I am looking for the most awesome and unique metal band out there. Somthing so original and great, somthing that is not limited by sub-genres.

Help me out yo.

December Wolves - Blasterpiece Theatre
Today is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
White Zombie - Soul Crusher
Ulver - post Nattens Madrigal albums.

yep.

At the moment I can't think of anything really unique, but I know an artist who did some interesting albums where you can find anything from Industrial Metal to Funk. He is a fucking genious. (btw, his name is hide) Get some songs like Bacteria (Industrial Metal), Fish Scratch Fever (Punk), Psyence (Blues) and Lemoned I Scream. (Funk) Not sure if you like him though, but at least he is unique.

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what about sigh from japan? started out BM than kinda went...non bm. i like em

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Check out every nu metal bad! They're all very unique in their design (or at least that's what they tell us).... no?


Really hard to find anything unique these days. It seems everything has been done, and if it hasn't been done then it will be done and it'll spawn a bunch of copy cat bands. So basically nothing these days really unique or at least won't be for very long.

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Unearthly Trance.

Yes. This wins the thread.


Also good. Try the stuff before Relapse released their new one.

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Therion is unique
Ador Dorath is insane!

Agalloch and Sleep Terror as far as I've ever heard.

Depends, but ARKHA SVA

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Just listen to everything I posted.

Estradasphere

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I cant fucking believe this hasn't been mentioned yet.


Focus - Cynic


To hell with your gay viking/whatnot bands. Fags.

Hmmm.... this is kind of hard, considering that everyone has some influences and are part of a genre. But here's my most unique band: Limbonic Art. The first two albums were the shit, and I had honestly never heard anything like them before because the keyboards and stuff were more complex and better than any other symphonic bm band I know. Moon in the Scorpio, In Abhorrence Dementia.

The Axis Of Perdition-Most unique and insane band ever!

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Malformed Earthborn.

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attempted to agree..........but naw...........good band.

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So you like Today Is The Day. hmmm. As do I.

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no.

I agree.

let him decide

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Nekrogoblikon is kind of original.

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The problem with this "unique band" talk is that, sure, there are many bands that started there own sound and style, but others always follow and rip them off and make it not original and overdone.

i agree with northerndarkness. i actually walked over to my shelf (yes, i actually have real CDs and lots of them, but i'll save this rant for another day) and searched for a unique band. there were a couple of unique discs, though mostly in other genres. as for metal, i had a tough time picking one out.

i said malformed earthborn just to see if anyone even knew what i was talking about, but that was not really metal.. it was shane embury and dan lilker worshipping skinny puppy (even though it sounds nothing like skinny puppy!) ..and then i said Godflesh because when it came out it was unique in the metal scene. the irony is, when i got into godflesh in high school, it led me straight out of metal and i was only listening to industrial for several years (though i still cherished my carcass discs and a few others), and later on powernoise.. and yet years later the very same band is who brought me back to metal. they are the gateway to and from other extreme forms of music.. they were for me, anyway. fuck all the hipster isis fans today who are claiming godflesh.. it's not shallow shit by any means. so that is why i recommended godflesh, even if by today's standards they are not so unique. you just can't evaluate unique bands in hindsight.

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i have 2 cd folders with about 50 double sided pages of 4 cd slots completely full, and i need a third because i have discs lying around everywhere and i HATE that.

i have about the same, only i keep them in cases now because i find those binders scuffed up a lot of my cds when i took them to college. i just hate it when i am trolling around on Soulseek and i find people with loads and loads of albums who don't even know what half of them are because they just hoard downloads based on some other assholes name-dropping bands. ya know?

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What I do is burn the cds when I buy them and put the copies in wallets and keep the origionals in the case. I listen to the burnt copies in the car and the origionals at home. That way if they get scuffed up or lose one i don't have to get mad.

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I do that too with all the stuff I really care about. One time I got my cd stuck in the fucking stereo of my car, and when it came out there were all these scratches and it skipped all the time. From then on, I don't even touch my real cds anymore.

Yeah. Too many people are just going crazy with this download shit and they just find a name that sounds cool and download the album so they can show all their friends how cool they are because they have so much music on their i pod. I prefer to buy an album from a record shop, but I will download something I can't find in stores sometimes.

exactly. i like the feeling of going to the shop and picking up the real thing, or at least ordering. plus, many times the artwork provides some context to the sound overall. unfortunately with metal, there is a lot of bad/lame artwork out there! especially necrophagist.. ugliest art ever.

as for downloading, i've done a lot of that but that's how i have found a lot of great bands. with underground genres, downloading probably helps them more than anything because it spreads the material around and people who truly appreciate the stuff will buy it. if i like what i download, i go pick up the album or i order it if it's hard to find. i've got some old tapes kicking around, so i don't mind downloading that stuff since i already own it, but i've even re-bought some of that stuff on cd. i think downloading has sort of leveled the playing field for the fans because there's nothing worse than going to the store and spending your money on a shitty album that you didn't preview first.

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Yes, I definately agree there is nothing worse than paying for a cd that sux. I've done that mistake far too many times. Also, I do in most cases buy the cd for the album art if its interesting enough, but of coarse the music comes first. And I'd rather buy the actual cd or record because it just makes me feel like a real fan and I want to support the band I'm buying.

Those guys are ridiculous.

I find Asmegin unique

Asmegin is the shit! I owe you a drink.

Burzum, Ásmegin, Silencer

Haha, I owe you three!

Burzum are in no way original now.

since when is black metal about being unique? exceptions: Lurker of Chalice, Spektr

..and then there's the "holy" black metal album: Horde's "Hellig Usvart" which is musically not unique by any means but has to be some of the best staple, primitive black metal i've heard ..and the song titles will have you laughing on the floor. it was made in '94 and still remains credited as anonymous.. although that might have been a stab at euronymous (no pun intended). i like the fact that if you hear it, you have no idea there was anything funny going on.. just sounds like some good evil shit. i have no idea whether this was all a joke or serious opposition or whatever.. the bottom line is it sounds good and it's a conversation piece.

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Like I said before, there's really no "unique" band because everyone belongs to a certain genre, even if they're the one's to start it. But even when one starts a genre, others follow and totally make an imitation of it.

And about Burzum not being original, well, I can't agree or disagree. Burzum had influences and a scene in which it belonged to: the black metal scene, which consisted of Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor, ect. So therefor, Burzum had the stereotypical black metal sound, like bad production, shreaky vocals, and just a primative way of playing. But what could really have separated Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, and Emperor was the lyrics. Mayhem incorporated death, blood, and satan. Burzum had some themes about Lord of the Rings (as funny as that may sound), and pagan way, and so forth. Darkthrone basically started out with lyrics about death and that, but they changed a bit throughout each album, and stretched out to every topic they could think of. Emperor was like pagan stuff as well but had to do with spiritual forces too.

I guess my point in all of that was in order to really understand the full individuality of a band, you should really pay attention to both the music and the lyrics. I can't think of very many bands that have the same way of writing the lyrics (such as long, complex lyrics or short and simple) as far as the same lyrical topics, and to add the same music too. That would be terrible.

Trollfest
Unexpect
Haggard
Finntroll(although this is becoming less and less with the newer bands these days)
Augury


Asmegin is well said.

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Windir

these reccomendations are getting worse and worse.

What the fuck are you talking about? Listen to any song by what I mentioned and tell me the bands aren't unique.

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i think its pretty obvious what im talking about.

I have yet to hear any bands with that same outstanding melody which it has.

OH really? Do you live in a black hole out in space?

Heres a few off the top of my head: Ulver, V.E.G.A, Marduk, Rev Kriss Hades, etc. all of which are better than Burzum.

Read my post again nigger, and if you think that Ulver or Marduk sounds even close to Burzum then you are fucking deaf and dumb

can you show where I said that any of the bands listed sound like burzum? i thought the point of the post was that they didn't sound like burzum and were in fact better than burzum, especially the part that said "all of which are better than Burzum." because if they did sound like burzum, i wouldn't listen to them, because burzum is lame.

thanks.

This isn't a "best band" topic

Your point fails.

Windir isn't unique?

A band doesn't have to be so obscure that only you and three of your mates have heard of it, for it to be called "unique".

please locate the post where i say that and show me.

Concerning my Windir post?

no about where i said a band must be obscure etc. etc.

You didnt. I was gonna delete that part, but then you replied to it. Which, either way, doesnt change the fact that Windir is still pretty unique.

Gojira.

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Cut that out or you're gone. Toothless fucking inbreed.

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I might say this is the key to many wannabe's who formed a band. If you do not try to bring something new, your music can impossibly be considered 'Art'. Influences, ok, but you should never try to become exactly like others. You may have ideals, but do not copy them from others.

For this reason I really appreciate Dimmu Borgir. They have made clear from the album 'Stormblast' that they were not about to become an old-school-punk BM-band, and made the keyboard dominant instrument. Because people always want to label things (and they are right, because no-one can live without any order), they say things are in a genre. They say Dimmu Borgir is Symphonic Black Metal. To me this is just an approximation, because they are just Dimmu Borgir, and from the moment a band has an own sound, it is not any longer in a genre.

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Everyone has an influence, and start out a certain way when they form. And you are right that you should never try to become exactly like others. But when a band starts, their musical influences guide them along the way until they are ready to develope their own style. And also, a lot of bands try to be in a certain scene, like the metalcore scene, death metal scene, or the black metal scene. What the problem is with scenes is that some bands will try to play the same way another does for a while in order to become a part of that scene, thus being a trendy, but no one calls them a trendy in the black metal scene, it's being "True". Dimmu Borgir decided to go against "True" black metal and everything you already mentioned in that post. And a genre is just another label for the style of music, which needs to be used in my opinion. But I think even as you start a new style, you will still be in a genre because there are always those people who must find you a label. Then you are the ones to start that genre I guess.

You called him a nigger? lol, you dumb twat.

I'm seeing Unexpect in April...kinda curious if/what the pits will look like.

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A good viking metal band

Check out Kampfar, if you like Windir.

I'm not 100% certain that I spelled "Kampfar" right.

EDIT: I was correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfar

Pretty much any viking metal band is good, really.

I call all ignorant fools niggers, gay, faggot, retard or idiots. And I don't see how supposedly I'm dumb for calling an obvious retard a nigger.



Way to try to make a point you retarded dickless homo faggot (hey check me out I can make up sentences also thank you for reminding me of unoffensive and retarded sentences)

Can't say you weren't warned. Can say you were too much of an idiot to understand something written in plain English, but not that you weren't warned.

Thank you. You confirmed the second sentence of my post.

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Psyopus = You simply will not hear anything like it , zelda intros into insane(emotionless if you will) riffs, not everyones cup of tea but give them a try.

Fate = Hard to find but is pretty much grinding death metal with Scratch samples (dj) some songs are very interesting.

Sleep terror = Metal with no vocals and jazz sections which works well if you ask me.

Slipknot= Strange you might say? they have 9 members 3 percussionists samples this makes for an interesting listen (in some songs). And clean singing.

Martyr= Highly complex thrash tech the new album is amazing jazz/metally with some crazy interludes arpeggios harmonisation and a vocal style that works pretty damn well.

Crotchduster = Comedy metal Death grind mixed with a whole range of different genres and some pretty funny stuff thrown in too.

The berzerker = Insane drumming with fuzz effects and pretty unique metal stylings.

Malignancy = Grind with unlimited pinch harmonics haha....

Many many more.....

It was about time I added my 2 cents to this thread.

Black Metal related:
In Lingua Mortua, Dodheimsgard, Solefald, Blut Aus Nord, Rakoth, Black Messiah, Ved Buens Ende, Virus [Norway], Red Harvest, Fluerty, Summoning, The Helheim Society, Ensoph, Arcturus [every album up to when Garm left], ...And Oceans, Thorns, Devil Doll, Art Inferno, V28, Kadenzza, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Apostasia, Choronzon, Tartaros, Tiamat [Wildhoney + Deeper Kind Of Slumber], Aborym, Ephel Duath, Morgul, Amok [Norway], Rossomahaar, Taken By Wolves, Woods Of Belial, Trollheim's Grott, Root, Skiltron NV 101, Master's Hammer, Ewigkeit, Spektr, Blacklodge, Aberrant Vascular, The Sprawlcosm and 3.

Doom related:
Love History, Silent Stream Of A Godless Elegy, Dusk [USA], Void Of Silence and Ahab.

Death Metal and/or progressive metal related:
Alchemist, Angizia, Atrophia Red Sun, Carnival In Coal, Demimonde, Hammers Of Misfortune, Hollenthon, In The Woods, Lethargy [later became Mastadon
], Maudlin Of The Well, Mekong Delta, O.L.D., Project Failing Flesh, Septic Flesh, Strommoussheld and VLE.

Any of these bands will totally implode your head in terms of ingenuity and music. However the winner in my eyes goes to The Sprawlcosm's album "Cybionic Black Art" - there really isn't anything like it at all, it's one of the most bizarre and schizophrenic albums I know yet it's still superb musicwise after all is said and done.

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1. you couldnt believe no one mentioned it? only 11 posts had been made...
2. not one of the bands, before you posted, were viking metal. what are you talking about.

wake up.

Darkside is pretty unique. i dont listen to them much anymore, but they are spaced out death metal. like sci-fi death metal. hah. they arnt the first, but they did it a certain way.

Fuck yeah.

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Shat; I've never heard or seen a band like these guys. Not amazing, but just unbelievable that such a band exists....

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This probably isn't what your looking for but I'll put it in anyway...

Disco Volante album by Mr Bungle

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Then again "Between The Buried And Me" have a go at everything...

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