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I don't know if its the "official" term, but we've heard songs that have two lead guitarists playing the same solo at the same time in different scales. This happens mostly in metal songs (I don't know if it's been done in non-metal songs). Anyway, this thread is about songs with really well executed "twin harmonious guitars" (what I call it, lol).
Iron Maiden does this in almost all of their songs, it's good stuff!
Death - Voice of the Soul is a song that executes it beautifully!
Opeth is also very good with this. Ending Credits is an amazing song by them that has this technique kick in later in the song.
Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy.
That will be all.
Det_Nosnip
02-26-2006, 10:33 PM
Dark Tranquillity are pretty amazing.
Opeth - for the style you're looking for, listen to the Morningrise and Orchid albums.
Nevermore - alot of complex harmonies.
Arch Enemy - decent stuff.
Drunken Viking
02-26-2006, 10:35 PM
Avenged Sevenfold on when they do it on Waking The Fallen and City Of Evil it sounds kinda cool. Trivium aswell.
NymphetamineX
02-26-2006, 10:41 PM
Avenged Sevenfold ftw. Waking the Fallen has been known to kill people for it's sheer awesometacity.
PinkFreud
02-26-2006, 10:45 PM
the allman brothers do it the best. no lies.
YDload
02-27-2006, 01:01 AM
well technically i guess Dragonforce does it the "best," as in both guitarists can play insanely fast solos in coordination with each other.
but that doesnt mean bands like Maiden or Priest or even BOC aren't fun to listen to!
Moses
02-27-2006, 01:15 AM
well technically i guess Dragonforce does it the "best," as in both guitarists can play insanely fast solos in coordination with each other.
Dragonforce sticks with alot of the same harmonies though and hardly ever brings anything unorthodox to the table. It's really fast but not complex at all.
Threadstarter, listen to Dryad of the Woods by Pain of Salvation for some good acoustic harmony work. The guitars aren't actually playing parallel melodies like most guitar harmonies today.
I'm Charming
02-27-2006, 01:21 AM
I'd like to give the prize to Dragonforce.
In Flames has some great harmonies on their earlier works.
Bach is the best for this kind of thing. Check out the Two-Part Inventions. Best twin-part counterpoint ever devised.
It won't be guitars, but by God, it's something to live up to.
Moses
02-27-2006, 01:28 AM
Bach is the best for this kind of thing. Check out the Two-Part Inventions. Best twin-part counterpoint ever devised.
It won't be guitars, but by God, it's something to live up to.
Yeah, it said guitars so that was the main reason I didn't mention Bach. There's so much genius in Bach that I really can't appreciate because everyone plays his music in a bland manner.
Apocalyptic Raids
02-27-2006, 01:31 AM
Judas Priest.
Just listen to Starbreaker
...*drool*
I'm Charming
02-27-2006, 02:53 AM
Bach is the best for this kind of thing. Check out the Two-Part Inventions. Best twin-part counterpoint ever devised.
It won't be guitars, but by God, it's something to live up to.
Well Alexi and Roope played Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" in the passage to the reaper video.
That was really good.
Matt?
02-27-2006, 02:55 AM
Bach is the best for this kind of thing. Check out the Two-Part Inventions. Best twin-part counterpoint ever devised.
It won't be guitars, but by God, it's something to live up to.
bach isn't a band
StreetlightRock
02-27-2006, 03:37 AM
Mastadon and X-Japan spring to mind, apart from all those mentioned.
I'm Charming
02-27-2006, 04:45 AM
bach isn't a band
No. Only a legedary composer.
Darth Sidious
02-27-2006, 05:00 AM
Most gothenburg bands spring to mind....
Arucard
02-27-2006, 07:56 AM
Ark Storm.
Black Dahlia Murder.
gateway
02-27-2006, 08:12 AM
Thin Lizzy
sean2332
03-02-2006, 12:47 PM
so many bands do the ghost riff thing, but only a few can do the solo thing.......
Shattered_Future
03-02-2006, 12:49 PM
Blind Guardian has some crazy as hell harmonies at points.
Dark Tranquillity gets my vote though, they harmonize almost EVERYTHING.
Opeth - Morningrise and Orchid. (Albums)
BassMasterMike88
03-02-2006, 01:44 PM
Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are obvious.
The gothenburg big names do a pretty mean double harmonious lead guitars.
(e.g. Opeth, Children of Bodom, In Flames)
i am the robots
03-02-2006, 01:48 PM
Children Of Bodom and Opeth aren't Gothenburg.
Killswitch Engage and Dark Tranquillity come to mind.
Mazeppa
03-02-2006, 01:48 PM
Bach is the best for this kind of thing. Check out the Two-Part Inventions. Best twin-part counterpoint ever devised.
It won't be guitars, but by God, it's something to live up to.
Thank you.
Also, Cacophony springs to mind.
Flynn
03-02-2006, 06:36 PM
Fragments Of Unbecoming have really nice twin harmonies.
Dragonforce and Opeth were the first two bands to come to mind. Iced Earth also does some decent stuff from time to time, and the same goes with Children of Bodom. Oh yeah, Mastodon too. :)
^Dream~Theater^
03-02-2006, 06:41 PM
Dragonforce sticks with alot of the same harmonies though and hardly ever brings anything unorthodox to the table. It's really fast but not complex at all.
Threadstarter, listen to Dryad of the Woods by Pain of Salvation for some good acoustic harmony work. The guitars aren't actually playing parallel melodies like most guitar harmonies today.
Not complex at all? Care to post a recording of you playing some of their solo's? There insanely hard to execute and some of the sounds they seem to get out of their guitars is godlike imo. Eleventeen...KsE has awful guitarists that play awful riffs, I dont know why you see them as a good band with good leads in any form but thats just me dude.
Nepenthe
03-02-2006, 06:47 PM
Helloween ftw on this one.
Invicta_Veritas
03-02-2006, 06:56 PM
Arch enemy (before chris amott left)
Scuba_Steve
03-02-2006, 07:58 PM
Trivium= my favorite, I like how most of the time you can tell who is playing what by the style/tone.
paranoid923
03-02-2006, 09:18 PM
Into Eternity seems to do that alot. The intro on Splintered Visions has some really cool sweeping harmonies. Also, check out the solo in Land of Immortals by Rhapsody. I think that has one guitarist alt pick and the other sweep pick at the same time.
Concubine
03-02-2006, 10:06 PM
Arch Enemy...
Iron Bars
03-03-2006, 07:08 AM
Into Eternity seems to do that alot. The intro on Splintered Visions has some really cool sweeping harmonies. Also, check out the solo in Land of Immortals by Rhapsody. I think that has one guitarist alt pick and the other sweep pick at the same time.
I listened to that for the first time and I went totally silent just because of the sheer beauty of it. Great album for technical guitarwork.
Also the cool thing about Dragonforce is that besides the double guitar attack there is also a keyboard rambling along with it.
Sleepy
03-03-2006, 09:32 AM
The Black Dahlia Murder - Dave Goes to Hollywood
Catamenia - Iced Over
Autumn Leaves - Revolution 21
Dark Tranquillity - Punish My Heaven
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - The Seventh Eclipse
Helloween - Murderer
In Flames - Moonshield
Kalmah - Swamphell
Symphony X - Evolution (The Grand Design)
Warblade - The End Unleashed At Dawn
I think all those songs have what you are looking for :)
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