Crazy, mathy, proggy metal/core fun corner

Can't be the only that likes to be confused by aggressive music. The kind of stuff that makes your parents wonder where they went wrong. The kind of stuff that makes it pointless to get expensive headphones, because everything is loud and poorly mastered. No? I'm the only one? Okay.

Here are some kickers to start things off:

Torrential Downpour - Basilisk


Between the Buried and Me - Extremophile Elite (Live at the Fidelitorium)


Down I Go - Poseidon


The Armed - Polarizer


Car Bomb - From the Dust of This Planet


Fun fact: my current chain = computer > uDac2 > HD650. I don't recommend it.

 

My familiarity with this genre is pretty much limited to Meshuggah, and I can usually only take it in small infrequent doses. Props for the technical chops, but I usually fall back to more traditional prog/metal (Tool, Porcupine Tree, etc.) for longer listening sessions.

This may be their most popular track, from a couple albums back:

 

Nothing wrong with short and sweet...

 

Oh god, lurve Meshuggah! Although was somewhat disappointed at their last album. It's still clearly Meshuggah, but more like dad-Meshuggah.

Here's one from my favorite release last year, it's some sort of blackened chaotic mathcore and it makes me itchy in all the wrong places.

Noise Trail Immersion - Organism

 

I have never been too great identifying genres. My wife has explained post rock to me a hundred times and I still do not get it

Does Shellac or White House fit in to this thread?

I have loved those bands since forever and the first track off of the Shellac album Terraform used to make my parents think my record was stuck

 

I am listening a lot of those, I just did not wanted to make a thread dedicated to this genre because I like digging on my own (gniark, gniark, gniark, what have I found in the abysses of darkness ?!!...)

Like all genres, it can be poorly master, the problem is that few people will notice it because you need quite an endurance/stamina to listen to one full album (sometime even only one track). Once you passed the threshold and you DO find something into it, yes, you can notice that things are not very well mastered but some are also very well done. Just let the music flows and you'll see.

Suggestions :
The Dillinger Escape Plan (name is Über cool), don't be afraid by the first track and take a peek at the second, although the first one is what they do mainly :



Meshuggah built the foundations of Djent and they are, for me, the only band going deep enough but not too much into darkness and creating this raw, brutal, and primal music :


Okay, time to "Cocorico" with Gojira and I can't recommend you enough their universe : artwork/photography and, obviously, music


Now let me introduce you mister "Grave Digger", made by Architects, a hell of a good song if you "tolerate" screams and loudness :


After that we get a little bit deeper into darkness with our friends "Thy Art is Murder", these guys have a really nasty universe where you can almost feel pain, madness. The singer has a volcanic/magmatic throat, unbelievable... One thing before you go, remember this, there will be... NO... Absolution :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpXpK_kmB7w
interested by this band, let's discover the "Reign of Darkness" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Plg93oJ1M

I will let you with a last song which is why I do like Periphery not only as a brutal band. These guys are talented and one could notice Mr HD800 on the table in the video, yes, yes :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBWURleQuLc

Thanks for your readings.

 

I checked out Shellac, they're more noiserock or mathrock from a few choice cuts I listened to, not really metal or -core, The only White House I found was some hip hop act, did you mean that?

Also, no one understands what post- genres are. Usually they're slower and with more reverb than the genres they're "posting". Except post-hardcore, so who knows.

 

I do like them, I wish I could hear some variations from vocals. Else it's a hell of a band, those little slap bass notes during the first 2 minutes... Hmmm... Delicious...

 

Makes sense. I see the word math and I automatically think of Shellac but I see the difference.

EDIT: No one else needs to be exposed to my bizarre musical tastes. Whitehouse may scare parents but not in the way the bands more relevant to this thread might.

Also, nice to see Architects are still popular. I used to be friends with those guys and they always worked so hard.

Carry on.

 

Yeah, I honestly enjoyed their debut EP a bit more, the more deathy vocals were more to my liking.

In the same vein, Telos - Hadean. A bit less chaotic, but just as noisy.

 

With a very strong instrument background which highlights or sustain their music (at the least because they are doing way more), it is already a VERY good quality for a band. And then vocals kick in with this sort of desperate scream (really beautiful) and deep lyrics. I mean, dude, they are just good.

 

Interesting. My musical tastes tend to leave people a little frightened and wanting to move away from me a little. My wife has banned me from listening to Doom when she is home because she finds it too damn depressing. Hence the start of my audio journey looking for good closed headphones.

 

I know exactly what you mean, I've spent hours and hours just digging around blogs, Bandcamp and last.fm trying to new bands. dat feel when find something that makes you audibly go "WTF AM I LISTENING TO"... I love it.

Dillinger is the f'ing bomb. It's sad that they're quitting, but they a goddamn amazing run. I saw them live a few weeks back before their accident happened, just a nuthouse of a show.

 

I'm actually quite happy seeing somebody doing the same thing, but shhhhhh... don't say it too loud, else we'll loose or little darkish pleasure .

Regarding The Dillinger Escape plan, it may be the very first time that I am happy a band is quitting, because they have a very good reason. Minakakis explained in a video that they were quite satisfied of what they did so far and that they wanted to keep it as it is, hence leading to an end because they did not wanted to end like other bands trying to do new things but actually kinda failing at it. They wanted to see their project as a "one thing" and being able to say : This IS The Dillinger Escape Plan, nothing more, nothing less, deal with it. SO not only they are great musicians, but they have good insights of what they are doing, why and that is also something valuable, at least to my eyes.
I unfortunately never saw them live, but I heard they have extremely good shows. You confirm this.

That is not a SO bad reason to start a closed back headphones's journey ^^. To be honest, I think you can leave it out in here, I would be quite happy listening to weirdo stuffo and thus expanding this colourful music scene that I depict in my mind. I am actually really happy knowing weird bands .

 

Couple more "mellower" cuts:

The Odious - Ancestral Perplexities


Leprous - Coal

 

"Mathy"




"Proggy"

 

My dear @Ryu, how can it be that you are linking all those super bands at once ? Would you be, by any chance, on band camp ?
By the way, the art work of Plini is gorgeous.

 

I wonder how much of an influence Pantera has been to many of these bands. Not as "mathy" as what's been posted above, but just as brutal, in the 1990's. Still love listening to them.

 

I think many of current metalcore and djenty bands that employ grooves and start-stop riffing owe a lot to Pantera, even if they're just mostly aping each other. Ie. the Car Bomb song I posted earlier is just Pantera put through a shredder.

More examples:

A Dark Orbit - Floating Intact


Frontierer - Bleak

 

I don't have a bandcamp no. I just am a connoisseur of good music.