HI.
Do you know bands that play microtonal metal?
Possibly, that they aren't random out-of-tune notes, or attempts to make ethnic music with super-distorted guitars without even knowing it...
To show you what I DON'T like:
- Meshuggah solos (although I love this band),
- the intro of Pseudo by Cephalic Carnage (although the album is one of my favourites)
- or things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEcP8KsmO1Y
- or even worse like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLWNHhZiJ3g

Things I enjoy listening to are these:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvSHpxwxVkM
- but I don't like oriental music, mostly because it's quite traditional I prefer things like these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQaSFgnVI8

In short, I would like to know if you know of any interesting use of microtones in metal, neither banal nor cacophonous.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Jute Gyte: https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/music
Kostnatění: https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/pal

I have no idea how to identify if something is microtonal or nor but Last Sacrament describe themselves as "Microtonal death metal".

https://lastsacrament.bandcamp.com/

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but I have always liked the band.

Victory Over The Sun is a weird post-black metal band and has an album called Nowherer that is exclusively microtonal, with custom re-fretted guitars.

https://votsband.bandcamp.com/album/nowherer

Their new album from this year, which is explicitly said to not be microtonal, is also quite good:

https://votsband.bandcamp.com/album/dance-you-monster-to-my-soft-song

Ok, I'll try to be clearer: I like fretless instruments, like basses and double basses, I've rarely liked fretless guitarists.
I like the use of it in jazz or fusion or greats like Charles Berthoud on youtube.
I don't like the ethnic (or fake ethnic) use and arbitrary subdivisions of the octave. I don't know why I like one and not the other.

There was an excellent black metal band called Akvan that had some riffs with microtonal notes and scales. It was unlike anything I'd heard before though clearly rooted in black metal.

Well, thank you for name dropping this. Very eclectic. I like it.

I believe Vindsval does a few Blut Aus Nord albums and songs that are microtonal or use fretless guitars and bass to get similar tones, I think most prominently here: https://blutausnord.bandcamp.com/album/ ... ian-echoes

I was going to mention BAN too. Among Vindsval's dissonant material, you can hear from time to time the use of microtones intervals, especially in MoRT if I remember well, but in many other records too.

every album with blues influence with blue note bends