I hope experimental metal doesn't just mean a bunch of spastic extreme metal with black metal vocals and sudden obligatory melodic interludes.

He probably means experimental metal, not black metal.

I'm not being serious. Although I feel like "experimental" metal I've checked out in the past tends to sound oddly predictable. I'll be surprised to hear anything that actually feels fresh. But part of that is how people tend to throw around the "experimental" label a bit too liberally.

Like Thy Cattle****?

Thy Catafalque doesn't qualify as experimental in my mind. It's a bunch of well known musical elements and it's mostly unique in some minor ways that has to do with the specifics of how it combines things. It's not terribly forward thinking. Thy Catafalque sometimes sound a bit like if Deep Forest decided to make black metal. If that's experimental, then so is Limp Bizkit or any other band with a mildly novel sound.

Also, related to that, I grew tired of that new album disappointingly fast. The Catafalque album. Not the Biscuit. Not that there is a new soggy cracker album.

^I've known about that band for a long time, but the gimmick is so dumb that I've never bothered giving them a chance.

You guessed right.

Ja I agree that they have some crossover elements but they're not particularly experimental, plus they also suck.

Yeah, I thought it was funny when they first came out, but I've never really wanted to listen to them again since. You can definitely tell that they put gimmick over music.

I wouldn't personally say Thy Catafalque outright sucks. But considering how there's obviously some creativity there, the actual results are underwhelming.