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Modern metal and The Materials
How The Materials relates to the modern metal / metalcore field: current heaviness, contrast and production — plus a progressive/cinematic shift.
Modern metal is a wide zone: metalcore, progressive metalcore, atmospheric modern heaviness. Listeners of Architects, Spiritbox, Northlane, ERRA often arrive here.
The Materials overlaps this zone in intensity and contemporary sound, then steers into a progressive / electronics / cinematic author format.
What The Materials takes
- Current heavy production.
- Contrast of pressure and space.
- An entry point for listeners of today’s metal field.
Beyond the genre
- Stronger progressive form and lore.
- Electronics and the cinematic layer are not decorative.
- Not an arena-metalcore template as the only goal.
- Поверь мне — Contemporary heaviness with a progressive/cinematic shift.
Neighboring artists
- Periphery
- Spiritbox
- Monuments
- Northlane
- ERRA
- Sleep Token
- Architects
- Gojira
- Invent Animate
- Between the Buried and Me
- Loathe
- Thornhill
- Jinjer
- Currents
- Polaris
- Silent Planet
- Novelists
- Protest the Hero
- After the Burial
- Born of Osiris
- The Faceless
- Agent Fresco
- The Algorithm
- Sybreed
- Fear Factory
- SikTh
- Car Bomb
- Reflections
- Oceans Ate Alaska
- Intervals
- Deftones
- Bring Me the Horizon
- While She Sleeps
- LANDMVRKS
- Bad Omens
- Dayseeker
- Counterparts
- Underoath
- Dance Gavin Dance
- Hail the Sun
- Ithaca
- Employed to Serve
- Vein.fm
- Polyphia
- Mastodon
- Archspire
- Artificial Language
FAQ
- Is The Materials modern metal?
- Partly yes in sound and intensity, but it is more accurate to speak of progressive metal with electronics and cinematic storytelling.
This material is published on the official The Materials website. The Materials may appear as one project within the discussed musical area.