electronic music by metal dudes s/d

weird subgenre imo - seldom (ever?) as good as top-tier electronic music to my ears, but has its own weird early-video-game/old-sci-fi-movie aesthetic priorities that make me wonder if that's even the point? and sometimes this stuff just hits the spot for me. varg did some of this stuff from prison, but also ildjarn, beherit, summoning's instrumentals often feel related to this - plus lots more smaller names so let's talk about metal's ambient/electronic aspirations/explorations

Aderlating, Seirom by the guy from Gnaw Their Tongues

The white noise machine I had in my bedroom broke recently, so now I fall asleep to an iPod playlist that's just Lull's Continue repeated 12 times.

Beherit's "H418v21.c" to thread, it's a bizarre masterpiece of metal-dudes-making-ambient-techno-synth-scapes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpCNVPmBVI&list=PL80B592D120D1E825

the whole album is crucial- you have to bear in mind that these dudes made absolutely classic early black metal and then baffled everybody with this aberrant record- the decision to put vocals on top of some of the tracks is brave and wild, and then some tracks are "minimal" in ways that get a weirder result that minimal techno- like the track "Fish" seems to be *just* a kick drum, that's it. Really love this record. I know that there's tons of atmospheric gothy dark-ambient by metal dudes, but this record is peculiar in ways that don't scan like, say, Nortt.

oops sorry "h418ov21.c" duh

Matthias Grassow and John Haughm (Agalloch) did this and it's pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpcAh513SQ

the Seirom album from 2012 (I think) is so fucking good and could have easily sold 100 times what it probably did if the right ppl had repped it

not heard his album but Igor Cavalera seems to be taken at least semi-seriously in this field

one of Altar of Plagues has a murky dubsteppy project called WIFE that I remember being more interesting in principle than actuality

reading the OP again I guess Igor's thing (w/ his other half I should add) isn't really what you had in mind but hey

Beherit's "H418v21.c" to thread

this & the other Beherit electronic one were the impetus for the thread!

ha ha right on

there's also the classic Neptune Towers releases by Fenriz of Darkthrone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXpKTw4Eh8

Tangerine Dream / Drexciyan vibes here

I'm fond of this guy who makes music as Uruk-Hai - most of it's adventure-music like the Summoning intros, he calls it "battle ambient," but he's got a ton of albums and some of them aim for other themes (e.g. Incan religion). It's got the same sort of two-dimensional feel that's really fascinating in a lot of this stuff for me - it doesn't aim big sonically, just thematically, which actually ends up working out to its benefit for me

based on the advance track I guess the new The Body album belongs in here

Würzel from Motorhead took an unexpected left turn with Chill Out Or Die in 1998 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiS_f5OMG3A

not strictly a metal dude, but still relevant here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZyVCPNSKAw

anything kevin martin related or justin broadricks non-Godflesh/Jesu stuff

I only listened a little bit to the album but is there room for Corrections House?

The Italian producer The Jeyênne was apparently a goth/metal dude first, before he produced some classic trance tunes in the early 90s, such as this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9phGr-Exko

Then in the late 90s he went back to the metal/goth, but with electronic sounds, with his XPQ-21 project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzWbs0M0IRA

In fact I wouldn't surprised if there were other trance producers who had their roots in metal, there's a lot of similarities between metal and classic early 90s trance: galloping bass, bombastic melodies, melodramatic arrangements, sci-fi and fantasy imagery, etc.

Scorn fits this category. Haven't listened to it in years though. Don't know how it holds up.

And let's not forget another early 90s genre, "metal techno". Though I guess that was mostly electronic music guys bringing in some metal sounds, rather than the other way around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hf1wss1rwE#t=117

Metal techno: the worst genre ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hf1wss1rwE#t=117

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5mh4qu69o

Die Krupps were a genuine metal/industrial band though, they did some metal techno back then too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ds7ZNUxWIA

IMO this is still one of the worst genres ever conceived.

Die Krupps were a genuine industrial band before becoming an industrial metal band.

Tuomas even though alltime poll has been forced to postpone indefinitely , nominations remain open, so feel free to nominate your fave metal techno albums ;)

Thankfully, I don't think anyone ever released a full album of this shit. (Unless you count the Eskimos & Egypt album, but that had other things going on as well, it's not that bad actually.)

I still have a soft spot for "UK USA"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSrDjVw8w48

Seriously, can you get any more 90s than this? :)

time to rep for two releases I mentioned in the EOY metal poll thread again:

Erang - Another World Another Time
Abandoned Places - Giantlands

I dug around a bit last year and the "dungeon synth" scene these releases belong to seems to primarily consist of guy borrowing liberally from black metal intros and old school computer rpg soundtracks and putting the results up on bandcamp. pleasant enough but it can all get a little monotonous after a couple records. but I thought these two releases really stood out from the pack and for different reasons. was impressed by the compositional scope of the erang release -- guy covers a lot of ground and is particularly good at the moody, melancholy stuff. but the abandoned places one impressed me in its single-mindedness -- all lurching gloom and doom. sounds like the golden axe ost glitching and sputtering and turning all demonic to me.

looking forward to digging through the rest of this thread. never listened to that particular beherit release and it sounds amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQpHPPbdCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Hj1JF74cU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXE1GPYp_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJwSDAHLvuE

^was gonna (xp)

On the "metal techno" tip, check this sick remix of batillus by andy stott:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16414-concrete-andy-stott-remix/

now if only someone would go ahead and make a house album of electronic black metal covers . . .

the new/upcoming record by producer Ben Aqu@ feels metal in a "japanese power metal kids shredding on youtube way": https://soundcloud.com/b3naqua/virtual-anticipation-album-teaser

he also has a solo queer death metal project called ASSACRE: http://assacre.bandcamp.com/album/fantastic-illusions-worth-dying-for

Does this (fairly engrossing) shit count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTg1u9P6aQI

Does Away from Voivod's album of field recordings count?

http://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cities

chino from the deftones has some new witchhouse thing called Crosses (it's actually 3 cross symbols altered zone stylee)

Dutch breakcore dude Bong-Ra used to be in a metal band, and now makes music like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLU-fnQpk_s

His EP Full Metal Racket has a song with Slayer samples (not just riffs but between-song banter from Tom Araya) and a track called "Jo Bench" (Bolt Thrower's bassist).

Jon Nodtveidt did this one (vocals by Dan Swano):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kU2XZDS0Co

Major label dance music by dude from Thergothon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_b_zt_EQ8k

man dan swano takes me back, this doesn't really count but he did that pysche metal + analog synth leads solo record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOiDMurYAlQ

ok Fu-Tourist is definitely the most o_0 one yet

he has a writing credit on the Alcazar album too

The Fu-Tourist guy is also the main producer/songwriter for the biggest Finnish pop act of the last 10 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkV9uq7cdfE

haven't progressed much further, but the beherit album tune was space linked way back is incredible

I knew about thergothon guy

haven't progressed much further, but the beherit album tune was space linked way back is incredible

stayed up way too late listening to it last night. love it.

holy crap no-nonsense has delivered the goods in a major way

There are some crazy techno/electronic interludes on The Fucking Champs first record: C4AM95 - III

More:

* Guitarrist from Esoteric (G. Bicknell) has an electronic project called Lysergene. He has a Soundcloud page with recent dubstep tracks, but there is older demo stuff which I liked better (downtempo tech-house and trance).

Some Metal-psytrance crossover:

* Kris Kylven has played guitar for Amorphis and was a prominent psy-trance producer (Syb Unity Nettwerk, UX)
* Israeli producer Itzik Levy (Sandman, Witchcraft) was in Orphaned Land.
* Also, The Zodiac Youth project (Youth + Zodiac Mindwarp)

Another one, Dave Young (Chi-AD) was the keyboard player for Venom at some point.

Texas' Black Funeral have put out stuff ranging from black metal to sort of industrial to pretty much noise, but along the way they had a dark ambient album called Moon of Characith. Nothing great but occasionally creepy. I had this CD at some point but then traded or sold it.
http://youtu.be/IB0oHoHpiQg

Speaking of Texas, Absu's Equitant had a project going by his name, but I've not heard it and judging by the number of releases listed at metal-archives, I won't be dipping into his catalog.

I'll assume Mortiis hasn't been mentioned because he's implied.

Devin Townsend has done at least one ambient album, right? I'm ashamed to say I've heard a lot more drug-addled Devin than sober Devin so I can't really offer examples or judgments.

Man, that Eskimos and Egypt track takes me back. My very first visit to a Tower Records resulted in my blind acquisition of a techno comp called Welcome to the Future, featuring the above-linked eponymous song. I remember the sticker made some kind of absurd "Advanced 3D Sound Technology" claim. Pretty sure I bought that and Will's Pearl of Great Price, a significantly better, if just as dated, bunch of weirdness.

http://i.imgur.com/90LwBINl.jpg

"The Sound Base process gives extra dimension to Stereo, with sound appearing to come from 'all around' the listener."

"No additional equipment is required, the 3D effect will be heard when this product is played back on any domestic hifi or in car stereo system."

reissue alert

this record is great

https://svartrecords.com/product/suuri-shamaani-mysteerien-maailma-2lp/

I think this thread may have genuinely caused that Soft Pink Truth album to happen