Also experimental electronics, avantgarde, ‘world music’, some funk, and a bit of indie rock.
I don’t really know anything about mainstream pop, r’n’b, or pop-rock, and especially don’t listen to lyrics so can’t say anything about rap, country, or ‘singer-songwriter’ music except that The Last Poets were the progenitors of rap, and The Velvet Underground said most of the stuff I need to hear. I do know a bit about 90s music like eurodance, and a little of 80s popular music, by the virtue of having grown among it.
P.S. The Invidious instance I use is broken (just like the last time I made such a thread), so unless your artist is on Bandcamp or free on Soundcloud, I probably won’t be able to answer new requests.
I thought there was no shortage of noodly prog-metal bands in the past years, what with Periphery, Polyphia, and whatever else — frankly I lost track of the genre. Both of those you mentioned have a strong whiff of eighties-nineties guitar virtuosos noodling for ten minutes on end. Animals as Leaders are at least a bit jazzy, so I’ll throw in some jazz-metal bands here. Alas, not all are instrumental.
Blind Vandal: probably not much present on streaming platforms, but a live performance by those dudes went like “this song is called Kamikaze”, and then ten minutes of shredding
Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells Live at the BBC, 1973’
Planet X’s ‘Universe’
Universal Totem Orchestra’s ‘Rituale Alieno’
Atheist
Cynic
Spastic Ink: see ‘The Cereal Mouse’ and A Wild Hare; and Blotted Science (both bands lead by Ron Jarzombek)
Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant
Ruins; and other stuff by Tatsuya Yoshida
Zeni Geva
Mammals
UneXpect’s ‘In a Flesh Aquarium’
Try also Lanzallamas and Liquidarlo Celuloide, who are more on noise-rock side
Right on, thanks for the recommendations! I’m familiar wit Tubular Bells since it was used in The Exorcist. I will work my way through the others.
I saw Animals as Leaders live about 13 years ago, and they were amazingly talented.
‘The Exorcist’ used only the intro from ‘Tubular Bells’, while the full performance is over twenty-five minutes (and that seems to be just the first part from the album). So if you haven’t heard it in full, I recommend checking it out.