Like, I love thrash/death/heavy metal music, but I could mostly do without the vocals. Is there a genre of music (or specific bands) I should look for?

I’m a big fan of Arcturus, Children of Bodom, etc, but I prefer the instrumentals way more than the singing.

So, is there a specific genre for that?

Edit: Imagine Silent Night, Bodom Night but without lyrics. It’s not that I dislike the vocals; would just appreciate the track more without them. It’s like they’re just in the way of what I want to hear.

Edit 2: Thanks, everyone. I have heard of Animals as Leaders but am not super familiar with them. Will definitely check them out as well as the other recommendations.

  • mushroomstormtrooper@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 days ago

    Animals as Leaders, Thessa, Pomegranate Tiger, Myth of I, and Fractalize are great ones.

    Stoort Neer and Vildjharta both have some really good instrumental albums.

    Gore., Monolord, '68, and The Damned Things are all a little less heavy than what you might be looking for, but they are all great and have mostly clean vocals.

    Polyphia and Chon are also both incredible but probably fall a little closer to something other than Metal.

  • KammicRelief@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 days ago

    Katatonia… Devin Townsend… Hangman’s Chair… Pallbearer

    I guess these aren’t really death metal. But they all crush, IMHO.

    (I ain’t got much else… I’ve grown to love the growl!)

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    thisi might be a bit of a stretch but the harder Nu Skool Breaks stuff might fit.

    Break-core is also nice and noisy but might be a bit too detailed and less rocky.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    54·
    7 days ago

    Just to be clear; are you wanting heavy metal music that’s only instrumental? Or are you wanting heavy metal music where the vocalist doesn’t sound like a small angry demon with a cold that just got karate chopped in the throat?

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
    33·
    7 days ago

    For instrumental music with no vocals, try: Wide Eyes, Invent Animate (their instrumental versions), Modern Day Babylon, I Built the Sky. These aren’t quite Death Metal, but they have really complex guitar and drum pieces.

    For with vocals: Sea in the Sky, Ignea, Unleash The Archers, Corelia (also has instrumental version of their 1 album)

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    25·
    7 days ago

    You might like some of Haken’s heavier stuff. They’re primarily prog but they go hard, too.
    Try the album Vector and the album Virus.

    From Virus i recommend you try the song Prosthetic
    and the song Messiah complex V: Ectobius Rex
    From Vector I recommend you try the song Puzzle Box
    and the song Veil

    Their new album Fauna is really good and has a good mix of different styles which includes heavy elements as well.

    Come back if you like them I will recommend more!

    🤘 Haken! 🤘

     

    It’s also okay if you don’t like prog, i recognize it’s too different for some. lol

    • Masta_Chief@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 days ago

      Haken (pronounced “hay-kin”) is fucking awesome. They have a pretty wide range of sound too so most people who like metal I think would enjoy their songs.

    • cranakis@reddthat.com
      12·
      7 days ago

      Ok, you got my upvote because I love some Buckethead but…

      this is a deep well, you and I know it. Please give OP (and me) the “death metal without the screaming” album(s), if you know the titles. I know I have heard two at least that fit this bill exactly but haven’t found them yet. I have been searching tonight but you start listening to Buckethead and there goes the time.

  • Meron35@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 days ago

    Power metal is more traditional metal but with clean vocals (no growls). Bands include DragonForce, Angra, Helloween, Stratovarius

    There’s also progressive metal, where the emphasis is more on the intricate instrumentals, so some banda don’t do growls. It is usually less heavier than traditional metal. Bands include Dream Theatre, Liquid Tension Experiment, Symphony X, Tessaract, Haken, frost*, Porcupine Tree

    • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      I was thinking this as well, add in some bands (album suggestions in parens) like epica (holographic principle), kamelot (epica/black halo), Symphony x (divine wings of tragedy), and even a band like battle beast (circus of doom) or unleash the archers (apex) and i think op will have a good time

  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
    9·
    7 days ago

    I mostly listen to death-doom rather than strict death metal, but there’s a fair bit of that out there. My two faves in the genre:

    Draconian has clean female vocals alongside growled male.

    Swallow the Sun has a wide range of vocal styles, but getting increasingly cleaner pretty much every album (along with clean female vocals on a lot of tracks).

    Again, this is death-doom so a lot of the stuff will be a little slower-tempo than straight death.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
    8·
    7 days ago

    I am also not a fan of super growly vocals. There’s a lot of stuff I love musically but the vocals put me right off. I’d listen to bands like Opeth and Beyond the Buried and Me more often if the growls weren’t present.

    If you’re looking for metal with cleaner singing, I second the suggestions for Unleash the Archers and Nightwish. I can also recommend Blind Guardian, though the singer’s voice is polarizing. One of my favorite metal singers is John Bush from Armored Saint. He also did a few albums with Anthrax in the 90s.

    For instrumentals, I can’t recommend much aside from guitar virtuosos like Steve Vai. Occasionally bands will release instrumental versions of their songs as B-sides, bonus discs, etc. Might be worth checking into.