Metal bands with high dynamic range

[Fernito]

Dear people,

Please I need you to help me finding metal bands that use no (or very little) compression.

Thanks in advance!

[Brandon Strader]

Compression can be super transparent in metal. So it can be hard to say. But I'd say Necrophagist's Epitaph album.. methinks.

[Fernito]

Hey Brandon!

Thanks, I'll check out that album.

[Omni-Psyence]

Try some thrash metal from the 80's like Dark Angel, Overkill or Kreator.

[Fernito]

Try some thrash metal from the 80's like Dark Angel, Overkill or Kreator.

Thanks, I'll be checking out those as well.

[Cyril the Wolf]

Pain of Salvation is pretty transparent in their use of compression.

and I <3 them

[Fernito]

Thanks for the recommendations.

All this comes because I'm having this discussion with a friend. He says metal can't sound "heavy" without compression, and I'm trying to prove he's wrong.

[Brandon Strader]

Pain of Salvation isn't metal. Their latest stuff is also really dirty :3

[Cyril the Wolf]

Pain of Salvation isn't metal. Their latest stuff is also really dirty :3

They are metal, and I am going by their older stuff.

(lets not get into a stupid argument of what is metal and what isn't PLEASE)

[Necrotic]

Decapitated - A Poem About an Old Prison Man

Psycroptic - (Ob)Servant

These are some that jump to mind that don't strike me as being terribly compressed but still sounding heavy.

I think the main thing that I can agree with your friend about though is tonally none of this is as heavy as something heavily compressed and rhythmic like Meshuggah or Gojira would sound whereas the above bands are more "brutal" than "heavy".

[Omega]

Sentenced

Children of Bodom (try the older albums first, such as Lake Bodom, Follow the Reaper and Hate Crew Deathroll)

Mygrain

Ethernal Tears of Sorrow

Daath

Inflames (newer stuff is a bit mallcore, but some people like it)

Wintersun

Moonsorrow

Amon Amarth

Pay in mind that I'm just throwing these names at random. I have no I idea whether you actually like these bands or not. Some of them are very different from others. It's just a list that you might find handy if you're looking for metal bands.

[Nekofrog]

None of my stuff has any compression on it (except for Jenova).

[Fernito]

Thanks guys. As I said earlier, I need to show a friend that metal must not necessarity have compression on it in order to sound good, so these tracks will do just fine

@Nekofrog: nice, I'll be checking out your stuff too.