What are some bands you think that really have just shown to be amazing as musicians, not just metal musicians, but general musicians?
I'm going to start with Enslaved, they have progressed so much. They really showed their musical diversity starting with monumension when they started using a lot of proggy elements, with clear floyd and crimson inspired parts in songs like "the voices", and the sleep. They continually progressed, I'd say in a pattern of two albums at a time before any major sound shifts, leading to their latest three albums, Vertebrae, Axioma Ethica Odini, and Riitiir; these three albums musically were amazing. Songs like reflection, ethica odini, and storm of memories musically were amazing in how they came together. You can listen to these three songs while looking at the album covers, and in your head picture just this spacey sci-fi/ Norse setting. For their progressiveness as musicians, and ability to incorporate so much into their music, I think they are musically amazing, not just in metal.
The second band I want to talk about is Boris. While they arent exactly straight metal, they have clearly progressed, and never stuck to the same thing. Their sounds is always changing in some way, large or big, and they experiment a lot creating some of the most out there music I've ever heard. They have their early epic Abstolutigo, then their fore-coming epics like feed backer, dronevil, flood, and their other albums like smile, pink, heavy rocks, new album, and everything else they've made, they have shown they are capable of playing almost anything, from sludge to pop. I could try to say what their best albums were in my opinion, but I would end up naming off 2/3's of their discography. Just looking at flood, and the ambiance they create with it, to new album, and the more poppy feeling they create with that, it is no question they are also musically amazing.
The final band I want to mention is Immortal, and simply for the album "sons of northern darkness". I don't know how to compare this to anything else in their discography really, at first it sounds a lot like battles in the north, at the heart of winter, or all shall fall, but when you hear all the little themes and elements they put into all the songs, this album is musically genius. They have thrash elements, grind elements, viking elements, ambient elements. The way that the drums and guitars compliment each other, on top of the bass and vocals is amazing (one by one and sons of northern darkness show this distinctly). And the solo at the end of "beyond the north waves" is something so musically complex that Abbath himself may not have understood how he did (referring to his lessons from guitar world). For this album I would consider immortal to be musically amazing.
These are just some bands I can think of off the top of my head, what are your opinions, and what bands would you say are musically amazing, beyond metal?
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