What are some good instrumental Metal bands?

[caskettheclown]

Some of John Petrucci's solo stuff is pretty metal

 

[Leaper]

Psychedelic gypsy-jazz instrumental metal = Avalanche of Worms.

 

[kung_fu]

Hella (sorta more noise/rock)

 

[Santuzzo]

Thanks guys. A lot of great stuff!

I have been trying to find the Octopus album CODA, but unfortunately it seems to be out of print.

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Gordian Knot, Spastik Ink, Behold the Arctopus, Dysrhythmia..are some of my favorites. Also, I played in Canvas Solaris (We had a few well received Instrumental releases) and I am currently in The Universe Divide (Link in my signature) which is also instrumental.

Respect, Canvas Solaris is great and there's some seriously awesome stuff in those albums!

 

[ChrisRushing]

Respect, Canvas Solaris is great and there's some seriously awesome stuff in those albums!

Thanks man. Appreciate the kind words. Did you check out The Universe Divide yet? It's Gael (bass) and I (guitar) with another friend of ours that drums. Obviously not a direct substitute for Canvas but we have a similar approach to our writing/musical philosophy. You may enjoy it.

Also serious thanks to Santuzzo for the album purchase!

 

[Xiphos68]

Friend of mine has a project called "Cosyns."

It's progressive heavy instrumental music.

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Uses Morse Code to write the songs.

He's suppose to get a teaser up eventually of his new stuff (sounds a lot better and heavier).

 

[Skyblue]

I'm detecting a serious lack of Liquid Tension Experiment in this thread

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

Loomis's solo album

 

[themike]

 

[The ProfEscher]

Halcyon.



It's just one dude. He writes the music, plays all the instruments, and produces it himself. You can download his entire album from his bandcamp and it's pretty damn awesome.

Halcyon

Actually it appears to cost money now, but still. Awesome stuff.

EDIT: Actually I'm pretty sure that dude posts on here.

 

[Santuzzo]

Halcyon.


It's just one dude. He writes the music, plays all the instruments, and produces it himself. You can download his entire album from his bandcamp and it's pretty damn awesome.

Halcyon

Actually it appears to cost money now, but still. Awesome stuff.

EDIT: Actually I'm pretty sure that dude posts on here.

Yes, he is on this forum

And I just purchased his album!

 

[Cyntex]

Liquorworks
Angel Vivaldi
Cacophony
Cloudyhead
Pelican

 

[sk3ks1s]

... Periphery

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[tuneinrecords]

I've got a bunch of friends who play in a band called Intense Men. They're pretty fn good. They're on Nacht Records. Some of those dudes are in another band called Moth Guts. Both are metal, but kind of jazzy too. Definitely original, that's for sure. Both bands are from NJ. I've seen them play a bunch at The Brighton Bar in Long Branch.

 

[Xiphos68]

Double Post.

 

[chronocide]

Classical music had 100% more brutal than anything around nowadays. They didn't need gimmick tunings to achieve it either. (low tuning 'increasing heaviness' is gimmick in my mind, alternate tunings for different purposes are cool though)

But to be fair, an orchestra does have loads of low end for that clout already, where an average two guitars, bass and drums band at concert pitch doesn't at all.

There are totally loads of shit-heavy classical pieces, particularly from the likes of Strauss, Wagner, Holst... Also stuff like Stravinski can be every bit as aggressive and abrasive as extreme metal, with that edgy, everything-is-about-to-fall apart vibe. Can't be bothered with twiddly baroque stuff, mind.

I absolutely agree with you on arbitrarily tuning down as an auto-heavy device.


On topic, I dunno if it's the kind of stuff the OP is looking for but there are tons of instrumental "post-" bands, obviously. Pelican and the like.

 

[izdashit]

Currently digging Dan Dankmeyer.

 

[vices like vipers]

Iodine Sky
Ceruleus
Judgement Day
Fractal Artifact

 

[AlucardXIX]

Going to go ahead and be totally shameless and say my project(even though I don't feel it matches up to half of what's been mentioned) Encircle | Facebook

Dan Dankmeyer was already mentioned, that's another good one.