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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2005 at 16:50

Here are some of my favorite instrumental metal albums:

  • Marty Friedman - Music for Speeding
  • Derek Sherinian - Black Utopia
  • Tony MacAlpine - Chromaticity

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2005 at 16:45
Karma to Burn! Second best stoner metal ever, and all instrumental apart from their first record! After Kyuss of course, and I think they have the odd instrumental piece too, but not all that many and the ones that are tend away from metal. An indepedent group who sound like a proggier version of KtB are Biblical Proof of UFOs, on their first record anyway.
 
Moving away from stoner (!), I think long stretches of Frederik Thorensen(sp?)'s Special Defects is instrumental (and bloody good as well!). Some modern King Crimson is quite metallish and instrumental. I'm sure there must be some instrumental Melvins although I couldn't point to individual songs at all. Mattias Eklund does some instrumental guitar wizardry, when not playing in Freak Kitchen (who aren't instrumental, but do rock!). I'm sure MikeEnRegaliacan point you in the direction of some more "guitar heroes".
 
Spastic Ink, are of course neccessary, as will Machinations of Dementia be when it's recorded (for now: http://www.spasticink.com/rjsynaptic2.wmv is a demo recording, if you like it it's probably simple enough to extract the audio only, if not I can do it for you).
 
I hope that's a little to get started with
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2005 at 16:33

Yngwie Malmsteen's first solo album Rising Force.All instrumental except for 2 tracks.
There are some killer instrumentals on early Maiden albums:Transylvania(debut),Ghengis Khan(Killers),Losfer Words(Big 'Orra)(Powerslave).

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 03 2005 at 16:22
OK... well if you don't know by now, I am a DJ at my college's student radio station, and every semester we do a fund raising drive during which each show has a "special theme" and we take pledge donations from listeners.  So that week I'm going to call my show "Metal vocals suck!  ...an exploration into instrumental metal".  

However, I need some suggestions for good things to play.  I already have all-instrumental bands like Pelican and Red Sparowes lined up, as well as Liquid Tension Experiment, The f**king Champs, Dream Theater (of course), Porcupine Tree, and a couple other possibilities.

So, what other good instrumental metal pieces are there?  I posted this here because I'm open to non-prog metal as well, but I need to stay away from popular commercial bands like Metallica, etc.(this is an independent radio station after all!).  I have a 2 hour show to fill, and I want to make it listenable so I can get as many pledges as possible. 

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