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This is a list of metalbands I've collected over the years. Lots of (technical) death metal and mathcore, some "regular" death metal, a little djent, some bands that are hard to define, so quite a wide selection. Over the years my taste in metal (and other music) has changed, at times gradually, at times drastically. For example: When I discovered djent I quickly absorbed a lot of material finding new bands and getting acquainted with the sound... Once the novelty wore off, I found most of it pretty generic and boring... And I wondered: "Where did it go from Meshuggah to feeble attempts at jazz, blastbeat-less tracks and clean vocals?" In a similar vein, when I heard my first deathcore band I was like: "This is cool, it's a little like death metal, with a fresh take on it." Then I heard another, and another, and fresh turned stale.

Currently I gravitate mostly towards bands which have their own sound, like Ulcerate, Gigan and Wormed. Gone are my purist days of exclusive love for technical death metal. Then there's my bipolar love/hate relationship with mathcore. Structure is important and it's what differentiates music from random sound. That being said, typical scales, rhythms, orchestration, cliches and tricks, etc. are associated with certain styles. A finite set of static elements, leading to endless permutations but producing the same material in the end. This tends to steer me towards "something different" eventually. Mathcore certainly fits that description. You'll find a handful of black metal in this list, or stuff that sounds black-ish (genre nazis, please look away or at least be silent!) Last and probably also least, there's some metalcore and nu-metal in there, from the halcyon days. I'll try to sift through all the crap in due time, folks.

Do you think aquamarine and orange are not really metal? I agree, but it still looks better than those unreadable black metal logos, hahaha.

A few names to point out up front:

  • Willowtip: Lots of bands with their own sound
  • Profound Lore: Same as above, only even more so
  • XOdiumNostrumX: This guy has an awesome channel with obscure material on Youtube here
  • Bandcamp: Music download store with hours and hours of good, free music. Extra credits for offering albums in lossy and lossless formats.

A

Abigor

Abriosis

Abysmal Dawn

Abysmal Torment

Aeon

Age of Nemesis

Alarum

Allegaeon

Anata

Animals as leaders

Animosity

Anomalous

Antropofagus

Archspire

Arkaik

Artificial Brain

Assimilated Mind Phase

Atheist

Azarath

B

Behold… the Arctopus

Benighted

Between the buried and me

Beyond Creation

Blood Red Throne

Bloodbath

Bloodshot Dawn

Blotted Science

Blut aus Nord

Botch

Brute chant

Bulb

C

Cadaveryne

Capharnaum

Car Bomb

Carach Angren (NL)

Carcariass

Carnal rapture

Carnifex

Carnophage

Cattle Decapitation

Cephalic Impurity

Clampdown

Coffinworm

Cognizance

Coprofago

Corpse Garden

Crimson Massacre

Cryptopsy

Cynic

Cytotoxin

D

Deadborn

Deadguy

Decimation

Deeds of flesh

Defiled

Dehumanized

Deivos

Demigod

Demilich

Destinity

Devil driver

Dillinger escape plan

Discordance Axis

Disfiguring the Goddess

Dismal Lapse

E

Elitist

Embrional

Embryonic Devourment

Emeth

Enemy of the Sun

Enfold Darkness

Enslaved

Equal minds theory

Eryn Non Dae

Existential depression

F

Felix Martin

Fellsilent

Fetocide

First Fragment

Flesh Consumed

Fleshwrought

Fractals

Fuck the Facts

G

Genghis Tron

Genocide Infection

Gigan

Gnostic

Gordian Knot

Gorod

Gory Blister

Guttural Secrete

H

Heavy lies the crown

Hectic Patterns

Hedonistic Exility

Hella

Henker

Hester Prynne

Hour of penance

Hunab Ku

Hybrid

Hypno5e

I

Ignite the Ibex

Illogicist

Imperial Vengeance

Incinerate

Infant Annihilator

Infested

Ingurgitating Oblivion

Insidious Decrepancy

Into the Moat

Ion Dissonance

J

Jason Becker

K

Karnak

King Conquer

Kronos

L

Likathea aflame

Liquorworks

Liturgy

Lost Soul

Lux occulta

M

Malfeitor

Martyr

Melechesh

Meshuggah

Molotov Solution

Monumental Torment

Murder Therapy

N

Natron

Nader Sadek

Nebulous

Necrophagist

Nervecell

Nexilva

Nonsense premonition

Norther

Nox


O

Obscura

Old Gods

Origin

Ovid’s withering

P

Persefone

Phazm

Pig destroyer

Pitbulls in the nursery

Pressure Points

Prostitute Disfigurement

Psycroptic

Psyopus

Pyrrhon

Q

Nothing yet, if you have a suggestion let me know :)

R

Reciprocal

Refawn

Reflux

Reverence

Revocation

Rivers of Nihil

Rose Funeral

RXYZYXR

S

Sadist

Sektemtum

Septycal Gorge

Severed Savior

Shade Empire

Sickening horror

Sinister

Sky eats Airplane

Slice the Cake

Solace of Requiem

Solipsist

Son of Aurelius

Soreption

Spawn of Possession

Suicide Silence

Symbyosis

T

Teramobil

Terminal Function

Textures

Thantifaxath

the Algorithm

the Allseeing I

the Arusha Accord

the Devastator

the Faceless

the HAARP Machine

the Heartland

the Juliet Massacre

the Korea

the Locust

the Red Shore

the Social Impact

the Wrath of Vesuvius

Thy art is murder

Tool

Tower of Rome

U

Ulcerate

Under the Scythe

Unhuman

Upon a burning body

V

Vedonist

Veil of Maya

Vildhjarta

Vile

Visceral bleeding

Vomit the soul

Vortice

W

Walking With Strangers

War from a harloths mouth

Wormed

Watchtower

X

Xenocide

Y

Yattering

Years of Tyrants

Yyrkoon

Z

Zillah

Zubrowska


0-9

80000 dead


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