@GirlVersusGame@Ravix here's a couple more I'm spinning in the synth genre. PYLOT is really good. He's gotta lot of good stuff. His music sounds straight up Cyberpunk. Love it
I really love this one. Its so melodic and relaxing. Can put it on at home in silence with your feet up. Or while on a long drive in little traffic, just chilling and driving.
@Ravix Me not having seen Drive (I know) but knowing that song so very well, I've had that on my playlist for so long. I don't even know what Drives about, it's been on my must-see for a long time now.
The French one is just a regular enough French Symphonic Metal video. The theme is very normal for France, they are a lot more sexually liberated and the French culture values a lot of sensuality etc. They draw the line with dignity, if it's something the person willingly does in say advertising then it's seen as art, if it appears forced or non-consensual or if it objectifies the person then they'll censor. I like Paris for a reason, people are very open minded, it appeals to the libertine in me. I don't think you'd ever see a music video like that in England, it's a maybe, but in France that's normal enough. I remember seeing topless art in Euro Disney one year. They are always trying to crack down on sexism but as an art-form the human body generally doesn't cause many eyebrows to raise. I like how it actually tells a story, it reminds me a little of the Animals song. I think some of the best music videos tell a story, like Popular Monster too.
Obviously someone watched Underworld. I love that movie.
Halsey too, that was my online nickname for a long time.
One of the funniest Youtube comments I've ever seen. I've been returning to that video for so long and that always makes me laugh.
One last one before bed, I've always called her Metal Adelle, she can really sing.
@StitchJones I've heard the third one before that first one is going on the playlist, it feels like that singing shouldn't work with such a heavy beat but it does and really well.
@GirlVersusGame I love me some Halsey. I love the chorus on the first one. The synth, paired with her voice/lyrics and the groove that is going on here hits me in the soul for some reason. Its melodic and angelic but very upbeat at the same time. Sometimes with music this magic happens in a song (individual to the listener of course) where the sounds created just "get you" in a good way.
Or here is an example of two songs in line on the same album, the way the first one fades into the other. The first aggressive nu-metal, then it fades into a ballad. Devil wears Prada are such a great band. This is track 9, then 10 on this album. They are just magic the way they flow into each other.
@GirlVersusGame@Ravix You guys have def heard of this Australian Metal band The Amity affliction, most def right? I discovered these guys in the rabbit hole late to the party years ago, like I discovered Heaven shall burn. Those two bands after discovered I played non stop. SOme of the best finds i made the last 5yrs just rabbit hole diving on youtube for sure
@StitchJones I've seen AA so many times, I bring the weather with me and chasing ghosts are two of my favorites. It's just gone three thirty in the AM though so I'll look at the previous post after sleep too. AA are one the only new Core/Screamo-ish type newer bands that I can say I really like. Roadrunner did well signing them.
@GirlVersusGame Erm! You must watch Drive right now (whenever) It is super high on my 'actually a romance movie' movie list. It is just so sweet and genuine. Not many words spoken. No ulterior motives. Just knowing. Being.
It is disguised as a 'Crime Drama' but art-house in nature.
Hmm why did I watch those videos now 😕😕 good art! but, oh no, what's this?.. depression
These songs feel like they mean a lot to you but I don't know if i'm reading between the lines, or just being slapped with a large fish (overthinking) but then you added a third and shared a joke so i'm maybe just tired 🙃
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I'm having a "get on top of a mountain and scream to the world how amazing all music is" moment and I tagged you guys because i know you can relate.
I can indeed and I will be listening to more of these (and the million other songs that followed your initial post) throughout the day. So far, both Wayfloe and Starcadian have piqued my interest
@GirlVersusGame Anna Murphy era Eluveitie! I saw them play on a double bill with Lacuna Coil in Oslo in 2019 - the last concert I saw for a long time due to lockdown - , sadly without Murphy (but I saw her, her fantastic Hurdy-Gurdy and her new band, Cellar Darling, in Dublin a few years later)
i will make a norwegian music post with some bangers and some stunners. First out is Sudan Dudan with Susann. Folk music with guitar and langeleik. Second is Conception with Roy Khan on the vocals. 3 will be Turbonegro with some punky stuff. and finally some ambient with Alania, a unknown band from the northern parts of Norway
@StitchJones That's the first time I heard Devil Wears Prada in years. A lot of the Halsey songs I like are from her Badlands album. It's one of those what I call perfect albums because I skip no songs and continue through the whole thing in one sitting. It's very mood specific though. Deeply meaningful but not what you'd want to listen to on a bad day. I think people naturally see parts of themselves in music, maybe it's something the mind does automatically. I just know my ears enjoy a band like Slayer but I've never been able to personally relate with those songs. I don't think God hates us all, and a song like Angel of Death absolutely tells a story. I've been to Auchwitz and after that I never listened to that song again. I tried but as it ramped up I felt my heart ramp up too. They are one of those bands that I don't have a favorite album of, more like a mix of a couple. I'm not being sexist but maybe it's an angry young man thing? Slayer says punch a wall and Halsey says punch a pillow. Melanie Martinez is similar, I'll listen but then sort of reel myself back in.
My favorite from Badlands.
Probably my second favorite.
Third favorite.
Meanings change with personal understanding too. I thought this one was about something else until I did look a little into faith. I still don't know the meaning of some of my favorite songs. Halsey is just very visceral in a way,
Control is really good too. Maybe it's just the whole album that's very relatable, I don't know any other artist like her. They say modern music can be terrible, she's not. I don't even remember how I found her music.
@GirlVersusGame I've seen a lot of bands in Dublin. The reason being a tour will usually end there. Most of the RoadRunner bands start in America, head through Europe, the UK then finish there. It's not that it's a party town (although I have stories, I can't share) logistically it makes sense to end there then head back across the Atlantic. For many bands I did that London to Dublin jump. There's an image of bands partying every night on tour, maybe years ago. Now so many of them are older and spend more time lifting weights than downing alcohol. City to city, country to country can destroy your sleep schedule etc very quickly. But when it came to Dublin people let loose. Do you know I've never seen Lacuna Coil live? Every time they played even at a festival I never made it to that stage. I discovered NightWish first. I listened to them when I wasn't even double digits, they had that storybook quality about them, I didn't know what Metal even was. They are one of my top ten favorite bands of all time, then Lacuna Coil, then Within Temptation. In that order.
I've probably listened to Comalies more than most other albums. After those three it was Leaves Eyes (like a tree leaf I always assumed) and then Arch Enemy. Eluveitie came much later, a tour manager kept telling me about them and hyping me up, he said not to listen to them online but to wait for the show. I waited three weeks, patiently, he was right. They absolutely blew me away, I don't know any other band who is that diverse in instruments and in range and in vocals. That's the great thing about European Metal there are so many cultural aspects and instruments, I never found that with something like Rock on the Range, Wacken is another world. Ghost is another band I keep missing live, every time something came up. That tour manager did the hype thing with another band, you won't know them but I'll share.
So this is Hell and I'm not sure what to say about them. He hyped me up on 'wait till you hear these guys', for weeks I was hyped. You've probably heard of Andy Sneap? He's worked with Testament, Exodus, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Opeth, Amon Amarth, and so many more. Producing, mixing etc. I think you just have to hear them to understand, they really are something else. They also blow a bible up in stage for a particular song, I had military grade ear-plugs for that. There's a kind of stage performance that goes with their shows, like Alice Cooper but more demonic. The album is called Human Remains.
@ Ravix I'll get to Drive eventually, maybe after the barrage of really bad Christmas horror movies. I think some awful killer gingerbread man one is next. It's a romance movie? I thought he was a get-away driver or a fixer like The Transporter.
These songs feel like they mean a lot to you but I don't know if i'm reading between the lines, or just being slapped with a large fish (overthinking) but then you added a third and shared a joke so i'm maybe just tired.
I think most music I listen to means something to me, sometimes lyrics say things people can't. That's how I looked at music from the start and maybe I got my wires crossed and should look at it in a different way but my attitude was always that music is always there for a person and people aren't. If you press play it's always there, you aren't overthinking you are absolutely correct. Except for that French Metal one, I don't want to ice-pick random French men. I didn't notice myself until I looked at a playlist with almost 500 songs and as I scrolled down it each title when put together actually formed sentences, it is what it is. Maybe cathartic would be the right term, it's not something I want it's something I need. Music is a kind of glue.
@StitchJones Oh I mean I do know Devil Wears Prada, I just hadn't listened to them in years. Underoath, Senses Fail, Escape the Faith and Hawthorne Heights always had more plays. An album like Their Only Chasing Safety became something that just devoured so much of my listening time. I was learning piano and cello one day then sneaking away and blasting my ears out with that the next, I still love classical music but I've never touched a guitar, only the plastic video-game kind.
I was aware of others like Devil Wears Prada, Bayside, Thursday, Anberlin, and so many others. I eventually had access to all of the Screamo/Emo catalogues but I found it hard to move away from Underoath/Senses Fail/Escape the Faith. The odd thing is that out of all bands Escape the Faith did sort of grow with me, their lead singer did his prison time and then reinvented himself with Falling in Reverse. His music has been with me my whole life.
I can hear him in his earlier work and know it's the same person but he went through a kind of metamorphosis of maturity, this song still sounds mature to me though. Becoming a Dad probably helped that change too, his daughter features in some of his videos.
@GirlVersusGame when i discovered AA years ago, its was during a rabbit hole dive on youtube. They were already established. I believe it was right before their last 2 albums. In '19 so that would have been right before "everyone leaves you....once you leave them" album. I was blown away. The mix of really heavy nu-metal, the melodic choruses and bridges. The way the can infuse melodic progressions into the heavy parts as well. And their whole band theme being about depression, addiction, suicide and stuff. They were very intriguing on top their songs being so freaking good. I guess their music speaks to me too, since I have hereditary depression and have been on meds since a teenager (over 30yrs now).
And they didn't fall off, seemed to get better with age. The song "not without my ghosts" on their latest album.....holy F that song hit me right in the soul first time I heard it. Still get chills to that song. Esp the part Phem sings. They are just a great band.
The chorus of "give it all", these lyrics....
"I give it all, and when I fall
I get up and give some more
Until there's nothing left of me
Just some bones stacked on the floor"
Prob most powerful set of lyrics I ever heard IMO only of course. I wanted to try and incorporate that chorus in my next tattoo somehow after i heard that years ago, but unfortunately its just too damn long lmao hahaha
as far as devil wears prada. they were yet another rabbit hole discovery from youtube for me as well, years ago. But they are awesome in their own way. Much more straight forward band then AA, but still pretty epic. They have a great sense of being Heavy as F and melodic as well. I love bands with the duel singers. The growler and the "dude with girl voice" to balance things out. Genius use of harmonizing in music to me is what makes a song really special
@GirlVersusGame I've seen Lacuna Coil three times, should have been four, but I had to give the one a month ago a miss due to health issues, which is still bumming me out.
The best one was in 2012 where they first played a decent electric set, then took a short break before Christina and the guitarist (can't remember who played guitars back then) sat alone on stage for an acoustic set and then they finished off with another electric set. Check out the brilliant setlist here. Easily one of my top three favourite concerts. It was a small, intimate venue as well, which I love more than the big festival venues
I haven't been to any gigs this year but have already got my first lined up for next year when I'm going to see The Wonder Years play in Bristol.
I don't know why but I never followed them too closely in the past but have been listening to the couple of albums I have a fair bit recently and saw that the tour is for the 10th anniversary of No Closer to Heaven which I didn't have. I've been listening to it loads since the reissue came out and it's one hell of an album with such amazing lyrics.
This is one in particular that hits hard every time which is about a friend of the singer's who died from a drug overdose, particularly the lyric "I'm sure there ain't a heaven but that don't mean i don't like to picture you there"
@GirlVersusGame Understood. And yes, cathartic is the word. I think I just want to make sure whether I ever need to tread carefully or shut the fudge up when I see these things standing out so clearly in the music shared, as we know they ain't light topics and i'm like an emotional bull in a china shop, shall we say.
The french one I didn't even know there was a metal one, I thought the French one was like the folky jig with the guy and girl frolicking about, so I missed the other one, clearly 😅 but yes, no ice picks for you.
But the Maroon 5 one and then that one right after it. I was like. 'Damn' 'Fudge' and also 'expletive'! Some people maybe just see the music, but both you and Tjuz have recently shared ones that hit me like a brick within seconds and I don't want to be overprotective or like "are you okay?" Every damn time, because well... I don't know if I should say this, F***! i'll say it anyway. Etc etc and yeah, that one really spoke to me, too. Knowing they are cathartic to you is good, so I will try to avoid thinking is this someone reaching out looking for help right the fudge now? I think i mentioned that is how me and one person in particular used to communicate with other people's music and lyrics, and that could get very, very messy. But when those words kind of describe something you are going through or have gone through, well, you know. My goddamn sensors are tripping haywire. But yeah, i'm doing it too, posting things relating to my past, and stuff that is cathartic to me both then and now. And the release is a good thing, hahahahaahahah extended laugh etc.
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