OK, I don't usually throw down here 'cause you guys are way ahead of the curve....well, at least my curve anyways
But we've been listening to this album called "Here Comes Trouble" by Scatterbrain. It's so frakin good, I went out and got a case of beer + just so's we can listen to it again while partying our asses off!@!!!
Here Comes Trouble is unreal!!! If you love ZH, you'll love Scatterbrain. These guys only made 2 records !!!Totally overlooked!!!! Woah!!!

I suggest Nights Like These - Sunlight At Secondhand to anyone who likes Post-metal type stuff. The music is quite good!

I typed Devin Townsend in pandora.com and got a playlist of similar artists. I liked Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained and Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors. Somewhat similar to Devy and also different. Good listen.

[djskrimp]

OK, I don't usually throw down here 'cause you guys are way ahead of the curve....well, at least my curve anyways
But we've been listening to this album called "Here Comes Trouble" by Scatterbrain. It's so frakin good, I went out and got a case of beer + just so's we can listen to it again while partying our asses off!@!!!
Here Comes Trouble is unreal!!! If you love ZH, you'll love Scatterbrain. These guys only made 2 records !!!Totally overlooked!!!! Woah!!!

God, I haven't thought about Scatterbrain in YEARS. Good stuff.

Divine Heresy were pretty good. I'm hoping the new singer pushes them into late 90's FF quality music. (Note I said quality....)

I typed Devin Townsend in pandora.com and got a playlist of similar artists. I liked Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained and Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors. Somewhat similar to Devy and also different. Good listen.

Arcuturus - The Sham Mirrors is definitely very very good.

OK, I don't usually throw down here 'cause you guys are way ahead of the curve....well, at least my curve anyways
But we've been listening to this album called "Here Comes Trouble" by Scatterbrain. It's so frakin good, I went out and got a case of beer + just so's we can listen to it again while partying our asses off!@!!!
Here Comes Trouble is unreal!!! If you love ZH, you'll love Scatterbrain. These guys only made 2 records !!!Totally overlooked!!!! Woah!!!

God, I haven't thought about Scatterbrain in YEARS. Good stuff.

Divine Heresy were pretty good. I'm hoping the new singer pushes them into late 90's FF quality music. (Note I said quality....)

I'm trying to get something new from them.Right now, Here Comes Trouble is all I gots.I like the funk angle they've got.Like Red Hot Chili Peps on METAL!!

So, can anyone recommend some "happy metal" to me? (Like Smaxone)

Gamma ray - Somewhere out in space

It's not Smaxone, but it's happy, very happy.

They arent bad. Not quite what I had in mind, but not bad.

Anyone got any other recommendations? Im coming to the conclusion that there really isn't much else out there that will hold my interest. Im really into these powerful, uplifting melodies in metal, sue me!

sonata arctica strikes me as really happy crap

or rhapsody at least back in the day when they didnt quite suck

Yes! I found a brilliant fucking band! They are called Frost* (dont forget the *). So check these guys out, you can even follow them as they record their new album on youtube. Just search planetfrost.

Arcuturus - The Sham Mirrors is definitely very very good.

QFT

Gotthard - Domino effect

Catchy rock stuff

[EphelDuath666]

Red Harvest - The Red Line Archives
such wonderful noise. It's basically remixes of the more industrial material by Red Harvest and some of their industrial songs that have been on previous releases.

They arent bad. Not quite what I had in mind, but not bad.

Anyone got any other recommendations? Im coming to the conclusion that there really isn't much else out there that will hold my interest. Im really into these powerful, uplifting melodies in metal, sue me!

I suggest Scatterbrain. It is positive, high energy and very humorous without loosing any edge