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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 5:55 pm 
 

It seems like there's so much music out there that I haven't even scratched the surface of. Most of it electronic. Dark ambient, synthwave, noise, hardcore EDM, glitch, you name it. I want it. Basically, share what you consider to be the essential artists or albums in these areas or music, or explain how you got into them. I'm mostly talking about the more niche stuff, but less obscure electronic music is also welcome as long as it's not shitty mainstream dance music like Marshmello.

Here's where I'm at right now:

I listened to a dark ambient album called TOWERS once, and I digged it. You can find that here: https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/towers

I've also pinned the label for said album, and plan to listen to another album from it. It's called
(phantom psalms), and it's apparently really depressing. Find that here: https://geometriclullaby.bandcamp.com/album/phantom-psalms-2

I'm also plan to listen to an album called WLFGRL, which is supposed to be as intense as glitch/EDM gets. Find that here: https://machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/wlfgrl

I'm also aware of Everywhere At The End Of Time. And no, I don't plan on listening to that anytime soon.

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Gravetemplar
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:26 pm 
 

Are you familiar with Tim Hecker? He was my gateway to a lot of noise, drone, ambient, etc. Listen to Ravedeath, 1972.


Yellow Swans too.


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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:29 pm 
 

Don't think I've heard of him before, but I'll definitely listen to him now. Those songs are dope, thanks for the rec.
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Gravetemplar
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:37 pm 
 

EvergreenSherbert wrote:
Don't think I've heard of him before, but I'll definitely listen to him now. Those songs are dope, thanks for the rec.

If you enjoyed Tim Hecker and Yellow Swans you could also try Ben Frost and Roly Porter.



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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:53 pm 
 

Those are really cool too, I especially liked the second one.

That also remind me of 65daysofstatic, a band I forgot to mention in OP. They made the soundtrack for No Man's Sky, which uses a lot of the same sounds as that Ben Frost song but with more E-bow guitar and whatnot. They used to play post rock combined with glitch, but nowadays they make exclusively electronic music which sounds like this:
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Ill-Starred Son
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 1:26 am 
 

Following.

I like some of this stuff too but it seems like such a deep group of genres (as obviously there are multiple) that I don't even know where to begin.

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LithoJazzoSphere
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 6:33 am 
 

Let's go with three examples of dark ambient, three of synthwave, and then four other interesting subgenres that might appeal to metalheads.

Dark ambient:







Synthwave:







Futurepop:



Electro-industrial:



Neurofunk (subgenre of drum and bass):



Synthpop:



Lots more where those came from, it was probably my favorite and most listened to broad genre for a dozen years or so until metal took back over last year.

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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 12:31 pm 
 

Update on my electronic listening.

I haven't listened to a lot of these suggestions very much, cause I have a habit of forgetting about these threads. But I did just find this dark ambient album, thanks to YouTube's algorithm. I think dark ambient is probably what I'll be exploring the most in electronic music, because this album is lovely.

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ZenoMarx
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 2:55 pm 
 

Do you need beats or dub? If not, I have a list I could share. And if so, you might look into death industrial.

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EvergreenSherbert
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 2:59 pm 
 

ZenoMarx wrote:
Do you need beats or dub? If not, I have a list I could share. And if so, you might look into death industrial.

I don't really need anything in particular. Go ahead and share what you got.
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ZenoMarx
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:33 pm 
 

DEATH INDUSTRIAL:
Advokat Ihrer Hoheit - Opferberiet LP, Heavy Electronics sets
Anenzaphalia - New World Disorder 12"
Brighter Death Now - Necrose Evangelicum CD
Chod - Kala-Nath C-60
Drape Excrement - Born Dead, split CD with Catharsis
Einleitungszeit - all the tapes and the Aus Der Leichenkammer LP *this is more power-electronics, noisy, and industrial, but maybe something there for you.
Megaptera - Disease CD - for me, this project begins and ends with this album.
MZ.412 - In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi CD - I wish track 4 was two hours long.
Pain Nail - End Times LP/CD- honestly, I'm not sure I consider this to be death-industrial, but because of the metals, I'm going to give myself license and mention it here.
Predominance - White Ashes C-45, Obliteration LP, Hindenburg MLP/CD
Soldnergeist - Spur 2 CD, Global Media Control CD
Stimbox - Recycled 2006 - known as noise, but some of this material is death-industrialish.
Stratvm Terror
Ex.Order
Deutsch Nepal - early is best, but he still does some nice stuff.
Asche/Morgenstern

(excellent comp)
Life After Fallout Odland C-60 ltd.ed.166 w/ Third Eye, Shatterer of Earth/Sandkunst, Delphium, Conscentia Peccati, Obscene Noise Cooperation, King Lear's Convulsions, Ashes to Ashes, No Festival of Light, Chod, Advokat Ihrer Hoheit, THO-SO-AA

AMBIENT / DARK AMBIENT / etc this is sort of long, so here's a link to it:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/z4a8o74i ... t.txt/file

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LithoJazzoSphere
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:35 pm 
 

If you want to go further with dark ambient, this thread I did last year is a good starting point.

https://forum.metal-archives.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=128695

There's lots where these came from too.

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