After years of youtube/pandora/8tracks/spotify, I'm finally rebuilding an actual, physical music library. Only, I've outgrown my old stuff.

So! Gimme ALLLLL your music recommendations!

What kinds of music have you enjoyed?

Zodiac is a German classic rock band that has a really great retro-sound (also pretty chill guys):

Their debut album "A bit of Devil" has a very raw sound. They have since released two more albums, on which they have expanded into more "filigran" sounds.

You can't go wrong with any of the Bon Scott-era AC/DC albums and "Back in Black". "For those about to rock" and the two following albums aren't criticaly liked as much and they do have a rather weird sound, but I like them a lot and would say they are worth to be checked out.

The recent 4 Machine Head albums have been killer if you are into (rythmic) thrash metal.

Slashs solo project is amazing, first album is just called Slash and was made with many big names. Pretty **** good songs with great people. The second one was made entirely with Alter Bridges Miles Kennedy on the mic. It has a more unified sound and still amazing songs.

Speaking melodic death metal, Amon Amarth is an excellent band from sweden with a kick-ass viking theme to them

Oh and for a bit tamer thrash metal more in the very rough direction of Metallica (if more awesome and Canadian): ANNIHILATOR! The classic there is their album "Alice in Hell", but pretty much everything is at least solid and "Feast" is an excellent deal, since it includes re-recordings of pretty much all songs you'd want to know for a concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTAeD9LhILw

Maybe something here is for you, I tried to be relatively diverse. Give it a chance! If you want more apropriate suggestions, some information about your personal taste would be usefull.

Bon Iver.

Sigur Ros.

Haunting and melodic for those down beat times.

Okay, you said "all" recomendations. Here's some of the stuff I listen to. In no particular order or genre:

Korn

Subway to sally

In extremo

Parliament/Mothership connection

Rammstein

Heidevolk

Tool

Johnny Cash

Skip James

Mushroomhead

Soulfly

Luniz

Dr. Steel

Gorillaz

Disturbed

Eminem/ D12

Coal chamber

Black sabbat

Cream

Iron maiden

Nirvana

Soil

Rage against the machine

Tapping the vein

Type o negative

Tab Benoit

Metallica

Limp Bizkit

ACDC

HED pe

And I do not sugest listening them in that order- you will get auditory whiplash

Please do yourself a favour and look up Of Monsters and Men... Don't know what it is, but I'm pretty much obsessed with it.

For some reason, I'm also digging the revival of these weird, 70s (?) inspired grooviness from bands like Purson, Blood Ceremony, Christian Mistress.

Oh and Subrosa...heavy, wonderful stuff.

While i love the statement... 'there are three types of music; music you like, music you dont & music you have not heard yet'... having been a club DJ for sixteen years and ran metal clusb to goth clubs to dance clubs i could monopolise this thread without a rough idea of what you want, and what you want it for.

So rough genre/mood.

Want to get psyched up for a good night out, want to relax with friends... want music that tells a story or just four to the floor dance with a good vocal hook?

Bon Iver.

Sigur Ros.

Haunting and melodic for those down beat times.

To stay Icelandic: Agent Fresco, Olafur Arnalds

Type o negative

Listen to Type O Negative daily otherwise the ghost of Peter Steele will come back and abduct your children.

What's harder than metal? Steele.

Bon Iver.

Sigur Ros.

Haunting and melodic for those down beat times.

To stay Icelandic: Agent Fresco, Olafur Arnalds

and this:

Want something hilarious, most definitely dirty, and with an 80s hair/power metal feel to it?

Ninja Sex Party.

To paraphrase batman "music is nothing but death and crime and the rage of the beast"

To paraphrase batman "music is nothing but death and crime and the rage of the beast"

Well, not gonna argue with The Goddamn Batman.

You might be interested to see what's been going on in the roots genre lately..

How grandparents metal...

Not what you meant but your topic title reminded me of this:

Okay, you said "all" recomendations. Here's some of the stuff I listen to. In no particular order or genre:

Korn

Subway to sally

In extremo

Parliament/Mothership connection

Rammstein

Heidevolk

Tool

Johnny Cash

Skip James

Mushroomhead

Soulfly

Luniz

Dr. Steel

Gorillaz

Disturbed

Eminem/ D12

Coal chamber

Black sabbat

Cream

Iron maiden

Nirvana

Soil

Rage against the machine

Tapping the vein

Type o negative

Tab Benoit

Metallica

Limp Bizkit

ACDC

HED pe

And I do not sugest listening them in that order- you will get auditory whiplash

Are you 13 year old me?

Are you 13 year old me?

I still pretty much listen to the same stuff I did when I was teen/adolcent. It's what keeps me young. And hardly anything good came out in this century...

Are you 13 year old me?

I still pretty much listen to the same stuff I did when I was teen/adolcent. It's what keeps me young. And hardly anything good came out in this century...

If you only stick with the crap on the radio, then sure. In reality, this century has already had dozens of great albums that 99% of people will never hear or care about.

Are you 13 year old me?

I still pretty much listen to the same stuff I did when I was teen/adolcent. It's what keeps me young. And hardly anything good came out in this century...

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Dude!

Seriously?

Try this:

Agent Fresco - Destrier

Steven Wilson - Hand.cannot.erase

Porcupine Tree - all of their work

Blue October - possibly

They should be right up your alley.

Are you 13 year old me?

I still pretty much listen to the same stuff I did when I was teen/adolcent. It's what keeps me young. And hardly anything good came out in this century...

Anything Annihilator put out? Killer! Amon Amarth? Only really established themselves and perfected their sound recently! Zodiac, although I guess they aren't really known outside of Germany. The last Black Sabbath album was from another world, really, I would never have expected to hear something like that again. I listen to a lot of recent stuff.

Ok I should clear things up a bit: "And hardly anything good came out in this century..." refered to the stuff that's on the radio.

Ofcourse metal is still awesome. Back in the 90's I could at least stomach what was on the radio (possibly to that entire era being wrong and me not noticing it, and we still had Metalopolis on the radio.)

I do like some new stuff: if you look at that list (wich is not complete by a long shot btw) there's recent stuff on there to: Gorillaz (demon days was 2005) Dr. Steel is also quite recent, no? And I only learened of Tab benoit because Sons of Guns came out.

True, radio appears to become more and more trivial and nondescript. Its all either the same "feelgood" song with upbeat ukulele or uninspired synthsounds, or its some generic ballad about love or something with mostly piano and sometimes some over the top "violins" to make it "really emotional".

However I can't know wether thats any different from the past. Sure, all we remember are the Pink Floyds and Queens, but I do remember just recently my father gossiping about some 70s teen band his older sister used to be into, comparing them to Justin Bieber.

A few recent purchases...