History Music / Dalek

* LongTitle: Several, with the longest being ''From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots'', "Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yourself, Then Ruin Me", "Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children's Heads Against a Rock", "A Collection of Miserable Thoughts Laced with Wit", "But That Does Not Mean We Are Too", "The Apparatus Is Behind a Symphony of Shadows", and "When at Last We Draw That Final Breath".

* BadassBaritone: Will Brooks has a very deep voice.

** Mostly averted on the ''Meditations'' records - ''Vol. 3'' is an astonishing [=DR11=], for example.

* LongTitle: Several, with the longest being ''From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots'', "Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yourself, Then Ruin Me", "Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Children's Heads Against a Rock", and "A Collection of Miserable Thoughts Laced with Wit".

** ''Endangered Philosophies'': "A Collective Cancelled Thought" (7:07)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually at around an 8 or 9, sometimes shooting up to a 10 or even 11. Note that, due to the band's wide use of dynamics, many passages are lower, but overall the intense claustrophobia of the band's heaviest passages means most songs can't be classified below an 8 or so. A few songs drop substantially lower, though.

* LyricalColdOpen: "Distorted Prose" has about a minute of Brooks rapping ACappella before the beat comes in.

Dälek (pronounced "die-a-leck") are an experimental hip hop band from Newark, New Jersey. They are well known for helping to pioneer the genre of industrial hip hop in the late 90's and early 2000's. They have an extremely heavy, aggressive, and experimental sound, incorporating elements of industrial music, noise, shoegaze, ambient, and extreme metal, paired with angry, socially conscious lyrics which rail against government and religion. The band is currently composed of MC Dälek, Mike Manteca, and DJ Rek.

* ConsciousHipHop: A very dark take on the genre.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] the popular OmnicidalManiac [[Characters/DoctorWhoDalek alien race]] from ''Series/DoctorWho'', whose name lacks an umlaut and is pronounced roughly as it looks.

* DroneOfDread: Frequently incorporated into their beats - in fact, it's rarely ''not'' a component of them. In particular, "Black Smoke Rises" is almost nothing but this, and almost every song on ''Abandoned Language'' and ''Gutter Tactics'' has this as a major component as well. "3:46" also stands out as a particularly extreme example even by Dälek's standards.

* DroneOfDread: Frequently incorporated into their beats - in fact, it's rarely ''not'' a component of them. In particular, "Black Smoke Rises" is almost nothing but this, and almost every song on ''Abandoned Language'' and ''Gutter Tactics'' has this as a major component as well.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Forever Close My Eyes" is the most obvious example. "Music for ASM" probably qualifies too.

If there is a difference, it's that the palette of sounds we work with is more varied than what has been called hip-hop in the last 10 years. Somehow, as hip-hop grew, it's been put into this box. I think it's funny when people are like, 'That's not hip-hop. It's this and this and this.' You can try to rationalize it as whatever you want to rationalize it as.

* GenreBusting: [[HarshNoise Noise]], {{ambient}}, {{industrial}}, modern classical, TripHop, {{shoegaze}}, ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock, {{Krautrock}}, PostRock, Indian music, and even extreme metal are all influences on their music. They're almost more of a metal band than a rap band, as they've released an album on Profound Lore Records, which is a metal label, and have opened for metal bands like Music/{{Isis}}, Music/{{Godflesh}}, Music/{{Jesu}}, Music/{{Tool}}, Music/{{Mastodon}}, Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, Earth, and Music/{{Melvins}} in the past, along with frequently having their albums reviewed by metal sites. Oktopus and MC dälek also collaborated with seminal {{metalcore}} band Starkweather on their album ''This Sheltering Night''.

* ProtestSong: Quite a few of them.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: An awful lot of their songs; in particular, ''Absence'' is pretty much entirely gapless.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Musically, they're probably one of the biggest examples in hip hop. Back in the early 2000's, ''nothing'' in the genre was this heavy.

* DroneOfDread: Frequently incorporated into their beats. "Black Smoke Rises" is almost nothing but this.
* EpicRocking: They've got some pretty long cuts by hip hop standards, with song lengths averaging at about six minutes. The longest is ''Untitled'', which is a single song clocking in at ''44'' minutes, which is pretty much unheard of in hip hop. Other tracks above the seven-minute mark:

* GenreBusting: [[HarshNoise Noise]], {{ambient}}, {{industrial}}, modern classical, TripHop, {{shoegaze}}, ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock, {{Krautrock}}, PostRock, Indian music, and even extreme metal are all influences on their music. They're almost more of a metal band than a rap band, as they've released an album on Profound Lore Records, which is a metal label, and have opened for metal bands like Music/{{Isis}}, Music/{{Godflesh}}, Music/{{Tool}}, Music/{{Mastodon}}, Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, and Music/{{Melvins}} in the past, along with frequently having their albums reviewed by metal sites. Oktopus and MC dälek also collaborated with seminal {{metalcore}} band Starkweather on their album ''This Sheltering Night''.

* BoleroEffect: "Abandoned Language" uses this so much it's practically a PostRock song with rapping over it. Other songs use this fairly extensively too.

* MindScrew: A lot of their trippy instrumental passages have this effect.

* BoleroEffect: "Abandoned Language" uses this so much it's practically a PostRock song with rapping over it. Other songs use this somewhat too.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually at around an 8 or 9, sometimes shooting up to a 10 or even 11. Note that, due to the band's wide use of dynamic range, many passages are lower, but overall the intense claustrophobia of the band's heaviest passages means most songs can't be classified below an 8 or so. A few songs drop substantially lower, though.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Forever Close My Eyes" is the most obvious example.

* GenreBusting: [[HarshNoise Noise]], {{ambient}}, {{industrial}}, modern classical, TripHop, {{shoegaze}}, ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock, {{Krautrock}}, PostRock, Indian music, and even extreme metal are all influences on their music. They're almost more of a metal band than a rap band, as they've released an album on Profound Lore Records, which is a metal label, and have opened for metal bands like Music/{{Isis}}, Music/{{Godflesh}}, Music/{{Tool}}, Music/{{Mastodon}}, Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, and Music/{{Melvins}} in the past, along with frequently having their albums reviewed by metal sites. Oktopus and MC dälek also collaborated with Starkweather on their album ''This Sheltering Night''.

* BoleroEffect: "Abandoned Language" uses this so much it's practically a PostRock song with rapping over it. Other use this somewhat too.

* LoudnessWar: Likely used deliberately as a form of SensoryAbuse, though they're far from the most extreme example out there.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually at around a 9, sometimes shooting up to a 10 or even 11. A few songs drop lower.

* GenreBusting: [[HarshNoise Noise]], {{ambient}}, {{industrial}}, modern classical, TripHop, {{shoegaze}}, ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock, {{Krautrock}}, Indian music, and even extreme metal are all influences on their music. They're almost more of a metal band than a rap band, as they've released an album on Profound Lore Records, which is a metal label, and have opened for metal bands like Music/{{Isis}}, Music/{{Godflesh}}, Music/{{Tool}}, Music/{{Mastodon}}, Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, and Music/{{Melvins}} in the past, along with frequently having their albums reviewed by metal sites. Oktopus and MC dälek also collaborated with Starkweather on their album ''This Sheltering Night''.

* {{Instrumental}}: They have a few; "Music for ASM" and "Imagine What We Started" are probably the longest.