funeralravens, coupdebleus, Gravetemplar, thanks a lot for the recommendations!
I'm familiar with Draconian's "Arcane Rain Fell".
I like this album, but I haven't listened to it for a long time. I will listen to it.
The non-metal parts/elements (both sounds of nature/ambience and keyboards) on the album fit into the request, and the song "A Scenery of Loss" with a relatively short atmospheric intro with nature sounds + with the use of keyboards here and there on the metal parts is very much in a vein of what I'm looking for (and it's also a big plus that the atmospheric part has sounds of inanimate nature).
October Falls' "The Womb of Primordial Nature" in general also looks in a vein of what I'm looking for - most of the atmospheric parts are relatively short and they are used a few times on the album (and I like the playing of acoustic guitar and the sounds of inanimate nature on atmospheric parts), and I enjoy metal parts as well; I only wish the non-metal part that starts at 27:50 was shorter.
I'll look closer to this band.
I know Tiamat but not familiar with the album "Wildhoney". I'll give it a try, but overall in this request for me it's preferable that there was not "psychedelic" influence/vibe in music/atmosphere on an album.
The album "Domedon Doxomedon" by Necros Christos is not exactly what I'm looking for - atmospheric/vibe-wise, but the variety of interludes on the album is quite interesting. My only problem with them is that most of them are too long for me.
I'll give the album a try, but in general I'm looking for metal albums that have relatively short atmospheric non-metal parts.
funeralravens wrote:
I know and like that album, but my favourite song on it is Im Gartn, which actually has a long ambient/electronic section. In regards to your request, I think Draconian somewhat fits your description.
For example the songs
A Scenery of Loss or
She dies (the section at 3:03, although it's pretty long).
I probably know some other stuff like that, but those songs are the first ones that come to my mind. Will try to think of more stuff like this.
I also love and absolutely don't mind the long atmospheric part on the song "Im Gartn" (Excluding this particular song with a relatively long non-metal part at the beginning, any other song from the album "Hoagascht" is a good example of what I'm looking for, I just pointed "Reng" as an example because it's the most simple and repetitive song in structure and it's the easiest to 'identify' the atmospheric non-metal parts - the sound of rain), but the point is that in this case it's the first song on the album - and, because of it, I perceive this non-metal part not only as a part of the first song but also as an intro to the whole album, and therefore it's a little different for me and it works by this analogy -
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=136838&p=3070142&hilit=intro#p3070142. Metal albums that have a long atmospheric non-metal intro/outro (and which may not be as a separate track but as a part of the first/the last song) are OK for me.
This request is much more due to metal albums that tend to have not only a long non-metal intro on the first song and a long outro at the end of the album, but also long intros/outros on almost every song on the album (and especially if these parts contain only nature sounds/field recordings) - for example, like on the album "Winterkälte" by Paysage d'Hiver (I don't mind it in general and I love and enjoy the sound of these types of lo-fi atmospheric nature sounds/field recordings on non-metal parts as well, but the problem for me is that these particular non-metal parts are too long, too monotonous/repetitive, and the use of them is almost the same on each song - as a long intro/outro of a song, and because of it, listening to all these non-metal parts during listening to the whole album becomes "way too much" and tiresome for me. If those parts were shorter and there would be some variety/more dynamics of them on the songs, then that would be OK for me. If they were just only two parts (separate tracks or as parts of the first and the last songs on the album) - as a 1-2 minute intro and outro to the album, and/or, as an option - if there was a long atmospheric non-metal track somewhere in the middle of the album (as the track "Einsamkeit"), and the rest of the non-metal parts were much shorter and more varied, then that would also be OK for me). I like metal music on this album, I like sounds of all the non-metal parts, but I rarely listen to this album because of those non-metal parts - that are too long and monotonous. I would rather listen to Strid's s/t EP where there are atmospheric "lo-fi" sounds, but which are just short parts at the beginning of the first song and at the end of the second song - and to me these short parts are enough to engage the listener's imagination/add some additional elements ("fragments") to the overall atmosphere and mood on the EP.
(It was just for example of using of atmospheric non-metal ambience/elements on a metal album, these two black metal records are not interchangeable for me, I listen to them in different moods and for different reasons.)