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I feel like I have achieved true metal nirvana since I stopped caring about silly labels. They’re only half useful for finding new stuff anyway. If the music activates my dopamine generators, I like it. The only thing I avoid is gutturals, I don’t want a fucking horror movie creature on the microphone, thank you.
I can’t do the pig squeal sounding screams, but a good heavy vocalist can add so much to the range of emotion. It was an acquired taste for me, though. I had friends trying to show me BTBAM thinking I’d appreciate the complexity, but it took ages for me to really hear everything through the wall of sound. Looking up lyrics helped massively, along with finding bands that blend the heavy and clean vocals so there were spots I could sing along with. I’d love to learn to scream properly so I could belt out some gutturals
Honestly, I used to feel the same way for a long long time. I actually ended up getting into got it all vocals through bands like Svalbard, Brutus, thranenkind and enferens
That led to atmospheric black metal. Now I can enjoy bands like Uada but I have to be in the right mood
Nothing is more metal than respecting the right to self-determination and the fun of others. Don’t be close-minded. Enjoy what you enjoy, don’t be a snob, let other people have fun and stop thinking about categories.
I think I’m “it’s all metal” because I don’t care to give thought to every subgenre of metal. If it sounds good, I like it. I have to laugh at the description though because I do really enjoy melodic death metal and I blame Avatar for that.
Ne Obliviscaris
As a dedicated metal-type autist for over 15 years I am proud to say I’m not on this list. I am the Ambassador, the Professor, the Diplomat. I welcome any and all into the fold and love to help people find their niche. My personal taste leans towards prog, black, and death but my knowledge runs deep and I love to share it.
Any suggestions for something microtonal? Preferrably polyrhythmic as well.
Check out Blotted Science and Behold…the Arctopus! Anything with Ron Jarzombek (Blotted) and Colin Marston (Behold) should scratch that itch. I don’t have much microtonal in the library but now you’ve got me wanting to dig deeper. I’ll get back to you in a few days!
Otherwise if you’re cool with avant-garde in general I’d also recommend Dodecahedron, Imperial Triumphant, Igorrr, Meshuggah (THE polyrhythm kings), and Unexpect.
Think I’m way pass that point… My current itch scratchers of choice are Maddie Ashman for microtonal, Means End/Chromaform for harmonic, and Car Bomb for rhythmic crazyness. Surprisingly, I haven’t ever given “Behold…the Arctopus!” a serious listen, even though I’ve seen that meme video a long time ago… guess I wasn’t ready for it yet. Thanks for the reminder, will def check them out!
I’m not really into metal, but I dabble a bit because I like great guitar playing in any genre, but I appreciate your stance. I’m like you, but with other genres like Classical, Jazz, Blues, World Music, and Classic Rock. There are a lot of gatekeepers in those genres, and I like to guide noobs past them, and into new music they can love.
Guitar virtuosity is rampant in metal! You should take a look at Tosin Abasi - start with TRAM, then his bandmate Javier’s project Mestís, then his band Animal’s as Leaders’s album The Joy of Motion. TRAM is modern jazz, Mestís is very Spanish influenced, and AAL is one of my favorite bands of all time. All (primarily) instrumental.
CHON and Covet are both chill prog/math-rock with incredible guitar work. I’d recommend CHON’s Newborn Sun EP or Homey LP. Covet’s first two releases, Currents EP and Effloresce, have been my sleeping music every night for a couple years at this point.
I can recommend heavier/harsh stuff as well, but based on your current preferences these are good starting points. Feel free to keep replying or DM if you want more!
Some interesting suggestions! I’ll get to exploring! Thanks brother!
My taste in metal is pretty much based on how cool it sound while playing dark souls
Babymetal & Poppy ftw
Now these are real lemmy hours
Btw, it’s all metal
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Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.
I snorted.
The prog purist makes your point to be honest.
I have this problem where I love some good metal guitar, but most of the stuff with the sound that I like also includes vocals reminiscent of Christian Bale’s Batman with a sore throat, which I do not enjoy. Either that or overly edgy lyrics.
Try Haunt - he can sing. Same with Night demon
Have you considered going instrumental?
Try Sinergy.
Dad is the only one I’d hang out with
I used to have only band shirts. Like i would buy a shirt on every concert i went to and had around 400 shirts. There was no reason to ever buy normal shirts. The “dad” guys would always look at my shirt and say something like: “infant annihilator”? I like AC/DC. Always cracked me up.
What about the nu-metal peeps, where do we fit in?
I would say numetal is having a renaissance, so many cool young bands coming through
We were kicked out long ago. No one talks to us
If things keep going this way I might just break something tonight.
I feel their hate crawling on my skin, these wounds they will not heal
Boom na da noom na nanema! Da boom na da noom na namena! Da boom na ba noom na namena!
Hold on while I push my fingers into my eyes.
Is it because we brought Skrillex on stage with us?
Metal peaked with the first three black sabbath albums.
Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath is everything you need to know about metal.
^ Classic Metal Purist
Dude, volume 4 is a masterpiece, with the exception of FX, which is just Iommi stoned out his mind and fucking with his pedalboard. There’s a really good rehash of it done by several artists calls Volume 4 Redux.
The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal is outstanding. Bands like Haunt (Eric Church), Night Demon, witchcraft and Green Lung are all amazing, have solid sized libraries and are great starting points into other stuff
There are also really cool metal bands out there like Panopticon - he combines black metal and bluegrass with strongly anticapitalistic lyrics.
Dude, as someone who moved on from metal after the Black Album (completely pigeonholed classic purist), I’m so amazed you have turned me on to 4 bands all of which I really like on first listen. Thank you so much for giving metal a new lease on life for me! I didn’t know anyone was making really good thrashy stuff like this any more.
Try using gnoosic.com to suggest new artists. Its surprisingly old, but uses an algorithm. The algorithm predates AI by like a decade or something - it’s just someone’s nerdy pet project. It’s recommended me bands that have 25 monthly listeners lol.
Clicking on the ‘listeners also liked’ thing on your streaming service is also a good way to find bands.
Random question - anyone know a good site to buy digital music that pays the artists somewhat decently? I’ve got a few artists I need to get albums from after bailing on Spotify and they aren’t on Bandcamp and don’t has album sales linked to their official sites. Hell, even physical copies of some albums are hard to come by in the US.
I saw “7Digital” mentioned somewhere but I see there multiple listings for the same album at different prices (literally the exact same album, exact same quality) which makes me suspect it’s not as legit as I had hoped.
I tend to use Bandcamp, they have a thing on the first Friday of every month where they give a bigger cut to artists if you buy that day.
Edit: Just realised you said you couldn’t find the band on Bandcamp, oops.
I use tidal - they get a much better chunk out of the profits. There’s another new one out there but I can’t recall it’s nsm
It seems Tidal is streaming only. There is Qobuz but I hear them mentioned by people looking for Hi-Fi. Their streaming service seems to pay higher than average.
I guess I’ll just have to assume the compensation is decent for digital purchases as well. Having Hi-Fi audio quality doesn’t hurt - I can always transcode it if I need to stream or convert it if I need to cram it in a small storage device.
I look like Dad, but I’m a fuckin new guy to metal. To his credit, my best friend got me to appreciate Ozzy, Metallica, and Dio in high school. But it took Dimmu Borgir live in Oslo with the choir and orchestra to finally make harsh vocals click for me. I like thrash, speed, power, melodic, folk, prog, and some select black metal. I try not to support Nazi bands.
