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Some Experimental and Progressive Metal albums I "Love"

All the stuff we “Love” is something weird for someone, whether it’s “British Tea” (You know the one with milk), an Indie Horror Game (Shout out Inscryption), or just a book that leaves you with more questions than answers (Shout out Franky Furbo by William Wharton).

All things we “Love” aren’t easy or conventional; whenever they are, they’re also destructive to ourselves or others.

That’s why I wanted to talk about some of my favorite albums that aren’t the most conventional pieces; for some of them, it’s quite the opposite.

Let’s start with one of the most iconic Metal albums

Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

Okay, I know this is an Industrial Metal album, BUT out of all genres, Industrial Metal is the weirdest one to choose for a band with a lot of naturalist messaging. Not only that, but also the fact that this band switches around how heavy they want to go on this album all the time, once playing soft arpeggiated/legato lines (Unicorn), other times using tremolo picking more aggressive than anything found in all of Black metal (Backbone), or having an ambient intro with sounds of whales (that is whoping 2 minutes and 26 seconds long!!!) before heviest Metal riffs you heard in your life (Flying Whales).

A true icon in the history of Metal music that expressed itself without constraints, mixing up ideas of different subgenres (if sometimes not completely different genres).

I believe that the best album to follow up with would be of a band that, if you said, would be one of the most interesting Prog Metal bands 20 years ago, everyone would laugh the hell out of you.

Avenged Sevenfold - All Is But a Dream

Yep, remember those guys from 2005 that made a song that is just “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”¹? They have done very well ever since, and they even made some “Prog Stuff” in 2016, first took a break from doing prog until 2023, when they released not “just some prog” but the whole album that shook up the whole STAGE of prog music. (Yep, if you couldn’t tell, I’m very much a person whose whole music taste now can be described as “Dad Rock” and I’m very mad about it)

Honestly, it’s hard to describe how good this album really is. Just listen to it, you definitely have the means to do so, don’t lie, you can’t cause you don’t have Spotify, YOUTUBE IS FREE.

Okay… here’s the album.

Really, listen to it.

Check this Prog out

After this, Popular Prog Metal, I believe, we need some Niche Experimental Metal.

Deadlock - Manifesto

So, where to start… Intro is an EDM track that morphs into a MeloDeath song. Later on the album, you get a song against the consumption of meat and animal cruelty that, from a MeloDeath song at the halfway point, turns into a hip-hop, AND to top it all off, there is a song with a saxophone solo… a metal song… with a sax solo… if this isn’t experimental metal then I fucking give up!

This album, as you read, is quite wild, but I will say that all of that is done in quite a tasteful way, so don’t worry, it’s not just “Metal, but every 5 seconds we switch genre to something unrelated”

If you enjoy Children of Bodom or In Flames, you will most likely enjoy this album too.

Really, it’s so GOOD.

Honestly, listen to some niche MeloDeath, one of my favorite genres in its most individual forms.

With this Experimental piece, I will leave you all gotta write my EXTRA EXTRA BIG article, so cya till 2 weeks.

God, This Article Is So Odd

[On the other note, the idea for this article is very much tied to the next one]

So, Kids, stay weird.

Cheers from your Edgiest Man Alive™ -Karlox Dark

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas