Some female fronted and maybe not so commonly known Bands:
It Was Metal · A Sound of Thunder
A Grave for Each One of Us · Lucifer
General of the Dark Army · Unleash The Archers
Chasing The Mirage · Seven Kingdoms
The Ripper in Black · Savage Master
Pray for Fire · Oceans of Slumber
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!
Some sick Pacific Northwest metal/hardcore to checkout:
There’s SO MUCH good modern hardcore music here right now that I’m barely scratching the surface, but hopefully at least one of these does something for you!
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”
Ex Mortis by Ice Nine Kills is an absolute bop. Swing-time metalcore.
Archspire - death metal + speed rap
The Browning - electronicore
Avatar of Hate, Fleshgod Apocalypse - symphonic death metal
Angel Maker - melodic deathcore
Bleed from Within - melodic metalcore
Beast in Black - power metal
Mors Principium Est - melodic death metal
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Some of recommendations I did not already see, that are not-that-well-known; all of these are various flavors of melodic death metal:
Parasite Inc. - Once and for All
The Agonist - Panophobia (unfortunately, the band is now defunct)
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Check out Unreqvited; Blackbraid; and Brutus
As an atheist living in an incredibly conservative Christian area, it’s fun wearing band shirts for acts like you’ve listed. Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem…
In this case you shock them way more with Fratello Metallo
Gojira was one of my favorite concerts
Alcest. Run, don’t walk, to check them out.
Bandcamp Friday so I’ll post a few smaller bands:
Gorilla Wizard
https://gorillawizard.bandcamp.com/album/titanosaur-x-gorilla-wizard
Kaiju Daisenso
https://kaijudaisenso.bandcamp.com
Titanosaur
https://titanosaur1.bandcamp.com/music
Love Sex Machine
https://lovesexmachine.bandcamp.com/music
Native Daughters
https://nativedaughters.bandcamp.com/music
Grizzlor
Dark Tranquility
Katatonia
Draconian
Omnium Gatherum
Insomnium
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,
artist - recommended album (spotify link)
my recommendations:
- Deafheaven - Sunbather (guess my namesake wow)
- Vektor - Terminal Redux
- Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
- Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
- Lantlôs - .neon
- Wilderun - Epigone
- Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
- Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy
- Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
- Virvum - Illuminance
- Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALEEEEES)
- Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence
- Silhouette - Les retranchements
- Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive
- Mgła - Age of Excuse
friends recommendations (maybe slightly more digestible than some stuff on my list):
- Inferi - Vile Genesis
- Vale of Pnath - II
- The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
- Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
- Fallujah - Empyrean
- Allagaeon - Fragments of Form and Function
- Native Construct - Quiet World
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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
