The Metal Thread Genre • Page 72

Didn't he do Diamond Eyes as well?

 

i get confused after most horrorca posts

 

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LOL I GET THE JOKE JAKE JUST MADE


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Chorus's resident confuser y'all

 

Folks I think we can agree that SNW a raw deal

 

saturday night yeast

 

Really the only song on SNW I'm not crazy about is Xerces

 

I could do without the monologue at the end of Pink Cellphone.

Any fans of Elder in here?

 

Oh yeah forgot about Pink Cellphone

 

re: Palms

tell me this is not a jam

 

saturday night beast

 

Elder's rad. Don't they have a new album coming out this year?

 

In stuff swboyd has been listening to recently:

Wiegedood - driving black metal from members of Oathbreaker. They have a new album coming out in a couple weeks that sounds like an early contender for BM album of the year.

Ecstatic Vision - Heavy tribal psych from ex-members of a life once lost. It's a trip. That's all I'm gonna say.

 

just starting to get into prog metal, have been checking out animals as leaders / periphery / btbam / scale the summit / etc

does anyone have recs for weird-ish stuff with interplays between speedy and subdued complexity? think i would also be into neoclassical elements

instrumental stuff is fine, i'm more picky with vocals probably

 

The only part of the album I don't enjoy is the end of Pink Cellphone. Otherwise, SNW is a great album. Xerces grew on me a ton over the years.

 

Not exactly sure if its what you're looking for but Pomegranate Tiger is pretty cool instrumental prog metal project I found a while back. Worth at least checking out

 

To throw a few recs out there:

Astronoid - Atmospheric black metal (or "dream thrash" as they style it) with entirely clean vocals. Might not be as neoclassical as you're looking for, but the atmospheres alternating between airy passages and pummeling riffs it creates are something else.

Protest the Hero - Metalcore with some neoclassical flourishes that also melds in some post-hardcore influences that sound like Coheed and At The Drive-In. I haven't listened to their most recent releases, but Kezia and Fortress were jams for me back in the day.

The Human Abstract - Prog metal with neoclassical style guitar work. I discovered these guys randomly by watching Headbanger's Ball way back in the day and they absolutely blew my mind. I went out and bought their debut, Nocturne, the next day. The vocals can be a bit jarring on their first two records, but they improved significantly (IMO) when they added Travis Richter to their lineup for their third album. You might know him from From First To Last.

 

Wretched is overall a standard death metal band, but they recorded one song that's a proggy masterpiece.

Also BTBAM's catalog alone is a wide variety that is definitely worth exploring. They haven't incorporated much neoclassical, but a lot of songs incorporate everything from jazz, blues, even fucking polka and bluegrass. Colors is the album that lots of people tout as their masterpiece which I can't overly disagree with, but if you want to see more "out-there" ideas incorporated also check out their other albums. The Great Misdirect is far more focused and features their tightest guitar work, Future Sequence is (in my opinion) one of the best space-concept albums ever made, and Coma Ecliptic is just good old fun.

 

On an unrelated note, anybody here listen to Cormorant?

 

I hate most of that shit, but these are amazing

EDIT: the Gordian Knot and the second Cynic are probably the closest ones of the bunch to what you're looking for, but listen to all of them, I'm sure you'll like them

 

backing Cynic so hard

 

ah shit

Power Trip leaked

so did Iron Reagan

also the new The Great Old Ones album is amazing

 

Guhhhhhhh need computer

 

thanks y'all!