Me Too!. But not wussy fusion. If I had it my way, it would be like Bitches' Brew-era Miles Davis meets the Legendary Pink Dots, but with the attitude of John Zorn.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Guitar-led Ambient, preferably with a 12-string.
Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!Industrial sludge metal a la Godflesh, but with more experimentation, progressive song structures and conceptuality. To put it another way, kind of like '90s Neurosis if they had just Dave Edwardson on vocals, drum machines and an industrial atmosphere. Maybe I'll finally have time for learning guitar in a month or so, and I have an easy source for vocal training.
Alternately, technical death metal heavily based on unusual tuplets. I reckon it would be insanely complicated to learn but ultimately worth it. I'd be interested in making it melodic, though, since I'm more interested in the interaction between notes rather than rhythms that it would provide. Speaking of that, I'd love to get recommendations for melodic music featuring unusual tuplets, like five against six...
edited 18th Mar '11 1:57:59 PM by Litis
Noise/Industrial with loads of samples. I do this, just not well. :P
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Geeky somewhat experimental prog melodic metal, Drums should be dynamic, No ratatata drums that you hear so much in power metal nowadays, Away with baroque inspired "neoclassical" wankery in favour of a sound more influenced by romantic and modern classical music,
The best part of classical music is the harmonies anyway, And come to think of it I never really heard counterpoint being explored in metal, Also a fluid technical sound that never seem to get bogged down in repetition, very smooth transitions from heavy parts to soft when wanted, Again not unlike classical music, Music that adapts to the lyric matter.
Not that far away from Mailedbypostmans idea it would seem.
edited 18th Mar '11 2:40:29 PM by adrasl300
In the process of creating Old Shame.Metal containing...
- Highly powerful, speedy and melodic sessions.
- Acoustic guitars + Distorted guitars.
- Orchestral stuff.
- Prog ideas as long as it doesn't sound like Dream Theater.
- Hip hop and electronic sections would be welcome, as well as chiptunes.
- The above ideas used either separatedly or at the same time depending of the song.
- My albums would, if possible, fill almost the entire 80-minute space on the CD. Lack of content would be no trouble.
- A backstreet boys cover.
edited 18th Mar '11 7:11:20 PM by NEO
No regret shall pass over the threshold!I would probably start out by composing progressive death metal, combining my favourite styles of instrumentation:
- Eight-string guitars, with guitar solos inspired by Nationalist classical composers, plenty of tremolo picking and double-hand tapping, and probably also using dodecaphony.
- Bass turned higher than normal in the mix, used to drive melodies. Riffs would probably have heavy distortion and be played high on the neck. Possibly 5- or 6-string too.
- Low-pitched death growls which incorporate more musical pitch than usual, combined with softer baritone cleans (none of that pseudo-"operatic" clean vocal bullshit).
- Drums have double bass, par for the course, but used more subtly, and plenty of drags on the toms and grace notes on the ride.
- Keyboards used only to add atmosphere, though there are sometimes some more prominent melodies and a couple of (not too prominent) solos. And NO ORCHESTRATIONS.
Could also incorporate two or more of the following styles: psychedelic rock, gothic rock, dream pop, sludge metal, shoegaze, dark ambient, post-rock and world music.

...then what kind of music would that be?
Feel free to go into details.
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