Hey here! ATM Project and Exivious (tech heavy/jazz instru) Cubical Sphere (cool death tech) Animations - Animations (tech heavy/prog/instrumental great) Ksiz - Sandcrawler (french tech atmo heavy jazz/instrumental, just...great ) Continuo Renacer (like Blotted Science!) Spaced Out (metal jazz) OHM (metal jazz) Leprous - Aeolia (cool prog but not tech) 7 for 4 (tech heavy jazz instrumental) Scariot (heavy prog with clean voice) Andromeda - I=II (heavy prog with clean voice) Control Denied - The fragile art of existence (heavy tech prog/clean voice, chuck schuldiner inside!) Engine - Superholic (metal prog, Ray Alder inside) Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter (metal tech prog/ clean voice...excellent!)
Some very cool stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet: Electrocution 250 (crazy metal fusion) 1980 (very new heavy French instrumental band) Candiria (death metal meets jazz) Sieges' Even (the earlier stuff is more technical) Linear Sphere (when is a new cd comin' out, sheesh!!) Terminal Function (fantastic new Swedish tech metal/jazz group)
Its soo crazy that (I dont think) I've seen anyone mention "Watchtower" (well sort of in the 1st post . . . nevermind ). And its VERY cool that I see a lot of Bands mentioned that I like, I am very glad many know of them all (and some I'll have to find!). >>> WARNING- Just a Fan, don't work for the Station <<< I can also recommend to check out my friends at PrOgulus.com. Its a Prog Rock/Metal Internet Station that has just about every "Sub- Genre" of Progressive Rock, and I know I just made about 15 more addicted fans to be LOTS of "Math Metal" and Tech/Prog Metal! . . . You can always ask the fine "PrOguli" at the Live Chat-Board on the site about bands, recommendations and so-on. And also see their Forums. Its a totally FREE site and very hands on Request controls and an un-godly amount of Prog. And we have a fair share of Math Metal fans too! Also, 90% of the CD's at PrOgulus are "Donated' by the listeners so we are a very close-nit group. As far as bands that maybe too extreme or just havent made it there yet, heres some old and new Bands (Tech/Thrash, Math/Death Metal etc. either melodic or "cookie"/scream vocals): 1. Realm 2. Sabbat(u.k.) - especially "Mourning has Broken" (Though the earlier Martin Walkyier albums are great as well!) 3. Forbidden 4. Powermad 5. Obscura 6. Arsis 7. Gorod 8. The Faceless 9. Necrophagist 10. Rosicrusian (hard to find!) 11. Believer (all 3 albums were just remastered!) 12. Loudblast 13. Gardenian 14. Confessor (Slow, Chuggy, Stop on a dime, Odd-metered but man! the Drummer makes it "Math Metalish" . . . how do they do that?) 15. Darkane 16. Deathrow -"Deception Ignored" 17. Secrecy (VERY hard to find) 18. I.N.C. (Another hard to find) 19. Theory In Practice 20. Fredrik Thordendals Special Defects 21. Alarum 22. Psytroptic 23. Toxic 24. Paradox (Just got re-mastered!) 25. Tournaquet 26. Extol 27. Ihsahn - angL (Lars and Asgeir Play on it - And his latest sounds Incredible as well 2010) 28. Augury 29. Paralysis 30. Aspid 31. ThanatoSchizO 32. Invocator 33. Helstar 34. Nocturnus 35. Hieronymus Bosch 36. Annihilator 37. Wrathchild (America) 38. Mercyless 39. Oppressor 40. Daath 41. Decapitated 42. Emperor 43. Strapping Young Lad 44. Halcyon 45. Qube 46. Mindwork 47. Amogh Symphony 48. Irepress 49. Beyond Creation 50. First Fragment 51. Khael 52. Sacrifice to Survive 53. Kekal 54. Amentet 55. Veil of Maya 56. Gojira 57. Abysmal Dawn 58. Fall 59. Vortice 60. Hacride 61. Elysian 62. Opposite Earth 63. Sectu 64. Ne Obliviscaris 65. Pestilence 66. Coroner 67. Twelfth Gate And on Progulus: 1. Prototype 2. Meshuggah 3. Cynic 4. Spastic Ink 5. Watchtower 6. Pagans Mind 7. Cea Serin 8. Dreamscape 9. Control Denied 10. Katagory V 11. Cacophony 12. 7 for 4 13. Linear Sphere 14. Blotted Science 15. Animations 16. Gaia 17. Aghora (not to be confused with "Agora") Checkout "Formless". 18. Continuo Renacer 19. Andromeda 20. Circus Maximus 21. Thought Industry (the 1st 2) 22. Depressive Age 23. Canvas Solaris 24. Psychotic Waltz 25. Behold . . . The Arctopus 26. Twisted Into Form 27. Portal 28. Disillusion 29. Wastefall 30. Degree Absolute 31. Darkstar (Psychotic Waltz Guitarists side project) 32. Zero Hour 33. Scariot 34. Cloudscape 35. Spheric Universe Experience 36. Thessera 37. Thought Chamber (Singer of Enchant!) 38. Fates Warning (depends what album, as far as "Tech" goes) 39. The Collins/Wardingham Project 40. Anubis Gate (later albums) 41. Khallis 42. Mythologic 43. Seiges Even 44. OHM (Chris Polands Jazz/Metal Fusion Band) 45. Chris Poland (Ex-Megadeth) 46. King Crimson (The "originators!") - listen to their later albums 47. Gentle Giant (not heavy as in modern bands, but they were pretty "out there" for the time) -"Progressive Rock" 48. Allan Holdsworth (see also his side-projects) 49. Krysalyd 50. Anacrusis 51. Exivious 52. A((wake)) 53. Bulb 54. TesseracT 55. Instant Supression 56. Leprous (Though they are more like the "Opeth" kind of Technical on their latest "Tall Poppy Syndrome", its awesome!) 57. Cloudkicker 58. Koyaanisqatsy 59. Into Eternity (How could I forget them! and...) 60. Scar Semmetry 61. Animals as Leaders 62. Dynahead 63. Kalisia 64. Menahem 65. Suspyre 66. Panzerballet 67. Atmosfear 68. Spaced Out 69. Counter World Experience 70. Zeroesque 71. Power of Omens 72. Progma-C 73. Arch/Matheos 74. Dillinger Escape Plan 75. Sikth 76. Madder Mortem 77. Frantic Bleep 78. Attention Deficit 79. Gru 80. Scale the Summit 81. Shattered Skies 82. Memento Waltz 83. Teramaze 84. Altera Enigma 85. No Gravity 86. Manitou 87. Chimp Spanner 88. Chaoswave 89. Affector (w/ Ted Leonard of Enchant and Mike Lepond of Symphony X, coming soon!) Be sure to visit PrOgulus . com, the "Math Metal and Tech Prog" is always coming in that its hard to keep up. Alot of the folks on the Chat Board will steer you in the right direction http://www.progulus.com/rprweb/playing.php EnjOy!
Because I don't have time to read through this entire thread ATM...here's what comes to mind: Blotted Science Farmakon Spastic Ink Ark Cynic Atheist Psyopus
Animals as leaders, US tech-prog instrumental metal http://www.myspace.com/animalsasleaders Kalisia, french prog-eclectic death metal featuring Paul Masvidal, Arjen Lucassen and Cristophe Godin as guests (among others)... http://www.myspace.com/kalisia Newbreed, polish tech-prog metal http://www.myspace.com/newbreedmetal
Hey, Just wanted to point out I added NEW Bands to my list above, and PrOgulus has been adding ALOT of Tech/Math Metal/Prog to the Request List! Come visit! Recent Note: By the way, at prOgulus is a Forum Thread called "Math Lab" where all our Tech/Prog/Math Metal discoveries are shared: http://www.progulus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=451
@ MAVIII 10x, Cloudkicker sounds quite nice Pestilence had an album called "Spheres" released in 1993 where they moved towards a more prog & tech death metal (complex time signatures, guitar synth, fretless bass etc...) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaEgNU1wqQ8&feature=related[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdxWDqcTUdc&feature=related[/ame] Also, Obscura's new album called "Cosmogenesis" (featuring 2 ex-Necrophagist members + the ex-Pestilence bass player from the Spheres album on 6-string fretless bass) is a quite nice album. They play a prog-tech death with some melodic and fusion touches.
Also check out Direwolf's debut album 'Beyond the Lands of Human Existence. pS: ENDITOL sounds great !
Check out the jazz-fusion band "Counterworld Experience". They've got 2 instrumental albums out now. Both amazing - in a compositional & production sense.
Go to Progulus.com, they have "3" albums by them Updated the PrOgulus list of Math/Tech/Prog Metal on my post, as to my surprise, some of the Bands mentioned here can be found on their Request List! http://www.progulus.com/rprweb/search3.php Check it out!
Not sure if any of you has checked out Gonin-ish Album is pretty good the band very tight and got their own sound going on
don't know if anyone still checks these boards, but.... i've seen it on here before, but Tesseract's One is my favorite album right now (though this changes constantly). not too thrilled about their new singer though. i have the new EP and only gave it a once through so far.... hopefully it grows on me, though. anyone here hear of Unexpect? not exactly similar, but if you love a rather esoteric, niche sound, they've got it. check out the song "Unsolved Ideas of a Distorted Guest" and i know there are quite a few Ihsahn fans here (or were). anyone like Leprous? don't know if this is true, but i've heard it's basically Ihsahn's backing band. Bilateral is a great album. worth a checking out, i'd say.
Hey TL, Yeah TesseracT's "ONE" was on my Best of 2011 releases (with the 2nd singer Daniel Tomkins, the latest is their 3rd). Daniel now sings with "Haji's Kitchen" Unexpect and Leprous are awesome! Known about them for quite some time now. I listed the latest Leprous, Unexpect albums (and TesseracT) along with the staff at Metal Music Archives.c0m as some of the best Metal Albums of 2011. If you like Unexpect and other Avant-Garde musics, checkout my playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCC3D71E6F62D855A As far as Tech/Math Metal, I just updated my LIST above. Working on a Playlist for that type of Metal as well, hope to be done by the Months end.
Theory In Practice does have some very SERIOUS tunes. But their last release disappointed me big time.
I'm really losing my mind over how good Exivious is. Top level. 2009 album rocks my world, totally unique. Their demos are even crazier in terms of tech-death. I'm speechless.
Guys check out VIOLENT DIRGE from Poland. They released their last album in 1995, called Craving. Fantastic Cynic-esque tech death. It's not nearly as complex but the essence is there. Cool groove, enough technicality to keep us players interested in the chops, very cutting edge production, free flowing solos... It's got a lot going. Definitely check them out. Production is surprisingly good, years ahead of their European peers. It's like listening to a rawer Focus. Very very highly recommended. Polish bands are fucking incredible man, they are so fresh, heavy and "out there".
Agree 110% !! I was lucky enough to see Spiral Architect when they played ProgPower 2.0 in Atlanta and of course the ZH guys, who are now long time friends.
