And I don't mean stoner metal in the sense of fuzzy sludge/doom metal. This is death metal with introspective and mystical overtones, with melodies that reflect the subjects within. Picture latter-era Morbid Angel, but more mature, progressive, and without the erratic soloing. Gaze carefully upon a bleak dimension of blastbeats, savage frequencies and shattering vocal expulsions. Here exist countless sonic entities, parasites in a nucleus of musical aggression: Feeding, absorbing, regurgitating... all motion begins and ends alike. Yet even in this strange and frightening place, there are outsiders who live within. Mithras are one such manifestation, an illogical, extra-planar troupe so immersed in their own world that they are often the object of fear, misunderstanding and resentment. Such is the lonely path of all who dream, and to the denizens of this isolated nexus, a path seldom trodden. http://www.myspace.com/domainofmithras Give a listen to all of those songs. Their new album is superb, by the way.
http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwcynicalspherecom (Cynic) http://www.myspace.com/fredrikthordendalsspecialdefects (Special Defects) http://www.myspace.com/tesseract (Tesseract) Just a taste of the metal I usually listen to when I'm stoned. I'm into Nile, Opeth, Death, and Between the Buried and Me too.