so, i'm curious if the metal in Los Angeles is the same as any other place. I'm mexican. The majority: black metal, thrash, heavy?? Your ethnic?Location?are head bangers alive? Or Metal fans dead?
sure I guess, I mean power metal is more likely to have keyboards than any other genre and Equilibrium has loads of keyboards... But you don't have to worry about the genres so much, it's just a loose guide for helping you find music, you don't need to categorize everything, and that actually takes the fun out of it anyway, can't you just listen to music and enjoy it without worrying about the category? Equilibrium are a pretty unique band as well, I don't expect it would be easy to categorize them correctly. or It's folk metal, black metal and power metal rolled up into one, and then they added 500 tonnes of melody and AWESOMENESS. That's their genre.
No. What your hearing is the Symphonic Metal aspect of their music. They are technically Pagan Symphonic Black Metal. Think of Symphonic Metal as a darker version of Power-Metal. For example the band Nightwish is a Symphonic Metal band, NOT Power-Metal. Bands like Celesty and Durdian are Power-Metal. You should be able to hear the difference. If there is screaming involved 9 x out of 10 its Black Metal style screaming.
