electronic music by metal dudes s/d

time to rep for two releases I mentioned in the EOY metal poll thread again:

Erang - Another World Another Time
Abandoned Places - Giantlands

I dug around a bit last year and the "dungeon synth" scene these releases belong to seems to primarily consist of guy borrowing liberally from black metal intros and old school computer rpg soundtracks and putting the results up on bandcamp. pleasant enough but it can all get a little monotonous after a couple records. but I thought these two releases really stood out from the pack and for different reasons. was impressed by the compositional scope of the erang release -- guy covers a lot of ground and is particularly good at the moody, melancholy stuff. but the abandoned places one impressed me in its single-mindedness -- all lurching gloom and doom. sounds like the golden axe ost glitching and sputtering and turning all demonic to me.

looking forward to digging through the rest of this thread. never listened to that particular beherit release and it sounds amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQpHPPbdCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Hj1JF74cU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXE1GPYp_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJwSDAHLvuE

^was gonna (xp)

On the "metal techno" tip, check this sick remix of batillus by andy stott:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16414-concrete-andy-stott-remix/

now if only someone would go ahead and make a house album of electronic black metal covers . . .

the new/upcoming record by producer Ben Aqu@ feels metal in a "japanese power metal kids shredding on youtube way": https://soundcloud.com/b3naqua/virtual-anticipation-album-teaser

he also has a solo queer death metal project called ASSACRE: http://assacre.bandcamp.com/album/fantastic-illusions-worth-dying-for

Does this (fairly engrossing) shit count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTg1u9P6aQI

Does Away from Voivod's album of field recordings count?

http://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cities

chino from the deftones has some new witchhouse thing called Crosses (it's actually 3 cross symbols altered zone stylee)

Dutch breakcore dude Bong-Ra used to be in a metal band, and now makes music like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLU-fnQpk_s

His EP Full Metal Racket has a song with Slayer samples (not just riffs but between-song banter from Tom Araya) and a track called "Jo Bench" (Bolt Thrower's bassist).

Jon Nodtveidt did this one (vocals by Dan Swano):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kU2XZDS0Co

Major label dance music by dude from Thergothon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_b_zt_EQ8k

man dan swano takes me back, this doesn't really count but he did that pysche metal + analog synth leads solo record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOiDMurYAlQ

ok Fu-Tourist is definitely the most o_0 one yet

he has a writing credit on the Alcazar album too

The Fu-Tourist guy is also the main producer/songwriter for the biggest Finnish pop act of the last 10 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkV9uq7cdfE

haven't progressed much further, but the beherit album tune was space linked way back is incredible

I knew about thergothon guy

haven't progressed much further, but the beherit album tune was space linked way back is incredible

stayed up way too late listening to it last night. love it.

holy crap no-nonsense has delivered the goods in a major way

There are some crazy techno/electronic interludes on The Fucking Champs first record: C4AM95 - III

More:

* Guitarrist from Esoteric (G. Bicknell) has an electronic project called Lysergene. He has a Soundcloud page with recent dubstep tracks, but there is older demo stuff which I liked better (downtempo tech-house and trance).

Some Metal-psytrance crossover:

* Kris Kylven has played guitar for Amorphis and was a prominent psy-trance producer (Syb Unity Nettwerk, UX)
* Israeli producer Itzik Levy (Sandman, Witchcraft) was in Orphaned Land.
* Also, The Zodiac Youth project (Youth + Zodiac Mindwarp)

Another one, Dave Young (Chi-AD) was the keyboard player for Venom at some point.

Texas' Black Funeral have put out stuff ranging from black metal to sort of industrial to pretty much noise, but along the way they had a dark ambient album called Moon of Characith. Nothing great but occasionally creepy. I had this CD at some point but then traded or sold it.
http://youtu.be/IB0oHoHpiQg

Speaking of Texas, Absu's Equitant had a project going by his name, but I've not heard it and judging by the number of releases listed at metal-archives, I won't be dipping into his catalog.

I'll assume Mortiis hasn't been mentioned because he's implied.

Devin Townsend has done at least one ambient album, right? I'm ashamed to say I've heard a lot more drug-addled Devin than sober Devin so I can't really offer examples or judgments.

Man, that Eskimos and Egypt track takes me back. My very first visit to a Tower Records resulted in my blind acquisition of a techno comp called Welcome to the Future, featuring the above-linked eponymous song. I remember the sticker made some kind of absurd "Advanced 3D Sound Technology" claim. Pretty sure I bought that and Will's Pearl of Great Price, a significantly better, if just as dated, bunch of weirdness.

http://i.imgur.com/90LwBINl.jpg

"The Sound Base process gives extra dimension to Stereo, with sound appearing to come from 'all around' the listener."

"No additional equipment is required, the 3D effect will be heard when this product is played back on any domestic hifi or in car stereo system."

reissue alert

this record is great

https://svartrecords.com/product/suuri-shamaani-mysteerien-maailma-2lp/

I think this thread may have genuinely caused that Soft Pink Truth album to happen