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Pointless Pedant said:
I'm fond of the current atmospheric death metal trend with Blood Incantation and Ulcerate among others, but they're drawing on Gorguts. The style has been around for decades but it's growing more common now because as you said endless shredding has become tiresome.

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That whole disonant melodic style has been the latest craze to be fair. Deathspell Omega are doing it now, Blut Aus Nord kinda kicked it off. Even metalcore are doing it with Northlane being the first then loads like Caliban and shit all copying it. I will be impressed when the power metal guys try it, now that will be different.
 
ISDwarnedus said:
Real "innovation" is a subtle thing. It's the shifting movement of the genre's fundamental harmonic and melodic vocabulary. It's the way guys like Snorre Ruch wrote riffs and put them together. Like anything, it's got a lifespan.

Like yoshitsune said, innovation isn't this sort of inorganic, outside-in "lol whoa we combine black metal with shoegaze and Russian orthodox church hymns, isn't that crazy bro" stylistic bingo that happens when a genre is past its sell-by date and it falls into the hands of cultural tourists. Metal's just dead/dying, and that's fine, things die.
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I respectfully disagree with the idea that metal is dying, to me that sounds like typically doomerism/born-in-the-wrong-generation-ism.

Changing, sure. Sometimes not for the better, but I think that there’s just more trash to sift through looking for the diamonds. But they’re there. And the search is half the fun! At the same time, it’s never been easier to find good metal, imo. Gone are the days where you needed to sift through piles of cassettes- buying them with your precious pocket change based solely on how cool the album art looked, praying the music matched. In my opinion, it’s a great time to be a metal head. Literally anything you want to hear at your fingertips at all times. Don’t like newer trends? There is tons of obscure older stuff no-ones heard of before or new bands copying older sounds. Styles are cyclical, at the end of the day “there is no new thing under the sun.”

Metal has always been a niche genre, but as long as there are fans and people like us, metal will never die.
 
Quorthon said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZT32mu5d5Rw
I never get tired of this song. Anyone have some Pagan Metal recommendations similar to these guys?
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ISDwarnedus said:
Temnozor, Kroda, some of the later stuff by the Polish band Honor, and Moonsorrow. You might like Finntroll, if you don't mind venturing really far into untrvvvve territory.

Finist was a folky white power power metal (yes, 'white power,' as in racialist, and 'power metal,' as in Helloween) side project of somebody in Nokturnal Mortum. They're widely regarded as a joke but just letting you know they exist.

They're not folk metal, but I'd always recommend Dub Buk and Astrofaes to anyone who likes Nokturnal Mortum (especially if you like their 90s stuff too). They were all kinda sibling bands from the same scene.
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I would also handily recommend Велимор [Velimor] if you like folky Black Metal with Nationalist lyrics:
 
Some black metal to prepare myself for the chillier seasons, and an early start to 2020's Nothing But Black Metal November.
 
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Heathen's first album since 2009, Empire of the Blind, is, unsurprisingly, more very good metal. Perhaps a bit less thrashy than the previous outings. I will have to listen to it another few times before I have substantive thoughts other than 'If you like their other albums, get it'.
 
Somehow I stumbled across this monument to Web 1.0: http://www.morsay.net/

Apparently Phantom and Sewer are the two most KVLT bands in existence. I can't find any info about their location, membership, physical releases etc., they aren't even listed on metal-archives... but they're both on Spotify. What a world.

EDIT: Oh, nevermind, they're both on The Satan Records. Support the bands by purchasing some "Extreme Metal Puzzless" [sic].


Really feel like I fell through the asshole of the internet here
 
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Cuz of the Manowar connection?

It would probably be Zep or Blue Cheer or Deep Purple or some other band where nobody can really agree whether or not they count as proto-metal.

The new Six Feet Under album is hilarious by the way.
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A little too droning for me, but they're pretty cool. I can put them on, but I tend to tune out by the end of the album.
 
Bought a bunch of shit this week:

Anthropophagous - Spoiled Marrow
MANIERISME - In Memory of the Forgotten Arts
Ontos On - Sombre Chaotic Entrance in the Chasm of Existential Resignation
Lamp of Murmurr - The Burning Spears Of Crimson Agony
Timeghoul's discog
Deogen - The Endless Black Shadows of Abyss
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
GRUE - Casualty Of The Psychic Wars
 
Got that Lamp of Murmuur LP coming in the mail. Manierisme are also excellent. Might be worth checking out Grevlar too. Oddball death metal from one of the Timeghoul guitarists.
 
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