The Originality Thread

[gunnels]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

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I'm afraid I can't offer much in the way of influences as jazz and metal are far from my fortes, but god damn was this fun. I suppose some one could make the argument for Clutch, who often use a kind of groovy, riff-driven sound, but that's probably grasping for straws, so I'll avoid posting a video and creating a forced link of influences.
Man, that's some funky stuff, though. Sounds like they could've influenced Dos Cafundos.

[jackhammer]

Or how about this:

It's the future whether we like it or not so let's hope it sounds as good as this.

[duga]

Originally Posted by jackhammer

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If you are going to mash up genres then at least be semi proficient in those genres and this band does it really well. Mixing Jazz and Metal is by no means new but balancing the sounds and still making a listenable sound with a recognisable theme makes a damn good album. It's groovy and it's heavy and that works for me.

This was damn good...I needed something like this! I've been trying to satisfy a metal craving but I haven't found anything to my liking. This may be it.

As for influences...I'm going to return to a classic (at least a classic around these parts):



While not as jazz-filled as your post, they are definitely one of the first bands that I heard that took such disparate sounding genres and combined them into something very interesting.

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Or how about this:

It's the future whether we like it or not so let's hope it sounds as good as this.

I don't think I'll touch this one, but that was freaking crazy.

[ribbons]

Originally Posted by duga

This was damn good...I needed something like this! I've been trying to satisfy a metal craving but I haven't found anything to my liking. This may be it.

As for influences...I'm going to return to a classic (at least a classic around these parts):



While not as jazz-filled as your post, they are definitely one of the first bands that I heard that took such disparate sounding genres and combined them into something very interesting.

A minor memo here: I'm not one for black metal vocals (just a personal preference), but I love the music on this and how it switches and morphs into totally different styles...and I really like those little sound flourishes of an electric piano melody here and even wind chimes there. I don't feel qualified to comment on what the influences might be, but it'll be interesting to read what others have to say. I'll definitely be looking up more of Sigh's music.

[Mondo Bungle]

If you ask me Celtic Frost's Into the Pandemonium should be an obvious influence on Sigh.



Not so much in a musical sense, although CF were definitely influential in both black metal and avant-garde metal scenes, but more so with the experimentation. This album features loads of experimentation combined with the usual thrash/black metal of CF. We can even see some dance elements on the song "One in their Pride". Sigh was known to incorporate dance/disco elements into their music as well. CF = major influence on avant-garde metal, and most likely Sigh.