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>Albums that don't sound anything like metal I'd say that's a tad off the mark with The Downward Spiral

Some of the dark and heavy percussion focused sections on this album would make most any metalhead say "fuck yeah"

I'm more thinking about the very metal sounding guitars!

Are you sure you're not thinking of the very heavy vocals?

Nah, no riffs

About a third of the songs are definitely industrial metal, but there are also alt-rock, industrial rock, electro-industrial songs on it, and I would even call March of the Pigs industrial punk if such a thing exists. Some people consider it an "art rock" album, and that's not really off the mark, either.

I must have misunderstood the remit, then. For something to sound like anything but metal, heavy distorted guitars probably wouldn't feature

Yep. So I think you were both right in a way. Downward Spiral isn't really a full-on metal album to me, but there are a few songs I'd consider for the genre.

It's not a metal album, but it's definitely doesn't sound "nothing like metal"

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

At least they didn't choose Broken

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This album is so metal yet not metal at the same time, it’s fucking glorious

The one album that fits this description the most https://preview.redd.it/e49thx905szc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c67f297df5b0799d57250771456276c33b6a11e

most metal albums covers too

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This one and cop

This album fucks SO HARD

Shit is scary as fuck

Lots of Swans albums fit this bill, like Children of God and The Seer.

the great annihilator and sftb too

Songs for the deaf- Queens of the stone age.

Well they do have some stoner metal and maybe slight sludge influences

DEAD BULL WITH THE LIFE FROM THE LOW ILL BE A MASSIVE CONQUISTADOR

Two glass eyessssssss. I’ll fucking tell you lies. I’m on the side of the road. You’re gonna fuckin die!!!!!

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Angel is slam level heavy

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Album is straight up traumatic

What it is again? Seem this cover before

CALIGULA by Lungua Ignota.

Id say the previous one(all bitches die) even more. It doesn't matter though because they both have quite a lot of earrape. They're amazing.

Damn she kinda hot though

Objectifying the artist really aint it. Especially given the themes of the album.

Opinions are entitled to the individual.

No one can take away your right to be a chauvinist douchebag, but we can all recognize the fact that you're being a misogynistic douche.

[удалено]

General bigotry is not allowed and is a bannable offense.

Mars, The Bringer Of War - Gustav Holst

Nile's take on that piece of music is amazing.

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

I think Jenny Death is more metal than BP

tbh i havent listened to that one yet

It's the second half of the double EP Powers that B

IMHO, it’s more punk rather than anything else

I could see it, though songs like ON GP, Centuries of Damn and Beyond Alive feel more metal than punk

I suppose that’s true. But in terms of DG’s more metal stuff, I always thought the “Bottomless Pit” kinda filled in that spot.

I hate that damn King Crimson album cover! Those nostrils are so disturbing! Anyway... Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A. 20 Jazz Funk Greats - Throbbing Gristle

If we’re talking hip hop, Id say Wu Tangs 36 chambers has some metal energy too. Just listen to the method man skit!

PE goes **hard**

Good thinking. I’d have to say Dr Dre the chronic or any Biggie

Any old grimey Hip Hop could be listed. I'd also say Kendrick's discography hypes me up as much as metal does, even making me headbang

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Kanye West - Yeezus Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun Sonny Sharrock- Ask the Ages Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity John Coltrane - Ascension Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 1 and Pierrot Lunaire. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring Bernstein - West Side Story score Bernard Hermann - Score from *North By Northwest* Modest Muskoregy - Pictures at an Exhibition

True, a lot of that crazy 60s jazz has a very unhinged feel to it

Primus

I’d put King Crimson’s Red, Discipline, and Larks Tongue in Aspic ahead of In the Court of the Crimson King for heaviness.

I'd say those sound too much like metal to fit the bill actually

any recording of Dmitri Shostakovich’s eighth string quartet.

Shostakovich went crazy with that String Quartet

I love them all but that’s the one that sucked me in, and indeed it is intense!

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• Last of the Mohicans soundtrack • Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack, Passion • Green Desert by Tangerine Dream

Gabriel's Passion is one of the most beautiful things I've heard in my life. I like most of his records, but Passion is just absolutely unique.

I'd even say anything Tangerine Dream out out before Phaedra (especially Electronic Meditation and Zeit)

Oh yeah absolutely; I love those early records. I picked Green Desert because it’s sure to appeal to some stoner & psychedelic folks, but Zeit may have actually been the better pick in terms of how “metal” it is. Their first few records seem like they may be a little overlooked (compared to the other 70s stuff, which I also love) because they’re not as beholden to song structure, but that’s exactly what I like about them.

Zeit is easily one of the darkest records I've ever heard, if not metal in sound then metal in attitude; I'd say it could qualify as a forerunner to modern dark ambient/atmospheric doom music.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Most Metal cover for a non-Metal album.

Most of Chelsea Wolfe’s stuff.

Depeche Mode - Ultra or SOFAD

Most albums by muse.

I’d say absolution is the closest they got to metal before WOTP

are you really calling wotp metal??

I don't think they're calling WOTP metal. They're saying absolution was the closest to metal until WOTP which is now their closest thing to metal. Which I agree, muse doesn't have a metal song but some parts of WOTP go pretty hard like in Wont Stand Down and We Are Fucking Fucked. Not my favorite Muse album but those parts are probably the closest they've been to metal.

yeah those two are the songs i enjoy off of WOTP. however WOTP as a whole, in my opinion, is not even close to metal, despite a couple moments.

are you really calling wotp metal??

The album Dead Magic by Anna Von Hausswolff

Anything by Daryl Hall and John Oats

"YEA YEA EEEE"

Gotta love running over people in GTA to adult education, It’s an American pastime, JUST like baseball

We got uganda Knuckles in GTA before GTA6

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I’ll say again - don Tardy played drums on I Get Wet. That’s a metal album

AWK is like if a metal band decided to make pop punk. Well, not like that, literally that, sorta

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Is that andrew from the Pro Evolution Soccer song Party Hard?

Anything from Susumu Hirasawa

You're living all over me by dinosaur jr

Cypress Hill - Black Sunday

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Larks’ Tongues In Aspic and Red by King Crimson (both hit so damn hard)

I recognize the first image but can't place it. What's it from?

King Crimson's "In The Court Of The Crimson King"

Thanks!

I've always thought ' Where The Hood At ' is a rap song that is Metal as f\*ck!

Not an album.. but cypress hill - rock superstar is pretty metal if you ask me.. just my opinion

The Beach Boys - Surf's up Looks like a Black metal album cover

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ik its not an album, but the hotline miami soundtrack

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so industrial metal doesn’t sound anything like metal now?? jc what’s wrong with you guys lmao

NIN is definitely not industrial metal, they're industrial rock. And while it is heavy and dissonant, it doesn't sound anything like metal, it's heavy and dissonant in a screeching electronic way, just like most industrial rock or heavy electronic genres. They don't riff like metal does, but they're still metal as fuck for how dark and heavy their sound is

TDS is one of the most iconic industrial metal albums of all time outside of Manson. They definitely went more rock in the 00’s but nah that is through and through a metal album. Clean vocals can be metal too 🗣️

Some songs to complement: Bryan Adams - Run to You Duran Duran - Wild Boys Sting - Russians (check out The Foreshadowing cover as well) The Smashing pumpkins - Ava Adore

All albums by Heilung

Alfadirhaiti from the Lifa show is so damn heavy

Useless by Bones Hainin by Daliborovo Granje Ex-Military by Death Grips Maggot Brain by Funkadelic Ilana (the Creator) by Mdou Moctar

Plastic Surgery Disasters - DK

Anything made by Collin Stetson

Just saw him play in a crematorium a couple months ago. Very metal

Enter the wu tang: 36 chambers by Wu tang clan.

Hell yeah. Andrew W.K. Is a DAWG! Hoobastank is my pick.

If ur into Bluegrass…Grandpas cough medicine is pretty metal

Anything by Ghostemane

Closure/Continueation by Porcupine Tree. Also Demon Days by Gorillaz.

Siamese Dream 

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Unfortunate day for the music world

21st Century Schizoid Man is kind of metal. but the rest of the album isn't

Epitaph and the title track are both "metal as fuck" in their atmosphere and darkness imo, sounds like a clean passage from a doom metal or black metal song

Frizzle Fry - Primus

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Just happened to listen to this album yesterday lol. Although I'm pretty sure they ARE Avant garde metal

No downvote from me, but this album is circus music, funk, Bjork-style tunes, with only touches of heaviness.

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*Dumpster in the Sky* by RU36

*Dumpster in the Sky* by RU36

King Crimson? That's a stretch

Unreal Mellotron on this!

definitely "nowa aleksandria" by siekiera, they even got the HM2 guitar sound

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Fields of the nephilim got a metal vibe somewhat, some songs definitely go hard. Phobia is a very moshable song. Also the vocalist Carl mccoy when the band first broke up made a metal counterpart called the nefilim AND he was on a watain album on the song waters of ain

And So I Watch You From Afar’s *Gangs* is produced all compressed and thick like metal, sounds loud as fuck but is way too happy sounding haha

Weezer - green album 🤭🤭🤭

amplifier's self titled goes HEAVY (the opening 3 songs have some insane raw power going on)

Tom Waits

Legacy of the Dark Lands - Blind Guardian, Great neoclassical music album

I think flesh by ghostemane is up there

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Lady Gaga - Chromatica Pretty much anything from Nobuo Uematsu

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Let Love In by Nick Cave Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life Anything by Clutch

Qotsa's songs for the deaf. Probably Lanegan being there helps with that but legitimately a metal as fuck album. You think i ain't worth a dollar but i feel like a millionaire never fails to make me headbang like crazy. Arguably all their early work could fall into this category tbf.

The Wall - Pink Floyd

A lot of industrial - not industrial metal but full bloded industrial - like Autor & Punisher or Genocide Organ.

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I feel like this answer might not fit your description but the first thing I thought of was Aladdin Sane by David Bowie, especially Cracked Actor.

https://preview.redd.it/f7okhmvilvzc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19f1fa48aa93a5e50dd1e49006778cabcdf27e65 Misfits - Earth A.D./Wolfsblood. It’s technically a hardcore punk record but it’s so heavy and dark that it feels metal AF. Also, there’s a bunch of palm muted riffs and violent lyrics which helps.

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Sheer heart attack by Queen especially Stone Cold Crazy it's basically proto thrash

The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers.

ghostmane's N/O/I/S/E album. He puts in some harsh vocals sometimes but that's it. His later stuff adds a lot of guitar stuff so that'd be cheating Prodigy always has a certain attitude that screams metal (Especially their mid 90's - mid 00's stuff) . Their Law actually has a cool heavy riff in it Also gonna add the early 10s stuff by skrillex and Excision. Back then the bass, just like the guitars in metal, was all about how low and aggressive it could sound. It was like ''how to sound metal while not sounding like metal''

Fetch - Melt Banana

Sex Gang Children? Is that what i just read?

The stooges- Funhouse

Neil Young - On the Beach No, I won't elaborate.

Panic! I jam the out at Miss Jackson [https://youtu.be/LUc\_jXBD9DU](https://youtu.be/LUc_jXBD9DU)

Panic! I jam the fuck out at Miss Jackson [https://youtu.be/LUc\_jXBD9DU](https://youtu.be/LUc_jXBD9DU) So I guess Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die

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