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I sent a list of these to prind and auto aim and I figured I'd post a big list of this stuff here.. my favorite avant-prog/rock in opposition stuff:
Check out:
THINKING PLAGUE (especially EARLY PLAGUE YEARS, which sounds like prog rock meets no wave at times -- King Crimson covering DNA, seriously)
HOYRY KONE (some of the weirdest/best bass playing ever)
BLAST (get "stringy rugs", amazing album)
HAPPY FAMILY
KOENJIHYAKKEI (great japanese brutal/avant prog)
KOREKYOJIN (great japanese brutal/avant prog)
RUINS (great japanese brutal/avant prog; some of their albums are inconsistent, but they have this one called.. oh fuck, what's the name? "Symphonica" or something... it's got keyboards and guitars, instead of the stuff they do that's usually just insane bass/drumming which gets old fast)
DOTS
DAVE KEHRMAN (anything he's involved in is amazing)
5UU's
ZS
EXTRA LIFE
GRIM SKUNK
GRAND ULENA
DUN ("EROS" is the best. BEST!)
AHVAK (this band seems really similiar to Dun and only have one album, so check em out)
BONDAGE FRUIT (great japanese brutal/avant prog)
UNIVERS ZERO (lots of "ambient dicking around" that people may not be into. but when they rip, THEY RIP!)
SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA
ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN (43 songs is absolutely my favorite work of music, ever)
ART BEARS
If you're really into that stuff and want some stuff that could easily be considered "Avant prog-metal" -- kinda like the stuff above but much more metal -- check out:
SPIRAL ARCHITECT (words can't explain how insane this album is -- the most complex and midnblowing bassplaying ever. Period.)
UNEXPECT (almost Secret Chiefs 3-y at times, but with some truly avant shit going on, and then VERY VERY fucking brutal parts. Just insane)
DODHEIMSGARD (avant noise prog black metal)
NECROPHAGIST (most insane death metal band ever, almost the most listenable)
DOCTOR NERVE (very rio/avant prog, great use of electronics, the metal stuff on here is weird)
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM/IDIOT FLESH (you all know these I'm sure!)
Great noise rock type prog/jazzy/brutal prog:
ALCHEULISTAS (kinda like Fatal Flying Guilloteens/Hella/Jesus Lizard instrumental collaboration but about a billion times more insane than those bands.)
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT (one of the few bands doing Magic Band type stuff now)
RICH WOODSON'S ELLIPSIS (look, this is the craziest fucking band I've ever heard. You might find it unlistenable, who knows. But if you want to hear the most complex album ERVER recorded, here ya go. You have to actually pay attention to itt, though)
YOWIE (you've probably heard this insane detuned avantprog math rock project. It sounds like Polvo but even more out of tune, and they change time signatures and bpm every half second. Just INSANE)
BRIDE OF NO NO (avant progressive no wave. Weird as hell. We're talking 15 minute songs with 10,000 time signatures. Albums were produced by Albini and mixed by O'Rourke and yet no one knows this band. Supposedly, the guitarists WERE albini and o'rourke. This band didn't last long. But they were genius.)
SWEEP THE LEG JOHNNY - 15 minute sax driven songs which never repeat. Genius!
DAZZLING KILLMEN/COLLOSAMITE - BRUTAL, complex, insane. The most insane and SCARY power trio ever.
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