Heavy music like Big Brave?

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Hey folks, looking for some recommendations. I’m not really much of a heavy music guy these days, I find a lot of black/heavy/etc. metal really offputting, mostly from the vocal perspective. But I do still like stuff that sits a little adjacent to it. So stuff like Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle drew me back in. Recently really liked the King Woman album.

But the one that has really caught my ear is Big Brave. Big crushing metal, with relatively normal vocals on the top. I love it. I think it’s the vocals that put me off so much metal. Guttural growls and especially black metal screamy horribleness just immediately put me off. I’m looking at you, The Body!

Any other bands / artists I might like in the vein of Big Brave?

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Kowloon Walled City

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Oooh. Hoping this thread will yield lots of new music for me too.

While not exactly like Big Brave, I’ve been loving Amenra (who sadly just cancelled their UK tour next week). Slow, crushing riffs, deep atmospherics, not overly abrasive vocal style (well, a mixture of shouted and sung).

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not crushing metal but heavy punky type

maybe Kylesa?

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an old amrep band but a good one!

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Windhand - Crypt Key

Don’t know Big Brave but this is slow, crushing doom metal with the melodic twists of, say, smashing pumpkins but with a better singer.

The whole of their ‘Griefs Infernal Flower’ is pretty much in this vein.

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These sound close I reckon;

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Still has some of the usual CoL roars but also a lot of Julie Christmas’s great voice. Superb album.

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Harvey Milk are the best

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Whores., maybe??

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How bouts some Bummer

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Jesu?

Very heavy but very pretty shoegaze / metal, with a clean vocal.

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They were soooo good. That first album shaped my taste in music.

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I love this album, it’s not so heavy, but I always find this song pretty crushing.

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Exactly my ideal style of music. Hope you enjoy some of these

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Woah loads to get my teeth into here, thank you everyone, very much appreciated!

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Some great recs already in this thread. The Windhand, Messa (wishing them well after their recent van crash) and King Woman albums get regular spins from me.

Flesh of the Stars - For some pastoral doomy sounds. A real grower for me. Have really got into this one over the last few months.

Pure Mass - I get Painteens vibes in places from these.

Chrome Ghost - Melodic/‘choral’ sludge. Cleaner vocals in places mixed with the gruffer stuff. Their earlier stuff was a bit more Alice in Chains influenced I think.

ASG - Southern tinged heavy stoner rock.

Seed - Heavy adjacent ethereal doom?

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