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    Posted: August 15 2007 at 17:08
I heard about this band over on the DT boards. Unexpect, from Canada.
I watched the video and it reminded me a lot of Zeuhl, specifically magma, but really metal.
I think it is pretty interesting.

Anyone ever heard of any other bands doing Zeuhl Metal type stuff?
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=78479
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Id say Ruins are probably close to "Zeuhl Metal"
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:15
Ruins have no guitarist and Tatty Yo wouldn't dare to lay down as something as boring as a metal drum beat =P

Never heard Unexpect, I'll go look
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:15
Guapo?

Oh...I always thought they were under Zeuhl. I guess not.


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Unexpect is indeed a superb band. "In A Flesh Aquarium" (which is not their first album, despite what the DT site claims) is a stunningly good album.
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Points: 2888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:25
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Guapo?

Oh...I always thought they were under Zeuhl. I guess not.


No matters, they are under Zeuhl in my collection Smile

I really cannot think of any example. There are several of the Zeuhl bands with metallic aesthetics - in particular the Japanese ones - both Happy Family and Bondage Fruit are highly guitar orientated, but compositional/structure wise they are leagues away from metal. I had not heard Unexpect before, but from viddying their video, they appeared more inline with the Mr Bungle / Sleeptime league of gentlemen.

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Points: 8602 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 18:29
Wow, I don't know if I'd call them Zeuhl, but I'm an instant fan.Clap
 
They remind me of a French band I found on mp3.com several years ago called Tercia. These guys are a bit tighter. Fabulous stuff. 

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Wow, I got me some new favorite metal band!!!
Ah, I love this... now the Sleepys are begining to influence other bands... sometimes the world is so beautiful.

Anyone else noticed that the bass riff at the begining sounds slightly like Tool Schism?
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I could never call Unexpect a zeuhl metal band, but they are something indeed :-)

By the way, i don't know any zeuhl metal band but i would loved to see some suggestions

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Its cool to see some love. The dt-boards seemed to hate them completly
I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Points: 8844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 23:01
Unexpect doesn't really sound like Zeuhl to my ears.  Sounds just like Sleepytime (from what I've heard anyways), but not Zeuhl.  

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Of course you could also stop this desperate attempt at pidgeon-holing and just call them "Experimental/Avant-Garde" ... 
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Or we could go to ratingsfreak.com and pigeonhole the hell out of them with all sorts of tags.....

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^ having a lot of tags at your disposal does not necessarily mean you have to pidgeon-hole ... some tags are more specific, some are more general.Smile
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I was joking.  I love the site (note the sig!).


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^ Thanks! You haven't rated/tagged too many albums though which tells me you're probably not too much into the other features of the site except the Last.fm signature image. Which is perfectly fine - I'm just noticing.Wink 
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UneXpect is more avantgarde metal I think.
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2007 at 17:14
Cerebus Effect are sometimes tagged as Canterbury Metal, but there's a definite Zeuhl influence in there as well.  
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Points: 8602 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2007 at 17:21
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ Thanks! You haven't rated/tagged too many albums though which tells me you're probably not too much into the other features of the site except the Last.fm signature image. Which is perfectly fine - I'm just noticing.Wink 
 
I still havn't made my rounds through there. I'm still having to much fun in here to go exploring to much further.

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Points: 6336 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2007 at 21:58
I just got my hands on In a Flesh Aquarium, Unexpect album... it´s quite extreme! Nothing is done twice, it´s on constante change... it might get a bit too metal at times, but it´s definitly interesting. I will let you know with a future review, once I have digested the album fully
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