Bands suggestions too, curious what folks are into!
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a few recommendations:
Djent/Core:
- Architects
- Spiritbox
- Jinjer
- Polaris
- Periphery
- Dayseeker
- Holding Abscence
Prog:
- Leprous
- Wheel
- Vola
- Animals as Leaders
- Haken
- TesseracT
Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Neil Young, Beck, Prince
Have you listened to Lord Huron? They are a modern band playing a traditional rock style, and they have a deep love for Neil Young
This is their most popular album, I think:
Oh wow, excellent; thanks!
Progressive metal
- Sleep Token
- Long Distance Calling
- Audrey Fall
- Brutus
- Countless Skies
- Before the Dawn
- Dawn of Solace
- Exquirla
- Merrow
- Primordial
- Psychonaut
- Rishloo
- Soen
- Somali Yacht Club
- Tides from Nebula
- Villagers of Ioanninan City
- Wheel
- Greta Van Fleet
- Persefone
I’d say I used to listen to metal, but nowadays, I still listen to metal lol. Huge fan of Progressive Metal/Djent/Thall bands. Not much into Deathcore/Doom Metal lately however.
At work tho, I tend to listen to a lot of instrumental stuff and genres vary greatly: mathrock, jazz, electronic, game/movie OSTs, blues, fusion, and among others.
During drives, mainly depends on the mood, but mostly revolves around the above given genres.
To name a few artists, I usually listen to the below (in random order):
- Jakub Zytecki
- Chon
- Plini
- Periphery
- Necrophagist (when r u guys coming back 😔)
- Dirty Loops
- Up Dharma Down
- Joji
- Tycho
- Sleep Token
- Lorna Shore
- Tom Misch
Would love to share some more, but these are what I thought of at the moment.
Woah, I’ve actually been to a Chon show. Totally didn’t expect to see that band pop up in this thread
Lucky! How were they upfront? I’ve only seen their live shows on YouTube.
They were great. I think it was around 2015-2016, and I still have a Chon pin from the show too!
Here’s a smattering of stuff off the top of my head.
Drum & Bass, Breaks, Glitch-Hop, Ghetto Funk, Dubstep, Ambient
Artists: Danny Byrd, Sub Focus, Teebee, Noisia, Phace, Logistics, WBBL, Evol Intent, High Contrast, Tonic, Featurecast, Calibre, Slynk, John B, Calyx, Metrik, Commix, CMC & Silenta, Pimpsoul, Future Funk Squad, A.Skillz, Krafty Kuts, Deekline, Plump DJs, Klute, The Prodigy, Pressure, Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, Caribou, Jon Hopkins, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Samples, Stanton Warriors, Concord Dawn, Bobby C Sound TV, The Breakfastaz, The Funk Hunters, Defunk, Freddy Todd, Gramatik, GRiZ, Sub Focus, ill-esha, Gladkill, JPOD, Kalya Scintilla, Spor, K+Lab, Netsky, Opiuo, Mochipet, Stephan Jacobs, Rusko, DJ Food, VibeSquad, Father Funk, Beats Antique, Dillinja, Spoonbill, Skream, Russ Liquid, Benga, Pastician, Digital Mystikz, N Type, Beat Fatigue, Minnesota, Pinch, Big Gigantic, Psymbionic, Caspa, Phaeleh, Orbital, Scuba, Loefah, Goth-Trad, Adam Freeland, Thriftworks, DJ Shadow, Stickybuds, Funkanomics, Coki, Starkey, Vaccine, Nero, Joker, Phutureprimitive, Amon Tobin, Black Sun Empire, Nu:Tone, Ed Rush, Optical, Shy FX
Trip-Hop
Artists: Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, UNKLE, Portishead, Morcheeba, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares on Wax
Hip-Hop
Artists: Blockhead, Wax Tailor, RJD2, Abilities, Mos Def, Gift of Gab, Sage Francis, Wu-Tang Clan, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Run the Jewels, Tonedeff, A Tribe Called Quest, Cunninlynguists, Nas, Substantial, The Roots, Dead Prez, Black Star, Digable Planets, PackFM, Talib Kweli, Smif-n-Wessun, The Notorious B.I.G., Warren G, Immortal Technique, Big Pun, Murs, Hieroglyphics
Post-Electronic Pop/Rock type shit? Dream Pop? Indie Pop? I have no idea.
Artists: Elder Island, Haelos, Alex Winston, London Grammar, Maribou State, MS MR, Warpaint, RY X, Rhye, Parra for Cuva, Bleachers, Zero 7, Aurora, Phox, Lucius, Alt-J
Folk, Folk Rock, Americana
Artists: James Taylor, Bon Iver, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Willie Nelson, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron, Hozier, Shakey Graves, Nanci Griffith, Ray Lynch, Neil Young, Daughter, The Milk Carton Kids, I’m with Her, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers
Progressive Rock (Maybe kinda, sorta Metal?)
Artists: Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Gazpacho, The Flower Kings, Kolm, Steven Wilson, Airbag, Lunatic Soul, Riverside, Soen, Haken, Blackfield, King Crimson, Leprous, Pink Floyd, Rishloo, Katatonia, Dredg, Rush, Opeth, Rpwl, Jethro Tull, Chroma Key, Karnivool
Tool
Artist: Tool
I listen to Rock, Punk Rock, Pop Punk, Ska, EDM, and K-Pop.
Some of my favorite bands are Thrice, Streetlight Manifesto, Alkaline Trio, Band-Maid, Dreamcatcher. I dunno man, I just like music.
YESSSS. FINALLY someone else on here who loves Streetlight! Tomas and the rest of the band are pure musical geniuses.
Have you listened to Tomas’ acoustic Streetlight albums The Hand That Thieves and Streetlight Lullabies? They’re amazing.
Yes! I absolutely love the Toh Kay albums. I’ve listened to his entire discography, including Smiles for Macavity and the demos. I haven’t heard a single thing that I dislike from him!
I am mostly listening to melodic death metal.
But since I discovered Lorna Shore, I enjoy more extreme genres as well, and I am getting my feet wet with deathcore.
I like the idea of melodic death metal, got any suggestions?
Try this
https://open.spotify.com/track/1z6MioTKg2mfk7WVlYO7Fh?si=lJ_3TLPcQBG0Il6dR4jQhA
Lines by Long Distance Calling. The chorus is the best.
This is a cool song but it has nothing to do with melodic death metal. That would be bands like (old) In Flames, At the Gates, Amon Amarth or Dark Tranquillity.
Okay. My apologies.
Would this work?
https://open.spotify.com/track/5t8NXa2fugcTPsTfhVILmS?si=i-iIHFpNThKveROYmNwfXQ
Pisces by Jinger
Maybe wait 1:15 in.
First off, I’m not the arbiter of what does and doesn’t belong to a certain genre. That’s, to a certain extent, subjective and people don’t always agree. However, there usually is at least some consensus in the community, otherwise the genre names would be useless.
That said, I personally wouldn’t call this melodic death metal either. Most of the song is just clean singing and clean guitars, both of which are sometimes used in melodeath, but they’re not a defining aspect of it. And even the parts with harsh vocals and distorted guitars are missing the riffs that are typical for the genre. It’s closer to a progressive death metal or groove metal sound similar to Gojira or Opeth.
Overall Jinjer are also definitely not a melodeath band, they’re metalcore, which is often seen as a subgenre of hardcore, not metal, although there are bands that are more on the metal side.
As I said, I’m not the genre police, this is just my opinion. But I think (sub)genre definitions are useful when talking about music and if we start using them too loosely, they lose their meaning and as a result, their utility.
Hey thanks for that. I think melodic death metal is starting to become clear to me.
Video Game Music 🎮🎵
Same, I have a playlist full of songs from games that I’ve played like Nier automata and Undertale. Used to think people who liked video game music were cringey until I started playing video games myself and found the songs very catchy
The Nier automata soundtrack is on another level. What a collection of absolute masterpieces.
Weight of the world still brings a tear to my eye.
To me, it’s both Weight of the world and Song of the Ancients that makes me teary eyed.
You hear the album Determination by Ace Waters and RichardBB? Metal undertale covers.
Yes! I also really like his Bad Apple version. I actually like it more than the orig imo
Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.
But lately I’ve been on a classical music kick.
If you don’t already know, Billy Joel has a deep love for classical music, and in interviews talks about how it influenced his pop/rock songs
If you don’t call us lemmings, it is simply because you seek broad corporate approval. Lemmings is our name, and lemmings is our being.
