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Crime In Choir - Zach Hill from Hella played on the first couple albums, also the bass player from At The Drive-In up until 1995 or so. Really tallented group.

Polar Bear - Experimental Jazz group from the UK

Foxhole - Might be hard to find, but they are on Burnt Toast Vinyl, they have a couple of albums on there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB9E37KmsMA&hl=en&fs=1

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Okay so I have created an alphabetical list of each band that has been mentioned. What I did for my list is put an asterisk by the bands I need to look into. The bands without asterisks have either been listened to already and liked/disliked, or I already possess their music in some format.

matthew, I was introduced to yndi halda only a few months ago and immediately became a favorite. Great recommendation all around.

Sharkticon, I actually picked up that split at the Mono show on Wednesday! I fucking love it.

Ryan, My buddy Chris played me Suffocate For Fuck Sake not too long ago, and that shit was so good. Check out Black Tusk when you get a chance.

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UPDATED 6/7/10

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>65 Days of Static*

A.

>Activities of Dust*

>Adai*

>Admiral Browning*

>Ahleuchatistas*

>Angel Eyes*

>Animals as Leaders*

>Armada*

>The Autumn Project*

B.

>BATTLES

>Beware of Safety*

>Bitcrush*

>The Blackheart Rebellion*

>Blacktop Project*

>Black Tusk

>The Bloom*

>Boris

>Brass Bell*

>Braveyoung*

>By the End of Tonight*

C.

>Cancer Conspiracy

>Caspian

>Cinemechanica

>Collapse Under the Bridge*

>Collections of Colonies of Bees*

>Crime in Choir*

>Cue*

>Cult of Luna*

D.

>Dakota/Dakota

>Daniel Higgs*

>Destroyalldreamers*

>Don Caballero

>Doug Scharin*

>Dredg

E.

>Earth*

>Earthless*

>Efterklang*

>Einstuzende Neubauten*

>El Ten Eleven

>Electro Quarterstaff*

>Eluvium

>Envy

>Errors*

>Esmerine*

>Euphone*

>The Evpatoria Report*

>Explosions in the Sky

F.

>Foxhole*

>Fly Pan Am*

>From Monument to Masses

G.

>Ghastly City Sleep*

>Ghosts and Vodka*

>Giants

>Gifts From Enola

>Glaciers*

>God is an Astronaut*

>Godspeed

>Grails

H.

>Hadoken*

>Hammock

>Hangedup*

>Harvey Milk

>Him*

>Holy Fuck*

>House of Low Culture*

>Human Bell*

>Hurt Model*

I.

>If These Trees Could Talk*

>Ill Second Earthless*

>Irepress

>Isis

J.

>Jakob*

>Josh LaRue*

>Junius*

K.

L.

>Lights Out Asia*

>Lotus

>Lye By Mistake*

M.

>Maserati

>Menomena*

>Mogwai

>Mono

>Monolith*

>Mouth of the Architect

>My Angel Sleeps on the Other Rail*

>My Education*

>Mylene Sheath*

N.

>Nathan Bell*

>Nest*

>Neurosis

>New Century Classics*

O.

>Oceansize*

>The Octopus Project*

P.

>Paucity

>Pelican

>Pitchblende*

>Polar Bear*

>Pretend*

Q.

R.

>Ray Barbee*

>Red Sparowes

>Rosetta

>Russian Circles

S.

>Sacrifice Poles*

>The Samuel Jackson Five*

>Saxon Shore*

>Send Away Stranger*

>September Malevolence*

>Set Fire to Flames*

>Seven Nautical Miles*

>Sigur Ros

>Six Parts Seven

>Silver Mt. Zion

>Sleep Dealer*

>The Sleep Design*

>Slint*

>Slow Six*

>Snack Truck

>The Sorts*

>Sparrows Swarm and Sing

>Stars of the Lid*

>The Stella Link*

>Stinking Lizaveta*

>Strangers Die Every Day*

>STS9*

>Suffocate For Fuck Sake

T.

>Thisquitarmy*

>This is Your Captain Speaking*

>This Will Destroy You

>Tides

>Tenebre*

>Throbbing Gristle*

>Toe*

>Tortoise

>Toundra*

>Trans Am

>Tristeza

>The Turing Machine*

U.

>Ufomammut*

>Unwed Sailor

V.

W.

>We All Inherit the Moon*

>The Weak Men*

>World's End Girlfriend

X.

Y.

>Year of No Light*

>Yndi Halda

>Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson*

Z.

>Zombi*

>Zomes*

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Also, totally forgot about Euphone.

Also, Nathan Bell's many projects including his solo work, Human Bell and Brass Bell. All weird, all very different from each other. Human Bell is probably the most accessible.

There's also:

The Sorts

The Boom

Josh LaRue

Activities Of Dust and anything associated with Doug Scharin.

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although they have been mentioned, i don't think enough good things can be said about Suffocate For Fuck Sake.

Also, Seven Nautical Miles is pretty good. They only have one album out as of right now (every ocean reversed), but it's highly recommended.

oh, and also The Black Heart Rebellion. its not strictly instrumental, but its awesome.

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Not yet listed:

65daysofstatic, The Autumn Project, Destroyalldreamers, Efterklang, The Evpatoria Report, From Monument to Masses, Hammock, The Samuel Jackson Five, Saxon Shore, September Malevolence, Stars of the Lid, This is Your Captain Speaking, Unwed Sailor, The Weak Men, World's End Girlfriend

If you're including minor vocals, The Album Leaf and Lights Out Asia need to be listed.

Another good label/distro to look into is Denovali, and thesilentballet.com is a great clearinghouse site for post-rock info.

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Neurosis.

Whenever I see Neurosis, it seems to be close to Don Cab -- do they have any resemblance in sound, or is it just coincidence?

Total quinki dink. They couldn't sound less alike. Don Cab is spastic, mathy instrumental precursor to stuff like minus the bear where as Neurosis sound like the apocalypse (aka amazing!)

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Also, Seven Nautical Miles is pretty good. They only have one album out as of right now (every ocean reversed), but it's highly recommended.

That album ruuuules. Sound Devastation apparently ran out of money, so they're trying to press it on vinyl themselves.

yeah, i sent them a message on myspace about a year ago asking about a possible vinyl pressing, and got pretty much the same response. i think it's time to check back in though, ha.

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That album ruuuules. Sound Devastation apparently ran out of money, so they're trying to press it on vinyl themselves.

yeah, i sent them a message on myspace about a year ago asking about a possible vinyl pressing, and got pretty much the same response. i think it's time to check back in though, ha.

They posted a comment on an old blog of mine in April:

4/21/2010 -

Hi!

Just wanted to let you know that we are working on the relaese of our vinyl. Our record label is out of money and we are trying to find a way to release it ourselves.

Feel free to send me a mail if you would like a copy when it is out, and I will ship it to you.

Cheers!

Mathias – SNM

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on the metal side of the instrumental spectrum:

electro quarterstaff - 3 guitar mindfuck attack session, they now have a bassist

ill second earthless, one of the most spirited live shows out there today, so awesome

lye by mistake - weird jazzy infused prog metal, whom went instrumental after a singer departure

admiral browning - really upped the bar on their sound on the latest ep, check it out, called magic elixir

ahleuchatistas - not really metal at all, but awfully odd, sounds very freeform. its certainly worth being exposed to

harvey milk - not totally instrumental, for the most part.

animals as leaders - guitarist from Reflux, Tosin Abasi, very innovative stuff

i love instrumental music for the certain special quality they must have in order to pull it off, i can't quite put my finger on it myself

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