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Mechina - Siege. Take a metal band with industrial influences. Release an album. Take that album. Add tons of atmospherics and electronica. Release that version as well. Now take that, and add angelic votes, and some harsh and release that as well. You can buy whichever version you prefer. All great for the different reasons

Wayfarer – American Gothic. The jangly guitar alternate 1890s death/black metal band you didn’t know you needed.

Sermon - on golden verse. proggy anthemic melodeath with fantastic clean vocals.

Ghost - spillways

They are supposedly heavy metal, but they got all kinds of stuff in there.

It’s prog but Angra with Kiko as lead guitarist is still the greatest of all time for me. Kiko left the band for Megadeth a little while back, their new guitarist is solid but just not on the same level. Rebirth, Fireworks and Temple of Shadows are probably my top 3 favorite albums.

This thread is a scorcher. Excellent recommendations.

I could do this all evening but I've picked a few favourites. These are artist recommendations rather than just tracks.

Here's some accessible ones (Spotify links):

• Primordial - Empire Falls
• Ghost Brigade - Suffocated
• Leprous - The Flood
• *shels - Butterfly (on Luci's Way)
• Sólstafir - Necrologue
• Sleep Token - The Summoning
• Saor - Monadh
• Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God

And some slightly less accessible ones (Also Spotify links):

• Alter of Plagues - Found, Oval and Final
• Behemoth - Messe Noire
• The Angelic Process - Burning in the a Undertow of God
• Ihsahn - Arcana Imperii
• Bell Witch - Beneath the Mask
• or if you're feeling brave enough to listen to a single, album length sludge/doom track, Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

I will also strongly second the already recommend Chelsea Wolfe, Opeth, Alcest, Orbit Culture and 3TEETH!

Spotify links cuz I'm lazy — not in any particular order:

• Architects - "Spit the Bone"
• Chaosbay - "New Age" Do take a listen to the whole album if you like this song. It's a concept album and the music really flows quite well from track to track.
• Beartooth - "Below"
• Beartooth - "In Between"
• Ice Nine Kills - "The American Nightmare" This band's interesting, in that their last two albums' tracks are all inspired from/are about various horror movies.
• While She Sleeps - "Sleeps Society"
• Periphery - "Wax Wings"
• Bury Tomorrow - "Begin Again"
• Everture - "Empire"
• Dark Tranquility - "Eyes of the World"
• Countless Skies - "Tempest"
• Shylmagoghnar - "Transience"

Been listening to Municipal Waste recently. They're good.

Arka'n Asrakofor YouTube Bandcamp

Ayreon youtube Bandcamp

Human resources of Hell Bandcamp Youtube

High on Fire - Death is this communion

Monolord - Empress Rising

Primitive Man - Caustic

Mnemic - Audio Injected Soul

Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion

Slipknot - Iowa

The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

At the Gates - Slaughter of the soul

The Ocean - Swoon

May I suggest Twelve Foot Ninja https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SYvzn5grrI

Job for a Cowboy - The Forever Rot - technical death metal/progressive metal

Lacuna Coil - Delirium - gothic metal with a mix of clean/harsh female/male vocals

Decapitated - Veins - technical death metal

VOLA - Head Mounted Sideways - progressive metal with a mix of clean and harsh vocals

Caligula's Horse - Slow Violence - progressive metal with mostly clean vocals

Skyharbor - Miracle - progressive metal with clean vocals

Baroness - Shine - progressive metal with mostly clean vocals and mix of male/female

Pierce the veil with Pass the Nirvana

Holding Absence with Afterlife

Caskets with Glass Heart

Beartooth with Sunshine!

We Came As Romans with Black Hole

Architects with Animals

Falling in Reverse with Popular Monster

Bad Omens with Dethrone

Motionless in White with Masterpiece

The Plot in You with Forgotten

Catch your Breath with Dial Tone

And finally Bring me the Horizon with Dear Diary,

Be'lakor

Orbit Culture

Parasite Inc

Hatesphere

The Halo Effect

Unleash The Archers

Hammerfall

Mystic Prophecy

Windrose

Mechina, Sir!

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