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Hello, I'm Gianni from Padua (Italy). I'm 26 years old and I listen metal since I was 14. I love avant-garde, death,black and progressive metal and some of my favorite band are: Septicflesh, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, Korn, Meshuggah, Celtic frost, Sentenced, Triptykon, Synphony X I also listen to classical music and Progresive Rock (PFM, Banco del muto soccorso :P ) ...and another thing... sorry for my english... the main reason why I joined the forum is regain confidence with the English language :P :P :P

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Welcome Gangrel! We have a couple of Italians now I think. 12 years of Metal is a good figure. :-) Nice band list, a few of my faves. I too listen to classical music. Especially when I need to concentrate and when I am coding harder stuff. This should be a cool place to work on your English, you'll find us to be a pleasant sort and we'll help you along. You are very welcome here.

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Ciao Gianni! I am also new here :) Don't worry about your English, a lot of people would be proud to speak two languages. I LOVE Septic Flesh \m/ It's cool you like Korn too because I feel like metalheads give them so much hate! Life is Peachy is a good album :) Nice to see some classical music fans in too - big fan myself!

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I love avant-garde' date=' death,black and progressive metal[/quote'] Another prog head! And avant-garde to boot! Excellent.:D It's been very lonely here in Prog Corner. I might recommend Blut Aus Nord or Sigh if you haven't heard them already.
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Another prog head! And avant-garde to boot! Excellent.:D It's been very lonely here in Prog Corner. I might recommend Blut Aus Nord or Sigh if you haven't heard them already.
Iceni - maybe you can introduce me to some Avant Garde and Prog - two genres I have very little exposure to!
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Iceni - maybe you can introduce me to some Avant Garde and Prog - two genres I have very little exposure to!
RelentlessOblivion started threads in most of the genre sections seeking recommendations, and I have responded to them with video links. There have been other responses as well, but I feel the videos take the leg work out of it. Can't remember the name of the thread for prog/avant-garde though, maybe somebody else remembers. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I could hug you for recommending those bands' date=' two of my favorites.[/quote'] They're the only two avant-garde black metal bands I could think of...while we're on the subject, are there any other Sigh albums that sound like Imaginary Soniscape? Their latest stuff seems a bit mixed to me and I really didn't like Songs From Hell.
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RelentlessOblivion started threads in most of the genre sections seeking recommendations, and I have responded to them with video links. There have been other responses as well, but I feel the videos take the leg work out of it. Can't remember the name of the thread for prog/avant-garde though, maybe somebody else remembers. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Thanks BlutAusNerd, will definitely go check it out \m/
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They're the only two avant-garde black metal bands I could think of...while we're on the subject' date=' are there any other Sigh albums that sound like Imaginary Soniscape? Their latest stuff seems a bit mixed to me and I really didn't like Songs From Hell.[/quote'] Gallows Gallery is similar in some ways, but not as good IMO. Scenario IV: Dread Dreams is when they really started to get get weird, and while it's not as 70's sounding as Imaginary Sonicscape, you'd probably still like it. I don't have either of their newest album, but Hangman's Hymn would probably also suit you well.
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