Do you listen to anything that would be called 'weird'? Avant-garde, wacky, fun, surreal, you know.
This is a 10/10 album of mine alongside Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime" and Death's "Symbolic". Encyclopedia Metallum describes the band as "Avant-garde metal/electronic", RateYourMusic describes this album's genre as "Black metal, avant-garde metal, progressive metal". All are good descriptions, but I like to describe it as "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT" metal. Listening to the first track I thought it was gonna be just another Voivod-esque dissonant death metal thing, but it is so beyond that.
It sports some of the catchiest and greatest melodies, some of the weirdest and most upside-down musical composition, and genre-switching that left me stumped at whatever the fuck I just heard. Like that DnB breakbeat with that girl talking with all sorts of weird effects, that weird hip hop part, there's so much to hear here.
Best part is, it actually feels like a coherent album with a very definable sound. I have so much fun listening to it over and over again, it's like a buffet of all sorts of musical influences composed in the most tasteful and fascinating yet unpretentious way. BTW, this album's free on Bandcamp alongside most of their discography. GO LISTEN TO IT NOW!
Another distinct "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT" album. While "1000 Thoughts of Violence" was black metal at heart, this album's death metal at heart despite its weirdness. The ethereal synth atmospheres, the bluesy guitar solos, the distorted sound effects, the weird saxophone that comes out at random, the album just being so abrupt, switching gears constantly yet similarly feels coherent. Another one on constant rotation, this is one of the most original and creative albums I've ever heard.
Insane technical death metal with Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower) on guitar, Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) on bass, and Hannes Grossmann (Necrophagist, Obscura) on drums. A supergroup of some of the most celebrated metal bands of all time. It's frantic, unbelievably complex, leaves you little time to breathe. Pummels you with odd time signatures, polyrhythms, sweeping guitar solos, and riffs that are so angular and upside down you wonder how Ron even came up with them.
Ron actually has a YouTube channel where he shows some of his formal/mathematical process of composition, partly inspired by Schoenburg's 12 tone system (basically creating music that has no key, using all twelve notes of a scale in equal measure). He's a very eccentric man in the best way possible.
It sports some of the catchiest and greatest melodies, some of the weirdest and most upside-down musical composition, and genre-switching that left me stumped at whatever the fuck I just heard. Like that DnB breakbeat with that girl talking with all sorts of weird effects, that weird hip hop part, there's so much to hear here.
Best part is, it actually feels like a coherent album with a very definable sound. I have so much fun listening to it over and over again, it's like a buffet of all sorts of musical influences composed in the most tasteful and fascinating yet unpretentious way. BTW, this album's free on Bandcamp alongside most of their discography. GO LISTEN TO IT NOW!
Ron actually has a YouTube channel where he shows some of his formal/mathematical process of composition, partly inspired by Schoenburg's 12 tone system (basically creating music that has no key, using all twelve notes of a scale in equal measure). He's a very eccentric man in the best way possible.
