@Balu: Ok, samples (you lazy bum!)
Emir Hot's Sevdah Metal, with John West on vocals:
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Area51, a great Japanese band. I love the singer:
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Dragon Guardian, another Japanese band (they sing in Japanese, but whatever!) The first minute is actually the intro to the album's second song:
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Forgotten Tales, power metal from Québec City:
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Old Katra, with slightly more operatic vocals compared to what you hear on her second album. Incidentally, notice that she's hot:
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My favourite song from Katra's first album:
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From Katra's new album. Apart from the change in her singing style, notice that she went through either a) puberty, or b) surgery, as her boobs got noticeably bigger (especially if you look at the picture at Encyclopaedia Metallum... just saying!):
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Legenda Aurea, nice Swiss band. This is with their former singer:
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Legenda Aurea with their current singer:
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Light Bringer. Interesting video from this Japanese band:
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More Light Bringer:
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Myrath, interesting Tunisian prog metal:
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Pathfinder, great Polish band. This song has stuff from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata:
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Signum Regis, Slovakian band with Göran Edman on vocals (I love Göran!!):
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Steel Seal, Italian band with D.C. Cooper on vocals on their first album. I love this song:
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More Steel Seal with D.C. Cooper:
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Steel Seal with Thomas Vikström on vocals (second album):
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