Long dark driving instrumental metal and drone tracks?
March 8, 2021 9:23 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for heavy intense driving emotional engaging longform metal and drone tracks. I prefer instrumental but hit me with whatever you gots. General preferences below the fold! But please open my mind to what's out there. I can't wait to hear what you come up with.

I'm into, but not limited to, the following:

Boris
Godflesh
YOB
Shizuka (that Japanese noise band that was on Persona Non Grata)
Cobalt
Prurient
The Body
Thou
Bell Witch sometimes
Sunn O)))
Pantera

Thank you so much.
posted by lakersfan1222 to Media & Arts (25 answers total) 14 users marked this as a favorite
 
How's Master Boot Record / Keygen Church strike your fancy/fit the bill?
posted by CrystalDave at 9:39 AM on March 8, 2021 [2 favorites]


Russian Circles. Godspeed You Black Emperor. Curse These Metal Hands. Fuck Buttons. Neurosis. This Will Destroy You. MONO. neander.
posted by sacrifix at 9:41 AM on March 8, 2021 [5 favorites]


Best answer: Wolves in the Throne Room
Deafhaven
Jesu
Pelican
posted by srednivashtar at 9:41 AM on March 8, 2021


Amenra
Surface of Eceon (esp. The King Beneath the Mountain)

Not instrumental, but worth it imo:
Prime Minister of Doom - Mudshadow Propaganda
Kangding Ray
posted by guybrush_threepwood at 9:51 AM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: Sleep- Dopesmoker.

The album is one track over 60 mins and unlike anything else. It's the most famous of all epic metal/ doom/ stoner/heavy albums.. in case you're unfamiliar.
posted by Liquidwolf at 9:59 AM on March 8, 2021 [5 favorites]


Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
posted by Balthamos at 10:10 AM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: Seconding Sleep for sure. Would also add Om and Wrekmeister Harmonies, which I learned about from the outstanding annotated comments on this AskMe a couple years ago.
posted by miles per flower at 10:21 AM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: Definitely recommend checking out Mesarthim, especially for the dronier side of things.
posted by sleeping bear at 10:26 AM on March 8, 2021


Infinity Shred. Red Sparowes. Pelican.
posted by dobi at 10:55 AM on March 8, 2021


May not meet your requirements for "heavy" or "driving" but Earth's The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull scratches this itch for me.
posted by pullayup at 11:07 AM on March 8, 2021


Swans, esp Soundtracks for the Blind, The Seer and To Be Kind.
posted by Stoof at 11:18 AM on March 8, 2021


Mainliner
Neptunian Maximalism
posted by Gortuk at 12:09 PM on March 8, 2021


Most everything I came to recommend has been spoken for, but I'll add pg.lost (check out their live stuff), and even though they're not necessarily "metal" they're close enough - Explosions in the Sky.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:26 PM on March 8, 2021 [1 favorite]


Noise rock-psych-punk wall of sound, but not metal: Destruction Unit. Let it wash over you like hot sand.

You might also want to check out Gong Gong Gong. One guitarist who also sings (in Cantonese!) and one bassist. That is all. That is enough. Definitely “driving,” but maybe not metal enough for you.
posted by scratch at 1:09 PM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: I may be off base but check out Author & Punisher. Maybe more industrial than metal, but very droney, instrumental, and heavy.
posted by SaltySalticid at 1:21 PM on March 8, 2021


Also... Electric Wizard.
posted by Liquidwolf at 2:29 PM on March 8, 2021


An umbrella term for some of the bands mentioned above: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, MONO, and a few others is post-rock.

Some of my faves not mentioned (yet) are:
- Dirty Three
- 65daysofstatic
- Mogwai
- Do Make Say Think
- The Six Parts Seven
- Tortoise

You can find live shows for a number of the bands listed on the Live Music Archive. I have several Mogwai, EITS, and GY!BE shows from there.
posted by ralan at 2:50 PM on March 8, 2021 [2 favorites]


I posted here about Chelsea Wolfe, Louise Lemon, AA Williams and Emma Ruth Rundle.
Lots of good stuff in the comments as well.
posted by signal at 3:09 PM on March 8, 2021 [1 favorite]


I would not call the music of avant-garde composer Phill Niblock "metal," exactly, but MY GOD DOES IT DRONE, in the most delightful way. I've been really enjoying his work lately, and our tastes would seem to overlap a bit.
posted by Dr. Wu at 5:04 PM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: Transitional, El Baron & Lustless

Nadja, Now I am Become Death Destroyer of Worlds

Jesu, Old Year
posted by googly at 9:14 PM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: Sumac
Krallice
Isis (they disbanded before the name was coopted)
Cult of Luna
Samothrace
posted by Special Agent Dale Cooper at 11:05 PM on March 8, 2021


Best answer: Darkspace.
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 3:49 AM on March 9, 2021




It's got vocals, but courtesy of another MeFi post, I found the band Ex Eye. Here's one live concert that was linked there. It has a saxophone and some pretty wild noises. And very drone-y and the like, though I don't know the rest of the bands most have linked, besides Pelican.
posted by Snowishberlin at 2:53 PM on March 9, 2021


Best answer: Came here to recommend a few that have been mentioned: Fuck Buttons, GYBE, Isis... and want to add, while neither drone or metal, that Slint's Spiderland is definitely heavy and emotionally engaging.
posted by Vek at 3:06 PM on March 9, 2021


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