Avant-garde Metal
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Avant-garde metal, sometimes also called Experimental Metal, is a term referring to bands using lots of "unusual" sounds in their music, as well as diverse instruments and structures. These bands break conventions, incorporate new elements, etc.
Avant-garde metal is defined by the integration of a wide variety of genre like jazz or fusion to aggressive music (typically Black Metal). Keyboards are also generally widely used and are important to create atmospheres related to the genre.
The first bands defined as avant-garde are Celtic Frost, Fleurety and Ved Buens Ende. These bands mostly come from the Black Metal (often at the beginning) and/or Progressive Metal genres.
It can be noticed that there is no convention or criteria to exactly define the avant-garde genre, and bands that should (or shouldn't) be classified as such. But on the other hand, some experimentation in the music is generally recognized as a major criterium to define the genre.
Two important local scenes for the avant-garde metal genre are based in the United States (Agalloch, Maudlin of the Well, Naked City, Psyopus...) and in Norway (Age of Silence, Arcturus, Ram-Zet, Ulver, Ved Buens Ende...).
Some avant-garde bands
- ...And Oceans
- Aarni
- Alchemist
- Age Of Silence
- Arcturus
- Atrophia Red Sun
- Beyond Dawn
- Blut Aus Nord
- Borknagar
- Carnival In Coal
- Celtic Frost
- Cronian
- DÅÅTH
- Deathspell Omega
- Diablerie
- Diablo Swing Orchestra
- Diabolical Masquerade
- Dødheimsgard
- Elend
- Ephel Duath
- Estradasphere
- Fantômas
- Fleurety
- Gorguts
- Green Carnation
- Hollenthon
- In The Woods
- Kayo Dot
- Kekal
- Korovakill
- Lux Occulta
- Maudlin Of The Well
- Mayhem
- Mr.Bungle
- The Meads Of Asphodel
- Naked City
- Nuclear Rabbit
- Pan.Thy.Monium
- Peccatum
- Ram-Zet
- Sculptured
- Sigh
- Solefald
- Stolen Babies
- Subterranean Masquerade
- Ulver
- UneXpect
- Unholy
- Ved Buens Ende
- Virus
- Winds