Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca

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

I still have to check out the 1st Pyramids album, but I highly recommend White Moth which is on Spotify, and which is way more kitchen-sink fractal nu-metal/digital hardcore xp to imago

For some reason the first Pyramids album never grabbed me as much as I thought it would, but I absolutely love A Northern Meadow. Never thought to bring it up on this thread though.

Been digging this today.

http://www.nocleansinging.com/2015/10/16/an-ncs-premiere-genevieve-escapism/

Jute Gyte/Imperial Triumphant-ish ugliness with fretless guitar.

I read "Austin Weber" as "Anton Webern" for an instant and got excited.

Listened to it this morning. It's pretty cool.

I love that metal found a use for microtonal guitars that doesn't involve endless shredding.

And Genevieve sounds good on first listen, I'll have to give it more time later.

gave Akhlys a listen on the living room speakers last night -- been listening to it occasionally all year because sometimes I kind of like it and sometimes I have a weirdly negative "this is bullshit" reaction to it. but I've only, 'til now, been listening on headphones. good headphones, but always headphones.

I strongly recommend giving this album some room space, it's a very good album but better suited to the air than the closeness of the cans. really glad I stuck with it, it's excellent.

ty I have liked what I've heard & will do likewise

Anything from this year I need to hear?

Well there's this Ecferus album, not the most outre thing on the thread but it's a bit Krallice-y

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pangaea

And it's from a few years ago, but a band called Ecferus released one single EP that isn't the most experimental thing in the world but has one of the finest, lushest wall of guitars I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFeo4TR-Z3s&ab_channel=AtmosphericBlackMetalAlbums

Maybe one day I'll be able to post literally anything without making a mistake, the above link is for a band called Enmerkar and since the yt doesn't seem to work for me here's the bandcamp if anyone's interested:

https://enmerkar.bandcamp.com/releases

The man himself placed for the first time on:
POLLERO!: ILM's Top 100 Notated Pieces of Music

For the Jute Gyte/Ambergris fans...

http://speedritualrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ange-de-la-mort-phnylketonurics

Check out "Vengeful Prophecy."

Oh, that's good stuff. On my list for tomorrow.

Sounds more like Portal/Swallowed to me than anything else but yeah, good stuff.

Is the guitarist using a whammy there or do you know if it's something else (customized instrument, tuning, etc)?

You mean for general queasy riff warping? I think so.

can't work out if there's something to this or if it's directionless bollocks

https://vmthanaachth.bandcamp.com/album/inferotemporal

since we don't have a thraed for metal that sounds like SY and/or PiL:

https://witchtrail.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-has-left-the-hill

Yep, just bought that on first listen. Really nice guitar sound and riffs. My partner called it "surf metal", actually.