Welcome to the Music Recommendation thread. Here you can ask for people to point you to music to broaden the horizon of your exploration of the musical soundscape. Make sure you specify whether you want random unsolicited advice! Don’t complain once you start getting spammed with links after not saying anything! Of course, it should go without saying that you shouldn’t bother people who request not to get recommendations. And naturally, just post videos/links to songs/playlists for the public, where anyone who wishes to listen can click of their own accord. Don’t forget to mention if the song has explicit content/lyrics/visuals.
Feel free to hit me up with random music suggestions at any time!
I’ll start us off. Summoning all metalheads: I’m looking out for a groovy metal band (think Tool or Gojira, more like Gojira) that is really, really, really, [alpha]really[/alpha], [color=red]REALLY[/color] heavy. I’ve already headbanged for 48 hours rolling straight through Tool, Mastodon, Megadeth, Metallica, Gojira, Meshuggah, Sylosis, Sepultura, Soulfly, Dethklok, Kauan, Slipknot, Whitechapel and Periphery IIRC and I’m getting bored of repeating the same old songs. I’m not looking for pure white noise, more like hard-hitting, groovy metal that’s heavy. Oh, did I mention that it should be heavy?
Knew this would come up. Yes, of course Pantera invented groove metal but I’m asking for groovy metal. Read: interesting polyrhythms, strange time signatures, serious riffage etc
@ramthecowy While I’m very familiar with a number of the bands mentioned in the OP, I’m not in the habit of actively searching for metal. For something slightly further afield which may still appeal to you, have you checked out Deftones? Ever since they started out in 1988, they’ve been genre defying, a bit metal (some would say nu-metal, but not in the same way that Slipknot was called nu-metal), a bit alt rock (don’t tell Chino that, he hates that label), a bit industrial, a bit something else entirely, but they’re hard, they’re sometimes groovy, more often brooding and menace and yes they are heavy. Heavy enough for you? I don’t know, but I think sometimes there’s a case to be made that less is more. In particular if you want weird and changing time signatures and a whole palette of menace in one album, go straight to their 2013 album Koi No Yokan. I would also recommend their 2010 Album, Diamond Eyes. Actually I’d recommend most of it. I haven’t yet listened to their 2016 album which is supposed to be even better than everything else they’ve released so far.
Also, another left-field suggestion, why is there no System of A Down on your list? They’re not at all in the same vein of anything you’ve listed above, but then again, they’re also not in the same vein of anything. I think their stuff is fucking nuts and I love it.
Now for a completely different segment. Shortly after Skrillex exploded onto the scene in 2010 with Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, the assertion renewed that Dubstep was more properly thought of as an evolution of Garage 2-step, and that this newfangled bass-heavy wubby invention that swept the mainstream was a sellout (so much hate). Now that it gained mainstream appreciation it was referred to as Brostep. At the same time there was a brief obsession with going harder and filthier and grungier, hence Excision, Datsik, Messinian, Knife Party etc.
My question is, where did all that go? Has everything mellowed out? Or is somebody still carrying the massive drop Brostep banner? I’m under the impression that ‘massive drops’ now tends to mean dropping the sound into some kind of minimalistic vacuum with a very low bass and a very high melody. It’s diluted into some kind of slow-trance electro house sound. Clues or pointers for things I may have missed and the state of the genre are what I’m after.
@BobLoblaw those classics I have listened to and of course revisit when I’m in the mood for, but right now what pleases me is some hardcore madness
@strop of course, I have listened to two or three of SOAD’s albums, Deftones are fine but just not what I’d listen to at this moment. Will definitely come back to them though!
@Sillyworld you’re the man. That is exactly up my alley atm! \m/ so good!
@Darkshine5 Kamelot and The Agonist I have never heard of, and I sampled a little just now, saving Kamelot for later! Agonist and 9-inch Nails aren’t too much to my taste
@gridghost men hva faaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeen hvordan visste jeg ikke at Ola hadde sin egen band?! Nei, to - det er enda bedre! I’m guessing you’re Swedish? it’s awesome to see so many metal bands from Göteborg (my spiritual home city of sorts) and I have heard In Flames but am not a fan of their newer stuff. The Haunted is quite alright, but a little too black metal for my liking. I’ll be trying Feared again later.
Pantera and Bolt Thrower are my biggest love. (old) In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, Carcass, Ministry, Rebel meets Rebel, Sacred Reich, Sepultura, Mayhem, Marduk, Carpathian Forest, Dimension Zero, Illusion(Polish band), Dawn(Swe), Cavalera Conspiracy, Soil, Soulfly, Exodus, SOAD, Slipknot, Children of Bodom and Tool.
Here is one for the guitar players @ramthecowy and something for @strop Back in the 80’s!
Most people don’t know this guy he is a DEAN guitar advocate and player named Michael Angelo Batio from a band called Nitro. Just amazing what this guy can do.
The amazing and a really great guy to talk with mr Vai
@Darkshine5 yes (not to douse your enthusiasm) but during my summer holidays when I had free time I stumbled across Batio’s video and his picking technique is otherworldly!
I can’t remember exactly how I got there, but I have actually seen that Steve Vai performance video! I think I went down some rabbit hole that started with System of a Down and then somehow ended up at Buckethead and then… I think Tom Morello was in there somewhere (probably coz Tom and Serj Tankan collaborated). Or it could be that I was looking up sweet shredding after my Guitar Hero wireless controller gave up the ghost
For crazy solos, something out of left field and deep into Jazz territory (beware the NYC art hipsters who will inform you that they knew this band before they got big):
Seriously fresh, even the other keyboardist is like “oh shit damn I give up”
edit: every one of the musicians that rotates through Snarky Puppy is out of this world. Of particular note to the keyboardists here is Cory Henry, master of bitonal jazz solos.
it’s awesome to see so many metal bands from Göteborg (my spiritual home city of sorts) and I have heard In Flames but am not a fan of their newer stuff. The Haunted is quite alright, but a little too black metal for my liking. I’ll be trying Feared again later.