Progressive/Death Metal

Heres some recent ideas employing somewhat "modern" techniques in a death metal context. No1 & 2 use 12 Tone rows and take a semi-serial approach, meaning that the rules are often bent or broken for aesthetic purposes. No3 is a generally more "melodic" piece (tho still atonal for the most part) with heavy focus on rythm. All the pieces are more or less incomplete, especially No1 & 2 in which all the guitars are still playing roughly the same thing.

Op5No1 - 12-Tone Death (pt.I).mid

Op5No2 - 12-Tone Death (pt.II).mid

Op5No3.mid

Tablature is included for No3 as standard notation doesnt support quarterbends and such...

Op5No1 - 12-Tone Death (pt.I).pdf

Op5No2 - 12-Tone Death (pt.II).pdf

Op5No3.pdf

I thought it was really interesting, but I'd probably need to hear it performed to really understand-get a feel for it, because my midi playback is awful.

nice rythms. loves death metal likes this. it remindes me of mesuggah. love the 12 tone melodies. they sound more jazzy than weird. good work! a little hint of dillinger escape plan in there? :P you should check out mathcore. a very similar style to this.

With this song I quite enjoy it really does have a mathcore feel to it. The laid back chill part at the end of part 1 is very a keen to the style as well. The second parts dissonance is very compelling and I enjoy when the guitar does double and triple stops. Also the use of building up in the song as whole from going from least to best works quite well. One thing I do suggest but mainly for the first part is trying adding a little more consonance to not give the listener a headache after all the chaos with 12 tone and mixed meter.

Purely out of curiousness are you able to play this?

And Lucifer said " Let there be DEATH METAL !!!!!!

Very cool dude. Its refreshing to me to hear such a new approach to metal, at least relative to what I'm familiar with anyways. No. 1 & 2 sound to me like Frank Zappa meets metal. No. 3 was a bit more conventional than the others but because of that I thought it had more song potential than the others. I think it would be epic if you made solos for all of these and also if you wrote lyrics to No.3.

Meshuggah!

these are pretty fun

Interesting stuff. You have some nice ideas. The third one sounded a lot like the boring guitar work in Messhuggah, but the first two seemed rather nice. Good job! I wouldn't focus so much on the technical aspect though; it makes it sound too academic and stale. Try enveloping creative concepts within the stuff you right as well, and don't be afraid to put some solos in there either, and do some stuff so that the bass at times could also emphasize the heaviness of the guitars a bit too. I'm not saying I'm against the bass being contrapuntal to the guitars, I kind of like it when it is, but it's also sometimes good to use the bass in that way. Nice drum work too!

Also, in the pdf file, may I also suggest putting in the tablature under the notes?

Also, to maybe help develop your style, may I suggest some Gorguts for you as well? They write death metal just like you have too, with influences like Shostakovitch and Schoenberg.

My my havent been around this site in a while, thanks for all the generally approving comments, and yes, i have been listening to gorguts, and yes, i am able to play this, tho i may struggle with some parts i can generally do it.

Come think of it, i may just record this stuff sometime soon, be good to have a real version of it somewhere.

Ill link it here (along with some of my newer, stylistically quite different, pieces) if people are interested...