Too many people talking blah de blah in my What Are You Listening To thread so I'll make this. Here is where we can discuss bands, artists, albums, whatever ...... the other one is not for discussion ;)
Have at it.
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Too many people talking blah de blah in my What Are You Listening To thread so I'll make this. Here is where we can discuss bands, artists, albums, whatever ...... the other one is not for discussion ;)
Have at it.
Awesome.
I am mostly into Metal, metalcore, punk and some rock. Not a fan of classical music.
Favorite bands:
Asking Alexandria
As I lay dying
Bring me the Horizon
Trivium
In Flames
Fokopolisiekar
Van coke Kartel
The list goes on and on.
Hope there's someone out there that listens to my crap! Would love to have discussions on some of these bands
Metal is pretty much derived from classical such as Bach. Does...not...compute.Quote:
Originally Posted by blaaislaai
In all honesty, I don't bother posting in the what are you listening to thread because every individual has their own unique taste in music. People in that thread generally ignore one another if their tastes are incompatible.
Yes, possibly.. However I do not like current generation classics. Will leave that to grandma and grandpaQuote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
I am into screamo, emo etc
The purpose of that thread is to see just what other peoples tastes are ...... then there is a youtube link to click on so you can hear exactly what those tastes are. It lets you discover or avoid music other than what you listen to.
Soz for talking too much there m8 won't do it againQuote:
Originally Posted by Mephisto_Helix
My favourite genre of music is Doom Metal, specifically Funeral Doom. Otherwise I tend to like most forms of metal.
I also like Industrial and genres similar to it. People tend to make fun of me but I also like Dubstep, especially Deathstep.
Most of the time while working I will listen to Minimal, Techno, Tech House and Deep House. It just works so well for programming.
I like certain rock bands but not the genre and I can't listen to most of the bands. I can't stand pop, rnb or any of those kind of genres. As in can't stand it. I don't listen radio at all because it hurts my ears.
Favourite musician/band of all time? Agalloch. I just love that band to bits.
Best voice in the music industry? Maynard James Keenan. Just plain wow.
No worries, we have this thread now to discuss all music :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AlienTaker
Solitude, I have a buddy, Jay Ruin, who used to do industrial stuff in the guise of CeDigest but who now does a vicious DeathStep/Swaggrotech genre under Ruinizer. He has a new album coming out very soon, you should check this out -
http://dwa-digital.com/album/mechani...the-antichrist.
I think you may really dig it ;)
Do you like metalstep? Probably similar to deathstepQuote:
Originally Posted by Solitude
Majority of people I know don't like mixing dubstep with metal, but I believe it's quite interesting and sounds awesome.. less "boring"
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Somewhere on youtube some guy mixed the first LinkinPark album (hybrid theory) with Psy's gangnam style. Every song have this gangbang style and music to it. People thought it was amazing, i think it is just utterly crap
Avid fan of metal and jazz here. Currently in a metal band and a melodic hardcore (similar to I, The Breather, Volumes etc).
Metal bands:
Despised Icon
As Blood Runs Black
All Shall Perish
Carnifex
Fallujah
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Job For A Cowboy
Jazz:
Aaron Parks
Frank Sinatra
And a shameless video drop :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKFl...&feature=g-upl
Awesome thanks, will check it out now. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mephisto_Helix
Well i lisn to anything that is worth while listning too, mostly depends on what mood i'm in i've come to learn that it's not good to lisn to punk or Metallica while i'm on the bike because it seems it's frowned upon when you pass a traffic cop at 200 on the highway.
So when i'm on the Bike i mostly throw some Trance Tunes, Armin, Alex Morph and Marcus Shultz are my Fav Trance Dj's
When i jam BF i like having Linkin Park in my ears mixed with some metal and some rap
I don't know what I like anymore.
I am a metal head but these days I like listening to david bowie and the police.
Also I dig listening to the cnc soundtrack. Tibsun and firestorm are my fav :D and the ut 99 soundtrack.
Industrial metal is awesome like it a lot.
I'm mainly into Goth (with it's subgenres) and Industrial/EBM (and it's subgenres). Not the mainstream 'trendy' crap though ... that can go die in a fire. Very rarely listen to anything else but if something is well constructed and beautiful, I'll appreciate it. Not going to list bands here because it would take up a page or six but I've posted enough of a selection in the What Are You Listening To thread to last a lifetime, heh.
I have to say I really dig the stuff you put there :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mephisto_Helix
I listen to all sorts of music fom Amon Amarth to classical music never understood not broadening one's horizon.
Good to see the metalheads are dominating this thread. I enjoy most forms of metal, from melodic to extreme, but my only requirement is that the music be progressive and possess a suitable atmosphere. Any 'core is out, though. Many bands are extreme for the sake of being extreme and I dislike that. Also, being a Christian, my taste in metal gravitates to positive or uplifting lyrics for the most part.
Fav bands over the years (in no specific order):
- Pantokrator (death)
- Circus Maximums (melodic prog)
- Antestor (black/doom)
- Virgin Black (symphonic doom)
- Darkwater (melodic prog)
- Dream Theater (melodic prog)
- Haken (melodic prog)
- Extol (blackened death/prog)
- Theocracy (power/prog)
- Neal Morse (hard rock/prog)
- Miseration (death)
- In Vain (avant garde)
...and many others. These are the ones I remember enjoying a lot upon first hearing their music and many of those have a long lasting appeal.
Mate, liking certain kinds of music and not others isn't about broadening your horizon. It's about liking some kinds of music and not others.Quote:
Originally Posted by XbatousaiX
I try out different kind of genres but some genres I just can't listen to.
Despite me being a metalhead and all, I do have a softspot for Katy Perry... and her music :o
There's no shame in that. I think all of us have at least one or more songs/artists that fall outside our favourite kinds of music. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by blaaislaai
G'zuz you guys really are pedantic with your music sub-sub-sub-genre's I'm sure they sound similar to the umbrella genre? I'm talking about things like Funeral Doom metal, Deathstep, Metalstep, Swaggrotech :wtf:
There was a time I too was into pedantic subgenre's like that.. but then I matured and grew up... (no offense)
Now I listen to everything! spanning all genres.
This man knows what he's talking about listen to him peopleQuote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
The only reason I make use of mentioning sub genres is to convey that I listen to that genre is it's entirety ...... a lot of times I have said "I like industrial" and people say but what about such and such which is actually Darkwave. You also have to realise that a lot of bands themselves define their music as one thing and not just something. So If Distorted Memory releases an album and describes it as a foray into tribal idm, who am I to say oh but it's industrial, live with it?
People who are really into music will understand that.
Why so serious about sub genres though this is not a personal atack against you. I had to google that shit to find out what they where the average person wont know what Metalstep is and wont care.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mephisto_Helix
I use to really be into music then I lost touch lol. I barely listen to anything these days I don't know why.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mephisto_Helix
Well like i said i listen to everything but it varies on what mood i'm in the day :)
But my true Fav band is Linkin Park, met my wife when they came on the scene and asked her on our first date when crawling was playing
The reason I target sub-genres of metal, is because many people enjoy "lighter" melodic metal while they can't stand extreme metal (like death / black / heavy thrash). The sub-genres of metal have very distinct sounds and styles to them and cater for wildly different tastes. Personally, I've grown bored of most styles of extreme metal and prefer mine melodic and progressive these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
I'm 33 years old and I'm a programmer. Ever day I get to work, start up my laptop and the first site that loads is Grooveshark. Then the whole day I will listen to music while programming. In the beginning I just listened to whatever. Then I found places that list the various genres and I thought, hey, why listen to something that I find adequate when I can listen to something that sounds amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
So for instance I found doom metal. Then as I listen to the various doom metal bands I find that hmmm there are certain ones with a style that I like more than the others. I did some research and found that they belong to a subgenre of doom metal called funeral doom.
I can pinpoint the exact kind of sound that I like in my music. Do I listen to it all the time? No, but it's my favourite.
Surely I can say that my taste in music has matured in that I've tried many things and found my exact match.
It's funny when people say no offense when they say something offensive. It reminds me of this: https://www.facebook.com/pages/No-of...d/212851344612
I think that my definition of maturity in music is different compared to yours, Edelweiss. I believe that mine includes experience from which I learned and made me know myself better.
Quote:
Originally Posted by XbatousaiX
As above.Quote:
Originally Posted by XbatousaiX
I started out with GnR and Metallica in Std.3 (Gr. 5). One of my friends had an older brother in high school, and gave me a tape (lol!) to listen to. I don't recall listening to or taking an interest in music before then (except for the 80's stuff my parents used to listen to). By Std.5 the same friend had introduced me to Morbid Angel, Slayer and Sepultura. In Std.6 I discovered Black Metal, and the rest is history.
I've expanded my taste in music (in addition to Metal) quite a bit, though: I enjoy whatever sounds good. Hell, I even enjoy EBM, and I've always loved 80's music (there's just something about Pop that grabbed me since I was a youngen).
Well fuck, I do, too... There, I admitted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by blaaislaai
And jazz, too. But the Classical connection is through the heavy use of bass (who'd have thunk it?), the arrangement of the music, and most importantly, the Diminished Fifth (a.k.a. the Tritone, or Devil's Note) - the note that make's people "feel" something when they listen to Metal and Classical specifically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
Me too.. Opeth is go to band for melodic and prog fix.Quote:
Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden
I agree with The Voice.. I listen to whatever sounds good regardless of genre. Solitude I've never thought of that.. using sub-genres to pinpoint your music "sweetspot" to each his own I guess. I hate it when people use these music sub-genres no one knows about to make themselves seem elite/cool whatever... it reeks of "pretentious highschool teen" durrr I'm so cool with my metalswaggstep. :p
/rant over
Agreed. The "Metalhead Elite" always pissed me off. Walk into a club, and they're all sat in a corner like "we're more Metal than you" because you're not wearing the correct band's shirt, or don't listen to sub-sub-sub-sub-genre X (that sounds like it was recorded in a toilet cubicle - PRODUCTION VALUE, PEOPLE!). Turns out they're usually a bunch of posers, anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Edelweiss
I used to be cvlt and tr00 when it came to metal (especially black) and used to treasure the stuff that sounded fuzzy and that was either released independently or on a collectors label. Since about 5 years ago I rather value good production.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Voice
It's funny, I've always gone for the production value with metal, but was far more forgiving with the more mainstream genre's I listen to..Quote:
Originally Posted by FarligOpptreden
I started really enjoying music at 13 or 14 when my uncle's boyfriend lent me his Live - Throwing Copper cd. That masterpiece got me to appreciate musicality and writing, and I wanted to start playing drums because of that album. Luckily I saw sense and picked up a guitar instead, and I've been playing since.
Because I play, I listen to a wide range of genres. Weird enough, not exactly the ones that I play, though. I listen to relatively mainstream metal (Killswitch Engage, Deftones, Times of Grace, In Flames, Metallica, Alter Bridge), Rock (Rolling Stones, Queen, Muse, Led Zep, Foo Fighters, old Live, Fokofpolisiekar, aKing, Ashes Divide, A Perfect Circle), Prog (Coheed and Cambria, and another band whose name escapes me... something with an 'm'?), Blues (Clapton mostly, especially his Johnson influenced work), a little guitar driven jazz (Eric Johnson), and some pop like Jimmy Eat World, the Cure, old u2, Mumford and Sons, etc.
I also have a soft spot for Katy Perry and her soft spots. :D
I've learned long ago that genre's are a necessary evil. It does help describe a musical style, but it should always be remembered that genres are descriptive, not prescriptive. aKing has a couple of songs with massive blues influences, Times of Grace does a mean acoustic country, and A Perfect Circle has been all over the place. Genres aren't important enough to get your panties in a knot over, IMHO.
@Avatar,
You wanted to play drums, but saw sense and picked up a guitar?
How dare you, sir. How dare you.
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by DuckKnuckle
What actually happened was that my best friend at the time suddenly got a set, I still don't know how he twisted his parents' arms. I thought, 'fuck that, I'm not gonna be a copycat', so grabbed my dad's old guitar and got a-learnin'.
Hahaha you didn't want to be a copycat?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Avatar
Well that's a new reason to not play drums :p
My friend showed me the school drumset back when I was 15. My parents bought me my first kit 3 months later for my birthday.
7 years later and I'm still playing and learning :cool: