@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Fair enough! For what it’s worth, I think that’s pigeonholing this soundtrack a bit but I also wouldn’t argue that it’s not metal, so here we are 😂 If your path ever does wander that direction, it may be worth keeping in mind.
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C.S. Lewis
@BowTiesAreCool Alkaline Trio is a band that's featured quite heavily here, in other words Ravix and I never shut-up about them, especially Burn. I think we talked about them until four in the morning once, Underoath too of course. If you scroll back there's lots of Screamo/Emo/Metal/Heavy Rock/Etc.
@Metonymy They are great live, it's not your first time? I've seen their Christmas album live too, like a lot of bands I didn't know at the time they were Christian and the same for Skillet. I knew Flyleaf was because I'd read Lacy Strum's book (her story is amazing, I don't know if you know it?) but it took hearing Skillet stop to talk about God until I realized. Underoath too, I didn't know they were Christian and I'd been listening to them my whole life and had no reference point for religion. They tend not to talk about God when they tour Europe or England, that goes for a lot of Metal bands of the same genre but when I did find God in my own way Skillet was the one that became more relatable. I'd originally thought their lyrics were about a person or people in general, then they slipped through the language barrier and their songs that I'd been listening to for years formed a whole new dimension. I think that connection to the music and to the industry made it even easier to understand faith, I've seen so many bands backstage do their own kinds of mini rituals before they go on but bands like Skillet were actually praying and they meant it, I never registered it properly at the time, now I get it.
That's the same show from their live album, I've logged quite a few listens.
@johncalmc I knew I recognized that name, I heard her recently through Max Winters. He's a producer from London, he experiments a lot with jazz and pop, he's been around a while now but is still relatively unknown. He's sort of ambient/experimental, he showed up again today on my Friday mix.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
Indeed, @BowTiesAreCool and I think we are now close friends by default via a shared interest in The Witcher and musical tastes 😛 Feel free to share some random music here, though, or just mention some artists, and people will probably surprise you. A few of us here had a similar moment with UnderØath a few months ago where we had the same feeling of shock and surprise. Now... nothing will surprise me here 😄
(It seems we've reeled another in for the Push Square Emo Club, @GirlVersusGame 🎣 soon we will be an unstoppable force muahaha)
Maybe it's finally time for some Silverstein. I'll get posting some later, perhaps.
@GirlVersusGame I’ve definitely seen them live, they’re one of my favourite bands. I wish I was seeing them tomorrow but I was merely referencing their new album drop today 😄 I’ve never really viewed them as a Christian band as they don’t market themselves as such.
I have a real soft spot for Skillet, despite my natural aversion to the Christian band label. ‘Collide’ and ‘Comatose’ are genuinely great albums. It’s pretty cool to hear how your interpretation of their lyrics evolved upon learning of their faith. Personally, I rejected Christianity within the environment that I grew up in and was an apathetic agnostic for most of my life but these days, as you know, I have a lot more patience and understanding for people expressing their faith and, like you, appreciate the deeper spiritual context.
Headed to see Metric again at the end of the month so that’ll be my big live band of the year with how prices are these days. Really wanted to see The Smashing Pumpkins this fall but prices were ridiculous out the gate. I’ll keep an eye on it though. They are incredible live and I’d hate to miss it.
@ravix I was going through all of my hoodies the other day…Anberlin, Chiodos, The Used, Underoath, Senses Fail… definitely tells a story 😂
It must officially be Summer because I just got my Spring recap and it doesn't surprise me for my top track but the album does. I discovered Poets of The Fall through the soundtrack for Control, upon hearing it in the game I immediately went to Spotify to find it, the same for 'Take Control' by Old Gods of Asgard. The moment when I first heard Take Control was one of the most memorable of the game, I hope the second game has the same focus on music and score.
@Metonymy I think had it not been for Skillet it wouldn't have happened, they were the right reference point at the right time. They weren't preachy, they said it like it was and channeled their energy into their words and into their music. Something clicked, I used music a lot to explore and learn about the world, I didn't think it would ever lead to a discovery like that. Oddly enough my personal trainer mentioned them recently, they don't listen to Metal but bands like Skillet have made it into gym culture because of their attitude to push through/keep going/etc. It was the first time we had a proper discussion about music, perhaps they were the doorway to Metal for a lot of other people. I need to give Metric some listens. I just tried and I have heard them before from Scott Pilgram, this track. I haven't seen The Smashing Pumpkins yet, I think I got into them too late. It would have been their track from The Saint (Val Kilmer movie set in Moscow) then I think Batman and Robin.
The same movie introduced me to Duran Duran, it's still my favorite of theirs. The label keeps playing musical chairs with it on Spotify, I think all that's currently up is a live version.
@Ravix (It seems we've reeled another in for the Push Square Emo Club, 🎣 soon we will be an unstoppable force muahaha)
The 'it's happening' gif from The Office, picture that. I'm looking forward to those Silverstein shares. I haven't given them much listens other than Discovering The Waterfront and Shipwreck in The Sand. I don't know if you know Lights?
You probably won't know her other work, she's kind of obscure and Canadian (no offense Metonymy) I just mean I haven't heard her much in England/Europe, only online. She collaborated with Silverstein for that track.
Fun fact the astronaut in the video is played by her Father.
@Metonymy ah, band hoodies. What a poser 😛 hopefully they tell a story of a youth well spent?
@GirlVersusGame I have not heard of Lights, no. As with most music I like to find the most raw, old and crappy stuff (the early stuff - the best stuff) and those usually become my favourite as they are the most real, and with Silverstein it is the same. It seemed like Lights would be like Moby with the first few seconds, but then it became something more europop. First impression I like the music more than the vocals, she needs more gravel and pain in her diet 😛 but overall it sounds good)
Silverstein dump:
Red Light Pledge
(This is the real gooooood sh**, now. I Should have started with these. Skip forward to these, maybe. This is the kind of stuff that makes the emo witcher playlist - which I still haven't fully compiled - but it is basically songs that Book Geralt would definitely listen to when sulking about Yen, or generally being a moody c***, or just songs that fit lyrically to the themes of the books or games. Yes, I am that sad. Thoigh it is very much done with tongue-in-cheek humour. But also I can relate to it, so it also appeals to me 😁 ah, just read the books and you will see what I mean, and also understand what I meant when I said volatile relationships, and that not being necessarily the type of volatile you thought I meant that one time.)
Forever and a Day
Bleeds No More (3 versions)
Also it is the best song with a random Fight Club sample in it.
Smashed Into Pieces
Giving Up
(Didn't know they had music videos 😳😳)
Discovering The Waterfront is good.
Your Sword vs My Dagger
Smile In Your Sleep
Ides of March
Fist Wrapped in Blood
(At this point I'm realising I may just be posting everything from DTW, tbh)
Discovering The Waterfront
My Heroine
Already Dead
Call It Karma
I'll stop now. Honestly though, if people listen to these tracks with The Witcher in mind, they will get it.
Same as this:
This one is pretty 'on the nose' with the first line 😅 but you get the idea with that. (Read/Listen to the books 😄)
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Love me some Massive Attack! I first became aware of them back in the pre-historic times known as "the 90s" when they hit it big with "Unfinished Sympathy", which I adore, but it wasn't until I heard "Angel" in Guy Ritchie's "Snatch" that I got into them proper. "Mezzanine" is a fantastic album!
Always love me some Charli. This one didn't set the world alight anywhere I feel, but I think it's just such a great song. Nothing about this song that isn't amazing.
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN hehehe, I'm not anywhere near where I know every lyric to every song by heart, but that did sound familiar, so I'm guessing it's from a track on either "Mezzanine" or, more likely, "Blue Lines" as those are the ones I typically listen to
@GirlVersusGame Apologies for the delayed response, it’s been a crazy week. I had some big thing typed up and lost it when the page annoyingly refreshed. I’ve tried to find my way back into it but haven’t had the time to fully articulate my response in a clear and thoughtful manner. Getting to it now, I can’t escape the feeling that the moment has passed. Again, my apologies.
@Ravix After touring in a band and intimately understanding how critical merch sales are, I decided that I’d only wear band shirts and hoodies going forward. Only well into adulthood have I finally started to expand my wardrobe 😂
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C.S. Lewis
@Metonymy Apologies for the delayed response, it’s been a crazy week. I had some big thing typed up and lost it when the page annoyingly refreshed. I’ve tried to find my way back into it but haven’t had the time to fully articulate my response in a clear and thoughtful manner. Getting to it now, I can’t escape the feeling that the moment has passed. Again, my apologies.
No apologies necessary now I think I'm the late one because I still haven't looked at the listings for Summer Game Fest or the other ones and I'm not sure who else I missed in notifications anymore. I told Ravix already but I got really sick at the Grand Prix. A lot of carbon dust and vehicle fuel got inside my system and they had to put something inside (I don't know what but afterwards it hurt) to wash my lungs out, I spent the week after that recovering, it's almost lifted thankfully. How was your show? I forget the name but they were the same band from Scott Pilgrim, also you said I think Senses Fail to Ravix? Still Searching and Let it Unfold You are up there as my favorites.
@Ravix I'm just going to listen to Discovering The Waterfront I think, I appreciate the mountain of course but I think if I go all in at once I can follow the theme of the album too. Smile in Your Sleep will always be my favorite but I didn't know the meaning until recently. He had a nightmare that he murdered his girlfriend and so wrote a song about it, hard to remove the meaning not, but such a great song.
Random music incoming.
Poppy from her favorite album of mine Negative Spaces. She usually blends a lot of Metal but this is more upbeat and I think quite brilliant, to my ears at least.
Saint Vice's 'Worship', Lifestyle but Metal. He's growing on me.
Cyndr, also Lifestyle, I'd never in a billion years Switch but it's a great song.
I don't meet a lot of French rappers because there is such a divide between cultures and Paris is a kind of hub for so many communities. I do like listening to various ones but it's not like London where they blend in the bigger scene. I met this man recently in Paris, the difference is he's Russian and raps in French because he lives there, he was really friendly and it's looking like I might attend a show. His ink is beautiful too, highly relatable with the familiarity but like most big guys a Teddy Bear.
Another one I met in the wild as they say, originally from Tunisia so he's popular among Arab listeners, also friendly and once I gave his work a listen this one really stood-out. I think it's the way the piano drives the tempo, I learned only classical style so any kind of infused beat like that instantly catches my ear. I know there was an early Eminem track that did something similar but I don't remember the name.
For @Metonymy I can never forget this video and now neither can you.
@Ravix Sumerian Records just released this weekend from IMMINENCE, you might appreciate the theme of the video.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame Sorry to hear that, I’m glad to hear your recovery is nearing the end. Based your brief description, all I can think of is the movie ‘The Abyss’ and the fluid they put in the lungs.
The Metric show is at the end of the month so still very much looking forward to that. ‘Still Searching’ is a stone cold classic. I’ve seen Senses Fail live 3 times now and they are always a good time, even if Buddy’s been the only consistent member. I have a real soft spot for ‘Renacer’ as well.
Yes, I won’t be forgetting that video anytime soon. I spent the first half of the video wondering what in the world he was going to do with that bow and, I’m not really sure what else I was expecting, but I suppose it paid off. 😂
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” -C.S. Lewis
@Metonymy Thank you and actually I haven't watched the Abyss in so long, I'm surprised there hasn't been a remake. People forget how alien the deep-sea actually is. We know and have charted 0.001% of the Earth's seafloor, when you consider the Planet is seventy percent water? that's really nothing. I've done some depths but nothing too crazy, there could be anything down there. That's why I like astronomy, there are more possibilities for exploring space than those extreme crush depths.
I'll have to listen to some more Metric, I was doing my usual listen of Billy Talent recently. I'm sure I said it before but Afraid of Heights is and always will be one of those rare perfect albums for me, not one song is skippable. You can laugh but Canadian energy is different when it comes to Rock and Metal, it balances something that I don't see in other regions. I don't think I've seen Senses Fail live yet, I think I was supposed to at some big Vegas thing last-year or perhaps a year before, I can't remember why we didn't go but is was a huge Screamo/Metalcore/Emo/Hardcore line-up. I'm sure it was memorable.
Bad Omens. Possibly their best work.
Halsey, still my favorite album of hers.
One of my favorite Sabaton tracks. It's about commemorating the Soviet defense against the Reich's advance in the Winter of 1941. They had 1.25 million troops and we 1.9 million. They held the technological and tactical edge but our counter-offensive overwhelmed and was superior. My Dad often talked about that battle, he understood military tactics and history. I think he would have found the band interesting. The first time I saw them live the tour-manager knew I'd never heard them before, for days he said not to listen until the show. Naturally that made me curious and he was right, they quickly became one of my favorite bands to see live. I don't know any others who bring a tank onto the stage and they are one of the friendliest Metal bands I know of. Most Swedish are but they are extra, and really good with crowd engagement.
Maybe their second favorite song of mine. I've seen them open with it so many times, it's the kind of song that gets a crowd pumped. It's about the 588th Night Bomber Regiment the Night Witches. Witches because they were an exclusive all-female Soviet aviation unit that used stealth and decimated enemy bombing positions in WW2.
One of their best performances of Panzerkampf, and one of my favorite festivals to attend. I rarely miss Wacken Open Air, that songs about the armored clashes on the Eastern Front. It highlights the Battle of Kursk (Battle of Prokhorovka) which took place in July and August 1943. This battle resulted in an unsuccessful enemy offensives. We gained the advantage on the Eastern Front, which was held until the end of the war. I like songs that honor and commemorate history, I know of few other bands who do it so well. I like learning about history in general.
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