If you're into BM at all I would highly suggest listening to Furze's Necromanzee Cogent. Its quite slow and sprawling, compared to his other works, but its a wonderfully odd journey. If you want to read a bit more in depth before you listen, check out the reviews.


(Album best served with medicinal enhancement.)

i think an often overlooked reality is that "psychedelic" is an even more vague term than "brutal", "heavy", or "depressing".

everyone will experience different reactions to different sounds, particularly when enhanced by drugs. i can't think of a more "musically psychedelic" experience than the first time i smoked some laced shit at a friend's party and, after metal and punk records had been spun all night, someone had the bright idea to put a disco compilation on.

Yeah disco can be psychedelic as can rock, folk, jazz etc. but the OP is asking for psychedelic metal specifically.

i think you missed my point.

i was trying to demonstrate that the term "psychedelic" is VERY subjective, since many people (not only in this thread) try to play the "oh no, that's not psychedelic at all" card or try to define the term more strictly than necessary in order to discount others' suggestions.

sorry if i didn't effectively make my point. my communication skills are admittedly poor.

i think you missed my point.

i was trying to demonstrate that the term "psychedelic" is VERY subjective, since many people (not only in this thread) try to play the "oh no, that's not psychedelic at all" card or try to define the term more strictly than necessary in order to discount others' suggestions.

sorry if i didn't effectively make my point. my communication skills are admittedly poor.

i think you missed my point.

i was trying to demonstrate that the term "psychedelic" is VERY subjective, since many people (not only in this thread) try to play the "oh no, that's not psychedelic at all" card or try to define the term more strictly than necessary in order to discount others' suggestions.

sorry if i didn't effectively make my point. my communication skills are admittedly poor.

I dont see how Psychedelic is subjective. Psychedelic rock is a fairly definable genre of music in the 60's. I deifne it as "Free-form, blues based rock utilazing effects sucha s phasers, fuzz, flangers, etc. and spacey atmospheres."
Probably not the best deifnition, but you get the point. Its much easier to define than metal. The Dictionary definition of heavy metal is "an offshoot of electronic Hard Rock with less blues and less syncopation and high amplitude" or something along those lines, which is a poor definition. Stoner Metal has bluesyness, groove metal is syncopated, etc.

The new Nachtmystium is supposedly psychadelic, but I haven't personally listened to it.

You might like Mammatus, Earthless or Om.

Triple *YAWN*

Hey OP, try Maudlin of the Well or Forgotten Silence if you want something that is more lively and energetic. I'd hate to think that the only kind of 'psych' metal is this new hipster trend of sludge/doom dronemetal shit.

It fits my definition of psychedelic and is one hell of an album, everyone should check it out.

For psychadellic doom metal, I suggest Starchild. It's psychadellic traditional doom, yet can in no way be labeled as stoner metal. Kinda like the bastard child of Pink Floyd and doom metal.

someone mentioned cactus. thats awesome. cactus kicks ass. but check out the first manilla road album "invasion" its psychadelic early metal/rock. really spacy