Guys pushing the boundaries in heavy music?

[hazelwould]

What's some unique loud/heavy/fuzzy stuff? I'm tired of the usual chugga chugga.

[Bellyheart]

Geronimo is heavy and drones for days. It's WT from trogotronic doing the noise. It's heavy and great and full of repetition. Most people don't dig it but whatever

[sonidero]

NEUROSIS, SWANS!!!

[sonidero]

http://www.austinheavymusic.com/

[sonidero]

There is a Heavy Music Festival in ATX this weekend...

[hazelwould]

I've always enjoyed Phantomsmasher. I'll check out Geranimo. Swans I dig, and never got into neurosis.

[Chankgeez]

I keep reading this thread title as "Gary's pushing the boundaries in heavy music?"

[andtheLiquidmen]

I keep reading this thread title as "Gary's pushing the boundaries in heavy music?"

Truth.

Anyway, I don't really see too much boundary-pushing in most of heavy music at the moment to be honest. I'm always hoping to find something that really goes somewhere new, but I haven't had too much luck lately. Bands like Neurosis that were at one time taking it to somewhere new seem to be settled into a sound for the time being. Boris became a JPop/Shoegaze band. Meshuggah (aside from 1-2 songs) retreated to straightforward songwriting.

Mayhem's last album, Ordo ad Chao was mindblowing. Production aside, it's unlike anything else in the genre.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9fbfDnI-vE[/youtube]

Portal are definitely taking the metal to a very very evil Lovecraftian place where guitars turn into worms and laugh you while you turn into a fish.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buBWphrRnkc[/youtube]

Scott Walker isn't metal by any stretch of the imagination, but his three latest albums may have some of the heaviest/darkest/most intense passages of anything I've ever heard. 2:00 is where the wall of sound hits.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hvHEBLNpI[/youtube]

[DarkAxel]

Dub Trio's Another Sound Is Dying and The New Heavy are pretty unique in my opinion

I like Russian Circles for the layers and working with the orchestration and dynamics, clever stuff

The Dillinger Escape Plan, who seem to always try at least something new on every record

[rustywire]

I keep reading this thread title as "Gary's pushing the boundaries in heavy music?"

This fella comes to mind:
























INB4TWSS

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d075v_dl6lc[/youtube]

[Gearmond]

literally no one.

[skullservant]

Author & Punisher
Aderlating
Geronimo
Water Torture
Nekrasov
OVO
Suppression (old stuff)
The Body
Urine Cop
Columns of Heaven
Death Agonies
White Mice

All worth looking into

[Bellyheart]

White mice indeed. That is a good list from skull. I saw Ovo live and that was nuts.

[skullservant]

Dude Bellyheart PLEASE tell me you caught White Mice at The Triple with Suffering Bastard a few years ago. That shit was insane