Metal bands with Jazz influences?

Karl Hungus

Been on a very jazzy binge lately, after discovering the amazing Jazz Fusion pianist, Hiromi Uehara, who's absolutely blown my mind, and been listening to a lot of Cynic, as well as some Gordian Knot, and some others.

I'm sure there's quite a bit of stuff I'm missing out on though, so I thought I'd throw up a thread about it.

galwayrush

Neil Peart certainly added some Jazz Percussion into Rush in recent times, he's a big fan of Buddy Rich.

Karl Hungus

I'm no stranger to Rush, I can tell you.

christophicus

There was a thread that had a link to a song on youtube that had crazy fast saxomophone in the song. It was a brilliant song I just can't remember the name of the song or band.

Heres the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9wwlzuwJE

Fad

dillinger escape plan? ive heard them refered to as ''jazzcore''

Morf

candiria's album 300% density

Karl Hungus

christophicus wrote: »

There was a thread that had a link to a song on youtube that had crazy fast saxomophone in the song. It was a brilliant song I just can't remember the name of the song or band.

Heres the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9wwlzuwJE

Yeah, good band. I have their first 2 albums.

Fad wrote: »

dillinger escape plan? ive heard them refered to as ''jazzcore''

Morf wrote: »

candiria's album 300% density

I really don't like anything "Core" at all. Just doesn't get on with me at all for some reason.

redenemyjoe

karnivool, check em

Karl Hungus

redenemyjoe wrote: »

karnivool, check em

Just watching some videos on youtube.

They're not bad, kinda sound like a more poppy Korn, but Jazz influences? Where on earth are you hearing that? Doesn't seem to be anything even remotely Jazzy in their music.

redenemyjoe

ill try find the stuff i had before, they had a few tunes wit really quality free jam bits.
gimme a day or so, gotta root through the hard drive!

Alucard II

Fad wrote: »

dillinger escape plan? ive heard them refered to as ''jazzcore''

bit of a bull**** genre, but really good band. tho itll be interesting to see how they fair without Pennie

Fad

oh i do love the cores my favourite being a toss up between christcore/angstcore

MoominPapa

Black Sabbath , Geezer Butler often drew on his r'n'b (the good kind) and jazz club origins. Hand of Doom and Planet Caravan spring to mind

LightofDarkness

Continuo Renacer, Heironymous Bosch, Pestilence, Atheist, C-187 (not that good though), Sleep Terror, Counter World Experience... There's more but I can't think of them all. Obviously Cynic require no introduction.

Parsley

Mahavishnu Orchestra!

christophicus

I don't really see much resembelance of Korn when talking about Karnivool.

Anyway I got to looking through youtube a fair bit and found a really nice band called corpofago, I really like them and they have little jazz style refrains. They may be a fairly well known band, but I have never heard of them.

Check them out !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnS_cvm5Z7g

Sofaspud

There's a cool little jazzy sax solo after the first chorus in Devin Townsend's "Bad Devil"

It's missing in this, but the drums are still there
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cnf4p3OoXJw

Fad

Fad wrote: »

oh i do love the cores my favourite being a toss up between christcore/angstcore

I forgot super-absorbantcore

Morf

Alarum

Karl Hungus

Pestilence, Atheist, C-187, Sleep Terror, Coprofago, Alarum, Mahavishnu Orchestra (They're metal now? ) and Devin Townsend are all bands I'm familiar with.

Listening to Hieronymous Bosch at them moment. Not bad at all.

Kess73

Not metal, but pick up some of Jaco Pastorius' cds. Amazing bass player who was killed well before his time.

nesf

Mastodon. Kind of.

CyberWaste

Cephalic Carnage have some songs with jazz mixed in.

Karl Hungus

CyberWaste wrote: »

Cephalic Carnage have some songs with jazz mixed in.

Yeah, good band, have some of their stuff too.

Beecher

Ephel Duath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LidPLhEtIjg

christophicus

Beecher wrote: »

Ephel Duath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LidPLhEtIjg

Hmmm I think someone may have linked to them already :rolleyes: .

buck65

Mr. Bungle especially first 2 albums where John Zorn played sax, actually check out Zorn crazy free jazz.
If you want some quality straight ahead jazz try Impressed by Gilles Peterson vol 1 and 2 , best of British jazz from the 60s /70s. Some of the stuff on that is really good, moodier and heavier than their US counterparts,