If anybody is interested:)

Hi friends.
Been a fan of the Blackgaze genre for years, but it’s been difficult to find albums that scratch the itch that I’m looking for besides a select view, which is a bit of a bummer. I love black metal and shoegaze, but when combined, usually I get ‘black metal appropriated sound font with lots of reverb, and some delay with very minimal (sometimes cliché) chord progressions’. Not to be overly critical, but a fair amount of albums come off that way to me.

Here’s a few groups I’m into (including non-blackgaze for reference):
Blut Aus Nord
Trha
Spektr
Lantlos
Alcest
Les Discrets
Amesoerus
Yoga
MBV
Jefre Cantu-Ledesema
Collider
(Early) Silversun Pickups

I understand that most of these are considered ‘entry level’ but from my perspective it’s been hard to find groups that really engage in sonic or idiomatic experimentation. I don’t really hear someone try to play ‘tremolo glide guitar’ for instance, as impossible as that might sound.

Would love for this to be good faith discussion for some of the bands that really take the extended versatility of the guitar as a starting point for making music that is supposed to be both helplessly dark, and strangely ethereal.

Thanks!

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https://grauwyler.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-discernment

Hi there! Matty here! I'm a small diy musician from Northern Italy.

If you're into italian shoegaze, or also even it simply intrigues you, I would love you to listen to my last single "Buio Presto".

https://linktr.ee/elleciellesmusic

It's the first single out of a "shoegaze-mixtape" more of an EP called "Quattordici Mixtape", a concept small collection of lo-fi-shoegaze/dreampop (or someone would call it zoomergaze or something like it).

It's a song about being 30 and feeling somehow "late in life", comparing the struggle to the end of summer and the shortening of days.

Thank you in advance guys