Recommend me some unusual and unique metal

[scytheavatar]

Interpret "unusual" and "unique" however you like. But it must make me go WTF. Like Gorguts - Obscura.

 

[Seditious]

"Lämmer am Hanger" by Excelsis

 

[antiface]

Mr. Bungle (the self-titled album. The rest don't really qualify as "metal".)
Kayo Dot
Maudlin of the Well


There are a lot more, but I can't think of them off of the top of my head.

 

[NinjaGeek]

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Sigh
UneXpect
Ephel Duath

 

[Satanstoenail]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

 

[Einherjar86]

"Lämmer am Hanger" by Excelsis

As far as I've heard Excelsis fuckin' rule, but all I've ever been able to hear was the song We Are Kings and their stuff on myspace. Are their albums any good? I've seriously considered buying them but I'm too uncertain.

For the OP, try:

Virgin Black (albums: Sombre Romantic and Elegant... and Dying; they're symphonic goth metal with some extreme influences)

 

[Uncreation]

Subterranean Masquerade

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Sigh
UneXpect

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

This. And Arcturus (La Masquerade Infernale is perhaps most likely to make you go WTF, but The Sham Mirrors is my favourite)

 

[Guttural.Emesis]

2 Minuta Dreka, Autophagia, XXX Maniak, Dead Infection.
Basically any spastic goregrind will make the average metal fan question his sanity.

 

[Jimm O)))]

Deathspell Omega
The Axis of Perdition
Unexpect
Fantamos
Meshuggah
Obsidian
Coprofago
Spiral Architect
Alarum
Diabolical Masquerade
Genphis Tron
Indricothere
Twisted Into Form
Zero Hour

 

[viewerfromnihil]

listen to cephalic carnage but not their new stuff. only lucid interval and exploiting disfunction

atheist works too

 

[Blind Guardian]

Theory In Practice. Like a more brutal Atheist with a lesser show offy Yngwie Malmsteen on guitar and atmospheric synths,very rare and very very good. Becomes extremely addictive after a wile.

 

[Seditious]

yea, Spiral Architect.

all that fuckin hype on this forum last yea, that album was a wacky piece of wtf

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It's an awesome fucking album and I even find it catchy!

Try out Blood Stain Child - Mozaiq. Trance melo-death!

 

[m3th0dm4n]

It's an awesome fucking album and I even find it catchy!

Try out Blood Stain Child - Mozaiq. Trance melo-death!

Now that's a genre of metal I never want to hear again

 

[sevag00]

Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax

 

[KMADD]

Nachtmystium-Assasins
Lafcadio

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

Demilich
Khanate

 

[Life Sucks]

Portal (very original, but they are terrible)
Bethlehem (dark, chilling blackened doom)
Molested (weird old school dm)
Svest (weird French bm)
Masters Hammer (especially The Jelmince Occultist, though Ritual is far better)

 

[Mort Divine]

Portal is fantastic!

Try Dripping - Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss