Tribal metal

[mutantllama]

I'm not talking about a genre, but what bands/songs have tribal sounds in them?

 

[Lord Kur]

tupak

 

[Einherjar86]

Ha!

Depends on what kind of "tribal" you're talking about. However, I'm going to assume you're not talking about African tribal. A lot of these are going to be basically folk-influenced metal, I think.

Primordial has some tribal sounding stuff (Heathen Tribes, As Rome Burns... I've been listening to the new album a lot, so that's all I got right now)
Finntroll (Trollhammaren)
Moonsorrow (Rauniolla, Tuulen Tytar...)
Turisas (Among Ancestors, In the Court of Jarislef...)

That's all I can think of right now, but I know there are lots of others. You're basically looking for folk metal with a lot of tribal drum/percussive sounds, right?

 

[General Zaroff]

Soulfly is the closest thing to tribal I can think of.

 

[Therma lobsterdore]

Neurosis use a lot of tribal drum beats, as does the most recent Isis album

 

[The Ozzman]

Sepultura - Roots

 

[Hypnos]

Alchemist have some tribal parts, mostly on their 'Organasm' and 'Austral Alien' releases

 

[waif]

Soulfly is the closest thing to tribal I can think of.

Sepultura - Roots

. and .

 

[The_Quadfather]

Sepultura - Roots

Good suggestion, but wrong album. Sepultura's Arise is their best and quite possibly captures some of their most "tribal" moments.

 

[Thrashard]

Check out "Primitive Rhythm Machine" by Mortification if you wanna hear great tribal metal!

 

[Satanstoenail]

Good suggestion, but wrong album. Sepultura's Arise is their best and quite possibly captures some of their most "tribal" moments.

Roots has much more tribal stuff in it than Arise.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Roots is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. uke:

 

[Satanstoenail]

I quite like it.

 

[Seditious]

Roots is one of the worst albums I've ever heard. uke:

de gustibus not est disputadum

 

[The Ozzman]

Roots has much more tribal stuff in it than Arise.

Yes. I bought Arise this weekend (finally) and heard little to no tribal drumming in it. There's a bit of tribal drumming in Chaos A.D as well from what I remember.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Roots sounds like nu-metal to me.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Roots sounds like nu-metal to me.

In what way? There's no hip hop/pop or rock elements at all.

 

[waif]

Roots sounds like nu-metal to me.

Yeah.

In what way? There's no hip hop/pop or rock elements at all.

When the guy from Korn appears on your album, it's hard to deny that charge. Also, it's definitely elements of nu-metal. The song Roots most of all.

 

[Satanstoenail]

When the guy from Korn appears on your album, it's hard to deny that charge. Also, it's definitely elements of nu-metal. The song Roots most of all.

The guy from Korn doing some (background) guest vocals on one song doesn't automatically make the album nu-metal. And the song Roots Bloody Roots doesn't feature the guy from Korn anyway.

 

[waif]

I know. But the song is extremely nu-metal-ish. It's not a nu-metal album, but it has a heavy influence.