Guys pushing the boundaries in heavy music?

[Nj0rd]

oh its not a parody band for sure. but there is no way they take themselves too seriously.

[Quiet Things]

Not so much heavy, as much as 'dense', but:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVayKKdI7jc[/youtube]


This is definitely a band that kinda pulled me out of music stagnancy a year and a half ago or so when I was feeling kind of jaded.


Also, going back a few pages, whoever mentioned Tunnel Blanket by This Will Destroy You: That album fucking rules.

[cloudscapes]

Swans. just listen to the song "the sound", and wait for it.

[nad]

Negură Bunget, Ufomammut, Old Man Gloom, maudlin of the Well, Neurosis, Enslaved, Swans, and Goatsblood.

I think the best fresh/heavy/awesome band is still Acid Bath. Heavy music probably peaked right there for me.

[D.o.S.]

I would say bands like Swans and Neurosis are basically providing the dictionary definitions of the boundaries of heavy music at this point. They're institutional (and super fucking awesome, obvs.), but not really pushing forward in the way I think of when I think of this thread.

[fluffytunapouch]

Not so much heavy, as much as 'dense', but:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVayKKdI7jc[/youtube]


This is definitely a band that kinda pulled me out of music stagnancy a year and a half ago or so when I was feeling kind of jaded.


Also, going back a few pages, whoever mentioned Tunnel Blanket by This Will Destroy You: That album fucking rules.

Really dug this track. I know just what you're saying when music get stagnant. Hasn't happened to me in a long time.

Tunnel Blanket along with Halfblood by Horseback threw me into drone last year faster than I was heading before. Yes that album takes the cake for me.

[kbit]

Tunnel Blanket love makes me happy.

[Quiet Things]

Tunnel Blanket love makes me happy.

I was listening to it at work last night to keep me mellow and stop me from murdering all the idiots that encroach upon my place of employ.

[Big Mon]

How has no one mentioned Fuzzifer(Bassus' band) yet? If you haven't heard, you really, really should