Bands suggestions too, curious what folks are into!
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Yeah I though I was gonna outgrow metal.
Boy was I wrong.
I graduated to progressive metal at some point, and I don’t think I’ll leave any time soon.
That’s where I started and ended up staying alllll of these years 😁
Progressive metal
- Sleep Token
- Long Distance Calling
- Audrey Fall
- Brutus
- Countless Skies
- Before the Dawn
- Dawn of Solace
- Exquirla
- Merrow
- Primordial
- Psychonaut
- Rishloo
- Soen
- Somali Yacht Club
- Tides from Nebula
- Villagers of Ioanninan City
- Wheel
- Greta Van Fleet
- Persefone
Dang I only really recognize Sleep Token, Soen, and Persefone from this list. All S-tier bands, I’ll have to check out the rest.
Pardon my ignorance. What is S-tier bands?
I meant S-tier as in ranking. If you look at tier lists on the internet, they will often rank things using letters. I was basically just saying that I consider them to be bands of the highest tier, I’ve attached a link to show you what I mean.

+1 for Sleep Token. Amazing band, love their latest album TMBtE.
I just discovered them recently on a spotify suggestion. So glad. Sometimes things just work out. It’s a numbers game. I’ve probably turned away 95% of what spotify recommends. I’ve had premium for a decade and the discover weekly playlist is still hit or miss. Sometimes I see a pattern, like every other week there may be a good song.
Genres are for normies
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The PetroDragronic Apocalypse is one of the best records I’ve heard in some time, from any band, in any genre.
I can’t stop listening to it. To add, I’m not really a fan of any of their other records. They’re clearly good, just doesn’t resonate with me as much as this one does.
Moooottorr…
…Spiiiriiiit……
Mostly sea shanties, Irish rebel songs, and Kesha.
That’s a heady trio. Good lad
Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Neil Young, Beck, Prince
Have you listened to Lord Huron? They are a modern band playing a traditional rock style, and they have a deep love for Neil Young
This is their most popular album, I think:
I’d say I used to listen to metal, but nowadays, I still listen to metal lol. Huge fan of Progressive Metal/Djent/Thall bands. Not much into Deathcore/Doom Metal lately however.
At work tho, I tend to listen to a lot of instrumental stuff and genres vary greatly: mathrock, jazz, electronic, game/movie OSTs, blues, fusion, and among others.
During drives, mainly depends on the mood, but mostly revolves around the above given genres.
To name a few artists, I usually listen to the below (in random order):
- Jakub Zytecki
- Chon
- Plini
- Periphery
- Necrophagist (when r u guys coming back 😔)
- Dirty Loops
- Up Dharma Down
- Joji
- Tycho
- Sleep Token
- Lorna Shore
- Tom Misch
Would love to share some more, but these are what I thought of at the moment.
I just learned about the circles people run in at metal shows.
Ever listen to the ocean?
Woah, I’ve actually been to a Chon show. Totally didn’t expect to see that band pop up in this thread
Lucky! How were they upfront? I’ve only seen their live shows on YouTube.
They were great. I think it was around 2015-2016, and I still have a Chon pin from the show too!
My first love is Hip Hop but I love lots of genres Funk, Soul, Jazz, Electronic, House, Techno, Dreampop, Ambient, Balearic, Indie/Alternative - I’m probably missing something 😊. I’ve even setup some communities here on Lemmy for my music genres that I love.
Some of my favourite artists:
- Mount Kimbie
- The xx
- J Dilla
- Flying Lotus
- Larry Heard/Mr Fingers
- The Avalanches
- Khruangbin
- Beach House
- Toro Y Moi
- Erykah Badu
- Miles Davis
- Four Tet
- Leon Vynehall
- Jonny Nash
EDIT: Adding City Pop genre as well since I saw another user comment that
2nd EDIT: Oh and Reggae, Dub too!
3rd EDIT: Okay I keep adding artists thinking I can’t believe I left such and such off haha I’ll stop now!
Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.
But lately I’ve been on a classical music kick.
If you don’t already know, Billy Joel has a deep love for classical music, and in interviews talks about how it influenced his pop/rock songs
a few recommendations:
Djent/Core:
- Architects
- Spiritbox
- Jinjer
- Polaris
- Periphery
- Dayseeker
- Holding Abscence
Prog:
- Leprous
- Wheel
- Vola
- Animals as Leaders
- Haken
- TesseracT
almost exclusively electronic music, just can’t seem to get enough of it. (ambient, downtempo, drum & bass, dub, electro, glitch, goa trance, house, idm, psybass, psychill, psytrance, synthwave, techno). I’d be happy to try to give recommendations of any of these if you ask.
also love funk like Parliament/Funkadelic and some electronic focused jambands like STS9 & Lotus
What are some of your ambient recommendations? I was just listening to Tim Hecker’s Konoyo, also dig stuff like Global Communication, Boards of Canada, Grouper, Human Mesh Dance, Stars of the Lid, Biosphere.
Really into a electronic psychedelic cumbia genre that goes by Psicodelica Selvática (and other names) : Dengue Dengue Dengue!, Chancha Via Circuito, Yeahman, Son Rompe Pera, El Remolón’s Selva really hits the spot too.
I prefer my ambient to have a psychedelic aspect to it instead of just pure drone, so probably my favorite ambient artist is Ishq, namely his albums Orchid, Sama, And Awake, Bloom, and Lotus. Sinepearl and Chandanam are also artists that have a similar sound to Ishq. also check out Woob’s Repurpose album
getting into more of the psybient/psychill genre than pure ambient, mostly everything on Ultimae Records is gold imo (Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Cell, H.U.V.A. Network, Sync24, etc.)
Spacebass over on my end : G Jones, EPROM, Alix Perez, Ivy Lab, Of The Trees, Chee, Tsuruda, ISOxo, Culprate, Lab Group
This song has been on solid repeat for me lately GATZB - Get Down
Somehow I missed all the good 2000s emo music, but love it now.
Have you listened to Spitalfield? If not the album remember right now by them from 2002 is well worth a listen.
I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Here’s a smattering of stuff off the top of my head.
Drum & Bass, Breaks, Glitch-Hop, Ghetto Funk, Dubstep, Ambient
Artists: Danny Byrd, Sub Focus, Teebee, Noisia, Phace, Logistics, WBBL, Evol Intent, High Contrast, Tonic, Featurecast, Calibre, Slynk, John B, Calyx, Metrik, Commix, CMC & Silenta, Pimpsoul, Future Funk Squad, A.Skillz, Krafty Kuts, Deekline, Plump DJs, Klute, The Prodigy, Pressure, Chemical Brothers, Boards of Canada, Caribou, Jon Hopkins, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Samples, Stanton Warriors, Concord Dawn, Bobby C Sound TV, The Breakfastaz, The Funk Hunters, Defunk, Freddy Todd, Gramatik, GRiZ, Sub Focus, ill-esha, Gladkill, JPOD, Kalya Scintilla, Spor, K+Lab, Netsky, Opiuo, Mochipet, Stephan Jacobs, Rusko, DJ Food, VibeSquad, Father Funk, Beats Antique, Dillinja, Spoonbill, Skream, Russ Liquid, Benga, Pastician, Digital Mystikz, N Type, Beat Fatigue, Minnesota, Pinch, Big Gigantic, Psymbionic, Caspa, Phaeleh, Orbital, Scuba, Loefah, Goth-Trad, Adam Freeland, Thriftworks, DJ Shadow, Stickybuds, Funkanomics, Coki, Starkey, Vaccine, Nero, Joker, Phutureprimitive, Amon Tobin, Black Sun Empire, Nu:Tone, Ed Rush, Optical, Shy FX
Trip-Hop
Artists: Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, UNKLE, Portishead, Morcheeba, Leftfield, Groove Armada, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Sneaker Pimps, Nightmares on Wax
Hip-Hop
Artists: Blockhead, Wax Tailor, RJD2, Abilities, Mos Def, Gift of Gab, Sage Francis, Wu-Tang Clan, Eyedea, Aesop Rock, MF Doom, Run the Jewels, Tonedeff, A Tribe Called Quest, Cunninlynguists, Nas, Substantial, The Roots, Dead Prez, Black Star, Digable Planets, PackFM, Talib Kweli, Smif-n-Wessun, The Notorious B.I.G., Warren G, Immortal Technique, Big Pun, Murs, Hieroglyphics
Post-Electronic Pop/Rock type shit? Dream Pop? Indie Pop? I have no idea.
Artists: Elder Island, Haelos, Alex Winston, London Grammar, Maribou State, MS MR, Warpaint, RY X, Rhye, Parra for Cuva, Bleachers, Zero 7, Aurora, Phox, Lucius, Alt-J
Folk, Folk Rock, Americana
Artists: James Taylor, Bon Iver, Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Patty Griffin, Peter, Paul and Mary, Willie Nelson, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Lord Huron, Hozier, Shakey Graves, Nanci Griffith, Ray Lynch, Neil Young, Daughter, The Milk Carton Kids, I’m with Her, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers
Progressive Rock (Maybe kinda, sorta Metal?)
Artists: Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Gazpacho, The Flower Kings, Kolm, Steven Wilson, Airbag, Lunatic Soul, Riverside, Soen, Haken, Blackfield, King Crimson, Leprous, Pink Floyd, Rishloo, Katatonia, Dredg, Rush, Opeth, Rpwl, Jethro Tull, Chroma Key, Karnivool
Tool
Artist: Tool
Mostly it’s different subgenres of rock and metal (like 70% of all comments here. Seriously, I’ve never met so many ppl that listen to my favorite music in one place xD).
I kinda have a few moods. For the “fun and energetic” mood I have hard rock and heavy metal, for the “my job is f*cking me and I don’t like it” I have nu metal and some other things that sound angry, for the “fancy” I have a strange mix of P!atD, Franz Ferdinand, some songs that are creepy/sad but sound happy (“I can’t decide”, “Don’t fear the Reaper”, “To The Sea”) and steampunk/dark cabaret/murder song bands (Voltaire, Coppelius, the Cog is Dead, American Murder Song)
Deep House. It’s basically distraction free version of House.
anything you recommend? looking for more artists like those on Naked Music Recordings (Blue Six, Miguel Migs, Lisa Shaw, Aya, etc.)
Sorry this might disappoint you but I usually just listen on The Good Life Radio https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=36YnV9STBqc












