Guys pushing the boundaries in heavy music?

[Obulus]

Thrones
Daughters
The Locust (is this considered heavy music?)

[D.o.S.]

Maybe Mammifer, but I'm not much of a fan.

[dase]

came in here to say The Body, yup.

[odontophobia]

Thrones
Daughters
The Locust (is this considered heavy music?)

Too bad Daughters and the Locust aren't really making new music these days. Both are quite nice.

[Bellyheart]

Daughters called it a day and the locust are taking forever to make an album to the point where they may flop. Ill love them forever and surely love it. Last I heard one of them were going to school. I'm confused who because Joey is doing One day as a lion, gabe is doin les Butcherettes, and several other things, Justin is doing retox and bobby is doing innerds.

Make an album damnit

[D.o.S.]

Listening to it again, the latest Oneida record weights a lot.

[space6oy]

i'm gonna have to dig through skully's list too. only act that jumped to mind in this topic was pelican...

the locust are evil / awesome but i don't really find them "heavy." just dark & weird in a good way.

[skullservant]

Some more for you dudes:

Ride for Revenge
Gnaw Their Tongues
VENNT
Gnaw
Theologian
Wolvserpent/Pussygut
The Human Quena Orchestra
Sutekh Hexen

Honestly anything Crucial Blast has put out

[ryan summit]

im so glad thrones was mentioned
im definately in the right place
havent listened to much music at all
in the last 10 yrs
now i got a place to start

[WeHuntKings]

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]

Bless this post. Scott Walker is a mad genius. He was punching sides of beef in the studio for percussion sounds on that album.

[andtheLiquidmen]

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]

Bless this post. Scott Walker is a mad genius. He was punching sides of beef in the studio for percussion sounds on that album.

Scott Walker is the love of my life. I'm still in disbelief that Bish Bosch came out so "quickly" after The Drift.

[dase]

god Sutekh Hexen are great. Them and Locrian are the two 'black metal influenced' bands that I've really gotten down with this last year.

[WeHuntKings]

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]

Bless this post. Scott Walker is a mad genius. He was punching sides of beef in the studio for percussion sounds on that album.

Scott Walker is the love of my life. I'm still in disbelief that Bish Bosch came out so "quickly" after The Drift.

Totally off topic, but nite flights and climate of hunter have been on heavy rotation for me these days...

I gotta listen to that maddening trilogy of his though...I'm steeling myself for it.

On topic, you should totally look into Runhilde's (of Thor's Hammer) solo stuff. Incredibly dark and harrowing.

[kbit]

I just like pimping this album all over the internet, but I think it's still relevant.
Also, a sub woofer drastically alters this album.

http://benfrost.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-throat

[theavondon]

Thou?