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Care to give a few examples of fusion artists/albums you enjoy?

My interest in Jazz started with metal bands that are heavily influenced by jazz, particularly Cynic and Atheist, so I'm pretty newbie. As for some examples, I've been listening to a lot of Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock the past 6 months or so.

That's a bloody elitist point of view, you two, not to mention stupid! Fusion is separate from Jazz. People who listen to Fusion are not looking for a different kind of jazz. They are enjoying music that happens to incorporate elements of jazz.

Mahavisnu Orchestra, Brand X, Pierre Moerlen era Gong....all brilliant, fantastic bands. They're not trying to play jazz. They're playing something else entirely!

Excellent point.

It's not elitist at all. Fusion serves the same purpose as some bands do with metal. It's a starting point for people who know zilch about jazz and want to explore it through something vaguely familiar. I, myself, started with bands like Sixun, Uzeb, etc, which are not (to say the least) the cream of the crop (even when it comes to jazz's bastard offspring, fusion) and,thus, know fusion to be a good entry point to a music not so easily handled.
Well, it all changed for me with Coltrane's Giant Steps, a change for the best, that is.

As for the names you mentioned, I don't consider any of these bands to be fusion but prog fusion and, trust me, it's another thing entirely, and great bands too (especially Gong).

I just can't stand fusion. Trying to play virtuoso music on electric/amplified instruments always sounds really lame to me. There should be a restraining order against electric basses and guitars on jazz albums. Or there's too much emphasis on shows of skill/complexity and not enough on improvisation and danceableness. Not sure. There's probably exceptions. Like the Hellborg/Shawn/Sipe albums. Those are pretty good.

Supposedly a new Amon Amarth at some point in 2013, they announced it with a meme....Between their last offering and the meme, I have insanely low expectations for this one.

Post the meme.

I heard about the new Amon Amarth.
Also new Amorphis is coming out this spring. Can't wait, for both.

They didn't post it, they just re-shared it from some guy who posted it on their page. As for the meme itself:

Also memes are painfully overdone and if you still use them you should feel bad.

I don't use them, just wanted to see this one in particular because I thought it was band-made.

Never said you did

Sorry, I thought you were implying that.

I copied this list from another site:

········ Otep - TBA
········ Tomahawk - Oddfellows
········ Seth - TBA
········ Mourning Beloveth - Formless [tentative]
········ Corpus Mortale - FleshCraft
········ Craniotomy - Supply Of Flesh Came Just In Time
········ Golden Resurrection - One Voice For The Kingdom
········ Alpha Tiger - Beneath The Surface
01.01 Denouncement Pyre - Almighty Arcanum
01.01 Mechina - Empyrean
03.01 Consciousness Removal Project - Tacit
04.01 Majesty - Thunder Rider
05.01 Satan Jokers - Psychiatric
08.01 Katalepsy - Autopsychosis
11.01 Shakra - Powerplay
12.01 Mutiny Within - Synchronicity
14.01 Infernal Poetry - Paraphiliac
14.01 Misanthrope - Ænigma Mystica
17.01 Alkerdeel - Alkerdeel / A Den Of Robbers [Split] [EP]
18.01 Sons Of Aeon - Sons Of Aeon
18.01 Rotten Sound - Species At War [EP]
18.01 Holy Grail - Ride The Void
18.01 Saille - Ritu
18.01 Nightfall - Cassiopeia
18.01 Helloween - Straight Out Of Hell
21.01 Fen - Dustwalker
21.01 Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
21.01 The Prophecy - Salvation
22.01 Voivod - Target Earth
22.01 Aeon Zen - Enigma
22.01 Koldbrann - Vertigo
25.01 Leviathan (GER) - The Aeons Torn - Beyond The Gates Of Imagination Pt. 2
25.01 Dreamshade - The Gift Of Life
25.01 Hatebreed - The Divinity Of Purpose
25.01 Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
25.01 Convulse - Inner Evil [EP]
25.01 Bornholm - Inexorable Defiance
25.01 Krokus - Dirty Dynamite
25.01 Hatriot - Heroes Of Origin
25.01 Hanging Garden - At Every Door
25.01 Dante - November Red
26.01 Körgull The Exterminator - Metal Fist Destroyer
29.01 Deeds Of Flesh - Portals To Canaan
30.01 Hate - Solarflesh

February 2013

········ Wednesday 13 - The Dixie Dead
········ Sebastien - TBA
········ Circle II Circle - Seasons Will Fall
········ Dagor Dagorath - TBA
········ Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
········ Voodoo Circle - More Than One Way Home
········ Guttural Secrete - Nourishing The Spoil
········ Vreid - TBA
········ Shining (NOR) - TBA
········ Hæresiarchs Of Dis - Thirty-Eighth Sermon Of The Unborn
········ Mitochondrion - Antinumerology [EP]
········ Unshine - Dark Half Rising
········ Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris
········ Steven Wilson - TBA
········ Neurotech - Decipher [Vol. 1, 2, 3]
········ Omnium Gatherum - TBA
········ Fractal Gates - Beyond The Self
05.02 Kongh - Sole Creation
05.02 Anger As Art - Hubris Inc.
05.02 Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
11.02 Crest Of Darkness - In The Presence Of Death
15.02 Disperse - Living Mirrors
15.02 Misery Index - Live In Munich [Live]
18.02 Officium Triste - Mors Viri
19.02 Lecherous Nocturne - Behold Almighty Doctrine
19.02 Shai Hulud - Reach Beyond The Sun
19.02 Portal - TBA
22.02 Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Saivon Lapsi
22.02 Saxon - Sacrifice
26.02 KMFDM - Kunst
31.02 Red - TBA

March 2013

········ Infinita Symphonia - TBA
········ Masterplan - TBA
········ Mastic Scum - TBA
········ We Butter The Bread With Butter - TBA
········ HIM - Tears On Tape
········ Kvelertak - TBA
········ Wolfchant - Embraced By Fire
········ Dream Death - Somnium Excessum
········ Mass Infection - For I AM Genocide
········ Antipope - TBA
········ Synthetic Breed - TBA
········ Brymir - TBA
········ Belphegor - TBA
········ Borislav Mitic - Electric Goddess
········ Tribulation - TBA
········ Hacride - TBA
········ Battle Beast - TBA
········ Clutch - Earth Rocker
01.03 Rotting Christ - Do What Thou Wilt
19.03 Intronaut - Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones)
25.03 The Amenta - Flesh Is Heir
31.03 Venien - Tribal Blood

Nice! New Cult of Luna album. Haven't heard anything from them in quite a long time.

OooOOOOooooooooh! Looking forwards to these.

Also, wtf:

We Butter the Bread with Butter is a German deathcore band from Lübben noted for their heavy use of electronic music characteristics.

-Wiki-

It seems all the deathcore bands with electronic have stupid names, like IWABO.

It is a stupid fucking name. I might not even listen to them out of sheer horror...

Deathcore with a heavy dose of electronics do sound horrendous (in a bad way).

My bad i just saw them post it, hadn't known it was just a re-post. But still of all the damn ways to do that they HAD to use that?