Strangest sub genres you know of.
 

What are the strangest sub genres you know of?
The one I'm about to post is not only a strange one, but a terrible one aswell:Pornogrind.
Bad Grindcore that's always about weird sexual subjects. Only ususally the vocals don't even seem like they're speaking a language, yet the lyrics are there to read online. The Album covers are ususally disgusting, and the entire genre is to blame for some of the worst band names I've ever come across.

Just listen to this amazing song, and read the intellectual lyrics in the discription: (Totallynotbeingsarcastichere)

Torso****- Raped By Elephants (Lyrics&Pics) - YouTube

Yeeeeeeah...

You guys got any strange sub genres? They don't have to be bad, but something you consider strange or weird.

Oh boy.. I'm addicted to strange fusions haha. Progressive and avant-garde bands are usually pretty good about combining them effectively, here's a few:

Oriental metal, has middle eastern influences and riffs.



Reggae metal. Fun, gets ya goin.



Tom Waits is just his own goddamn genre.:laughing:



So is Frank Zappa.



Ihsahn combines death metal with lots of jazz elements, great sax lines in this one.



This site has a big list of fusion bands: tvtropes. org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly

Witchhouse is just strange, full stop.

Not as weird as the OP, but I`ve always found classical music played on the harmonica to be a kind of unsettling genre. It makes me think simultaneously of lonesome cowboys on the range and the culturati dressed up for a concert in Vienna :-



And more recently, thanks to MB newcomer rosenbmb, I`ve learned what Middle Eastern Trap music would sound like:-

Psychedelic Black Metal is a sub-genre I've found weird in a great way for a while.


Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma 2012 Full Album - YouTube

Naah. That was kind of a little bit of sort of beautiful.

That was hella pretty, thanks. I think you got the description down pat. I love western vibe music.

I heard one song off Oi Magoi, dug it, downloaded the album, then completely forgot about it till you mentioned that so thanks, dude. Lovin the rest of it, definitely gonna look into the rest of their discography.

Horrorcore. It's just way too shitty for me to tolerate.

Crunkcore.

Fortunately just a trend that died when that dude from that one band got arrested for banging teenagers. I was never a fan but I have to wonder how Vans Warped tour turned into a pedophile festival.

The oddest sub-genre I actually enjoy and actively listen to would be Zeuhl and RIO.

I'm still trying to understand what "drewgaze" is?

^ Thanks, guys. I`m glad you enjoyed the clip. I used to have an album like that, and although it started off sounding wonderful, after twenty minutes of that thin whine I was saying to myself, "This music is beautiful but I really can`t endure it a moment longer!"

Of your clips, Carpe, I really liked "Nobody" by Skindred; no big fan of metal or reggae, I was just swept away by the energy of that song.

^ No use asking me, Rjinn; I`m still mystified by Shoegaze.

^ Don`t know much Zeuhl, Paul, but I really liked this album: http://www.musicbanter.com/prog-psyc...os-1981-a.html

What, btw, is RIO ?

Okay, that crunkcore genre definitely wins over Pornogrind for being the worst weird sub genre. If I was forced to listen to that **** for an hour I'd probably literally puke.

Not really a sub genre, but here's some extreme metal band fronted by a dog. yes, I'm dead serious.
I also remember there being a band of another animal, I'm not sure which though. I think it was a parrot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF7CB5yltbM

^ That seems such a cool idea to me, Dylstew, taking animal sounds and music in an unexpected direction...
Much more conventional, although considered rather innovative in its day, is this beautiful song in which a bunch of humpbacked whales handle the backing vocals:- Farewell to Tarwathie, adieu Mormond Hill...



Fact: Whales are the loudest mammals on the planet, with Howler Monkeys coming in second.

Zeuhl began in France with all bands related to Christian Vander's Magma but in recent years has become increasingly popular in Japan

Zeuhl, a progressive rock music sub-genre

RIO = Rock In Opposition, bands like Henry Cow, Art Bears, Thinking Plague, Univers Zero, so on
RIO/Avant-Prog, a progressive rock music sub-genre

I haven't heard the Dun album, I will look into it. :)

^ Thanks, Paul. I will be checking out Magma and Henry Cow next time I`m in the mood for something challenging. Right now I`m enjoying music that is a bit more relaxing, in the Psychedelic threads. That music, however is not nearly as restful as this strange sub-genre, Tibetan Bowl Music:-



And by the standards of the genre, that`s a pretty frivolous piece; punchy, upbeat and short. Other Youtube clips are one, three and a rather daunting eleven hour piece - just let me know and I`ll post that one for you, Paul!.

^that was amazing

i suppose i should add

Krishnacore would probably be one of the oddest sub genres that i seriously enjoy

basically started with Cro-Mags and cause for Alarm but boosted with bands like Shelter and 108....Krishnacore is basically hardcore and Hare Krishna

seriously in the 90s going to a hardcore show or even the early Warped tour shows the were always robbed monks who would be more than happy to talk to you....and often feed you :)

personally i love the genre....great hardcore music

and if i were to believe in a higher deity...the 8th incarnation of Vishnu is exactly where i would start...as he truly was beautiful
http://www.vrindavan.de/pets/Govinda2s.jpg

Shelter



^love this song :)

108



"our desire brings on our pain"

Inside Out

^this songs makes my blood pressure go up :)

Synthunk is quite a weird little genre. Suggest y'all listen to I night by the Units. they were a good band from San Francisco
Units - I-Night - YouTube

Even though the music itself is not really strange, I think naming a subgenre "brutal death metal" is pretty ridiculous. It's like "evil black metal", "upbeat power metal", "dark gothic metal" etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhIJGF85Pro

This is called Chillwave. It's purposely made so that it sounds like an old cassette synthpop track from the '80s.

jazz

The genre itself isn't particularly strange, but the name is just... yeah. I just found out about a sub-genre of extreme metal called "stench death/doom". From the bands labelled such it seems to be sloppily-played doom metal influenced death metal with ugly production that somehow reminds you of horror movies and zombies (hence the "stench"). Death metal and doom metal are already goofy enough as names, and death/doom is actually kind of embarrassing. But "stench death/doom" crosses the line into being just a groan-inducing, random assortment of words that have no literal association with the actual music. Awesome genre though.

And if you want to look it up then don't bother. I Googled it and got like two passing references to it. I think most people just go with death/doom and leave it at that. I don't even think last.fm has a tag for it.

Production wise it kind of has that crust punk sound.

Pop punk is an oxymoron but yet it exists. Does that mean progressive punk can exist as well?

Sure, just look at Bad Religion.

bob`s Krishnacore: not often that music and the message of the lyrics are pulling in such different directions. A very surprising style.

^ Well worth clicking on the link for the video pastiche alone, but a pretty restricting musical direction to head in I would`ve thought, Aichuk.

rostasi`s Polkacide band look like they deliver a really fun night out, and reminded me of Nortec Collective, another band who play a hybrid of differing styles convincingly. In this case, it`s electronica and norteño:-

I guess various post-hardcore bands could be seen as ''progressive'' for the genre. It kind of is an oxymoron, but it's an oxymoron I like.
I can't help it that I for example like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkA1kk5l2tw

Primus. The only band with it's own genre in Winamp.

Well, the lyrics and music difference thingy is called lyrical dissonance. Check it out in TV Tropes.

And chillwave might be restrictive, but it's there's this nostalgic joy about it. And if you want to hear more inventive chillwave, listen to Neon Indian.

What about Cattlecore? It is a mix of some type of metal with blast beats with cattle auctioneers instead of singers. As far as I know, there is only one album, which is "3 Bar Ranch Cattle" by Hank Williams III.