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i'm really digging it lately. 
first started listening to Isis a couple of months ago and i'm just now getting into their other albums because i've been hooked on Panopticon for so long. 
the lengthy songs, the unconventional sound, the energy! 
two cds by Neurosis are next on my list.
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Hear ye. Looking for recommendations?
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#7504266 - 10/10/07 05:44 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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yes, anything along the lines of Isis would be great. 
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Try Pelican. Similar to Isis but without vocals.
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i recently got REALLY big into isis, too. panopticon is fucking genius. i own all their works with the exception of the live album. just got an 8" of red sea in the mail not too long ago. in the abscense of truth is awesome, but i keep finding myself coming back to "celestial" as i find it to be my favorate album by them.
i can't make any recommendations based on sounds similar to isis as they seem to be in a league of their own, but i can tell ya some interesting stuff to check out:
sleep - dopesmoker (must have)
torche - self-titled
jesu - silver (must have)
jesu - conquerer
jesu - self-titled
om - conference of the birds (unreal. check the mp3 i uploaded on this forum of "at giza")
boris - pink
WINDMILLS BY THE OCEAN!!!!! (contains members of ISIS! absolutely AMAZING!!)
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: FleaAccela]
#7504922 - 10/10/07 11:32 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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#7505054 - 10/10/07 12:14 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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thanks guys, i'll be sure to check 'em out. 
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Red Sparowes (that's spelled correctly)
Cult of Luna
MINSK
Subarachnoid Space
Ufomammut
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Dope thread. Check out the godfathers, The Melvins and Lustmord attached.
Pelican and Boris for sure, and Sunn O))) scares the hell outta my pets. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
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excellent middleman!
sunn o))) is totally my personal meditation music. if i've had a hard ass day, i toss on some sunnn, preferably grim robes or altar (w/ boris) and let the worries of the world melt away and i become hypnotized by the drones.
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Fuck yeah, I had Altar on 9 @ 500W during my last shrooming, it was, um, searing.
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Yakuza - sax and sometimes cello with a bit of electronics to metal.
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sheesh, dont know how you got through it, but big ups!
altar on shrooms, fuck!
how about black 1 on mescaline? 
ooooh! oracle on dust! 
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Altar is definitely an intense listen, but a lot easier to stomach than most of SunO)))'s own releases heh.
Some of Boris' releases are equally unpleasant.
Yakuza are damn good too. A very mixed bag.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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i agree. i wish they would record another album like pink. such a bomb dropper! pop? possibly yes. garbage? i think not!
i got the boris/merbow collab on yellow/green vinyl not too long ago. quite a rendition of i am the walrus. the flip is equally mesmerizing.
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The Melvins and Lustmord attached.
That's not too bad, sort of sounds like a mix between Corrosion of Conformity(vocals) and Meshuggah(sound and off-beat time sigs)....
I gave a listen to ISIS and Pelican.... I couldn't get into either one of them....
I guess I am just more drawn to the intricate melodies and the multiple riff arrangements of progressive metal....
It's all good, it's music....!
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yah isis is good stuff
didnt like pelicans stuff
check out kyuss "welcome to sky valey"
lowrider "ode to io"
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: FleaAccela]
#7550459 - 10/23/07 11:19 AM (2 years, 29 days ago) |
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WINDMILLS BY THE OCEAN!!!!! (contains members of ISIS! absolutely AMAZING!!)
Dude you aren't kidding, best stuff I've heard in awhile. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
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Check out maudlin Of The Well. I personally like their Bath album. They disbanded some time ago and some members moved on to form an avant-rock band named Kayo Dot. Also great! 
If you love Isis, check out Red Sparowes and Explosions in the Sky. Both instrumental bands.
btw, I'm new here, so.. hello! 
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#7551977 - 10/23/07 05:47 PM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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hey there, welcome to the shroomery! 
i'm listening to Cult of Luna and Callisto right now and will definitely be giving Windmills by the Ocean a listen.
i'm happy for all the responses here, lots of new music to get into.
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It's so hard for me to find Metal that I like,
I've listened to every band mentioned in this thread,
and I gotta say I really dig Ufomammut. 
They're heavy as fuck and nicely mixed, thanks Sheepish.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7554359 - 10/24/07 10:13 AM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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jesu.
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#7554638 - 10/24/07 11:46 AM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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They've been mentioned, a little too Emo for my taste, but "Silver" is an outstanding album.
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#7554861 - 10/24/07 12:51 PM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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emo?
you are full of shit.
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#7555146 - 10/24/07 02:17 PM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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jesu is the evolution of godflesh. duh. it's not emo, but i can see where he's coming from, and im a HUGE jesu fan. i listen to at least one of their ep's in it's entirety if not a full album every day. it's angry and beautiful, a wild combination.
the song heart ache is a fucking BEAST. is it just me, or does both "friends are evil" and "wolves" seem like a continution of parts from heart ache?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: b0red5tiff]
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Jesu sounds kind of emo to me, it's called a fucking OPINION.
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#7555844 - 10/24/07 04:44 PM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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no it sounds like a prejudice. why are you calling names?
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#7555921 - 10/24/07 04:58 PM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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it is not a prejudice if he has listened to the band prior to forming an opinion.
let's not derail my thread, shall we? 
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Jersey Band is kinda nifty...thanks to YawningAnus for posting this first.
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#7555993 - 10/24/07 05:11 PM (2 years, 28 days ago) |
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haha wow, rockin' the jazz.
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got this song Dim by Cult of Luna from their newest album.
yay or nay?
i find the instrumentals uplifting.
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mouth of the architect, rosetta, tephra, conifer, battlefields, dark castle, the pax cecilia, irepress, the ocean collective, adai, callisto, isis, zozobra, sunn o))), adrift, aussitot mort, battle of mice, big business, black cobra, the pax cecilia, caspian, conifer, dakota dakota, across tundras,
explosions in the sky, fjord, genghis tron, from a second story window, giant squid, god is an astronaut, godflesh, halifax pier, mogwai, irepress, jesu, jesus lizard, made out of babies, north, the ocean, old man gloom, the gersch, windmill by the ocean, the sameul jackson five, tides, giant, mono, zatokrev, drawing voices, 5ive, aeolian, yellow swans, blood and time, constants, gifts from enola, grayceon, grey daturas, laura, tephra, wolves in the throne room, tides, book of knots
I LISTEN TO ALL THESE GROUPS, AND ENJOY IT EVERY BIT OF IT.
I SUGGEST ANYONE LOOKING TO GO OUTSIDE THE FUCKING MTV 'METAL' BOX, DOWNLOAD THESE ARTIST, AND UNDERSTAND TRUE MUSIC...
MOST OF THE MUSICIANS I HAVE POSTED DONT LIKE THE SPOTLIGHT ON THEM, THEY RATHER IT BE ON THEIR MUSIC..A PERSON'S "HOTNESS" SHOULDN'T SELL RECORDS, ONLY THE QUALITY OF MUSIC SHOULD MATTER, THATS WHY I THINK AVANT-GARDE, EXPERIMENTAL OR POST-WHATEVER IS THE BEST TYPE OF MUSIC TO LISTEN TO..
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this stuff makes me think of explosions in the sky
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#7556370 - 10/24/07 06:30 PM (2 years, 27 days ago) |
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gracias! 
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no prob man, and if you cant find anything, ill zip the file and upload it to sendspace or something..just PM me, or post in here, and then everyone can download it..
yeah, thats what ill do. if any of you guys want any of the groups i mentioned up there, jsut let me know, and ill post the sendspace.com link in here...im pretty sure sendspace takes down files after a few days, so make sure yo download right as it is uploaded.
i love spreading music.. im constantly giving CDs to friends randomly, like "you got to hear this sshit!!!" lol..im jsut a giver 
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Avant-Garde metal? Sounds interesting, gonna have to download something sometime.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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no prob man, and if you cant find anything, ill zip the file and upload it to sendspace or something..just PM me, or post in here, and then everyone can download it..
yeah, thats what ill do. if any of you guys want any of the groups i mentioned up there, jsut let me know, and ill post the sendspace.com link in here...im pretty sure sendspace takes down files after a few days, so make sure yo download right as it is uploaded.
i love spreading music.. im constantly giving CDs to friends randomly, like "you got to hear this sshit!!!" lol..im jsut a giver
very cool!
can i hear sunn o)))
5 shrooms for that.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: eligal]
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im uploading Isis - In the Absence of Truth, thats a good start for avant-garde/post-metal,Isis is able to incorporate all the influences into one song. it should be up in 25 mins. i highly recommend to not put off downloading it until tomorrow, once it gets taken off sendspace, im not reuploading it. unless you guys now of a good server/host for me to upload gigs worth of music..
Wikipedia: Isis
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7557406 - 10/24/07 10:39 PM (2 years, 27 days ago) |
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that album isn't hard to find via torrent. 
http://bestsharing.com/ lets you host plenty of files, but they can only be 125mb max.
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Sunn O))) is being zipped now. but be warned, this is not 'songs' but tracks, its to non-musical to be called song...not to say its not a form of sound, but i dont call it music, i usually call it visual sound.
Ambiance at its purist form.
Wikipedia: Sun O)))
CD im uploading
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im also putting this sunn0)) album on sendspace:
Flight of the Behemoth
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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HURRY, download this ASAP if you need it, it will be taken down in 48hrs prolly.
Isis - In the Absense of Truth
Isis in the absence of truth
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sUNN o))) [2001] - Flight Of The Behemoth
Sunn O))) [1999] - The Grimmrobe Demos
where my shrooms!!!!
lol.
let me know of any other bands on my list anyone is interested in.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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Thanks for the uploads, but what we really need are more new names...
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"mouth of the architect, rosetta, tephra, conifer, battlefields, dark castle, the pax cecilia, irepress, the ocean collective, adai, callisto, isis, zozobra, sunn o))), adrift, aussitot mort, battle of mice, big business, black cobra, the pax cecilia, caspian, conifer, dakota dakota, across tundras,
explosions in the sky, fjord, genghis tron, from a second story window, giant squid, god is an astronaut, godflesh, halifax pier, mogwai, irepress, jesu, jesus lizard, made out of babies, north, the ocean, old man gloom, the gersch, windmill by the ocean, the sameul jackson five, tides, giant, mono, zatokrev, drawing voices, 5ive, aeolian, yellow swans, blood and time, constants, gifts from enola, grayceon, grey daturas, laura, tephra, wolves in the throne room, tides, book of knots"
those should be enough names to hold you over for a few years...
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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Wow thanks.
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hey falkor, thanks for Sunn O((( could you also please upload Windmills by the Ocean? i really want to hear them but the torrent has stalled at 75% for the past two days. 
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Those one word names are so hard to search for, I wonder if they do that on purpose.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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that's really awesome of you, i will give you shrooms for sho'!
i've been meaning to check out godflesh and wolves in the throne room. actually wolves in the throne room just played a show with jesu around here last week. it was awesome. that isis side project sounds funky fresh as well.
zozobro...is that a group? or that old man gloom thing? ...or is it a group named after the old man gloom thing? ah whatever, maybe i should just check that out myself.
if my desktop didnt just crash last night, i'd offer up my files on share through my aim account. but i guess that would have to wait..
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"zozobro...is that a group? or that old man gloom thing? ...or is it a group named after the old man gloom thing? ah whatever, maybe i should just check that out myself."
Old man gloom started when aaron turner of isis and some friends(fromother popular bands) in sante fe got bored and 2wanted to fuck around with all the instruments they had acquired over the years.
since old man gloom wasnt a constant thing and doesnt take up alot of time, two of old mans glooms members decide to start their own project. the drummer and bassist.
http://www.myspace.com/oldmangloom <-has their story(in a funny narrative) on the page.
http://www.myspace.com/zozobra505 <- also has story on page.
alteredagain, windmills is zipping now, should be up in 30 mins.
its some good dark post rock. one member from isis(the keyboard/sampler Bryant Meyer) and some chick too..
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bickethead is more a progressive rock sound.. he is some what avant-garde, he really touches all genres and styles with his music.
....Windmills by the Ocean uploading now...and im listening to it..man, i love this album.. its good to not listen to an album for a few months, then give it another spin.
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I am just amazed at bucketheads skillz. playin everything from blue-grassy stuff to heavy shredding and be good at it. Not to mention that he puts out so many albums (10 so far this year)
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windmills will be up in 10mins.
im also zipping 'Beware of Safety - It is Curtains', my new favorite album..ive been listenign to this album everyday since i downloaded it.
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Windmills by the Ocean download
here yah go fellas, Beware of safety will be up in 30mins...beware of safety's debut album is simple amazing, i hope they continue to fucking rock.. it would be a great trip album..most avant-garde albums are good trip albums, some more than others tho.
Also, if any of these links go down defore oyu get a chance to download them, feel free to PM me and i will send the file to you directly thru aim.
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alllll right kiddies, i got one more upload for today, unless you all can think of any other bands named above that you would like an album from.
my last one is a band called Giant Squid. Its like Neurosis meets the Cranberries. there is a chick who sings/screams and plays electric cello, also a badass guitar player/singer...giant squid is a great band with a mash up of many genres and sounds..and over all a good listen.
Giant Squid - Metridium Field. will be up in 45mins.
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QUICK!!!
everyone and anyone who plans on taking a trip down pschedelic lane any time soon, download this album...just put head phones on, close you eyes and enjoy...its really some emotion invoking music.
Enjoy!
Beware of Safety - It is Curtains
well, next will be hte giant squid album, after that im done for today until you all com eup with some more albums you want.
cheers!
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Windmills by the Ocean is fantastic. Feels like it's made for my soul. 
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its unfortunate that there will never be any more windmills by the ocean albums.
The Gersch is another good band with Bryant Clifford Meyer of Isis in it. Its a lil more Black Sabbath-ish with some nice riffs. oh, and they have no bass player, just some low sounding guitars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gersch
From their myspace: (http://www.myspace.com/thegersch)
"Ashes were trampled into the Earth, and the blood became as snow. No one would ever know that my lord's people had lived at all. life and death... the same. Only the war masters would teach them. It's not the length, it's the Gersch..."
that will tomorrows first upload.
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Giant Squid - Metridium Field
read up on the album, its an interesting concept album. something about some field under water or something..i forget now, i have to go red up on it.
but is a good listen, ENJOY!
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any other bands you want me to upload people!!??!?!?
let me know now while im in a giving mood.
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everything you posted from Isis to Windmills by the Ocean to Beware of Safety was great stuff. Anything else you'd recommend with a similar sound?
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that entire huge list i post.
i have all those bands, and about 25% of those bands full discography.
i think youll like mouth of the architect, rosetta, battlefields and irepress.the first three have great emotional screaming vocals, irepress is great instrumental work.
go look for them, if you cant find an album, let me know, i got them all..here is some Irepress.
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You should upload You Are There by MONO. That album is fantastic. It feels like all the sorrow and beauty is passing through you via the speakers. At least that's how I feel when I listen to that album.
Dysrhythmia is another good band. I recommend the Barriers And Passages album. Also Envy; check out Insomniac Doze.
Not sure if you would like these guys, but Agalloch are quite good. They're a folky black metal band with a fair amount of avant gardeness going on there. They have lengthy epic songs and a lot of more acoustic orientated songs. I recommend The Mantle by Agalloch.
Don't know if anyone recommended Godspeed You Black Emperor; I suppose they are more rock, but they deserve a listen. Check out their f#a#OO (that's meant to be an infinity symbol on the end there) album.
Did anyone mention Pelican? Australasia is a great album.
Check out some Ozric Tentacles also. I'm not that familiar with their work, so I can't recommend their best album, but pick one. I'm sure they're all equally good.
Might be going out on a limb here, but check out Ulver's album Blood Inside. It's the sound of a black metal band that got bored with the genre and started dabbling in everything they could get their hands on. It's certainly an interesting album.
Don't know if you've ever heard of Between The Buried And Me, but they recently released a rather prog influenced album. There's a fair bit of screaming in there and when they kick into the metal, they really go for it. But a lot of the album sounds like a mish mash of the 70s prog sound. It both rocks and trips you out.
On the rather heavy side, check out ISOR's album Post Mortem Peep Show. A rather weird mix of heaviness going on there. They are a 2 piece band from the UK.
Farmakon are fairly good too. I like their A Warm Glimpse album.
There's a good local band from NZ that I really dig; they opened for Isis and they were a perfect match in terms of that sound and feeling. 99% instrumental too. They are called Jakob and I recommend their album Solace. May be hard to find that one is it's a NZ band and I'm not sure how big they are outside of this country.
Dunno about this one, but have you checked out Opeth? My favourite is their Orchid album and it's a very good mix of heavy and light. Very damn epic too.
Can't believe no one didn't mention Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (either that or I missed it). Check out their Of Natural History album. I can verify that this album is suitably intense on a trip. I love the lyrics too. Definitely avant garde these guys.
I recently found this amazing one piece band, Caïna. It's what you'd called extremely avant garde black metal. No corpse paint or screaming about Satan here. Just swathes of black tinged electronics/ambience. Probably the best album I've heard this year. Check out their album Mourner. The older ones are more traditional black metal.
Flat Earth Society are a jazz based band. A weird one at that. The review I read for them described it as music to rearrange old people's synapes to. Check out Isms (they don't have much else material sadly. that is a collection of their songs).
Fredrik Thordendahl's Special is insane. Side project of guitarist from Meshuggah. Certain songs sound similar to Meshuggah, but it spins off into far stranger territories. He only released one album and it's called Sol Niger Within.
Hella have some interesting work. Check out There's No 666 In Outer Space.
Kayo Dot is the continuation of maudlin Of The Well's musical concept. Choirs of the Eye is a truly epic listen. I highly recommend this album.
YOB are a doom/stoner metal band with psychedelic touches to their sound. My fav album of theirs is The Illusion of Motion. Insanely heavy as well with huge build ups.
Naked City is what happens with jazz meets grindcore and various other musical genres thrown into the blender. Check out their self titled album. It will make you laugh.
John Zorn (Naked City) also was in Pain Killer, which is much heavier than Naked City and is far more chaotic. Much closer to grindcore than Naked City (Naked City only had smatherings of it here and there). Pain Killer can be an unpleasant listen
OK, that's it for now
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i am really loving this stuff thanks
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Im goign to be uploading two .mp3 full albums.
i condensed a few whole albums into one track for trips.
they are:
Tephra - Tephra 45:02
Great Post-Metal from germany. they have a new album out just as good as their first. http://www.myspace.com/tephramusic
Battlefields - Stained With the Blood of an Empire 33:58
http://www.myspace.com/battlefieldsdoom
i actually saw these guys live and talked to the lead singer/sampler/electronics. really cool guys from Fargo with some powerful music. if you want to go from beauty to disgusting, light to dark, this band is a great listen. its a short 33 min album, but they plan on a full release soon. and man, when i saw them, it was a real intimate experience, they played with no stage, and i was like 2 feet form them, i could hear the vocals from the mouth more than the mic.
and the CD does no justice to their live sound, so much LOUDER!
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#7562322 - 10/26/07 09:39 AM (2 years, 26 days ago) |
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here ya go, the Gersch, as promised.
this is less avant-garde then the others i have posted, and would prolly be put in the stoner-rock genre nowadays, but when the band was writing and performing(1994-1998) it was very experimental for its time. In fact, they said they clear the room their first show:
"Debuting at O'Briens in Allston in 1995, The Gersch cleared the room with the first song of their set - the 15 minute, funeral dirge "Cheapskin", which, unfortunately, was never recorded, but, fortunately, changed the lives of the 3 or 4 people who sat through it."
The Gersch
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[url=http://www.sendspace.com/file/5laqmq]Battlefields - Stained With the Blood of an Empire 33:58[/url]
THIS IS ONE TRACK, GREAT FOR TRIPS, JUST HIT PLAY AND ENJOY!
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#7562675 - 10/26/07 11:05 AM (2 years, 26 days ago) |
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M TELLING Y0U GUYS...I HAVE 14 DAYS WORTH OF MUSIC, ALL GOOD SHIT.
here/hear is mouth of hte architect, another band i was able to see live. they border isis in song wiriting, but not in style. MotA i s much more 'hardcore' sounding, but it also has plenty of non-vocal interludes and trippy parts.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lm60kr
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if you post it they will come
btw, thank you !
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im uploading Irepress- Samus Octology now..
another great album to trip to, along the same vein as Beware of Safety, but this band uses some distortion comparable to Messhuuguh, but dont worry, they are instrumental, so no guttural vocals..
for a sample, see my upload, June Ipper, it is a song from their album
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You should upload You Are There by MONO. That album is fantastic. It feels like all the sorrow and beauty is passing through you via the speakers. At least that's how I feel when I listen to that album.
Dysrhythmia is another good band. I recommend the Barriers And Passages album. Also Envy; check out Insomniac Doze.
Not sure if you would like these guys, but Agalloch are quite good. They're a folky black metal band with a fair amount of avant gardeness going on there. They have lengthy epic songs and a lot of more acoustic orientated songs. I recommend The Mantle by Agalloch.
Don't know if anyone recommended Godspeed You Black Emperor; I suppose they are more rock, but they deserve a listen. Check out their f#a#OO (that's meant to be an infinity symbol on the end there) album.
Did anyone mention Pelican? Australasia is a great album.
Check out some Ozric Tentacles also. I'm not that familiar with their work, so I can't recommend their best album, but pick one. I'm sure they're all equally good.
Might be going out on a limb here, but check out Ulver's album Blood Inside. It's the sound of a black metal band that got bored with the genre and started dabbling in everything they could get their hands on. It's certainly an interesting album.
Don't know if you've ever heard of Between The Buried And Me, but they recently released a rather prog influenced album. There's a fair bit of screaming in there and when they kick into the metal, they really go for it. But a lot of the album sounds like a mish mash of the 70s prog sound. It both rocks and trips you out.
On the rather heavy side, check out ISOR's album Post Mortem Peep Show. A rather weird mix of heaviness going on there. They are a 2 piece band from the UK.
Farmakon are fairly good too. I like their A Warm Glimpse album.
There's a good local band from NZ that I really dig; they opened for Isis and they were a perfect match in terms of that sound and feeling. 99% instrumental too. They are called Jakob and I recommend their album Solace. May be hard to find that one is it's a NZ band and I'm not sure how big they are outside of this country.
Dunno about this one, but have you checked out Opeth? My favourite is their Orchid album and it's a very good mix of heavy and light. Very damn epic too.
Can't believe no one didn't mention Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (either that or I missed it). Check out their Of Natural History album. I can verify that this album is suitably intense on a trip. I love the lyrics too. Definitely avant garde these guys.
I recently found this amazing one piece band, Caïna. It's what you'd called extremely avant garde black metal. No corpse paint or screaming about Satan here. Just swathes of black tinged electronics/ambience. Probably the best album I've heard this year. Check out their album Mourner. The older ones are more traditional black metal.
Flat Earth Society are a jazz based band. A weird one at that. The review I read for them described it as music to rearrange old people's synapes to. Check out Isms (they don't have much else material sadly. that is a collection of their songs).
Fredrik Thordendahl's Special is insane. Side project of guitarist from Meshuggah. Certain songs sound similar to Meshuggah, but it spins off into far stranger territories. He only released one album and it's called Sol Niger Within.
Hella have some interesting work. Check out There's No 666 In Outer Space.
Kayo Dot is the continuation of maudlin Of The Well's musical concept. Choirs of the Eye is a truly epic listen. I highly recommend this album.
YOB are a doom/stoner metal band with psychedelic touches to their sound. My fav album of theirs is The Illusion of Motion. Insanely heavy as well with huge build ups.
Naked City is what happens with jazz meets grindcore and various other musical genres thrown into the blender. Check out their self titled album. It will make you laugh.
John Zorn (Naked City) also was in Pain Killer, which is much heavier than Naked City and is far more chaotic. Much closer to grindcore than Naked City (Naked City only had smatherings of it here and there). Pain Killer can be an unpleasant listen
OK, that's it for now
Thanks for the descriptions Sheepish, that really helps. I really like Mono.
I couldn't find Jakob, not even on the NZ hubs, any chance you have an upload?
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Disclaimer: If you like any of these artists, BUY THEIR CD. They need our $upport to keep rockin. 
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Irepress - Samus Octolgy
enjoy..this album really toys with my emotions, pulling thru blissful moments into dark, deep textured moments..really a great trip album..like just about all my albums are.
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#7565765 - 10/27/07 04:54 AM (2 years, 25 days ago) |
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/q83o7z
This is MONO's album You Are There
Captured to tape by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago, IL, You Are There extends the cinematic drama of 2003's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (also recorded by Albini), while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded One Step More and You Die. MONO disproves the myth that an increased focus on intricate song structures and string arrangements comes at the expense of youthful energy and inspired aggression. With You Are There, MONO's representation of tragedy comes with an inherent joy, delivered with the hope that in all dark there is equal parts light. They're not heavy like Black Sabbath - they're heavy like Beethoven.
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Uploading Jakob - Solace now.
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uploading tephra now(again,lost the link)
and i saved all the ones you couldnt find altered, and will try to get hem uploaded in the next week. yeah, its more post-metal stuf fi like, but there is some avant-garde bands in there, like yellow swans and drawing voices..check out a guy named James Plotkin, he is/was in alot of amazing avant garde groups. Also look up David Scott Stone, or Sir DSS is his performer name, he works with the MOOG like a champ.
some i dont have cds for, simply now them threw myspace.
those bands are:
James Plotkin: http://www.myspace.com/jamesplotkin
Sir DSS: http://www.myspace.com/sirdsssound
adai: http://www.myspace.com/adai
dakota dakota is now Russian Circles, just a different drummer, but dakota dakota came out with an awesome 45min album b4 they change up.
black cobra is more metal/doom..not wort the download in your case.
all the rest i will have uploaded in a week or so..
this thread is gonna end up like OINK!!
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OOOO, and hosue of low culture, one of aaron turner of isis' side projects is also really good..its avant-garde to the max..mostly ambient tracks and some subtle melodies.
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/79fvp3
Tephra's first album, condensed to one track.
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Hey falkor, could you upload Gifts from Enola or 5ive "Telestic Disfracture" when you have time?
Let me know if you guys are looking for anything...
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/s6lzyd
This is Jakob - Solace. Hope you enjoy it Middleman.
Instrumental bliss from across the Tasman
If you managed to drag yourself out of the house a few months ago to catch Sydney based heavy rockers Cog on their cross-country jaunt in October, then you will have doubt managed caught New Zealand (Napier) based instrumental act Jakob in support. If on the other hand you missed out on Jakob’s incredible performances, all I can say is that you missed out big time, as Solace only compounds the fact. Having already released two highly respected albums (2001’s Subsets Of Sets and 2003’s Cale:Drew), it’s been a long wait for Jakob (Who comprise of guitarist Jeff Boyle, bassist Maurice Beckett and drummer Jason Johnston) to return with something new, but the wait has been more than worth it.
The gentle and rhythmic Malachite is a slow building introduction to the album that sees the trio build up toward an explosive tail end, all the while maintaining a sense of hypnotic groove with a distinct and memorable catchiness. The predominately bass driven Pneumonic is far heavier initially (Enhanced with some sampling from H. Walker), but gives way around the middle to allow the guitars to add some atmospheric tones, only to find the trio turn things up towards the crushing finale. Lonesome is one of the more reflective numbers on the album in which the guitars are used for subtle (And at times eerie) tones rather than for anything resembling a riff (Which is aided by producer Dave Holmes, who puts in a guest performance on guitar), while the up-tempo Oran Mor chops and changes from moody lulls to raging feedback.
The single (And first promotional video clip filmed from the album) Safety In Numbers is similar in nature to the album’s opening cut with it’s ever ascending build on layers of sound, while the epic Everything All Of The Time (Featuring HDU’s Tristan Dingemans on guitar and vocals) and the melancholy/delicate Saint are rich tapestries in sound movement, and stand out as the album’s strongest moments.
Describing Jakob is no easy task, but if you were to combine elements of Jesu, Pelican, Isis and Neurosis together into an instrumental form, you’ll know just how special Jakob really is, and how utterly essential Solace is to your collection.
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Currently uploading these albums:
Dysrhythmia - Barriers and Passages
Pelican - Australasia
Envy - Insomniac Doze
Agalloch - The Mantle
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a#OO
Check back later.
I wouldn't worry about the RIAA with these bands. I'm sure the RIAA doesn't even know most of these bands exists.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7567261 - 10/27/07 04:45 PM (2 years, 25 days ago) |
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FUCK the RIAA! But the fact that they aren't worried about these bands means we should support them by buying their CDs.
These guys work hard and spend a ton of dough to bestow upon us the Rock,
if we want them to continue we should pay them for their work, just like any other service.
At least buy a shirt when at the show...
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I definitely still buy albums, especially when the band plays a show down here. Trouble is in the stores they usually charge import prices so I can't always afford to buy the albums.
But when they tour down here, I definitely make the effort to go along.
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i dont have that 5ive album, i have their self titled and the 5ive's Continuum Research Project - The Hemophiliac Dream...hemphillic dream is badass..its 2 tracks one 23 mins, the other 14 mins and is a remix done by JAmes PLotkin, and they are fucking badass..ill upload first track..its in flac, but worth the extra space..
gift's from enola and 5ive will be up in about an hour.
(oh, and th4e 5ive track is similar in sounding to the pink floyd song Set eh controls for the heart of hte sun..the bass line sounds the exact same. ima upload them both in the same file.)
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ok, i just listen to the remix, it defiantly a remake of set the controls for the heart of the sun....how fucking badass..
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#7567826 - 10/27/07 08:08 PM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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Can't wait to hear it...
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#7569409 - 10/28/07 10:55 AM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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Sorry it took so long; my internet was being unbearably slow yesterday. Here's one of the five albums.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4vvhyc
This is Agalloch - The Mantle.
It was a cold and unpleasant afternoon as I left the used CD store. The sky was grey and I prepared myself for the journey home. As I put on my hat and opened the door to leave the store, I turned on my CD player and zipped up my coat. Although I was feeling eager to get home, and out from the cold, something strange happened at that moment. As the music began flowing through my headphones, and the opening chords immediately surrounded me in their dark, melancholy atmosphere, I was suddenly overwhelmed with an urge to go for a long walk. As I reached into my coat and increased the volume, I began observing the people around me as they went along with their daily comings and goings. As I continued on my march, still observing the life that surrounded me, the sombre mood of the music continued to accompany me along my way. The sky remained bleak, and the air cold as the afternoon wore on...
If you can create a mental image of the scene that I have just described, then you already have I clear idea of what AGALLOCH's newest release "The Mantle" sounds like. Having read many positive reviews regarding this group from the bleak landscapes of Oregon, I was very curious to hear them for myself. While I had heard a few songs prior to purchasing this release, nothing could quite prepare me for the dark, depressive nature of AGALLOCH's music. The inescapable atmosphere of this collection of songs is truly breathtaking. The emphasis on acoustics contribute greatly to this emotional masterwork. Though the songs remain in the slow, to mid-tempo range, it never becomes a problem, as fast drumming and sweeping riffs would seem out of place on "The Mantle". While the use of repetition throughout this album may be seen as boring, I feel that it helps to add to the overall sense of longing and foreboding expressed by the musicians. Like a flowing river, each track joins together seamlessly, giving the listener a true sense of appreciation for "The Mantle"'s complete nature. While all songs work together to make this album the achievement that it is, look no further than the fourteen minute epic "In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion" to truly experience AGALLOCH's greatness. While Metalheads looking for a place to bang their heads may be turned away by AGALLOCH's calmness, this album will easily appeal to any looking for an original, yet challenging musical experience that will reveal its beauty over time. AGALLOCH have managed to create an album worthy of the attention of any music fan, which is why "The Mantle" deserves to be perceived as a great musical achievement.
...As I finally reached the end of my street, the final awe-inspiring note resounded from my CD player, only to be replaced by silence. In awe, I attempted to grasp what I had just experienced, but failed to successfully do so. My journey had come to its end as I entered my house, feeling welcomed by its warmth. The air was still cold, and the sky still grey as I took one final look outside. Emotionally drained, I shut the door.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7569539 - 10/28/07 01:16 PM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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most of you probably have this already...
here is the 2003 release from YOB:-
Catharsis
3 tracks, roughly 50minutes
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7570615 - 10/28/07 06:36 PM (2 years, 23 days ago) |
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any more albums by Impress by any chance?
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/3ix8k5
This is Dysrhythmia - Barriers And Passages
Prog rock is dangerous terrain. Step one way, and you fall into the wretched excess of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. A misstep another way leads to the interminably turgid Dream Theater. Abandon all hope (of meeting girls), ye who listen to Yes! The problem with prog is self-indulgence; the genre brings to mind guys with ponytails who sit around and praise Rush for its "musicianship." But now that bands like The Mars Volta (and in the past, Built to Spill) has made prog less unhip, Dysrhythmia should find fans outside the usual long-haired circles.
This instrumental trio has what most prog doesn't: restraint. No note is out of place, and the group eschews "jamming" in favor of tight but adventurous composition. Bassist Colin Marston and guitarist Kevin Hufnagel are virtuosos; Marston moonlights in avant-prog metal band Behold…the Arctopus, while Hufnagel is trained in jazz and classical guitar. But despite its technical bent, the group knows how to groove, and concisely conveys its chops without sounding studied.
After two self-released recordings, including the phenomenal No Interference, the band signed to grind/death metal label Relapse Records. The pairing might seem odd, but the band's chops match or exceed those of anyone on the label. In 2003, Dysrhythmia recorded Pretest with Steve Albini, who captured the band with his signature "live in the room" sound. Albini was a good choice; he recorded The Jesus Lizard's best albums, and at times Dysrhythmia sounds like The Jesus Lizard playing instrumental surf rock filtered through the prog metal of Atheist and Cynic.
On Barriers and Passages, Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Dresden Dolls, Helmet) is behind the boards. His work is so stellar that the album's promotional sticker hypes his role as engineer. Albini brought out Marston's huge, distorted bass tone and Jeff Eber's tough, yet supple drumming (again, think of The Jesus Lizard's rhythm section), but Bisi adds more clarity and detail. A notable difference from Pretest is the greater use of overdubs. They don’t often happen, as Hufnagel's playing is so full-bodied that he already sounds like more than one guitarist. But when they do, overdubs allow sustained melodies to soar over staccato, Duane Denison-esque chords on "Seal/Breaker/Void," and crystalline harmonics to chime over the wall of noise that ends "Sleep Decayer."
That song is noteworthy, both for its twitchy double-time and growling half-time passages, and for its technical prowess. Three minutes in, Hufnagel plays what sounds like a drone, but what is actually a single note picked repeatedly. He continues for two and a half minutes, picking sixteenth notes until the end of the song. That's endurance.
Hufnagel's basic tone is twangy (imagine Dick Dale, but tougher), but he liberally dials in both clean tones and muscular distortion, resulting in the band's most diverse album yet. While Dysrhythmia's music is challenging, close inspection reveals kindred spirits; Touch and Go, classic Dischord (the band has covered Fugazi live), Joe Satriani (minus the populist tendencies), Trenchmouth, The Mermen, and Mastodon all inhabit the same constellation of controlled dissonance.
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its Irepress...and no, thats their only album im aware of.
Good reveiw of the album here tho:
http://www.sonicfrontiers.net/php/review-72.html
and i got like 5 albums im uploading now...i
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#7571573 - 10/29/07 12:18 AM (2 years, 23 days ago) |
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/yhqkaz - Conifer - S/t
http://www.sendspace.com/file/l4btfs - Dakota Dakota - Shot in the Dark
http://www.sendspace.com/file/267pmt - North - Siberia / Ruins
More to come!!
im uploading the 59ve remake of pink floyd's set the controls for the heart of the sun, also in the rar file will be the pink floyd version, and James PLotkin's remix of 5ive's remake of set the controls...
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any more albums by Impress by any chance?
You mean Irepress? We have similar tastes, they're among my favorite mentioned so far.
Lots of killer 5/4 + 7/4, they're like a heavier, more modern, and instrumental King Crimson.
Love all the instrumental stuff, great soundtracks for The Cosmic Trigger series I'm reading.
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yes no idea how i misperceived that. i even had it written as Impress in my music library. 
this thread is evolving so quick, i can hardly keep up with all the new suggestions flowing in. i really like Jakob also. their song Pneumonic feels good in my eardrums.
keep it coming guys!
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Paranaut - ...and they have fallen
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C3F8D7640E4E5FC1
11 minute instrumental from their album The Hills Fell Silent
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#7574953 - 10/29/07 11:15 PM (2 years, 22 days ago) |
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More albums for the kind folk:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/t77mpe
Pelican - Australasia
http://www.sendspace.com/file/aus1wo
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a#oo
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mm6sc7
Envy - Insomniac Doze
More to come!
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#7575256 - 10/30/07 01:36 AM (2 years, 22 days ago) |
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Jakob was good..im listening to Agalloch now, it OK, itll take a few listens, but i think it will grow on me.
remind me of Therion.
ima have some new uploads to come.
im thinking these:
Rosetta's new album
Tephra's new album
and the pax cecilia albums(this is an UNSIGNED band, who releases all there album on the net for free, and also send albums to people at cost for them, just pay for shipping and like$1 for the cd-r and htey send you their album..im shocked they havent been picked up by a label yet.)
expect these tomrrow afternoon!
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#7575261 - 10/30/07 01:40 AM (2 years, 22 days ago) |
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AARGGG.
I FORGOT GIFTS FROM ENOLA AND THE 5IVE TRACK!!!
SORRY, THATLL BE UP TOMORROW AS WELL.
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any more albums by Impress by any chance?
You mean Irepress? We have similar tastes, they're among my favorite mentioned so far.
Lots of killer 5/4 7/4, they're like a heavier, more modern, and instrumental King Crimson.
Love all the instrumental stuff, great soundtracks for The Cosmic Trigger series I'm reading.
i think beware of safety is close in sound to Irepress, and gift from enola, which im gonna put up tomorrow, is also close in sound, not quite as 'dark' tho. windmills by the ocean has a similar sound as well, ...but Irepress is in its own ballpark when it comes to sound..i think about it more and try to put somethings up that might be similar..red sparrowes as kinda the same vibe..
so, for fans of Irepress, download these:
Beware of Safety
Gifts From enola
windmills by the ocean
red sparrowes
north
caspian
those arent EXACT replicas of Irepress, but who would want that any ways, but they are similar in that they are all instrumental, and all explore the light and dark sounds of music.
i uploaded on this post one song from North's latest album, Ruins, to give an example of hte light/dark sounds im speaking of.
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URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!URGENT!
START DOWNLOADING THE SONGS NOW!!!!!!!
SENDSPACE IS STARTING TO EXPIRE THE SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HURRY BEFORE THEY ARE TAKEN DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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#7575438 - 10/30/07 05:23 AM (2 years, 22 days ago) |
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Super cool, thanks fellas.
Sheepish, I fixed your Godspeed link, you had the "delete file" link up there, I'm glad no one clicked the button.
Do you have any Subarachnoid?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7578207 - 10/30/07 07:53 PM (2 years, 21 days ago) |
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enter the dronezone....
Here is Earth's 2005 release Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method) )
Earth is more ambient-like than a lot of the driving / powerful stuff we've been hearing. This album is more mellow (less distorted) than a lot of their releases (but it still has its moments that make you want to unleash some headbangs that could stop time.) as far as i can tell this album is devoid of vocals. check wikipedia link for more.
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Whoops, didn't mean to put the delete link for Godspeed. Thanks for fixing that.
Here are today's 3 albums:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hzirkm
Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse
Someone had described FARMAKON as "OPETH in a head on collision with MR BUNGLE" but since I don't know anything about MR BUNGLE I can't really attest to that statement. Instead, I'd describe FARMAKON as a fusion of OPETH, Thrash, Funk and lounge-Jazz. Sounds impossible? Sounds like a mishmash? Not at all, for FARMAKON has succeeded in the seemingly impossible with their debut full-length. And the fact that this is their debut only makes this that much more incredible. So wipe that look of disbelief from your face and read on.
Whoa! I'm not even sure where to begin here! This is certainly unique and probably will be a turn-off for the most extreme Death Metal fans with it's odd mixture of elements, but it'd be a grave injustice if fans of Progressive Death Metal were to pass this by. Ok, I guess you want some kind of a proof of that. But first I'd just want to say that I'm not that experienced as to be able to fully explain this music so bear with me on this one. Alright, here we go…
The base of "Loosely On Amoebas" is Swedish Death/Thrash in the vein of THE HAUNTED or THE CROWN but to make it more interesting there are some OPETH like passages with beautiful riffs and clean vocals and at times the song breaks down to some funky lounge-Jazz jamming. "Mist" then shows a bit more of the OPETH side of FARMAKON. Already the first notes bring "Morningrise"-era OPETH to my mind but still FARMAKON maintains a sound wholly their own. And more of the OPETH kind is shown on the next track but whereas "Mist" took on "Morningrise", "Stretching Into Me" is taking on "Still Life" and especially it's more mellow parts. But wait, there's more! The last couple of minutes of the track are made up of a kind of Funk with a touch of Latin American rhythms. I know, I nearly cried at that moment too…
So you can basically expect the unexpected here. One minute it's a furious Death/Thrash attack and the other it's like OPETH and the next thing you know is that it's moody jamming as could be found in some smoky little pub…and the next minute it's something else again…
FARMAKON carefully navigates their ship keeping clear of such hazards as overdoing it or making it sound too difficult to approach. Everything is fitted together with care to deliver the best possible outcome and despite the progressive nature of the music it is still easy to approach and even get into, yet hard to fully comprehend. But hey, I'm only my sixth or so listen in so I've still got a lot more to go!
And to keep the OPETH similarities going the singer sounds just like Mikael Åkerfeldt at times. Not only can he growl like the great Mikael but he also has a great clean voice and can also vary those two vocal types all the way from Hardcore to almost Black Metal screams. The rest of the quartet should be merited as well for being able to go from fast and crunchy Death/Thrash to lounge-Jazz, Funk and whatnot in between like any pro of said genres without ever losing control. And that is something not many can muster.
Quirky and odd at times, but never out of control. A bit like EPHEL DUATH, just heavier. "A Warm Glimpse" is an extremely mature offering from such a young band and should appeal to any open-minded fan of Death Metal. Any fan of Progressive Death Metal and OPETH should be on the lookout as well!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ulvgwr
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Thanks to a recent influx of talented competitors the spastic progressive tech metal terrain Between The Buried And Me used to freely enjoy began to suffer from a loss of habitat. It wasn't that these North Carolina natives' chops had lessened though, but faced with fierce one-upmanship and a seemingly limited set of resources, this musical spectrum was definitely prime for some population control.
"Colors", their latest release is more a parting shot to their imitators than anything else. For to get ahead of their peers, Between The Buried And Me have astutely studied the works of the past and heavily incorporated them into this stunning release. While the basis of the bands spastic metal forged upon highly agile musicianship is still the main proponent of this release, the bands exterior influences are no longer mere interludes or dalliances.
No, this time around the group will freely break loose from a pummeling predatory thrash/death metal groove and emerge into some Kansas-like southern rock stomp or bow gracefully at the feed of the likes of Queen, Dream Theater, Pink Floyd and King Crimson. The trick to making these seemingly disparate nods turn into something that functions properly throughout comes from the bands overall modern approach. They don't try to directly imitate and rather emulate the attitude, allowing them to convincingly graft a number of styles into their underlying metallic prowess.
As varied and expansive as this disc is though, there's still a soul to it. A rare feat in this day and age when the influences thrown against a wall usually resemble the blood splatters at a gruesome crime scene rather than some kind of art. But some kind of art is exactly what "Colors" is. A broad spectrum of musical talent, played by some incredibly proficient musicians who relentlessly endeavor to provoke the listener while pushing their own limits.
In a genre often bent only upon intensity, Between The Buried And Me have managed to add in the depth and variety necessary to keep the audience coming back long after the adrenaline has worn off. In turn, they have made a new milestone many of their followers will simply be unable to reach. Long-winded and indulgent at times? Sure, and it may not be something you can listen to everyday. But with an end result this epic, who gives a shit. It may not be a new revolution, but it's still the best this corner of metal has come up with in years.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/02safp
Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye
The year 2003 saw avantgarde metal band Maudlin of the Well change its name to the equally esoteric Kayo Dot, join the roster of John Zorn’s Tzadik record label (thereby somewhat acrimoniously terminating their tenure with Dark Symphonies), and release an album that is far and beyond better than anything released under their previous moniker.
Choirs of the Eye was released as part of Tzadik’s Composer series of albums, which is to say that a large part of the albums in question were composed via classical theory. The normally restrictive confines of classical composition (yes, I am a notoriously lazy musician) do not really come into play as the music itself leaves a lot of room in which the members can improvise and noodle around on their respective instruments. Whereas Maudlin of the Well’s more experimental (read: weird) moments were occasionally forced in approach, Kayo Dot tends to go about things in a much more organic and moody way. It seems as if the band’s intent was to create and obtain a mood without so much weirding their listeners out, and while it does have its revved up, doomed out, and intense moments (witness the utterly awesome, almost Weakling-inspired black metal cacophony that comes about at around the 10:30 mark of “The Manifold Curiosity”), Choirs of the Eye is mostly a pensive and moving affair that has more in common with the releases of Talk Talk, Cerberus Shoal (with whom the band has recently toured), and The Dirty Three than with any that of any metal band I can think of offhand.
To close, I will say this: I wish that Dark Symphones did not take Kayo Dot’s departure so personally, as they are now witholding the release of MotW’s back-catalogue, thereby robbing fans of some truly great music. Let us hope that they shape up before the albums are forgotten entirely. In the meantime, we can rejoice in the release of this album and, hopefully, many albums to come.
I do have some Subarachnoid Space. I will upload some once I'm done uploading everything else. Patience
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#7578971 - 10/30/07 11:42 PM (2 years, 21 days ago) |
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ive been lazy, but im uploading like 5 albums right now...
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2 more here for you guys:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/i4ah0g
ISOR - Post Mortem Peep Show
Another extreme noise band, which made its way through the Underground and which crowns the hard work of the past years with the release of the “Official” debut. It’s official because this splendid band finally found a capable record label with Copro Records, which should lead to a greater fame due to a better distribution. And believe me, their fame will grow as ISOR deliver an insane intensity on “Post Mortem Peep Show”.
Hundreds of crazy rhythm changes, mad outbursts of fury on both sides, musically and vocally and they have such great songwriting abilities that the common Metalhead will probably have its problems with ISOR. There is no average concept but they weave between diversified noise attacks. Whether angry Hardcore, bone-crushing Death Metal or progressive Thrash Metal, ISOR infuse all these ingredients into their own visions of a sound and they create a pretty hard and completely unique thing. Between that are again and again short but weird acoustic passages, which instantly won’t fit in but after some spins, they find their places in the overall sound and they serve for even more diversity and variety in their sound.
The elite with SIKTH, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, JOHNNY TRUANT, THE END or MEDULLA NOCTE has a new member but with a big difference. Because in contrary to mentioned bands, ISOR have not a several members line-up but consist only of two members. Dave Merricks (guitars and vocals) and Nick Hemingway (drums and backing vocals) make out the whole thing. But the insane ideas of “Post Mortem Peep Show” come out from these two guys and they had only some help in the studio. But also there, they did a good job and enlisted Dave Chang (MIOCENE, STAMPIN’ GROUND, LANDMINE SPRING and many more), who is a secret tip due to his great work and he ennobled a lot gems in the Philia Studios.
Already the first notes prove, that they have chosen the right one as it initially crushes and it’s hard to imagine a more pressuring and crushing sound. Furthermore, they have some strange lyrics and song titles, so it’s also not predictable in this area. “Post Mortem Peep Show” is not an album with single check out tips, it must be listened as a whole. Due to the multitude technical highlights, you have the duty to give it some time and to regard it as an overall work of art. This is how an ultra brutal bastard of the most extreme styles has to sound to and when a band thrashes through all these styles with such a self confidence, it deserves much praise. ISOR fight against all boring music and that’s really really great.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/q0ul9e
Flat Earth Society - Isms
Listening to Flat Earth Society is like hearing Carl Stalling score a film adaptation of a James Ellroy novel. One listen to "De Vrachtwagen 1", the opening track from the new Flat Earth Society compilation ISMS, is all you need in order to get a good idea of just how insane, yet compelling this music can be. Starting off with a foreboding, sustained double bass note and an eerily playful, undulating melody by either a synth or a melodica, you can picture an opening title sequence of a 1940s film noir, stark white titles superimposed over a dark, murky street. Trumpets erupt in a swanky fanfare, but the classy feeling is negated immediately by whimsical clarinets and crazed snare drum syncopation, as if mimicking the footsteps of a cartoon character who has happened to sneak onscreen. Murky yet effervescent, sinister yet whimsical, this is the one big band record that's made for anyone who thinks they don't want to own a big band record.
And what more perfect home for an outfit as strange as Flat Earth Society, than Ipecac Records? Mike Patton's brilliant little record label already has its own resident jazz fusion outfits in Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant and the dastardly demonic Fantomas, so why not a little bit of old-fashioned big band, tweaked just enough to scare the pants of stodgy traditionalists? Formed by bandleader/primary composer/clarinetist Peter Vermeersch in 1998, and over the course of four very well-received albums, the Bruges, Belgium outfit has earned the reputation of being one of the most experimental, yet accessible avant-garde jazz ensembles in Europe. It's one thing to try to take the classic sound of big band into an altogether new direction, incorporating the influences of more latter-day artists, including Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, and The Residents, but to take such a sound, and present it all in a very fun, strangely warm, and weirdly beguiling package that's able to simultaneously command the attention of discerning jazz aficionados, indie rock geeks in search of something their blogging friends haven't heard of, and children with strong senses of humor, is another thing entirely.
Until now, each of Flat Earth Society's albums had been available in Europe only, as any curious North American listeners were forced to shell out the cash for overpriced import copies, but thanks the always ingenuous Mr. Patton, who took the time to lovingly assemble what he felt would be the definitive introduction to the band's work, music fans on this side of the Atlantic can now find out for themselves just why these Flemish musicians are so fascinating. Culled from those four albums, ISMS is a 19-track, hour-long piece of inspired musical lunacy.
Fans of the crime thriller genre will get an absolute kick out of "O.P.E.N.E.R.", which achieves a scintillating balance between darkly dramatic and kitschy, peaking with an inspired solo section, before coming to an intense, cacophonous conclusion. "Pune" is just as crazed, but wildly different, with its traditional Oriental tones sounding as if performed in the cantina scene from Star Wars, and if that weren't weird enough, a kazoo solo and surf guitar included for good measure. Two brilliant tracks from the 2003 album The Armstrong Mutations are loving, but highly demented tributes to Louis Armstrong and New Orleans jazz; the raucous "(Little) King Ink" combines early jazz and primal rhythms, meshing an obscure Armstrong composition with Nick Cave's classic 1981 Birthday Party composition, "King Ink", Tim Wouters' impassioned lead vocals matching Cave's vocal theatrics. Meanwhile, "Funeral & Binche" is an excellent evocation of the classic New Orleans funeral dirge, but then, midway through, erupts into a ridiculously incongruous, John Philip Sousa-style march, as free-form trumpet solos whirl around the rigid melody. It's fantastic.
Patton deserves a lot of credit here, as he's been able to bring this bizarre, yet ingenious band to listeners who otherwise would not have looked for it in the first place. It's just the kind of freakazoid jazz that not only any fan of Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, or Bohren & der Club of Gore would enjoy, but most importantly, it's guaranteed to thrill anyone looking for instrumental music that's way, way, way left of the mainstream.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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Here's another one
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dcqn8n
SubArachnoid Space - A New And Exact Map
There are five tracks on the album, two of them being extended space excursions. "Indy Maru" is my favorite track and the one with Ferguson joining on vox organ. The 15 minute tune opens with eerie organ, various bells and blocks, and subtle but effective sounds and atmospherics from the guitars. The mood is dark but there's also a bit of a Middle Eastern psych feel. Organ fits SubArachnoid Space's music well and is an outstanding instrument in general for psychedelia. As the music slowly evolves the guitars begin their whale song wailing. Proper studio recordings from this band come across as a potent force with each musician and each sound commanding its own place in the sonic whole. Some of the guitar parts reminded me of Djam Karet. And this track also reminded me of Spacious Mind's "The Mind Of A Brother" album for the high powered and totally spaced out combination of guitars and keyboards. Some of the guitars are really searing. It's amazing how much cosmic intensity can be wrung from just a few notes. The other long track is the 18 minute "Melted", which is similar to "Indy Maru" but without the organ. Just a cool extended guitar dominated psychedelic journey through the cosmos that is just as soothing as it is brain blistering.
"Prism" and "Fruity Drinks With Little Umbrellas" are a bit different having more rock structure and rhythm than typically heard from SubArachnoid Space. Andy Stephens' bass is partly responsible as it helps set a steady and confident pace. The guitars are still the heart of the band's music but the more prominent keyboards and synths really flesh out the music and send it in more varied and exciting directions. "Fruity Drinks With Little Umbrellas" is totally unlike anything I've heard from SubArachnoid Space yet. It starts as a spacey rockin' Dub tune, but quickly launches into an Ozric Tentacles styled jam. A heavy driving spacerocker! Finally, "Drink Me" is the one live performance on the album, taken from a show in Las Vegas and is classic SubArachnoid Space. Very trance trippy and embellished by space synths.
In summary, A New And Exact Map is an impressive step forward for SubArachnoid Space and as the year winds down I can tell this will easily make my top ten for 2000 list.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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!!!!!DOWNLOAD THE LINKS BEFORE THEY ARE TAKEN DOWN!!!!
IT WOULD BE A PAIN IF SOMEONE ASKED TO RE-UPLOAD A FILE..CUZ I KNOW I WOULD DO IT...CANT TURN DOWN THE CHANCE TO SPREAD MUSIC..
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7p2543 - Conifer S/T
http://www.sendspace.com/file/u0fi2g - Gifts From Enola - Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind (sounds like when your tripping :P )
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xh20ws - Tephra - A Modicum of Truth
two more on he way.....
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/vwm9l7 - 5ive's Continuum Research Project - The Haemophiliac Dream Remake of the pink floyd song, set he controls for the <3 of the sun, and also a remix of 5ive's remake by James Plotkin.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fmjio9 - The Pax Cecilia - Discography
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uk66ma - Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun(spent many a nights walking around my neighborhood, tripping balls, listening to both these albums..very good sound scape climaxes and visual music. a lap steel guitar is used.and a member from Isis plays guitar, Bryant Cliford Meyer.[he was in Windmills..., the gersch, and currently plays with isis and this band, he has a good track record ot say the least!!].
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4jfip6 - Red Sparowes At the Soundless Dawn
http://www.sendspace.com/file/obpnh4 - Callisto - Full discography, and this is the closet band to Irepress IMO, just with vocals. well, atleast their latest album Noir is. the first tow tracks are like post0jazz/metal, really good. their earlier stuff is much heavier. but still good.
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i think i uploaded confier twice, o well...
i meant to upload adrift..itll be up later.
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START DOWNLOADING THE SONGS NOW!!!!!!!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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See, this is why I love this forum. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
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use rapidshare instead of sendspace. the links don't really expire.
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Blut Aus Nord - 2005 - Thematic Emanation Of Archetypal Multiplicity
My mind fades into the image of a lonely child singing inside a church; a small boy, only a silhouette. His song echoes from wall to wall, vibrating towards the uncovered arch of a single window where there surges a brilliant light from outside the magnificent confines of the sanctuary. Suddenly, his song ends, vanishing with the light, and the window is empty. It's as if a pall was thrown upon the entire sky.
My particular vision aside, it takes less than fifty seconds to know how remarkably adept this band is in altering their temperament in such immaculate and simple delivery. Like most experimental forays, _Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity_ gives a glimpse of the band's capability outside of usual conceptions, but doesn't particularly signal any one direction for the future.
This release consists of five instrumental tracks that were intended for a split with The Axis of Perdition, which never materialized. Composed largely of guitar and synthesizer, these songs remain mostly in mid-tempo, retaining the cavernous distortion and contorted six string technique of previous work. However, the interesting tremolo bending of guitar chords, which gave their last two albums such punctuation, is absent here; it is replaced by ambient, multi-effects passages and faintly Godflesh-esque machine doom. No blast beats and no vocals, only some brief spoken word and unintelligent meditations, as is the case with songs "Level 1" and “Level 3". Accentuating their music with a religious tone appears faddish, but their use of eastern (mock eastern?) prayers in place of actual vocals is very effective and, I suppose, in keeping with the band's vague mysticism and visual aesthetic.
There is one annoying snag in the transition, and that is the third track, "Level 2", composed of looped drum beats with an up tempo, hip bass line repeating for seven minutes. Decent, but a throwaway piece that is in no way distinguished by itself. A bland shock -- like celebrity sex videos -- it's only interesting if you're familiar with who is doing it, then it passes. Here Blut Aus Nord seem too impressed by themselves.
_The Work Which Transforms God_ put Blut Aus Nord on the path toward ridding the collective rules of black metal. With this release, they've nearly left the metal domain altogether -- a logical but larger step. While more concentration on expanding the electronic portion of their sound seemed obvious afterwards, it has come with modifying a large portion of what also made their former album so intriguing, testing the following they have gained, but more importantly their own limitations; for this sounds like less of an attempt to transform years of musical direction than it does to free oneself of the prison that genre can become.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ll9to
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - 1999 - Pataphisical Freak Out MU!!
But on to the album review for real. I've picked Pataphisical Freak Out MU because it features the fewest irritants of any Acid Mothers Temple LP I know,4 and because I played the CD over & over on this past Autumn tour, for myself and for anyone else who would listen.
The album opens with the Faust Tapes-meets-Cosmic Jokers spoken word of "Cosmic Audrey", their friend Audrey Ginester cast in the role of Gille Letmann, here speaking in echoed French over drones and monosynths, pre-preparing us for the weirdness to come. Then huge demented feedback guitar propels us headlong into the wild blazing, chordless free-form rock of "Acid Takion". Here, the group is the power trio from soundcheck hell, as the ARP tone generator kicks the wa-everything of the guitar, bass and drums into greater and greater sonic speedballs, finally breaking off in a club-footed stop-go of calamitous sludge.
"White Summer of Love" follows as a beautiful echoed breeze, as though Tim Buckley's Lorca is being played by both Amon Duul 1 and 2 simultaneously. Distant female wa-vocals and twitterings, resembling Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's Music from the Galaxies, permeate an arpeggio'd belltone electric guitar, until it cuts directly into Kawabata's restrained but motorik "Third Eye of the Whole World", which brings forth still more Faust Tapes-like meditative groove.
"Golden Bat Blues Dedd" is a scrappy pedestrian open-cymballed blues dirge played in the Adams Family crypt by Lurch and Herman Munster. It's the Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band LP distilled and unashamed, as though Ringo Starr and Klaus Voorman had had 30 years in which to re-train their minds for Yoko's impossible banshee assault rather than being thrown defenceless headlong into her piranha tank armed only with a knowledge of cod. It's shameless and spastically beautiful, and it segues straight into the arcane Pictish Cajun bagpipe drone of "Mr. Hardy Guidey Man", here credited as being traditional. Oh sure, it sounds traditional - about as much as the similarly bagpipe-led "Caledonia" does on Cro-Magnon's 1969 freakout LP Orgasm.
"Magic Aum LSD" is one minute of spoken cosmic word from the Acid Mothers' self-styled "erotic underground" member Magic Aum Gigi, then we're off into the greatest track ever recorded by Acid Mothers Temple. This incredible dislocated slow thrash known as "Astrological Overdrive" is fuelled and driven by a thrashing and chromatic descending chord sequence over which the three female vocalists bill and coo and hum and hah something about "my daddy", while bubbling Rick Danko bass and furiously soloing drums giddy up the mix. Its thrashing, ringing deep-bowled jazz electric is beautiful, oh it's so beautiful - like Al Archer from Dexy's meets Pete Towsnhend in an emotional string-shred-o-thon; like a Spanish galleon top heavy with dubloons spinning around the edge of an Atlantic-sized whirlpool, threatening to teeter over and sink at any moment.
Then we're off into the three-part psychedelic speed wa-metal of "Right About Rainbow I/You're my Only Super Sunshine/Right About Rainbow II". Aren't the titles of these tracks from the netherland of the cosmos? There's something about the Japanese take on English which pitches even the most obvious names into a translated Mid-Atlantic trench of semi-understanding. Of which the same can be said about the warped Norman Collier stun-guitar of "You're my Only Super Sunshine". Crackling incoherence on a busted mike your music teacher keeps insisting you return to the school - but you ain't got the nerve to tell him you trashed the fucker weeks ago.
And so to the final song of the album, "Blue Velvet Blues". Slow slow slow, it's an achey breakey heart-attack of congealed "Signed DC"; a one chord minor key maelstrom. But it's the Out Here version as opposed to the one on the first Love album. And you know how Gary Rowles' 11-minute super-eloquent burn-up on "Love is More Than Words (Better Late Than Never)"5 forewarned us of 1970s metal-to-come? Well, imagine that he'd appeared throughout that whole album, rather than just on the one track, and imagine that Arthur Lee had given him the same free rein throughout, and you're getting close to imagining this final track. One chord, 25-and-a-half minutes, Nuff Said.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/wwv2x4
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - 2005 - Anthem of the Space
On this, the tenth anniversary for the overly active Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O; Kawabata Makoto announces a new supergroup: Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno! Featuring members of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Boredoms, Zeni Geva, Ghost, White Heaven, Gong, Subvert Blaze, & High Rise. "And, it's a good one, for those who dig the long-form AMT stuff like La Novia. We think they're serious about this Anthem of THE Space stuff. Like, there's a contest to make the music that will be playing far out in space for all time, if you could only hear it. This is a seriously spaced-out AMT effort indeed. A cosmic march into the furthest reaches of where no man (or hippy) has gone before. Except Amon Duul II. 'Cause the main part of this disc, the 44 minute title track, has very much of an Amon Duul II's Yeti vibe going on! Stoner paradise. Very krautrock. A heavy, mantric riff repeating over and over a loooong time. Super hypnotic. We like! That's followed by the ten minute "Poppy Rock", a track that's more like a spacey hoedown. Kinda jig-like.Yet again, a winner from the AMT camp."-Aquarius. Featuring: Tabata Mitsuru (Zeni Geva, ex.Boredoms), Higashi Hiroshi (AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.), Shimura Koji (ex.High Rise, ex.White Heaven), Okano Futoshi (ex.Subvert Blaze, ex.Ghost), Kawabata Makoto (Gong, AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.)!!!
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Boris - Pink
Rock music (and metal music by extension) is in love with itself. As such, it finds it very difficult to step out of the narrow boundaries that it defines itself with. Whereas you'd see, for example, a techno band covering, say METALLICA, you'd never a metal band cover, say ORBITAL ("Satan" doesn't count). Though there are exceptions... And one of them is BORIS.
The experimental Japanese monsters are back. Having been around for about 10 years, BORIS have regularly switched musical genres between albums, from drone, to psychedelic rock, to noise. Having collaborated with people like MERZBOW, MASONNA and Keinji Haino (and also working on a project with the people we love to hate, SUNN0))) ) (<- the last two parentheses are not part of the name), BORIS start 2006 with "Pink", on Southern Lord.
"Pink" is an album to behold. An album that can switch from EARTH-like atmospheres, to grungy outbreaks in the blink of an eye. The opening track (which I cannot actually type, as it is in Kanji) drones out into your ears through to your brain. The track is beautiful. Unlike a lot of drone music, there's no hint of menace in the music here. The track is serene and relaxing, rendering the listener defenceless for the assault that's about to ensue.
"Boris" is a fundamentally metal album, with outbursts of psychedelic crazyness, punk and grunge attitude, and doom despair. "(blackout)" would not be out of place as one of the more spaced out CELTIC FROST songs. "Electric" and "Painted With" could be in MONSTER MAGNET's seminal "Spine of God". "(it's no different, regardless)" could have been in NIRVANA's "Bleach". And then there's "(when we're gone)", the 10 minute sludge/stoner epic, that reeks of power metal (!) and post-rock (!!) influences.
"Pink" is awfully produced - on purpose. The music bleeds out and surrounds you, with noisy (but very discernable) riffs, echoed vocals, heavy bass and pounding drums, the production adds to the abstract atmosphere of the music contained within.
I mean, BORIS operate a label called "Fangs Anal Satan". What can you say about a band like that? Lovers of the avant garde, droned out metallers and lovers of the alternative, you should really check the latest album of this crazy trio out.
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I guess check out Thrones if he hasn;t been mentioned already
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Colour Haze - 2006 - Tempel
Colour Haze is a stoner/psychedelic rock group from Munich, Germany fronted by Stefan Koglek.
Formed in the mid-nineties, Colour Haze is one of the oldest German stoner outfits, and have since then become one of the flagships of the German stoner rock scene. Since 1999 the lineup has been stable, with Stefan Koglek playing guitar and handling vocals, Manfred Merwald on drums and Philipp Rasthofer playing bass-guitar. Emerging from a sound heavily influenced by Black Sabbath on their first records, they shifted to a more improvised, jam-based sound, culminating in songs topping twenty minutes on the self-titled Colour Haze (2004).
http://www.sendspace.com/file/vg9yd3
Cloroform - 2003 - Hey You Let's Kiss
To many readers of this site, it might come as a surprise that there are good Norwegian bands that don't play some form of heavy metal. Cloroform is a good example: Take three jazz and rock'n'roll boys with a screwy sense of humour and who obviously have more than a passing interest in guys like John Zorn and Mr Bungle, and then let them start a band. What is the result? 'Tis somewhat hard to say really. I won't use that horrid "avant garde" term, as it's becoming quite a bloated carcass of a term these days. Think of a mix of filthy old porno soundtracks (like the brilliant "Shit Sushi" 7"), some upbeat instrumental rock'n'roll ala Bomboras, a good amount of fun and games, some good jazz-musician types, then smack it all together and throw it through a cartoon-filter. You'd probably not get this, but it might not be too far off.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/46ziva
Capricorns - 2005 - Ruder Forms Survive
When I open the booklet of 'Ruder Forms Survive' I see a guy wearing a mask of a dog while posing for a band picture. This in combination with the fact that Capricorns released their debut album on Rise Above made me nervous about what to expect. While listening to this album everything fell into place. Capricorns made a combination of rough rudimentary punk/hardcore like Neurosis did on their debut 'Pain of Mind' and combined this rough forms with modern spacy post rock landscapes not unlike Pelican and the father of this genre: Neurosis. The cross point of these styles bring you back at times to the stoner and sludge territorial. All the tracks are almost instrumental except for "The First Broken Promise". The absurd vocals on this song are done by singer Eugene Robinson from the band Oxbow. His vocals are the stranger in the land that Capricorns shows. Some will call his vocals overdone but it brings a smile on your face between the serious music that is created by Capricorns. After this track doomy punk riffs start in “1440:Exit Wargasmatron” and later out spanned riffs follow up. The combination creates a specific tense between your speakers but the tense is not kept as tight as elastic on a package of flyers. The tightness in these songs is comparable to high voltage cables in the field. But as you all know there is always danger when attaching a high voltage cable and this same idea relates to this Britain band. On the first superficial listening session it seems that boring stuff is produced in the House of Capricorns, but the riffs on the album have an indefinable force. Now it’s time to put this force into remarkable songs like the closing song "793AD: The Harrying of the Heathen".
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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thanks all..i've been enjoying a lot of the stuff thats been posted.
Here's some more Earth...
Earth 2 (special low frequency version)
3 tracks, over 70 minutes ... subwoofer recommended for optimal listening.
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Earthtone9 - 2000 - arc'tan'gent
Arc'Tan'Gent is the last, and greatest, album of Earthtone 9's short-lived career.
The dynamics the band display are incredible. They are capable of shifting from emotional beauty to calculated math rock or from sweeping melodies to brutal hardcore, and it all sounds like a natural progression - never contrived.
The music is often very dense and draws up bleak, perplexing soundscapes. Elsewhere, the haunting melodies and almost tribal drumming create a dream-like atmosphere.
The album seems to become more and more intense, the further in you get. It truly draws you in - once it grabs you, it won't let go. Opener, 'Tat Twam Asi', is the stand out track, as it constantly changes and evolves, building up to a fantastic chorus. From there the album never settles. The following two tracks are not only catchy, but brilliantly crafted and complex slices of melodic metal. 'Approx. Purified', on the other hand, is sheer metalcore might. It then goes on to the softest track on the album: 'Walking Day' is quietly understated progressive rock. 'Star Damage for Beginners' is simply intense, again built around a superb chorus. 'Ni9e - This is the Sound...' is a short instumental track before the dark, murky 'Yellow Fever', which features Liberty 37 frontman Ishmael Lewis on vocals. 'Alpha Hi' is a much more straight forward rocking track and the album finishes with the epic closer, 'Binary 101'.
The band's talent is simply unique. From the inventive riffs, through Karl Middleton's original vocals to the imaginative drumming of Simon Hutchby (which I believe to be almost as good as that of Tool's Danny Carey).
If you aren't persauded yet, you should be. This is one of the greatest metal albums of all time. Those people who say Britain lacks any great bands: idiots.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5z8k1c
Devin Townsend - 1998 - Infinity
Aside from Mr. Devin Townsend's proclivity to appear naked on album covers, the very talented Canadian musician has done nothing but show an immense amount of musical talent and ability in his various projects. His most familiar project, Strapping Young Lad, is a portrait of irrational emotions set to a bombastic musical landscape while Ocean Machine was an ususual attempt to capture the music the oceans themselves might make were they given a couple guitars and a a microphone. Townsend's proper solo release, Infinity is not infinitely different than the other two ventures, which is reassuring as it offers exactly the same amount of allure as the others.
Since the same man writes and creates the music and vision for the various projects, it is no suprise that Infinity has that familiar Devy crush and symphonic devourment of the ears. However, Infinity is a bit more honed and sheds a bit of the angst for a more introspective look into the artist's heart. Townsend's vocals range from very straightforward and melodic, such as the catchy "Christeen" to painfully torn as on "Soul Driven". But his vocals are only part of the picture as the music throughout goes through a variety of stages, all building towards the climax on "Unity". (Yes, "Noise Pink Bubbles" is, for all intents and purposes, a "hidden" track that is an aside from the crux of the album.) "Truth" begins the album with an affirmation of music and chants of "hallelujah" before segueing into "Christeen". The next two tracks, "Bad Devil" and "War", are surprising in their ability to rock and boogie down. "Bad Devil" is nearly a heavy metal gospel track and is guaranteed to shake your little booty. The midsection of the album becomes a lot more convoluted, dense and troubled. As individual songs they would not hold up but in the scheme of how the songs work as a cohesive whole, they're very important to how the emotions are wrenched by Infinity. As with Ocean Machine's Biomech, the album moves through a variety of stages before reaching the final resolution on "Unity". And as stated before, the actual closer on the album is "Noisy Pink Bubbles", which doesn't fit the overall big picture, but ends up closing things out on a great note.
Infinity is the sort of record that will initially capture you with its more instantly accessible moments at the beginning of the record and if you allow it to play as a whole, its magic becomes insurmountable. Ultimately fulfilling albums such as Infinity are quite difficult to come by, so anyone who is looking for a meaningful and extremely well conceived and executed record best be looking for a copy of this.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pd91rd
Cult Of Luna - 2003 - Cult of Luna
Imagine that MESHUGGAH and ENTOMBED had a small brother, who'd try to copy them, but who'd also listened too much to KATATONIA and to Hardcore. Well, this small brother is none other than CULT OF LUNA, who have a massive and heavy sound, riffs that can be slow in a doom kind, or slow in an old-school Swedish death metal style, and with very raw and Deathcore vocals. The whole thing is very very precise, and will definitely make an impression on you, even though we can still reproach them to make songs that are sometimes a bit too long, for an album that can get oppressive. But oppression is so cool anyway…
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/m77blf
Especially Likely Sloth - 2003 - But If What He'll What Ant
Especially Likely Sloth has very strange goals and an even stranger purpose. This is the most uncompromisingly brutal CD you'll ever hear! Words cannot express the sheer magnitude of this brutal piece of utterly brutal brutality! Guaranteed to make you shit your pants within 10 seconds! Band leader Jason Walton (best known for his project Nothing and his work with Sculptured and Agalloch) claims to be possessed by an eight-year-old mentally handicapped child named Chriss Cobb when composing and performing the music of Especially Likely Sloth. An absolutely barbarous, bloodthirsty, callous, ferocious, gruff, hard, harsh, heartless, impolite, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, rough, rude, ruthless, savage, severe, uncivil, uncivilized, unfeeling, unmannerly, unmerciful, vicious slab of completely brutal brutalness... the likes of which new synonyms for brutal need to be created! He states that the goal of Chriss Cobb is to preach the gospel of the new hell - the hell that exists now after Satan had revamped it to make it more torturous - and Especially Likely Sloth is Chriss' vehicle for this message. Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen, who were rich, and had everything they wanted, but no children. The queen lamented over this day and night, and said, "I am like a field on which nothing grows." At last God gave her her wish, but when the child came into the world, it did not look like a human child, but was a little donkey. When the mother saw that, her lamentations and outcries began in real earnest. She said she would far rather have had no child at all than have a donkey, and that they were to throw it into the water that the fishes might devour it. But the king said, "No, since God has sent him he shall be my son and heir, and after my death sit on the royal throne, and wear the kingly crown." The donkey, therefore, was brought up and grew bigger, and his ears grew up high and straight. And he was of a merry disposition, jumped about, played and took especial pleasure in music, so that he went to a celebrated musician and said, teach me your art, that I may play the lute as well as you do. Let's put the "X" in BMX! Dig it! Apparently, Satan thought that because the world has become fraught with violence, famine and disease, that hell started to pale in comparison and something needed to be done to make hell a threat again. Brutally brutal brutality!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tnt925
Ephel Duath - 2003 - The Painter's Palette
This is the first album by Ephel Duath that took a turn from standard black metal to jazz infused metal. The core member fired all previous members and hired a bunch of non metal musicians and this is the result.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bnsgel
Electric Wizard - 2004 - Dopethrone
One of my favourite doom/stoner/psychedelic albums. Similar in tone to YOB, they take doom and mix a lot of psychedelic into their music. Lots of low ends on this album.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/u0fi2g - Gifts From Enola - Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind (sounds like when your tripping :P )
     
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
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wow so much new stuff... i'm digging colour haze right now. they remind me of kyuss, but i like ch's vocals more.
Here is The Delerium Has Just Began, off the album by the same name, by Tuatha de Danann a folk metal band from Brazil.
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The Delirium Has Just Began...
Ruled by the velvet sun we dance in praise of love
Ecstasy in our souls we all are shinning
Claping hands getting on Join the circle
Everything is beautiful embrace the velvet gods
Strange ideas coming Twisted rays around
Colours touchin us The delirium ruling on
See that little ones fell this magic tunes
Colourful sunrise eyes with rainbow lights
Surrender to our Sun theres no way to run
This magic all we're on it's really just began
Maybe you are asking why am I so distant of your
Way to see the life and why you Only walk straight
Leave away the fears you have on your mind
Open,break the chains you might have inside
[Solo:Berne-Bruno]
What a wonderful way to see!!!
What a special is that harmony!!!
Come on ,Come on leave this smoke lead to the marvelous dream that we live shining and laughing
Ruled by the velvet sun we dance in praise of love
Ecstasy in our souls embrace the velvet gods
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/8kxbok
Earthtone9 - 2000 - arc'tan'gent
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5z8k1c
Devin Townsend - 1998 - Infinity
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pd91rd
Cult Of Luna - 2003 - Cult of Luna
Figured cult of luna would find its way here, ill put up their newest album, Somewhere along the highway.
possibly more isis and other great music to come..
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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damn the Beware of Safety one is unavailable now.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/m77blf
Especially Likely Sloth - 2003 - But If What He'll What Ant
I'm awake now. 
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Colour Haze - 2006 - Tempel
All 7 of my Souls are diggin this one.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7590922 - 11/03/07 12:32 PM (2 years, 18 days ago) |
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omfg this shit is sweet
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
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Colour Haze - 2006 - Tempel
All 7 of my Souls are diggin this one.
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fuck yeah!
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/i2ayuv
Estradasphere - 2000 - It's Understood
It's Understood is Estradasphere's first studio album. It was released on Mimicry Records on June 26, 2000.
Notably, the first track on the album, "Hunger Strike", sets the tone of Estradasphere by covering a wide range of musical genres. The song is just less than twenty minutes long and is the longest studio recording of an Estradasphere song.
Tracks 6-9 are songs that form the four part composition titled "The Princes of Xibalba".
Tracks 2 and 11 are not performed, but electronically sequenced by Tim Smolens and parody the music from popular video games such as Super Mario Bros.
Track 12 was recorded at a violin recital for Estradasphere member Timb Harris. All other tracks were recorded at ROHYPONOL_Studios911 in 1999.
Miscellanea
* The "mystery rap" George performs on track 3 ("The Transformation") can be seen on Estradasphere's video release These Are the Days as George is sitting in a hot tub. For the track, these vocals were heavily filtered and barely understandable, but in the video, the original vocals are clear.
* The introduction and title to "The Transformation" come from a home video made by members of the Estradasphere circus. The video can be seen on These Are The Days.
* The sound clip at the end of "The Transformation" comes from the Rob Reiner mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. The clip is heard after Dave Murray performs a drum solo while the clip itself refers to one of many drummers from the fictional band Spinal Tap who seemingly and spontaneously combust.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: beneath]
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OK
since this thread is getting so much attention, i plan, when i have free time in the next day or two, to completely .rar alot of full discographies and albums...might have to delete my movies..but ive seen them all anyways..and why not have your music backed up, and zipped...
SO EXPECT ALOT OF SHIT SOON, INCLUDING REUPLOADS OF ONES THAT ARE UNAVAILABLE NOW...IM sEARCHING FOR GOOD HOST SIGHTS..THAT DONT EXPIRE QUICKLY. ANYONE HAVE IDEAS POST IT HERE!!!!
THIS IS THE SHROINK THREAD NOW!!!!
and while i have your attention, i make avant garde music myself:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sg36eh
me on keyboard and feed back instrument
friend n drums..enjoy.
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cool thanks, I'll definitely download some stuff.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7594938 - 11/04/07 03:09 PM (2 years, 17 days ago) |
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The Shroinkery...
I'd sticky this but it would be better to keep it low-key.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7595295 - 11/04/07 04:45 PM (2 years, 16 days ago) |
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this thread is awesome. how come i hadn't seen it before. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
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ISOR is some of the best metalcore ive heard in a long time, and im not a big fan of the metalcore scene, dilinger is ok..other than that im not really a keen to this style, but for some reason Post Mortem Peep Show is a pleasant listen..even with all the screaming and crunching guitars..
im zipping files now, look for later tonite for some more albums up...
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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Yeah, ISOR is what metalcore SHOULD be like. None of that cheesy 80s soloing rip offs that just sound bland.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lnwgzw
Green Carnation - 2005 - The Quiet Offspring
The Quiet Offspring is the fourth full-length studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Green Carnation, released on February 22, 2005. In this recording, the band breaks away from their previous offerings. Although critically acclaimed and well accepted by fans, The Quiet Offspring has a more traditional rock sound and leaves behind the atmospheric feel of Light of Day, Day of Darkness. Some listeners have criticized this transition, while others claim it would have been inconceivable to repeat the feat of the sixty-minute album.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/h5a2bz
Genghis Tron - 2006 - Dead Mountain Mouth
This is the sound of when grindcore meets dance/electronic music.
"The Folding Road" starts off with some maniacal blasting with some brief touches of Nintendo style 8 bit ambience, then jumps straight into some industrial metal style polyrhythms and beats. As always the synth bass hovers around in the background. We then get a brief space of synth and ambience which develops into a slow breakdown.
My first thoughts are Genghis Tron have made a very obvious attempt to better meld elements of all the genres they play with. Instead of fairly disjointed passages jumping around everywhere, we have glimpses of electronics and ambience within riffing and blast beats. The songs themselves are more mature in their development, instead of being thrown together in a fairly adhoc fashion.
"Chapels" kicks in with a very extreme death/grind passage only to fall away into some electronic atmospherics, which builds up into a killer mid-paced break down. Synth keyboards match the guitar riffs as the distortion fades out signaling the end of the song. "From the Aisle" begins with an unhurried clean guitar riff and whispered lyrics while noise swirls around in the background. At around two minutes in this progresses to another slow hammering distorted passage which eventually dissipates into electronic noise.
The title track "Dead Mountain Mouth" thrashes through a series of math like licks and passages, spotted occasionally with blast beats or electronic ambience and some clean lyrics before bursting into a melodic crescendo of harmonizing guitars and synth. For the first part "White Walls" is a total shitfight of break beats, peculiar choruses, and melodic chords before turning a nice progressive breakdown into double bass induced madness. Everything soon dissipates into some electronic clap beats with some nice complementary clean guitarwork. "Badlands" takes the lead from white walls with some more electronic beats and ambience in a short interlude type track.
"Greek Beds" kicks and screams for a while before settle into a catchy little mid tempo guitar riff. Breaking down into a slower off-beat type passage, the song slowly progresses towards the end with some synth accompaniment to the guitar, underscored with a barrage of double bass. "Asleep on the Forest Floor" begins slowly and calmly, before settling into an effortless guitar riff, which rolls along slowly with much electronic ambient interference before becoming engulfed in wall of static. "Warm Woods" similarly is predominately a electronic track, with guitars coming and going continuously playing a similar riff as electronics jump around sporadically and progress into another crescendo.
Definitely a big change from the first album, not the concept, but the execution. Instead of being fairly ad-hoc and start/stop, these electronic elements are much more blended with the entire progression and structure of the song. The album is extremely more complicated, but in saying that, it is also less identifiably broad in terms of genre-hopping -as everything is far more cohesive. Most of the intense spastic shit is crammed into the first four tracks - so some of the latter tracks were a bit of a letdown as I waited patiently to have my head blown off again.
That being said this is still a brilliant album, but it is so eclectic, so diverse and so eccentric, it' going to take me a long time to rationalize what I have heard. The main genres played with seem to be grind, death, hardcore, mathcore and of course a large suit of electronics. If you were intrigued by the debut EP, you will enjoy this. If you have more Agoraphobic Nosebleed or Fuck I'm Dead leanings, this will suit you too.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/21jupx
Fantômas - 2004 - Delìrium Còrdia
This is the Fantomas album with 1 track spread out over an hour. It's technically a bunch of tracks blended into one track and is very experimental. Quite different from anything Fantomas have done before.
Delirium Cordia, Fantômas’ third collaborative effort between Mike Patton (Faith No More), Buzz Osbourne (Melvins), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle), and Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is a nightmarishly haunting experience that, like their previous work, has been executed with surgical precision. The ride you are about to take is one that will lull you into a complacent state of consciousness, while it intermittently yanks you from your content psyche to rattle your emotions. Over the course of this lengthy one-song album, you’ll find it shifts moods very frequently leaving you to never be quite sure of when it’s okay to fall asleep. As with previous works by Fantômas, their visually creative music, attention to detail, and elaborate CD packaging is what makes them an artistic force to reckon with.
There are at least a hundred different words one could use to describe the multitude of decadent layers in this dark and fantastic album. In essence, it’s an improvisational nightmare that leaves you feeling extremely uncomfortable for an entire hour, while concurrently having you wish you could lie down to listen. It sometimes reiterates some of the clowned-out, demonic tones of Patton’s work with his first band, Mr. Bungle; however, we never get to hear him sing. Infrequently, he will utilize his voice as an instrument to make noises that do not typically come out of a human. The most accurate words to describe Delirium Cordia, however, would be an uneasy listening experience with touches of ambient landscapes. If you’ve ever watched a horror flick, which I’m sure you have, this album will create many images in your head. I believe I even heard a spot from Hitchcock’s Psycho. Some of the other images I get from the album are of old gothic churches and old houses with windows slamming open and shut due to high winds. Mostly, these are images of places I’d rather not be.
With this album being the volatile experience it is, you may find yourself becoming worn out by the time you reach the halfway point. Don’t think I wasn’t one of them the first time I heard it. It’s somewhere between background music and something that needs to be studied. Everything about it is a dichotomy. For sure, it’s an album that should be enjoyed with headphones to catch all the quiet little sounds that lurk deep in the background. Dunn, Osbourne, and Lombardo bring a very dense rhythm section to the table and match the field recordings of Patton. After listening to this album several times, though, I still can’t help but wonder what it must be like to be inside Mike Patton’s disturbed head. Is he a man of genius or a man of trouble? Delirium Cordia shows that he is both.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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you fucker...you beat me to Genghis Tron...some intense shit to listen to tripping i would imagine..
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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what bitrate r u encoding these at? the files seem a bit large
look into Ogg Vorbis if u get the chance, it sounds great
http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#lossy
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Dr Watson told The Sunday Times that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really". He said there was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: 5150]
#7598565 - 11/05/07 01:39 PM (2 years, 16 days ago) |
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They all seem 200+Kbps, which is great, anything under 192 is junk especially with metal.
They seem to DL quick enough...
I don't like .ogg cause they don't import into iTunes.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: 5150]
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Files are VBR. That means when there's heaps happening, then the bit rate will increase. When it's quieter, the bit rate decreases.
I can't be bothered recompressing everything into a new format; I have at least 400 cds and thousands of mp3s. There's no way I'm reripping 400 cds.
Another one for today:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/czywg1
Growing - 2003 - The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Growing is a drone music/ambient music band from Olympia, Washington, which was formed by Kevin Doria (electric bass guitar), Joe Denardo (electric guitar), and Zack Carlson (who left the band following the release of their first album) in 2001. They play slow, instrumental rock with elements of noise and ambient music.
(I'll make an effort to include a description of the bands/albums in the future)
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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ok...im working on getting all my .rar organized, and ima put them up in sub-genres, kinda help filter out whats post metal, whats post instrumental rock, whats metal core, etc..
i would think by tomorrow ill have most of the albums i want zipped ready to upload, and as of now, im still using send space for its 300mb upload capacity.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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Good idea. I've got a line up of some albums I've already .rar'ed. After I'm done, there are some more to do then I'll post some more of whichever people liked the most.
So everyone, let me know what you'd like to hear more of. I will upload them once I've uploaded all the varieties.
I have gone back through my posts and added reviews of the album or artist to give you guys an idea of what the album consists of. I will be doing this in the future so you don't have to wonder what I'm springing on you.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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Good idea. I've got a line up of some albums I've already .rar'ed. After I'm done, there are some more to do then I'll post some more of whichever people liked the most.
So everyone, let me know what you'd like to hear more of. I will upload them once I've uploaded all the varieties.
I have gone back through my posts and added reviews of the album or artist to give you guys an idea of what the album consists of. I will be doing this in the future so you don't have to wonder what I'm springing on you.
http://www.metal-archives.com/index.php
that is a great sight for obscure metal bands.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7601428 - 11/06/07 05:33 AM (2 years, 15 days ago) |
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hey i know it's a longshot but can anyone share the soundtracks from the Monkey Island series?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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cool, thanks, can't wait to hear some new stuff!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: beneath]
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/a1dypa
Halo - 2003 - Body of Light
Halo are extreme. And unlike many other bands, they are aware and proud of it, which you will notice immediately when you check out their website where they publish good reviews as well as bad ones. This is the second Halo CD I have the honour to listen to, and you can't claim that it's easy listening. Halo are just two guys, and the fact that Body Of Light has been recorded live should already give you an idea of the minimalism presented here. The two Australians S.Klein and R.Allen play drums, bass and a wall of noise (no guitars, if I understood and heard correctly), and they do that in such a distorted way that you feel like standing in the middle of a steel manufacturing factory. The bass guitar is amped up to the max, the drums have a surprisingly organic sound to it, which prevents them from sounding as clinically cold as many of their industrial contemporaries, and the speed of the music is always very slow, like swimming in a lake of molasses. All of that is topped with the most painful vocals you can imagine.
Nowadays of course, when we're talking about industrial music, most people think naturally of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, but if that is so, we better consider this to be post-industrial apocalyptic armageddon noise. Halo are experimental, but there is always the structure of a song hidden beneath their depressive noisescapes. It's hard to compare them to any other band, but let's give it a try: early Godflesh on downers, the sublime Japanese experimental band Boris, or dipping your head in flowing lava. I don't feel like rating this album. It's a difficult listen, it depresses me, and I doubt that I will come back to it often, but then I also recognize that this is some kind of art, by a band that relies on real instruments instead of computers, who record an album live instead of spending weeks in expensive studios. If you are in for the extreme, you should check halo out, but if music is associated with a sense of rhythm for you, then you know that this is where you have to skip.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7i7282
In The Woods... - 1995 - Heart Of The Ages
Easily one of the more far-reaching bands to ever be associated with black metal, the eclectic In the Woods is truly one of the more innovative and unique metal bands in existence. Often evoking a love it or hate it reaction with little in-between ground, In the Woods certainly have carved their own individual path. Their debut full length, HEart of the Ages, is no exception. Featuring a blend of mid-paced, slightly epic feeling metal and a mix of cleanly sung dramatic vocals and some very harsh black metal screaming, HEart of the Ages is a lengthy piece of work that takes quite a bit of time to grasp. In my mind, there is little here not to like for fans of extreme as well as intelligent music. The band's ability to compose in slower, moody sections as well as the more blistering parts without endangering the song is remarkable. Secondly, the fact that the clean vocals are actually quite strong and powerful show talent beyond the masses of black metal bands who warble off key in mock gregorian chants. Finally, the album overall induces a somewhat contemplative mood, as it should, considering the depth of the music. In the Woods is certainly seeing the forest for the trees in HEart of the Ages.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fw72xv
Lightning Bolt - 2005 - Hypermagic Mountain
The myth of Lightning Bolt hangs on its devastating, shamanistic live act. Concertgoers encircle the band, in ritual awe, like a crowded halo of asteroids orbiting a binary star: a bassist butchering his rig like a pink-slipped surgeon, and a drummer grinding his ragtag kit into cinders, while belting yawp after yawp through a tattered pillowcase luchador mask into his “throat mike,” a jury-rigged phone receiver run through a pre-amp. The experience, religious to every ticket-holder, outruns language.
The problem of Lightning Bolt, by extension, is recapturing this unhinged tumult in the studio, readied for your iPod’s earbuds and your mom’s car stereo, without losing the myth in translation. Luckily, with each new release, the band has tapered the gap between the live act and the studio artifact. Culling 57 minutes of Dionysian fury from three weeks—and two tracks—of Apollonian sweat, Lightning Bolt rushes forward on Hypermagic Mountain, their fourth full-length, in another stride toward the perfection of their prog-noise esthetic.
Rewind to 2003, year eight of the Rhode Island dialectic—Brian Chippendale’s jackhammer drumming braided into Brian Gibson’s whitewater bass—when Wonderful Rainbow cemented the Ruins and Boredoms comparisons, when the band rocketed into the higher echelons of the indie hierarchy, when noise began to slowly invade the once signal-heavy hipster cosmology. The more mature Hypermagic Mountain manages to one-up its junior, coupling an across-the-board tightness with better mixing. Where the vocals worked before as accomplices in abstraction, they’re now turned up, and clearer, thanks to the band’s new setup. The drums and bass, in the egalitarian polish of Dave Auchenbach’s knob-twiddling, are now equally prominent in the mix. The production’s richer than ever, with the once-submarine low end reigning alongside the mids and highs.
Gibson’s bass lines gallop from the get-go, chased by Chippendale’s percussion stampede, promising on the first track, “2 Morro Morro Land,” that Hypermagic Mountain will loom monolithically, maybe taller than Wonderful Rainbow. The opener’s raucous verve is overshadowed by the threatening storm of the next track, “Captain Caveman.” Here Chippendale, on cue, takes center stage, almost crooning over the stop-start convulsions, proggy fits of ricochet chord progressions, cribbed St. Anger riffs, and Gatling bass-drum pummeling.
Then the Brians flirt with the spectral. Recovering from a string of false starts, “Riffwraith” parades the duo’s talent for dense rhythms, smartly punctuating the riffs with Chippendale’s downcast squawks. “Megaghost” blasts past waves of mock-thunder and delayed baying into a labyrinth of warp-speed, rococo virtuosity. “Bizarro Bike” treads the same water as “Megaghost”—a nervous, eerie mixture of vocal delays and machine-gun drumming, a prog poltergeist haunting the higher register.
The latter half of the album flaunts the outsize scale of the prog-noise esthetic. Not surprisingly, “Magic Mountain”—doing triple work as a Bildungsroman, theme park, and quasi-title track—is an epic exercise in ascent, a cloud-puncturing sierra of tension leveled by Gibson’s four-string enfilade. When the band slows down to gather the rosebuds, they churn out masterpieces. The longest songs, “Dead Cowboy” and “Mohawkwindmill” are among the album’s most intense. The former asks a question: how would the Boredoms maneuver a broadside against George W.? The Brians answer: drums at ramming-speed cadence, major-chord cannon fire, hooks piercing the choppy sludge. The latter drifts the same seas, pitching in the magma, only motored through by Chippendale’s Hella-esque fury. We hear in these songs a roll call of the esthetic’s hallmarks: the boundless zigzagging marches into the inferno; the volcanic, fatalistic climaxes; the minimalist glue, with lonely phrases pounded into submission, the angle of attack shifting almost invisibly; the arabesque prog flourishes; the scrambled, overdriven Krautrock rhythms.
Proving the album’s quality, even its lesser tracks stand above other band’s best work. For instance, “Infinity Farm” feels like Brian Eno soundtracking a trip to the pound. And Gibson quotes Bad Brains on the doggedly rhythmic “Birdy.” Hardly weak, and as if to leave its thirsty audiences only half-sated—the improv album, Frenzy, is due out next year—“No Rest for the Obsessed” abruptly closes the album halfway into a more-metal-than-thou crescendo, abandoning us waist-deep in sludge. It’s salt in the wound, to be sure, but all Lightning Bolt fans are avowed masochists.
The album sweeps away lingering doubts that Lightning Bolt is a highbrow gimmick, a hipster Frankenstein stitched together by alt-weeklies. The Brians have found a unique voice that’s wholly theirs and, with fine-tuning behind the scenes, they can only hone it. The compressed, cleaned-up ferocity of Hypermagic Mountain is a leap of refinement in every way, a sign that the band, while lushly unripe, is ripening gracefully.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7603901 - 11/06/07 06:01 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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ok, in trying to think of a faster way of posting all my music up here, i think ima make a torrent...post it on demonoid, and have it here for download, as of now i have 2 gigs of music zipped, thats just too much time through sendspace...
so hopefully you all have utorrent or something..
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7603948 - 11/06/07 06:14 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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maybe you could setup an ftp.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7603970 - 11/06/07 06:17 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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i'd love some more Growing and Colour Haze if you have any
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
#7603983 - 11/06/07 06:19 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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colour haze was awesome.
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#7603989 - 11/06/07 06:20 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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The Melvins and Lustmord attached.
That's not too bad, sort of sounds like a mix between Corrosion of Conformity(vocals) and Meshuggah(sound and off-beat time sigs)....
I gave a listen to ISIS and Pelican.... I couldn't get into either one of them....
I guess I am just more drawn to the intricate melodies and the multiple riff arrangements of progressive metal....
It's all good, it's music....!
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WHOA...
i think pelican has osme of the most intricate melodies in the post-rock genre today...maybe alil too intricate for you??
and isis' melodies are drawn out and shoegazed out.
but to say:
"I guess I am just more drawn to the intricate melodies and the multiple riff arrangements of progressive metal"
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"I gave a listen to ISIS and Pelican.... I couldn't get into either one of them.."
in the same breathe baffles me..
listen to the pelicans albums about 50 more times...maybe youll start to hear their intricate melodies, cus it is there.
and isis' multiple riff arrangements is top notch...so i have no clue where you are comig from with that type of statement..
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
#7604194 - 11/06/07 07:21 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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i'd love some more Growing and Colour Haze if you have any
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7605079 - 11/06/07 10:25 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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those werent my uploads..
im thinking of maybe just posting ALLL my albums on send space...just people need to download them right away, then worry if they like it or not later..
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7605120 - 11/06/07 10:34 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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I have another Growing album and another Colour Haze album. I will upload them in the next lot. Couldn't find anymore Growing albums online, but I found most of Colour Haze's discography. Will upload these will I can.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7605297 - 11/06/07 11:35 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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here is Om
their first two albums plus two split singles, one with Six Organs of Admittance and the other with Current 93 plus a live track from Om
And their new one, Pilgrimage. This is the most well engineered of all their releases...
review: (not by me)
"Pilgrimage", the newest album from doomy duo Om, is truly an example of how sometimes, less really is more. Armed with only bass, drums, and vocal chords, the group never the less manage to craft music of incredible depth and originality.
This album truly is as it's title suggests, an epic voyage to unknown lands of massive sub-sonic proportions. Al Cisneros leads the way on this journey, effortlessly weaving hypnotic bass lines that go from beautiful and meditative one minute, to Earth shaking heaviness the next, all the while his eerie, chanting vocals conjuring tales of spiritual planes that many have yet to expierience. His partner, Chris Hakius is no less important, keeping the music running perfectly smooth with a good balance of shamanistic, and marching, cadence like rhythms.
It's amazing that the sum of so few parts could add up to something so monumental in scope. This album truly defines what the DRONE is all about, music so trance inducing that at times you are not sure if you are listening to it, or are really expieriencing a deep, meditative state. The only real problem with this album is it's short running time, as it's 32 minutes literally melt away.
However, this album definetly isn't for everyone. People looking for brutality of any kind, or even metal for that matter, probably won't find it here, and will dismiss the album as boring (I can also imagine many dismissing the band for thier complete lack of guitarists). Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of heavy riffs, but they are not heavy in a traditionally metallic way, they are heavy in a deeper sense of the word, especially when weighed against the albums lighter, more mystic moments. However, more open minded listeners will find the album to be a genuinely awe inspiring musical expierience. "Pilgrimage" is a testament to the fact that Om truly are the masters of "drone mantra purity."
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
#7609247 - 11/07/07 10:48 PM (2 years, 13 days ago) |
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Cheers for the new OM. Didn't realise they had a new album coming out.
Here's some new ones from me:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mjfpg1
Melvins + Lustmord - 2004 - Pigs Of The Roman Empire
Nuff said. No review needed here.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jpz703
maudlin of the Well - 2005 - Leaving Your Body Map
maudlin are the pre Kayo Dot band, so their style/sound is similar (but not identical). This was where the band were at that particular time.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gztg9d
Colour Haze - 2004 - Colour Haze
The other Colour Haze album I had. Others have been downloaded and will upload after everything else. Please be patient
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7610387 - 11/08/07 09:58 AM (2 years, 13 days ago) |
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7610394 - 11/08/07 10:00 AM (2 years, 13 days ago) |
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/16w48e
Caïna - Mourner
This is the kind record that I enjoy from time to time, a big surprise; it is not what I expected in any way, shape, or form and caught me completely off guard. Mourner is the second full-length, first on Profound Lore, from Caïna, the solo project of Andrew Curtis-Brignell - a twenty-year-old who already has a strong grasp on his musical vision. The album plants it feet firmly in several different musical forms, and Mourner encompasses some of the best elements of them. Steeped in the stripped down aesthetic of black metal while still traversing the sonic waters similar to (and I hate trying to fit things into genres but that is a point of reference for people) folk, post-rock, and shoegaze, Caïna drops a fully enthralling album that touches on several styles while still maintaining its own voice.
Caïna utilize a plethora of interesting noise passages and ambient droning to create an equally palpable and strange mood that affect the listener with songs such as "Waves Engulf a Pier" while at other times toy with the listeners' ears by switching to sparse piano pieces or soft guitar and vocal songs like "Morgawr." Sometimes these drastic changes occur within songs like in "Hideous Gnosis" (which on its own has a rather haunting sound), "I Reeled in Heaven" (the Gregorian chant-like portion is frankly bizarre), and "Requiem for Shattered Timbers." "Waves Engulf a Pier" contains a barely audible spoken word section that is sampled from the movie Kwaidan, which lends another ghostly element to Mourner. Curtis-Brignell's vocals alternate between having a folk like clean quality to displays of some truly emotionally pained scream or yelp. One of my favorite songs on the album is definitely "The Sleep of Reason." It strikes a chord with me with its layered guitars that still maintain a raw feel and the lengthy ambience that allows the song to breathe and explore the arrangements that Curtis-Brignell composed, and the sparse vocals serve to heighten the whole mood.
Once again, I want to note that Profound Lore is putting out some really nice looking CDs. This one looks like a mini gatefold LP, much like the previous Profound Lore release that I recently reviewed. It is sharp looking. The artwork itself is an image from a nightmare; with the gray and black image of a woman that looks as though her eyes have been burnt out of their sockets, it is unnerving. The lettering of the text is a bit difficult to read at times, but it looks great and ties the whole package together very well.
Mourner is another fine release by Profound Lore (I am coming to admire their stable of artists and the aesthetic that their records project), and it is a great introduction to the work of Andrew Curtis-Brignell and his outfit, Caïna. I am pleased that this record came into my possession; its soft, ambient passages combined with the accents of raw power (mostly black metal style) draw the listener into the whole album. I recommend this highly to anyone that enjoys any of the "genres" that Caïna straddles, as there is enough of all of them to keep it interesting.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/c95bjm
Monolithe - II
A while ago I was talking with a fellow Metalhead and came up with what I thought was a really great idea for a project. I love both single-song and concept albums, so I decided that once I stumbled upon some musical talent, I was going to start a band that recorded only single-song albums that each had a continuing lyrical theme. Each album would be like another chapter in the same story. I was quite enthusiastic about this idea, and then I find out that France’s MONOLITHE thought of it first. Bastards.
So, what does the second instalment in the MONOLITHE saga sound like? Well, I liken it to the following scenario. Imagine that you are an astronaut working on the exterior of a space station, held down only by a small cable. You’ve spent your last few days reading lots and lots of H.P. Lovecraft, so your mind is littered with images of Cthulu and Unknown Kadath and whatnot. Suddenly, the cable snaps and you are slowly set adrift in the vast infinities of deep, black space. Floating and floating around, nothing but blackness and desolation outside and nothing but images of creepy, macabre horrors inside. Yep, that’s the atmosphere you can expect from “Monolithe II.”
This is Doom Metal of the new wave variety, with painfully slow riffage and deeply growled/grunted vocals. There are lots and lots of keyboards, used almost as much as the guitars, though the whole makes for music that can best be described as “passive.” Nothing really reaches out and grabs you – there are riffs, but none that scream “Listen to me because I’m an awesome riff!” MONOLITHE are content with drifting along, not really boring but also not intense; an appropriate word used by both the fans and the band is “meditative.” Lyrically, “Monolithe II” is a continuation of “Monolithe I,” telling the tale of the creation of life in the universe.
Fans of exceptionally dark Avantgarde or atypical Death Metal might also want to look into this, but the main audience will definitely be those Metalheads that find enjoyment in bands such as DEINONYCHUS, ESOTERIC, and MY DYING BRIDE. If those bands frequently make their rounds in your player, take note, as MONOLITHE will be right up your alley.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/535v8v
Transmission0 - Memory of a Dream
After two years Dutch five piece Transmission0 brings us the follow up of '0' entitled 'Memory of a Dream'. The atmospheric metal and hardcore band returns with a much lighter and more melodic album than the dark and heavy debut. Just like Isis or Cult of Luna it seems it is a natural path for this band. On the other hand you’ll get better structured songs but also a little bit a lack of heaviness and darkness, a tiny downside of this album.
'Memory of a Dream' is coloured up by the insane screams from Steve Austin from Today is the Day in "Damn Machines" and the warm vocals from Roel Donckers in "Token". Especially this last song is one of the outstanding tracks of this coherent Dutch masterpiece. Unfortunately the deforming effects on the guitars are a little bit gone now. These effects were a huge substantial of the sound on '0' and created that sick and miserable atmosphere. On 'Memory of a Dream' it looks like these guys look at the positive side of life.
Another highlight on this record is “Paracas”, listen to the repeating guitar riffs and drums on the end. It slowly enters your body and without notice you can’t get ride of the typical Transmission0 vibe. Same goes for “Dying Light”, it starts really quiet and minimal but it quickly turns into a combination of heavy riffs and lighter riffs. After four minutes only keyboards transfer the song forth to an epic end with screams of Michiel van der Avoird.
Awesome are also the creations made by bass player Dave van Beek. The front of the artwork is a drawing of an ocean full in movement. If you fold open the booklet a computer animated vague picture is visible in symmetry and also the rest of the artwork is made in this style. It perfectly visualizes the direction of the music of the only collective that makes post-core/metal in The Netherlands. If we look a little bit wider, they follow Cult of Luna and Callisto close as one of the best European bands in this genre.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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om is the shit. i can sing "at giza" in full.
aperture on door the wave form school <-- love this line
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: FleaAccela]
#7615683 - 11/09/07 03:05 PM (2 years, 12 days ago) |
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found Growing's 2005 album, His Return
megaupload is a pretty decent site. 500mb size limit and the link is good for months.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Clean]
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I've never compared anyone to Hendrix, but Colour Haze has his vibe down. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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ok, in trying to think of a faster way of posting all my music up here, i think ima make a torrent...post it on demonoid, and have it here for download, as of now i have 2 gigs of music zipped, thats just too much time through sendspace...
so hopefully you all have utorrent or something..
any updates?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: beneath]
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ok, in trying to think of a faster way of posting all my music up here, i think ima make a torrent...post it on demonoid, and have it here for download, as of now i have 2 gigs of music zipped, thats just too much time through sendspace...
so hopefully you all have utorrent or something..
any updates?
ami bump the shit out of this thread in a few days... you just wait..
this will be the new demonoid!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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Sorry for the lack of new updates; I've just moved house. Everything is finally sorted.
Anyways, here's 2 new ones:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2869v0
Naked City - 1989 - Naked City
This is the first Naked City album. I'd say it's the best one, but then I'm biased — this is the first Zorn album I bought, back in 1996.
If They Might Be Giants hired the best jazz players in New York to make a heavy metal album, it would sound like this. (The major difference is the sense of humor. Zorn's sense of humor is more subtle than TMBGs.)
From The Wire:
Zorn debuted Naked City on Nonesuch in 1989. He denied that it was a supergroup, citing The Golden Palominos as an example of why supergroups never really work. But as ad hoc groupings of musicians go this pretty much brought together the cream of the 80s NYC downtown set. Naked City marks out the group's territory: jump-cutting micro-collages of hardcore, Country, sleazy jazz, covers of John Barry and Ornette Coleman, brief abstract tussles — a whole city crammed into two or three minute bursts.
The album's poles are its finest moments and somehow sum up all that the group seemed to do best: a 'suite' of ultra-brief thrashes which still manage to jump genres two or three times in the space of a couple of bars, and a gorgeous rendering of Jerry Goldsmith's untouched theme from Chinatown, which emerges magically from a haze of free improvisation.
The cover is a famous photograph by Weegee. Some record stores carry the album with the back of the CD booklet as the cover: an illustration of a Japanese girl with a snake slithering through her face. Apparently, this is considered less disturbing than the photo of a man laying on the sidewalk with a bullet wound in his face.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0i4rqh
Mr. Bungle - 1995 - Disco Volante
(This is one of my absolute favourites)
Disco Volante is, simply put, one of the best albums of the 90s. A friend of mine from college, who was much more into the "hard rock" scene than I was, came to visit me sometime in the mid-90s and played a tape of this album while we were driving somewhere, knowing that it would be right up my alley. It wasn't long before I had my own copy on CD.
Fortunately, when he "previewed" the album to me, he skipped the first track - a moronic heavy metal song about high school friends dying off. If that was the first track that I had heard, this review probably wouldn't exist. Fortunately, the rest of the album is nothing like that.
I have to take exception to Nick's statement that there are no catchy tunes or danceable rhythms. "Chemical Marriage", the back half of "Carry Stress in the Jaw", "Desert Search For Techno Allah" and "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz" are all very catchy, as are other parts of the album. Overall the music is a strange blend of speed metal, jazz, electronica, goofy and usually incomprehensible vocals, klezmer, hockey rink organ and a ton of other elements. The blend works much better than one would imagine, creating something entirely new, energetic and enticing. You'll rarely see Mr. Bungle compared to other bands, but it seems like every new "hard-rock avant" band that comes along is described as Mr. Bungle mixed with some other band.
If prog fans need something to identify with, there's a lengthy, multi-part track called "The Bends" that attempts to musically depict someone falling out of a boat, having various underwater adventures and then returning to the surface with the bends (headphone listeners may want to turn down that ending). The band also has a sense of humor - be sure to read the lyrics to "Platypus" in the liner notes. And an occasional tendency to be disturbing - the lyrics to "After School Special" seem like another goof at first, but it's actually about an abused child.
Disco Volante is definitely better than the band's self-titled first album, which spends too much time trying to be offensive or bizarre and only has a couple decent tracks. Personally, I also like it better than their third release California, which replaces a lot of the avantness of Disco with a mutant blend of metal and Beach Boys. If you're at all into the heavier and more experimental ends of prog, you need Disco Volante.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/fje4pw
Nuclear Rabbit - 1993 - Vicuna
This collection of songs may [be similar to] Mr. Bungle, but Bungle pretty much [duplicated] Naked City. Not just in musical approach either - the flemmy guitar sound on "Quote, Unquote" emerged from NYC via John Zorn's Naked City. Bungle crafted themselves a nitch with their expanded, melodized take on John Zorn's chaotic vision. Nuclear Rabbit was unique for their indy ethic, challenging instrumentation (however sloppy, e.g. intro to 1st verse transition on "Subliminal Smurf"), and conventional song structures. My point is that breakthroughs in music (like Naked City and Bungle) do not destroy a band's credibility if they are affected by it, so long as the affected band gives a unique interpretation of the paradigm. NR played the same style as Mr. Bungle in a very different way, which is why I enjoy them so much.
(Not my review)
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Does anyone have any Earthless?
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#7632354 - 11/13/07 07:42 PM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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I'm lookin for Earthless...
"What happened to the crunchy teeeeeooons maayaan?"
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/uoleb7
Old Man Gloom - 2004 - Christmas
Old Man Gloom. The name alone doesn’t exactly have you predicting lightweight, easy on the ear songs about fluffy bunnies, leprechauns, pots o’ gold and rainbows, or even about how some chick drove you to daytime television, does it? It makes you think metal, which, for some of the time, ‘Christmas’ is. Some of the time…
Y’see, when you’re a band comprised of members of Cave In, Converge and Isis, the last thing you want to play all the time is metal. You’d much rather drone yourself out for a bit, or add a little acoustic guitar to throw listeners off your metal scent. Yeah, you’d do that. Only then you’d kick right back into riffs larger than Giant Haystacks’ weekly shopping budget and shatter your listeners’ teeth with volume so terrifying that your record, this record, should carry an R rating. For Isis frontman Aaron Turner’s gut-trembling vocals alone it deserves some kind of warning. He could scare the Candyman, that freaky clown from It, your mother-in-law and all the aliens from Aliens away with no more than a gentle sigh. No shit… is exactly what you’ll have in your body after 45 minutes in his company.
Turner’s not the only person taking a vocal turn on ‘Christmas’; on ‘Volcano’, Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson adds some words of wisdom that barely register (so, to be fair, they might not be wise at all). But be warned – turn the volume up to hear them and be prepared for pain, as Turner, and his gargantuan riffs, are waiting just a few minutes in, along with drums that sound like a nuclear war between gods. It’s all a far cry from how proceedings were opened: ‘Gift’ is just that, an opening track that breaks you in gently, its acoustic strums blinding you to what lies around the next bend, the appropriately named ‘Skullstorm’. Really, with a name like that do you need me to explain how it goes?
And so it progresses – maximum volume and raging metal is balanced skilfully with drone and ambience to create a record that is so much more than the mere sum of its considerably talented parts. To pigeonhole it as metal would be wrong; likewise to liken it to post-rock releases would be serving ‘Christmas’ an injustice. Basically, if you’ve read this far the chances are that you’re already either won over OR already know all about Old Man Gloom, so me deconstructing it note for note isn’t going to achieve anything, apart from deafness on my part. Last year’s ‘Christmas Eve...’ release – reprised here in an alternate version(s) – served as a mighty, appetite-whetting curtain-raiser; ‘Christmas’ confirms what fans of that release, and the three albums before it, knew all along – there are few bands with the genetic make up and base-level talent in alternative music circles to touch Old Man Gloom. Even when they're obviously dicking about they can wipe the floor with all but a handful of progressive-thinking metellers. So they’ve a stupid name? I don’t see you saying that to their faces.
If Isis’s forthcoming record betters this it’ll be the best metal - to use the term loosely - album of 2004. Do the math…
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
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ok, first off, i have been think how to make this sharing of files easier ...so, ive decided to make my AIM account the new oink...
as of now i have all the good avantgarde stuff, zipped and ready to go. and what i was thinking is i will just zip all my zips, then have you guys IM me, and we transfer the file that way.
so, just PM me if you all are interested and i will respond with my AIM account then i will send you my ziped files, which as of now is 3 gigs..i estimate a time of 3-4 hors to d/l the files.
ok, but for now, enjoy my bands new updated version of the other demo i posted on here...its great for tripping!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/w9wehp
download and enjoy!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7633624 - 11/14/07 01:50 AM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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lol i hope this thread never ends it should become an offical one
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#7633642 - 11/14/07 01:58 AM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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I hereby declare this thread officially awesome. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7634244 - 11/14/07 09:44 AM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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do you happen to have Joy Wants Eternity or From The Sky in your library? 
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found it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fevdzxd9zxj (invalid)
Joy Wants Eternity / Post-Rock, Instrumental
From a basement in Seattle, Washington, 15 strangers met together in response to an ad welcoming all instruments for experimenting with walls of noise. A chaos then developed into a pattern of what became a five-piece of three guitars, a Rhodes, and drums known as joy wants eternity, the idea being to express their compositions into a sort of narrative psychology, a metamorphosis of both equal parts of subtle and explosive moments.
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http://www.mediafire.com/?a9yuodxypj3 (invalid)
God Is An Astronaut - Far From Refuge (2007)
Post-Rock, Instrumental
Torsten Kinsella - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Niels Kinsella - Bass, Guitars, Visuals
Lloyd Hanney - Drums, Synths
The current project of the founders of Super AD, God is an Astronaut were formed by twin brothers Niels and Torsten in 2002. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland the band released their debut album The End of the Beginning on their own label Revive Records in March 2003.
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Invalid link on both your posts. 
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7634395 - 11/14/07 10:45 AM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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oh, it appears i caught the downloads just in time.
i'll be sure to upload them myself this evening.
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found it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?fevdzxd9zxj (invalid)
Joy Wants Eternity / Post-Rock, Instrumental
From a basement in Seattle, Washington, 15 strangers met together in response to an ad welcoming all instruments for experimenting with walls of noise. A chaos then developed into a pattern of what became a five-piece of three guitars, a Rhodes, and drums known as joy wants eternity, the idea being to express their compositions into a sort of narrative psychology, a metamorphosis of both equal parts of subtle and explosive moments.
here it is. take it while it lasts.
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ETh8VWJ366396/Joy%20Wants%20Eternity%20-%20You%20Who%20Pretend%20to%20Sleep.rar.html
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http://www.mediafire.com/?a9yuodxypj3 (invalid)
God Is An Astronaut - Far From Refuge (2007)
Post-Rock, Instrumental
Torsten Kinsella - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Niels Kinsella - Bass, Guitars, Visuals
Lloyd Hanney - Drums, Synths
The current project of the founders of Super AD, God is an Astronaut were formed by twin brothers Niels and Torsten in 2002. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland the band released their debut album The End of the Beginning on their own label Revive Records in March 2003.
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/BkKPTJA366401/god%20is%20an%20astronaut%20-%20far%20from%20refuge.rar.html
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no one interested in trading over AIM???
if i try ot upload my 3 gigs of zipped music itll take days.
so ppl, dont be shy, just PM me for more enough on how to get alot of albums.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7637223 - 11/14/07 08:13 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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I'm in. Check your PMs.
I really like Joy Wants Eternity, thanks AA.
How many similar instrumental bands are there?
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7637799 - 11/14/07 11:26 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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MM, i think you'd really dig Jakob.
if you haven't already picked them up:
Subsets of Sets (2001)
Cale: Drew (2003)
Solace (2007)
they're one of my favorite bands right now.
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Yeah Sheepish put Solace up, their earlier stuff is even better imo, thanks.
Jakob is out of this world, definitely one of my favorites as well.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Middleman]
#7638115 - 11/15/07 01:20 AM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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can someone repost for beware of saftey. im probally gona get their record
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: thedudenj]
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: thedudenj]
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can someone repost for beware of saftey. im probally gona get their record
ok, im uploading gifts from enola, windmills by the ocean, Dakota/Dakota and irepress again.
i figure ill start to put multiple albums into 300mb folders, zip them and upload to save me the trouble of having to upload them all separately.and i will try to put similar sounding groups together.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7639532 - 11/15/07 12:21 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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thanks
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#7639594 - 11/15/07 12:36 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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hmmm, i was just thinking..we should try to some how get a paypal donation ting going, get 70 bucks then sign up for MEGAUPLOAD. that way we can upload stuff and not worry about it expiring and all the other benefits. its like 70 bucks for a 2 year membership..
i dont know how we would start that, im not to familiar with paypal and how to set up a donation account..
Just an idea, et me know if anyone else is down, ill be the first to donate $17.50, then we are 1/4 the way there!!
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7640363 - 11/15/07 03:32 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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any chance of a quick run through some of the stuff on that download? not all of it, since i'm assuming there will be quite allot.
thanks.
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#7640382 - 11/15/07 03:36 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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I'm in the process of getting the lot from falkor, and I'll be glad to post a list when I get it and upload anything requested.
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any chance of a quick run through some of the stuff on that download? not all of it, since i'm assuming there will be quite allot.
thanks.
"gifts from enola, windmills by the ocean, Dakota/Dakota and irepress again."
its only 4 albums.
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: falkor187]
#7641852 - 11/15/07 09:03 PM (2 years, 5 days ago) |
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/89s7g9
Opeth - 1994 - Orchid
One of the more stunning and devastingly powerful debuts of any metal band in any genre. Though Opeth's majesty has only recently reached American audiences via Century Media, this timeless classic is a great way to hear how genius is performed.
"So," you ask, "how do you really feel about this album? And don't hold back." Funny you should ask. This is downright one of the best pieces of work in extreme metal. Though they aren't wall-of-noise black metallists like many of their Scandanavian brethen, their roots in both black metal (noticeable mostly in Mikael Akerfeldt's vocals) do put them outside most circles of listeners, thus appealing to fans of bands such as Edge of Sanity, Katatonia (with whom Akerfeldt has been involved), In Flames, and others in the European scene. What sets Opeth apart from the rest is their enormity involved in the songwriting. Almost all their tracks are around eight to fourteen minutes long (with the exception of the interludes of "Requiem" and "Sillouette") and very intricate in terms of execution. Opeth writes some mighty guitar leads and very tasty riffage to base their music. Acoustic guitars spice up the material from time to time, along with some chants and clean singing. Though some death/black purists will dismiss Opeth, it's their loss. This outfit is destined for some great things down the road.
(This is one of my all time favourite albums)
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Re: Avant-Garde Metal [Re: Sheepish]
#7641974 - 11/15/07 09:28 PM (2 years, 5 days ago) |
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I don't have any metal not already shared, but I want to contribute, so here's some Avant-garde psychedelic ambient by Carbon Based Lifeforms.
For when you metal heads feel like chillin out... 
CBL - Hydroponic Gardens
CBL - A World of Sleepers
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#7642327 - 11/15/07 11:04 PM (2 years, 5 days ago) |
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CBL is great! I can listen to Hydroponic Gardens over and over and it will never get old.
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