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I am currently in a trippy-metal kick and can't stop playing Ayreon's The Dream Sequencer album.

I'm really enjoying the atmosphere of this album and all the electronic/spacey touches here and there.

Can you guys recommend other bands that have albums like this one?
 
Thanks for the suggestions, I will check Andromeda's new album, I have the first one and love the songs Extension of the Wish and Arch Angel, will also check out Nachtmystium.

Just heard Hello Spaceboy, very cool, however, i was looking for something a little softer, kinda like My House on Mars/type stuff from the Ayreon album I mentioned. I have A Deeper Kind of Slumber from Tiamat which is kinda in that same vein but i was wondering if there were other bands like this around.
 
happytimes said:
You may want to check out a band from Great Britain that I found out about recently called Oceansize. They might fall into the "trippy" category.
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Agreed. I was going to suggest them as well as other heavy mellow bands like Riverside and Porcupine Tree. I know I'm missing a couple of those bands too. Matt might pop in here and fill int he blanks. Savino and Craig have been going nuts over Oceansize lately. They also really love the new Meshuggah so go figure! :lol: I still have to check out the new Ayreon...

And for a shameless self-plug, I dare say that while the new Odin's Court isn't just like those other bands, there is plenty of trippy, spacy, headphone moments on the new disk! In fact, one song is called Cosmosera. There are heavier songs, but there are also some farily mellow ones with lots of layers of various things going on. Of course, first we have to get it duplicated, but I think we are getting closer to having that happen.
 
Back to "Hallo Spaceboy" for a moment...

Metal covers of Bowie songs :rock:

A metal cover of a song from one of my personal favorite (and underrated) Bowie albums :rock: :rock:
 
You want trippy? How 'bout Ozric Tentacles or Hidria Spacefolk? :kickass:

Oh, trippy METAL. :lol:

WELL, then.... Hmm, I'd agree with earlier recommendations for Oceansize and Porcupine Tree. I'm assuming you've heard Ayreon's Into the Electric Castle, but if not, it's probably the pinnacle of spacey/trippy rock/metal.
 
TBJ said:
kinda like My House on Mars/type stuff from the Ayreon album I mentioned. I have A Deeper Kind of Slumber from Tiamat which is kinda in that same vein but i was wondering if there were other bands like this around.
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Even before I read this part, Tiamat was going to be my obvious recommendation. But so, apparently you already know ADKoS. What about 'Wildhoney'? That one is more "metal", but at least as "trippy" as ADKoS. Both are brilliant albums.

Overfilled toothpaste tubes
Sleepless and timeless faces
Drippety drop on sugarcubes
The one eyed's eye twinkles and gazes

Twinkles and gazes...

Honey tea, psilocybe larvae
Honeymoon, silver spoon
Psilocybe tea

In The Woods... is pretty trippy ('Omnio' or 'Strange in Stereo')

The Gathering on 'How To Measure a Planet?' isn't too far from 'The Dream Sequencer'.

If it's just the analog-y keyboards, Amorphis covers that ground pretty well ('Am Universum' being one of the most laid-back, with the 'My Kantele' EP going full-on '70s)

If you can find it, Forgotten Silence's 'Bya Bamahe Neem' is some excellent Middle-Eastern trippy ex-metal.

Apparently a lot of people are under the impression that 'The Dream Sequencer' sounds like prog-metal, even though it doesn't.

Neil
 
TBJ said:
I am currently in a trippy-metal kick and can't stop playing Ayreon's The Dream Sequencer album.

I'm really enjoying the atmosphere of this album and all the electronic/spacey touches here and there.

Can you guys recommend other bands that have albums like this one?
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Anything by Ayreon, all of which are absolute must haves, available from Inside/Out:
The Final Experiment
Actual Fantasy
Into the Electric Castle (2CD)
Universal Migrator (2CD) - which in addition to The Dream Sequencer, includes the heavier 2nd disc Flight of the Migrator (which is prog-metal)
The Human Equation (2CD)
Star One & Live on Earth
01011001 (2CD) - The new disc.

Arjen style pays homage to a lot of classic prog bands that were used a lot of analog synths, bands like ELP, Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Rush, all great classic bands worth looking into, if not already done so.

Of special note, check out old Tangerine Dream discs from the 70's, some of the coolest spacey shit you'll ever hear, i.e, Rubycon, Phaedra, Atmosfear, Force Majoure, and the live stuff from that era as well.

Ozric Tentacles - Spiraling Through Hyperspace (Spacy English prog/jam band)

Others of note, though more atmospheric than spacey:
Pagan's Mind
Oceansize
Riverside
Porcupine Tree
Sieges Even

Space Out! :Smokin: :hypno: :hypno: :hypno:
 
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