Complex, loud, intense music please March 9, 2009 12:28 PM Subscribe
I like complex, loud, intense, intricate music with unusual structure e.g. Venetian Snares, Meshuggah. Who else should I be listening to? posted by MetaMonkey to media & arts (35 comments total)
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µ-Ziq aka Mike Paradinas has the complex, intricacy part down pat. Some of his creations have the orchestral elegance of Aphex Twin (they made an album together), some of his music has more chaotic noise (samples of babies crying, anyone?) but will never be quite as painfully breakcore as Venetian Snares.
autechre, psyopus, aaron spectre/drumcorps,genghis tron, daughters, pig destroyer posted by geos at 1:29 PM on March 9
Lots of great stuff above; I'd second Isis for sure.
To add to the list:
Scorn
Atari Teenage Riot, and later Alec Empire
Techno Animal
Godflesh
Curse of the Golden Vampire (a Techno Animal/Alec Empire collaboration, if memory serves)
If you're looking for a noise-laden, complex, brilliant introduction to hip-hop, look no further than Dälek, particularly the albums Absence and From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots. posted by Shepherd at 1:31 PM on March 9
Definitely check out Wovenhand. The music defies description. Not as complex as, say, Meshuggah, but that's kind of apples to oranges.
Specifically check out Winter Shaker and Dirty Blue on the myspace page linked above. Turn the volume way up. posted by jluce50 at 1:32 PM on March 9
ISIS. LISTEN TO ISIS. Especially Panopticon and In The Absence of Truth. The drummer from ISIS also plays in Red Sparowes, check them out as well. They have live sets up on the Archive. Zozobra, featuring the bassist from Cave In, will be right up your alley. Look up Cable, Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient, everything by Agalloch, Opeth, Borknagar, Gordian Knot, Cynic, and Zebulon Pike. I'd also recommend looking into Buckethead, especially Pepper's Ghost and Beholding the Tomb of Bansheebot. posted by baphomet at 1:43 PM on March 9
Well, at the time he made it at least, Lou Reed would have made those claims for Metal Machine Music.
"On each side there's a harmonic buildup... There's infinite ways of listening to it... I think it held up well against [LaMonte Young, Xenakis, etc.]... you don't accidentally have part of The Glass Harp in there. You don't accidentally have part of Eroica... There are about seven thousand different melodies going on at one time or another, and each time around there's more. Like harmonics increase, and melodies increase, in a different combination again." - quoted by Lester Bangs in "How to Succeed in Torture Without Really Trying", Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
YMMV, especially if you're not taking rock-star quality amphetamines. posted by Joe Beese at 1:46 PM on March 9
Oh, and you might dig Between the Buried and Me, personally I don't but they'd fall under the qualifications you listed. posted by baphomet at 1:46 PM on March 9
The 2nd Buckethead album is Decodingthe Tomb of Bansheebot posted by baphomet at 1:48 PM on March 9
Seriously, I'd suggest Dethklok. I know it's a cartoon band, but the songs are solid. posted by dunkadunc at 1:48 PM on March 9
Seconding Between the Buried and Me (Specially the album Alaska)
For Dillinger Escape Plan look for Ire Works and please please please look for their EP with Mike Patton - Irony is a Dead Scene.
Maybe not as heavy as you'd like but I also like Tomahawk, one of Mike Patton's other projects. posted by chrispy108 at 1:59 PM on March 9
Seconding Dillinger Escape Plan. Cynic, Atheist, Iris, Battles, Don Cab, Red Sparrowes, Behold...
I'd add Disrhythmia, Hella, Lightning Bolt, Blind Idiot God, Ruins, Geezer Lake, Voivod. posted by alikins at 2:43 PM on March 9
Thanks for reminding me of this by mentioning Disrhythmia, alikins: OP, you need to check out Obscura. Tech death metal + progressive rock + 6-string fretless bass = win. posted by Inspector.Gadget at 3:04 PM on March 9
(If you like it, it will be like "where have you been my whole life?" Most people do not have this reaction.) posted by shothotbot at 5:08 PM on March 9 [1 favorite has favorites]
Sunn 0))), Deathprod, some Mastodon, some Lustmord, Mouth Of The Architect are a few others that come to mind. posted by turgid dahlia at 8:35 PM on March 9
Lots of fun stuff to explore, thanks all posted by MetaMonkey at 3:36 AM on March 10
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