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i'm looking for any good dark synth pop bands/groups/artists...

something similar to the beginning of this:

oh, sleeper - "reveries of flight"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oq_eu3Kupc

or like this songs:

thrice - "red sky"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNX5f8bwJGs

thrice - "digital sea"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGksTR7ghYI

Q1: i love korn's old stuff especially the songs with bagpipes. swiss folk metal band eluveitie uses it quite a bit also. i like them too. any other good bands that use bagpipes?

Q2: i just made a playlist for rlly good instrumentals with emphasis on acoustic guitars, but i only have in flames - "acoustic medley", of course, "whoracle", and "the jester's dance", also volumes - "gateways". i know eluveitie might have some too, but i'll get to them in a bit. i just wanna know some other songs that fit along the lines of those in flames songs too. any ideas?

technical AND chaotic BUT NOT progressive (the human abstract, protest the hero, btbam), because i'm looking for mainly disorganized sound. basically bands similar to cyclamen, sikth, the arusha accord, tony danza tapdance extravaganza, within the ruins.

cyclamen (the first minute is mainly what i'm looking for):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRNQC7MWwY

the arusha accord:

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

I ONLY like the first half of this song, but i can't seem to find a band that just plays like that entirely, only incorporate into their style. i rlly don't like the screamo singing, but just the music (ONLY the first half of the song).

cyclamen - never ending dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRNQC7MWwY

i know it's kinda mathcore BUT i've alrdy checked out bands of that genre like dillinger escape plan and botch, and that's not what i want. i do NOT JUST want that fast, heavy, chaotic sound, i rlly want that disorganized sound with the insane sweeping like in the first half of the video given.

BASICALLY, i want something kinda like this...

the arush accord - dead to me

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

that sound that the music is all over the place and disorganized sounding, NOT the aspect that kinda makes them sound like architects (uk).

bands i alrdy like: the human abstract, protest the hero, after the burial, tony danza tapdance extravaganza, august burns red

bands i'm iffy about: within the ruins, wretched, between the buried and me, sikth, psyopus

bands i don't like: dillinger escape plan, botch, converge, beneath the massacre

I ONLY like the first half of this song, but i can't seem to find a band that just plays like that entirely, only incorporate into their style. i rlly don't like the screamo singing, but just the music (ONLY the first half of the song).

cyclamen - never ending dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRNQC7MWwY

i know it's kinda mathcore BUT i've alrdy checked out bands of that genre like dillinger escape plan and botch, and that's not what i want. i do NOT JUST want that fast, heavy, chaotic sound, i rlly want that disorganized sound with the insane sweeping like in the first half of the video given.

i like the fast, bass-heavy, dirty beats. i hate the slow stuff cuz it's boring. i've found on pandora Ed Solo, Caspa, Sukh Knight, Skream, and Nero, but idk if they're worth getting their albums. and who else actually is??

i like the fast, bass-heavy, dirty beats. i hate the slow stuff cuz it's boring. i've found on pandora Ed Solo, Caspa, Sukh Knight, Skream, and Nero, but idk if they're worth getting their albums. and who else actually is??

i rlly want a technical metal or math metal band (notice NO MATHCORE, i.e. dillinger escape plan, botch, daughters, etc.) that might have within the ruins' technicality with their stop-and-go riffs but not their generic metalcore sound, and with the human abstract's math metal-influenced technical metal sound plus their krazy sweeping too. basically, i want a band like protest the hero BUT MINUS that post-hardcore singing. i've been looking for quite sometime now with no luck. pls help!!!

"djent" being the meshuggah sound. i've found a couple, xerath (perfect, but too symphonic), vildhjarta, periphery, textures, mnemonic, etc. but they're either too soft or instrumental, and i don't want clean vox either. i would be just fine with meshuggah, but they can be quite repetitive and kinda slow. pls help!!!

Porcupine Tree - "Time Flies"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8jm61vk2Ao

i kinda like them but they're just so different. but i only rlly love this song. i rlly wanna find other bands or artists just like this. all i've found is opeth's "damnation" album. pls help!!

i'm rlly looking for metal song(s)/band(s) like The Haunted - "No Compromise". PLEASE NO OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL, BLACK METAL, OLD SCHOOL THRASH METAL, POWER METAL, DEATHCORE OR METALCORE!!! try to keep it no older than the late 90's, face paced (NOT on hyperspeed) and at least a lil bit comprehensible. basically, exactly like The Haunted - "No Compromise". here's a link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1LBADDICk

i'm rlly looking for metal song(s)/band(s) like The Haunted - "No Compromise". PLEASE NO OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL, BLACK METAL, OLD SCHOOL THRASH METAL, DEATHCORE OR METALCORE!!! try to keep it no older than the late 90's, face paced (NOT on crack fast) and at least a lil bit comprehensible. basically, exactly like The Haunted - "No Compromise". here's a link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1LBADDICk

PERFECT example of what i'm looking for is

The Haunted - "No Compromise"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1LBADDICk

i don't want anything death metal, deathcore or death anything or anything-core. i just want GOOD metal that's fast paced and comprehensible too. i don't like but i'm opened minded to thrash metal. but please, something no older than the 90's. a perfect example of what i'm looking for is The Haunted - "No Comprise", they WOULD b perfect for what i'm looking for but they have alotta weird slower songs and only a couple of fast ones like that one. any others??

MAIN stage:

korn

rob zombie

lamb of god

five finger death punch

MAYHEM stage (replacing hot topic stage):

atreyu

norma jean

in this moment

3 inches of blood

JAGERMEISTER stage:

hatebreed

chimaira

shadows fall

winds of plague

MY thoughts are: it's just the same crap as every yr. VRY different subgenres of metal all packed into one great festival. a few i like/love (LOG, atreyu, shads & hatebreed), a few i don't mind (korn, zombie, chimaira & winds of plague) and a few that i rlly don't care for (everyone else), as usual.

anyone have any thoughts/feelings/comments on the swedish melodic death metal band, In Flames?

MY thoughts: they get alot bashing about them selling out and being to americanized on the last album "a sense of purpose". i still think that they're still melodic death metal BUT they have changed gradually since reroute to remain into becoming kinda like alternative metal (BUT STILL metal) with melodeath influences. they have kinda lost the original gothenburg sound but i still love them and i think they're still great.

MY fav albums: jester's race, clayman (1st fav and greatest IMO), reroute to remain, come clarity and soundtrack to your escape

linkin park - "cure for the itch" and "session" which both r mr. hahn's solo songs. i basically just want turntablism of that style. NO hip hop!!

a. lactose

b. oxalates

c. pregnancy

d. stomach acid

i don't mean by the means of taking out air, i literally mean how do you shrink a balloon? i've heard if you microwave it, it shrinks.