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As a Prog Purist myself, this is 100% accurate
I used to be one or some or all of these.
But some time in the 2010s, or rather over the course of the last 10-15 years, i stopped listening to music by genre and started listening to music by what made me feel good. Like, my phone is filled with music from so many different genres now i can’t really call myself anything in terms of music subculture. I’m a music “generalist”? I listen to anything that sounds good to me and don’t cut myself off from any genre just because it is said genre.
Except pop.
fuck pop.
Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)
My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it
Why kind of metal is Hoobastank?
Random question - anyone know a good site to buy digital music that pays the artists somewhat decently? I’ve got a few artists I need to get albums from after bailing on Spotify and they aren’t on Bandcamp and don’t has album sales linked to their official sites. Hell, even physical copies of some albums are hard to come by in the US.
I saw “7Digital” mentioned somewhere but I see there multiple listings for the same album at different prices (literally the exact same album, exact same quality) which makes me suspect it’s not as legit as I had hoped.
I use tidal - they get a much better chunk out of the profits. There’s another new one out there but I can’t recall it’s nsm
It seems Tidal is streaming only. There is Qobuz but I hear them mentioned by people looking for Hi-Fi. Their streaming service seems to pay higher than average.
I guess I’ll just have to assume the compensation is decent for digital purchases as well. Having Hi-Fi audio quality doesn’t hurt - I can always transcode it if I need to stream or convert it if I need to cram it in a small storage device.
I tend to use Bandcamp, they have a thing on the first Friday of every month where they give a bigger cut to artists if you buy that day.
Edit: Just realised you said you couldn’t find the band on Bandcamp, oops.
I’ve been called out as the gatekeeper :( . Though I do occasionally delve into darker electronic genres like dark ambient or some DnB.
Join the rest of us gatekeepers, you know, unless you are a poser, or something: !thrashmetal@lemmy.world !heavymetal@lemmy.world
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Metal peaked with the first three black sabbath albums.
Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath is everything you need to know about metal.
^ Classic Metal Purist
Dude, volume 4 is a masterpiece, with the exception of FX, which is just Iommi stoned out his mind and fucking with his pedalboard. There’s a really good rehash of it done by several artists calls Volume 4 Redux.
The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal is outstanding. Bands like Haunt (Eric Church), Night Demon, witchcraft and Green Lung are all amazing, have solid sized libraries and are great starting points into other stuff
There are also really cool metal bands out there like Panopticon - he combines black metal and bluegrass with strongly anticapitalistic lyrics.
Dude, as someone who moved on from metal after the Black Album (completely pigeonholed classic purist), I’m so amazed you have turned me on to 4 bands all of which I really like on first listen. Thank you so much for giving metal a new lease on life for me! I didn’t know anyone was making really good thrashy stuff like this any more.
Try using gnoosic.com to suggest new artists. Its surprisingly old, but uses an algorithm. The algorithm predates AI by like a decade or something - it’s just someone’s nerdy pet project. It’s recommended me bands that have 25 monthly listeners lol.
Clicking on the ‘listeners also liked’ thing on your streaming service is also a good way to find bands.
prog purist here. Dream Theater? ewww
I was never really into prog, i like some songs, but i would have a hard time to name 10 prog bands. I had no idea dream theatre was even considered prog rock.
The classic is just a subgenre of dad.
I think that Dad is the casual version of Classic.
I’m the “it’s all metal” guy.
Classic / Dad
Especially ‘metal died after 1991’.
Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.
I snorted.
The prog purist makes your point to be honest.
Commenting to come back later and check out some of the filth you heathens are into
Electric Callboy and Ghost.
muhahahaha
I heard people say that ghost is metal for people who don’t like metal and i can’t stop thinking about it.
Sorry I listen to mostly metalcore
cant find myself, garbage list obv.
Trivium, killswitch (with Howard Jones), and dio are all great. Metallica sucks.
Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) band Light the Torch?
