Instrumental metal(ish):
Animals as Leaders
Scale the Summit
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I thought there was no shortage of noodly prog-metal bands in the past years, what with Periphery, Polyphia, and whatever else — frankly I lost track of the genre. Both of those you mentioned have a strong whiff of eighties-nineties guitar virtuosos noodling for ten minutes on end. Animals as Leaders are at least a bit jazzy, so I'll throw in some jazz-metal bands here. Alas, not all are instrumental.
Blind Vandal: probably not much present on streaming platforms, but a live performance by those dudes went like "this song is called Kamikaze", and then ten minutes of shredding
Mike Oldfield's ‘Tubular Bells Live at the BBC, 1973’
Planet X's ‘Universe’
Universal Totem Orchestra's ‘Rituale Alieno’
Spastic Ink: see ‘The Cereal Mouse’ and A Wild Hare; and Blotted Science (both bands lead by Ron Jarzombek)
Ruins; and other stuff by Tatsuya Yoshida
UneXpect's ‘In a Flesh Aquarium’
Try also Lanzallamas and Liquidarlo Celuloide, who are more on noise-rock side
Right on, thanks for the recommendations! I'm familiar wit Tubular Bells since it was used in The Exorcist. I will work my way through the others.
I saw Animals as Leaders live about 13 years ago, and they were amazingly talented.
'The Exorcist' used only the intro from 'Tubular Bells', while the full performance is over twenty-five minutes (and that seems to be just the first part from the album). So if you haven't heard it in full, I recommend checking it out.
Yes, I have heard the full piece!
Just because I am curios and you said you are into metal and industrial: Something similar to Author & Punisher.
Unfortunately Author & Punisher doesn't really jibe with me — I've listened to him multiple times in the past, and not sure why, but he doesn't seem too interesting. I'll have to listen to him again to remember his style, but I promise I won't leave you hanging.
In the meantime, try Imminent's ‘Cask Strength’ and ‘The Humanoid Problem’ for the heck of it.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a listen.
Maybe try A&P's newer stuff? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdc_cQh2x_k
Also from another person's comment here: Circuit Preacher's ‘Heaven Can't Heal’ — it's more electronic rather than metal, but likewise evokes 90s popular industrial quite a bit. (The dude released a whole bunch of singles, but this is the only album.)
I've listened through the last album: Imminent was rather off the mark. I guess I can properly say now why Author & Punisher doesn't work for me. He's gimmicky, and his music sounds quite a bit like 90s industrial-rock/metal — Rob Zombie, Powerman 5000, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, that kind of stuff — but without any of the fun, and really nothing but nonstop angst all the time.
Though I dig the doom-y sound of ‘Rook’: I like aggressive doom like that, and combining it with industrial is pretty cool.
Aside from the above-mentioned guys (and perhaps Fear Factory and Ministry), check out these, also from back in the day:
The Damage Manual — properly starts from the second track
KMFDM — their music is mostly samey, but they made a few bangers
I would like something similar to Dead Can Dance's Spiritchaser album. Any recommendations?
DCD are quite unique, of course. Especially this album, combining their peculiar approach, a newfound penchant for worldbeat, and a strong whiff of their roots as a gothic-ish band on a dream-pop label.
The following aren't really similar, but just something I'd recommend to a fan of DCD, with a lean into world music.
Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman's ‘Songs From The Victorious City’
Alek Lee's ‘Sfarot’
Gigi Shibabaw's ‘Baye Speedy Filfilu / Mengedegna’ (from Tabla Beat Science's ‘Talamanam Sound Clash’), and perhaps her solo albums
Sun City Girls' ‘The Imam’ and the rest of ‘Funeral Mariachi’
Ulver's ‘Kveldssanger’
Perhaps unexpected, but: Enigma's third album ‘Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!’ and later ones. They were lumped with cheesy new-age for the first two albums, and it eluded many people that the music is actually very good. With the third album, Cretu dropped most of the overt ‘native singing’ and such.
Muslimgauze's ‘Narcotic’ and ‘Mullah Said’
Caprice's ‘Mirror’ album, starting in the playlist with the linked video
I've been really into Street Sects lately. Can you recommend me anything similar?
Going off the early releases on Bandcamp there. The music seems a bit more modern than my taste, I'm not quite into mathcore/metalcore.
First thing you want is stuff by James Plotkin, who apparently helps these dudes with mastering: namely Atomsmasher / Phantomsmasher
Nasenbluten, all on Bloody Fist's Bandcamp page
‘Gabber Gabber Hey! - A Loud And Fast Accelerated Tribute To The Ramones’
Lumen Lab's ‘They are Killing Us’
maybe The Berzerker
Adam Betts's ‘Colossal Squid’
Щ=Ъ's ‘Руины танцполов’ (untranslatable — it's actually a parody of a 90s' Russian pop-electronics band)
maybe Monster Zoku Onsomb — they're vaguely into breakcore between the indie-synth stuff
Imminent / Synapscape's ‘The Humanoid Problem’
Jason Forrest and his alias DJ Donna Summer
Venetian Snares' ‘Greg Hates Car Culture’
Thanks! I'm looking forward to going through these.
Btw, if you have other electronic-metal/punk bands you could recommend, I'd be grateful: can always use more of that.
Sure! off the top of my head:
The HIRS Collective: electronic, grindcore, hardcore punk
Circuit Preacher: electronic/industrial
King Yosef: hardcore punk/industrial/hip hop
Youth Code: electronic-industrial
Violencia: hardcore punk
Thanks!
dizzy gillespie
Alright, let's do it.
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra — ‘Satellites Are Spinning’ (from the ‘Space Is The Place’ soundtrack) — different from other versions, and my favorite one, coincidentally
Señor Coconut's ‘Autobahn live at Jazzfest Wien’ and other recordings and performances
Hiroshi Suzuki's ‘Cat’
John Lurie's sax from ‘Permanent Vacation’
John Lurie's soundtrack from ‘Down By Law’ plus ‘Variety’
Wycliffe Gordon's ‘Sweet Louisiana’
Pharoah Sanders, e.g. at the beginning of Tabla Beat Science's ‘Axiom Sound System, Musical Freezone’
Jay Leonhart's ‘It's Impossible To Sing and Play The Bass’ (and the full album)
holy shit awesome! ill have to carve out some time in the listening room! thanks
As mentioned, I'm not sure this will meet expectation, as I'm not that good with the movements in 50s-60s jazz. This is mostly later stuff that seems vaguely reminiscent. At least Lurie had a bunch of different brass on that double record.
Damn, I've nearly forgotten about the cheek man. I gotta collect myself before posting anything other than Miles Davis. I'm afraid it's not gonna be quite 60s bebop.
Perhaps I'll post myself. If there anything like the techno-ish music in ‘Interactive Exhibition In Japan’? (Discounting the vocals.)