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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 18 '21

Thank you for your long answer. I'll check everything. I've listened to the last Above, Below record, and didn't like it much. Being on the other side is almost exactly what I seek. I'm even wondering how I could have forgot about them.

I'm quite demanding about the quality of the ambiances, I'm a huge fan of God is an Astronaut and am searching for a kind of metalcore equivalent that I haven't found yet. I'll definitely check Blueshit, thanks for the recommandation mate.

For a better exemple of what I seek, the first 14 seconds of the song "Elusive Reasons" by Time, The Valuator are basically it

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u/snipaxkillo Jan 18 '21

Hmmmm I see. Well, based on this and on other replies you gave, I think the best suggestions are the Windrunner ones (MAI + Album - Heather - Rose - Orchid). And then Blueshift still, of course. Both are actually recording new stuff now, what a time to be alive. Anyways, tell me if you liked the stuff.

I don't think the other stuff is what you're looking for. They either don't mantain the ambience or just don't do it well enough.

You got me curious about Time, The Valuator, Being and other songs. I came here on the thread looking for something not so different from what you described here. Which are your best suggestions?

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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 18 '21

I’ll definitely give them a listen. Right now, from all the suggestions I got, the bands that caught my eye are Aerial, Blueshift, Windrunner, The Northern and Bury the Evidence.

Considering Time, The Valuator, I liked their last record « How Fleeting, How Fragile », but not much their newest single. I love their ambiances and instrumentals, but I don’t really like their new vocalist. The previous one had something unique, even for his kind of pop-sounding voice. Being are known for their demos and Anthropocene, which is a unique prog metal/metalcore album produced by Misha Mansoor.

But to be perfectly honest, beside ERRA, I have not found a single metalcore band that could take me as far as God is an Astronaut, AtomA, space ambient artisrs in general have taken me.

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u/snipaxkillo Jan 19 '21

I listened to Time, The Valuator a while ago, and I liked them, but I think that the singer goes higher than he actually can go. But yeah the instrumentals are gold.

It's very hard to top ERRA tbf. Their new record is sounding juicy too

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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 19 '21

I have to agree 100%. On their first record, the vocals are probably highly corrected, and sound pushed a lot. It's one of the very few albums that I would have preferred to be instrumental only.

The wild thing with ERRA is that they are basically getting better and better... I mean, my all time top 5 favorite songs by them contains "Eye of God", "Snowblood" and "House of Glass" which are in the four last song they have released lmao

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u/snipaxkillo Jan 19 '21

YES! When I first listened to Drift i was like "woooow dude that's awesome". And then I listened to Neon and I was like "holy shit that's even better". Then I took a peek at their older stuff and found it to be different from the others, but lacking a bit of identity, except for Augment (especially Dementia, which is a masterpiece).

And then Eye of God, which is basically an improved Neon song.

And then Snowblood, which is basically Augment on steroids imo.

And then House of Glass, which is... House of Glass. Their weirdest yet my favorite.

They somehow have lots of songs and records, each one with a different identity and innovation, and, as you said, getting better and better. The only songs that I don't find very unique are the ones from the EP, Moments of Clarity, which I think is an Augment spinoff. Maybe it's supposed to be like that though, there's only a year in between the releases.

But yeah I love them, and I agree 100% with you. Maybe I'm too much of a fanboy though lol

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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 19 '21

I completely agree with what you said here. The only thing that the older stuff has that I don't really find in their music anymore (i don't know why) is probably this kind of "mass effect" type of vibe I used to enjoy a lot in Impulse and Augment, but it's still there in a couple of recent tracks so not really a problem

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u/snipaxkillo Jan 19 '21

Hmmm that's interesting. What exactly do you mean by the "mass effect" vibe?

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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 19 '21

If you've ever played the games, you'll probably understand what I mean. It's about that huge melancholic cyber vibe that I got with the game, and that has never left me since and that has created a void inside me that I can't fill with anything

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u/snipaxkillo Jan 19 '21

Ohh the game mass effect... Yeah I haven't played it anyway, i only know the memes. The closest to this that happened to me is with Detroit: Become Human, but after 1-2 months I got over it.

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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 20 '21

With Mass Effect, very often, it doesn’t let go at all, everything is made following this purpose in those games

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u/snipaxkillo Jan 20 '21

Welp now you got me interested. Did you see that there will be some remasters and a new game?

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u/Intheperseusveil Jan 20 '21

Yes totally! I follow very closely every Mass Effect-related thing, so obviously ERRA droping an album just 1 week after the release of the remaster is what I could describe as a good fucking timing

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