Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca

Cosmic Church is a great band.

^this dude's proper-trad-BM as fuck and had PTP, a decidedly avant/experimental BM outfit, authoring his album of the year, which should demonstrate its quality, coherence & entirely un-gimmicky nature

will also check out Cosmic Church yeah

On the subject of space BM this album to me is pretty similar in vibe but not necessarily in style to both Darkspace and especially PTP and if you like those you should definitely check this out

http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/album/makrokosmos

Doesn't sound anything like Branca though admittedly

Oh and Oranssi Pazuzu are pretty spacey too, psychedelic BM that blends these elements really well rather than having 'metal' and 'prog' sections awkwardly jammed together.

cool :) plenty for me and andrew to check out

Loved loved loved the last Oranssi Pazuzu album

this Petrychor is so far extremely great

um this is fucking phenomenal

this is one of my fave youtube channels. lots of stuff i wouldn't have heard (heard of) otherwise:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtmsphericBlackMetal/videos

ANOTHER NEW JUTE GYTE

http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/ressentiment

released approximately 1 minute ago

impromptu MTSLGB listening club: commence

absolutely fuck yes. best artist in music imo

Halfway through the second track, this might actually be better than Vast Chains.

omg wait for the third track

and dear christ the fifth track, might be the best so far

have his vocals gotten more tolerable, or disappeared maybe? I would have loved the last one as an instrumental record.

Yeah, that's a stunner.

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his vocals are still there but the music is if anything even more kickass, so he increasingly comes off like a master of despair rather than simply a magnificent sufferer

this closing track is showing all the signs of being......beyond, above

:O

I do sometimes feel a bit of a sense that his compositional skills are becoming sophisticated enough that the vocals might feel superfluous at times. I don't mind them the way some people seem to but they're generally the least interesting element. I'm at about 6:45 in "The Grey King" and they're working for me here, though.

The Grey King is some monstrous realness. Up there with The Fire of This (which is saying a LOT)

goddamn

I *just* got Vast Chains, there's no way my brain is ready to process this

i'm going to do the microtonal trilogy marathon at some point either tonight or tomorrow :D

the climactic bit (i.e. pretty much the entire second half) of The Grey King is just...just...

BLACK VOID OF LONELINESS

The Grey King is song of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eAZHnfe394

If I could transfer the Hey QT fuckabout discussion to this song I would in a flash. This is...almost disturbingly good

I'm still processing Vast Chains... never noticed how awesomely hellish & cavernously fucked "The Fire of This" gets in its final half. Dude knows how to close an album.

yeah I mean, The Fire of This is monstrous, intense, lethal stuff, but this is heightened to the grisliest, most demented panic of mind I think I've ever heard

I actually think the closer of the first part of the 'trilogy', Acedia, is by far the weakest song on all 3 albums! but the two 2014 closers, yeah I mean, fuck

Ok I downloaded Vast Chains.

Jesus christ. I think this the first use of microtonal scales I've heard that didn't just sound like some muso nerd in-joke to me. The parts where he resorts to straight up power chord chopping for a few seconds are like brief islands of sanity.

welcome to the cult, so glad you could join us

srsly ressentiment. srsly. the man himself regards it most highly of the three, as do i. the most exciting/intimidating aspect is that he claims all three albums are primitive in comparison to what he's working on now. gimme that sweet primitive fire tbpfh, i can wait

So far I'm finding that I still want to play Vast Chains all the time but can't really spin Ressentiment the same way. Maybe it's a matter of time?

Can get why Ressentiment might be too much - it's one of the most intense albums ever made, I'd wager. You have to be in the right place for it. Vast Chains, while almost equally brilliant, is slightly more introspective, more measured. Ressentiment is vicious

Hm, maybe that's it.

"The Fire of This" pretty much shattered my mind into a million glittering shards last night, so I can finally officially say I am fully on-board the Jute Gyte wagon. Holy fuck, man. I've been listening to his stuff fairly regularly for almost a year now, but it didn't really click until last night for some reason. Now I need to hear it all.

I don't know if this is Branca-esque at all, sometimes it sounds like mid-80s Greg Ginn playing black metal, sometimes it sounds like Jute Gyte without the mictrotonality...

http://horsesacrifice.bandcamp.com/album/ambergris

Name your price, too.

This band might actually sound more like the Theater of Eternal Music on this album but what the hell:

http://morkomusic.bandcamp.com/album/iv

We really enjoyed both of those. The Ambergris is fantastic!

is that the royal we or do u have a partner who enjoys metal that sounds like glenn branca, next question how

also lol ok imma hear those now

ambergris is sick

This Morko record is great. Sounds like a black metal This Heat. Admittedly I'm predisposed to love anything that sounds like "insert genre" This Heat.
Also - Did it really come out in 2008? Kind of amazed it's never crossed my path.

It did! I think they did a really limited run of physical copies - I actually got it because they saw a review I wrote of their second album and emailed me and offered a copy. Their newer one (long Finnish title, also on their bandcamp) is pretty weird too but different in style - IV almost seemed like an extended black metal Fall of Saigon, to continue the This Heat comparison.

Glad you guys liked Ambergris, too - as soon as I heard it I thought of this thread!

Damn. I need to track down a physical copy. I also need to book more Finnish shows for my bands so I have an excuse to go there and beg Morko to play the show.

is that the royal we or do u have a partner who enjoys metal that sounds like glenn branca,

The latter

next qn evidently a mystery to be solved by each adventurer alone

morko is gr8888888 omg

lol they're finnish of course they're a cross between BM and Circle

This ambergris is almost making me do the ol' invisible orange which means it's fucking rad

yeah it really is ridiculously good

For fans of discordance and Portal levels of chaotic murk, the most recent Aevangelist is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihG-B0WCePk