Most diverse metal album?

[Akkush]

Can you name albums (if possible, death metal) which contains songs with very different vibe, structure, even could belong to another subgenre?

I often ran into albums where all the songs sound the same, they are one-trick pony, there aren't enough differenc, they are all riff-salads.

I love when a song revolves around a good idea, riff, or a certain vibe, like GOAT, Gateways from Morbid Angel 🥹

 

[Pat]

Maybe not as diverse as you're looking for, but Veil of Imagination by Wilderun is cool. They are the heir to Opeth's crown

 

[CanserDYI]

Between the Buried and Me- Colors.

Hands down. There are death metal parts, metalcore, power metal, Operatic parts, chicken pickin' country, soft melodic singing to full on death growls, shit there's even a polka part.

The album flows like water from beginning to end, give it a shot.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Between the Buried and Me- Colors.

Hands down. There are death metal parts, metalcore, power metal, Operatic parts, chicken pickin' country, soft melodic singing to full on death growls, shit there's even a polka part.

The album flows like water from beginning to end, give it a shot.

Came here to say this. Also simply one of the greatest metal albums ever recorded. It stands head and shoulders above anything it could be compared to, including their own work.

They have it on the jukebox at the dive bar I tend at off and on, when I'm working the closing shift and it's time for everyone to go I put on Ants of the Sky and crank it to 11.

 

[CanserDYI]

Came here to say this. Also simply one of the greatest metal albums ever recorded. It stands head and shoulders above anything it could be compared to, including their own work.

They have it on the jukebox at the dive bar I tend at off and on, when I'm working the closing shift and it's time for everyone to go I put on Ants of the Sky and crank it to 11.

Literally have Ants of the Sky playing in my ear right now, Paul absolutely makes the guitar his absolute sex slave in that song.

EDIT: Actually, I'll go ahead and say it, probably best metal album ever created, you're totally correct. I can't even think of an album that holds a candle to the expertise of this album, from the musicians to the engineers and producers who helped arrange the album, just all absolute masters of their craft.

 

[Pietjepieter]

Whanne say BTBAM, but already done, for good reason!

Also check out Persefone - Metanoia, great deverse record!

 

[wheresthefbomb]

This thread is over. Everyone go listen to Colors now.

 

[SeventyFour]

I'm disappointed Colors didn't immediately jump to mind but yeah, that.

 

[sleewell]

Igorrr is pretty dope

 

[Spazz stringz]

Absu - tara
Acid Bath - when the kite string pops
Animals As Leaders
Atrox - orgasm
Augury - concealed
Baring Teeth - atrophy
Bufihimat - I
Cephalic Carnage
Coroner - mental vortex
Decrypt - holy erotic rapture
Dripping - "disintegration of thought patterns during a synthetic mind traveling bliss"
First fragment
Gorod
Ingurgitating oblivion
Lykathea aflame - elvenefris
Melvins
Mithras - worlds beyond the veil
Mithras - on strange loops
Mitochondrion - archaeaeon
Spectral lore
Spiral architect
Thought industry
Voivod

 

[KnightBrolaire]

Alkaloid
Allegaeon - Proponent for Sentience/Elements of the Infinite
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Blotted Science /Spastic Ink
Early Opeth
later Gorguts - Colored Sands
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Revocation - Great is Our Sin/Deathless
Be'lakor- Of Breath and Bone

stuff that isn't death metal but has a ton of diverse genre influences:
Moon Tooth - Crux
Haken - The Mountain
Thank You Scientist -
The Mars Volta
Baroness - Yellow and Green
Mastodon -Blood Mountain
Code Orange
Alcest
Blut Aus Nord

 

[Spazz stringz]

Annihilator - Alice in hell
Atheist
Buckethead
Cynic
Dephosphorus
Disharmonic orchestra - not to be undimensional conscious
Equipoise - demiurgis
Esoteric - epistemological despondency
Gorguts - "obscura"
Hissing - permanent destitution
Inanimate Existence
Macabre - sinister slaughter
Martyr
Miscarriage - imminent horror
Mordant rapture - the abnegation
Nocturnus - thresholds
Nero di Marte - immoto
Primitive man
Quo vadis
Soundgarden
The ritual aura - velothi
Theory In Practice - colonizing the sun
Virulent Depravity - fruit of the poisoned tree

 

[Wiltonauer]

Do any of these more progressive bands release work that is primarily instrumental? I was really excited to listed to Colors until I hit the growl vocals. I like to think my musical sensibilities are pretty flexible, but growl vocals ruin it for me, and I just can’t see my way around it. I know; I am Hank Hill.

 

[CanserDYI]

Do any of these more progressive bands release work that is primarily instrumental? I was really excited to listed to Colors until I hit the growl vocals. I like to think my musical sensibilities are pretty flexible, but growl vocals ruin it for me, and I just can’t see my way around it. I know; I am Hank Hill.

Get out.












Feel like i need to add that this is a joke and I'm totally capable of understanding not all music is for all people.




That being said, get the fuck out.

 

[thrsher]

Decrepit Birth - Diminishing between worlds.

 

[thrsher]

im the complete opposite. clean signing ruins it for me most of the time

Do any of these more progressive bands release work that is primarily instrumental? I was really excited to listed to Colors until I hit the growl vocals. I like to think my musical sensibilities are pretty flexible, but growl vocals ruin it for me, and I just can’t see my way around it. I know; I am Hank Hill.

 

[mastapimp]

Latest Destrage album is all over the place, in a good way. "SO MUCH. Too much."

 

[Decapitated]

Literally have Ants of the Sky playing in my ear right now, Paul absolutely makes the guitar his absolute sex slave in that song.

EDIT: Actually, I'll go ahead and say it, probably best metal album ever created, you're totally correct. I can't even think of an album that holds a candle to the expertise of this album, from the musicians to the engineers and producers who helped arrange the album, just all absolute masters of their craft.

Operation: Mindcrime would like to have a word with you…but I agree...Colors is a masterpiece.

 

[Andromalia]

Babymetal. Most of their songs are designed to emulate a specific style, so in the same album you might find xxxxmetal and yyyymetal and zzzzzmetal songs. I understand japanese lyrics might be an issue, but give it a try. Not all songs are good, but some are. (Megistune, Akatsuki and Metal Resistance are *really* good, the latter two have a strong XJapan reminiscence)
I more or less stopped following them when they fired one of the girls but it's worth a listen even if there's nothing revolutionary in it.

 

[protest]

Opeth is a pretty obvious one to go along with BTBAM.

I would say Rivers of Nihil - The Work, and Where Owls Know My Name

Also The Ocean- Pelagial