Does a group like this exist?

[Staffan]

Try gordian knot

 

[MetalManCPA]

Originally posted by Alex78
Check out Candiria! they're playing hardcore mixed with jazz and some hip-hop. very complicated stuff, but very good!

This is EXACTLY who I was going to suggest!!!!

Good stuff - definately jazzy and heavy with growls.

 

[MeaCulpa]

Maudlin of the Well.

 

[Monsterxman]

That's why I love posts like this... you try to help someone else and then someone else ends up helping you... many thanks MeaCulpa!

Maudlin of the Well...

I just downloaded a few songs on MP3.com... all I can say is wow...
This is some of the coolest music I have heard in a long time...

 

[Lee_B]

If you get a chance to see Dillinger Escape Plan live, I seriously suggest that you do it. They're not so much a band, more an incendiary devise exploding on the stage! Seriously. Fucking mind-meltingly awesome.. I've never seen such technical music being played by guys literally going fucking bananas. The fucking guitarist was hanging from his feet from the lighting rig at one point, and he still played the solo spot on!

Fuck!

 

[TrueBeliever]

No growls but a great jazzy prog band is Sun Caged.

 

[NFU]

A very jazzy progressive band with no growls from the 70s would be Soft Machine...very good stuff (especially the third album titled "Third")

 

[mindflesh]

Originally posted by Lee_B
If you get a chance to see Dillinger Escape Plan live, I seriously suggest that you do it. They're not so much a band, more an incendiary devise exploding on the stage! Seriously. Fucking mind-meltingly awesome.. I've never seen such technical music being played by guys literally going fucking bananas. The fucking guitarist was hanging from his feet from the lighting rig at one point, and he still played the solo spot on!

Fuck!

I've seen them live - pure sonic madness... I had never really liked them, but now they released an EP with Mike Patton, which is just incredible (maybe because now I can actually follow the song structure ... Download "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things"!)

 

[Exend]

Check out Forgotten Silence => brilliant music, really.

They mix jazz, funk with death metal (death vocals but also amazingly clean female vocals!). Great music.

Maybe also try Lykathea Aflame, weird and complex music...very hard to find. It sounds like Cryptopsy mixed with some mellow/jazz pieces.

Another one is Uncrossed, but I don't like the vocals (awful grunt)

If you like the weird time odds and complex style changes you can also try Theory in Practice...

Exend

 

[bang]

Sigh!

.. and fleurety

 

[Cyclonus]

Aussie bands Alchemist and Alarum.

Alarum more so, VERY jazzy, and growls too. Download 'Reconditioned' if you can find it... it's feckin amazing.

 

[sands of the seas]

Originally posted by Soilworker
Alarum.

Alarum more so, VERY jazzy, and growls too. Download 'Reconditioned' if you can find it... it's feckin amazing.

That's exactly who i had in mind!
This is their site and there's a link to MP3.com with quite a few songs available.

 

[Fyhed]

CYNIC!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MadTinus]

The last PESTILENCE (R.I.P.) album called "Spheres" seems just what you're looking for. Very progressive Death Metal with very jazzy inluences and Death growls.

It was released on Roadrunner in 1993.

 

[O'blivion]

early Don Caballero (no vocals though)

 

[IanDork107]

Nektar was an awesome, and very underrated prog band from the 70's. They arent mind blowingly technical but theyre really good.

 

[Legion Fan]

Atheist is exactly what you are looking for.

 

[Elysian Blaze]

I like Aghora, too. It's fronted by a female who doesn't growl, but is nonetheless talented. Their CD features the Cynic Seans [or is it Shawns?]

 

[Bezrael]

Maudlin of the Well is brilliant beyond words. Everyone should check them out.

 

[IanDork107]

Try On The Virg, Virgil Donatis band. It isnt too heavy, but jazzy and kick ass.