Back listening to Stiff Little Fingers.
on a stoner vibe, i still bloody love shrinebuilder, sleep and OM
I love Sleep too. I shall give some of the others mentioned a listen as well.
Any love for High On Fire, Sleep fans?
I hope there will be another album at some point.
Mat Pike is the reason I have a 'thing' for Orange Amps.
High On Fire is very much 'my bag'
My Zwift Playlist (some of) from memory:-
Alarma! 666 (obvs not rock or metal)
Supernaut Black Sabbath
Never say Die Black Sabbath
Breath Disturbed
Gasoline Seether
Emerald Thin Lizzy
Harder Faster WASP
In my World Anthrax
In the End Anthrax
My Peace of Hell Acid Reign
Blood makes noise Acid Reign
Thunderkiss '65 White Zombie
Devil Digger Judas Priest
Absolute Zero Stone Sour
I am in command Annihilator
Rusty Cage Soundgarden
I supported High on fire at Rock City in Nottingham years ago and got to use Des Kensel's drums (career highlight right there) but since we've mentioned bands with terrible names I'll not say who I was in at the time.
For me it's all about:
Palehorse
Oathbreaker
Wiegedood
Thou
Svalbard
Jucifer
Moloch
You get the idea
This week I've been playing:
Anzahlung - I've Lost My Footing On The World
Jah Wobble - Metal Box Rebuilt In Dub
Only Strangers - S/T
Dreadnoughts - Into The North
Snow - 12 Inches Of Snow
Johnny Osbourne - Truths & Rights
Burning Flag - Matador
Cult Of The Damned - The Church Of
Subhumans - Worlds Apart
+ many more...
Try The Ungovernable Force by Conflict.
Listened to it for the first time in about 20 years he other day, really enjoyed it.
Anything by Misfits, the 40th anniversary remix Ramones albums cos theyve got a much meatier sound, especially Leave Home.
New Wildhearts album is a noisy bugger, love that.
The first two Machine Head albums are quite noisy too.
Gotta be honest, havent really got excited over anything metal has produced for the last 20 years or so, mostly I listen to the older stuff, or people doing covers of songs on Youtube, cos the extra track in the background tends to give it more bollocks, if you know what I mean.
Am very much liking the Dreadnoughts the last few years. Not metal at all, more folk and punk, but theyre songs are awesome and very very catchy.
I'm loving 'Part Chimp' at the moment, thanks to Marc Riley.
This session is brilliant.
Dead Kennedys never leave my favourites.
Neither do Fugazi
This is an amazing live recording. I've seen them twice and still remember the intense energy.
Love the rawness of Eric's Trip
This week I've been remembering how much I adore Pavement
I've just discovered CLT DRP - noisy, punky, industrial noise.
Greece seems to be producing loads of Great Stoner Rock ATM, Khirki, Deaf Radio, Villagers of Ioannina City, clearly something in the water down there.
i have just been blasting early pichshifter and optimum wound profile
love earlier high on fire stuff, past couple of albums have a been a bit flat. they peaked at "snakes for the divine" for me.
I was introduced to Eskimo Callboy by a thread on here and it's now my go to for long drives.
Five Finger Death Punch is another favourite.
My preference is towards the prog end of heavy. Karnivool, Tesseract, Toska. Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson have been on regular play for nearly two decades.
My regulars are
Trivium
While she sleeps
Shvpes
In flames
Gojira
Architects
Stray from the path
Then a smattering of others.
anything by Parkway Drive is top of the list at the moment
this just popped up on my playlist, awwwww i do miss stuff like this and scorn
scorn and my bodyweight in mushrooms might explain why i was a quite messed young man
The recent Carcass record is good, the cover art particularly.
I've been broadening my taste lately.
Two bands I've come back to a lot are:
Igorrr
And Zeal and Ardour
Not so much really heavy stuff, but Dead Sara was one band that came to my notice fairly recently, and I like them a lot. Someone else I also discovered around the same time is Louise Patricia Crane; her most recent album Deep Blue has a very definite prog feel, hardly surprising when one of the people helping her is Jakko M Jakszyk, King Crimson’s guitarist/vocalist, along with Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull fame.
Have to say, the video is more than a little cliché ridden, but the lass can sing, and she’s got a good bunch of musicians behind her.
So many good bands mentioned so far! And a few new ones to give a listen to.
Those into Eskimo Callboy, can i recommend The Hell....
I was lucky enough to be in my late teens/early twenties when the whole Nu-Metal movement was around. Still love so much of this classic stuff....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0MfBG5-Uo
And i see Karnivool mentioned (amongst others), again decent modern prog-rock type stuff can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doi60r3pniA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJSt7ISU1-w
Amyl and the Sniffers are great
I know a few of these guys
Those into Eskimo Callboy, can i recommend The Hell….
Haha, they're local to me and properly funny, their first album is amazing.
I was lucky enough to be in my late teens/early twenties when the whole Nu-Metal movement was around.
Ditto, I can't remember any other musical movement that was so universally and immediately reviled, the radio stations wouldn't play it, the music press hated it, old metal heads hated it, the only people who didn't want it to die a death were the deeply unfashionable scraggy yoofs it was aimed at.
Many happy memories of hurling myself about to Limp Bizkit's Faith cover in XL's Birmingham, a few proper high-flying career types I know met their future wives on those sticky carpets.
My listens
Trivium
Avenged sevenfold
Iron maiden
Infected rain
Jinjer
Spiritbox
Amon Armarth
Cradle of filth
Killswitch engage
Sabaton
And many more
Some good stuff on this thread 🙂
I wasn't aware of Mastodon's latest, although I admit approaching it with more of a feeling of trepidation ("please don't let it be rubbbish") than of excitement. I think they probably get a lifetime pass for the excellent run of three records from Leviathan through Blood Mountain and on to Crack the Skye; but The Hunter onwards have left me a little cold. Look forward to exploring the new one though.
I thought of a couple more I've really enjoyed toward the end of last year...
Slowmosa's debut eponymous record is a little cracker. Thick fuzz combines with poppy hooks to make an infectious amalgam, and the 40-minute runtime leaves you wanting that one extra hit. I can imagine it getting a little saccharine on overexposure, but up until that point it's a nugget of fist-pumping stoner gold:
https://slomosa1.bandcamp.com/
On more of a psych trip, the slightly-awfully-named King Buffalo's The Burden of Restlessness is a prickly, skin-crawling reflection on the listlessness and isolation of the COVID era. From the swirling reverb of the opening track through the velcro-like crackle of Silverfish and on to the tumultuous heads-down riffage that closes the album this is a complete journey within four walls:
https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/the-burden-of-restlessness
As an aside: what a time to be alive if you're into this kind of music. All these little bands that are almost certainly never going to bother the charts, all getting their music out there and heard. When I was growing up there was Metal Hammer and Kerrang, and that was about it for finding out about bands. Today, it's the whole internet.
As @hatter says, Greece has been a goldmine recently, but also Poland, Argentina, and France. Check out the Weedian "Trip to..." series -- it's amazing how much is out there:
https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/
My Peace of Hell Acid Reign
Blood makes noise Acid Reign
Bloody hell it is a long time since I have heard that name – Harrogate's finest LOL! They used to support my mate's band (who *nearly* made it themselves but never quite got that break) back in the day.
I know they're both not very niche and very niche but I've been spending a lot of time listening to Tool over the last couple of years. Keep going back to Lateralus (which I did buy on CD at the time and remember listening to on the tube when commuting after my bike was stolen back in 2002).
I know they’re both not very niche and very niche
Who cares? I first heard of Tool on STW, but I know other musicians since who listen to them. Their music is not my cup of tea really, but surely music is about enjoying (organised) sound, and not thinking about ‘niche’? Is it (‘niche’) a social consideration or something? Never quite been certain what the word means in regards to music/art. Maybe a marketing term for stuff like products?
Realising recently that I may be somewhere on the ‘spectrum’, so pls disregard the Q if it makes no sense! 🎼🤐
I know they’re both not very niche and very niche but I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to Tool over the last couple of years.
I'm 90% certain I heard Jo Wiley on the radio enthusing over Fear Innoculum (the track) when it came out, which would have been on Radio 2 since I think that's where Jo Wiley lives now.
Make of that what you will in re: niche 😀
I agree with @p7eaven tho, it doesn't matter, fits the rock/metal/punk/hardrock/etc category so is valid IMO.
17 year old me in a 'club' heard, and went nuts to, the track Gypsy Girl by Cruella de Ville. Just found it on YT 35 years later. Just as full of energy as I remember it.
Slowmosa’s debut eponymous record is a little cracker.
Ain't it just!? my record of 2020 that was, looking forward to seeing them at Desertfest in April.
Desertfest looks like a great lineup. Electric Wizard, CoC, YOB, Elder, Conan... I am getting numb ears just reading the list 😀
Bloody hell it is a long time since I have heard that name – Harrogate’s finest LOL! They used to support my mate’s band (who *nearly* made it themselves but never quite got that break) back in the day
Was a big fan back in the day, along with all the other obscure thash bands.
Their 2019 comeback album is a bit of a cracker.
http://www.worshipmetal.com/features/the-10-greatest-thrash-albums-of-2019/
Slift, Green Lung, Slomosa and Your Highness are the reason I'm there but yeah, crazy good line up.
Always Fugazi
and Bad Brains, finally got a copy of the first album on vinyl
Always Fugazi
and Bad Brains, finally got a copy of the first album on vinyl
At the minute
Cattle Decap
Hooded Menance
Conjurer
Fit for an Autopsy
Wode
And as someone has previously mentioned - Meshuggah, always Meshuggah.
"I’m 90% certain I heard Jo Wiley on the radio enthusing over Fear Innoculum (the track) when it came out, which would have been on Radio 2 since I think that’s where Jo Wiley lives now."
That's quite a lot of intensity for poor Radio 2's listeners!
The biggest chunk of my listening over the last couple years has been all the stuff I've been writing - I've got about two album's worth of stuff written on acoustic bass, recorded on my iphone (back by the noise of three small children), 30-50% of the lyrics and melodies written and now I just need to fire up the proper bass and FX, and call my drummer on the red telephone! Oh and singer stuff... So that's very niche! 😉 I hold Tool responsible for the number of time signatures in some of the songs...