Huge, Epic, Atmospheric-sounding bands!

[TheSixthWheel]

+1 Textures - Drawing Circles, Silhouettes.
+1 Devy (everything)

Karnivool - Themata, Sound Awake.
TOOL - Lateralus, 10,000 Days.
Isis - Wavering Radiant, In The Absence Of Truth, Panopticon.
Oceansize (everything)
COG - The New Normal, Sharing Space.

Ben Sharp's ambient stuff has been entertaining me recently. I'm new to it, and damn some of it's good. (benthesharp)

 

[Mr. Big Noodles]

Adagio
Ancient
Yes The change at 5:58 is epic as fuck. Part II is here, and there's a huge buildup that starts around 6:05 and comes to an orgasmic cadence at 7:15.
Magma - Theusz Hamtaahk part 1, part 2, and part 3. There's a lot of repetition in this song (like every other Magma song), and at 36 minutes, it's not at all short, but there are some fantastically energetic moments if you have the patience.

Darkspace (give this one 2 mins) ...

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Dude, this is badass.

 

[signalgrey]

Eluvium
Isis
Old Man Gloom

 

[MSalonen]

Not counting bands already listed...

Agalloch
Daylight Dies
Blue Man Group
Chimp Spanner
Dead Can Dance
Insomnium
Keith Merrow
Kylesa
VAST
Transakt.Inc
Nachtmystium (Addicts: Black Meddle Part II)
Mike Oldfield

 

[Katrina]

mid-era Cave In

 

[spattergrind]

+1 on The Contortionist

Between the Buried and Me=Colors and The Great Misdirect albums.

 

[ZackP3750]

Holy shit guys, I spent the entire morning youtube-ing those bands! Got a lot of great stuff from it, plus I found some other bands while searching. Thanks a ton!

 

[UnderTheSign]

Try Omega Massif!


Or Battle of Mice maybe?


If I was a rider, I'd listen to High on Fire.

 

[The Beard]

Everyone basically said all my favorites already so i'm gonna post some of the songs that are more than likely gonna be on my snowboarding playlist this year!

Sigur Ros - "Svefn-G-Englar"


Sigur Ros - "Gong"


Devin Townsend - "Storm"


Textures - "Messengers"


Textures - "Storm Warning"


The Contortionist - "Expire"
(the breakdown at 0:58 is my most favorite thing ever )


Deftones - "You've Seen The Butcher"


Deftones - "Hole In The Earth"


Then, as always, you gotta at least have some generic breakdown stuff thrown in there somewhere
Demolisher - "Destroy"

 

[Winspear]

Jakub Zytecki!

 

[leftyguitarjoe]

I have a list of the top 5 atmospheric bands:

1. Ulver
2. Ulver
3. Ulver
4. Ulver

and 5. Ulver.

 

[willyman101]

Devil Sold His Soul - the title just describes them.

 

[lookralphsbak]

Summoning (especially the Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame album)

THIS...

With Summoning you will not only want to look at the view from the top of the mountain but you will want to go into battle with any snowboarders that come close to you while you're going down the mountain...

Also, not sure if they've been mentioned but TesseracT

 

[slapnutz]

Dunno if the rest of their music is like this... but... i challenge anyone to listen to this and not feel like they are floating away into nothingness yet surrrounded by everything at the same time.

 

[Hosenbugler]

 

[7thdimension]

Scratch anyone of those bands suggested for that trip...you only need one: Irepress. First album samus octology. Its all youll need. Just listen to june ipper for starters.

 

[ZackP3750]

Scratch anyone of those bands suggested for that trip...you only need one: Irepress. First album samus octology. Its all youll need. Just listen to june ipper for starters.

you know I put on Pandora the other day, and Irepress was the first band to play on my Animals As Leaders channel. I absolutely LOVE Samus Octology, very cool shit.

 

[lookralphsbak]

Augury:




This band is awesome.

Also, maybe pop some old dimmu in.

And since you'll me on frostbitten mountains pop some Dissection on as well! ... and Thulcandra!

 

[123321123]

Really..?

No mention of Gojira?

 

[tacotiklah]

And no mention of Opeth? Really?

I figured somebody would've mentioned them and their first 2 albums for that epic "atmosphere" kind of sound.

Here's a good example: