[QUOTE=Meatplow;17905706]I could use some more non-obtrusive ambient music[/QUOTE]

Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
William Basinski - 92982

Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn
Burton Wagner - A Sentinel's Eyes
Christopher Willits - Surf Boundaries
Jasper TX & Anduin - The Bending of Light

[QUOTE=Meatplow;17905706]I could use some more non-obtrusive ambient music[/QUOTE]

kevin drumm - imperial horizon
andrew chalk - east of the sun
^thanks 2 eliminator n_n

hecker and basinski are also good

yeah the new kevin drumm is great, keep forgetting about it.

that should do thanks

Looking for progressive death metal bands. Anything from Opeth and Ikuinen Kaamos to Kalisia is fair game. Any suggestions?

Atheist
Gorguts
Becoming The Archetype
Orphaned Land

I suppose a couple of these overlap with tech death and you probably know them already, but for what its worth.

I have me a bunch of Becoming the Archetype and [i]Mabool[/i], as well. I've not yet purchased [i]Never Ending Way of Orwarrior[/i] yet, but I intend to. I appreciate the tips. Tech death is good by me, but my exposure has been somewhat limited. Thus far I've gotten into The Faceless, Obscura, Necrophagist and a few others.

\m/

As a side note, there's no such thing as music that's "too progressive" or "too different," so stuff like Mabool is ideal for me.

if you do check out Gorguts, get their latter two albums for the 'progressive' stuff.

you probably have heard most if not all of these - but just in case you haven't:

Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Dan Swanö - Moontower

and if you want to get into more technical death metal:

Anata - Under a Stone With No Inscription / The Conductor's Departure
Gorod - Leading Vision
Martyr - Warp Zone / Feeding the Abscess
!T.O.O.H.! - Řád a Trest
Spawn of Possession - Cabinet / Noctambulant

and if you haven't checked Cynic out yet check them out, they aren't really death metal but they get lumped with prog and tech death

Greatly appreciated. All I've ever heard of Swano was his vocal contribution to Threshold's [i]Dead Reckoning[/i] album, but I absolutely loved his growling on it. I'll be sure to check it all out.

Any GOOD metal bands with scream/clean vocals? it's nice to have some melody breaks sometimes but most scream/sing bands are unlistenable.

SikTh

Already listen to em but that's going in the right direction

I guess Mare

you aren't going to find many

I'm with specialeffects, I would love to find a few bands that can sing. Maybe a link too?

[url]http://www.last.fm/music/Mare[/url]
they only released one EP before breaking up

Mare aren't really a sing/scream band though, it's more of a scream/make noises band. Their EP is more or less perfect.

maudlin of the Well - Bath

get that both of you.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;17907149]Mare aren't really a sing/scream band though, it's more of a scream/make noises band. Their EP is more or less perfect.[/QUOTE]

they have a few bars of singing, lol
and yes, the EP is perfect. too bad they had to split up.


maudlin of the well, RAH RAH RAH

[QUOTE=special3ff3cts;17907118]Any GOOD metal bands with scream/clean vocals? it's nice to have some melody breaks sometimes but most scream/sing bands are unlistenable.[/QUOTE]
Which ones do you already know? The obvious one would be Opeth, but you probably know them.

Cormorant - Metazoa
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
In Mourning - Monolith; Shrouded Divine
Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil (plus their full-length when it comes out)

All of those mix cleans and harshes. Not sure what your tastes are like, so dunno if you already know those or if you'll also consider them to be unlistenable.

Could someone rec me a good:
Sludge metal band, and Doom metal band? trying to expand my musical tastes

Thanks!

go to the first page

[QUOTE=special3ff3cts;17912287]Doom metal band? trying to expand my musical tastes[/QUOTE]

Candlemass

but yeah, the first post of this thread is for this sort of thing

What if I'm looking for something comparable to Alcest's (phenomenal) [i]Ecailles de Lune[/i]? I'm not at all familiar with this "shoegaze" genre.

I haven't heard that particular album but the Alcest brand of shoegaze is very black metal influenced from what i've heard (or is black metal which is very shoegaze influenced however you want to put it), a few essential staples of the genre though -

My Bloody Valentine - [I]Loveless[/I]
Slowdive - [I]Souvlaki[/I]
Ride - [I]Nowhere[/I]

Amoseurs or however the **** you spell it are your next move.

[QUOTE=TzarChasm;17912563]What if I'm looking for something comparable to Alcest's (phenomenal) [i]Ecailles de Lune[/i]? I'm not at all familiar with this "shoegaze" genre.[/QUOTE]
get [I]Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde[/I] if you dont already have it. Meatplow's recs are great shoegaze, so check those out.

check out Les Discrets - [I]Septembre et ses dernières pensées[/I] as well

You guys and www.metalreview.com are costing me so much damn money... XD

I think I've seriously purchased in excess of 20 CDs in the past month. Two more tonight alone. Thank you.

Edit: [i]Three[/i] more, now.

thats what the internets for

yeah not everybody is a filthy pirate though :p