Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca

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.

Was it nominated in the metal poll?

it was. spoiler: my metal aoty

Alright, I need to hear this now.

my god, you do!!

one of those albums where a really good first half yields to an overwhelming second

Oh man

Oh man

Oh man

Annoyingly there are two bands called Witch Trail, both put out albums this year. Both are very good.

Omen xp

The GB record is great btw, I've only recently listened to it when compiling my EoY ballot. Caught it just in time.

Afloat off the Witch Trail (indie-metal variant) album is quite something

have we heard this yet? https://votsband.bandcamp.com/ i am listening now and it's sounding great. openly referencing jute gyte, kayo dot and loosely basing the concept around andrei rublev, except if andrei rublev was about being trans

it's made by the following individual

POV: 1950s housewife shows you her microtonal riffs pic.twitter.com/Yvre4b10K0

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