Most original metal band?

[cronux]

Who is the most original metal band out right now (besides Meshuggah!)? Who is doing ground breaking stuff?

reading "most original metal band" in the thread section i was ready to MESHUGGAH the hell out of it, looks like you were one step ahead of me

i dunno... in a way, i would say the acacia strain (kinda mixing up things with the last 2 albums), deftones (diamond eyes is really awesome), animals as leaders (but only because of the first album), lamb of god (the last album had some really original kicks), whitechapel (the last album has nice licks)...

out of those i mentioned i would not say that they are the MOST ORIGINAL but if i can recognize a band by just listening to some part of a song that's pretty original to me

 

[nickgray]

They're not jazzy just because Tosin is black and wears a hat.

They are fusiony though

 

[jam3v]

The bands that stand out to me are

BOO, AAL, Periphery, Meshuggah, Teserract, Chimp Spanner

everything else just sounds like Whitechapel

 

[The Omega Cluster]

I vote for Unexpect

 

[anomynous]

Steel Panther

 

[wankerness]

The bands that stand out to me are

BOO, AAL, Periphery, Meshuggah, Teserract, Chimp Spanner

everything else just sounds like Whitechapel

How can they all be the most original if they all sound similar?

 

[ras1988]

Cynic circa 1993 (listen to the demos from just a year or two before the release of Focus the shift is utterly amazing)
Gojira
Meshuggah

 

[vstealth]

I would have agreed but emperor has been disbanded for a while now. For me, no band compares with them or ever will, its as close to perfection as possible as a whole (in my view of course).

Currently, I would have to say Necrophagist, I know alot of people hate them lately over the continually delayed album but I can listen to onset of putrefaction and epitaph continuously and it blows me away every time, nothing quite like it.

 

[AddisonsOwn]

Asking Alexandria

NO.

 

[Thep]

Gorod
Unexpect
Cynic
I'll get some hate for this, but Dimmu Borgir
Visually, not so much musically: Behemoth
Lyrically, Spawn of Possession

 

[m3l-mrq3z]

How could I forget Beyond Twilight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UMaI8GpZIE&list=UUTdwni6bz6_69njW1o84Izg&index=11&feature=plcp

 

[Pooluke41]

and they aren't jazzy because they do more complex stuff than powerchords

Inb4, "OMG, THEY USE JAZZ HARMONIES AND 7TH CHORDS> SO JAZZZZYYYY!!!"

 

[Amaranthine Vitality]

Between the Buried and Me - Obfuscation

Their music is like a drug

 

[linchpin]

Tool

 

[ilyti]

^ It took until page 3 for someone to mention Tool? I am disappoint.

And I really don't see how Meshuggah can be considered "original" anymore. I guess it depends on your definition of original. As in, they were the original djent band, sure. But I haven't heard anytihng groundbreakingly different on their last couple albums.

Also, another vote here for Unexpect. Crazy.

 

[abandonist]

Wold is another good one.

Is it noise? Is it black metal? Is it both? Neither?

 

[wankerness]

And I really don't see how Meshuggah can be considered "original" anymore. I guess it depends on your definition of original. As in, they were the original djent band, sure. But I haven't heard anytihng groundbreakingly different on their last couple albums.

What's your definition of original, then? "Every album they release sounds completely different from their previous one"? I think coming up with their own sound which then spawned an entire genre is about as original as it gets, no matter what they did after that.

 

[the fuhrer]

Just to name a few that I didn't see posted yet: Mastodon, Triptykon, Baroness, Limp Bizkit, Borknagar, Septicflesh, Ghost, Isis and Opeth.

 

[jjfiegel]

Do Mr. Bungle and Fantomas count? Probably two of the most original bands I have ever heard.

 

[sol niger 333]

Can only think of Meshiuggah really. The only band to have globally reinvented the metal wheel since Metallica. Shit I suppose Korn were pretty original too but not really metal as such.