Post and discuss about other Prog/Tech metal bands, HERE!

[epitaph]

I think its about time for this place to have a thread like this, just like in the old forum.

O.K.!
So Watchtower is pretty sweet, right?
Well so is Origin, too!

[epitaph]

I've also had to check out the two bands often mentioned, Canvas Solaris and Spiral Architect. But Atheist has pretty much kept me busy for the past 6 months. Next in my list is: Nile, Psycroptic and Bolt Thrower (Since I'm seeing them live, soon)

[pitchfork_man]

I've also had to check out the two bands often mentioned, Canvas Solaris and Spiral Architect. But Atheist has pretty much kept me busy for the past 6 months. Next in my list is: Nile, Psycroptic and Bolt Thrower (Since I'm seeing them live, soon)

Let me recommend another GREAT BAND: MEKONG DELTA
The best album is "The Music of Eric Zahn". but it's all good....a little different album to album, but they are unique. There is no other band like them.
They're working on a new album, supposed to be A STEP UP IN THE FIELD OF TECHNICAL METAL. BREAKING NEW GROUND.
I think once you check them out, you will be amazed.
I am on NINS AND PEEDLES to hear the new one!!!!!!

YES! Canvas Solaris is from nearby - in Georgia, I just checked them out too. Very good!!!
Question for EPITAPH: How has Atheist kept you busy - are you referring the the bass tabs, bass playing, etc?? You must be incredibly ambitious!!

[phodg]

Bolt Thrower

Great band. Not technical at all but brutal in their simplicity. Their latest album (For Those Once Loyal) was maybe my favorite of 2005.

[Thuathail]

Sweet, I'm always in need of new bands to check out...

If you ever get a chance, check out Martyr from Canada... One of my all-time favorite bands. I dont know, maybe you guys have heard them already but there are few even where I live in Canada that even know who they are, so I'm assuming they're not well known in Europe, or anything.

Mekong Delta sounds interesting. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on some of their releases.

[zyquix]

How bout make this a rule from now on... If you recommend a band, post a link to a)their official site, b)myspace or some kind of place where they have downloads/streaming files, or c)actual song itself. It usually slips my mind to search for them, or i just shrug it off because I'm lazy or something. But when the link's there, you just click right away..

www.ronjarzombek.com has some spastic Ink and I think Watchtower live clips.
Canvas link is in my signature. also, their myspace has some stuff from their INCREDIBLE new album, Penumbra Diffuse.
Martyr- http://www.martyr-canada.com/

Don't know any of those other bands and/or a link to their stuff.

[phodg]

You can find Bolt Thrower at http://www.boltthrower.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/boltthrower.

[Pancreatic]

I love Neuraxis, Psycroptic, Psyopus, Glass casket, and Augury. All great technical bands

[Corpseworm]

[QUOTE=pitchfork_man]Let me recommend another GREAT BAND: MEKONG DELTA

Pichfork_Girl whats up? Anyway I just posted on the Gordian Knot thread a band called Theory in Practice. I just found out that the guitarist Peter Lake is now in Mekong Delta. Why have you not informed me of this? I want a copy this weekend brother.

[Martinator]

I'm looking forward to the new Mekong Delta as well. Very unique sound, but they could have done with some more variation within songs. Theory In Practice was also very good, as were/are Spiral Architect. Canvas Solaris is undeniably good, but doesn't quite do it for me the way the others do - too laid back and too much doodling for my taste. I just got some stuff that was recommended to me, and I'll give that a spin to see if it's worth mentioning here.

[Corpseworm]

I just got some stuff that was recommended to me, and I'll give that a spin to see if it's worth mentioning here.

A name?

What do people think of Nevermore? They sort of remind me of Forbidden-Twisted Into Form. Excellent guitar playing.

[The Stillborn One]

defeated sanity keeps me really busy the last weeks...you always find something new :)

[phodg]

What do people think of Nevermore? They sort of remind me of Forbidden-Twisted Into Form. Excellent guitar playing.

Yeah, but I think they lack a bit of the aggression Forbidden had. And I prefer Russ Anderson's vocals to Warrel Dane's.

[Corpseworm]

Yeah, but I think they lack a bit of the aggression Forbidden had. And I prefer Russ Anderson's vocals to Warrel Dane's.

I feel the same way but you cant deny the similarity. Politics of Ecstacy was pretty aggressive though IMO.

[phodg]

Yeah, true. Of course, Tim Calvert spent time in both bands so I suppose there's bound to be a little crossover. :)

[Corpseworm]

Ok, I didnt know that. Too many bands to keep up with. Has anyone heard of Linear Sphere? Petty amazing stuff. http://www.myspace.com/linearsphere

[WhoCares]

Forbidden-Twisted Into Form.

now that's a flashback!

[Martinator]

A name?

What do people think of Nevermore? They sort of remind me of Forbidden-Twisted Into Form. Excellent guitar playing.

Yep, Jeff and (these days) Steve Smythe can shred with the best of them. Funny thing: I saw both the last Sanctuary and the first (official) Nevermore show in Seattle (lived there for 8 years). I've always liked them, even if they're more mainstream: the simply do it better than any other band, with excellent composing, arranging and musicians. Warrel has the best voice in metal, IMO - and it's gotten better now he's been forced to let go of the Jaegermeister. Forbidden committed a cardinal sin with Green, to me, and Nevermore's versatility made them more interesting to me. Come to think of it, Forbidden never released it's best material (Trapped demo) officially, but that's another matter.

Oops, almost forgot those names:
Linear Sphere is among them, along with Insidious Decrepancy (one man and his drum computer), Alarum (some more spins, it's interesting, but the singer is annoying), The Forsaken, Norther, the new Nile, Kalmah, and some more stuff I have to dig out of my car to remember :p

[WhoCares]

sounds like we have similar tastes... While I like Nevermore, I don't really like that style of vocals...

I do like Alarum and The Forsaken. Both Norther and Kalmah's new albums have just been featured on my wife's radio shows ( she'll be on air in about 30 minutes from the time that I write this on www.totalrock.com )

[Corpseworm]

This isnt Metal but have you heard Strunz and Ferra? I hope I spelled it correctly? Pretty amazing guitar duo's regardless of what you like. If you havent heard them I recomend it.

[WhoCares]

not heard the name no...

[Corpseworm]

not heard the name no...
Ok, here's the link I did spell it wrong. Its acoustic guitar playing but man these two guys shred.
http://www.strunzandfarah.com/flash/index.php

[WhoCares]

hmmm I saw 2 mexican guitarists (oddly enough a couple, who live in Ireland) a few years ago that played all acoustic and they used bits from metal songs (stuff like Slayer, Sepultura, Metallica etc...) it was pretty similar/crazy stuff... Rodrigo Y Gabriela ( http://www.rodgab.com/ )

[WhoCares]

Another band for all the prog/tech fans out there is Textures from The Netherlands http://www.texturesband.com/ their new album is due out soon...

[Shredi]

Illogicist is good. Tech metal from Italy.

http://www.illogicist.com/

[zyquix]

I forgot to mention The Burden of Existence. (the link is in my sig) They're still in the musical fetal stages, as they just have a few unfinished songs and no singer last time I checked. Chris Rushing on guitars and bass, Hunter Ginn (yes, from Canvas Solaris) on drums. Although I prefer the Canvas music over this, they're still pretty damn cool. Burying Your Dead is awesome. They're planning on having melodic vocals too. I'm pretty proud to know about this band, because they're the only band I like where I was around from the beginning. :D

[quigonkick]

Not really "speedy" tech, but I'm in awe of Confessor. Sick stuff. Glad they are back!!

[Alpha~Omega]

I like Ephel Duath very much, an italian band. For people who like the more jazzy part of the tech metal world.

[zyquix]

I've only heard unpoetic circle and green something.. or gray pearl... I don't know, but I like their mellow and jazzy parts, but the hard parts annoy me. I thought it was interesting to put that 1920's style trumpet thing in that one song.

[infoterror]

http://www.anentity.com/demilich

Demilich

[epitaph]

Whoa, I've seen the name Demilich a couple times before but really didnt know that they are from Finland too. Awesome.

[The Stillborn One]

Not really "speedy" tech, but I'm in awe of Confessor. Sick stuff. Glad they are back!!

:beerchug:

[zyquix]

Does anyone have the Cynic cover of Mahavishnu's "Meeting of the Spirits"?

[Alpha~Omega]

Never heard that they covered a Mahavishnu Orchestra song, but it would be cool to hear it.

[fatalerror]

I like Behold... the Arctopus (http://www.beholdthearctopus.com), Coprofago (http://www.coprofago.com), The Dillinger Escape Plan (http://www.dillingerescapeplan.com), Lamb of God (http://www.lamb-of-god.com/ashes2/news/), Meshuggah (http://www.meshuggah.net/), Master, Converge, Dying Fetus, and pretty much whatever else that's good. Yeah, I know some of them is metalcore, but whatever dudes; I like it and that's enough for me.

[motherman]

Alarum is some great stuff aswell as Mastodon, but while Alarum plays jazzy and pretty melodical prog/tech metal, Mastodon does some real heavy stuff in a different way of prog/tech. And then ofcourse we have some good oldies; Cynic, Death, Pestilence, Spastic Ink. I suppose you´ve heard all or some of the mentioned bands, otherwise, check em all out!

[SwedeMetal]

I wouldn't call them "prog-metal", but I think a lot of Atheist fans would like the new !T.O.O.H.! album. Order and Punishment. Fucking brilliant!!!

[SHRED6STRING]

ALARUM
CEA SERIN
GORY BLISTER
CORAM LETHE
AGHORA
ANACRUSIS

whoever said DEFEATED SANITY-YES! awesome guitar work!

[Martinator]

Early Thought Industry (Songs For Insects, Mods Carve The Pig) is pretty interesting too, and Alarum reminds them quite a bit, in TI-parts with more straightforward riffs.

[Corpseworm]

I've never heard Watchtower, where can I check them out. I doubt any CD's are available but if you have the info let me know. I sure would like to check them out.

[Martinator]

They're still availble from Amazon: Energetic Disassembly was relatively recently re-released on Monster, and Control and Resistance hasn't gone out of print/stock yet. I'd think even a local Tower Records would be able to get a hold of them for you. I'm not sure about the availability of Spastic Ink's Ink Complete, though, but I'm sure Ron could help you out with that one. If worse comes to worst, I can send you copies.

[Carpal Tunnel]

Dude yeah, it's pretty hard to top Spastic Ink's "Ink Complete" for me.

The bands I'm playing in are heavily influenced by technical (yet well written) albums, metal or not. Our style is the death metal version of our best efforts to achieve extreme technically while preserving catchness and heaviness.

Atheist are legends of this.

"We're not worthy!" hahaha.

Here's some links to my shit... check em...


DECREPIT BIRTH - www.decrepitbirth.com or www.myspace.com/decrepitbirth

ODIOUS MORTEM - www.odiousmortem.com or www.myspace.com/odiousmortem

-KC

[Carpal Tunnel]

I've never heard Watchtower

Dude, those guys fucking shred!

[Martinator]

I've never heard Watchtower

Hey Sonny, got a hold of their releases yet or should I send you something?

[wEEman33]

I wouldn't call them "prog-metal", but I think a lot of Atheist fans would like the new !T.O.O.H.! album. Order and Punishment. Fucking brilliant!!!

Eh, I think the best musical categorization I've heard for !T.O.O.H.! is "quirky death/grind"; they were one of extreme metal's most innovative and rapidly progressing acts—all of their material is worth owning by whatever means necessary—but unfortunately, financial issues finally killed them off.

Regarding Watchtower, “Control and Resistance” was the first album with mastermind Ron Jarzombek on lead guitars, and naturally, it is amazingly more complex than the band’s already mind-bending 1985 debut. Jarzombek’s patented quirky melodies act as the dominant musical force while fellow rhythmic fiend, the legendary Doug Keyser, lays down his deedily-dooiest, and unfortunately, final performance as a bassist in a metal band. “Control and Resistance” marked the end of Watchtower’s short but highly influential career and confounded the minds of most casual metal fans from the mid-late 1980s.

[Martinator]

Regarding Watchtower, “Control and Resistance” was the first album with mastermind Ron Jarzombek on lead guitars, and naturally, it is amazingly more complex than the band’s already mind-bending 1985 debut. Jarzombek’s patented quirky melodies act as the dominant musical force while fellow rhythmic fiend, the legendary Doug Keyser, lays down his deedily-dooiest, and unfortunately, final performance as a bassist in a metal band. “Control and Resistance” marked the end of Watchtower’s short but highly influential career and confounded the minds of most casual metal fans from the mid-late 1980s.

Ron rules (my personal favorite guitarist), but don't forget half the songs on C&R were written by Doug and (often underestimated) Billy White. Structurally, they're not that different, but it was an improvement over ED, for sure. Actually, Doug is still my favorite bassist, as with Rick on drums - Tower wouldn't have been the same without him, either. Amazing stuff, and I'm still hoping Mathematics will be completed at some point, family men or not...

[Corpseworm]

Hey Sonny, got a hold of their releases yet or should I send you something?

Thanks Marinator, I picked up Control and Resistance. I hear that I want Energtic Disassembly? Didnt see that at Tower and there isnt really a good record store in Atlanta. I love the music, freaking amazing but the vocals arent quite my style. Ron is probably one of the best guitarist I've heard. If you got something that would be cool. I can send you something that you may not have? I have a ton of shit. More on Brutal Death Metal but got plenty of other stuff too.

[Martinator]

Thanks Marinator, I picked up Control and Resistance. I hear that I want Energtic Disassembly? Didnt see that at Tower and there isnt really a good record store in Atlanta. I love the music, freaking amazing but the vocals arent quite my style. Ron is probably one of the best guitarist I've heard. If you got something that would be cool. I can send you something that you may not have? I have a ton of shit. More on Brutal Death Metal but got plenty of other stuff too.

The vocals comment is a pretty general one: most people I've heard comment on Alan's voice on C&R weren't very happy. I'm no different, in that respect. PM me your snail mail details and I'll send you a copy of ED (which has Jason McMaster on vocals, the original singer who's also involved in what little activity remains within the realm of WatchTower, these days).

[SwedeMetal]

Eh, I think the best musical categorization I've heard for !T.O.O.H.! is "quirky death/grind"; they were one of extreme metal's most innovative and rapidly progressing acts—all of their material is worth owning by whatever means necessary—but unfortunately, financial issues finally killed them off.

I wasn't trying to musically categorize them, but that's a good description. I think they are a mix of Cephalic Carnage, Cynic, and Voi Vod but still manage to retain great flow in their songs. Why do you say they're done? They signed with Earache/Elitist less than a year ago, released a cd very recently, and just started a Myspace page. Sounds like a lot of activity for a "finished" band.

[wEEman33]

I wasn't trying to musically categorize them, but that's a good description. I think they are a mix of Cephalic Carnage, Cynic, and Voi Vod but still manage to retain great flow in their songs. Why do you say they're done? They signed with Earache/Elitist less than a year ago, released a cd very recently, and just started a Myspace page. Sounds like a lot of activity for a "finished" band.

Earache shut down their Elitist subsidiary several months ago, and as a result, !T.O.O.H.! got dropped from the label and disbanded shortly thereafter due to financial issues; now is the time to snap up their discography before their two already OOP albums “From Higher Will” and “Order and Punishment” become scarce and overpriced.

[SwedeMetal]

Thanks for the info...any leads on where to get that other album? Order and Punishment, while I guess out of print, is in every cd store in Denver. Their other stuff seems pretty scarce already.

[wEEman33]

Thanks for the info...any leads on where to get that other album? Order and Punishment, while I guess out of print, is in every cd store in Denver. Their other stuff seems pretty scarce already.

Willowtip records has Pod Vladou Bice (http://www.willowtip.com/store/product_detail.aspx?id=38) in stock for $10 shipped.

I can only wish you luck in getting either the English or Czech version of their first album; I got lucky and snagged my Czech copy by scouring a few well-known trading forums (in this instance, metal-archives.com) and finding a seller that was willing to ship the item to me all the way from the Czech Republic. Other than that, you might want to keep an eye on eBay.

[PROPHECIES fORETOLD]

Everybody should check this band out: CONTINUO RENACER!!! www.continuorenacer.com



They are a instrumental tech/jazz/Deathmetal band that reminds me of Death at their "Human" era and some Cynic. Ppl who are into the mentioned bands won't get disappointed!!!

[epitaph]

I checked that site when Whocares posted about them, but the english version is still under construction and I cant find a way to listen to some samples.

[WhoCares]

use the Spanish one, and it only works in Internet Explorer...

:D

[zyquix]

Micah got me into them actually :D. Unfortunately I still only have Fusion for Suckers. Everyone should definately check them out.

[Dylan_101]

Yeah, nice thread...

I would add Nocturnus and Suffocation (http://www.suffocation.us/) especially Effigy of the Forgotten album (to me Suffocation = Atheist + Cannibal Corpse)

[Voodoo]

As long as we are throwing in a little grindcore with Suffocation (one of my fave dm bands), I have been listening to Despised Icon (http://www.despisedicon.com/index2.htm) recently, out of Montreal. They played here in Atlanta with Morbid Angel, Krisiun, and Behemoth and I was impressed. I picked up a cd they recorded with Century Media and it is quite good. It is laced with a little grind and a little hard. Some songs have got a real nice groove to them. :cool:

[zyquix]

I’m sorry for that dudes!!!!
You can check some songs at are myspace web…

www.myspace.com/continuorenacer

I hope you like it.

Arkaitz

...wow... I seriously need this album. I loved all those songs. I was really into Tap that Angel. Great work.

[PE - Maladaptive]

Hey everybody :)
This is my first post here, so I thought I'd pimp my band here for a start :icon_twis
While we're not prog/tech metal per se, we certainly do have elements of that, and I think we can appeal to you guys !

The band is called MALADAPTIVE, we're from France. Check it out :
http://www.myspace.com/maladaptivemetal . There's 4 full songs on there.
Check out also http://www.maladaptive.net

Let me know what you think !
Cheers
Pierre

PS : Hi Kelly, hi Sonny !

[Hungry Ghost]

I've never posted on this site before, but I've spent too much money on tech metal over the years not to put my two cents in. A few people have mentioned Coroner and Mekong Delta-- probably my two favorite bands ever. Not as technical as many of the more recent tech bands, but both had (or have, in the case of Mekong Delta, who are working on a new album!) their own unique sounds. Some technical bands that I've been listening to lately:

Defiled, from Japan (http://www.myspace.com/defiledjapan)
Nerv, from France (http://www.myspace.com/nervhxc)
Psychofagist, from Italy (http://www.psychofagist.com)
Brute Chant, from Latvia (band is now defunct, sadly) their album "Killer Each of You" is one of the most original tech metal albums ever, IMO
Forgotten Silence, from Czechoslovakia (http://fs.redblack.cz)
Lykathea Aflame, from Czechoslovakia(http://www.myspace.com/lykatheaflame)
Aydra, from Italy (http://www.aydra.com)
Nyia, from Poland (http://www.nyia-team.com)

[WhoCares]

Hieronymus Bosch - (http://hieronymus-bosch.ru)

a friend pointed these guys out... only 2 albums in 10 years, but you have to hear it!

[[qliphoth / daemons]]

Three words:

BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS

Now go buy some cd's.

[zyquix]

^ do as he says.

I haven't bought the split yet, does their song rank higher than Spaceturtle or Exospacial?

[Evansduality]

Not metal but the chick corea electrik band has been a favorite of mine for years and some of that stuff is beyond 'tech'

and i think they've inspired a few tech/prog metal bands out there

[Dago]

I've never posted on this site before, but I've spent too much money on tech metal over the years not to put my two cents in. A few people have mentioned Coroner and Mekong Delta-- probably my two favorite bands ever. Not as technical as many of the more recent tech bands, but both had (or have, in the case of Mekong Delta, who are working on a new album!) their own unique sounds. Some technical bands that I've been listening to lately:

Defiled, from Japan (http://www.myspace.com/defiledjapan)
Nerv, from France (http://www.myspace.com/nervhxc)
Psychofagist, from Italy (http://www.psychofagist.com)
Brute Chant, from Latvia (band is now defunct, sadly) their album "Killer Each of You" is one of the most original tech metal albums ever, IMO
Forgotten Silence, from Czechoslovakia (http://fs.redblack.cz)
Lykathea Aflame, from Czechoslovakia(http://www.myspace.com/lykatheaflame)
Aydra, from Italy (http://www.aydra.com)
Nyia, from Poland (http://www.nyia-team.com)


Wow so many nice fucking suggestions dude!

[alessio]

They're not metal, but you should check out National Health, especially their 2nd album "Of Queues and Cures" - wonderfully intricate progressive rock which is sometimes quite heavy and intense.
Too bad bands like this don't exist anymore... but hey, we got Atheist playing live! :devil:

[PROPHECIES fORETOLD]

I've never posted on this site before, but I've spent too much money on tech metal over the years not to put my two cents in. A few people have mentioned Coroner and Mekong Delta-- probably my two favorite bands ever. Not as technical as many of the more recent tech bands, but both had (or have, in the case of Mekong Delta, who are working on a new album!) their own unique sounds. Some technical bands that I've been listening to lately:

Defiled, from Japan (http://www.myspace.com/defiledjapan)
Nerv, from France (http://www.myspace.com/nervhxc)
Psychofagist, from Italy (http://www.psychofagist.com)
Brute Chant, from Latvia (band is now defunct, sadly) their album "Killer Each of You" is one of the most original tech metal albums ever, IMO
Forgotten Silence, from Czechoslovakia (http://fs.redblack.cz)
Lykathea Aflame, from Czechoslovakia(http://www.myspace.com/lykatheaflame)
Aydra, from Italy (http://www.aydra.com)
Nyia, from Poland (http://www.nyia-team.com)




Fuck yeah, DEFILED!!! They sound a little like Cryptopsy but with some strange grooves! It seems like Lykethea Aflame is defunct now, which is too bad..........One of the few newer original tech bands in the scene!

[WhoCares]

Szymon Czech from Nyia produced the last Enter Chaos album "Aura Sense" (I do their website...) http://ec.themetal.net

A few other names on that list ring a bell... it's so damn hard to keep up... there's so many good bands out there...

[Gods Puke]

Anyone mentioned Virulence yet?
It's a death-jazz band. Although the drumming is death/grind (and also jazzy sometimes), the guitars are jazzy and the vocals are 1) hardcore screaming vocals and 2) guttural vocals. Worth a try for fans of Atheist.
I have no idea if they have a website, sorry.

[PROPHECIES fORETOLD]

Anyone mentioned Virulence yet?
It's a death-jazz band. Although the drumming is death/grind (and also jazzy sometimes), the guitars are jazzy and the vocals are 1) hardcore screaming vocals and 2) guttural vocals. Worth a try for fans of Atheist.
I have no idea if they have a website, sorry.



They have split up unfortunately...... :cry:

[PROPHECIES fORETOLD]

Hey, check also DIVINE RAPTURE out! They have released a cd under Listenable Rec.! www.divinerapture.net
They sound like Hate Eternal with some Nile influences but don't expect that they go all the time blasting with some Morbid Angel like solo's mixed with some fusion.....They are the band on my avatar by the way.
Please check out, this band deserves more attention!

[WhoCares]

Listenable have some great bands...

[Gods Puke]

They have split up unfortunately...... :cry:
Ohh yes, I forgot...

[Ausgebombt]

There's a band from Toms River, NJ called Divinity Destroyed. It's pretty difficult for me to describe their sound, for they have one of their own and really don't remind me of any other band. Like many other talented bands who have been stuck in their hometown for years, this is one that I think deserves to be touring the country and have their name get out there. Please, take the time to listen to at least one of their songs. I can't guarantee that you'll like it, but what can it hurt to find out?

www.myspace.com/divinitydestroyed (http://www.myspace.com/divinitydestroyed)

[epitaph]

All I can say, everyone should check these out immediately:

Alchemist - Lunasphere
Alarum - Eventuality

[zyquix]

Continuo Renacer's cd is on www.lasercd.com now everyone! SO GO BUY IT! Not one bad or kinda ok song, every track is fuckin phenomenal.

[epitaph]

I'd love a Continuo Renacer t shirt, if they've even made any

[zyquix]

I'd love one. that cover art is pretty cool.

[Markku]

Some bands I enjoy

Watchtower, Spastic ink(Ron Jarzombek's project), Demilich, Mekong Delta, Entrafis(a long lost Canadian techy death band)
And ofcourse my all time favourote prog thrash act Anacrusis, has anyone heard anything of the guys after the split up?

Mordred, they aren't exactly tech or prog but they are so unique I decided to mention them. Mordred played a mix of thrash metal and funk.

[Adbhuta]

Ok, I didnt know that. Too many bands to keep up with. Has anyone heard of Linear Sphere? Petty amazing stuff. http://www.myspace.com/linearsphere

ho yeah this guys rule! :hbang32en Reality Disfunction is one of my favorite of 2005. Can't wait for the 2nd album.

Echosilence from Estonia too with a very nice female singer "à la aghora" maybe better...
Check Distorted Horizon EP
http://www.estonianmetal.com/bands.php?id=31
and previous instrumental stuff
http://www.echosilence.net/listen.php

I love also Sadist (seen them w Atheist at evofest in Italia)from Italia, this guys are great musicians, a new album is coming soon. Check the Tribe album it's a real masterpiece!
http://www.sadistribe.com/news.htm
and many more you have mentioned. (Textures, Mekong Delta, Watchtower,...)
Ooops forgot to mention the Great Chilians of Coprofago! it Kills.
http://www.coprofago.com/

[Veras_Inimical]

BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS is one I really like. :)

[Neidhardt]

there´s a band from bosnia i´m listening to right now.... it´s TOXICDEATH..... i know them too and the guys huge fans of atheist...... some words about them: the guitarist kills, for me, he´s one of the best today in extreme metal..... and the guy from necrophagist.

other genius bands are heathen, coroner, massacra, agonize, sadus, watchtower, destruction, symphony x, nocturnus, monstrosity, exhumation,....

cheers

[Tyler Durden]

http://www.myspace.com/arsis

http://www.myspace.com/atheretic

http://www.myspace.com/necrophagistde

http://www.myspace.com/capharnaum

http://www.myspace.com/psycroptic

[epitaph]

I recently bought an album called "Eyes of Tomorrow" by the band Aftermath.
And was I surprised how good it is! You can view some info at:
http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/afte.htm

[Sebastos]

no fans of canadian Quo Vadis ?
great tech band (steve digiorgio also played some time in the band)
http://www.myspace.com/quovadis1
http://www.myspace.com/quovadismetal
http://www.myspace.com/quovadis3

I think they have only toured in Canada but finally in January they are coming to Europe as support act for Kataklysm

[Voodoo]

These guys are pretty good.

http://www.anata.se/

I've been listening to The Conductor's Departure quite a bit since I got the album last month. In fact, this along with the new Suffocation and Deicide are my favorites this year.

Btw, who here has listened to Stench of Redemption? The guitar work is superb with Owens (Cannibal Corpse) and Santolla (Iced Earth) Replacing the Hoffman Brothers.

[Sebastos]

This has nothing to do with tech bands but

BLACK SABBATH becomes Heaven And Hell for reunion in 2007
featuring: Ronnie James Dio, Geezer Butler, Lommi and Bill Ward

:hbang32en :hbang32en :hbang32en :hbang32en

http://www.black-sabbath.com/news/archives/2006/10/heaven_hell_in_2007_is_officia.html

[Nun Stampede!]

Oh my god, that song that uses clips from the Psycho Theme song by Mekong Delta is amazing.

[DeadNote]

Its not metal but a great fusion band bassist, Steve DiGiorgio is a founding member http://www.darkhall.tk/

[Voodoo]

Luc Lemay, formerly of Gorguts is with a project called Negativa. The samples sound good if you like Obscura. :hbang32en

http://www.negativa.ca/

[Antzzz]

hehe i was just going to mention gorguts :)

[Brisket]

Its not metal but a great fusion band bassist, Steve DiGiorgio is a founding member http://www.darkhall.tk/

Yes, Darkhall is awesome.

Synaptic Static :devil:

[Mick Bynes]

I dunno... I'm sure they were mentioned once in this thread. Check out this prog metal band from Sweden, they're called. Spiral Architect

http://www.spiralarchitect.com/

[TheEagleNature]

I dunno... I'm sure they were mentioned once in this thread. Check out this prog metal band from Sweden, they're called. Spiral Architect

http://www.spiralarchitect.com/

Great technical prowess with this band. A Sceptic's Universe is a great album, and I just hope they get to making another album. Sean Malone actually played Chapman Stick on the album, which I thought was pretty cool.

[The Goat]

I wouldn't call them "prog-metal", but I think a lot of Atheist fans would like the new !T.O.O.H.! album. Order and Punishment. Fucking brilliant!!!

The Obliteration of Humanity are one of my all time favrioute bands! they were such an amazing band, look around at your underground cd stores i managed to pick up Order and Punishment from one.

[Evil Luke]

I dunno... I'm sure they were mentioned once in this thread. Check out this prog metal band from Sweden, they're called. Spiral Architect

http://www.spiralarchitect.com/

I think they are from Norway...
Really one of the craziest Techbands ever!
They just started writing the new album!

[Sebastos]

I guess all you guys like Cynic
Band from The Netherlands who are very influenced by them
http://www.myspace.com/exivious

[Mick Bynes]

I think they are from Norway...
Really one of the craziest Techbands ever!
They just started writing the new album!

Yes, you are right and I stand corrected.

[Brisket]

I guess all you guys like Cynic
Band from The Netherlands who are very influenced by them
http://www.myspace.com/exivious

Wow these guys sound awesome. Where can I buy their cd? 'Cause their site isn't up :/

[Sebastos]

Wow these guys sound awesome. Where can I buy their cd? 'Cause their site isn't up :/
Site works fine here, although yesterday it was down
http://www.exivious.net/

They don't have a recorddeal yet but I guess you can order their old demo by contacting them personaly
The samples on myspace are from their new debut album but I think they are still working on it
I'm not really sure

[Brisket]

oh ok. Thanks.

[Sebastos]

oh ok. Thanks.
lol sorry
you can download the first demo for free (just 2 songs) on their site
and yeah, they are makign a new CD, I guess they will get a recorddeal so that won't be any problem to buy it ;)

[Sebastos]

Ackros (http://www.ackros.be/default.aspx?page=medias)
probably the best (and only) Progressive Death metal band I've heard from Belgium

I recommend listening to Melissa, great song

[Markku]

Wow these guys sound awesome. Where can I buy their cd? 'Cause their site isn't up :/

There aren't any Cd's available. They are out of the old demos.

[Ouroboros]

Scale the Summit is really melodic and technical, sort of fusion, sort of metal. Worth checking out for sure.

www.myspace.com/scalethesummit

Ron Jarzombek's new project Blotted Science, with Alex Webster, and Charlie Zelany from Behold...The Arctopus sounds very promising. Check out Ron playing some excerpts on www.ronjarzombek.com/rjvideos.html
The album is called Machinations of Dementia.

Electro-Quarter Staff is an excellent Canadian instrumental metal band.

www.myspace.com/electroquarterstaff

Some more brutal technical metal;

Cryptopsy
Visceral Bleeding (Absorbing the Disarray is nuts!!)
Spawn of Possession (The most technical metal out there)
Anomalous (Cognitive Dissonance is absolutely incredible)

Can't think of any more that haven't already been mentioned.

[Brisket]

Oh man, I can't wait for the Blotted Science stuff. :D

I'll check out the other guys you mentioned too.

[MaskedJackal]

Let me recommend another GREAT BAND: MEKONG DELTA
The best album is "The Music of Eric Zahn". but it's all good....a little different album to album, but they are unique. There is no other band like them.
They're working on a new album, supposed to be A STEP UP IN THE FIELD OF TECHNICAL METAL. BREAKING NEW GROUND.
I think once you check them out, you will be amazed.
I am on NINS AND PEEDLES to hear the new one!!!!!!

Mekong sound fucking awesome, but I can't find their records ANYWHERE.

[Voodoo]

Thanks for sharing that Ourobos!

[Sebastos]

Unreal Overflows (http://www.deathmetal.biz/unrealoverflows/Home.htm)
Melodic Death Metal from Spain, sounds quite good

Myopia (http://www.myopia.bielsko.pl/ang.php?content=angmuzyka)
Modern Thrash Metal, their old material sounds the best

[John Frank]

Here's my list of tech/complex/prog releases that I like. If you need help hearing some of these (many of these bands are no longer around), please let me know. I also have an mp3 compilation featuring one song each from most of these releases that I can share.

TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX DEATH

Absonant Cadence (Inside Out-Life)
Absorbed (Avowals compilation)
Acid Death (Random's Manifest)
Alarum (Promo 2002, Eventuality)
Aletheian (Dying Vine)
Algophobia (s/t)
Amnesia (Land of No Return)
Anomalous (Cognitive Dissonance EP)
Atheist (Unquestionable Presence, Elements)
Aydra (Icon of Sin, Hyperlogical Non-sense)
Banisher (Sorrow of Death Demo)
Between the Buried and Me (Alaska)
Canvas Solaris (Promo 2001)
Capharnaum (Fractured)
Carcariass (Killing Process)
Centaurus A (Narcotic Demo)
Coprofago (Genesis)
Cryptopsy (And Then You'll Beg)
Cynic (Focus)
Darkness Remains (To Touch the Depths of Sorrow)
Deadborn (Decades of Decapitation Demo)
Death (Individual Thought Patterns, The Sound of Perseverance)
Decapitated (Nihility, Winds of Creation)
Deeds of Flesh (Inbreeding the Anthropophagi)
Demilich (Nespithe)
Detachment (Suspended in Stone)
Dim Mak (Enter the Dragon)
Dissonance (Look to Forget)
Dive In Minds (Innocent Victims)
Domination through Impurity (Essence of Brutality)
Dungortheb (Intended To...)
Ebony Lake (On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive)
Embrionic Death (Stream of Solidarity... Demo)
Ephel Duath (Phormula, The Painter's Palette)
Epoch of Unlight (What Will Be Has Been)
Esicastic (Atman Demo)
Exivious (Demo)
The Faceless (Akeldama)
Forlorn Legacy (Paths of Insanity)
Gnostic (Isolate Gravity Demo)
Gorod/Gorgasm [France] (Neurotripsicks, Leading Vision)
Gory Blister (Skymorphosis, Art Bleeds, Cognitive Sinergy EP)
Hectic Patterns (The Grand Hare Order Demo)
Illogicist (Polymorphism of Death Demo, Dissonant Perspectives Demo, Subjected)
Infernal Poetry (Beholding the Unpure)
Into the Moat (Means by which the End Is Justified EP)
Ion Dissonance (Breathing Is Irrelevant)
Kenos (Intersection)
Korum (Son of the Breed, No Dominion)
Lemorth (Hold the Balance of Power Demo)
Lethargy (Anthology - all releases)
Liers in Wait (Spiritually Uncontrolled Art)
Martyr (Hopeless Hopes, Warp Zone, Feeding the Abscess)
Mutant (The Aeonic Majesty)
Necrophagist (Onset of Putrefaction, Epitaph)
Neglected Fields (Synthinity, Mephisto Lettonica, Splenetic)
Ninth Level (s/t)
Nocturnus (The Key)
Pavor (Furioso)
Pitbulls in the Nursery (Lunatic)
Polluted Inheritance (Betrayed, Into Darkness)
Prejudice (Dominion of Chaos, Reality)
Psychotogen (The Calculus of Evil)
Psycroptic (The Scepter of the Ancients, Symbols of Failure)
Psypheria (Embrace the Mutation, Gothic Disturbance)
Quo Vadis (Day into Night, Defiant Imagination)
Sceptic (Pathetic Being, Blind Existence)
Scholomance (The Immortality Murder, A Treatise on Love)
Scrambled Defuncts (Hackled in Gore)
Serdce (Cyberly)
The Shattering (The Shattering Begins)
Sinners Bleed (From Womb to Tomb)
Sleep Terror (Probing Tranquility)
Spawn of Possession (Cabinet, Noctambulant)
Stigmatized (Threshold of Dead EP)
Strangulation (Between Nothing and Eternity)
Surgical Dissection (Disgust)
Symbyosis (Crisis, On the Wings of Phoenix)
Terminal Function (Time Bending Patterns Version 1.0 Demo, Time Bending Patterns Demo, The Brainshaped Mind Demo)
Theory in Practice (The Armageddon Theories, Third Eye Function, Colonizing the Sun)
Thrawn (Light Creates Shadows Demo)
Thy Nature (s/t EP)
Trepalium (Alchemik Clockwork of Disorder)
The Unchallenged (Sceneries)
Unexpect (In a Flesh Aquarium)
Unreal Overflows (Architecture of Incomprehension)
Vivid X - V. Xtremal Progress
Vortex (Colours out from the Emptiness)
Warchitect (A Sea of Red, Mind)
Winter Bestowed (Within My Labyrinthine Heart EP)

TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX THRASH

Altered Aeon (Dispiritism)
Aydra (Icon of Sin, Hyperlogical Non-sense)
Believer (Sanity Obscure, Dimensions)
Coroner (No More Color, Punishment for Decadence, R.I.P.)
Deathrow (Deception Ignored)
Droys (And If...)
Dyoxen (First among Equals)
Extol (Synergy)
Hypnotheticall (In Need of a God?, Thorns)
Protest the Hero (Kezia)
Sieges Even (Life Cycle)
Skeptic Sense (Presence of Mind)
The Unchallenged (Sceneries)
WatchTower (Control and Resistance, Energetic Disassembly)

TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX METALCORE

Between the Buried and Me (Alaska)
Protest the Hero (Kezia)
Sikth (The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild)

TECHNICAL METAL

Spiral Architect (A Sceptic's Universe)
Twisted into Form (Then Comes the Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer)

COMPLEX PROG METAL

Aghora (s/t)
Catharsis (Pathways to Wholeness)
Complex 7 (Water, Process)
Dream Theater (When Dream and Day Unite)
Edenshade (The Lesson Betrayed)
Forces at Work (Reverse Feng-Shui Audio Guide EP)
Frantic Bleep (Fluctuadmission Demo)
GracePoint (Science of Discontent, Full Circle Demo)
Manitou (Entrance)
Power of Omens (Rooms of Anguish, Eyes of the Oracle)
Psychotic Waltz (A Social Grace)
Pyramid (The Immaculate Lie)
Redemption (The Fullness of Time)
Scenery (Continuity)
Sieges Even (Sophisticated)
Thought Industry (Songs for Insects, MODs Carve the Pig)
Zero Hour (The Towers of Avarice)

TECHNICAL INSTRUMENTAL METAL

Actual Time (s/t, Time Frame, Force of Patterns)
Behold... The Arctopus (Arctopocalypse Now... Warmageddon Later)
Canvas Solaris (Spatial/Design, Sublimation, Penumbra Diffuse)
Collapsar (s/t)
Continuo Renacer - s/t
Enditol (Demo)
Foe (Arm Yourself With Clairvoyance)
Ron Jarzombek (Phhhhp!, Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement)
Spastic Ink (Ink Complete, Ink Compatible)

PORNO TECHNICAL METAL

Spooge (Demos)


TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX DEATH, THRASH, AND PROG FAVORITES

FIRST TIER

Atheist (Unquestionable Presence)
Aydra (Icon of Sin)
Believer (Sanity Obscure)
Coroner (No More Color, Punishment for Decadence)
Cynic (Focus)
Death (Individual Thought Patterns, The Sound of Perseverance)
Deathrow (Deception Ignored)
Decapitated (Nihility)
Dream Theater (When Dream and Day Unite)
Esicastic (Atman Demo)
Extol (Synergy)
Gory Blister (Art Bleeds, Cognitive Sinergy EP)
GracePoint (Science of Discontent, Full Circle Demo)
Korum (Son of the Breed)
Martyr (Warp Zone)
Necrophagist (Onset of Putrefaction, Epitaph)
Power of Omens (Rooms of Anguish)
Protest the Hero (Kezia)
Psycroptic (The Scepter of the Ancients, Symbols of Failure)
Psypheria (Embrace the Mutation, Gothic Disturbance)
Quo Vadis (Day into Night)
Sceptic (Pathetic Being, Blind Existence)
Scholomance (The Immortality Murder)
Sieges Even (Life Cycle)
Sinners Bleed (From Womb to Tomb)
Spawn of Possession (Cabinet, Noctambulant)
Spooge (Demos)
Theory in Practice (The Armageddon Theories)
Thought Industry (Songs for Insects, MODs Carve the Pig)
The Unchallenged (Sceneries)
Unexpect (In a Flesh Aquarium)
WatchTower (Control and Resistance)
Zero Hour (The Towers of Avarice)

SECOND TIER

Acid Death (Random's Manifest)
Alarum (Promo 2002)
Aletheian (Dying Vine)
Algophobia (s/t)
Altered Aeon (Dispiritism)
Atheist (Elements)
Carcariass (Killing Process)
Coprofago (Genesis)
Death (Human)
Decapitated (Winds of Creation)
Dissonance (Look to Forget)
Dyoxen (First among Equals)
Embrionic Death (Stream of Solidarity... Demo)
Forces at Work (Reverse Feng-Shui Audio Guide EP)
Forlorn Legacy (Paths of Insanity)
Gorod (Leading Vision)
Hypnotheticall (In Need of a God?, Thorns)
Infernal Poetry (Beholding the Unpure)
Korum (No Dominion)
Lemorth (Hold the Balance of Power Demo)
Martyr (Feeding the Abscess)
Neglected Fields (Synthinity, Mephisto Lettonica)
Polluted Inheritance (Betrayed)
Pyramid (The Immaculate Lie)
Redemption (The Fullness of Time)
Terminal Function (Time Bending Patterns Version 1.0 Demo)
Theory in Practice (Third Eye Function)
Thy Nature (s/t EP)
Vortex (Colours out from the Emptiness)
Winter Bestowed (Within My Labyrinthine Heart EP)

[zyquix]

What's the track listing for that Canvas Solaris promo? I think there's still 2 demo tracks I haven't heard, I have ChaosGraft, Spaces Between Dreams, Essence Burns Black, Adequate Intentional Misuse, Descent From Sidereal and The Flesh Sequence. am I missing anything from that?

Do you think you could upload PHHHP!? I'd buy it but it's oop.

And what is 'porno technical'?

[Brisket]

LOL Porno Technical...

Nice list though.

[pitchfork_man]

Here's my list of tech/complex/prog releases that I like. If you need help hearing some of these (many of these bands are no longer around), please let me know. I also have an mp3 compilation featuring one song each from most of these releases that I can share.

TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX DEATH

Absonant Cadence (Inside Out-Life)
Absorbed (Avowals compilation)
Acid Death (Random's Manifest)
Alarum (Promo 2002, Eventuality)
Aletheian (Dying Vine)
Algophobia (s/t)
Amnesia (Land of No Return)
Anomalous (Cognitive Dissonance EP)
Atheist (Unquestionable Presence, Elements)
Aydra (Icon of Sin, Hyperlogical Non-sense)
Banisher (Sorrow of Death Demo)
Between the Buried and Me (Alaska)
Canvas Solaris (Promo 2001)
Capharnaum (Fractured)
Carcariass (Killing Process)
Centaurus A (Narcotic Demo)
Coprofago (Genesis)
Cryptopsy (And Then You'll Beg)
Cynic (Focus)
Darkness Remains (To Touch the Depths of Sorrow)
Deadborn (Decades of Decapitation Demo)
Death (Individual Thought Patterns, The Sound of Perseverance)
Decapitated (Nihility, Winds of Creation)
Deeds of Flesh (Inbreeding the Anthropophagi)
Demilich (Nespithe)
Detachment (Suspended in Stone)
Dim Mak (Enter the Dragon)
Dissonance (Look to Forget)
Dive In Minds (Innocent Victims)
Domination through Impurity (Essence of Brutality)
Dungortheb (Intended To...)
Ebony Lake (On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive)
Embrionic Death (Stream of Solidarity... Demo)
Ephel Duath (Phormula, The Painter's Palette)
Epoch of Unlight (What Will Be Has Been)
Esicastic (Atman Demo)
Exivious (Demo)
The Faceless (Akeldama)
Forlorn Legacy (Paths of Insanity)
Gnostic (Isolate Gravity Demo)
Gorod/Gorgasm [France] (Neurotripsicks, Leading Vision)
Gory Blister (Skymorphosis, Art Bleeds, Cognitive Sinergy EP)
Hectic Patterns (The Grand Hare Order Demo)
Illogicist (Polymorphism of Death Demo, Dissonant Perspectives Demo, Subjected)
Infernal Poetry (Beholding the Unpure)
Into the Moat (Means by which the End Is Justified EP)
Ion Dissonance (Breathing Is Irrelevant)
Kenos (Intersection)
Korum (Son of the Breed, No Dominion)
Lemorth (Hold the Balance of Power Demo)
Lethargy (Anthology - all releases)
Liers in Wait (Spiritually Uncontrolled Art)
Martyr (Hopeless Hopes, Warp Zone, Feeding the Abscess)
Mutant (The Aeonic Majesty)
Necrophagist (Onset of Putrefaction, Epitaph)
Neglected Fields (Synthinity, Mephisto Lettonica, Splenetic)
Ninth Level (s/t)
Nocturnus (The Key)
Pavor (Furioso)
Pitbulls in the Nursery (Lunatic)
Polluted Inheritance (Betrayed, Into Darkness)
Prejudice (Dominion of Chaos, Reality)
Psychotogen (The Calculus of Evil)
Psycroptic (The Scepter of the Ancients, Symbols of Failure)
Psypheria (Embrace the Mutation, Gothic Disturbance)
Quo Vadis (Day into Night, Defiant Imagination)
Sceptic (Pathetic Being, Blind Existence)
Scholomance (The Immortality Murder, A Treatise on Love)
Scrambled Defuncts (Hackled in Gore)
Serdce (Cyberly)
The Shattering (The Shattering Begins)
Sinners Bleed (From Womb to Tomb)
Sleep Terror (Probing Tranquility)
Spawn of Possession (Cabinet, Noctambulant)
Stigmatized (Threshold of Dead EP)
Strangulation (Between Nothing and Eternity)
Surgical Dissection (Disgust)
Symbyosis (Crisis, On the Wings of Phoenix)
Terminal Function (Time Bending Patterns Version 1.0 Demo, Time Bending Patterns Demo, The Brainshaped Mind Demo)
Theory in Practice (The Armageddon Theories, Third Eye Function, Colonizing the Sun)
Thrawn (Light Creates Shadows Demo)
Thy Nature (s/t EP)
Trepalium (Alchemik Clockwork of Disorder)
The Unchallenged (Sceneries)
Unexpect (In a Flesh Aquarium)
Unreal Overflows (Architecture of Incomprehension)
Vivid X - V. Xtremal Progress
Vortex (Colours out from the Emptiness)
Warchitect (A Sea of Red, Mind)
Winter Bestowed (Within My Labyrinthine Heart EP)

TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX THRASH

Altered Aeon (Dispiritism)
Aydra (Icon of Sin, Hyperlogical Non-sense)
Believer (Sanity Obscure, Dimensions)
Coroner (No More Color, Punishment for Decadence, R.I.P.)
Deathrow (Deception Ignored)
Droys (And If...)
Dyoxen (First among Equals)
Extol (Synergy)
Hypnotheticall (In Need of a God?, Thorns)
Protest the Hero (Kezia)
Sieges Even (Life Cycle)
Skeptic Sense (Presence of Mind)
The Unchallenged (Sceneries)
WatchTower (Control and Resistance, Energetic Disassembly)

TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX METALCORE

Between the Buried and Me (Alaska)
Protest the Hero (Kezia)
Sikth (The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild)

TECHNICAL METAL

Spiral Architect (A Sceptic's Universe)
Twisted into Form (Then Comes the Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer)

COMPLEX PROG METAL

Aghora (s/t)
Catharsis (Pathways to Wholeness)
Complex 7 (Water, Process)
Dream Theater (When Dream and Day Unite)
Edenshade (The Lesson Betrayed)
Forces at Work (Reverse Feng-Shui Audio Guide EP)
Frantic Bleep (Fluctuadmission Demo)
GracePoint (Science of Discontent, Full Circle Demo)
Manitou (Entrance)
Power of Omens (Rooms of Anguish, Eyes of the Oracle)
Psychotic Waltz (A Social Grace)
Pyramid (The Immaculate Lie)
Redemption (The Fullness of Time)
Scenery (Continuity)
Sieges Even (Sophisticated)
Thought Industry (Songs for Insects, MODs Carve the Pig)
Zero Hour (The Towers of Avarice)

TECHNICAL INSTRUMENTAL METAL

Actual Time (s/t, Time Frame, Force of Patterns)
Behold... The Arctopus (Arctopocalypse Now... Warmageddon Later)
Canvas Solaris (Spatial/Design, Sublimation, Penumbra Diffuse)
Collapsar (s/t)
Continuo Renacer - s/t
Enditol (Demo)
Foe (Arm Yourself With Clairvoyance)
Ron Jarzombek (Phhhhp!, Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement)
Spastic Ink (Ink Complete, Ink Compatible)

PORNO TECHNICAL METAL

Spooge (Demos)


TECHNICAL/PROGRESSIVE/COMPLEX DEATH, THRASH, AND PROG FAVORITES

FIRST TIER

Atheist (Unquestionable Presence)
Aydra (Icon of Sin)
Believer (Sanity Obscure)
Coroner (No More Color, Punishment for Decadence)
Cynic (Focus)
Death (Individual Thought Patterns, The Sound of Perseverance)
Deathrow (Deception Ignored)
Decapitated (Nihility)
Dream Theater (When Dream and Day Unite)
Esicastic (Atman Demo)
Extol (Synergy)
Gory Blister (Art Bleeds, Cognitive Sinergy EP)
GracePoint (Science of Discontent, Full Circle Demo)
Korum (Son of the Breed)
Martyr (Warp Zone)
Necrophagist (Onset of Putrefaction, Epitaph)
Power of Omens (Rooms of Anguish)
Protest the Hero (Kezia)
Psycroptic (The Scepter of the Ancients, Symbols of Failure)
Psypheria (Embrace the Mutation, Gothic Disturbance)
Quo Vadis (Day into Night)
Sceptic (Pathetic Being, Blind Existence)
Scholomance (The Immortality Murder)
Sieges Even (Life Cycle)
Sinners Bleed (From Womb to Tomb)
Spawn of Possession (Cabinet, Noctambulant)
Spooge (Demos)
Theory in Practice (The Armageddon Theories)
Thought Industry (Songs for Insects, MODs Carve the Pig)
The Unchallenged (Sceneries)
Unexpect (In a Flesh Aquarium)
WatchTower (Control and Resistance)
Zero Hour (The Towers of Avarice)

SECOND TIER

Acid Death (Random's Manifest)
Alarum (Promo 2002)
Aletheian (Dying Vine)
Algophobia (s/t)
Altered Aeon (Dispiritism)
Atheist (Elements)
Carcariass (Killing Process)
Coprofago (Genesis)
Death (Human)
Decapitated (Winds of Creation)
Dissonance (Look to Forget)
Dyoxen (First among Equals)
Embrionic Death (Stream of Solidarity... Demo)
Forces at Work (Reverse Feng-Shui Audio Guide EP)
Forlorn Legacy (Paths of Insanity)
Gorod (Leading Vision)
Hypnotheticall (In Need of a God?, Thorns)
Infernal Poetry (Beholding the Unpure)
Korum (No Dominion)
Lemorth (Hold the Balance of Power Demo)
Martyr (Feeding the Abscess)
Neglected Fields (Synthinity, Mephisto Lettonica)
Polluted Inheritance (Betrayed)
Pyramid (The Immaculate Lie)
Redemption (The Fullness of Time)
Terminal Function (Time Bending Patterns Version 1.0 Demo)
Theory in Practice (Third Eye Function)
Thy Nature (s/t EP)
Vortex (Colours out from the Emptiness)
Winter Bestowed (Within My Labyrinthine Heart EP)




WOW thats a great list! I wish I had every single one of those in my collection!
It's interesting that you are familiar with Liers in Wait - they're from here in ATL, but I don't meet a lot of people who remember them.
Do do you know Eric Sizemore ?

[Ouroboros]

The Sense Apparatus is the only thing I've heard from Frantic Bleep. And it's good. Do you have mp3's of their demo, John Frank?

[Sebastos]

wow, Sceptic is so freaking good !

[John Frank]

Thanks for the feedback so far...

Spooge was an extremely weird and talented band that blended WatchTower, Primus, Thought Industry, industrial metal, death metal, and all sorts of film clips (including a decent helping of porn) into their music. I am sure I am missing some other influences. Their Nice and Warm three song demo is a classic.

I will check the tracklisting of the Canvas Solaris demo and post it.

I don't know Eric Sizemore. I believe I became aware of Liers in Wait through my circle of metal friends.

I'd have to ask Ron about Phhhp.

I can post the Frantic Bleep Fluctuadmission demo. The Sense Apparatus was a disappointment to me. The 4 song demo is much more energetic and seems more complex.

I really like Sceptic's first two discs. They went downhill starting with their third release, although it has two or three good songs on it. Their fourth isn't complex at all.

[lacrymist]

check out my tech metal webzine: grindingtheapparatus.net

dim mak forum too :D

[Storom]

I like Behold... the Arctopus (http://www.beholdthearctopus.com), Coprofago (http://www.coprofago.com), The Dillinger Escape Plan (http://www.dillingerescapeplan.com), Lamb of God (http://www.lamb-of-god.com/ashes2/news/), Meshuggah (http://www.meshuggah.net/), Master, Converge, Dying Fetus, and pretty much whatever else that's good. Yeah, I know some of them is metalcore, but whatever dudes; I like it and that's enough for me.

Yeah. I like too these bands.
Especially Meshuggah - Nothing (Re-Release). Its very cool sound.

[Storom]

Hieronymus Bosch - (http://hieronymus-bosch.ru)

a friend pointed these guys out... only 2 albums in 10 years, but you have to hear it!

Its Russian band, Moskow.

[boothby]

I think its about time for this place to have a thread like this, just like in the old forum.

O.K.!
So Watchtower is pretty sweet, right?
Well so is Origin, too!

saw origin last month, twas insain.

prejudice are worth checking out, and spawn of possession

[ElementsofTime]

so the two greatest solos of all time. been running neck and neck in my head.
Cynic - How Could I? and Necrophagist - Fermented offal discharge

[epitaph]

I recently ran across this excellent progressive power (or thrash, who cares?) metal band named ADRAMELCH. Here's their website:
http://www.adramelch.com/

and I'd highly recommend to listen to these two songs off their first album:
http://www.adramelch.com/index.php?page=iraemelanox&lang=en

[lacrymist]

I just picked up Direwolf album. Solo project by Mike Lerner of Behold... the Arctopus. Took him 7 years. He calls it 'technical space metal' sounds like Melancolia (layered solo BM (6 yrs)) mixed with Cynic (vocoder, etc).

You can pick up the CD from the B...TA merch table, they're on tour right now

[Drizzling Blur]

Im not sure if these bands have been mentioned, but then again

1) Sleep Terror
2) The Faceless
3) Neuraxis
4) !T.O.OH!

:)

[ElementsofTime]

My Band Got a new song up on our Myspace. just in case your Interested, Its Mildly Technical Latin-to-Black metal

[lburger]

Great Post! Thanks I hope music turns more in this direction, seems like it has lately, Cant wait for more.

[MaskedJackal]

Illogicist's new disc is fucking killer! I'll have to find the first one...

Also, my buddy Travis plays in this sweet tech/death band Terrestrial Sphere from NY- they just posted their demo and are a perfect mix of the more chugging rhythms of Gorguts and the jazzy parts of Atheist and Cynic. Cheggit out!

www.myspace.com/terrestrialsphere

[lacrymist]

Macro Minnemann (Necrophagist's new drummer) recorded the drums for that Illogicist album... we should have a review up for it soon

[ISuckCock]

The third Carbonized album is a good bet.