Band recommendations for a workmate?
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Topic: Band recommendations for a workmate?
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Subject: Band recommendations for a workmate?
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2022 at 9:14pm
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Got a guy at work who's a bit curious about metal. He's into proggy stuff already, so I directed him to Prog Archives. He's also after some recommendations in the "synthwave/darksynth/synthmetal" (his words) area, which I know next to nothing about. I could recommend Deafheaven, but beyond that I'm stuck. Any ideas?
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 9:03am
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He´ll find a lot of interesting prog metal on PA, but I know exactly as little as you do about synthwave/darksynth/synthmetal", so I ain´t much help here. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Psydye
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 1:26pm
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The only band I can think of atm that comes close to that description is maybe Dope Stars Inc.? |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2022 at 10:48pm
| The metal I first got into via prog was probably Agalloch... but I already listened to the classics before that |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 4:28am
I was just talking to him today. Another friend had suggested Avenged Sevenfold, so he's trying them for a bit. Agalloch might be a bit of a stretch just yet.
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 9:34am
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Well Avenged Sevenfold doesn´t sound anything like what you suggested in your original post, but personally I like their City of Evil album. That album is a winner in my book. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 11:06am
Yeah, I know.
 He really doesn't know a lot about metal, but he's quite young and keen so I don't want to scare him off. |
UMUR wrote:Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 12:51pm
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Mastodon's Crack the Skye should be a reasonably easy going introduction to accessible proggy metal with a touch of the heavier side thrown in for good measure. That was one of my introductions to anything heavier than Iron Maiden or nu metal and was definitely an important stage in getting into some of the furthest extremities of metal. ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 1:23pm
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Most people who listen to more extreme forms of metal went through several gateway genres before reaching the most extreme end of the spectrum....hell I was once a major Bon Jovi fan and look at me now...... oh oh Livin´ on a Prayer
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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 3:30pm
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After growing up on a diet of The Beatles, I went through phases of britpop, indie rock and pop-punk and whatever other alternative rock was big in the late 90s/early 00s. Big turning point for me (amusingly enough) was the film School of Rock. Got me into classic rock, Iron Maiden etc and I have never stopped passing through gateways ever since ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 9:49pm
Oh yeah, I always forget Mastodon because I don't like 'em.  He mentioned Cult of Luna so I've recommended Neurosis and Isis. I think we're heading the right way now.
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Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2022 at 9:52pm
"Take my hand we'll make it I swear..." Soundtrack to my summer of 1987/88. And then I discovered Iron Maiden.
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 11:45am
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Yeah and I discovered Metallica...and Justice for All ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 12:48pm
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Ah, I went So Far, So Good...So What! and THEN ...And Justice For All.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 9:45pm
| If he likes Cult of Luna already there's hundreds of atmosludge bands |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2022 at 9:59pm
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Yeah, he didn't give me much to work with initially. Knowing that opened up heaps of possibilities.
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2022 at 8:26am
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People often ask me what I listen to, and I find it really difficult to explain, if they don´t already have a pretty vast understanding of heavy metal and it´s many subgenres. If I said grind, death, thrash, and doom in here, most of you would already know just about where my preferences lie, although all those subgenres also have subgenres of their own, but at least you´d have a basic understanding of it. People at work and other random people I run into don´t have the understanding that heavy metal is anything else than the big bands they know, and even artists like Volbeat, Metallica, and Guns´n´Roses sound like noise to some people . How could I even start to explain to them that there is a world of difference between an artist like Metallica and say for example an artists like Napalm Death. To them it most likely will sound like noise no matter what I put on , so I´ve given up explaining to non-metal heads what I listen to. Only those showing a genuine interest are worth spending time on. The rest...oh well they don´t know what they are missing, and most are incapable of understanding. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2022 at 10:36pm
| I had one job where we listened to music all day and my coworker didn't much like metal, oddly enough we listened to lots of The Ocean |