Original Metal/non metal "bands" of today.

[{-sapob-}]

Touched on in the thread about 2009.
Lets make a list Because, i for one want to know about the more original bands out there.
Like most of us im always looking for something new.

If you could please "Bold" the name and give a bit of an explanation. doesnt have to be great just, a general description.

Im going to go ahead with.

Opeth - although some people might snarl, its not a contest. They are still pretty original.

Sleepy time gorilla museum - I only have one album but its someting completely different. Home made instruments, complex time signatures, often compared to tool and meshuggah but in their own way.

 

[Walls1441]

Direwolf. Vocals at times remind me of Bal-Sagoth, but i've really heard nothing like this ever.

 

[dwoakee]

Diablo Swing Orchestra - the most eclectic music i have ever heard. mixes operatic vocals and heavy guitars with double bass, western, didgeridoo, boogie, spanish tunes, trumpets, violins, ...
Hellsongs - great lounge/campfire/hippie cover versions of hard'n'heavy classics.
Van Canto - A Capella Metal. Who else does this?
Christian Zehnder - Applies various vocal techniques from overtone singing to yodeling to a backdrop of acoustic jazz and more classical pieces on his album "Kraah"
Beatallica - A hilarious mix of beatles songs played in 'tallica style. The lyrics are also mixed.
Jethro Tull - Nobody else plays mandolins this loud.

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

original doesn't always equal good (see: unexpect, sleepytime gorilla museum)

gonna have to put in my standard vote, however, for dso/ban/negura etc etc.

 

[{-sapob-}]

Sikth- im pretty sure most of you know about the now defunct sikth. and im pretty sure they were classed as something else before the term Prog became popular.

The Mars Volta - Personally i like what theyre doing. I only just purchased bedlam in goliath, and im happy with it. Some of the little riffs over the melody sound a bit crimson-e in some ways. Kinda funky, progy, rocky.

 

[Wander]

Sikth- im pretty sure most of you know about the now defunct sikth. and im pretty sure they were classed as something else before the term Prog became popular.

SikTh hardly sound like any progressive metal band anyway.

 

[Xarthaz]

As far as the Progressive Death Metal genre is concerned: In Vain is the major innovator of recent times

 

[metal_wrath]

Funeral - From these wounds

 

[Kenneth R.]

heh. I don't see original here yet... I'll mention sleepmakeswaves under 'nonmetal', new, and good.

 

[Pethical]

you've got to be kidding!!!! hahah

 

[BloodSword]

Funeral - From these wounds

Brilliant album.

 

[Kenneth R.]

you've got to be kidding!!!! hahah

Still most people are going to say shit like "Nevermore".

 

[Pethical]

even still, i think nevermore are more original than us

 

[Chinese Whispers]

even still, i think nevermore are more original than us

Still, I would much rather listen to you guys.

Just on this thread though, I appreciate it, nothing wrong with some good ol' recommendations, but what exactly is 'original'?

 

[Walls1441]

someone who doesn't rip off other bands and brings something new to music.
for example, Pelican. Sure you can tell the Isis postmetalesque influence, but when you listen to pelican you really don't hear any other band. at least i don't.

Most melodic death bands, when you listen all you here is in flames or arch enemy just slightly re-written.

 

[Chinese Whispers]

I don't think original is the right word. It's like calling someone an 'inidividual'. Every band is influenced by something else - even whether they realise it or not, and the fact is most bands try to disguise to appear more 'original'.

 

[Soundscape]

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