Your dream metal band(s)

You probably all know the drill. You don't need to assign genres like I do.

Really heavy progressive metal:

Vocals/Guitars: Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth)
Vocals/Guitars: Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, solo stuff)
Bass: Cygnus (Ne Obliviscaris)
Keyboards: Michal Lapaj (Riverside)
Drums: Ed Warby (Gorefest, Ayreon)

Melodic death:

Vocals: Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity)
Guitars: Ville Friman (Insomnium)
Guitars: Peter Wichers (Soilwork)
Bass: Martin Henriksson (Dark Tranquillity)
Keyboards: Martin Brandstrom (Dark Tranquillity)
Drums: Frederik Andersson (Amon Amarth)

I'll post more later.

I had that cool doom/drone/experimental band with Björk singing... That would be great.



Here's one I'd like... An all-female psych-folk band.

Vocals/Violin	Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots)
Drums	Carla Azar (Autolux, check out the beat in this song)
Bass/Vocals	Molly McGuire (Mondo Generator, Yellow #5)

I know, they are not metal. But it's a dream band of mine.

This are some real dream bands for me. The change that it will ever happen is small, but it would be amazing if it would happen.

melodic death metal

Vocals: Johan Hegg (Amon Amarth)
Guitar/Vocals: Eike Freese (Dark Age)
Guitar: Jörn Schubert (Dark Age)
Bass: Ted Lundström (Amon Amarth)
Drum: Janne Saarenpää (The Crown)


black metal

Vocals: Gaahl ((The Force) Gorgoroth)
Guitar: James Tait (Meads Of Asphodel)
Guitar: Dark (Lord Belial)
Bass: ICS Vortex (Dimmu Borgir)
Drum: Hellhammer

Vocals: Tommy Rogers
Lead Guitar: Paul Waggoner
Rhythym Guitar: Dusty Waring
Bass: Dan Briggs
Drums: Blake Richardson
Hype-Man: Flavor Flav

vocals: Paul Baloff
guitar: Jeff Waters and
Robb Flynn
drummer:
Dave Lombardo
bass: Tom Angelripper (he would help on vocals to.)

This would be an intressting band right.

My Dream Thrash Band:

Vocals: Cronos (Venom)
Guitars: Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
Guitars: Jeff Waters (Annihilator)
Bass: Tom Angelripper (Sodom)
Drums: Tom Hunting (Exodus)

Copied from the other forum with some minor changes:

Grim vocals: Hoest (Taake, Ragnarok)
Clean vocals: Garm (Ulver, Arcturus, Borknagar, Head Control System)
Guitar 1: Jari Mäenpää (Wintersun, Ensiferum)
Guitar 2: Astennu (Covenant, Dimmu Borgir, Carpe Tenebrum)
Those two are both allowed to open their mouths too.
Bass and additional vocals: Simen Hestnæs/ICS Vortex (Dimmu Borgir, Arcturus, Borknagar, Lamented Souls, Code)
Keyboards: Steinar "Sverd" Johnsen (Arcturus, Covenant)
Drums: Hellhammer (lots of bands, y'all know him I suppose )

They should make some kind of awesome proggy BM thing with little avant-garde influences.


Now something new: Ultimate Prog band

Clean/harsh vocals/Guitar: Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth, Bloodbath)
Clean vocals: King Diamond (Mercyful Fate)
Clean vocals/Guitar: Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon, Ambeon, Star One, Stream of Passion)
Bass: Brendan 'Cygnus' Brown (Ne Obliviscaris)
Drums: Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)

Vocals: Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, and chick from Art Bears
Guitar 1: Jandek
Guitar 2: Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha)
Guitar 3: Glenn Branca
Bass: dude from Pavor
Bass: Charles Mingus
Drums: Christian Vander (Magma)
Sax: Peter Brotzmann, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy
Flute: guy from Jethro Tull, Eric Dolphy (doubling on sax)
Piano: Cecial Taylor, Sun ra
Harry Partch and crew on all his various instruments

Melodic Industrial Death Metal with clean vocals

Vocals 1: Michael Poulsen (Volbeat)
Guitar 1: Skwisgaar Skwigelf (Dethklok)
Guitar 2 / Vocals 2: Rob Flynn (Machine Head)
Bass: Tomas Koefod (Mnemic)
Drums: Tim Yeung (Divine Heresy)

Anything with Jari Maenpaa on vocals and guitar is usually perfect

Thrash metal:

Vocals: Chuck Billy (Testament, doing the later-styled, more brutal vocals)
Guitars: Alex Skolnick (Testament)
Guitars: Chris Poland (ex-Megadeth
Bass: Cliff Burton (Metallica)
Drums: Gene Hoglan (Strapping Young Lad, Dark Angel)

Black metal:

Guitars/Vocals: Jon Nodtveidt (Dissection)
Guitars/Vocals: Neige (Peste Noir, Alcest, Amesoeurs)
Bass/Vocals: Either ICS Vortex (Dimmu Borgir) or Doris, Thunder Tears (Chthonic)
Keyboards/Vocals: Isahn (Emperor)
Drums: Frost (Satyricon, 1349)

My Sympho/Gothic/melodeath/

vocals: Floor Jansen (After Forever)
Vocals: Simone Simmons (Epica)
Vocals: Sabine Dunser
Vocals: Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy)
Guitars, Grunts: Mark Jansen (Epica)
Guitars: Jesper Gellott (In Flames)
Bass, Vocals: Marco Hietala (Tarot, Nightwish)
Keyboards: Toumas Holopainen (Nightwish)
Drums: Daniel Erlandsson (Arch Enemy)

vanguardjazz wrote:Vocals: Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, and chick from Art Bears
Guitar 1: Jandek
Guitar 2: Keiji Haino (Fushitsusha)
Guitar 3: Glenn Branca
Bass: dude from Pavor
Bass: Charles Mingus
Drums: Christian Vander (Magma)
Sax: Peter Brotzmann, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy
Flute: guy from Jethro Tull, Eric Dolphy (doubling on sax)
Piano: Cecial Taylor, Sun ra
Harry Partch and crew on all his various instruments

Wow - John Coltrane and Cecial Taylor - looking from some progressive jazz stuff huh?

That's pretty fuckin awesome cause Cecial Taylor is a fucking maniac on the piano. I prefer a classic like Thelonius Monk myself.

Vocals/various instruments	Smolken (Dead Raven Choir, Wolfmangler)
Vocals/violin	Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots, solo)
Drums	Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt)
Guitar, bass	James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher, KHLYST)

Mmmm, another sweet thing. Tribal drone-noise!!

A copy/paste from the old forum, I still think this would be an amazingly br00tal band

Guitar/Vocals: Nergal (Behemoth, ex-Damnation)
Guitar/Vocals: Helmuth (Belphegor, Betrayer)
Bass: Orion (Behemoth, Vesania (Pol), Neolithic)
Drum: Darkside (Crionics, Thy Disease, ex-Anal Stench, ex-Tromsnar, ex-Mournedge, Darzamat, Goderak)