Describe Xerath
Xerath is on a quest! To make their sound heard above and beyond other bands and spread the message of metal which isn’t generic and boring. To aid us achieve new listeners through the search engines, we devised this page so you could tell the world how you would describe our music… Plus any influences you think we have! 
This is so that anyone who agrees with you, will stand more chance of finding us
Feel free to comment below to add your description, it will help us out a great deal!
So far we have;
Orchestral Metal
Symphonic Djent
Film-score Math-core?
Meshuggah / Strapping Young Lad inspired metal
A pinch of Symphony X?
Well first of all…. I just want to say that you guys become one of my absolute favorite metal bands VERY quickly and II (2) is honest to goodness my favorite album that I have ever listened to. It is a perfect masterpiece of rhythmic melodic and harmonic mastery that I have not heard in any other album.
Your style of playing metal combines everything I love about my favorite sub genres of metal: Insane groove of groove metal, symphonic elements of symphonic metal and the very progressive song structure/melodies/chord progressions of progressive metal.
And since you guys have such a cinematic approach to metal… I would have to describe you as…..
John Williams Metal!!!
LOL but no, seriously… Orchestral Progressive Djent Metal?… thats just a fucking mouthful don’t you guys think?
So honestly my genre-ization for you guys is simply this: Extreme Metal.
Of course it doesn’t encompass all of the AMAZING elements of your sound, but its the most effective way to genre-ize you in my opinion. While of course the metal textbook definition of extreme metal is black metal, thrash metal and death metal… to me its its own genre characterized by “Extreme”-ly vehement screamed (Inbetween growling and shrieking without sounding like metal core vocals) or “scream-sung” vocals, Massive colossal guitar tone and complex time signatures/polyrhythms. Meshuggah, you guys, Gojira, Strapping Young Lad, and Hybrid (another under known but amazing band from Spain) all fit in this genre.
Don’t stop making amazing music you guys! I can’t wait for III and a US tour
excited about you guys to see you in nit warangal.hope to meet you personally
Cant wait to see you guys live.. tomorrow here in NIT,Warangal.
Excited much. Hope I get to meet you Guys Personally. 
Xerath is a very special band. On their first album I. They manage to produce some massive songs and sounds and this has only been improved with the new album. Its also great to hear how Richard has morphed his vocal sound almost into a agressive Devin Townsend sound wich is great.
But that really doesn’t matter. Xerath is primarily very heavy, very groovy and very in your face!
If you can’t appreciate their musicianship and determanation you frankly can fuck off. The atmosphere they are able to create leaves you speechless and thinkin: Damn, i need to get my shit together guitarwise. I bet it is the same for drummers and bass players out there who are fans of this genre. Maybe its a musiciansband
Guys. The best of luck with the ongoing writingprocess, studio and upcoming tours!
Epic Progressive Death or Future of the Rings – Return of Metal Sauron
Rock on guys, you are great!
hey there…for me, XERATH IS A SUPERB METAL BAND!…groovy, crunchy, proggy & techy!!!!!…I HAVE CLIMAXED & WILL ALWAYS CLIMAX WHEN EVER I LISTEN TO THEM!!!…i really luv the II album!!!!!thumbs up to u guys!…SALUTE!!!!
fantastic music, so powerful and progressive, emotive, great listening, thanks a lot
Hefty Funking Groove Metal with Orchestral Atmospherics
Hey, you guys so rock!!The show on YINCHUAN is fantastic,even I’m not hear the lyrics clearly at all.Wonderful LIVE, hope see you guys next time in YINCHUAN.Chris, you are so cute and very nice,I like your hair.Wish you guys have a good trip today and have more fun tonight! ^_^
You might have heard of Periphery different but similar in the sense they like to try different things , Xerath best songs in my opinion so far would be God Of The Front Lines and False History , PERIPHERY’s best song would be ” New Materials ” but all their musical material is incredibly intelligent and complex as is Xerath
” God Of The Front Lines ” Absolutely blown away by this song any musical material you compose if it’s like GOTFL [ complex beats and rhythms ] that would be a winner albumn , awesome , Also EUMERIA / The Rebel Mind is a Landmark albumn in the Progressive metal scene hard to find in Itunes but it’s there the first 3 tracks are the best I,ve heard in a long time once again they stray from the typical mould for progressive metal and their material is very different [ complex beats and rhythms ] than the norm. Both EUMERIA and PERIPHERY like to experimemt with [ complex beats and rhythms ] as XERATH and in my opinion it works a treat .
Hello guys. You play very well, so that the CD you bought the album II, especially the track 1 and 3. Turns out I can not find the lyrics “REFORM PART III.” URGENT I NEED TO GIVE GIFT FOR A GIRL.
IF IT IS POSSIBLE, SEND IN MY E-MAIL: rodrigomovio@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your attention.
El album II de Xerath no lo he comprendido muy bien…
like beatles, but better
Just listened to Xerath II and very very impressed. Excellent vocals with meaty, heady bone-crunching orchestral riffs to support. Very very impressed.
See you all at Bloodstock – genuinely one of the highlights of this year!
Prog death metal.
I was listening to “II” and I thought…”Dream Theater. It’s Death Metal Dream Theater.”
I also compared you guys to some Children of Bodom.
And I really like Children of Bodom xD
You guys give me true hope for the future of music.
Captivating, brutal, beautiful, intricate, complex, alive, bone breaking and healing!!! Gorgeous soundtrack band for the chaotic closing in world around us!!!!
Meshuggah + Symbyosis + Bal Sagoth = Xerath…
Loads of great bits, but it’s all kind of familiar…The Meshuggah riffs are often interesting, (the Symbyosis parts are everywhere, but being such an unheard of band that works to Xerath’s advantage…) & the keyboards are just kind of ‘there’..decent, but this is hardly Jonny Maudling playing…
Overall – decent band that deserve to do well…just don’t go too far with the whole ‘epic’ hyperbole. Not original, pretty one-dimensional, but yeah, pretty damn decent…
XERATH sound like the evolution of music. A perfect blend of groove, heavyness, speed, atmosphere, meaningful lyrics, and a sense of deeper feeling and authenticity to the whole thing than you might expect from a relatively new band. There is definite passion in this music, a real sense of great things to come in the future!
Xerath are like watching Lord of the Rings while listening to Meshuggah… or watching Meshuggah while listening to Lord of the Rings. One of the two.
I listen to everything from punk, to ska, to deathcore.
This band produces some of the most finely crafted music i’ve heard in years.
To describe it… i would say it’s like an orchestra had sex with dimebag and meshuggah and a demon and produced this monstrosity of awesomeness.
I can’t wait for II. I’ll be at your gig in London this may.
Absolute legends…
I’d classify this as Orchestral Djent, or Symphonic Groove metal.
Xerath sound like anologue robots fucking while eating slices of volcanoes.
Yes.
a great mix of MESHUGGAH, SYMPHONY X and DIMMU BORGIR.
PROGRESSIVE SYMPHONIC GROOVE METAL!
Epic orchestral math down string metal
I think it gives all that Xerath is about to be. Epic orchestral – that should be obvious. Math – as base rhytm is not easy to be, let’s say, heard (and hard to count using hi-hat and snare comparing to the rhytm). Down string – ‘coz it’s Meshuggah style. And metal ;D
If you want to know what the apocalypse sounds like, have a listen to Xerath. Seriously awesome band. That is all
I would say meshuggah with some dimmu borgir like orchestrals.
Now you’re turn
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Xerath sounds like a kick in the balls, but not the first kick, the after kick when your scrotum stings and feels naughty. The blasting combo of grooves and orchestral score make my scrotum sting and makes me feel naughty. This should be called crotch-core.
epic meshuggah like stuff its good to see good come out of basingstoke cant wait for the next CD keep it up dudes.
Dimmu Borgir like
Symphonic black/death metal
Atrophia Red Sun/Textures mixed with Evergrey riffs
Quite frankly one of the best new bands out there. There are only a handful of albums that hit you upon first listen, for example, “The Blackening”, by Machine Head, and Xerath’s “I” is one of those albums. Also, if you smile politely at the guys (not TOO politely, mind, as they may get the wrong impression!), they will buy you a beer! If you’re not the smiling type, then simply buy them one first and they are then contractually obliged to buy you one back according to the Rules of Man. All in all, thoroughly decent blokes to be around and awesome live. Here’s to “II” continuing them on their upward trajectory.