strange stuff but unlike my other suggestions this firmly falls into ROCK territory

https://myspace.com/brachialilluminator/music/songs

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/brachialilluminator

Did you listen to all three tracks? There's a lot going on. It starts as the electronic thing with punk/metal guitars but it has jazz and funk and surf rock with strange barber shop vocals. Gosh, i think this is perfect for an eclectic category. Sounds more prog than many other things i've heard that are on PA.

Unfortunately there's not much about this band on the web period. I do not own their albums but am interested in checking them out. RYM has labelled them as avant-prog and i find their categorization is usually spot on.

If you didn't listen to all three songs in their entirety i advise you to to do so, if you have then i don't have anything else to add other than why?

The way the music shifts from one genre to another is similar to Mr Bungle or Pryapisme.
It's soooo prog!

how can anyone calling themselves that be taken seriously

Don't really see it belonging somewhere other than one of the metal subgenres

Hey! Did you all miss my posting where i said i spoke too soon? I found their website with all their albums on MP3 for all to hear.

http://www.brachialilluminator.com/Mp3.php

They are much more than metal. They seem to mix metal with electronica and some kind of polka type jazz with other embelleshments. I can't believe it's not obvious from what i've heard

So do you have to listen to entire albums before you can add them to the archives? From what i've heard it sounds like a progressive enough band to me. Enough metal to at least qualify for a slot in the experimental metal section. Anyway, since i've discovered them i'm really diggin their stuff. Thanks for checking them out

yam yam wrote: Not necessarily entire albums (though this is always preferable if possible), but a reasonable number of complete compositions from a representative selection of their output. We have just three songs out of twelve available on myspace from their latest album alarm! blaulicht in rio (2011), and just one full track from each of the other two via their website. I agree with you that this band has the potential to be added here, but we need at least some more full-track samples to be made available somehow.