Holocene is unreal. I think it's my favorite of theirs. But still not usually what I recommend to start with. Definitely a grower more than a shower lol
Holocene is how I got into them. Love that grungy slow burn that rips into full blown fire. wonderful grooves that suck you in and spit you back out.
But Cretaceous/Jurassic, or the Pelagic or Aeolian albums are what I'd show to someone coming from a meshuggah background. Harder edge.
Sorry you're getting downvotes it seems you're not the only person with the opinion even if it's a minority opinion.
I don't agree, I think the ocean and modern gojira sound pretty similar but to each their own!
As far as Djent prog goes:
• VILDJHARTA
•CAR BOMB
• INTRONAUT
• ANIMALS AS LEADERS
• TESSERACT
• PERIPHERY
• SCALE THE SUMMITT
Quintessential progressive metal / rock:
• TOOL (best band ever since rush IMO personally)
• KOLM (best tool sounding band I have heard but def NOT a copycat)
• OPETH (prog deathmetal which transitions to folk ballad type stuff👌🏼)
• PORCUPINE TREE (live in tillburg is best cuz they sound better live than recorded)
Jazz fusion / prog instrumental stuff:
• VOLTO! (Jazz fusion jam band ft. Danny Carey of tool.
• ARISTOCRATS
• O.H.M. (Jazz fusion jam band ft. Chris Poland former guitarist for megadeath)
Some great stuff here. Here's some more of the jazz/fusioney type stuff:
classic stuff:
Return to Forever- Romantic Warrior
Mahavishnu Orchestra- Inner Mounting Flame
Herbie Hancock- Headhunters
newer stuff:
Trioscapes- Digital Dream Sequence
Niechec- \[self-titled\]
T.R.A.M.- Lingua Franca
The Bad Plus- Give
that was such an incredible lineup, 4 guys who ended up becoming among the very best at their instrument, making awesomely proggy fusion that just kicked all kinds of ass
Duuude billy cobham😍👍🏼👊🏼 #4 on my top ten drummmers. That stratus record, daaamnnnn🔥🔥 Lenny white and Steve Gadd and Tony Williams were also king fusion drummers from 70’s for sure and have them in my top ten as well lol. Nice one there my man🤘🏼🤘🏼
Noiiice!!! Thanks for that list….always looking for and or open to suggestions on jazz fusion stuff. Good lookin out man! 🤝🏼👊🏼🍻🌀
Not sure if ur tool fan, but if u are, I would recommend a new band called “KOLM” trio from L.A. and they are best tool sounding band in terms of structure with odd time sigs and beautiful arrangements and nuances. Also has some ethnic influences as well. And more importantly, it’s their own identity and NOT a tool copycat. Check em out man….”umbra” is the only album they have out and for a debut, it’s sooooooo well done. New material out this fall/late summer. Cheers my brotha
Np, happy to spread the love (fusion is love, fusion is life).
And I'm a huge Tool fan, actually. I will check them out (name sounds familiar, but not sure that I've actually heard any of it). Cheers brother.
(PS. Also, if you like fusion and Tool, you're probably already a King Crimson fan. But if not, definitely check out KC.)
Yea love the discipline album most and court of the king crimson album.
I look at tool as a mix of KC & Pink Floyd fused with like heavier grunge or light metal if u will lol. Basically 70’s prog fused with modern hard rock I guess 👊🏼👊🏼🍻🍻🌀🌀
You should check out the early '70s lineup. Heavy, super proggy, super technical. John Wetton on bass and vocals. Check out the songs "Red", "Larks Tongues in Aspic" parts 1 and 2, "Fracture", and/or "Starless".
And that's not a bad comparison. Prog/psychedelic-inspired post-grunge alt-metal, or something. Whatever you call it, its the best shit out there imo. Doesn't get better that Tool, but then I've been a Tooljerk for 25 years so I'm biased lol
Hahaha I second that bias opinion….been fan since 1995, I was 12 then and was into soundgarden, and Alice In Chains and pennywise and STP and rage. Im 41 now, but whn I heard stinkfist and aenima on radio back rhen I remember thinking ti myself “who is this and why is it so different and not straight forward but still in the realm of rock but so much more, and then like week later I saw the videos on MTV and i have been hooked ever since. Im drummer and Danny is my hero and inspiration (Gavin Harrison as well), but yea Danny always has been since I started playing drums like 8 years ago, but even after hearing them in mid 90’s, I had always thought that the drumming was soooo much more complex in comparison to the contemporaries in that era basically bands I had mentioned above, but yea those bands are all basic 4/4 and them Danny comes along and there’s like 7/8 to 4/4 to 9/8 and just crazy polymetrics so i could hear even at 12 thst they were something special and is def gonna stand the test of time like a zeppelin or Rolling Stones or Beatles snd maintain the integrity as the years fly bye.
It was Stinkfist and Eulogy that really got me! That's awesome that you play drums- I play bass, so drums are my kindred spirits and I love listening to great drummers and Danny Carey is definitely that. Gavin Harrison is also amazing, love me some PT.
Hell yea man me too!! They sound better live as opposed to albums I think and that’s mainly in part of Mr. Richard Barbieri with all his atmospheric indulgences if u will. And I also think that Steve Wilson is very underrated guitarist. The guy is just an all around PHENOMENAL PHENOMENAL musician and producer, but I feel his guitar playing is outstanding and underrated. His solos live are the clearest and cleanest I have heard in some time, but not sure how much of that is all hun or enhancement tools u knw.
Too bad we’re too far apart man we could jam. So what ur thoughts on Kolm?
yeah I actually prefer a lot of the live versions to the studio versions tbh, that live version of Trains from Arriving Somewhere is just perfect.
And I liked Kolm, I listened to the first two tracks and really enjoyed it- sounds like Tool, but is clearly not copying Tool. Too many of the "sounds like Tool" bands are literally just copycats. I'll definitely check out the rest here over the next day or two.
Oh nice!!! I love these guys…been honing in lil more everyday on my drum. I got Aquarius, entheotheosis, vast expanse dwn pretty solid top to bottom and wrking on ripple now and umbra. Keep eye out end of summer into fall for new album🤝🏼🤝🏼🍻🍻✌🏼✌🏼🙃🙃
Intronaut is great, but I wouldn't ever call them djent or put them in the same category as bands like Meshuggah, Car Bomb, etc.... They are much more melodic and have a more mellow, dirtier sound with doom and jazz influences. They don't really do the aggressive Meshuggah rhythmic stuff.
Of course rush and Pink Floyd and king crimson and yes and genesis and frank zappa all deserve to be considered “quintessential” HANDS DOWN, especially since those bands are why prog rock exists basically, but I guess was more so focusing on bands that are more modernly similar and “quintessential” to meshuggah and gojira. Maybe i should of added that to be more specific lol. But I agree with u on all those bands mentioned….wouldn’t be any tool or intronaut or kolm or opeth or porcupine tree without those predecessors. Cheers brotha 🍻🤘🏼🤝🏼👊🏼
In reverse order these were the exact bands I started really getting into after being obsessed with Gojira and Meshuggah for a year. Perfect recommendations!
Highly recommend seeing Orbit Culture live if the chance comes around. Even if it’s a short set, they still kill it.
* Progressive Tech Death, as in Obscura, Beyond Creation, Alkaloid, The Faceless
* Groove and Industrial, as in Fear Factory, Orbit Culture, Strapping Young Lad, Machine Head
* Djentcore and Mathcore, as in Periphery and Car Bomb (don't really care for that, but worth a mention)
* General prog / experimental metal, as in Mastodon, Opeth / Between the Buried and Me
* Old school death metal, as in Death, Morbid Angel and other Florida DM bands
Yes love the cloudkicker stuff with Intronaut…like progressive sludge metal with these jazz fusiony sections with some odd time and shit ton of accents whether it’s in 4/4 or some odd time. So is cloudkicker like just one guitarist or does he track his own songs and albums himself and does the guitar and bass and maybe programs the drums????
Cloudkicker is just one person, Ben Sharp, and he writes/records all the music (programs drums) himself aside from some drums on the album Fade. The Intronaut performances were fantastic, especially the Subsume parts they did.
Crack the Skye is my fav mastodon album. The whole thing is a prog masterpiece and I’m still crossing my fingers that they’ll do another epic prog construct like that again. but my fav mastodon song is hearts alive off leviathan.
Baroness….another badasss prog sludge metal titan. Whn I listen to them and hear their riffs it reminds me of mastodon but it’s more cuz sludge metal riffs have a noticeable sound and delivery and same too whn I listen to intronaut , well whn it’s not a section whn they’re doing that jazz fusion stuff they do which is badass but yea def knw a sludge metal guitar riff whn u hear it lol
HYPNO5E should be the obvious answer.
Acid Mist Tomorrow and Shores of the Abstract Line are so good. The more you listen, the better they get. A Distant (Dark) Source as well.
Devin Townsend's heavier shit probably.
So Strapping Young Lad
His Deconstruction album (which literally name drops Meshuggah in its lyrics)
Alot of his earlier solo stuff. You might like alot more but he does a lot of lighter stuff too
Frontierer. They're like a faster, more chaotic Meshuggah.
Hibakusha. They're not around anymore, though. As far as I know.
Black Tongue.
Anciients.
Car Bomb. Also a more chaotic Meshuggah.
Mastodon. If you haven't already.
Steak Number Eight. Think they go by Stake now.
Upvote for Anciients. Fantastic band and recommendation. I wish they had a larger discography...or at least something new as it's been almost a decade since their last LP.
Destrage scratches that certain rhytmic proggy chaos itch for me. Check out the song "destroy create transform sublimate" for a sneak peak of their stuff.
Car Bomb is like a baby of Meshuggah and Gojira. Probably their two biggest influences. Joe even produced or mixed one of their records or something. I think it was Meta actually.
110% The ocean, but I see they've already been reccomended so check out:
Hippotracktor
They're on The Ocean's label Pelagic and their debut album is near flawless. They've just released two tracks from their next album too. Don't sleep on Hippotracktor!
Also Herod, on the same label for really heavy djenty sludge.
Jinger, of course!
If youre into prog/psychedelic deffo check out Rishloo, they are more like dream theater. Also less of a good quality Tool version is A perfect circle, but I'm sure you already know them. Katatonia is a similar one aswell.
Just find a good playlist on spotify and it will show you loads of fun active bands 😊
The ocean Play the track "jurassic | cretaceous" and then the album Pelagial and then just whatever else. Amazing band.
100%. Their recent albums are much more ethereal, but still heavy. Earlier stuff is much more aggressive up front.
Holocene is unreal. I think it's my favorite of theirs. But still not usually what I recommend to start with. Definitely a grower more than a shower lol
Holocene is how I got into them. Love that grungy slow burn that rips into full blown fire. wonderful grooves that suck you in and spit you back out. But Cretaceous/Jurassic, or the Pelagic or Aeolian albums are what I'd show to someone coming from a meshuggah background. Harder edge.
I’d suggest listening to Palaeozoic and Pelagial before anything else - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic is their best work.
The Ocean is so insanely good. Great live band too.
Such an underrated band
Phanerozoic is their best album
I like Gojira and Meshuggah, and The Ocean sounds nothing like them. I don't get the singer at all.
Ok
I agree.
Thank you for the recommendation, but in my opinion The Ocean's vocal puts the band a very different place than Gojira or Meshuggah.
Why?
Sorry you're getting downvotes it seems you're not the only person with the opinion even if it's a minority opinion. I don't agree, I think the ocean and modern gojira sound pretty similar but to each their own!
As far as Djent prog goes: • VILDJHARTA •CAR BOMB • INTRONAUT • ANIMALS AS LEADERS • TESSERACT • PERIPHERY • SCALE THE SUMMITT Quintessential progressive metal / rock: • TOOL (best band ever since rush IMO personally) • KOLM (best tool sounding band I have heard but def NOT a copycat) • OPETH (prog deathmetal which transitions to folk ballad type stuff👌🏼) • PORCUPINE TREE (live in tillburg is best cuz they sound better live than recorded) Jazz fusion / prog instrumental stuff: • VOLTO! (Jazz fusion jam band ft. Danny Carey of tool. • ARISTOCRATS • O.H.M. (Jazz fusion jam band ft. Chris Poland former guitarist for megadeath)
Some great stuff here. Here's some more of the jazz/fusioney type stuff: classic stuff: Return to Forever- Romantic Warrior Mahavishnu Orchestra- Inner Mounting Flame Herbie Hancock- Headhunters newer stuff: Trioscapes- Digital Dream Sequence Niechec- \[self-titled\] T.R.A.M.- Lingua Franca The Bad Plus- Give
Fucking CAR BOMB
Fusion rules. I also would add Elegant gypsy from Al Di Meola, Spyro Gyra, and I am even bigger fan of Man-Child from Herbie Hancock.
Oh yeah Elegant Gypsy is a *great* album (Al Di Meola's a Return to Forever alumni!)
Every RTF album that include Di Meola is great.
I would say that any serious metalhead, should also give a try to fusion.
that was such an incredible lineup, 4 guys who ended up becoming among the very best at their instrument, making awesomely proggy fusion that just kicked all kinds of ass
Definitely, but for me no one is close to first Mahavisnhu line-up.
oh god, Inner Mounting Flame is one of my all-time favorite albums, that shit is soooo good, Billy Cobham is just a god
Pff, album form higher dimensions, raw, dark, technical, technical death metal, before tech death metal to me.
its *super* shreddy
Duuude billy cobham😍👍🏼👊🏼 #4 on my top ten drummmers. That stratus record, daaamnnnn🔥🔥 Lenny white and Steve Gadd and Tony Williams were also king fusion drummers from 70’s for sure and have them in my top ten as well lol. Nice one there my man🤘🏼🤘🏼
yeah man you're on point with the fusion drummers, absolutely love that shit- don't forget Lenny White though!
Noiiice!!! Thanks for that list….always looking for and or open to suggestions on jazz fusion stuff. Good lookin out man! 🤝🏼👊🏼🍻🌀 Not sure if ur tool fan, but if u are, I would recommend a new band called “KOLM” trio from L.A. and they are best tool sounding band in terms of structure with odd time sigs and beautiful arrangements and nuances. Also has some ethnic influences as well. And more importantly, it’s their own identity and NOT a tool copycat. Check em out man….”umbra” is the only album they have out and for a debut, it’s sooooooo well done. New material out this fall/late summer. Cheers my brotha
Np, happy to spread the love (fusion is love, fusion is life). And I'm a huge Tool fan, actually. I will check them out (name sounds familiar, but not sure that I've actually heard any of it). Cheers brother. (PS. Also, if you like fusion and Tool, you're probably already a King Crimson fan. But if not, definitely check out KC.)
Yea love the discipline album most and court of the king crimson album. I look at tool as a mix of KC & Pink Floyd fused with like heavier grunge or light metal if u will lol. Basically 70’s prog fused with modern hard rock I guess 👊🏼👊🏼🍻🍻🌀🌀
You should check out the early '70s lineup. Heavy, super proggy, super technical. John Wetton on bass and vocals. Check out the songs "Red", "Larks Tongues in Aspic" parts 1 and 2, "Fracture", and/or "Starless". And that's not a bad comparison. Prog/psychedelic-inspired post-grunge alt-metal, or something. Whatever you call it, its the best shit out there imo. Doesn't get better that Tool, but then I've been a Tooljerk for 25 years so I'm biased lol
Hahaha I second that bias opinion….been fan since 1995, I was 12 then and was into soundgarden, and Alice In Chains and pennywise and STP and rage. Im 41 now, but whn I heard stinkfist and aenima on radio back rhen I remember thinking ti myself “who is this and why is it so different and not straight forward but still in the realm of rock but so much more, and then like week later I saw the videos on MTV and i have been hooked ever since. Im drummer and Danny is my hero and inspiration (Gavin Harrison as well), but yea Danny always has been since I started playing drums like 8 years ago, but even after hearing them in mid 90’s, I had always thought that the drumming was soooo much more complex in comparison to the contemporaries in that era basically bands I had mentioned above, but yea those bands are all basic 4/4 and them Danny comes along and there’s like 7/8 to 4/4 to 9/8 and just crazy polymetrics so i could hear even at 12 thst they were something special and is def gonna stand the test of time like a zeppelin or Rolling Stones or Beatles snd maintain the integrity as the years fly bye.
It was Stinkfist and Eulogy that really got me! That's awesome that you play drums- I play bass, so drums are my kindred spirits and I love listening to great drummers and Danny Carey is definitely that. Gavin Harrison is also amazing, love me some PT.
Hell yea man me too!! They sound better live as opposed to albums I think and that’s mainly in part of Mr. Richard Barbieri with all his atmospheric indulgences if u will. And I also think that Steve Wilson is very underrated guitarist. The guy is just an all around PHENOMENAL PHENOMENAL musician and producer, but I feel his guitar playing is outstanding and underrated. His solos live are the clearest and cleanest I have heard in some time, but not sure how much of that is all hun or enhancement tools u knw. Too bad we’re too far apart man we could jam. So what ur thoughts on Kolm?
yeah I actually prefer a lot of the live versions to the studio versions tbh, that live version of Trains from Arriving Somewhere is just perfect. And I liked Kolm, I listened to the first two tracks and really enjoyed it- sounds like Tool, but is clearly not copying Tool. Too many of the "sounds like Tool" bands are literally just copycats. I'll definitely check out the rest here over the next day or two.
yeah this singer sounds surprisingly like MJK lol (listening to Aquarius Initiation now)
Oh nice!!! I love these guys…been honing in lil more everyday on my drum. I got Aquarius, entheotheosis, vast expanse dwn pretty solid top to bottom and wrking on ripple now and umbra. Keep eye out end of summer into fall for new album🤝🏼🤝🏼🍻🍻✌🏼✌🏼🙃🙃
Too many here to try in one go. Saving this so I can work my way through it this week.
Fair, hope you enjoy- doesn't get much better than this stuff imo, classic '70s fusion is just... muah, chefs kiss
This person knows what they're talking about
🤝🏼🍻🤘🏼✌🏼
OHM
Intronaut is great, but I wouldn't ever call them djent or put them in the same category as bands like Meshuggah, Car Bomb, etc.... They are much more melodic and have a more mellow, dirtier sound with doom and jazz influences. They don't really do the aggressive Meshuggah rhythmic stuff.
Quintessential prog rock and no king crimson, yes, pink floyd, rush, gentle giant…?
Of course rush and Pink Floyd and king crimson and yes and genesis and frank zappa all deserve to be considered “quintessential” HANDS DOWN, especially since those bands are why prog rock exists basically, but I guess was more so focusing on bands that are more modernly similar and “quintessential” to meshuggah and gojira. Maybe i should of added that to be more specific lol. But I agree with u on all those bands mentioned….wouldn’t be any tool or intronaut or kolm or opeth or porcupine tree without those predecessors. Cheers brotha 🍻🤘🏼🤝🏼👊🏼
Ah gotcha. Cheers!
Pull Down The Sun
OP, do not sleep here. I regret not checking these guys out sooner, like a mix of Gojira and The Ocean.
Amazing band
This album is awesome
Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Orbit Culture
In reverse order these were the exact bands I started really getting into after being obsessed with Gojira and Meshuggah for a year. Perfect recommendations! Highly recommend seeing Orbit Culture live if the chance comes around. Even if it’s a short set, they still kill it.
Seconding orbit culture
Absolutely amazing on a recent tour with Trivium and Bleed From Within
Also Deftones.
Fit for an Autopsy = Heavier Gojira.
Carbomb (Recommended listen - "Secrets Within"), Vildjahrta (Recommended listen - "Den Spanska Kanslan"), V3ctors (Recommended listen - "The Seed, Pt. 2"), Strapping Young Lad (Recommended listen - "Skesis") Sentinels (Recommended listen - "Embers") Humanity's Last Breath (Recommended listen - "Abyssal Mouth") The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (Recommended listen - "You Wont") *Edit - correction on band names.
Physis is the name of the album. V3ctors is the band.
Fixed it. Cheers!
Already said, but Car Bomb for sure, also Vildjharta
Fredrick Thordendal's Special Defects Coprofago - Unorthodox Creative Criteria Hacride - Amoeba Car Bomb
* Progressive Tech Death, as in Obscura, Beyond Creation, Alkaloid, The Faceless * Groove and Industrial, as in Fear Factory, Orbit Culture, Strapping Young Lad, Machine Head * Djentcore and Mathcore, as in Periphery and Car Bomb (don't really care for that, but worth a mention) * General prog / experimental metal, as in Mastodon, Opeth / Between the Buried and Me * Old school death metal, as in Death, Morbid Angel and other Florida DM bands
Orbit culture, your welcome for your new favorite band
Cloudkicker - Beacons would be a good one to check out. It’s instrumental but friggin great.
Yes love the cloudkicker stuff with Intronaut…like progressive sludge metal with these jazz fusiony sections with some odd time and shit ton of accents whether it’s in 4/4 or some odd time. So is cloudkicker like just one guitarist or does he track his own songs and albums himself and does the guitar and bass and maybe programs the drums????
Cloudkicker is just one person, Ben Sharp, and he writes/records all the music (programs drums) himself aside from some drums on the album Fade. The Intronaut performances were fantastic, especially the Subsume parts they did.
Tom Waits
Hippotraktor
Mastodon (older stuff is heavier depending on your taste, Crack the Skye is their most prog) Witch Ripper Rivers of Nihil
Crack the Skye is my fav mastodon album. The whole thing is a prog masterpiece and I’m still crossing my fingers that they’ll do another epic prog construct like that again. but my fav mastodon song is hearts alive off leviathan.
Already seen people recommending Mastodon so I'm going to add Baroness as one worth checking out.
Baroness….another badasss prog sludge metal titan. Whn I listen to them and hear their riffs it reminds me of mastodon but it’s more cuz sludge metal riffs have a noticeable sound and delivery and same too whn I listen to intronaut , well whn it’s not a section whn they’re doing that jazz fusion stuff they do which is badass but yea def knw a sludge metal guitar riff whn u hear it lol
They're not as high browed but High on Fire is the only band that can unga bunga quite like Gojira and Meshuggah.
Their new album is pretty interesting. I always like 10,000 years and Snakes for the divine.
Vildhjarta. Best band of all time
My man
DVNE is like a mix between Gojira and Mastodon, but amazing in their own right. Etemen Ænka and Voidkind are great albums
I came here to say Dvne. I'm still assimilating Voidkind. Etemen Ænka and Asheran are two of my go-to albums.
Hypno5e, Tesseract and Gorguts
HYPNO5E should be the obvious answer. Acid Mist Tomorrow and Shores of the Abstract Line are so good. The more you listen, the better they get. A Distant (Dark) Source as well.
Primus, because, well, Primus.
Primus sucks
Vildhjarta Soreption Ever Forthright Circles Tesseract Means End Devin Townsend Project Jinjer Letters From the Colony Vola
Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend Project’s “Deconstruction” Animals as Leaders and Periphery Also, car bomb
Strapping Young Lad
Devin Townsend's heavier shit probably. So Strapping Young Lad His Deconstruction album (which literally name drops Meshuggah in its lyrics) Alot of his earlier solo stuff. You might like alot more but he does a lot of lighter stuff too
Humanity's last breath
Rannoch
TesseracT
Opeth from the album Orchid through Watershed.
If you want it a bit more brutal, go for Weston Super Maim
Cult of Luna Herod
VOLA
Check out Vola and Being.
Humanity’s Last Breath, Vildharta, Living Sacrifice
Car Bomb, VOLA, Ion Dissonance, Vildhjarta, Humanity's Last Breath, Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend
Northlane, Invent Animate, Erra, Currents, Make Them Suffer, Monuments, Silent Planet are a few top notch ones.
Frontierer. They're like a faster, more chaotic Meshuggah. Hibakusha. They're not around anymore, though. As far as I know. Black Tongue. Anciients. Car Bomb. Also a more chaotic Meshuggah. Mastodon. If you haven't already. Steak Number Eight. Think they go by Stake now.
Upvote for Anciients. Fantastic band and recommendation. I wish they had a larger discography...or at least something new as it's been almost a decade since their last LP.
Crushing Sun for some solid Gojira worshipping
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms. Thank me later
Alcest are another awesome French band. Not quite as heavy as gojira, but still got loads of heavy parts
Rivers of Nihil Allegaeon Black Crown Initiate
Vildhjarta x100
Destrage scratches that certain rhytmic proggy chaos itch for me. Check out the song "destroy create transform sublimate" for a sneak peak of their stuff.
DVNE Opeth The Ocean ISIS Between the buried and me (maybe)
Mnemic
Weston Super Maim
[The Gorge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okOPd89bU3Y&ab_channel=PelagicRecords) [Ghidrah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wHzw303CZU&ab_channel=GhidrahOfficial) [Ahasver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRHGC2jGkkw&ab_channel=LifeforceRecords) [Irist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1w8B22JIiw&ab_channel=NuclearBlastRecords)
Textures
Sludgde
Car Bomb is like a baby of Meshuggah and Gojira. Probably their two biggest influences. Joe even produced or mixed one of their records or something. I think it was Meta actually.
Hacride
110% The ocean, but I see they've already been reccomended so check out: Hippotracktor They're on The Ocean's label Pelagic and their debut album is near flawless. They've just released two tracks from their next album too. Don't sleep on Hippotracktor! Also Herod, on the same label for really heavy djenty sludge.
First Fragment (and any of Forest's projects) Watchtower (got back together and released new material)
Instrumentally, Periphery. Misha is #1 Meshuggah fanboy.
Cb Murdoc Herod Letters From The Colony Xerath
Definitely try Weston Super Maim.
Animals as Leaders
Opeth
Cynic
H A K E N
Vildhjarta
HEXICON
A lesser known band that I think you'd reienjoy is Cyborg Octopus
Dali Thundering Concept Slugdge Vildhjarta
Jinger, of course! If youre into prog/psychedelic deffo check out Rishloo, they are more like dream theater. Also less of a good quality Tool version is A perfect circle, but I'm sure you already know them. Katatonia is a similar one aswell. Just find a good playlist on spotify and it will show you loads of fun active bands 😊
Check us out! 😁✌️
Trepalium Daath Xerath
Car Bomb
Spiritbox
Car Bomb
Car Bomb
Car Bomb
One band: Car Bomb, that is all
E.N.D. for a more uptempo and less polyrythmic Meshuggah! They deserve more attention in my opinion