just start with the Nightwish station and go from there. I've discovered quite a few bands I really like that way. I've also played with tags like 'haunting', 'janglepop', and 'melancholy' to find more interesting things, depending on my mood at the moment.