Instrumental metal suggestions.....

[Blasphemer]

Forever Becoming and Memorial are just the more straightforward and heavy of their stuff I guess...?

I feel the exact opposite, actually. While I really like Memorial, I feel like it had less direction and definable moments than past albums. It felt a lot more ambient and fluid than say Station or Enter.

Example (obviously a bit exaggerated by using the most solid points from each album, but it still illustrates my point):


vs.


And with Pelican, I just prefer their older stuff. City of Echoes is one of my favorite albums of all time, so it's hard to top that


EDIT: Also throwing Canvas Solaris into the mix:

Im fairly sure one of the guitarists is a member here

 

[Gothic Headhunter]

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION. My band Thoren is instrumental brutal progressive death. A lot of hard work went into this and I'm quite proud of the result. Let us know what you think! Mixed and Mastered by Colin Marston.

Are all those song titles in black speech?

 

[Necris]

Canvas Solaris come to mind, they shifted too hard into prog territory on later releases but I remember Sublimation being solid.

 

[chopeth]

Jardin de la Croix


Toundra

 

[Blasphemer]

I can't believe I forgot to post this:
My bands bandcamp
2nd album being recorded currently, and is probably 1000x better than the S/T (which I don't even really like anymore, save for a few songs)

 

[beerandbeards]

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION. My band Thoren is instrumental brutal progressive death. A lot of hard work went into this and I'm quite proud of the result. Let us know what you think! Mixed and Mastered by Colin Marston.

Thoren | Thoren

https://www.facebook.com/ThorenDeath=QUOTE]


I dig it

 

[vgguru39]

Thanks for the support beerandbeards! Help me spread the word! Already working on the follow up with a live drummer. It's gonna be pretty cool.

 

[asher]

Music | Wanzwa

 

[USMarine75]

Time for the nubcaek to come in with a few suggestions - das me.

Paul Wardingham

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Andy James

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Jeff Loomis

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Jason Becker

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Thanks, you saved me the trouble of linking all those videos! Exactly the set I was thinking lol.

 

[Rosal76]

So suggest me some type of instrumental melodic/tech/djent/death or any combination thereof type of bands.

You might enjoy Christian Muenzner's 2 solo albums, "Timewarp" (2011) and "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (2014). Christian is ex-Defeated Sanity, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, among others, current Spawn of possession and Alkaloid guitarist so he has a lot of death metal history in his career. There are a lot of musical styles on his 2 solo albums.

Christian claims (in the CD booklet) that this song has a lot of musical elements also found in Obscura.



One of my favorite tracks from his second album.

 

[asher]

Damn. Some of these tracks have been awesome. Toundra has a really cool vibe, so does Save us from the Archon.

 

[ByDesign]

Earth Project

 

[bushyg]

Eager to check out the bands mentioned in this thread that I'm unfamiliar with.

Gotta recommend Fuge, dunno what they're up to these days, but there's a lot of awesome demo tracks kicking around. Besides being demos, they contain some of the sickest riffs I've heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnqD297YEew

 

[SKoG]

A lot of good suggestions here. I haven't seen Adagio guitarist Stephan Forte's solo work mentioned yet.

 

[asher]

best videogame cover / prog metal crossover going, even if that sounds like the nerdiest lamest thing ever when i put it like that

tracks are bangin though, great melody work without being a shredfest

Holy shit the album is cool.

 

[Hachetjoel]

Angel Vivaldi?

http://youtu.be/eKmJeRfDwl4

but you posted the wrong song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFWoIyqSjlA

 

[InfestedRabite]

Holy shit the album is cool.

definitely

their other two releases, Expansion Pack and Other Album are solid too

 

[AugmentedFourth]

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION...

I was debating it, but I'm just gonna go ahead and follow suit.

In case anyone missed my thread:



Bandcamp

Shameless self-promotion.

 

[FILTHnFEAR]

Heavy Metal Ninjas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&
v=KD40PX02uYA

Very, very cool indeed. Wasn't expecting that kind of suggestion, but yeah, give me more like that.

Divine Realm

grumusic

https://theoyoung.bandcamp.com/ (Also a SSo member.) <3

Good stuff, especially The Young, dig that a lot.

Time for the nubcaek to come in with a few suggestions - das me.

Shredfests...Yes. Though very good indeed. In particular that Andy James, Holy Chit Mang! Non-stop awesome.

Angel Vivaldi?

Been a fan of Angel for a while. Good stuff for sure.

Also, props for the Avatar, Drew.

 

[Santuzzo]

awesome thread and very relevant to my interest as I am also constantly looking for instrumental metal.
The bands that I know and enjoy listening to have already been mentioned in this thread, so I have not much to add other than:

(SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION WARNING

I have an EP out with instrumental metal (free to stream and download):

https://larsbauer.bandcamp.com/