Too much good stuff out there for me to have a favourite, so here’s what I’m listening to as I leave this comment.

Yep all women. They’ve been my gateway into the genre. I’ve not gotten into it much because I like being able to understand vocals with minimal effort, but I feel like the vocalist in Crypta does a pretty good job at being articulate and it’s raised my tolerance enough for me to explore some other bands.

Thanks for the post btw, I’ve been enjoying some new artists and great classics so far :D

Fun jam, I enjoyed that.

Got my boogie bumper out of my seat :D

TIL that German electro-medieval is a genre. Reminds me a bit of Värttinä, which is 100% complimentary.

Djent?

Nah, I’d label it extreme progressive metal but not djent. This album is all in standard tuning on standard-range guitars.

For a really clean djent example, Periphery released MAKE TOTAL DESTROY around the same time that Ne Obliviscaris released Portal of I. The word “djent” actually comes from the sound of playing staccato on the lowest string of a downtuned or extended-range guitar, e.g. 1:09 of MAKE TOTAL DESTROY (although the whole song is djent as fuck 🤘😈🤘). On this track, the lowest string is 8 semitones below standard. Colloquially, the guitarist is “almost playing bass”.

NeO was probably aware of djent at the time of release, but my understanding is that the compositions on Portal of I (1) are more black metal influenced, i.e. NeO is a “prog-ification” of black metal, and (2) predate the online djent movement. NeO’s next album actually did venture a little bit into djent territory since it was recorded with extended range guitars in that instrument’s standard tuning.

As Icicles Fall by Ne Obliviscaris