Search: Metal that Sounds Like Glenn Branca

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

— Virtual Trobairitz (@bastard__wing) April 4, 2020

I think this kind of fits the bill... Dola from Poland.

http://open.spotify.com/album/5jmtf6yXV6na6xFfzDZsCw?si=dmeLGhtoTqedHPKyTivOKQ
http://dola.bandcamp.com/releases

Liked that.

Haven't seen this thread in a while---my gateway to Jute Gyte and others, thanks.he GB record is great btw,

I've only recently listened to it when compiling my EoY ballot. Caught it just in time.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, February 3, 2020 2:34 AM

You mean The Third Ascension? Made my Uproxx ballot too, so great:
https://glennbranca1.bandcamp.com/releases

Sorry for messing up my paste of your post!

NP, I indeed meant The Third Ascension, glad you're enjoying it Dow!

thanks 2 gaudio for posting that Witch Trail, finally got around to listening to it and it's great, love that twang.

my pleasure, GOTT PUNCH!

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

Album is pretty nice on first listen. May well buy this. Tracks 3 and 4 sound like they're in 12tet, I think?

The 17edo guitar is interesting. Each division (so each fret) would be about 70.59 cents, I think, meaning P5s would be pretty close to what we're used to, only about 6 cents sharp of 12tet P5s and 4 cents sharp from just P5s. But what happens to thirds seems most interesting: you'd get intervals of about 282.35 cents, 352.94 cents, and 423.53 cents, so either a very flat (18 cents) minor third, almost an exact neutral third (halfway between major and minor), or a very sharp major 3 (by 24 cents, and actually more like 38 compared to a just M3). Ofc, some precision is lost when distorting but distorted microtonal tunings still produce different effects than distorted 12tet. Did Ron Sword make the guitar?

I do wonder about these guitars. With 17edo, I could see how you could play on most of the neck with very precise fingering (and she seems to, although I'm sort of interested to hear what it sounds like past the 17th fret without distortion). With the 24tet guitar, I do wonder what technique you could use to play near the octave or higher, to get your fingers just between the frets. Even Sword seems like he's squeezing when he's halfway there on this instrument: https://youtu.be/RWCwMW48FO4?t=90

Also wonder how tricky it is to ensure the intonation of these things. Probably things to ask the Xenharmonic FB group.

I think I might have actually asked some of this once and got an answer that I don't remember.

is there any reason, in this era of digital audio, why metal guitarists aren't recording 100 guitar tracks on everything

It's still a lot of work tbf.

album is going well. hope you like bird sounds in your extreme microtonal metal

— Virtual Trobairitz (@bastard__wing) February 26, 2021

beaky hails

New VOtS single: https://votsband.bandcamp.com/track/nowherer-single-2

On the noisy, brutal side. I think I actually like the primitive drumming.

fun chords!

New Jute Gyte album: https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/helian

Omg he's practically been releasing an album a month. I blinked and missed it.

These are mostly rereleases, although that one^ has some self-remix work so I'll def check it out. His next album proper should be along at some point soon.

Meanwhile, this thread's queen to Kalmbach's king appears to be reaching...new heights

preorders are up for my upcoming microtonal metal album, Nowherer!! and here is a playthrough of a segment from the 21 minute closing track, Oscines!! pic.twitter.com/ht3CS1fMYW

— Virtual Trobairitz (@bastard__wing) April 2, 2021