Music

    🎶 May artists report:

    #1 American Arson

    #2 Demon Hunter

    #3 Front Line Assembly

    #4 Zao

    #5 Juno Reactor

    Two men, one wearing a denim jacket and the other a black jacket, are standing and sitting against a brick wall background.

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    Listening to Umbilical feels like smiling while getting your teeth kicked in, because you know how much work it took for the assailant to get so strong.

    Making Sense of Thou’s Messy Metal Discography | Bandcamp Daily

    🎶 Since starting to track 5⭐️ albums, these are my first 9.

    I promise there will be some that are other genres!

    5⭐️ albums are ones you are happy to listen to straight through without ever wanting to skip a track.

    Old Haste the Day, Zao, Underoath, and Opeth. Plus some Silent Planet, Conjurer, and American Arson.

    🎶 There’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ratings, and then there’s “heck yes I’m so excited this came on”, so I started making a…like…six star playlist…for whenever that happens.

    Some tunes from: I Hate Models, HEALTH, Juno Reactor, Zao, and Kardashev

    🎶 Discuss amongst yourselves:

    • Heavy Metal is one of the lightest genres of metal music.

    🎶 Also, puzzle me this:

    • shoegaze: more boring than alternative rock
    • blackgaze: less boring than black metal
    • deathgaze: same interest as death metal, just different vibes

    🎶 Listening to this track from Dawn Treader and really thought it was Kardashev. It was not. Time to check them out.

    Dawn Treader - Through The Teeth of The Machine

    🎶 new genre just dropped

    Sign saying “solidcore”

    Spouse:

    ‘Noise Unit’: another one of Toddy’s nicknames

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    🎶 TIL: Devin Townsend played guitar on Front Line Assembly’s Millenium.

    🎶 I’m coming to it late, but I’m really enjoying American Arson.

    🎶 I’m slowly migrating my music to lossless (ALAC) by re-ripping our CDs, re-downloading bandcamp, and re-downloading better files from iTunes and Amazon (where available).

    I’m carrying over my ratings from iTunes and Plex and then prioritizing listening to 5-start tracks and unrated items. It has me thinking about my rating system again. It’s now something like:

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I want to hear this again soon

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Happy to have this show up on a plalist, shuffle, DJ-mode, album, etc.

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Hrm, not sure if this is a good one for me

    ⭐️⭐️: I don’t really want to hear this

    ⭐️: Why do I even own this?

    Pictured is my “shuffle” playlist, to which I often apply “DJ Stretch” from PlexAmp’s “Guest DJ” modes.

    Finally reading the namesake of the band that adorns so many of my t-shirts: Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis 📚🎶

    🎶 Ok, let’s say I like Propaghandi and Rise Against and hardcore punk (esp. at the metalcore end of the spectrum), but find a lot of punk (esp. pop punk) to be vapid. What should I check out?

    🎶 I had no idea Einstürzende Neubauten had been working on a new album!

    🎶 Ridehail had a giant speaker in shotgun and an iPad for DJing. Had some triphop and dub stuff going, so here’s where I took it:

    • Ishome - Eva
    • Submotion Orchestra - Angel Eyes
    • Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
    • Clubroot - Low Pressure Zone
    • Synkro - Acceptance

    Driver cranked it!

    🎶 Finally found a succinct and useful definition of post-(genre) music, derived from an early post-rock definition from Simon Reynolds:

    post-(genre) is music in which elements of (genre) are used for non-(genre) purposes

    🎶 100,000 songs, bonus update:

    I made a mistake and left out a top album.

    I updated the original post to explain.

    🎶 Ok, consider Ashenspire officially added to the “non-tedious black metal” list.

    🕊️🎶 if you want to be more theologically accurate but also kinda insufferable, sing it this way instead:

    up from the grave he was raised

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