Take the weirdest of Discipline-era King Crimson, multiply it by 100, and then remove any and all sense of apparent melody. You’ll have something that might resemble Upsilon Acrux, whose music at one time or another has been referred to as “brutal prog”. Hailing from Los Angeles,and originating in Vista, CA, this group has gone through well over 10 members and several line-ups, including everything from a 2-piece to over 5. Genius, amazing instrumental music. Get this immediately.
I Am Above On The Left is an experimentalrockquartet established in Moscow, Russia in Autumn 2004, and soon became one of the most welcomed experimental rock-act of a new local music scene. The band plays loud and noisy, mostly instrumental music, blending influences of art-jazz-nova-hardcore, pop-noise, math-rock, and avant-garde. The young musicians say that their efforts are devoted to “rethinking themselves at every single moment of time." These guys do what they do very well, give these guys a listen.
The Samuel Jackson Five is a band from Oslo, Norway, that play post-rock with a slight folk, math, hardcore, jazz and progrock influence. Really cool post-rock that's all over the place. I just recently discovered these guys and really dig it, give it a listen.
Jaks were a band hailing from Chicago, Illinois. They created a savage sound full of foreboding doom with an unruly & sharp-toothed intensity of math rock and goth punk. It was heavy, nasty and raw similar to bands like The Birthday Party, Nation of Ulysses and Antioch Arrow. Below is their discography, but this version has 2 extra tracks one is from a comp and the other is supposed to be a Sesame Street song, enjoy.
The Littlest Viking are a guitar/drums duo based out of San Pedro, CA. They play (mostly) instrumental prog/punk to put it simply. Tamborines, outrageous drum fills, wicked tapping, hoarse shouting, noise freakouts, salsa beats and the occasional Prince sample are a staple of any TLV live show. Go here and buy all there stuff : http://thelittlestvikinghellsyeah.blogspot.com/
Hella began in 2001 in Sacramento, California as a two member band consisting of Zach Hill and Spencer Seim writing technically intricate music of a highly spastic nature. They play a blend of math rock and noise rock. Download this masterpiece NOW!