Who Are The WEIRDEST Metal Bands?

Appreciate the shoutout, Robert! I’ve been looking forward to this video, because there are so many strange bands out there, especially within metal.

Oranssi Pazuzu is weird in a really really good way 👍

I have a few to suggest to you myself: - Veilburner: Think Arcturus-meets-Behemoth-meets-Mayhem; all of the aforementioned bands are under the influence of LSD and take a voyage through time. - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: More progressive/art rock than metal, but they have their heavy moments. Essentially the answer to The Dresden Dolls taking a high road, getting lost in it and never coming back again through the eyes of a sad, lonely abused mime. - Mitochondrion: Utter chaos from an occult standpoint. - Aevangelist: A comfortable nightmare to live through, I'll leave it at that. - Unexpect: The Cirque du Soleil on crack, warped by a madman's experiment from the Victorian era. - Altarage: Grinding, deadly, pulverizing death metal from Spain; this country's answer to Portal. - Imperial Triumphant: From what I've seen from your videos, you already know this band. But, I'll reiterate for the newcomers: Louis Armstrong, Ron Jefferson, Duke Ellington and Buddy Rich decide to jam at the top of the Chrysler Building... on a Satanic pentagram. That's pretty much what I can come up with off the top of my head.

For me, the weirdest Metal bands that come to my mind is Squid Pisser and Fantomas.

Deconstruction by Devin towsend project has to be the strangest and weirdest album that i have ever heard and still think it is a masterpiece

A few bands not mentioned but worth checking out if weird is your thing Akphaezya - A weird blend of jazz and metal that leans a bit more into latin and lounge influences but can get to being black metal adjacent on some tracks. Sigh - Japanese avant-garde black metal band, the black metal kinda holds it together but you get horror soundtrack, folk, doom, jazz, psychedelic and death metal influences finding their way in. None of their albums sound the same. Crotch Duster - Only had 1 album, but it's a clusterfuck of genres. Pornogrind with hip-hop, hair metal, and show tune seeping in while somehow having a relatively clean sound. Gralaghorr - Progressive sludge (?) with some dissonant ambient saxophone stuff happening. Lots of bands have a similar-ish vibe but nobody really sounds like the exact combination of sounds Gralaghorr has. Broken By The Scream - Japanese idol group backed by an avant-garde metal band with heavy funk influences. Like a weird mix of Baby Metal and Mr. Bungle.

Devin's album Deconstruction deserves a mention. The title track is one of the heaviest songs he's done outside of SYL and it's about a goddamn burger of all things. Some other weird bands: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Kayo Dot/Maudlin of the Well The Dillinger Escape Plan Atheist Sigh

You should definitely check out Pink Mass if you haven't already. LGBTQ and BDSM themed band with an insane stage show. Some others that I thought of were Cephalic Carnage, Contrastic, Sunn O))), Dir En Grey, and Thy Catafalque.

Should make "middest metal bands ever" next

Oh, if I remembered Japanese Metal when I was making my comment I would have easily included Dir en Grey, Obscure was one of my favourite songs, though I haven't listened to it in a while.

You could make a list of most pretentious bands and there would be a place for Sleep Token. It could also trigger an interesting discussion because there is a huge list of popular and beloved bands that could fit the list as well

All hail the mighty Voivod 🤘

To me, The Bezerker is pretty fuckin' weird. Mixing brutal death metal with gabba and hardcore techno while wearing these goofy masks (back in the days that is)...

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

I love Mr Bungle

I completely forgot to comment on that post! A vast majority of the ones i know were already mentioned, but i think Sarmat would fit here nicely. Altarage, cân bardd, negură bunget, gutalax, gravesend, mirar, imperial triumphant, and terra tenebrosa would also be fitting. Then again, out of these latter i don't really know much about altarage, negura, terra or can bardd aside from singular albums. Oh, and zeal & ardor, i only recently discovered them live, they were an interesting kind of weird, not the weirdest ever, but far from normal

I appreciate the in-depth response to my section, thank you, and you are absolutely right about basically all of it being nightmare fuel. The bizarre, dissonant side of metal is probably my favorite at this point, so I was really excited when I saw the community post pop up for this video. There's lots of great bands that were mentioned in this video, and even a few that I'm gonna have to check out.

My answer will always be Diablo Swing Orchestra

They’re not strictly metal, but I felt compelled to mention Ghoultown. They’re basically Rob Zombie meets Motörhead & a touch of Mariachi music, against a backdrop of horror stories & urban legends set in the Old West.

Listened to the entire Botanist discography recently. Very weird yes, but also very good.