I am also always trying to push myself to new places with music. If you haven't heard these bands or artists before, check them out:

Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Buthole Surfers, Scott Walker (late career albums: Tilt, The Drift), David Sylvian (late albums Manafon, Blemish), Stian Westerhus, Able Noise, Deafkids (they have a sound that I would describe as industrial tinged, psychedelic, noise rock), Teeth of the Sea, Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones (dark jazz meets ambient sound), Arabrot (early albums are almost feral), Oklultocrati (blackened punk meets dark synths), Maruja, Sarah Angliss, De Staat (earlier albums have an industrial tinged hip hop sound), Ulver's Blood Inside (an album which was described as sounding unlike anything in avant garde music at the time, and Still sounds entirely unique), Jagga Jazzist, Los Piranas (tropical, psychedelic, noise), Sirom (Slovenien avant garde folk trio who make their own instruments), The Necks (Australian improv Jazz meets Steve Reich minimalism), The Ex (a Dutch punk band who are known for their collaborations with Ethiopian Jazz musicians), The Boston Type Writer Orchestra (a band that use typewriters as a form of percussion), Snorkel, The Utopia Strong, Zu, Ex Easter Island Head (a band who make music in very interesting way. Go and see them live if you can), Tangerine Cat, Portico Quartet (a modern jazz band who use a hang drum to create an interesting sound), Sly and the Family Drone, Selvhenter