Suggestions of bands to a new Radio Rivendell compilation

For those who do not know Radio Rivendell it is the biggest radio station only into fantasy music.

Together with Radio Rivendell we do a series of compilation´s most of all for the love of the genre. We have so far released two albums and for the last one all but two songs were composed specific for the project. Simon Kölle (Za Frûmi, Abnocto, Musterion, etc.) made a short story and we sat down to come with names of chapters. The bands/artists choosed one chapter and without too much information they made their own song inspired by the title and the story.

http://www.radiorivendell.com/compilations/

There you can see the line ups for the two compilations so far.

Now we are slowly looking for bands/artists for the third installment. A continuation of the second one. We want both established as new acts.

Here´s a tracklist´s of the two compilations´s:

1. Markus Holler - Nebelmärchen
2. Erdenstern - Into the Green - The Heroes Return
3. Sean Beeson - Voice of the Seraphim
4. Wilbert Roget, II - Atonement
5. Gargrim the Liar - The Pavillion
6. Dimitrij Volstoj - Bleeding the Bishop
7. Sibelian - Wish Fullfilling Jewel
8. Tom W Hall - Freakshow Soundtrack
9. Abnocto - Spritus Arma
10. Balaghan - Secret Place
11. Lost Kingdom - In Heaven
12. Rising Shadows - Dead Cold
13. Tincolindo - Priestess of Avalon
14. Project Morfeo - Escape from the Dragons Lair
15. Morgan the bard - Galdralag
16. Helen Trevillion - The Mermaid Part I: The Storm

The book of war:

1 Sully Koba - Captain Angus
2 Dråm - Leaving Home
3 Erdenstern - The Reiters
4 Lost Kingdom - The Bridge Gruhdok
5 Markus Holler - The Great March
6 Dimitrij Volstoj - Attack in the Night
7 Za Frûmi - Vojvod Szadrin
8 Peter Szwach - The Siege of Ahrem
9 Gargrim the Liar - No Way Out
10 Encryption - Under a Crescent Moon
11 Sibelian - Conjuring the Demons
12 A Journey of the Mind - The Dawn of Fate
13 Sean Beeson - The Eve of Battle
14 Unto Ashes - Never Surrender
15 Anabasis - Hold the Line
16 Zmei Gorinich - Eternal Glory
17 Ataraxia - Migratio Animae (special)

We are looking to ask some of the bands above again but not even half.

SO, do you guys have any suggestions on bands?

We will not even consider metal bands in any shape or form. The theme is fantasy so please don´t recomend industrial acts either.

Arkane I know from before and they are intersting.
Valley Lord... I don´t know. They did sound a little too much like Mortiis for my taste.

Let the suggestions comming

Sounds ok. I am not all that impressed.
Come on and suggest good music that would fit making music for a dark fantasy setting.

Fredrik we know and he is good. We had his project Rising Shadows on a compilation called "Waerloga compilation - A Tribute to Uglakh".

Maybe we should reinvite him. A good idea.

Keep em comming.

Another one, which is imo excellent: Phanatos - http://www.phanatos.com/ & http://www.myspace.com/phanatosrealm

Very good recomendations ChAwech! Phanatos I think I maybe heard before but I had no memory of it. It´s a Swedish project and I don´t know it. Interesting.
Kayno Yesno Slonce also sounded like they would fit the concept.

About using old material - On this compilation everything will be 100% made for this release or at least remixes.

Thanks

Aha I see. As a guide it´s interesting. Thanks.

This might be an unconventional suggestion, but Kitka has some very dark-sounding almost fantasy-related tracks. Check out the sample of Farewell-- a very dark track. More here...

Kitka sounded interesting. A bit theatrical in the vocals. I don´t know if the sound was just bad on the samples but óverall the sound mix was lacking a lot.
But some songs were really cool.

Been a bit silent here lately, but....

Nox Arcana - http://www.noxarcana.com/ & http://www.myspace.com/noxarcana

I kind of forgot about them...

A couple of suggestions:

Quentaro - quite lovely neoclassical/ambient http://www.myspace.com/quentaro

Morpheus (not the dark ambient artist listed on the last.fm page: http://lomeanor.net.ru/index/0-5. An album, "Alkemiisto" is released by that netlabel: http://www.archive.org/download/Lnl004Morpheus-Alkemiisto2008192Kbps/Lnl004Morpheus-Alkemiisto192.zip

Honestly, Morpheus isn't probably that "accomplished" but the music is rather interesting with a very dark feel to it. Quentaro's probably my bigger rec out of the pair.

Yay! I'm glad you like :-) I've enjoyed most of their releases so far.

Found another one I quite liked; InvictUS (1st one) - http://www.myspace.com/invictusimperium