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Forum Name: Suggest new bands/artists to MMA
Forum Description: Suggest, create polls, and classify new bands you would like included on Metal Music Archives
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Topic: Buckethead
Posted By: Earendil
Subject: Buckethead
Date Posted: 27 May 2013 at 10:41pm
I know this has been done before, but a conclusion was never really reached, and I think this site is missing a talented artist who has released many metal albums.  He has a released multiple thoroughly metal albums, with many other albums containing metal elements.  Here are a few that I'm familiar with.  I would also bet that he has other ones, considering he has averaged around 4 albums per year.

Buckethead playing technical metal:


Buckethead using blast beats and lots of dissonance:


Buckethead playing progressive metal:



Buckethead playing experimental metal:




Full albums on youtube:



Cuckoo Clocks Of Hell is considered to be his heaviest





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Posted By: Tupan
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 6:47am
Avant-garde? Shred (hard rock, in this case)? Prog?


Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 11:58am
I think Avant-Garde would be most accurate.  He has a lot of material that's Avant-Garde, and he had a couple albums released on Zorn's old label.  And even when he's not playing Avant-Garde music, it's usually somewhat experimental.


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 12:59pm
It's probably more of a matter of whether or not we qualify it as metal, not which subgenre.  Will discuss with A-G team in the meantime.

p.s. minor thing, but I don't really understand adding polls to addition threads.  It's not going to change the collabs' opinions regardless of vote distribution.


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 1:02pm
There was some discussion of his addition in http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2366&KW=buckethead" rel="nofollow - this thread , but no formal suggestion was ever made and there doesn't seem to be any collaborator consensus on the site.


Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 1:05pm
I would definitely say it's progressive metal.  I never hear moments of Avant-Garde Metal.  Maybe Experimental Rock, but all the metal elements are prog to me.

Also, a good deal of his discog has no metal what-so-ever.  But the metal albums are prog.


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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 1:26pm
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

It's probably more of a matter of whether or not we qualify it as metal, not which subgenre.  Will discuss with A-G team in the meantime.

p.s. minor thing, but I don't really understand adding polls to addition threads.  It's not going to change the collabs' opinions regardless of vote distribution.

I wanted to see what everyone thinks


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2013 at 7:51am
Bump

The A-G team forwarded this suggestion to prog metal, still waiting on an answer from them


Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2013 at 3:35pm
Ok Drew, we'll make a start on this artist. It's not going to be a quick job, so bear with us!


Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2013 at 3:37pm
Sounds excellent!


Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2013 at 4:21pm
Just as well that the poll seems broadly in favour of addition, as Buckethead has been added and is complete up to the end of 2012. I'll leave this thread unlocked for a little while in case anyone has any comments on perhaps albums tagged as non-metal where you know better? I'll close it down in a few days.


Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2013 at 2:36pm
Thanks for everyone who spent the time to add all of those albums. Everything looks great as far as I can tell, but Island of Lost Minds is marked as non-metal, and from what I've heard, that's one of his heaviest, and definitely his most dissonant.  It's essentially experimental metal, but I think it would fit under industrial, or if not, progressive.


Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2013 at 3:22pm

Wink I'm sure the last time I checked it was down as prog metal.

 


Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2013 at 5:20pm
Also, it was the last time I checked too Wink



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