The Tech/Extreme Prog metal appreciation

The new Negura Bunget is a grower. No, it's not the same, but still very good, and a worthy continuation of their legacy.

Edited by Atomicunderware - June 29 2010 at 06:34

Here are some favorites of mine:

Spiral Architect- A Sceptic's Universe
Extol- Synergy
Ephel Duath- Pain Necessary To Know
Twisted Into Form- Then Comes Affliction To Awaken The Dreamer
Martyr- all three of their albums
The Dillinger Escape Plan w/ Mike Patton- Irony Is A Dead Scene
The Deserts of traun- The Lilac moon
Detachment- suspended in stone
Depressive Age- Lying In Wait
Deathrow- Deception Ignored
Dark Lunacy- all
Damn The Machine- s/t
Cynic- both full lengths (and most likely this new ep)
Crom-Tech- all
Cosmonaut- Pipebomb Full Of Nails
Coroner- all
Confessor- Condemned (technical progressive doomy thrash- just brilliant)
Collapsar- both
Cloudkicker- self released stuff in a Meshuggah vein, but more ambient
Capharnaum- Fractured (features Daniel Mongrain of Martyr- killer stuff!)
Atrox- all with Monika Edvardson
Atrocity- Hallucinations, todessehnsucht
Atheist- all
Arcturus- all
Andromeda- all
Anata- all
Altered Aeon- Dispiritism
Aletheian- Dying Vine
Alarum- both
Absurd 2 (squared)- ep (extol side project- tech thrash with fretless bass)
Drottnar- Welterwerk
Ebonylake- On The Eve Of The Grimly Inventive
Exivious- s/t
Frantic Bleep- Fluctuadmission and The Sense Apparatus
Gorguts- everything
Gorod- everything
Gory Blister- Art Bleeds, Cognitive Sinergy
Hectic Patterns- Random
Helstar- Nosferatu, A Distant Thunder
The Human Abstract- Nocturne
Illogicist- The Insight Eye, Subjected
Into The Moat- everything
Intronaut- Void
Ion dissonance- Breathing Is Irrelevant, Solace
Kadenzza- both albums
Kalisia- Skies (demo) and the latest release
Karmakanic- Entering The Spectra
Korovakill- Waterhells
Le Grand Guignol- The Great Maddening
Lethargy- discography
Loincloth- Demo
Breadwinner- The Burner
Lux Occulta- The Mother And The Enemy, My Guardian Anger (they are all worth investigating though)
Lye By Mistake- both albums, but moreso Fea Jur, when they dropped the terrible vocals
Lykathea Aflame- Elvenefris
Meridian- The Seventh Sun
Mick Barr- anything- Orthrelm/ Octis/ Ocrilim/ Flying Luttenbachers..
Mind Over Four- Half Way Down (top 100 of all time probably)
Mutant- Thy Aeonic Majesty
Theory In Practice- all
Negativa- demo
Neglected Fields- all
Orakle- Tourments and Perdition
Oxiplegatz- all
Pan.Thy.Monium- Khaoohs & Kon-Fus-ion
Pavor- Furioso
Pessimist- Ke Hvizdam
Pestilence- everything but that newest atrocity-of-a-boring waste
Phantasmagory- Anamorphosis Of Dreams, Odd Sounds
Power Of Omens- Rooms Of Anguish
Protest The Hero- both full lengths
Prototype- both albums
Psychofagist- all
Psychotic Waltz- All (fricking brilliant prog metal- the kings!)
Psychotogen- the calculus of evil
Psyopus- all
Psypheria- embrace the mutation
Ram-Zet- all
Reflux- the illusion of democracy
Ron Jarzombek/WatchTower/Blotted Science
Scholomance- the immortality Murders, A Treatise On Love
Scrambled Defuncts- Souls Despising The God
Sculptured- all
Serdce- Cyberly, The Alchemy Of Harmony
Sieges Even- everything up to The Art Of Navigating By The Stars (and that one meanders a lot)
Sikth- both albums
Sleep Terror- Probing tranquility
Soilwork- The chainheart machine
Spastic Ink- both
Spawn Of Possession- both
Stargazer- the scream that tore the sky
Symbyosis- everything
Terminal Function- all
Thought Industry- everything!  (I can't stress this band enough)
Tiamat- Wildhoney, A deeper kind of slumber
Timescape- strange
Today Is The Day- Willpower, In The Eyes Of God (this one has Brann and Bill from Mastodon)
Toxik- Think This (best progressive tech thrash album of all time?)
Ulcerate- Of fracture and failure
Virulence- a conflict scenario
VUVR- Pilgrimage
Winds- Reflections Of The I
Wintersun- s/t
Without Face- Astronomicon
7 for 4- all

I probably already posted a list before, but someone recently asked for recommendations, and these are pretty unique, I am not one to like Opeth (too repetitious and pretty boring) too much, but you might like them. Some of the highly regarded albums on here are rather tame actually.....

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: Does anyone here have a top 10 list of best tech extreme metal albums? I have no true idea about this music. I dont like dark metal as a rule but am open to change if theres good stuff out there and no too evil sounding with dark lyrics.   thx in advance..,

Here's the holy trinity of tech/extreme prog metal...

1. Edge of Sanity - Crimson (if you don't have this, you haven't lived yet)
2. Opeth - Still Life
3. Death - Symbolic

That Blotted Science album title should NOT read machinations of dimentia, rather it should be spelled Dementia...

I'm just sayin'...

sleeper wrote: the awsome Lazarus Bird (which IMO is better than 2/3rds of whats on that list you just posted harmonium)

I don't care about that list either, but it's our list, so we should acknowledge it. And it's a good place to start.

sleeper wrote: Damn, I've just seen that Burst split at the end of last year, so it looks like the awsome Lazarus Bird will be the bands last album.

I wouldn't bet on that, reunions are today's fashion (and business).

4.31 | 284 ratings STILL LIFE Opeth	4.23 | 273 ratings BLACKWATER PARK Opeth	4.22 | 320 ratings GHOST REVERIES Opeth	4.53 | 40 ratings CRIMSON Edge of Sanity
4.48 | 45 ratings BACK TO TIMES OF SPLENDOR Disillusion	4.32 | 84 ratings IN A FLESH AQUARIUM Unexpect	4.55 | 38 ratings SOL NIGER WITHIN Thordendal's Special Defects	4.58 | 33 ratings ELEMENTS Atheist
4.58 | 32 ratings OM Negura Bunget	4.30 | 77 ratings SYMBOLIC Death	4.38 | 52 ratings THE SHAM MIRRORS Arcturus	4.20 | 116 ratings FOCUS Cynic
4.26 | 65 ratings THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE Death	4.16 | 110 ratings TRACED IN AIR Cynic	4.60 | 23 ratings ISA Enslaved	4.22 | 62 ratings UNQUESTIONABLE PRESENCE Atheist
4.27 | 48 ratings LA MASQUERADE INFERNALE Arcturus	4.26 | 50 ratings NOTHINGFACE Voivod	4.08 | 148 ratings CRACK THE SKYE Mastodon	4.49 | 24 ratings THE MACHINATIONS OF DIMENTIA Blotted Science

J-Man wrote: sleeper wrote: J-Man wrote: I just want to drop in and possibly stir up some new discussion... I've been a Dan Swanö fanatic lately (as many of you may know), and I was just wondering if he has any other fans in this thread. I've been really enjoying Edge of Sanity albums lately (especially Crimson, Crimson II, The Spectral Sorrows, and Purgatory Afterglow). -Jeff Sort of, I only have Crimson and Nightingales The Closing Chronicles (thanks for the rec on that!).   Very good stuff but as you can tell I've only just started discovering his stuff. What do you think of those two?

so the latest thing I have been enjoying (and I think they should be included in the extreme category on here) is the latest Hunab Ku ep... The Rewiring Process...

haven't read whole topic, so don't know whether this was discussed: what are the criteria black metal bands added to PA? There are enough among tech/extremal and post metal/experimental categories, and sometimes I don't understand why some of them are added and why similar to them or enother interesting groups were not. I speak, for example, about "wolwes in the throne room", even "darkspace" is presented here, and from another side, also for example, "sear bliss" (to be honest one of my favorite black metal bands).

Dordeduh, the Negura Bunget spin-off project, have appeared in their first live show and they sound really awersome. Here's what I could find on YouTube:

 - a great version of a Negura Bunget piece:



 - and a big chunck of the concert, filmed by the organizers:









I'm currently listening to the first video from the organizers, and it sounds awesome. Can't wait for them to release the album.