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Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on September 20, 2007, 11:38:35 am: Alright, I hope this is in the right place! I'm looking for some heavier songs and/or bands that have a piano or keyboard in them that isn't completely drowned out by the other instruments. No death-metal or anything like that. Something more like the Manowar song Heart of Steel.
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: cowardknower on September 20, 2007, 12:34:27 pm: This band Dropping Daylight is really pianocentric, but they are contemp alt rock kindastuff.
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: Jeff on September 20, 2007, 01:06:31 pm: Ironic that you say death metal. Pick up Haven by Dark Tranquillity; Martin Brandstrom is very recognizable in Dark Tranquillity's music.

Other than that, however, there ave many metal bands out there with prominant keyboardists. For My Pain... has Nightwish's keyboardist/composer in a more prominent role. Arcturus makes a lot of use of straight piano, especially in Sideshow Symphonies. The Black Mages have extremely noticeable keyboardists. ...And of course there is always Dream Theater.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on September 20, 2007, 03:58:36 pm: Sonata Arcticaaaaaa. Especially FullMoon and Gravenimage.
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Post by: Vale on September 20, 2007, 06:02:22 pm: Mute Math's song "Chaos" has this intense piano solo in the middle. Apart from that, I don't know...classical stuff CAN get pretty instense, you know.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on September 20, 2007, 06:12:01 pm: Also the coda of Layla.
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Post by: Burning_Phoenix on September 20, 2007, 06:36:28 pm: Becoming the Archetype - Elegy has a sweet piano part in it.
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Post by: Mince Wobley on September 20, 2007, 08:26:15 pm: Rachmaninoff? Is that heavy enough?
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Post by: GirlBones on September 20, 2007, 08:35:14 pm: Dresden Dolls, DUH
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: Wash Cycle on September 20, 2007, 09:26:09 pm: Quote from: Inri Cheetos on September 20, 2007, 08:26:15 pm
Rachmaninoff? Is that heavy enough?
yeah this is pretty much what I was going to say
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Post by: Shepperd on September 20, 2007, 09:28:35 pm: Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post by: something bizarre and impractical on September 21, 2007, 12:13:39 am: I'm not really looking for classical music. I mean, I do enjoy it, it's just not what I'm looking for at the moment. More contemporary.
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: Shepperd on September 21, 2007, 12:48:19 am: You think I'm joking here, huh
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Post by: Sludgelord on September 21, 2007, 01:34:15 am: There are a lot of Elliott Smith songs that have the piano in them. Try his last album, From a Basement on a Hill. I think there are a lot of piano songs on that.

King's Crossing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezerLW5jPwI)
Waltz #2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXVpEDf708)
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Post by: Farren on September 21, 2007, 02:08:58 am: oh I'm pretty sure there is a muse song with some jawsome piano work in it.

Apocalypse Please on the absolution album

And the Imagine cover by A Perfect circle has alot of piano in it too
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: Mince Wobley on September 21, 2007, 06:17:04 pm: Quote from: Polygon on September 21, 2007, 12:13:39 am
I'm not really looking for classical music. I mean, I do enjoy it, it's just not what I'm looking for at the moment. More contemporary.

Beethoven is romantic, not classic, also Raichmaninoff is almost contemporary
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: Wash Cycle on September 21, 2007, 06:25:35 pm: Quote from: Inri Cheetos on September 21, 2007, 06:17:04 pm
Beethoven is romantic, not classic, also Raichmaninoff is almost contemporary
you know what he meant jesus christ

uhh for all its worth Dave Brubeck is pretty heavy handed on the piano, yes the rest of the band is light and airy especially paul desmond and the drums are mostly brushes, but some of his piano parts are absolutely visceral
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: tomohawkjoe on September 21, 2007, 08:35:28 pm: Quote from: Wash Cycle on September 21, 2007, 06:25:35 pm
you know what he meant jesus christ

uhh for all its worth Dave Brubeck is pretty heavy handed on the piano, yes the rest of the band is light and airy especially paul desmond and the drums are mostly brushes, but some of his piano parts are absolutely visceral

Listen to this man.

Also, for whats it worth, Chick Corea is a great pianist with some darker stuff.
Particularly, his performance at Jazz Legends was very powerful.

As the matter of fact.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PnSC0tRmya4
Title: Looking for heavier piano songs
Post by: Wash Cycle on September 21, 2007, 09:53:09 pm: Yeah I have a Chick Corea album where hes playing with uhh like Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes and Dave Holland

there are some excellent piano parts (and also vibraphone which is an awesome instrument)
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Post by: Killer Wolf on September 28, 2007, 05:24:36 pm: Disc two of Samael's Passage. All the same songs from disc one, only done as Neo-Classical peices on paino. And technically since Samael is Black Metal this doesn't go against your "no death metal" admonition.
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Post by: dethmetal on September 29, 2007, 01:51:22 am: Lacuna Coil's the first band that came to mind
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Post by: holloway on September 29, 2007, 01:24:48 pm: The Smiths, Oscillate Wildly. A bloody amazing bit of orchestration by Marr.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_KwFj3XFkv8
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Post by: Stranglehanz on October 01, 2007, 03:01:42 pm: Might be too new for you but Chiodos and Foxy Shazam have loads of keyboard parts in their songs.
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Post by: Blackhalo on October 03, 2007, 05:06:08 pm: Evergrey, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X, are the three big ones that come to mind for me.
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Post by: Jeff on October 03, 2007, 05:38:40 pm: Oh man I totally forgot about Evergrey.
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Post by: Memoria on October 05, 2007, 02:04:02 pm: Quote from: Inri Cheetos on September 21, 2007, 06:17:04 pm
also Raichmaninoff is almost contemporary

Al Jolson is more contemporary than Rachmaninoff.
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Post by: Blitzen on October 05, 2007, 03:05:35 pm: How about "Hey Jude"? Its fairly heavy piano wise, and it rocks pretty hard to boot.
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Post by: Parker on October 05, 2007, 08:09:06 pm: How has no one mentioned Lovedrug. Lovedrug.
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Post by: Mama Luigi on October 06, 2007, 12:58:42 am: Definitely Pain of Salvation, listen to their 12:5 album. It's an "unplugged" album so there is no electric music at all. Some VERY great stuff there.
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Post by: Evangel on October 22, 2007, 04:48:46 pm: QUEEN has lots of heavy tracks with prominent piano. Some of my favorites that I know for sure have piano: Death on Two Legs, Killer Queen, In the Lap of the Gods, and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Pretty much every song written by Chiodos is heavy and uses as much keyboard/piano as any other instrument. But a lot of people think they sound gay. Try: The Words Best Friend Become Redefined (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hvYLQM_fMMw), Hathaway Lane (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PM3VdIMz6j8), Bulls Have Horns (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bjy8lt2E3tI).
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Post by: thecatamites on November 04, 2007, 11:59:08 am: Jerry Lee Lewis's 'Live at the Star Club' album... The greatest piano album ever, and I hate the piano.