Music After new bands to listen to

Overly done thread theme I know. Sorry.

Im after obscure metal / doom (hence why im asking for it not just finding it in metal hammer). Thinking along the lines of Opeth, Dååth, Earth sounding stuff. K, Charlesbeams and Victorianbloke, im pointing the finger of responsibility firmly at you

Basically, if you go into a metal club and ask the DJ to play it, you can be reasonably confident he wont know what it is nevermind have it. Not for the purpose of doing that, more because I have heared most of what they have. Obscure meaning not very well known of, but still being good. Not so bad its forced to remain obscure.

Thanks guys.

 

i dont have that much stuff anymore but ill list what i can remember/ have already, you might know most of them.

5ive (not the boy band)
Acid King
Acrimony
Electric Wizard
Goatsnake
Greenleaf
Greenmachine
Grand Magus
High On Fire
Jumbo's Killcrane
Mammatus
OM
Sleep
Spiritual Beggars
The Mushroom River Band
Ufomammut
Weedeater

alot of the bands i find are usually from THIS site. i might add a few more tomorrow, after i check my brothers PC, as he has alot more stuff like this.

 

Heard of a few, been meaning to get round to them. I love the 5ive thing, its great telling people I listen to 5ive and they look back at me with my beard, long hair and Slayer shirt on, wondering if im being serious or just having them on

That list is going to take me a while, to get through. Thanks for the site link as well, going to have to power through that lot between exam revision.

 

I'll just try and give you a few choice cuts.

Nadja are one of the finest ambient/drone bands in existence and are alarmingly prolific, releasing on average about 2 or 3 records a year. There are some really nice shoegaze influences in there too, very good stuff. I highly recommend the records Thaumogenesis and Bodycage.

Windmills By The Ocean are a side project that never really picked up steam. It features Bryant Clifford Meyer from Isis and Red Sparowes and some other dudes from the likes of 27 and Anodyne. It is a seriously good example of by-the-numbers epic post-metal that manages to include one of the heaviest drone tracks I've heard in years. Just one self-titled album.

Minsk are well worth checking out if, like me, you think Neurosis never really bettered themselves after Through Silver In Blood. They pick up right where they left off. Check out The Ritual Fires of Abandonment.

Mouth of the Architect are another Neurosis-esque post-metal band, but are horrendously underrated and manage to surpass their peers such as Isis and Pelican on a number of levels. The Ties That Blind is painfully heavy, long, slow and yet still somehow catchy. One of the best albums of 2006 and even features the amazing Brian Cook of Botch and These Arms Are Snakes on bass (but only on record, mind).

Enjoy.

 

I would reccomend Arsis's early work which is very good. sadly their new stuff lacks the edge of their old works (new drummer and singer )

porcupine tree,
King crimson - Very good progressive music, they change line up every 5-6 years and covers a lot of different ground

 

It helps to go to the bands wikipedia and see who they toured with.

 

I'd also add Iron Monkey, anyone that forms a band with the express intention of pissing off as many people as possible deserves a listen, Rotting Christ I keep going back to, especially Theogonia I know they're not that obscure but the DJ's in manc never seem to have any.

One of my mates bands have just been signed Skin The Pig to cover the obscure angle they have an EP out that pretty sweet. /ends shameless plug/

Porcupine Tree really surprised me live, far heavier than on disk.

 

Iron Monkey, probably the heaviest band known to mankind. The best sludge band ever, no doubt about it.

 

cryonic temple
hammerfall

 

Hell Is For Heroes
YourCodeNameIs:Milo

 

Not sure if you after this sort of stuff, but I thought I would plug my mates band anyways

http://www.myspace.com/finalepitaph

I personally don't like metal too much, but I find myself listening to them on a regular basis.

Seriously, give them a jolly good listening to

Solitary and This New Beginning are my favs

 

not really hard metal tho tbh but still good

 

...what?

Huge amounts of irrelevance. Read what he asked for.

 

viking metal always diff

finntroll

http://www.finntroll.net/

also check out boltthrower (war metal/doom etc)

 

Just stick bands you like into www.last.fm and see what it suggests.

I'd recommend Orange Goblin

 

Im pretty sure I would get a punch for asking for Hell is for heroes off one or two DJs

This music listening to thing is consuming my life

 

Just looking on their myspace, noticed Annotations of An Autopsy, I recall one night in Nottingham looking at a poster with them on thinking 'Christ thats a metal font' thus starting my quest to find a harder to read one.

 

off topic, but have you been relixed? sure your av didn't look like that yesterday

 

What is relixing

 

The band I'm in, Final:

http://www.myspace.com/yourwristsmyknife

Black/Doom metal, you decide.