Hi, my name is Matthew F. Tabor and I'm originally from Cooperstown, NY. I'm a senior at the State University of New York at Oswego earning a degree in Psychology, with a Zoology minor, and I've been writing music for about three and a half years now. If you care to listen to anything that I've written, I have a metal song called "Overture" on my myspace (
http://www.myspace.com/bmwgmusic), in my signature. The other two songs are not metal. Anyway, I think I can write pretty well, but my writing ability far exceeds my instrumental proficiency. I can sing baritone clean vocals decently and I can growl pretty well... At least better than I can sing or play an instrument
Here's a snapshot of my musical taste, which I spent the past few days trying to narrow down, just so that I could make this post
Avant-Garde
- Arcturus
Black Metal
- Ancient
- Atritas
- Cryptic Howling
- Funeris Nocturnum
- Gorgoroth
- Thy Serpent
- Winterhorde
Death Metal
- Aeon
- Amethyste
- Amon Amarth
- Arch Enemy
- Behemoth
- Callenish Circle
- Darkane
- Demonoid
- Narsil
- Nile
- Torch Bearer
- Vital Remains
Deathcore
- Abigail Williams
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Lamb of God
- Thine Eyes Bleed
- Through the Eyes of the Dead
Experimental / Progressive Death Metal
- Psychopathology Orchestra
Folkish Metal
- Arkona
- Finntroll
Gothic Metal
- After Forever
- Edenbridge
- Epica
- Rain Fell Within
- Tristania
- Virgin Black
Industrialized Black / Death Metal
- ...and Oceans
- Scorngrain
- The Kovenant
- Tidfall
Melodic Black Metal
- Ancient Ceremony
- Blind Stare
- Blinded by Faith
- Chthonic
- Cradle of Filth
- Deadlock
- Dimmu Borgir
- Graveworm
- Old Man's Child
- Profugus Mortis
Melodic Death Metal
- The Absence
- Becoming the Archetype
- Cipher System
- Dark Tranquillity
- Dimension of Doomed
- In Flames
- Light This City
- Susperia
Melodic Power Metal
- Archontes
- Axxis
- DivineFire
- Dragonland
- Felony
- Firewind
- Seraphim
- Sonata Arctica
- Warmen
Melodic Power Metal with Harsh Vocals
- Blood Stain Child
- Catamenia
- Children of Bodom
- Imperanon
- Kalmah
- Norther
- Sins of Omission
- Skyfire
- Wintersun
Symphonic Metal
- Apocalyptica
- Blind Guardian
- Nightwish
- Rhapsody / Rhapsody of Fire
- Therion
- Turisas
Symphonic Black / Death Metal
- Dark Lunacy
- Haggard
- Nazgul
- Nekrogoblikon
- Stormlord
- Tvangeste
Technical Death Metal
- Arsis
- Beneath the Massacre
- Necrophagist
- Theory in Practice