Synthwave-tinged scifi-influenced black metal is super close to an ideal musical combination for my brain. Wish there were some clean vox mixed in here, but still, super promising single with excellent production values, featuring a member of Cellar Darling (ex-Eluveitie). The synthy bits are a little more mute than the description sells them as, but it’s still a good fit, IMO.
Day #119 - Pelican
"A primarily instrumental post-metal act who use extended compositions to explore the texture and timbre of heavy noise, Pelican can be crushingly heavy or ethereal within the same song. Based out of Chicago, the group emerged in 2001 and released their debut album, Australasia, in 2003. They continued to explore the outer reaches of stoner rock, doom, and post-metal on acclaimed subsequent outings like City of Echoes (2007), Forever Becoming (2013), and Nighttime Stories (2019). "
ShivaX
3210
Not remotely my jam, but I’m betting someone here would be all about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReaFJ_MD2cs
Tyjenks
3211
Yeah. Living in the Southeast, I have to tolerate a lot of dummies. If I had a zero tolerance policy, which I would if I lived in a more progressive state, I wouldn’t have anyone to talk to. The pool is pretty limited as it is. :)
Rather than just spam the thread with conversation, I’ll do what I usually do and post a couple from a band that no one i know likes and neither will you. :)
From the UK, maybe sorta kinda nu metal-ish and maybe borderline belongs in the thread. :) Female and male vocalists and I know at least she plays guitar. I don’t think they have a record label, but have released a ton of singles. They were my second most listed to band last year. They have no full album. They have sold out several club shows across the pond and are coming to the U.S. with Enter Shakira, I think.
Wiki blurb
Wargasm (stylised as 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐒𝐌 ) are a British electronic rock duo from London. Formed in 2018 by English musician Sam Matlock and Northern Irish model and photographer Milkie Way, they have released 11 solo singles and four collaborative singles. Alternative Press listed them as a defining part of the 2020s wave of nu metal,[1] and NME listed them as one of 2021’s essential emerging artists
The first was their first big “hit” and the second is my favorite. Enjoy (or not).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kyrwVLyfPI
That would be me! And Armando and one or two more. So thanks, youtube hadn’t surfaced it for me.
…the first impression left me a bit cold, in reality. I like it less than the previous new song, although I only have listened once. BG from time to time does songs like this, at least in the last five albums, a bit more… mid-tempo, and with different arrangements, in an effort I believe to not do the same power metal songs they have been doing for 35+ years already. Sometimes it’s a cool new song, sometimes it’s just decent, but don’t get to be burned in my memory.
The solo is cool, though.
CraigM
3213
This is me too.
Admittedly the song seems fine, not great not terrible. Which is admittedly about how Ii feel about half of their songs starting with Twist in the Myth.
It’s strange, because from the last albums
A Night at the Opera and At the Edge of Time are two of my favorites, but imo A Twist in the Myth is one of the weaker ones, and while Beyond the Red Mirror is superficially similar to the style of At the Edge of Time, I listened it like 40 times and still I’m not able to remember the songs or assign an identity to the album, unlike AtEoT.
Day #120 - Penumbra
Not a lot to say about this one, I didn’t even know what was doing on my HDD. But hey it doesn’t sound bad!
Day #121 - A Perfect Circle
https://youtu.be/xTgKRCXybSM
"American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle was formed in the late '90s by Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and former Tool guitar tech Billy Howerdel. On their debut, Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle were seen as an extension of the alt-metal-fused-with-art-rock style popularized by Tool in the early to mid-'90s. "
Day #122 - Periphery
https://youtu.be/rmtU2WJfPgU
Although I can see they have changed a bit on the newest album
edit: I was wrong, they also had songs like this one.
Ran across this today. I snickered at his description of the last song as well as the one for Twenties. “Respite…” ain’t about Victorian anything IMO…
This is a seriously political record. Some Chuds ain’t gonna get it and sing along anyway. Reminds me of Cobain…
“He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means”
I love it. Keep going Tobias. :)
Day #123 - Pharaoh
An American metal band, but they sound very NWOBHM.
Hey, this is the album I recommended here a couple weeks back! So, obviously I approve of this choice. :)
A very moreish album I found, nicely varied tracks.
Being more accurate, I’ve added them into my collection because you posted about them, I didn’t know them :)
Tyjenks
3222
That A Perfect Circle is so brilliant along side Tool is kind of amazing. Puscifer is decent, but not quite my thing.
Though people might not be fans, I am similarly in awe that Corey Taylor has Slipknot and Stone Sour. Taylor’s solo effort (CMFT) is also decent, but not quite my thing.
Yeah, it’s real nice when supergroups don’t suck. Ironically Tool is the one I like the least out of the three. “C” Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here) is a fricken stellar EP.
This made me beholden to Puscifer forever. I’m not sure it’s good, or that anyone should listen to it, and it may be a crime against humanity, but I’ll be darned if it doesn’t get me every time.
I’m super busy at the job, I had forgotten this…
First, two honorable mentions (rock)
-Pink Floyd
https://youtu.be/fvPpAPIIZyo
-Poets of the Fall
Day #124 - Polyphia
https://youtu.be/IHcAi2FPrTM
Instrumental band. I still have them “on trial”, deciding if I like them or not.
Day #125 - Pomegranate Tiger
Another instrumental band, it reminds me of Animal as Leaders
Day #126 - Powerdrive
Something that surely will be unknown for everyone here…
Why? Because it’s small band from Madrid, Spain, from a guy I knew years ago that participated in the same forum as me.
