Trance metal

Trance metal is a subgenre of heavy metal which includes typical metal music characteristics along side trance atmospheres, imagery, or themes. Trance metal is usually characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 BPM, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that changes style through-out a song. Vocals are usually a combination of death growls and trance-like singing. Trance metal bands occasionally incorporate female vocals, although male vocalists are more popular in this genre.
Influences
Usually bands who perform this style of music take influences from trance, eurodance, dark ambient and industrial metal based music. On occasion these bands have nordic melodic death metal influences, like Eternal Tears of Sorrow, In Flames and Soilwork.
Notable examples
One of the first well known trance metal band was Blood Stain Child, pioneering the genre with their album Idolator, but gaining the genre popularity with their album Mozaiq. Some other well-known trance metal bands include Project Silence from Finland, Silent Descent from UK (who Metal Hammer Magazine calls “ the trance metal juggernaught the world has been waiting for”) and Lost Eden from Japan.
Other artists such as Pain, Infected Mushroom, Celldweller, 2 Times Terror and Enter Shikari have also mixed trance music and metal music characteristics.
More artists have recently begun to take on this genre like Asking Alexandria and The Devil Wears Prada.

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