Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca

I just listened to the first three songs of the new Jute Gyte album on Bandcamp. If you're expecting something that even remotely connects with the Branca metal vibe, you'll be sorely disappointed. It sounds like third-generation Autechre to me. I'm not sure why he'd even release it under the Jute Gyte moniker, as it has nothing of the innovative, hallucinatory quality of his black metal stuff. Not that it's bad, just kinda boring and unrelated to the last few releases.

Anyone heard Akhlys "The Dreaming"? It's one of the dudes from Nightbringer. I was gonna post about this album in the rolling metal thread but thought the folks in this thread would especially appreciate it. I think anyone into Darkspace / Paysage d'Hiver, The Work Which Transforms God era Blut Aus Nord, Krallice on opioids, Emperor on DMT, etc. would dig this record. It also has dark ambient sections that move from haunting, blissful vibes to truly deranged and evil vibes seamlessly. When the guitars are laid on thick, it feels like Branca heaven.

not yet but yeah I've heard great things about it, looking forward to give it a listen

Streaming here: http://www.terrorizer.com/news/listen-to-the-new-akhlys-album-the-dreaming-i/

On track 3 now. Sounds pretty good so far.

holy shit Akhlys

Awesome thanks.

Uh... not quite sure if this fits the boundaries of the thread (if indeed there are any, but I have been toying with the idea of starting a catch-all avant/weirdo-metal thread though it might just be me that would post in it), but it's got the guitar contingent of Krallice along with Weasel Walter and Some Other Guy.

https://encenathrakh.bandcamp.com/releases

It basically sounds like four dudes playing four different deathgrind songs, with very occasional moments of synchronicity. On one level I like how fucked up and chaotic it is, on the other hand it begins to lose impact after a while and I'm not a fan of br00tal death vox.

Available for only $701.26 or more.

Oh and I wanted to like Akhlys but I found it had Dark Space disease, I mean it just hisses and rumbles away with zero impact. For me, anyway.

loooool

the pricing (and the art, and the track titles) surely have this down as a giant spoof

it even sounds like a spoof

the thinking person's anal cunt

"NO DIGIPAK. NO LOGOS. NO SONGS. NO TRIGGERS. NO LYRICS. NO BASS. NO SWEATPANTS. "

ok they're basically doing the whole j0hn d + colin s. barrow black metal fakeposting thing but with real death metal: http://foreverslainzine.com/2015/04/interview-encenathrakh/

:D

When we started, we were teenagers, fucking around and just learning to play, but we quickly learned the techniques we needed to create our vision, inspired by tons of sick bands like Infested Blood, Brodequin, Pustulated, Bound and Gagged, Orchidectomy, Amputated Genitals, Urinary Tract Infection From Severe Pus Clots, Guttural Secrete, Foetopsy, Anal Birth, Liturgy, Haemotodipsomania, Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis, Wormed, Last Days Of Humanity, blah blah blah.

You can imagine the extra brutality of having a real mortician in the band! ha ha ha. Let’s just say he “loves his work”.

this is even in the style of Janne Karlsson et al - it's like they've read ILX

anyway, best metal lol in a while

Subversion and purist-baiting is fine by me, but I'm still not sure if it's 100% a 'joke' band since Mick Barr's kind of infamous for monomaniacal and inscrutable concepts taken to an absurd degree.

Though they're obviously having fun with the 'promotion'.

And those crappy electronic boop boop boop toms are pretty LOL as well but I'm not familiar w/ Weasel Walter enough to know if that's one of his 'things.'

weasel walter, based on what little i know, would be bang up for a joke metal album

More new Jute Gyte

https://soundcloud.com/jute-gyte/sets/ship-of-theseus-preview/s-w4yKZ

For me the first track is a bit dull until the last minute, almost self-parodic, the second might be my favourite thing he's done.

Just as I leave the house!

Need to finish listening to his Autechre impression from earlier in the year, got a sneaky suspicion it's great

xp That opening riff on the first track is a bit sadtrumpet. Cosmic sadtrumpet.

Both tracks are great

Pretty into the first track.

yeah I like the first one more too

I just checked out 777: Cosmosophy a day or two ago. It's pretty great!

Finally bought this. What a beautiful album.

Blut Aus Nord could become one of my favourite bands if I didn't chicken out at the size of their discography and just not listen to them

fuck yeah the opening track of Cosmosophy is so amazing

Wow @ those Jute Gyte tracks, I'm really starting to feel like his despair wormholes are cutting ties with all other forms of recorded music

The way that riff in the first song just seems to ooze downward forever...

Fucking christ, Machinery That Renders Debt Infinite

Tbh, I've been fatiguing of JG a little, esp after listening to more microtonal heavy guitar rock. I don't know if it's just the volume of stuff he puts out or something about the vocals and/or drums. I will def listen to this new one though.

What else will you recommend?

Well, the BAN and this, which was mentioned on the other thread (more heavy psych/prog). Neither of them is doing quite the same thing as what Jute Gyte is doing. Apparently, Rob Guz of M. A. N. also used a quarter-tone guitar (with 11 strings!). Will need to listen to more.

Ha, right after posting that, I put on "Grief of New Desire" and it sounds really powerful.

I was slightly dismissive when I linked the preview tracks, because like sund4r I was getting a bit tired of JG. But I think he's definitely upped his game this time. I always thought that more layering/sound design would be benificial rather than just having these endless grey corridors of sound and that's exactly what's happened. More dynamic too I reckon.

I like that Asteroidi Esadecafonici too, it's interesting to hear microtonal rock in a less harrowing context. More fun.

The new Jute Gyte scared the shit out of me last night when I listened to it in a dark room on headphones. The only other album I've ever had to turn off before on account of being terrified was the first Khanate. I've still never been able to get through an entire Khanate album because they freak me out so much for some reason. I imagine I'll be able to get through the new JG eventually, but last night it had me spooked. I do love how certain parts lock into an almost Black Sabbath/Electric Wizard groove momentarily, before heading back into the inky, slithering darkness. And hella Branca-scapes throughout. I think he might really be onto something on this new one (not that the previous records were anything to sneeze at).

Tangetial to Branca-metal but for some totally non-harrowing microtonal rock, this is 31tet country-rock that I also think is quite good.

hahaha this is ace

will listen to that asteroidi lot soon too

for now, all is alt-universe hoedown

Think it is fair to say now that Kalmbach has an ear for a closing-track ballad

http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-northern-meadow

oh cool!

opening track is v enjoyable, metal taken to new levels lol

(^doesn't really sound like Branca, and doesn't use microtones, and tbh I don't love it--I really dug bandmember R. Loren's "side project" White Moth, still one of my favorite albums of the decade, but this turned out to be not as fractured or frenetic,as that, compared to that album this feels like slightly generic Pitchfork-arty blackgaze to me--but there are still a lot of good things about it, like a smart deployment of those aching overtones from VI: Flora. Also, Vindsval from Blut Aus Nord, and Gorguts and Krallice member Colin Marston (who also produced White Moth) are both in the fold, and I know those are all bands that fit well within this thread, so there's definitely some interest here. I just wish it didn't remind me so much of a black-metal Muse)

xp lol I didnt think you were awake! Dont mind my litany of backhanded compliments

I like the use of electronics the most, but yeah it's not Brancametal, it's maybe most similar to something like Progenie Terrestre Pura? Alert Siegbran, anyhow

Right on, I half-thought to post it on time travel but it seems like that thread is p much a flatline these days.

It'll burst gloriously back to life in time for the EOYs

ok this gets less interesting. but it triiied

gonna try that asteroidi lot now

nah this is cheesy, dubiously-written and the microtonals are a gimmick, and jute gyte is more fun :D

sunday's performance of branca's "ascension three" is being streamed live:

http://bangonacan.org/2015/june/bang_on_a_can_marathon_the_winter_garden_at_brookfield_place