Hey,

I am interested in finding some new atmospheric death metal bands.... So far, I really like one band in particular.... And they are called; Fallujah.

Does anyone else have any recommendations for this certain genre?

Don't know how it compares to Fallujah but Garden of Shadows is one of my favorite atmospheric death metal bands. Brutal vocals yet soothing guitar leads and heavy keyboard presence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu-pVlaGAE8

I recently asked this myself in the Death Metal rec thread and got no responses... so watching this one closely.

And for you, some recs: some of these bands are very technical, others are really primitive. Just throwing out the whole lot.

Ulcerate
Impetuous Ritual
Flourishing
Grave Upheaval
Abyssal(UK)
Muknal
Baring Teeth
Funebrarum
Stargazer

Not too familiar with Fallujah, but they seem far more entrenched in the modern Technical Death Metal sound, so you might also enjoy these, though I would not call them "atmospheric DM" : Anomalous, Beyond Creation, Archspire

Seconding StarGazer. Their music really takes you into another world. It twists and turns in so many different ways that you just don't expect and you forget that you're listening to the same piece of music.

Atmospheric is a very broad term as there are so many types of atmosphere. Most bands generate some kind of atmosphere. Not familiar with the band you mentioned or what it is about them you like but here are a list of bands that generate thick atmospheres for me that I enjoy.

Bolt Thrower, Asphyx, Hail of Bullets etc.
These bands play thick grooving death metal that makes you feel like you are entering a warzone.

Purtenance, Demigod, Depravity, Funebre, and others from the early Finnish death metal scene generate a very otherwordly atmosphere that is what I really like about that particular scene. This is largely due to the leads. Darkthrone's Soulside Journey is another great one I would recommend though from Norway.

Autopsy has a lot of uneasy and meandering riffing that gives off an uneasy atmosphere I love. Morbus Chron is a retro-death band that does this very well.

Incantation, Immolation and their numerous clones are all worth mentioning as well.

Oh and of course Gorement is some amazing doomy death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id7BMU4Nb2w

Deathevokation's The Chalice of Ages is a modern death metal classic with it's doomy sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mi9xktQaPo

Not really death metal, more like atmospheric deathcore, but these bands seems to be thrown in the same bunch as Fallujah.

Aegaeon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vszLJuq459s

As they Burn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9tIbdwHyv4

Also, I believe you are already familiar with The Faceless, if you are not, check them out, they have the same style of guitar leads, specially in their second album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UbZ2k0MS94 At 1:53 you'll see what I mean.

Thanks everyone so far for the help! I have only heard 2 of the bands mentioned above; Aegaeon & Ulcerate. Love both of them!!!
I will check out the others as well, if anyone else has any more recommendations, please feel free to talk about it \m/

as for faceless and bolt thrower, i wouldnt really put them in the atmospheric category....but thats my personal opinion....I find faceless is more tech death, and bolt thrower old school death/thrash.

loving beyond terror beyond grace atm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ygajvevqi8

Check out Ireland's Valediction, they play mid paced death metal which in places some of the riffs remind me of Bolt Thrower but they have a full time keyboard player that helps create a nice imo 'sci-fi' like atmosphere.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Val ... 3540326827

good shit!!! really like this!

Yeah, I wouldn't do that either, but, as I said before, The Faceless seems to have the same vibe as Fallujah when it comes to atmospheric leads, so... I thought that you would enjoy them, and, Fallujah isn't really THAT atmospheric isn't it?

Now for another suggestion. Aeon of Horus has some really nice atmospheric moments, technical/melodic death metal though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp04eveWfjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFg2pkSRCA0

Also, Augury?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrAHhZuSeSY

Yeah, regardless of which one you think is more "atmospheric", The Faceless and Fallujah are both practically identical twins.

Anyways, for stuff like Fallujah (I personally don't think of them as atmospheric death metal, but rather technical deathcore), you could maybe try Burning the Masses's second album, Offspring of Time.

My point is that atmospheric is a very vague term and Bolt Thrower are not what people usually think of when they say atmosphere but they are very atmospheric for me with their trance inducing groove riffing that makes me feel like I am on a battlefield. And they are not oldschool death/thrash as they are not thrashy. Malevolent Creation, Thanatos, Desultory, and Revenant are some examples of oldschool death/thrash.

I have found Isis & Cult Of Luna.....Kinda not exactly death metal, but they are ambient post rock/sludge....Exactly what I was looking for, although most of these suggestions were also great and I did find some new great bands

Aeon Of Horus live 2.5 hours away from me, andy annard is a friend of mine! And I have liked Augury for a while

how about a band called "an abstract illusion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT_UL8L ... qO49iTCohL

https://youtu.be/UjOsxIpoWJY Try this!

Mithras maybe? Not the same style as Fallujah but they have a distinctive sound and a ton of atmosphere.



If you like them check out Breach alongside Neurosis they are one of the godfathers of that sort of atmospheric post-hardcore/metal stuff, their albums It's Me God, Venom and Kollapse are awesome.

If you want Fallujah-esque tech death, give Virvum and The Zenith Passage a shot.

Lykathea Aflame

For atmosphere go for early Crematory (german), early Tiamat, ealry Therion, early Amorphis, early Cemetary (swedish), God Macabre, Desultory..

Did I say early stuff? Yeah..

If you can deal with it being more than average melodic by Death Metal standards, I highly reccommend swedish band Marionette. They are amazing at atmospheric elements. Particularly on their third album, Nerve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlrsZPwuQGk <--- Particularly the outro.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrmBRA9XweA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZkA7KksQIU < --- The mid part of this song is amazing.

No Demilich? That's shocking considering the thread title. Check out Demilich. A class of their own.

I second Garden Of Shadows.

Darkening isn't bad either.
https://darkening.bandcamp.com/

I really enjoy The Autumn League and find myself listening to it a ton.
https://theautumnleague.bandcamp.com/

The early works of Septicflesh
Horrified (GRC)
Gigan
Mithras
Pyrrhon
Ad Nauseum
Artificial Brain
Wicked Innocence
Portal
Mitochondrion
Molested
Lykathea Aflame
Infester
Antediluvian
Earth (Australia, first album)
Excommunion (Colorado, check out Thronosis and Superion)

I'd give more, but your definition of "atmospheric" isn't exactly precise. All these bands focus a lot on atmosphere just in different ways, same techy/spacey like Gigan or Mithras, some dark and chaotic like Portal, others in an undefinable quality of atmospheric sounding music. Gorguts-worship like Pyrrhon and Ulcerate have more or less spawned a new subgenre called post-death, you may want to look into that. Lots of death/doom is very atmospheric as well, maybe try something like Disma or Winter? Seconding Demilich as well, and some others in the vein include Nucleus, Nauseant (practically a clone, but a damn good one), Zealotry, and Chthe'ilist. That's the best I got for you.

if i were to call something "atmospheric death metal", i'd go with shaarimoth's album from earlier this year and the debut albums from dead congregation and venenum

Something you might be interested in is Autumn Leaves, its super old school but its fun to listen to a band ahead of it's time, even if it doesn't have all the parts there yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EId3v2sX3k4

The Chasm has a great atmosphere in their death metal.

Timeghoul, maybe?