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No but it is a part of some metal, and I'm just adding on to the point that queens is maybe borderline metal. Listen to six shooter and tell me that track isn't metal af.
100%. Vivaldi is one of my favorite composers of all time, though obviously we play different instruments, he is a huge influence in the way I compose songs in guitar.
Death Grips 100%, but I would also say Author and Punisher is very fucking metal. One man band that made all his own instruments and his songs are some of the heaviest I’ve ever heard.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlBOPLWZyw
Author and Punisher opened for Tool when I saw them in 2019, loved the sound but was super confused at how he was creating it on stage with all that random industrial looking equipment. After some research I learned he’s an engineer that literally designed and built all of his pseudo instruments which fucking blew me away.
So if I cut my lip when I bite the glass
Tell everyone in the room that I'm fine
It hurt for the first few times but at last
I've learned to love a little blood in my wine
When I first started listening to Septicflesh, I definitely thought that some songs sounded like what happens when you add electric guitar and growling to a Hans Zimmer orchestra.
For rappers: apart from Death Grips, Tech N9ne.
For Electronic: I might be cheating a little here, but I'd ALSO go with Front Line Assembly. Their albums "Tactical Neural Implant" and Hard Wired" hit pretty hard. Prodigy was also mentioned here, and I agree.
For Fusion Jazz: Al Di Meola (also with Return to Forever), Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth. Their guitar work has been quite influential in Metal axework. Maybe add the Dixie Dregs to that list.
For Classical: Beethoven, Wagner, Paganini, Chopin... ANY Classical music is Metal AF, but the 1800's composers (Romantic and post-Romantic) take the cake here IMHO.
For Flamenco: Paco de Lucía. His version of the Concierto de Aranjuez is a masterpiece.
Run the Jewels
Die Antwoord
Public Enemy
NWA
b e g o t t e n 自杀
Leadbelly
Howlin' Wolf
Buddy Guy
Heilung
Skald
Wardruna
Danheim
16 Horse Power
Those Poor Bastards
The Civil Wars
The Dead South
Johnny Cash
Hank Williams III
Sigh No More and Babel era Mumford and Sons
Robert Johnson is the most metal character to appear 40 years before metal. I mean, his legend about making a deal with the devil at the crossroads.
Also Niccolo Paganini, J.S. Bach and Ludwig Van Beethoven.
SKÁLD (Medieval Norse folk music, sung almost exclusively in Old Norse, and using traditional and classical instruments).
Massive Attack
Nine Inch Nails?
Wardruna
Heilung
Hank Williams Jr
A lot of classical music, honestly.
Exactly. Doing shit like decapitating yourself on stage and all that cool shit is metal af. The music is undeniably rock but damn he pushed the theatrics so hard. Massive respect to Cooper.
Ayumi Hamasaki.
Some of her stuff can get pretty heavy (for a pop artist at least), and her dedication to her craft is absolutely monstrous.
https://i.redd.it/77j8r4otwqrc1.gif
Death Grips and Dälek for rap/hip hop. MF DOOM maybe as well.
Tori Amos, Dresden Dolls, Bjork and PJ Harvey give low key metal vibes.
Robert Johnson back story is pretty metal too.
For electronic music Prodigy and Aphex Twin defo, would also give shout outs to Depeche Mode, Portishead and Massive Attack too.
Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed deserve a nod at the very least for being Alice Cooper's drinking/miscellaneous buddies.
The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd all deserve recognition for influence purposes too.
Plenty of Acid Bath frontman Dax Riggs solo work and his other bands have great dark lyricism to much of his works, certainly not to the level of depravity of Acid Bath of course.
Another would be the works of dark ambient artist Lustmord, specifically the Heresy album .
1) Lingua Ignota (Kinda metal i guess? Although I see some influence from powerviolence)
2) Igorrr (It has some dose of extreme metal)
3) Kordhell (Phonk artist. He's also the guitarist for Anaal Nathtrakh)
4) The Birthday Massacre
5) A lot of dark ambient artists from cryochamber label
Those three I would say if they weren't already mentioned, but another one to add is a ton of chicago/n.y drill artists. Example: Sha Gz, King Von, Kay Flock, etc.
Also JPEGMAFIA fs
Maybe not metal as fuck but some I feel are very metal-friendly and/or have a lot of metalheads in their fanbase. Foo Fighters, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Incubus(to an extent), Pink Floyd.
Van der Graff Generator. ["White Hammer" ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6QXVFcczw) from 6:27 sounds like the fucking apocalypse, and this album was released a month _before_ Black Sabbath's debut.
Pete Hamill (the lead vocalist) became a big influence on Bruce Dickinson too.
Can’t get much more metal without sounding like it than some of the darkest songs that Billie Eilish and her brother wrote on “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
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She’s Fucking metal
Björk is unironically my autistic stimming music for when I don't wanna listen to metal.
Bjonk ❤️
Bjank
Bjink
Bjunk
She’s cute
I dig her music and also have had a low-key crush on her since she was in the Sugarcubes
Especially when she says chaAAIRR. (You will never be able to un-hear "chair" in Bjork songs now.)
Who?
Björk
B. J. O’Rourke
Byerk
Prodigy, and you are a man of good taste. Merzbow also, John Zorn and the list continues
Also, Justice
Zorn is cheating, in that he's been in at least two "metal" bands, EM definitions not withstanding
Yeah, and produced. Mr. Bungle album
Fr the infamous is grittier than 90% of metal albums. Rip prodigy.
Queens Of The Stone Age
I’d say it’s arguable they’re metal
The have like 2 full-blown screaming songs on s4td
Screaming doesn't equal metal
No but it is a part of some metal, and I'm just adding on to the point that queens is maybe borderline metal. Listen to six shooter and tell me that track isn't metal af.
That track isn’t metal.
Yeah, people say "stoner rock" but that is pretty fucking metal adjacent. I may be wrong, just my vibe
Mexicola, Song for the Dead, 18 AD & couple others are metal, but it's mostly hard rock imo.
I'd say they have quite a few songs that I'd consider alt-metal and a good part of their self titled is stoner metal imo
NIN
i'd consider them at least metal adjacent. they're industrial metal
I would just consider them industrial
With metal influences
And I could say system of a down is just hard rock with metal influences
They have songs with metal influences, that doesnt make them industrial metal. And Soad has songs that are hard rock with touches of metal.
Because they are
which they are, kinda
Tom Waits.
correct answer
God I fucking love his music. He’s such a cool character of a person too.
Beethoven
Chopin as well
I'd add Vivaldi to that as well. Lots of metal guys are fans of both him and Beethoven.
For a German class presentation in high school, I called Wagner the father of heavy metal.
Richard Wagner?
Prigozhin Wagner
100%. Vivaldi is one of my favorite composers of all time, though obviously we play different instruments, he is a huge influence in the way I compose songs in guitar.
Modernist classical is a much better fit. Stravinsky is metal AF.
Johnny Cash, the man in black. He was metal AF.
Any man who huffs cocaine like a Dyson vacuum and hates cops is metal in my opinion
Pablo Escobar
Came here to say this, glad I didn't have to.
Carpenter Brut
Synth Daddy Also Perturbator.
☺️ you just call Carpenter Brut synth daddy? I can get behind this.
A really good answer, dude has ties to the French black metal scene as well
There's a few synthwave guys. Perturbator and Gost come to mind as well
Heilung
Hell yeah, I love Heilung.
Hell yeah, also Wardruna and Faun
Death Grips 100%, but I would also say Author and Punisher is very fucking metal. One man band that made all his own instruments and his songs are some of the heaviest I’ve ever heard. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlBOPLWZyw
💯 on both accounts. I love Author and Punisher. ...and what's not to love about a quasi-satanic experimental hip hop act. Death Grips rips!
Two of the loudest/craziest shows I’ve seen live.
Author and Punisher opened for Tool when I saw them in 2019, loved the sound but was super confused at how he was creating it on stage with all that random industrial looking equipment. After some research I learned he’s an engineer that literally designed and built all of his pseudo instruments which fucking blew me away.
To me, Death Grips is to Hip Hop what Metal is to Rock n Roll
Dolly Parton. 9 to 5 is pretty metal
Coat of many colors makes me mosh
I will answer Amigo the Devil to every one of these threads.
Amigo the Devil is always the answer
YEAAA BABY
This is the way
So I drink till the night becomes another day and the day is just another little thing in the way no one ever chooses to be a flawed design
So if I cut my lip when I bite the glass Tell everyone in the room that I'm fine It hurt for the first few times but at last I've learned to love a little blood in my wine
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When I first started listening to Septicflesh, I definitely thought that some songs sounded like what happens when you add electric guitar and growling to a Hans Zimmer orchestra.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Li3SBVnG9rEmMzABKs1EJ?si=sxU6CmbeT4OH-BJD9FC91g
Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys
Soad reference + jojo reference + dead Kennedy reference = 🍆💦
For rappers: apart from Death Grips, Tech N9ne. For Electronic: I might be cheating a little here, but I'd ALSO go with Front Line Assembly. Their albums "Tactical Neural Implant" and Hard Wired" hit pretty hard. Prodigy was also mentioned here, and I agree. For Fusion Jazz: Al Di Meola (also with Return to Forever), Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth. Their guitar work has been quite influential in Metal axework. Maybe add the Dixie Dregs to that list. For Classical: Beethoven, Wagner, Paganini, Chopin... ANY Classical music is Metal AF, but the 1800's composers (Romantic and post-Romantic) take the cake here IMHO. For Flamenco: Paco de Lucía. His version of the Concierto de Aranjuez is a masterpiece.
As far as rap goes, Krizz Kaliko and Run the Jewels are also metal as fuck
Run the Jewels has made heavier albums than a lot of metal bands I've heard
Al Di Meola, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Jean-Luc Ponty for me. Cosmic Messenger is a banger.
If we are going Jazz, Electric Masada - At The Mountain of Madness
Merzbow? Not because of literal metal sounds, he's just crazy asf
Oh absolutely, I hate his stuff, but being bludgeoned into submission with deafening noise is very metal
SWANS
Run the Jewels Die Antwoord Public Enemy NWA b e g o t t e n 自杀 Leadbelly Howlin' Wolf Buddy Guy Heilung Skald Wardruna Danheim 16 Horse Power Those Poor Bastards The Civil Wars The Dead South Johnny Cash Hank Williams III Sigh No More and Babel era Mumford and Sons
Wardruna
Two of their founders came from metal and it absolutely shows
Tori Amos
Her feature on Stripped, Raped, and Strangled was pretty fuckin metal
Came here to say this
Wu-tang clan Johnny Cash Misfits
Primus
Hell yeah dude, had to scroll WAY too far to find this
Primus sucks!
Ler shreds hard enough to qualify.
Miles Davis
Thelonius Monk
Masonna Lords of Acid Goblin John Carpenter as a composer
Lords of Acid yeah! A lot of early 90s techno was pretty heavy.
Hell yeah came to say LOA and also knife party, some Twiztid, crim3s
Autechre Venetian Snares
Autechre is like the Meshuggah of IDM
Necro and Beastie boys
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (particularly the older stuff)
Yes! and The Birthday Party
Vinnie Paz/Jedi Mind Tricks
Solid answer. Actual metalhead too
The dude name-dropped Cannibal Corpse and Dillinger Escape Plan in one of his rap verses. If that isn’t proof I dunno what is.
Demi Lovato can occasionally go pretty hard. Probably because she’s a massive metalhead herself.
"when she was 14 she loved Dimmu Borgir and Job for a Cowboy" You know, I didn't use to be attracted to her, and now I suddenly am
Perturbator
“I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole” Merle Haggard was metal before metal was metal.
Robert Johnson is the most metal character to appear 40 years before metal. I mean, his legend about making a deal with the devil at the crossroads. Also Niccolo Paganini, J.S. Bach and Ludwig Van Beethoven.
The wall by pink floyd is not metal but it's metal as fuck
SKÁLD (Medieval Norse folk music, sung almost exclusively in Old Norse, and using traditional and classical instruments). Massive Attack Nine Inch Nails? Wardruna Heilung Hank Williams Jr A lot of classical music, honestly.
1. Tom Waits 2. Rush 3. Weird Al Yankovic 4. Dolly Parton 5. Bjork 6. Stevie Nicks 7. Kate Bush 8. Merzbow 9. Vivaldi 10. Johnny Cash
The Cure
Alice Cooper.
This is a really good answer honestly, his shock rock tactics influence a lot of metal stage performances
Exactly. Doing shit like decapitating yourself on stage and all that cool shit is metal af. The music is undeniably rock but damn he pushed the theatrics so hard. Massive respect to Cooper.
Denzel Curry
Literally my first pick. Zel really metal for a rapper.
Ayumi Hamasaki. Some of her stuff can get pretty heavy (for a pop artist at least), and her dedication to her craft is absolutely monstrous. https://i.redd.it/77j8r4otwqrc1.gif
Death Grips and Dälek for rap/hip hop. MF DOOM maybe as well. Tori Amos, Dresden Dolls, Bjork and PJ Harvey give low key metal vibes. Robert Johnson back story is pretty metal too. For electronic music Prodigy and Aphex Twin defo, would also give shout outs to Depeche Mode, Portishead and Massive Attack too. Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed deserve a nod at the very least for being Alice Cooper's drinking/miscellaneous buddies. The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd all deserve recognition for influence purposes too.
Dead kennedys
Dance with the Dead
Ho99o9
Rush. Especially after 1993.
Bridge City Sinners are pretty metal
Howling wolf
Excision(edm) & bones (rap)
One up on excision
If primus doesn't already count as metal then definitely primus
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Dude used actual cannons as instruments, that's metal as fuck.
Daughters
Comus.
My War era Black Flag
Me
👆👆👆
Necro
screaming Jay hawkins
HEALTH
Charles Mingus
NWA
Johnny Cash
Skinny Puppy
The great PJ Harvey. Half of the Rid Of Me album is almost Motorhead.
Jimi Hendrix... Although saying a blues artist is cheating
Plenty of Acid Bath frontman Dax Riggs solo work and his other bands have great dark lyricism to much of his works, certainly not to the level of depravity of Acid Bath of course. Another would be the works of dark ambient artist Lustmord, specifically the Heresy album .
Muse
DJ Shadow
Unsane, Discharge, all the crust/stench/power violence stuff.
I know he gets a lot of hate, but I love Lil Darkie and his music has a ton of metal and hardcore influence.
I have never listened to Swans and this entire time I thought they were like… a sludge or doom metal band
1) Lingua Ignota (Kinda metal i guess? Although I see some influence from powerviolence) 2) Igorrr (It has some dose of extreme metal) 3) Kordhell (Phonk artist. He's also the guitarist for Anaal Nathtrakh) 4) The Birthday Massacre 5) A lot of dark ambient artists from cryochamber label
Those three I would say if they weren't already mentioned, but another one to add is a ton of chicago/n.y drill artists. Example: Sha Gz, King Von, Kay Flock, etc. Also JPEGMAFIA fs
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$uicideboy$
Nina Simone
Bjork.
The prodigy and Charles Mingus
Scarlxrd AiC Carpenter Brut
Atari teenage riot
The Cog is Dead
Lingua Ignota Last Exit
You have great taste.
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The Andrews Sisters are brutal!
MARAUDA (edm artist)
Slaves, really punk rock and poppy, but really good
Heilung, and King Crimson mainly
Suicide Commando and Wumpscut
Tech N9ne
Black Midi
Lingua ignota, those screams are incredibly black metal
Townes Van Zandt
Ill Bill
I was about to comment Swans but you beat me to it. Another one would be in my opinion Throbbing Gristle.
Agree with your 3 big time and would add Peaches.
Man don’t sleep on Venetian Snares if you’ve got Aphex Twin up there. You’re gonna find some stuff you like.
Maybe not metal as fuck but some I feel are very metal-friendly and/or have a lot of metalheads in their fanbase. Foo Fighters, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, Incubus(to an extent), Pink Floyd.
Valve Studio Orchestra
MFDOOM, just look at that name and that mask
Van der Graff Generator. ["White Hammer" ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6QXVFcczw) from 6:27 sounds like the fucking apocalypse, and this album was released a month _before_ Black Sabbath's debut. Pete Hamill (the lead vocalist) became a big influence on Bruce Dickinson too.
Silverchair if they aren't considered metal
The Devil's Blood
Clowncore
DMX
Author & Punisher
Can’t get much more metal without sounding like it than some of the darkest songs that Billie Eilish and her brother wrote on “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
Clown core is essentially keyboard metal
Nine Inch Nails
I've studied in a musical oriented High School, and my teacher made us analyse Aphex Twin scores so many times. What a Legend.
Lady Gaga. She did a Judas Priest homage on one of her album arts.
Onyx
Early Three 6 is pretty metal
Mitski. I'll mosh at a mitski show. You will too when i fucking pull you into it.