#technical metal

[canyouheartheholymountains]

full voivod this time (original line-up). They're so fun to draw cuz each of them have such distinct features and styles. Also really fashionable lol, just like cartoon characters, i love'em

[jgthirlwell]

02.06.25 Krallice at Le Poisson Rouge

[von-vom]

[idiotcoward]

Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus

Holy fucking SHIIIIIT. Jute Gyte has to be one of if not my favorite solo-black metal project, black metal, project, fucking whatever cool experimental stuff he does I love. The main thing that Adam Kalmbach's project Jute Gyte is known for is its use of Microtonal Music. If you don't know, western music is generally split (super simplifying here) into half tones. So you have A and then A Sharp and then B, C, then C sharp, D, D sharp. So it progresses in these half steps. In Middle eastern Music and south asian music, and many other cultures outside of the western school of music theory. There are many many more. So there could be a note between d sharp and E that is just like D sharp sharp, or maybe D.78 or D.92 depending on how specific. Essentially Jute Gyte is playing notes, chords, and scales that do not exist within western music canon. If you've never listened to music outside of that space (which includes everything from Justin Bieber to Darkthrone to WuTang to Mozart to Elvis to Miles Davis to Taylor Swift) then this is going to sound insane to you. Even out of tune, it isn't. This is just that cool ass experimental music. This whole album, once you get into the sound he's going for, is such a slow and particular burn filled with incredibly dense riffs and noise orchestration. The guitars prick and and pop almost sounding like metallic crashes or high pitched banging to fit in with the noisey sampling and electronic soundscape. They float between almost recognizable sounds by incorporating notes that aren't within the western canon but are a similar space apart between familiar chords / scales (for instance playing in D.75 Major scale). This playing with familiarity makes everything feel uncanny and uneasy, yet still beautiful. Each song has it's low quieter moments that build into epic, high intensity climaxes that are so dense and well constructed that even after a few listens there will still be details, notes and references. An absolute fucking experience. Jute Gyte is one of the best to be making music right now.

[soillodge]

Listen/purchase: Stare Into Death And Be Still by Ulcerate

[nassauband]

This Friday. The pendulum shifts.

[album-a-day-project]

2/12/25

Mirar

Ascension

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French-Norwegian duo. Chaos for the sake of chaos doesn't make a good album. It is hard to make it through this album as there is only one note throughout the entire piece. I completely disagree with some of the other bigger reviewing blogs on this album, there isn't anything super 'technical' or special no matter how they try to spin it or special adjectives used in write-ups. The first tracks is captivating, but over the course of the album you'll be exhausted by it. Don't believe me? Give it a spin.

AAD Recommends: 25%

[ponderingrandomthings]

Rivers of Nihil are an interesting extreme metal band for me.

Some loud passages - and yet not overwhelming to the ears

Many interspersed quieter parts to a song - so your brain doesn't zombie out with the incessant notes

Singing! (not just growling)

Saxophone!! (in such death/extreme metal? how?)

Very recent release.

As soon as it started, I thought:

Oh wow. Saxopohone in this song too...

The lighthouse... could it have been inspired by the movie Annihilation? (No, it wasn't. But that was an interesting movie. Natalie Portman made an exception by being in a horror movie.)

The song description on YouTube:

The new album’s first single of 2025, “House Of Light,” is a track that “encapsulates the nature of what it is that we do perfectly while offering a different perspective on the sound with the new lineup,” explains founding member/guitarist Brody Uttley, who also plays piano and does the programming in the band. “Everything that our fans have come to love about our sound is demonstrated in this song with the new addition of Andy singing and Biggs on main vocals. It has the riffs, it has the big chorus, it has the prog, it has the solos, it has the sax. Just a real classic example of what we do as a band in 2025.”

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Lock Horns - Red Room (The Distortion Project and Code 7 Distribution)

Northern Ireland’s Lock Horns will release their brand new album titled Red Room on the 31st of May, out via The Distortion Project and Code 7 Distribution. Northern Irish progressive metallers, Lock Horns have been busy working on the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Molon Labe’. 5 years is a long time to wait for a release from any band, though it is safe to say that Lock Horns weren’t exactly taking it…

[clumsypuppy]

who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️

ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday

[von-vom]

[idiotcoward]

Paroxysm Unit - Fragmentation // Stratagem

Paroxysm Unit is a fucking Death Metal super group! Made up of members of Gorguts, Krallice, Relics of Humanity, 7 H.Target, and Darkall Slaves and you can absolutely see the talent on display on this thing. This is a super technical, melodic at parts, piece of really nice brutal death metal. The production to me seems a little raw, but that could always be a stylistic choice. Definitely worth checking out if you’re a fan of any of the above mentioned bands.

[vaporstream]

The Midnight Mass (Snuffy's Theme) | RichaadEB

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