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Harvestman is the cosmic folk and psychedelic drone project of Steve Von Till, the guitarist and co-vocalist of Neurosis. The music blends delicate 1970s British-style folk with shimmering psychedelic drift, doom drone, krautrock, and space-raga textures built from electric guitars, synthesizers, dulcimers, and effects processing. Von Till has recorded albums including Lashing the Rye, In a Dark Tongue, Music for Megaliths, and the full-moon-timed Triptych series, all issued through Neurot Recordings. Members of Grails and Om have contributed to the project as supporting players.

KUNTARI is a Bandung duo, multi-instrumentalist Tesla Manaf and percussionist Rio Abror, who coined their own genre tag 'primal-core' for a sound built from roto toms, sarons, percussive guitar, field recordings and voice. It threads ancestral Indonesian ceremonial rhythms and gamelan tonality through sludge metal, dark ambient and minimalist sound-art, most fully on 2025's industrial-tinged Mutu Beton.

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Aaen Anima is a Prague, Czechia avant-garde/doom-metal project founded April 25, 2002 as, in the band's own words, "originally playing acoustic avant-garde." Its 2003 album "Aniline Harp" pairs guitars and bass with cedar drum, bell, didgeridoo, darbuka and harmonium (all played by founder Aaen), plus flute (Ismia) and keyboards/djembe (Jari Velaochaga) — an eclectic, ritual-tinged folk-instrumentation palette rare even for avant-garde metal. No activity is documented past 2008.

Formed in Helsinki in 2016 and describing themselves as a "conjuration from the Northern Wilderness," Babes in the Abyss build a dark, primitive avant-garde sound around harmonium and organ rather than guitar, with bass and drums filling out the low end. Their 2022 debut Physis is organ-driven, cinematic and ritualistic, closer to a doom-adjacent drone ensemble than to riff-based metal, with haunting shared vocals over sustained keyboard tones.

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Casualties of Cool is a duo project by Devin Townsend and vocalist Ché Aimee Dorval, releasing a self-titled debut in 2014 after a crowdfunded campaign. Townsend described it as sounding like "haunted Johnny Cash songs — late night music, completely isolated," pairing alternative country, ambient and blues-rock textures with Dorval singing most of the leads; guests include saxophonist Jørgen Munkeby (Shining) and drummer Morgan Ågren (Zappa/Kaipa circle).

Nàda were a Lucerne, Switzerland outfit (active 1992-1997) fusing sludge/doom heaviness with industrial clang and tribal/neofolk percussion, earning Terrorizer coverage in 1994 and comparisons to Neurosis, Swans and Einstürzende Neubauten. Their two albums, 'Celmètra' (1994, Licht & Blindheit/Common Cause) and 'Ùr' (1997, Licht & Blindheit), are murky, ritualistic slabs built on layered percussion and detuned riffing rather than conventional song structure. A largely forgotten act of 90s European experimental sludge, tangential to any scene rather than embedded in one.

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This node covers the atmospheric, largely un-distorted pole of Devin Townsend's solo catalog: Ocean Machine: Biomech (1997, "a mix of hard rock, ambient, and progressive rock"), the pure-ambient/experimental Devlab and The Hummer, and Ghost (2011) — a deliberately quiet, New Age-inflected release Townsend paired with the heavy Deconstruction as two halves of one project.

Hint is a French avant-garde industrial/noise-rock duo from Angers formed in 1993-94 by multi-instrumentalists Arnaud Fournier and Hervé Thomas, backed by sound engineer Pascal Ianigro. Across albums like 100% White Puzzle, Product Topology, Dys- and Wu-Wei they fused dissonant guitars, screaming saxophone/trumpet, samples and industrial rhythms with ethereal, cinematic and traditional-music passages, including a split 7" with Unsane and a 2009 collaborative tour with electronic act EZ3kiel.

Anfinnsaas is a Norwegian duo of guitarist Knut Finsaas and drummer Geir Anfinn Halland Johansen, formed in 2013, whose self-titled debut (released September 18, 2015 on Autumnsongs Records) fuses traditional Nordic tunes with metal. Track titles like 'Svensk Revelje,' 'Hålandsdal,' and 'Slått Fra Røstad' point to source material drawn directly from regional folk melody, filtered through a stop-start dynamic that lurches from tuned-down, doom-laden passages into sudden black-metal eruptions. MetalSucks likened the record's post-metal skronk to Gorguts and Dysrhythmia while noting it registers as less overtly heavy and more experimental than either. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Rhys Marsh at Autumnsongs Recording Studio in Trondheim.

Thy Catafalque is a Hungarian avant-garde/experimental metal project formed in Makó in 1998, essentially the solo vehicle of multi-instrumentalist Tamás Kátai. Its music fuses atmospheric instrumental writing, Hungarian folk melodies and electronics with a post-black-metal core, ranging from fragile ambient passages to harsh metal. Signed to Season of Mist since 2011, the project is known for shape-shifting albums that draw on folklore, rock and electronic textures.