Thread 127522509

Distortion is false edition

A thread for extreme, abrasive, technical, progressive, or experimental rock-based music.
This means metal, hardcore, experimental rock, noise rock, and others.
Music that is mainstream, "alternative", novelty-driven, "proggy" but not progressive, or not primarily rock, is discouraged.
>Is [genre/band/album] fit for /xxr/?
If you have to ask, probably not.

Old: >>127489794

Any other Chainsword Chads here? Mankind's Last War has some.of the best riffs ever written

>>127522535
I've had this backlogged for a while but I really liked their debut with the post-apoc chick with pentaboobies

Blasting
>>127522535
Never heard of them, but I will listen to it later

>>127522685
this is a good companion album to that, and the drummers are brothers too

>>127522883
Yeah I love A Velvet Creation, closer to "melodeath" than TRITSIO and a little less refined, but better for semi-regular listening IMO
>and the drummers are brothers too
oh neat

>>127522883
Also it's funny that Eucharist made a far better Gothenburg-style album than the band they were influenced by

>>127522685
If you like Bolt Thrower, youll like them. they're solid Bolt Thrower worship but IMO, with a little bit more of an edge

Adventurous but catchy at the same time.

>>127522581
>>127523004
I've only listened as far as IVth Crusade, but I'm surprised how not Bolt Thrower this is. Songs start and occasionally return to a BT backbone, and then develop in a more conventional death metal way. I swear it also has kind of a party mood.

>>127522509 (OP)
would mathcore go here?
or stuff like polyphia or animals as leaders?

>>127524445
Mathcore fits. Math rock and djent, maybe not. I think those are a case by case thing.
What I've heard of Animals as Leaders sounds flashy, but without progressive or even sensible songwriting. But post a couple songs by Polyphia and AaL and I'll try to judge them fairly.

How do I into power electronics?

The first track is weirdly bright-sounding for this band, but thankfully the rest is their usual horrific infernal black metal, but more evolved.

This album really grew on me, it's so different. I don't know if it's their best, but it's definitely my favourite, seriously underrated and features their original drummer.

>>127522949
how? elaborate

Been listening again after the recent news
This is still one of fav black metal albums ever. The layered riffs and production are simply sublime

>>127524305
do you really have to censor album covers on /mu/?

Never really cared about Ozzy desu

>>127527704
He refers to the second Eucharist album being influenced by At the Gates on TSD and SotS. It's a decent record with classic Eucharist melodrama and harmonies, but I find that style of "upbeat minor" a bit tiring after a while.

>>127528630
Sometimes NSFW covers are fine, but I didn't feel like taking a gamble.

Ozzy Osbourne's ghost just flew over my freakin house!

>>127527704
It's mainly just my preference. Mirrorworlds preserved more of the early Eucharist sound than Slaughter of the Soul did for At the Gates. The only bad track is Demons, which mimics the death 'n' roll riff on the SotS title track and turns it into a whole song, but the rest is pretty good for what it is.
Part of it is probably that I just haven't heard it as much as SotS and its descendents.
>>127527715
Shamefully I have never got around to Sacramentum.

>>127524528
Im not actually that familiar with either band.

Polyphia:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NoQg8LdDk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHalHkfM5Aw

Animals as Leaders:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Unao6p1WP14
youtube.com/watch?v=0jpOBd949O4

>>127530366
Post that shit in /kpop/.
Fucking awful garbage.

>>127530415
which.

>>127530435
He's just some fag trying to start a slapfight

>>127522509 (OP)
youtube.com/watch?v=h7r7jYAtLYk

>>127529724
>Shamefully I have never got around to Sacramentum.
Do it. NOW.

>>127530366
I listened at least twice to each song, and tried to find in them what I want these threads to uphold, but none of these are enough. I think I'll remove "technical" from the next thread description to dispel this kind of tech-demo rock.

>Polyphia
>>Playing God
Chill-hop beats with electric flamenco playing. Sounds nice, but Christopher Cross is more rock than this.
>>The Audacity
Really wanted to find something up to standard in this. Close enough to rock I suppose. Still sounds like technical but completely welcoming guitar athletics, cycling between main theme and variation/tangent, lacking the progression that historically gave progressive rock its namesake. I hope math rock as a genre is more than this dexterity-flexing.

>Animals as Leaders
>>Physical Education
One of many byproducts of the long telephone game played with Meshuggah's influence: time signature rock anchored to monotonous cymbal crashes, because lively rhythms or melodic development would disrupt the instrument-players' compositional watchmaking. This track is djent bled dry of any extremity or progression, shuffling through a few pretty but filler melodies before vanishing like a half-asleep daydream.
>>Monomyth
Better, but still falls short. Mostly Morse code chug patterns with undulating synths and prawg salad sprinkled in to break the monotony that comes from writing lawn sprinkler chug music. I will be disappointed if a service like Suno doesn't end this band's career.

>>127532688
What sorta mathrock or mathcore would be suitable recomendations for people to listen to?

>>127532688
I have no problem with others posting mathcore ITT, though I don't like it much myself. I have listened to
>Virulence - A Conflict Scenario
>Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
>Pyrrhon - Growth Without End (is more tech/disso-death)
>Sectioned - Annihilated
>Methwitch - Indwell (has some cringe alt-metal moments)
I find mathcore can have scatterbrained songwriting and a reliance on various alternations of chugs and skronks with little to no melodic element, both of which stifle my engagement with the music.

Math rock I have no listening experience with, but I assume there are plenty of math rock albums that fit the criteria of rock that's extreme, progressive and/or experimental, whether I personally like them or not.

>>127532749
I have no problem with others posting mathcore ITT, though I don't like it much myself. I have listened to
>Virulence - A Conflict Scenario
>Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
>Pyrrhon - Growth Without End (is more tech/disso-death)
>Sectioned - Annihilated
>Methwitch - Indwell (has some cringe alt-metal moments)
I find mathcore can have scatterbrained songwriting and a reliance on various alternations of chugs and skronks with little to no melodic element, both of which stifle my engagement with the music.

Math rock I have no listening experience with, but I assume there are plenty of math rock albums that fit the criteria of rock that's extreme, progressive and/or experimental, whether I personally like them or not.

https://drumcorps.bandcamp.com/album/better-days

Music video visualizer of album:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tvwrGDO4lZY


Anyone like this stuff

>>127534980
Never heard of it before, but now that I have, it's a cool fusion of hardcore and EDMcore.

Bump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mncKWM_jO-c

A strange bass solo, from an otherwise usually straightforward metal band.

Flight of the bumplebee

>>127541847
He's covered that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXZKS5bHtP4

also on (piccolo) bass.

peak 'palm release that isn't a Peel Session IMO

>>127540472
I didn't know Manowar had their own Pulling Teeth

>>127547024
Pulling teeth is a lot less dissonant or more conventional/melodic from what I remember.

Context, for those unfamiliar. "(Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth" is a bass solo instrumental track on Metallica's first album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJz515hVS_c

It's played by their deceased bass player Cliff Burton.

>>127540472
If people actually like that dissonant style of solo, he's got another bass solo that's similar to this. But its in 2 parts which are buried towards the end of a ~28 minute song suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0AnLvPs6JE

I dunno how relevant the rest of that song is to this thread. It's experimental in some ways, but I dunno if its really extreme, so here's those 2 bass solo sections split apart from the rest of the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUqVGd7AsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-LjP4Ignko

>>127530680
OK I get it now. This is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oNp5YdnnTc
VILE MARTYRS OF CONTORTED CHANCE
CREEPING BEHIIIIIIIIIINNND

>>127548454
why do black metal covers all look like this?

>>127548454
Suckmymancum sucks

>>127551103
Evokes a sense of majesty

>>127544575
>peak 'palm release
based

>>127551103
Kristian Wahlin painted one blue-tinted airbrushed castle and everyone liked it, so he repeated this feat over and over. I'd guess he got the general idea from the cover of King Diamond's Abigail.