Gorguts
Well, their name is nothing special. Gore + guts = gorguts? Yeaaaaah. Well, don't judge a book by its cover. They do make death metal, but it's... unique. It's incredibly free jazz influenced. Really technical and spastic guitar work. Completely atonal riffing played by finger tapping. Combined with drasatic tempo changes, and a vocalist whose death growl sounds more like a tortured wheeze, the music of Gorguts is some of the most unique metal yet made. This ain't your standard Cryptopsy/Morbid Angel/what have you death metal. This is complex, difficult, mind bending, and yet somehow - well executed - technical death. This is closer to no-wave or noise rock than metal in some points. So if you can't quite wrap your head around it, give it time. No megaman-styled guitar solos here.
With that, I give you the title track from their magnum opus, Obscura.
download: http://www.mytempdir.com/737571
Alio Die
To contrast with the tech-death of Gorguts, I give you the subtlety of Alio Die. Alio Die, who is italian, makes surrealist ambient music from electonically treated electroacoustic phenomenon and nature sounds, usually with very light synthesizer accompanyment. Alio Die's music is usually described as "ritual ambient", a subgenre combining ambient drones with first-wave industrial influence, with mystical or ritual intentions. Alio Die's music is just that: he uses industrial technique (the use of treated samples and field recordings) to achieve ambient atmospheres, and records under the pretext of enlightened music (the title of his first cd, as such, is Under a Holy Ritual.) However, in contrast to some ritual ambient artists who build instruments out of human bone, or use the body's electricity in combination with field recordings to achieve their atmospherics, Alio Die's music draws on nature itself.
Here is the first track, named Looking Towards, from a split album (The Door of Possibilities) that he did with the ambient duo "ORA." Although the track is tagged as Alio Die & ORA, the track itself is just by Alio Die (the album was a split, not a true collaboration.)
download: http://www.mytempdir.com/737593
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