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[Ravensmash]

Just listen to any Post Rock playlist.

Done.

 

[EYEL1NER]

Hammerall - "Reign of the Hammer" is damn good and super-catchy. I've gotten really into Blind Guardian's "Weird Dreams" over the past few days, though it is really short.

 

[vegohead]

Alot of early korpiklaani and shaman songs are light with vocals and heavy with various instruments. Mix of folk music and electric guitar = awesome

Pine woods - https://youtu.be/_s8wTNQKZAU

Sugadit - https://youtu.be/Slpwk4tzwzE (light vocals)

Pixies dance/Juokse Sinna https://youtu.be/xkwqe_f-2Xk (the best)

 

[Sorcerer]

Fluff/Laguna Sunrise- Black Sabbath
Silver Wheels-Heart
All Zeppelin instrumentals

 

[EnlightenedMint]

I post them quite a bit here but Thank You Scientist is amazing, great prog with some jazz and horns thrown in.

Thank You Scientist - Suspcious Waveforms

Thank You Scientist - Rube Goldberg Variations

 

[cryptosporidium]

Satriani, Vinnie Moore, Jason becker, Vai, Malmsteen, Friedman...

list goes on

 

[Spectral Glider]

Frankenstein by Edgar Winter is the most classic and quintessential IMO.

 

[ATF487]

Most of the long, post apocalyptic trancey Swans songs have some lyrics but they are mostly instrumentals (The Sound, The Apostate, Avatar, The Glowing Man, Blood Promise, etc)

Pelican - March to the Sea

Glenn Branca - The Spectacular Commodity

Tortoise - Djed

Unwound - Go to Dallas and Take a Left

These all rule!

 

[Bitanator]

Genetic Error - Where no one has ever been

One of the best thrash instrumentals from a progressive crossover/thrash (The niche of niche thrash genres) band from Canada. Song is not ten minutes, just over five, video goes on too long

 

[Pyccko]

well I mean Hocus Pocus is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement so

while I'm at it, King Crimson - Frakctured is good too

 

[DieNgamers]

Satriani, Vinnie Moore, Jason becker, Vai, Malmsteen, Friedman...

list goes on

Guys...Guys!!!

Also take a minute and listen to those who did it first ;D

Frank Zappa - Black Napkins
Same Zappa - Filthy Habits

Jeff Beck Scatterbrain

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits

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Bonus because they are my favourites:
King Crimson - Larks Tongue is Aspik part I <-- does anyone else hear Legend of Zelda in some parts??? Can't be the only one.

 

[Wiseblood]

Steve Vai - For the Love of God

 

[cryptosporidium]

Guys...Guys!!!

Also take a minute and listen to those who did it first ;D

Frank Zappa - Black Napkins
Same Zappa - Filthy Habits

Jeff Beck Scatterbrain

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits

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Bonus because they are my favourites:
King Crimson - Larks Tongue is Aspik part I <-- does anyone else hear Legend of Zelda in some parts??? Can't be the only one.

You quoted Jeff, Zappa, and Crimson in one post. I like you



When I saw beck live he did a heavy metal instrumental version of that lady gaga song that goes ra ra rarara ra. SO GUD

 

[Dopus]

Hexen - Desolate Horizons

Estas Tonne - The Song of the Golden Dragon

 

[Xelios092]

Hmm alright let's see.

Omnium Gatherum - These Grey Heavens
Omnium Gatherum - Luoto
^This song splits off into New Dynamic which is the second song on the album at about 3:30
Insomnium - Beyond The Horizon
In Flames - Man Made God
In Flames - The Jester's Dance

Just a few of my favorites.

 

[rObit]

Please do yourself a huge favor and listen to Plini. You won't regret it.

Others:

Gru
Plastic Mind Frequencies
Chon
Intervals
Widek
Sithu Aye
Animals as Leaders
Cloudkicker
The Helix Nebula

 

[Stormhammer]

Opeth - Patterns in the Ivy
Trivium - The Crusade
Eluveitie- Anagantios This might be my favorite

Insomnium - Decoherence
Darkest Hour - Pathos

 

[Dhx]

I'll do my part:

Van Halen - Eruption

Van Halen - Spanish Fly

Van Halen - Little Guitars

Van Halen - Baluchitherium

Van Halen - Respect the Wind

Van Halen - Neworld

Eddie Van Halen - Ripley

Eddie Van Halen - Stompin' 8H

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Assorted awesome:

Mason Williams - Classical Gas

Led Zeppelin - Black Mountain Side

Led Zeppelin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

Rush - YYZ

Eric Johnson - Cliffs Of Dover

Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High


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And never leave out:

Top Gun Anthem

 

[WiseguyMVP]

Metallica - Suicide and Redemption
https://youtu.be/bR4DDnj_HhQ

And

Santana - Europa
https://youtu.be/SVI7ZDDQXKA

 

[Atom Heart Mother]

Mountain Jam by Allman Brothers <-- serious favorite, the last ~10 minutes is pure bliss.
Steve Hackett's first solo album has some great instrumentals: Ace of Wands and A Tower Struck Down

The Fish by Yes is another great selection.

Atom Heart Mother Suite is one of my favorites -- if you're up to listening to all of it!

Beck's Bolero - featuring Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Jon Paul Jones, and Jeff Beck all together on one epic track.

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

Don't know if they are considered rock, but Chon is pretty great of an instrumental band.

 

[Monochromaticx]

My favourite, even my friends who dont like metal at all loved this piece by In Flames
Jester's Dance
https://youtu.be/I2gw5OfRgb8

The entire album is amazing and I really it

 

[Zelenogorsk]

I've gotten really into Blind Guardian's "Weird Dreams" over the past few days, though it is really short.

Don't forget By the Gates of Moria and my personal favorite Beyond the Ice. Beyond the Ice is just one of the best metal songs ever if you ask me. So epic.

Niconiconi (Intro) by Dehumanizing Itratrain Worship is really damn heavy. The guitar solo at 1:37 is amazing.

Wasabi Chicks by Jig-Ai is great assuming a song with audio samples of people talking can still be considered instrumental.

Best album intro has to be Genital Grinder by Carcass. Seeing them play this live was so amazing.

 

[malfcn]

Implements of Destruction - Chimaira

 

[protomouse]

Frost* - Hyperventilate

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Most anything from the aristocrats.

 

[TAD]

My first thought was "What Russian Circles song do I want to post" and you beat me to it, though I'd go with Atackla or Station

There's also:
Adebisi Shank - Genki Shank
Explosions in the Sky - Last Known Surroundings
From Monument to Masses - To Z (Repeat)
Mogwai - Christmas Steps
Grails - Almost Grew My Hair
Battles - The Yabba
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - East Hastings
Red Sparrowes - A Hail of Bombs
Torche - Triumph of Venus
And So I Watch You From Afar - I Capture Castles
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius aka The 90s Bulls entrance theme

Nice choices, especially Adebisi Shank, ASIWYFA and Battles. I'll add:
Talons - Hollow Depth
Brontide - Tonitro (live version because it's fun to watch people play around with loop pedals and drum pads)

 

[Screaming Meat]

My first thought was "What Russian Circles song do I want to post" and you beat me to it, though I'd go with Atackla or Station

There's also:
Adebisi Shank - Genki Shank
Explosions in the Sky - Last Known Surroundings
From Monument to Masses - To Z (Repeat)
Mogwai - Christmas Steps
Grails - Almost Grew My Hair
Battles - The Yabba
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - East Hastings
Red Sparrowes - A Hail of Bombs
Torche - Triumph of Venus
And So I Watch You From Afar - I Capture Castles
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius aka The 90s Bulls entrance theme

Glenn Branca - The Spectacular Commodity

Tortoise - Djed

Unwound - Go to Dallas and Take a Left

 

[Dot Matrix]

The Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight - Ride Out - The whole instrumental album is fucking great.

35007 - Tsunami

Earthless - Sonic Prayer

Yawning Man - Buffalo Chips

Faith No More - Woodpecker From Mars

I'd also suggest some Sunn O))), but I don't know if they fit in Rock/Metal. And not technically instrumental but they use vocals as more of an instrument to create noise and feedback than to convey lyrics.

 

[jambo]

Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift

Ozric Tentacles - The High Pass

Ozrics only play instrumental stuff and have been around since the 80s. Pretty much all of their albums are fantastic.


Øresund Space Collective - Above the Corner

Øresund Space Collective - Phase Your Fears

Øresund Space Collective are easily the best psychedelic space rock jam band of the last decade. So many amazing albums and live releases, and all of it improvised. No two tracks are the same.


Genesis - ...In That Quiet Earth

Riverside - Reality Dream III

Hidria Spacefolk - Cycloop

Quantum Fantay - Kukuriku Part 1

Yuri Gagarin - At the Centre of Infinity

The Spacelords - Pyroclastic Monster

Space Debris - Medecine Men

Human Factor - Revealing Secrets

Causa Sui - Homage

Monkey3 - Once Upon a Time In The West

TAUK - The Chemist

Monomyth - LHC

Liquid Sound Company - The Art of Ecstasy

Papir - Papir III.I

 

[Necrophage]

Best part of astonishing imo.

Ill contribute with bands.

Chon, Intervals, scale the summit

Scale the Summit!! So good. Really surprised no one else has mentioned them. They're a group of music majors who formed a band in college IIRC. The music's atmosphere elevates the track titles.

Also Angel Vivaldi. The album Universal Language is kind of a concept album based off of the classical composer Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

(Sorry on mobile so no links.)

 

[Dictator93]

Please do yourself a huge favor and listen to Plini. You won't regret it.

Thx for this

This reminds me a lot of early DT. This is fantastic.

If anyone likes progressive metal / jazz fusion. I think Aerial View rom Aerial View by Gamalon is fantaststic.

 

[Spladam]

I saw the thread title and came just to make sure Orion was somewhere in the OP or the first page. Good job OP.

Also, To Live is to Die > Ktulu.

This is true.

Cliffs of Dover

Just gave it a listen after all these years, it's not as good as I remember it, but I did play it out back in the day.

well I mean Hocus Pocus is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement so

This was used to great effect in the 2013 formula 1 documentary "1:Life on the Limit", which was an amazing film.

Good job to all the the other posters with all these great addictions to the OP and the links provided for our listening enjoyment. Great thread guys.

 

[DemWalls]

Everything instrumental by Equilibrium. From this point of view, they have little competition for me.

 

[TheVBkid]

Happy to see 70's getting some love in here, also metallica's instrumentals are awesome too.

Dream theater have made some insanely well crafted instumentals such as

hells kitchen - https://youtu.be/TGbYf8xKcLE

Dance of eternity - https://youtu.be/XgnQpxhCPfA

But i think liquid tension experiment (side project) are a better example as they are completely instumental.

Kindred spirits -
https://youtu.be/RTQm7Yag_JY

Acid rain - https://youtu.be/xWnDCYDlBYw

Enjoy!

 

[True Savior]

Zappa, Vai, Satch, Petrucci, Shawn Lane, etc. Just anything by them. I want to go to a G3 before I die :/

Steve Vai - For the Love of God

Watching this live. Too much.

Happy to see 70's getting some love in here, also metallica's instrumentals are awesome too.

Dream theater have made some insanely well crafted instumentals such as

hells kitchen - https://youtu.be/TGbYf8xKcLE

Dance of eternity - https://youtu.be/XgnQpxhCPfA

But i think liquid tension experiment (side project) are a better example as they are completely instumental.

Kindred spirits -
https://youtu.be/RTQm7Yag_JY

Acid rain - https://youtu.be/xWnDCYDlBYw

Enjoy!

I can't listen to Deam (it annoys me) but Liquid is fucking rad.

 

[Funyarinpa]

The Day That Never Comes is still the best metal intro for me.

 

[gabbo]

One for all the Exorcist fans out there.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

In Flames - Man Made God

One for all the Exorcist fans out there.

Is this all just one song or multiple? I was jumping around a bit but whatever starts at 12:32 sounds so damn familiar. I can't place it though.

 

[RecRoulette]

Sithu Aye

Just discovered his stuff a few weeks ago and fuck yes.

 

[zer0blivion]

Faith No More - Woodpecker From Mars

Came to post this. Good shit.

I love me some drum solos. Someone already posted Moby Dick, so how about some Cream?

Cream - Toad (studio)
Ginger Baker - Toad - Cream - Wheels Of Fire - Drum Solo

 

[gabbo]

In Flames - Man Made God


Is this all just one song or multiple? I was jumping around a bit but whatever starts at 12:32 sounds so damn familiar. I can't place it though.

Tubular Bells is in it's various form is anywhere from 4 to 45 minutes long - Just used the exorcist comment as joke, since most people probably know it from that

 

[Mathieran]

Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson might be my favorite instrumental song. Doesn't rock very much though but has some tasty guitar licks

Also gonna second those Thank You Scientist songs posted earlier. Even their non instrumental songs feature some pretty wicked instrumentation.

 

[Gigarator]

Might not be the best but I've always had a soft spot for The Crusade by Trivium.

 

[ElectronicOldMen]

Glenn Branca's The Ascension is a fantastic, completely instrumental, no-wave/early noise rock album. Check out the opening track:
Lesson No.2

 

[cryptosporidium]

Just anything by them. I want to go to a G3 before I die :/

correct me if im wrong, but isnt Vai doing his own G3 type thing now too? I cn never choose who my dream g3 lineup is.. Vai and satch are a given obvs but like do I want govan, howe, malmsteen, theres so many. If satch can one day convince Jeff Beck (joes asked him a lot apparently) Id travel the world to see that

 

[-hal-]

Lots of great suggestions so far. Many I came to post myself.

Let me add some more Beck:
Stand on It
Cause We've Ended as Lovers if you prefer a slow burn

Santana's
Soul Sacrafice

Those two have such unique instrumental voices.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Horse the Band has a few that I really like.

Heroes Die:
https://youtu.be/JDfArEwz9V0
I love the evolution of battle sounds throughout the song. From swords and arrows to tanks and machine guns to lasers and spaceships. Fun stuff.

Soaring Quails:
https://youtu.be/vamdYo_Ht3s
I love David Isen's guitar work. Very underrated. I also appreciate this song as a build-up to the next song (not an instrumental, posting for context):
https://youtu.be/vP40Ftzfunk

And if it counts, the second half of I Think We are Both Suffering from the Same Crushing Metaphysical Crisis (3:34 on):
https://youtu.be/ZfFoVoDAbWA
Love Love Love this sound from them.

 

[zer0blivion]

Guys...Guys!!!

Also take a minute and listen to those who did it first ;D

Frank Zappa - Black Napkins
Same Zappa - Filthy Habits

Jeff Beck Scatterbrain

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits

----------------------------------------------------------
Bonus because they are my favourites:
King Crimson - Larks Tongue is Aspik part I <-- does anyone else hear Legend of Zelda in some parts??? Can't be the only one.

You quoted Jeff, Zappa, and Crimson in one post. I like you

I like you guys.

Secret Chiefs 3 - Vajra (Live at Amoeba)

Edit: Also, this probably counts The Mothers Of Invention - Live In London 1968

 

[Turin Turambar]

Circus Maximus - Biosfear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-woi0QkNhs