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18-665: Release Date is the ninth studio album by the Finnish avant-garde metal band Waltari . The track "Spokebone" is a collaboration between Waltari, Tomi Joutsen of Amorphis , and the Finnish folk group Värttinä . Avant-garde metal Avant-garde metal (also known as avant-metal , experimental metal , art metal and experimetal ) is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and innovative, avant-garde elements, including non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song structures, playing styles, and vocal techniques. Avant-garde metal

36-567: A number of musicians "abandoned the tightly wound structure of the music and experimented with abstractions of its founding elements". Progressive rock has also been cited as an influence. Some early examples are the King Crimson releases Larks' Tongues in Aspic and Red in 1973 and 1974 respectively, with the latter album's title track defining an "avant-metal style" that Robert Fripp would revisit years later. Another early example

54-483: A separate genre of "atmospheric metal" or " post-metal ", which was named in reference to post-rock . Avant-garde metal is related to progressive metal , but avant-garde metal often has more experimentation, while progressive metal usually has a tighter focus on traditional metal instrumentation and higher levels of technical complexity. Avant-garde metal also uses unusual sounds, breaks conventions, and often includes new elements. The lyrics and visual presentation of

72-641: Is influenced by progressive rock and extreme metal , particularly death metal , and is closely related to progressive metal . Some local scenes include Los Angeles , the San Francisco Bay Area , Boston , and Seattle in the United States, Oslo in Norway, and Tokyo in Japan. "Avant-garde metal" is interchangeable with "experimental metal" and "avant-metal", and may also refer to

90-559: Is the 1976 Led Zeppelin album Presence . Celtic Frost was an early pioneer of the genre; the term "avant-garde metal" was coined to describe their 1987 release Into the Pandemonium . Other pioneers of avant-garde metal include Gorguts , Boris , Earth , Helmet , Mayhem , Maudlin of the Well , Neurosis , Sunn O))) , Mr. Bungle , Today Is the Day , and Voivod . In

108-528: The Amazon charts. 2011 also marked the acquisition of the Music For Nations catalog including releases from Opeth , Paradise Lost , Cradle Of Filth , Anathema, Godflesh and more. 2012 brought an especially unique project: the iconic Halo 4 Original Soundtrack . Working with Microsoft, 7 Hz Productions and Neil Davidge proved to be a monumental move for the label and the release, cracking

126-546: The Release Entertainment imprint of Relapse Records , Seventh Rule Recordings , and Southern Lord Records . In the United States, local avant-garde metal scenes have emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area with bands such as Giant Squid , Grayceon , and Ludicra , and in Boston , with bands such as Isis , Kayo Dot , and Maudlin of the Well . Some regional scenes that developed in the mid-1990s included

144-574: The cities of Tokyo , Los Angeles , and Oslo . The End Records The End Records was founded by Andreas Katsambas in Pasadena, California , with the goal of helping small underground artists. Within three years it became a full-time job and Katsambas moved the office to Salt Lake City in 2002. Too underground to get a national distribution deal, he started his own webstore, which helped cover basic expenses and slowly started bringing in other titles. The next three years were critical in expanding

162-574: The digital charts in the same week. After winning the Eurovision contest with 120,000,000 votes, Finnish metal band Lordi joined the roster, shortly thereafter The Answer came on board, who were hand-picked by AC/DC to support them on their 2008 worldwide tour. American alternative rock band The Lemonheads finally re-entered the Billboard charts in 2009 with Varshons ; the band had not charted since 1996. That year, two more artists signed to

180-634: The genre are eclectic as well. According to Jeff Wagner in Mean Deviation , electronic percussion and drum machines see widespread use by avant-garde metal bands, along with female vocals and operatic elements, all of which he attributes to the influence of the band Celtic Frost . The Canadian group Voivod also influenced future bands in the genre, pioneering technique such as robotic vocal effects, unusual time signatures, and fractured, dissonant, unorthodox guitar sounds. According to Ian Christe , avant-garde metal emerged from death metal as

198-877: The iTunes world charts and became the main theme in Wold Bank's annual event. 2013 brought more success; Helloween entered the US Top 100 charts for the first time in their career and The End's roster also grew with Petula Clark and Fatboy Slim . Later in the year, The End released new albums from The Mission , Sponge , Hey! Hello! ( Ginger Wildheart and Victoria Liedtke), Arthur Channel ( Jack Irons , Greg Richling , Alain Johannes , Jon Greene), American Sharks, The Red Paintings , Crossfaith , Okta Logue , The Candles , Eklipse, Dead Letter Circus and many more. The End's new world wide distribution deal with ADA ( Alternative Distribution Alliance ) came into effect in 2014 and

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216-539: The label announced some major signers: Nina Persson ( The Cardigans , A Camp ), Rich Robinson ( The Black Crowes ) and Neil Davidge . All artists signed on for their new solo albums. The End also expanded their business model to become a sub-distributor to smaller indie labels including 7 Hz, Crash Collide Records, Evilive Records, Imagen Records, Music For Nations, Small Stone Records, Svart Records, The Middle Ground, Unruly Sounds, Warner Music UK, Universal Scandinavia and Wanz0matic Records. In June 2016, The End

234-414: The label that year, becoming a global phenomenon after the release of their documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil . With the drastic changes in the music industry, Andreas decided to adapt the label by signing indie electronic artists like Audio Bullys and Does It Offend You Yeah? along with electro-dub artists The Orb and The Prodigy . They launched The End Records Sampler which went number one on

252-607: The label which began signing bands such as The Gathering , Crisis , Arcturus , Ulver and more. In 2005 after meeting with many major distribution companies, The End signed a national distribution deal with RED Music and moved to Brooklyn, NY, the following year. The move to New York enabled the label to expand and diversify their building roster ( Dissection , Moonfog , Voivod ) with artists such as Mindless Self Indulgence , Danzig , Lemonheads , Juliette Lewis , Badly Drawn Boy , Brendan Perry , Art Brut , The Prodigy , Anathema , Dir En Grey , and Anvil . In 2007 The End

270-679: The label; Juliette Lewis released Terra Incognita which was featured in multiple iTunes commercials, billboards and advertisements and The Charlatans released Who We Touch which stayed number one for three weeks at the Alt Specialty Radio charts. In 2010 multi-platinum-selling artist Danzig entered the Top 40 charts with Deth Red Sabaoth , his highest charting album since Danzig III . Mercury prize winner Badly Drawn Boy signed to The End and released Part 1 of It's What I'm Thinking series. Canadian metallers Anvil also signed to

288-581: The late 1990s, Misanthropy Records emerged as a promoter of Norwegian avant-garde metal until it folded in 2000, and, according to Jeff Wagner, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a so-called "new wave of avant-garde metal" was spearheaded by The End Records . Wagner states that "with the support of [Misanthropy and The End Records] and other specialty labels, metal's new avant-garde had arrived." Some other record labels which promote avant-garde metal are Aurora Borealis, The Flenser , Holy Records , Hydra Head Records , Ipecac Recordings , Napalm Records ,

306-459: The record for Billboard's Highest Charting Video Game Soundtrack ever. After that, the label began working with UK management company Raw Power and released albums for AxeWound ( Bullet For My Valentine , Cancer Bats ), Funeral For A Friend , Crossfaith and While She Sleeps . The latter two performed all dates on the highly successful Warped Tour 2013 . The End Records rounded out 2012 with Rhythms Del Mundo ‘Africa’ , which went number 1 at

324-632: Was featured in Fortune Small Business and CNN which won Fortune their sole New York Press Club award for entertainment news in the magazine category. Now on the rise and gaining attention from press, 2008 won them the CMJ Indie Label of the year award. That same year, they celebrated Mindless Self Indulgence's entrance into the Billboard Top 30 Charts, the highest entry for the band, who also placed three Top 5 singles in

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