NinjaGeek
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I don't know quite what you mean by saying there is no such thing as avant-garde metal though...
I wouldn't go so far as to say there's not such thing as avant-garde metal, but I agree with what he's saying that a lot of the bands people call avant-garde don't really fit the definition of avant-garde.
If you're avant-garde that means you're playing the music in a whole new way than it was meant to be played. Like one avant-garde band I saw the drummer did stuff put his feet on drums and push down to change their pitch, and the guitarist did stuff like taking a chain and scraping it across the guitar strings instead of strumming. It's basically playing instruments in ways they weren't meant to be played.
I don't know of any truly avant-garde metal bands, but I'm sure there's at least 1 out there.