I've been hearing great stuff about Gojira--definitely need to check them out. I've still never heard it, but Obscura by Gorguts is supposed to be pretty out-there and harmonically unhinged in a way that I can imagine someone into Miles's deeper, freer '70s stuff might be able to dig...
― Clarke B., Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
If you have a really, really loose definition of metal, Ice's first album Under the Skin kind of reminds me of Miles (when it doesn't sound like dubby Godflesh), but more On the Corner than the ones mentioned above.
― flared bass (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
new Fontanelle rec on Southern Lord is deep Miles tribute from Sunn/Jessamine/Earth/Iceburn dudes
― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 14 December 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that Fontanelle record is fantastic. Not even remotely metal, but awesome.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 14 December 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
'modern instrumental metal' - cmon, just get used to the vocals.
― j., Friday, 14 December 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
One the Kevin Martin/Justin Broadrick/Ice tip, be sure to check out God's "Possession", and the less jazzy "Anatomy of Addiction". I could swear both albums were on Spotify (U.S.) only a week or two ago, but I can't seem to find them anymore.
― beard papa, Friday, 14 December 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
There are two other God albums - Loco (live) and Consumed - but they're super hard to find these days.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 14 December 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Ulcerate's Destroyers of All - technically, compositionally and rhythmically complex, as well as surprisingly soulful/emotional.
Not instrumental but yes, you should try to get used to the vocals. As with most extreme stuff their vocals are basically a percussive or textural instrument anyway.
― anonanon, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
I third the Fontanelle, coming more from the prog side, but certainly dips into the Miles fusion era. Diagonal's The Second Mechanism on Rise Above/Metal Blade also has some fusion, but definitely heavy on the prog.
Texas stoner metal band Wo Fat have a post-Bitches Brew element to some of their latest stuff, but even going back to their first album in 2006, they covered "Runnin' The Voodoo Down."
Chopping and blending Miles' voodoo brew even finer among other elements like space-rockin' Hawkind and Pink Floyd are Ufomammut. Their latest double is not to be missed.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Gojira on this goddamned day though. I picked a good week to get on anti-depressants.
― FunkyTonk, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone already said, Scott Walker's 'Bish Bosch'? if not, that's the one for me.
curiously enough, 'Fontanelle' (which get a mention upthread) is a word found in one of the songs' lyrics. : )
― Max Florian, Saturday, 15 December 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
candlemass!!!
― j., Sunday, 16 December 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
"There are two other God albums - Loco (live) and Consumed - but they're super hard to find these days."
There is also a remix EP of Anatomy of Addiction called Appeal to Human Greed that's quite good.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 16 December 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Happy new year! Just three for now... Curious to what you guys are digging (and, of course, always hungry for recommendations...)
(1) Enslaved: Vikingligr Veldi -- Holy HELL this is an astonishing record. I love how there are just these long, long stretches without vocals. I love how they go from searching, exploratory (but not wanky) passages straight into full-on blasting. I love that they repeat figures longer than you expect, sometimes a lot longer, creating that really immersive effect (like on "Inn I Slottet Fra Drommen" by Burzum). Ridiculously good. The early 2nd-wave Norwegian BM has just been blowing my mind lately; all these amazing classics which are totally new and fresh to me.
(2) Samael: Blood Ritual -- So glad to have discovered these guys. It's mid-pacedness really appeals to me, and its such a lean, streamlined, just completely effective and ultra-dark sound they've cultivated on this record. The riffing is tremendous, very much in an early Celtic Frost vein. And the vocals are pretty exceptional as well--not ultra-aggressive or theatrical, just perfectly dark/evil. I feel like these guys are underappreciated.
(3) Cryptopsy: None So Vile -- This is just a fun, sick ride, but the thing that's really been standing out to me is the drumming; the fluidity and the nuanced-ness are jaw-dropping, but not so in-your-face technical that the plot gets lost.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 17 January 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah these are all classics. Vikingligr Veldi is another one of my all time favourite BM records. Samael "Ceremony Of Opposites" should be your next stop, it takes all of the good points from Blood Ritual to a new level.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 17 January 2013 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
In terms of (slightly) older records, currently revisting these:Sjenovik - Jouissance (thick dark slow-paced BM)Strid - End Of Life (slow hypnotic depressive BM from 1993, this is a total classic and everyone should hear it)Lustre - Welcome Winter (slow hypnotic depressive BM, clearly modelled after ^^^^)Rottrevore - Iniquitous (crushingly HEAVY old school death metal)Nightfall - Macabre Sunsets (weird death/doom hybrid, with that typical cavernous 90s Greek sound)
― Siegbran, Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
I had an unreasonably good used CD haul today at one of my favorite shops:
Assuck: AnticapitalBlut Aus Nord: Ultima ThuleeCryptopsy: Blasphemy Made FleshDeath: SymbolicEnslaved: EldIncantation: Onward to GolgothaJudas Iscariot: Thy Dying LightManilla Road: InvasionMorbid Angel: Formulas Fatal to the FleshPossessed: Seven ChurchesTrouble: The SkullUlver: Kveldssanger
I don't even know where to start!
― Clarke B., Thursday, 24 January 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
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And thanks as always, Siegbran; I will pick up Ceremony of Opposites stat.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 24 January 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
right now, man its easy to pad this list out with my Pagan Altar obsession:
Pagan Altar - Pagan AltarPagan Altar - The Lords of HypocrisyPagan Altar - Mythical & MagicalWo Fat - The Black CodeFen - Dustwalker
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Wo Fat live almost sells me on Wo Fat in the studio. Not quite though, because live they were otherworldly. Trance inducing, and telepathically tight on changes and extended jams.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Shit, sounds like I need to see them live then, as I've really fallen for their last two albums.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
If they head up your way do not miss them. I figure they'll likely hit the road outside of Texas when they return from Europe at the end of April.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
I will definitely keep my eyes open, thanks for the tip. Sometimes I give up tracking the tours for these blog hype stoner bands because they always end up so much more popular in Europe and spend their time over there.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
It's great to see people discovering pagan altar. I remember people freaking out that they got in the alltime metal poll ahead of pantera and glam metal.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I had replied more fully to the Miles Davis-influenced metal recommendations about 90 posts back. Thanks to all who offered them.
I had heard and liked the Fontanelle previous to this thread. Very Complete On The Corner box. As others said, definitely not metal. And for me, nowhere near as intense as the Miles from which it takes inspiration. But cool.
Really liked some of Wo Fat. Especially "The Spheres Beyond". That's as close as I've come to hearing the heavyish Miles-influenced sound I have in my head.
Going to check out some of the other recommendations as I'm able. I've been thinking for years that based on what I've read about him, I should be able to get into some Justin Broadrick stuff, so I'm looking forward to hearing God.
On a somewhat different note, I just... /discovered/ this Cloudkicker album last night: http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/the-discovery It's not Miles-influenced, but it's pretty cool modern instrumental metal.
Also Chimp Spanner, which despite having a terrible name and some overly polished sounds and some rather vacuous passages, is also pretty cool modern instrumental metal. Not deep, but fun.
― Funk/Tonk (FunkyTonk), Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and I really liked the instrumental version of Periphery's self-titled. Which caused me to wonder: are there other metal albums that have been released in both vocal and instrumental versions?
― Funk/Tonk (FunkyTonk), Friday, 1 February 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
The deluxe version of Nightwish's latest album came with a second disc of instrumental versions.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
Which, considering the trouble they have holding onto vocalists, could really come in handy for them going forward. "Here are the backing tracks - rehearsal is Monday at 10."
- sacramentum - 'far away from the sun'; finally got a copy! (it's just been reissued on vinyl and cd). it's every bit as good as siegbran said it was. shot through with veins of beautiful icy tremolo melodies. really inventive drumming too.- disma -'towards the megalith'; this has grown on me a lot. really like the production - actually audible, meaty, bulldozery bass.- vader -'de profundis'- spawn of possession - 'incurso'; not often in the mood for stuff this technical, but when i am, it's cracks-me-up amazing.- judas priest - 'sin after sin'. recent 2nd-hand vinyl acquisition. rules.
― cb, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
(1) Sacramentum -- Far Away From the Sun: Despite the reissue being really LOUD (ugh!), this is just beautiful. (2) Gorguts -- Obscura: Wow!(3) Evoken -- Embrace the Emptiness: I can't stop listening to this. I love the moments in which the clean, ringing guitar peeks through.
Just three for now... I'm on the precipice of an enormous funeral doom phase.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
ever heard this one, clarke?
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/The_Gault/Even_as_All_Before_Us/84669
― j., Tuesday, 9 July 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
i'm digging the aeternus from this year, after it didn't do much for me at first.
it's got a lot going for it before you even get to less-tangibles. the production is great, modern through and through but not radio-overdriven - the bass is really resonant and as if to make up for the occupied low end, the drum sound is really thick. the drummer seems to be very subtle - surely this is one of those albums where drum hits were engineered as separately as possible in some cases, so that musical differences could register? because he changes it up a lot in small ways. the guitar tone is nice and dirty. the songs have a very human-scale feel to them, pretty loose and riffy in the stretches before they make (frequent) shifts in rhythm/structure/etc. obviously very technical but somehow in a way that they let drive the songs, and be proportioned to the contours of the songs. nice growling.
i even like the spanish guitar interlude, and usually acoustic interludes on metal albums just embarrass me.
― j., Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
i totally concur on the aeternus album. others i've been enjoying in the past year or so:
new(ish)- progenie terrestre pura - 'u.m.a.'- summoning - 'old mornings dawn'- lustre - 'wonder'- carcass - 'surgical steel'- autopsy - 'the headless ritual'
old (but new to me) discoveries (revelations!)- tormentor - 'anno domini'- dream death - 'journey into mystery'- master's hammer - 'ritual'- enslaved - 'frost'- grave - 'into the grave'
― cb, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I love Dream Death. Check out the demo comp they had a while back, it's great.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
cool, i will. really dig the album (was trying to track down a copy for ages....)
― cb, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
weakling
― j., Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
Isengard - VinterskuggeDarkspace - IIIDarkthrone - Sardonic WrathHellhammer - Satanic Rites demoBelketre - Ambre Zuèrkl Vuordhrevarhtre
― Dominique, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
*beams with pride* Darkspace got a hold of you then :D
Which of those other records d'ya think I'd most dig?
― imago, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
hmm, maybe the Belketre. None of the others are as extreme as Darkspace, but Belketre is almost uncomfortably dark and lo-fi. Truly "black" metal. (just as good is their split with Vlad Tepes)
― Dominique, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
I'm enjoying all kinds of death metal lately. Carcass, Suffocation, Incantation, Cruciamentum. I couldn't stand any of this stuff six months ago. My ears must be changing shape.
Also Triptykon, Celtic Frost, Sodom, Exciter, Mercyful Fate.
― jmm, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
ooh ty!
― imago, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
intro was truly beautiful. second song is like a BM take on The Fall :D
can see myself really getting on with this
― imago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
holy shit this is magnificent
it hits the same wonky pleasure-spots that the most haggard, fucked-up Fall does, seriously. feels like a malignant, semi-lucid Other swaggering demonically to bathe me in wrongness
― imago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
Gigan - Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery And Super ScienceMithras - Behind the Shadows Lie MadnessAevangelist - Omen Ex SimulacraAbsu - Tara (as usual)Megadeth - Rust in Peace (ditto)
― original bgm, Thursday, 8 May 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
Verhzleyavbtreleambreb is not only a fucking incredible song, but possibly the most unfuckwithable songtitle since 'Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos'
― imago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
incantation - mortal throne of nazarene
― j., Thursday, 22 May 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I love that record. There's something deep and primeval about Incantation. Maybe because the vocalist sounds like Treebeard.
― jmm, Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
on a big metal kick.
morbus chron - sleepers in the riftcosmic church - ylistismoonblood - blut und kriegdarkthrone - panzerfaust teitanblood - death
― viacom dios, Thursday, 22 May 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
autopsy -'tourniquets, hacksaws and graves'morbus chron - 'sweven'annihilator - 'alice in hell'mayhem - 'deathcrush'behemoth - 'the satanist'
― cb, Friday, 23 May 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link
also,necrovation - s/tslaughter - 'strappado'the obsessed - s/tpaysage d'hiver - 'einsamkeit'pestilence - 'consuming impulse'
― cb, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 08:32 (nine years ago) link