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ShawnHowellsCP wrote:

Belgiansparten wrote: When I write (either in English or Dutch), I mostly listen to Metal, as it is varied as the horror genre itself. (I use metal music for multiple purposes but it is really inspirational)

The bands I listen mostly while writing are:

Apocalyptica - The metal sound of cellos and drum makes it a fantastic band and due to the fact that most of their music are purely instrumental, it doesn't interfere with your thoughts.

Symphonic/Folk/Gothic Metal bands like Evanescence, Lyriel, Delain, Stream of Passion, The Dreamside... because of the haunting sound of these groups.

Heavy/Power Metal bands like Sabaton, Hammerfall, Battle Beast, Kontrust for the raw metal sound... "for the raw metal sound" Heavy and Power metal and especially refined and overproduced a lot. Raw sound would be Black Metal. Black Metal is aggressive, harsh and crude (the opposite of refined is crude, not raw) which is a charm on it own, only not something I seek in music. With raw, I meant, fast and long guitar solos, the song being cut in parts by drums (Last Man Standing of Hammerfall for example), deep masculine vocals (Black metal and for that matter Death Metal, a genre I can enjoy from time to time (Melodic Death that is), has very deep, almost animalistic vocals), music that sounds hard but that you don't require to see or know the lyrics to understand what they are singing about... (metal like it was played in the beginning...)