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Non-Metal Album Recommendations 2015



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Posted by Alex F, 11.01.2015 - 18:51
It's 2015, and there's a lot more to the music world than metal. Post any albums of quality outside of the realms of metal in this thread. Here are a few to get started (Esbe and Sixfingerz)

23.09.2015 - 22:51
Lethrokai
Girl Band - Holding Hands With Jamie (Post-Punk / Noise Rock)

If you like albums that feel like they're tapping into psychosis in the most intense way possible, give this a listen.
It's about time the Irish got some love anyway.



Give this video a watch and you'll see exactly what I mean.
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25.09.2015 - 13:56
!J.O.O.E.!
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Wow, these guys suddenly got amazing. I swear they used to be a sludge outfit, but this is something quite different. Not sure how I would describe it. Some kind of varied, textured ambient with multiple uses of a variety of instruments to create some unique, minimalistically cinematic and sometimes creepy but ultimately very awesome soundscapes. AotY tier stuff.

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27.09.2015 - 19:26
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Did anyone mention Death Grips yet? I'm too lazy to go back through the various pages of comments right now. But if no one did, yeah... listen to The Powers That B. Double album. The first half, Niggas On The Moon, is really electronic and could just be their most experimental release yet. The second half, Jenny Death, is really raw and shows off a lot of the group's punk influences. MC Ride is love. MC Ride is life.



EDIT: Yeah, Karlabos, you already did. Should've known you'd be a Death Grips fan, you weird fuck
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27.09.2015 - 23:09
Karlabos
Death Grips is the future of hip hop ^>^
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28.09.2015 - 03:30
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
Written by Karlabos on 27.09.2015 at 23:09

Death Grips is the future of hip hop ^>^

Seeing them in Ft. Lauderdale on the 9th. To say I'm ecstatic would be the understatement of the century
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01.10.2015 - 21:36
Darkside Momo
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Elite
Wow. That was indeed quite a mindfuck. Not sure if I love them yet, but they're pretty exceptional anyway! (and while the first part was more mindfucky than the rest, the rawer sound of the second one had more appeal to me - too much much electronic in the first one I guess)
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02.10.2015 - 16:23
Vombatus
Potorro
Quality Neofolk from Spain.

??? - Octagrammaton

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04.10.2015 - 19:14
Candlemass
Defaeco
Awesome eclectic prog, one of the best releases of this year. I only wish the quality of songwriting was consistent throughout.

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05.10.2015 - 09:50
slim pickings
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Written by Candlemass on 04.10.2015 at 19:14

Awesome eclectic prog, one of the best releases of this year. I only wish the quality of songwriting was consistent throughout.



sounds nice, I would love to listen to the whole thing.
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02.11.2015 - 00:32
mz
Beautiful and uplifting stuff form the guy behind Have a Nice Life. The bandcamp tags are crap as always, and I don't know what genre it is.

Black Wing...Is Doomed

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07.11.2015 - 01:14
Karlabos
Yay, new Zombie Girl album is out.


Aww, the Synthetic Dream Foundation seems to be writing music again. I thought the guy behind it had stopped, but fortunately it doesn't seem to be the case
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11.11.2015 - 18:39
Paz
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Elite
Ritualistic and jazzy stuff. Pretty addictive!


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12.11.2015 - 19:28
mz
Very nice ambient music:

Autistici-Temporal Enhancement

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14.11.2015 - 03:43
Karlabos
This is weird. And by extension, good.
The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being Born
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16.11.2015 - 12:50
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Written by Paz on 11.11.2015 at 18:39

Ritualistic and jazzy stuff. Pretty addictive!

Sounds pretty damn great.
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16.11.2015 - 12:51
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Written by Karlabos on 14.11.2015 at 03:43

This is weird. And by extension, good.

I posted this in the metal rec thread weeks ago, and bleated on about it in the SB =P Still my AotY.
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16.11.2015 - 13:37
Karlabos
Written by [user id=4365] on 16.11.2015 at 12:51

Written by Karlabos on 14.11.2015 at 03:43

This is weird. And by extension, good.

I posted this in the metal rec thread weeks ago, and bleated on about it in the SB =P Still my AotY.

Oh? I searchered and couldn't find.

perhaps because I searched in the non-metal thread =p
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16.11.2015 - 19:18
Paz
777
Elite
I remember that owl-ish cover art, but haven't checked it out yet. Thanks for the reminder, boys

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17.11.2015 - 23:28
Karlabos
Tiain Noone Ensemble - Sitting On A Water Rock

It's one of those everyday bombastic instrumental electronic hip-hop/ambient/shoegaze-fusion records. Totally normal stuff...
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19.11.2015 - 03:40
Diverge
Written by Karlabos on 14.11.2015 at 03:43

This is weird. And by extension, good.
The Great Tyrant - The Trouble With Being Born


Good shit.
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20.11.2015 - 13:30
IronAngel
New Anna von Hausswolff is out. Dark drone pop. She's wandering further from her singer-songwriter sensibilities with every album, and parts of this could be from a doom metal band. I think I liked the previous album better, but I imagine this will apeal to MSers (read: !J.O.O.E.!) more:
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21.11.2015 - 00:12
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Written by IronAngel on 20.11.2015 at 13:30

New Anna von Hausswolff is out. Dark drone pop. She's wandering further from her singer-songwriter sensibilities with every album, and parts of this could be from a doom metal band. I think I liked the previous album better, but I imagine this will apeal to MSers (read: !J.O.O.E.!) more:

You already had me at dark drone pop, but nice to get a reference. You're right, that was totally in the middle of my comfort zone. Really great song.
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21.11.2015 - 22:18
Karlabos
For those who like The Ongoing Concept and (like me) didn't know there was a new album out... Well, there is a new album out

handmade
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22.11.2015 - 20:32
AnGina--
Dark Phoenix
THIS I have to share. For me - the best musical discovery of this year: Erdh. Their debut Resilient was a wild cinemtatic/gothic/experimental/industrial metal bomb & the following EP Sideremesis, which came out a month ago, takes a wild shift into more dark electro/ambient waters. Pure brilliancy. To anyone who's into more experimental/cinematic/dark electronic tunes.

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22.11.2015 - 20:34
!J.O.O.E.!
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So Ben Prunty, the guy that did the FTL soundtrack (one of the best game soundtracks ever) has made an album of creepy, semi-industrial / electronic dark ambient. Unsurprisingly it's really good.

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23.11.2015 - 20:36
mz
Written by [user id=4365] on 22.11.2015 at 20:34

So Ben Prunty, the guy that did the FTL soundtrack (one of the best game soundtracks ever) has made an album of creepy, semi-industrial / electronic dark ambient. Unsurprisingly it's really good.

Ben Prunty - Dark Window[/center]

This is actually great.
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23.11.2015 - 20:45
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Written by mz on 23.11.2015 at 20:36


This is actually great.

He's a pretty talented dude.
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27.11.2015 - 00:01
!J.O.O.E.!
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Every now and then you find a piece of music that could only be described as "unbelievably lovely." Ultra chilled, instrumental hip-hop with some mild glitchy feels. I really wish this was longer.

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30.11.2015 - 16:27
Karlabos
Anyone into the indie rock band Buke and Gase?
The vocals are pretty bland imo, but the instrumental is good, so...
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06.12.2015 - 04:25
mz
Dark ambient. Not a novelty I think, and not the creepiest thing ever, but very solid:

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