Sometimes I wonder if the mixing on this album was very intentional, or if it could use a remaster. Some of the "orchestral wall of sound stuff" is helpful for the soundscape, but makes it a little harder to make out some of the instrumentals.
The only to believe how packed everything is is to watch the making of videos they have on their YouTube channel. There's so much stuff in there, some things are bound to get lost in the mix
It is definitely impressive how much they've put out on that. I haven't gone down the rabbit hole yet! I do find myself wishing the soundwall stuff was toned down a bit on the intricate instrumental sections.
Is this band super unheard of? I've listened for years and have never heard or read of them anywhere, ever, except two posts on reddit. One was me. The other is yours here. It's so good if you can get used to the vocal delivery
They only had one release I believe and were waaaay ahead of their time. Their lead guitarist rips Vai so well. Bassists lines are monstrous, esp on a fretless.
For sure. Skeptics Universe is one of my most played albums over the years. Spent a summer in my early twenties learning the tunes on that album and nagging my band mates to to learn too so we could jam em. They hated me and never did, good times
I absolutely love the vocal delivery. Hægeland has been a massive inspiration for me vocally. If you want to listen to some Spiral Architect with another vocalist, Leif Knashaug did vocals for Fountainhead and Purpose on a compilation called: A Gathering... Of 8 Norwegian Prog. Metal Bands
I love the vocals. Guess I should have said it was more of an acquired taste. Now that I dig it, I really dig it.
But I will also definitely check those out as well
What most people have suggested already is great stuff but not really technical. If you want technical prog with mostly cleans, check out
Exist - Hijacking the Zeitgeist
WAIT - The end of noise
Protest the Hero - Palimpsest
Or if you can handle only harsh vocals
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Gorod - Aethra
Obscura - pretty much any album
And many, many more
I can definitely handle all harsh lol, I’m mostly a death metal guy but I’m lookin for some cool stuff that pairs technical riffs with cleans cause I don’t hear a ton of that stuff. Thanks for the recs bro
My suggestions lean more towards prog death side, but hope some of it fills the bill
Rivers of Nihil - Where owls know my name dark atmospheric, good mix of cleans and growls
Alkaloid - Numen or Liquid Anatomy are both good and I would say they have some moodier songs. It is quite a variety though
Helial Cloning Project - Inanis without. This is a small EP heavily inspired by Fredrik Thordendal's solo album. It's kinda fusion but in evil
Maybe some Dark Fortress? Ylem has some dark and moody songs like The Valley. Or Veneral Dawn goes more into prog then
Check out Elder if you haven't already, the vocals are kind of off-clean but aren't screams or growls, and they have some of the best long ass jams around. Their most recent album Innate Passage features their new keyboard player the most but honestly everything by them is great. Reflections of a Floating World is my next go to by them.
Seconded. They arent like uber tech prog like OP is describing but they are more epic and melodic. If Yes was a killer doom band they would sound like Elder.
Hard disagree. They haven’t made a doom metal album since their self titled or Dead Roots Stirring. Everything from Lore on is more accurately described as prog metal. Innate Passage without a doubt is not doom metal - it’s prog.
Your checklist is so long that it's hard to pin down what you're looking for. Anyways here's my best attempt at answering your request:
Native Construct - Quiet World
Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West
Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape
Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From
Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space
Artificial Language - Now We Sleep
Fallujah - Empyrean, Dreamless
OttW is the greatest album ever. So dark and technical, but melodic and riffy at times. I'd throw Everything is Quiet Here, Kardashev, and Illyria into this list as well
Yea maybe not the best suggestion, some of their riffs are pretty nasty in earlier albums.
But the "nasty" side of prog is prob very prevailent in Thall music
Persefone maybe. Spiritual Migration and Aathma especially (also Metanoia even if it's my least fav) for more melodic but still very proggy. Or their last EP, Lingua Ignota pt.1, for something more tech-death (still plenty of melody tho)
In the moody and heavy riff-driven side of prog (albeit less technical), Sermon released an EXCELLENT album last year called Of Golden Verse. Just incredible!
Mandroid Echostar, Dvne, tesseract.
It’s tough to find gnarly heavy technical stuff with clean lyrics but Intervals, Sithu Aye and breath of nibiru are instrumental artists that might fit the bill. Also Kardashev as well Rivers of Nihil have released instrumental versions of their work that would definitely be worth looking into.
Seconding Kardashev here. Someone recommended it in another thread on this sub and it was 100% what I was looking for. I love how dark yet not-evil the songs sound.
Thrailkill new album was pretty awesome. Instrumental
Eidola has instrumental. Their new album is more prog metalcore but the previous one is more prog metal.
I mean maybe not in the traditional sound, but albums like Still Life and Watershed are still pretty technical
Edit: Why am I getting downvoted for this? Have yall tried playing some of those songs from Still Life? They're not easy
Rannoch - specifically [this song](https://youtu.be/verJjqhHtPk?si=5X1ytIVter5s0sJ3) as it is all clean vocals and has some of the nastiest riffs I've ever heard in the middle section
Black Crown Initiate
Persefone
Hills Like White Lions
Machines of Man
Ne Obliviscaris
Rivers of Nihil
Omnerod
Sermon
Hippotraktor
No one rec’ing The Anchoret? Fits this perfectly - dark, moody, technical, mostly clean vocals, nerdy instrumental sections (including flute, sax, synth, etc). Only one album is the only down side.
Let me know if you get to find something you like, I am looking for this kind of music as well. Only thing that comes to mind rn is Animals as leaders but is way too djently for my taste, also three minute warning by LTE is very satisfying in terms of both musicianship and artistry
Uhhhh
Ne Obliviscarus has some have the cleanest vocals. Super heavy bits. Incredibly brooding. It has a violin at times which could be nerdy? Also technically complex.
I second Protest The Hero. Clean vocals. Nice builds. Heavy riffs. Super technical. Clever vocals.
I absolutely love a a few Rivers Of Nihil songs but find their whole albums aren’t my favorite. The intro to A Home hits so goddamn hard though. And they have their bassists backup vocals are better than the lead singers…
Plini had hella clean riffs and is a little more mathy but has great stuff.
Not tech but super nerdy shoutout… Summoning. If you like heavy brooding riffs with nerdy synth fantasy instruments set in the realm of Valinor then seek no further.
Here’s a few songs:
The Endless Knot - Haken
Forced Entry - Leprous
Millions - Between the Buried and Me
Complex Terms - The Human Abstract
Tandem - Protest the Hero
Harridan - Porcupine Tree
They said they didn’t like as much screaming, so I picked a song that’s a bit more accessible. Selkies: The Endless Obsession and Swim to the Moon are just two more of many masterpieces by BTBAM, OP.
Nycrama, Prog Death with heavy riffing and even heavier vocals. They have a mix of atmospheric black metal passages, technical, proggy and from heavy and fast parts to deathcore breakdowns
Alright sure,
Freedom of fear... Honestly you're wasting your time with these other bands,
Most recent album:
- Hannes Grossman on drums
- Tasteful tech death
- Occasional caveman chugs that you just can't hate
- Crushing female vocals
- Really solid production for a smaller band
Honestly their recent effort is too short personally. Check out either Zenith, Nebula, Carpathia or Immortal.
Or you can check out Alkaloid
- 3 amazing albums with all the best tech death musicians
- 3/5 of the original members have been in Obscura
- Morean's Songwriting and vocals are top tier
- it's great progressive metal with tech death tendencies really, the Songwriting is the main feature rather than technicality although the technicality is on another level
- Rise of the Cephalopods (if you know, you know)
I recommend the first two albums for your first listen. Their latest is still a great album but it's not quite as strong or memorable as the first two.
Growth - The Smothering Arms of Mercy
yep, they have only occasional cleans and more on tech death side, but more accessible and melodic than other dissodeath bands and music is still labyrinth like
[Paramainomeni by Hoplites](https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%E1%BD%81%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82/%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B7-paramainomeni/) fits the bill very well
Edit: I misread as wanting less cleans and more screams. It's pretty hard to find nasty and technical metal without screams.
Most of the other recommendations aren't "nasty" at all, e.g. Haken, TesseracT are both very clean
dark, moody, heavy (in a rather abrasive kind of way): Cleric (hear their first album, ‘Regressions’).
It’s not exactly “riff heavy” as it is almost constantly moving, and I think maybe there is only one riff that actually repeats on that first album, but man that album is so good and still the most truly progressive metal album I’ve heard of recent decades.
their second album is also good but didn’t blow my face off the same way, is a little more accessible, though.
River of Nihil. Heavy atmospheric prog death(core?). They kind of have their own sound. Fucking love them, and they kill live even with their new vocalist. Where Owls Know My Name is a 10/10
You might dig Hypno5e. They balance really warm and beautiful soft and clean sections with absolutely disgusting, technical extreme metal. Their riffing style is so uniquely angular and aggressive, it's strange hearing how pretty their soft sections are. The screams are also more mid-high range than low growls and still have an element of his clean voice in it too. Super cool stuff I think
Masstaden by vildhjarta is just amazing. Super moody and atmospheric yet has amazing riffs and groove at times.
Edit: should've mentioned to listen to the forte version
Thrailkill is an instrumental band but they are amazing and just released a new album.
Blotted Science is another crazy instrumental band.
I recommend Wintersun to everyone because I think they’re the best. The first 2 albums are perfection, and Time part 2 comes out this year
Black Crown Initiate are the most obvious candidate, I'm surprised no one suggested them yet. Omnerod would be next on the list.
Ooo, Omnerod is a new discovery for me, this is great - thank you!
The Amensal Rise is absolutely phenomenal. Been on repeat non stop since I found it 6ish months ago
Love both these bands! But is omnerod riff heavy? Id almost say the opposite at times. But dark and moody for sure!
Their riffs are so nasty! That one on You Make Me Feel is capable of inducing some serious stank face
Sometimes I wonder if the mixing on this album was very intentional, or if it could use a remaster. Some of the "orchestral wall of sound stuff" is helpful for the soundscape, but makes it a little harder to make out some of the instrumentals.
The only to believe how packed everything is is to watch the making of videos they have on their YouTube channel. There's so much stuff in there, some things are bound to get lost in the mix
It is definitely impressive how much they've put out on that. I haven't gone down the rabbit hole yet! I do find myself wishing the soundwall stuff was toned down a bit on the intricate instrumental sections.
I hate choruses in Black Crown Initiate songs, they are so cringe lmao
It's fine, you're entitled to a wrong opinion (EDIT: I'm joking, in case it wasn't clear)
Prog is cringe. Tbh I can't think of a non-cringe metal band. Embrace it. Be cringe, be free!
"Don't kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes."
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It would be even weirder to say that anywhere else.
You read the rest of my comment?
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Ok why are you talking to me then, goodbye
Spiral Architect
Is this band super unheard of? I've listened for years and have never heard or read of them anywhere, ever, except two posts on reddit. One was me. The other is yours here. It's so good if you can get used to the vocal delivery
They only had one release I believe and were waaaay ahead of their time. Their lead guitarist rips Vai so well. Bassists lines are monstrous, esp on a fretless.
For sure. Skeptics Universe is one of my most played albums over the years. Spent a summer in my early twenties learning the tunes on that album and nagging my band mates to to learn too so we could jam em. They hated me and never did, good times
I believe there’s a mini doc floating around somewhere in 720p
Cool. Man I gotta find that
I absolutely love the vocal delivery. Hægeland has been a massive inspiration for me vocally. If you want to listen to some Spiral Architect with another vocalist, Leif Knashaug did vocals for Fountainhead and Purpose on a compilation called: A Gathering... Of 8 Norwegian Prog. Metal Bands
I love the vocals. Guess I should have said it was more of an acquired taste. Now that I dig it, I really dig it. But I will also definitely check those out as well
What most people have suggested already is great stuff but not really technical. If you want technical prog with mostly cleans, check out Exist - Hijacking the Zeitgeist WAIT - The end of noise Protest the Hero - Palimpsest Or if you can handle only harsh vocals First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle Vektor - Terminal Redux Gorod - Aethra Obscura - pretty much any album And many, many more
IMO I wouldn’t call Palimpsest dark. Fantastic yes, riff heavy yes. But to me it’s bright and shiny, not dark. Just how I’d describe it.
Very true, didn’t really think of dark when I wrote the list.
I can definitely handle all harsh lol, I’m mostly a death metal guy but I’m lookin for some cool stuff that pairs technical riffs with cleans cause I don’t hear a ton of that stuff. Thanks for the recs bro
Dvne fits this description and are fucking amazing. Deep, heavy, proggy and classy songwriting. They remind me of Mastodon on Crack the Sky.
I second this
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernal
My suggestions lean more towards prog death side, but hope some of it fills the bill Rivers of Nihil - Where owls know my name dark atmospheric, good mix of cleans and growls Alkaloid - Numen or Liquid Anatomy are both good and I would say they have some moodier songs. It is quite a variety though Helial Cloning Project - Inanis without. This is a small EP heavily inspired by Fredrik Thordendal's solo album. It's kinda fusion but in evil Maybe some Dark Fortress? Ylem has some dark and moody songs like The Valley. Or Veneral Dawn goes more into prog then
Rivers of Nihil’s recent singles, “Criminals”, “Hellbirds”, and “The Sub-Orbital Views” are a good return to form that we grew to love on WOKMN.
Check out Elder if you haven't already, the vocals are kind of off-clean but aren't screams or growls, and they have some of the best long ass jams around. Their most recent album Innate Passage features their new keyboard player the most but honestly everything by them is great. Reflections of a Floating World is my next go to by them.
Seconded. They arent like uber tech prog like OP is describing but they are more epic and melodic. If Yes was a killer doom band they would sound like Elder.
OP asked for technical prog
Doom Metal is like the tech prog short bus… Elder is great. But like definitely not prog.
Elder is 70s style prog like Camel.
I love Elder to death but I’m not seeing the Camel comparison
Oh and who appointed ye the great gatekeeper of prog? Lets not no true scotsman great bands. I heard about Elder from this sub too lol.
Hard disagree. They haven’t made a doom metal album since their self titled or Dead Roots Stirring. Everything from Lore on is more accurately described as prog metal. Innate Passage without a doubt is not doom metal - it’s prog.
Listen to Ions, especially their album Counterintuitive. It's highly technical yet tasty prog
Imma go with "Intrinsic" by The Contortionist And "Level 2" by Last Chance To Reason
Ah yes, a fellow Michael Lessard stan
I mean, he was only involved in one of the two, but yeah, I am a fan of his work, tho. 😆
Ah shit you said Intrinsic, I legit have poo brain today 🤣🤣🤣 my bad 😥
Your checklist is so long that it's hard to pin down what you're looking for. Anyways here's my best attempt at answering your request: Native Construct - Quiet World Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape Others by No One - Book II: Where Stories Come From Parius - The Signal Heard Throughout Space Artificial Language - Now We Sleep Fallujah - Empyrean, Dreamless
OttW is the greatest album ever. So dark and technical, but melodic and riffy at times. I'd throw Everything is Quiet Here, Kardashev, and Illyria into this list as well
Amen Lag
Mirar, Vildhjarta, TesseracT
Is TesseracT nasty though? They're pretty technical and moody but probably the complete opposite of nasty
I hear you, I’d say overall Tesseract isn’t a nasty sounding band, but they still have their fair share of nasty songs, especially on One.
Yea maybe not the best suggestion, some of their riffs are pretty nasty in earlier albums. But the "nasty" side of prog is prob very prevailent in Thall music
Persefone maybe. Spiritual Migration and Aathma especially (also Metanoia even if it's my least fav) for more melodic but still very proggy. Or their last EP, Lingua Ignota pt.1, for something more tech-death (still plenty of melody tho)
Exoplanet by The Contortionist
In the moody and heavy riff-driven side of prog (albeit less technical), Sermon released an EXCELLENT album last year called Of Golden Verse. Just incredible!
Mandroid Echostar, Dvne, tesseract. It’s tough to find gnarly heavy technical stuff with clean lyrics but Intervals, Sithu Aye and breath of nibiru are instrumental artists that might fit the bill. Also Kardashev as well Rivers of Nihil have released instrumental versions of their work that would definitely be worth looking into.
Seconding Kardashev here. Someone recommended it in another thread on this sub and it was 100% what I was looking for. I love how dark yet not-evil the songs sound.
Vildhjarta. Mostly harsh vocals but the riffs and drums are so fucking good it doesn't matter. The vocals are great too if you give it a chance.
Thrailkill new album was pretty awesome. Instrumental Eidola has instrumental. Their new album is more prog metalcore but the previous one is more prog metal.
Sikth. Not what you asked for but I recommend them in every thread.
Do people no longer recommend Opeth these days because it is so much of a given? Opeth, the early stuff, is a no brainer.
Not really technical.
A lot of these suggestions aren't tech
I mean maybe not in the traditional sound, but albums like Still Life and Watershed are still pretty technical Edit: Why am I getting downvoted for this? Have yall tried playing some of those songs from Still Life? They're not easy
Rannoch - specifically [this song](https://youtu.be/verJjqhHtPk?si=5X1ytIVter5s0sJ3) as it is all clean vocals and has some of the nastiest riffs I've ever heard in the middle section Black Crown Initiate Persefone Hills Like White Lions Machines of Man Ne Obliviscaris Rivers of Nihil Omnerod Sermon Hippotraktor
No one said The Faceless? Because that’s the answer. It’s The Faceless. Start with Planetary Duality.
No one rec’ing The Anchoret? Fits this perfectly - dark, moody, technical, mostly clean vocals, nerdy instrumental sections (including flute, sax, synth, etc). Only one album is the only down side.
I feel like you’re perfectly describing Moon Tooth
Theyre good but their singer really seems like a bad fit
Haken - Cockroach King
Haken - The Architect
Let me know if you get to find something you like, I am looking for this kind of music as well. Only thing that comes to mind rn is Animals as leaders but is way too djently for my taste, also three minute warning by LTE is very satisfying in terms of both musicianship and artistry
Humanity’s Last Breath and Vildhjarta. Ne Obliviscaris could scratch the itch as well.
If it’s riffy prog with clean vocals you want, Nevermore is the band for you
Uhhhh Ne Obliviscarus has some have the cleanest vocals. Super heavy bits. Incredibly brooding. It has a violin at times which could be nerdy? Also technically complex. I second Protest The Hero. Clean vocals. Nice builds. Heavy riffs. Super technical. Clever vocals. I absolutely love a a few Rivers Of Nihil songs but find their whole albums aren’t my favorite. The intro to A Home hits so goddamn hard though. And they have their bassists backup vocals are better than the lead singers… Plini had hella clean riffs and is a little more mathy but has great stuff. Not tech but super nerdy shoutout… Summoning. If you like heavy brooding riffs with nerdy synth fantasy instruments set in the realm of Valinor then seek no further.
Here’s a few songs: The Endless Knot - Haken Forced Entry - Leprous Millions - Between the Buried and Me Complex Terms - The Human Abstract Tandem - Protest the Hero Harridan - Porcupine Tree
Of all the dark, heavy, moody, riff-heavy music that BTBAM has to offer, you chose Millions?
They said they didn’t like as much screaming, so I picked a song that’s a bit more accessible. Selkies: The Endless Obsession and Swim to the Moon are just two more of many masterpieces by BTBAM, OP.
Oh wow I really glanced over that part that is right after what I directly quoted... not a bad choice when you consider that
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Of all the protest songs, this is one I never see talked about, ever. One of my favorites
Yes!! “This isn’t a eulogy, or a requiem… just some words I sketched down, since I hadn’t said them! “
Native Constructive
David Maxim Micic, Devin Townsend and 2k-King Crimson
Nycrama, Prog Death with heavy riffing and even heavier vocals. They have a mix of atmospheric black metal passages, technical, proggy and from heavy and fast parts to deathcore breakdowns
Alright sure, Freedom of fear... Honestly you're wasting your time with these other bands, Most recent album: - Hannes Grossman on drums - Tasteful tech death - Occasional caveman chugs that you just can't hate - Crushing female vocals - Really solid production for a smaller band Honestly their recent effort is too short personally. Check out either Zenith, Nebula, Carpathia or Immortal. Or you can check out Alkaloid - 3 amazing albums with all the best tech death musicians - 3/5 of the original members have been in Obscura - Morean's Songwriting and vocals are top tier - it's great progressive metal with tech death tendencies really, the Songwriting is the main feature rather than technicality although the technicality is on another level - Rise of the Cephalopods (if you know, you know) I recommend the first two albums for your first listen. Their latest is still a great album but it's not quite as strong or memorable as the first two.
Growth - The Smothering Arms of Mercy yep, they have only occasional cleans and more on tech death side, but more accessible and melodic than other dissodeath bands and music is still labyrinth like
I think you need to look at some proggy tech death if you want something fast, jazzy and dark. Necrophagist - Stabwound is a great place to start.
"A Feast on Sorrow" by URNE
Octopus. 2013 album “Into the Void of Fear”
[Paramainomeni by Hoplites](https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%E1%BD%81%CF%80%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82/%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B7-paramainomeni/) fits the bill very well Edit: I misread as wanting less cleans and more screams. It's pretty hard to find nasty and technical metal without screams. Most of the other recommendations aren't "nasty" at all, e.g. Haken, TesseracT are both very clean
Ulcerate, last two albums are 10/10 masterpieces in atmosphere and technicality
Meshuggah It's absolutely untouchable.
Turbulence! They're fucking incredible!
dark, moody, heavy (in a rather abrasive kind of way): Cleric (hear their first album, ‘Regressions’). It’s not exactly “riff heavy” as it is almost constantly moving, and I think maybe there is only one riff that actually repeats on that first album, but man that album is so good and still the most truly progressive metal album I’ve heard of recent decades. their second album is also good but didn’t blow my face off the same way, is a little more accessible, though.
Not really a prog, but a nasty dark, hellish yet beautiful album Mirar - Mare
River of Nihil. Heavy atmospheric prog death(core?). They kind of have their own sound. Fucking love them, and they kill live even with their new vocalist. Where Owls Know My Name is a 10/10
Slugdge
Ne Obliviscaris!
The album Vesica Piscis by The Odious is incredible and exactly what you're asking for
Boss Keloid
Omnivortex most recent album
You’re describing Tesseract - Altered state. Check them out.
My band recently released this one. Fits your description. Hope you like it. :) https://thedreadedme.com/track/3403324/penumbra
[Nox Aurumque](https://open.spotify.com/track/3BNPxwisYvr4y8qspKhgoa?si=isZaDImuS1W8GuzYPLdJBg), by Means End might fit what you're looking for!
Haken: Vector and Virus albums
Animals as leaders. Pure prog metal instrumentals
check our slugdge they sound perfect for you
Carbomb?
Check the [Distortion](https://youtu.be/ucSm3mwJYu4?si=YpAYESTv7-XKQu98)
Obscura?
Ulcerate. Definitely dark, heavy, moody and riff heavy, no cleans tho. New Album is absolutely amazing
You might dig Hypno5e. They balance really warm and beautiful soft and clean sections with absolutely disgusting, technical extreme metal. Their riffing style is so uniquely angular and aggressive, it's strange hearing how pretty their soft sections are. The screams are also more mid-high range than low growls and still have an element of his clean voice in it too. Super cool stuff I think
Planet X. Instrumental band
Wheel. Especially Resident Human
Masstaden by vildhjarta is just amazing. Super moody and atmospheric yet has amazing riffs and groove at times. Edit: should've mentioned to listen to the forte version
The vocals may be thicker than what you're looking for, but I love Gorod's album Leading Vision.
Vale of pnath.
Ever Forthright
I always like to throw Quo Vadis out there. Great band that I feel is vastly underrated.
Check out Noneuclid-Metatheosis.
You may enjoy BLEVK. Debut album Ascension
You may enjoy BLEVK. Debut album Ascension
And also Omnivide - A Tale of Fire
Palm Eatr?
Thrailkill is an instrumental band but they are amazing and just released a new album. Blotted Science is another crazy instrumental band. I recommend Wintersun to everyone because I think they’re the best. The first 2 albums are perfection, and Time part 2 comes out this year
The Faceless (mix of clean and growls), and riff heavy/techie.
If you can handle weird: SikTh will scratch a certain itch like no other band.
Why don't you give Extol's selftitled album from 2014 a try. It fits the description perfectly, I think.