Found this nice little psychedelic/stoner demo: http://diazepam.bandcamp.com/

Chunky riffs, nice groove, solid growls, simple compositions, and a bit Sabbath-y.

Jesus Christ can we not have one serious fucking thread here without your Japanese fetish spoiling everything?

Now I feel violated.

"Author & Punisher is an industrial doom and drone metal, one man band utilizing primarily custom fabricated machines/controllers and speakers called Drone/Dub Machines. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of the interaction with machine."

He calls it Industrial doom, i dunno cuz its too Breakcore-ish.

Check this song

Written by 3rdWorld on 29.03.2012 at 05:55

"Author & Punisher is an industrial doom and drone metal, one man band utilizing primarily custom fabricated machines/controllers and speakers called Drone/Dub Machines. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of the interaction with machine."

He calls it Industrial doom, i dunno cuz its too Breakcore-ish.

Check this song

Drone metal my ass (from that song anyway). Sounds like boring, ordinary industrial to me.

Written by Guest on 29.03.2012 at 14:50

Drone metal my ass (from that song anyway). Sounds like boring, ordinary industrial to me.

Exactly... Sounded like not so exciting Breakcore to me...

Written by 3rdWorld on 29.03.2012 at 14:54

Exactly... Sounded like not so exciting Breakcore to me...

He has an older album on bandcamp which has a few drone-ish songs. Largely though it sounds to me like he's making more out of the sound than it really is, the unusual methods he employs not really achieving anything that different.

A band called GGUW released a very short EP this year, not the most original thing but still there is something special with it. Very good stuff! Gotta love the cover art too.



This YT-track is the entire EP

Was trawling through Metal Archives for 2012 releases from the UK and I stumbled on this (one of the very few noteworthy things I found) and then I realised it's actually from the town I live in. Basically some kind of avant-garde industrial extreme metal. Pretty interesting stuff, their bandcamp can be found here.

New promo track for Horseback's upcoming album: Half Blood. From the sound of it, it'll probably among the highligts of the year.

Written by Edmund Fogg on 30.03.2012 at 20:01

New promo track for Horseback's upcoming album: Half Blood. From the sound of it, it'll probably among the highligts of the year.

Horseback are friggin' awesome. Looking forward to this muchly.

That Horseback track was absolutely badass.

Written by Edmund Fogg on 30.03.2012 at 20:01

New promo track for Horseback's upcoming album: Half Blood. From the sound of it, it'll probably among the highligts of the year.

Holy shit this is amazing! They have another album released too right? "Invisible Mountain".

Checked on M/A, nothing about these guys on there. Any idea why?

Written by The Turbanator on 31.03.2012 at 02:50
Checked on M/A, nothing about these guys on there. Any idea why?

Uh, something about them not being metal. I dunno, I always thought of them as a drone band but I don't know enough about that stuff to be honest. Joe could tell you more.

Written by The Turbanator on 31.03.2012 at 02:50

Holy shit this is amazing! They have another album released too right? "Invisible Mountain".

Checked on M/A, nothing about these guys on there. Any idea why?

Not on MA, but On BC and right here on MS. I think thought MS has the line up wrong. From the two albums I have, it seems like a one man project with different collabs on each albums. Invisible Mountain was released back in 2010

http://horseback.bandcamp.com/ Horseback

Written by Troy Killjoy on 31.03.2012 at 03:31

I always thought of them as a drone band but I don't know enough about that stuff to be honest. Joe could tell you more.

Personally, I think it's more in the line of Post progressive rock with black elements taking more or less importance depending on the song. Then again, this all Post thing seems like a mash up of very different sounding band, so I dunno.

Not a fan of the vocals on that Horseback track.

Everything else was Priem's.

Written by Edmund Fogg on 31.03.2012 at 04:41


Personally, I think it's more in the line of Post progressive rock

Oxymoron alert: How can it be post something whilst progressing it? =P

At any rate Horseback are a difficult one. I rather go with a combination of drone and psychedelic rock / metal than post rock.

Elysian, progressive melodic death from Australia. Their debut 'Wires of creation' was just released few days ago. Great stuff!

Written by Guest on 31.03.2012 at 14:40

At any rate Horseback are a difficult one. I rather go with a combination of drone and psychedelic rock / metal than post rock.

Stoner, for sure

Written by tea[m]ster on 01.04.2012 at 02:39


Stoner, for sure

Heeeeeeeell no.

Written by Guest on 01.04.2012 at 02:41

Heeeeeeeell no.

Hows this: Stoner/Psychedelic

Written by tea[m]ster on 01.04.2012 at 02:49


Hows this: Stoner/Psychedelic

I don't think the structure is defined enough to be called stoner. Even the haziest, most psychedelic stoner band has some pretty clear riff style structuring going on which Horseback don't really have.

I really don't hear any stoner in Horseback at all. I agree with what JOOE says on the structure of Horseback's music.
Btw, nowadays I see people calling sludge bands stoner. There is a huge difference between the two.

Progressive/power/cosmic metal ala Voyager not released yet.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 01.04.2012 at 02:59

I really don't hear any stoner in Horseback at all. I agree with what JOOE says on the structure of Horseback's music.
Btw, nowadays I see people calling sludge bands stoner. There is a huge difference between the two.

Tags are all being lumped together now Marcel:

post/sludge/atmo
doom/sludge/atmo
stoner/doom
Psychedelic/Stoner IE bands like Sleestak and Vaura

I now officially resign from genre definitions. Not my cup of tea. Her we have an instru band that is just stunning in its beauty and simplicity. Metal, Rock? I don't know. you can always move the post in the prog rock reccomendation if it's more fitting.

http://ogracefulmusingsburden.bandcamp.com/album/two

Written by Starchild on 01.04.2012 at 00:33

Elysian, progressive melodic death from Australia. Their debut 'Wires of creation' was just released few days ago. Great stuff!

Sounds interesting, and being Australian I'll definitely give them a go.

Initially it was the beyond cool album cover that attracted me to this one but here's some really heavy doom:

Good album that ^

Just so it's here, the best song of the debut EP by Vattnet Viskar. Great atmospheric black metal that's much more rough round the edges than most atmos-rubbish these days:

Melodic Djent?