Tbh I’ve drifted through isis into more prog-rocky stuff. Maybe you know something close to gojira, like with nice riffs and melody, and not completely overwhelming growling?
All of this is off the top of my head mostly, so sorry if it isn't formatted in a very coherent matter lol.
Since you're into rock music in general you've probably already listened to Black Sabbath. But like, if you haven't listened to Paranoid or Master of Reality you're missing out. So many classic riffs on those albums. War Pigs, Planet Caravan, Fairies Wear Boots, Sweet Leaf, Into The Void are highlights for me off of those two.
Might be a bit on the heavier side and mostly growled vocals (although Chuck's vocals are very intelligible and clear for harsh vocals), but Death's music is filled with awesome riffs and some surprisingly thoughtful lyrics throughout and is one of my favorite bands in general, let alone metal. I'd start with Symbolic. It's pretty proggy, but it doesn't go off the rails, and I regularly listen to it front to back. I was writing out the highlights but realized that I was literally listing every song on the album, lol. Zero Tolerance is fucking amazing though. And if you end up liking this album and want something just as good with a more straightforward death metal approach Spiritual Healing is another one of my favorites by them.
Horrendous is some proggy death metal with not so overwhelming vocals and really really good songwriting that flows super well. A solid amount of slower cleanish guitar sections from what I remember as well. Ecdysis is my favorite by them and I listened to that shit on repeat for months without getting bored of it. Anareta is another super super solid album by them, just as good as Ecdysis IMO.
The Ichthyologist by Giant Squid is awesome. It's a nautical themed concept album and switches from some interesting clean vocals and clean instrumentation to sludgy riffs throughout. They have some interesting instrumentation too, I really dig them. Dead Man's Slough is a favorite.
I never got super into Baroness, but they might be up your alley, I remember liking the blue album and the green album by them a good bit when I was trying to get into them a few years ago.
Hope this gives you some good tunes to listen to. Feel free to ask for more if you end up really digging one of these artists and I'll try to think of more stuff like them.
Yeah. Sorry if everything was a bit too heavy for your tastes, it took me a bit to get into the heavier stuff myself. I think you'll dig the ichthyologist though, it's the least heavy out of all of those besides Sabbath.
Death Penalty by Witchfinder General is a similar sound to Sabbath, the song Free Country off that album is really good.
Edit Just remembered Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats existed. Very very similar to Sabbath and really good. I like their album Blood lust. All clean vocals there too.
Nightfall by Candlemass is good and has clean vocals and some cool Doom riffs. Also the music video for Bewitched is chef's kiss so cheesy.
Arctic Thunder and The Underground Resistance are Darkthrone is pretty riffy and fun. (there are harsh vocals though, but The Underground Resistance has a fair bit of pretty silly but good cleans on it too.
October Rust by Type O Negative is super super good and all clean vocals. It's more of a Gothic Rock/Metal thing than anything related to death. Tons of beautiful layered production on that one
Isis (as I've mentioned): In Fiction, Garden of Light. Metalheads allegedly prefer Oceanic album; melodic post-metal with vocals, outros are simply beautiful.
Tbh I’ve drifted through isis into more prog-rocky stuff. Maybe you know something close to gojira, like with nice riffs and melody, and not completely overwhelming growling?
I will try to think of some stuff that could fit the bill. I'll have to dig into my music library and do some thinking lol.
All of this is off the top of my head mostly, so sorry if it isn't formatted in a very coherent matter lol.
Since you're into rock music in general you've probably already listened to Black Sabbath. But like, if you haven't listened to Paranoid or Master of Reality you're missing out. So many classic riffs on those albums. War Pigs, Planet Caravan, Fairies Wear Boots, Sweet Leaf, Into The Void are highlights for me off of those two.
Might be a bit on the heavier side and mostly growled vocals (although Chuck's vocals are very intelligible and clear for harsh vocals), but Death's music is filled with awesome riffs and some surprisingly thoughtful lyrics throughout and is one of my favorite bands in general, let alone metal. I'd start with Symbolic. It's pretty proggy, but it doesn't go off the rails, and I regularly listen to it front to back. I was writing out the highlights but realized that I was literally listing every song on the album, lol. Zero Tolerance is fucking amazing though. And if you end up liking this album and want something just as good with a more straightforward death metal approach Spiritual Healing is another one of my favorites by them.
Horrendous is some proggy death metal with not so overwhelming vocals and really really good songwriting that flows super well. A solid amount of slower cleanish guitar sections from what I remember as well. Ecdysis is my favorite by them and I listened to that shit on repeat for months without getting bored of it. Anareta is another super super solid album by them, just as good as Ecdysis IMO.
The Ichthyologist by Giant Squid is awesome. It's a nautical themed concept album and switches from some interesting clean vocals and clean instrumentation to sludgy riffs throughout. They have some interesting instrumentation too, I really dig them. Dead Man's Slough is a favorite.
I never got super into Baroness, but they might be up your alley, I remember liking the blue album and the green album by them a good bit when I was trying to get into them a few years ago.
Hope this gives you some good tunes to listen to. Feel free to ask for more if you end up really digging one of these artists and I'll try to think of more stuff like them.
I feel they are a little to deathy(?) for me outside of sabbath, but I’ll try a longer listen. ichthyologist sound is interesting though, thanks!
Edit: Actually horrendous is great in clean sections, it’s sudden rhythm changes into speedy metal that throw me off.
Yeah. Sorry if everything was a bit too heavy for your tastes, it took me a bit to get into the heavier stuff myself. I think you'll dig the ichthyologist though, it's the least heavy out of all of those besides Sabbath.
Death Penalty by Witchfinder General is a similar sound to Sabbath, the song Free Country off that album is really good.
Edit Just remembered Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats existed. Very very similar to Sabbath and really good. I like their album Blood lust. All clean vocals there too.
Nightfall by Candlemass is good and has clean vocals and some cool Doom riffs. Also the music video for Bewitched is chef's kiss so cheesy.
Arctic Thunder and The Underground Resistance are Darkthrone is pretty riffy and fun. (there are harsh vocals though, but The Underground Resistance has a fair bit of pretty silly but good cleans on it too.
October Rust by Type O Negative is super super good and all clean vocals. It's more of a Gothic Rock/Metal thing than anything related to death. Tons of beautiful layered production on that one
Ooh, thanks. I can trade you some post-rock or post-metal, if you like:)
For sure! Shoot me some links. I used to be kind of into some Post Rock for a while there. Loved explosions in the sky, mogwai, and Mars volta.
May take me a bit to listen to them though. Got off my computer for the night to make some dinner and hang with my girlfriend.
It will take me a couple of days to listen through metal so:)
Very close to metal: Mariner album by Cult of Luna 🔥
Post-metally stuff:
Isis (as I've mentioned): In Fiction, Garden of Light. Metalheads allegedly prefer Oceanic album; melodic post-metal with vocals, outros are simply beautiful.
Cloudkicker: Dysphoria, We're goin'in - completely instrumental, more energetic.
Russian circles: the whole Station album, Mota, Mladek - amazing drums and outros are out of this world.
Lighter post-rock:
God is an astronaut: Epitaph, All is Violent all is bright post-rock with heavy electronic influence
Toundra: III very nice song