Boris

Bonnek wrote:  while it isn't for the other two because they pretty much gave up on melody, rhythm and harmony,

Now that's pretty much 100% bullsh*t. Just because the melodies, rhythms and harmonies aren't something traditional that mainstream music fans can easily associate with doesn't mean they aren't there


Edited by Triceratopsoil - February 23 2011 at 17:11

Bonnek wrote: Has been rejected quite some time ago already. So I can't tell you the reasoning the team followed here, but listening to the samples I hear an experimental doom/stoner/drone band, very eager to experiment, but just like Sun o))) their experimentation isn't 'musical' or 'Prog' enough to fall within the parameters of the Experimental/Post-Metal definitions. I admit this gives food for debate though, I wouldn't call Eno or Bass Communion very 'musical' or 'Prog' neither and still they are on PA.

They were evaluated already by the metal team, but were unanimously rejected. 

I'd like to suggest Japanese band Boris for either RIO/Avant-prog or Experimental/post-metal, or even prog related. Their albums from their early years lean extraordinarily towards the experimental side of rock-Absolutego, Amplifier Worship, Flood and Feedbacker are all composed of one massive, epic song that stays consistent in structure but shifts and piles melodies on top of each other as time goes on. They've also collaborated with noted experimental artists Keji Haino and Merzbow, and have a tendency to shift styles every other album: Smile is a relatively straightforward noise/stoner doom album, but it was followed immediately by Cloud Chamber, a collaboration with Michio Kurihara that can more aptly be described as a psychedelic rock album with classical overtones!