It is more difficult to generalize about the guitar and bass work found in this style. An actual orchestra is sometimes employed, both live and in the studio, to similar effect. While other instruments typically play relatively simple parts, the keyboard parts can be very complex and technically challenging, often played in a wide variety of classical styles and emulating anything up to and including full orchestral arrangements. Keyboards are normally the focal point of the music. The main musical influences on symphonic metal are early gothic metal, power metal, and classical music. A popular example of this type of approach would be the works of the successful Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Although many symphonic metal bands base their style solidly on classical music, few follow a theatrical, more epic approach to this genre by including or basing their style in Film Music or movie soundtracks.
When referring to bands from other genres, it refers to bands who use minor classical and operatic themes in their music similar to what one finds in the symphonic metal genre, to show they are more "symphonic" than other bands within their genre. Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements that is, elements that are borrowed from other music genres (i.e classical music, progressive rock) but usually with more keyboards or acoustic guitars and typically an operatic female lead vocalist.
Guitar - Bass - Keyboards - Piano - Drums - Violin - other acoustic and electronic instruments - occasionally backing choirsĪlmost mainstream in parts of Europe, moderately large cult following elsewhere. (this regards symphonic metal proper for symphonic variations on other styles of metal, especially extreme metal, the cultural origins are in late 1980s-early to mid 1990s in Switzerland and Scandinavia) Mid-late 1990s, Continental Europe (mainly Scandinavia and the Netherlands) NWOBHM, symphonic rock, progressive metal, neo-classical metal, gothic metal, power metal.
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