The Music Thread

Here is a couple bands that have struck my fancy lately.

Mastodon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aw1WnNVcYw

In This Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03X0B6u-AxM

Avatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxkWGBQoYvI

@pyroth309 - got a chance to check out "Sons of Texas", and while the opening track had me hopeful, the distinct Nickelback-ish sound of the 2nd track just ruined it for me :disappointed:

@wildt - Yea fair enough. The album is kind of a mixed bag. It's their debut album and they're all young. I'm interested to see which direction they go on the followup.

Here's a few of my Melodeath favs. 

Mors Principium Est
https://youtu.be/mlAQ0k1ZXfA
Dark Tranquillity
https://youtu.be/GZqfH1LQEOQ
Allegaeon
https://youtu.be/xixI-q5wFpg
Be'lakor
https://youtu.be/Izaxvm9dK_k
Omnium Gatherum
https://youtu.be/qHZ7FLxchQ0
Kalmah
https://youtu.be/rRsdU-kh_pw
Insomnium
https://youtu.be/vBZ5SLJmfdw

Really really good stuff there @pyroth309

I suppose now is a good time to drop some Napalm Death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRUzqHTNh8


I love that the video has over 5 million views, and I especially love all the "Jim Carrey brought  me here" comments; which result from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rdQdz7WRA


When I was in highschool I was in a metal band for about a year. I was rhythm guitar and vocals (it's easy when it's death metal), and we performed this one live a few times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9o33gocD50


My favorite album from Napalm Death is still "Death by Manipulation". I must have listened to that album in an infinite loop for at least 2 years straight lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3aa4cd9ws

@Zenbane  Nice, yea I love some Napalm Death myself. I was more heavily into the big 4 of thrash (and add testament, exodus, and Death Angel) in high school but there were a few Death Metal bands I was into Cannibal Corpse/carcass/morbid angel etc.
Since the 80's are kind of back with all the new wave of thrash bands out and about, here's some of my newer Thrash favs while i'm back in here lol.

Reign of Fury - 
https://youtu.be/cah09XdiAME
Dust Bolt 
https://youtu.be/RfZCQ5XBAbo
Havok 
https://youtu.be/YdGSrhu8yEs
Revocation
https://youtu.be/6rXZs9FviFQ
Warbringer
https://youtu.be/nGl-RT7KX7g
Chronosphere
https://youtu.be/7EiezWqDGq8

Blimey, I've missed all sorts of stuff by not popping my head out of General lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu8sDa90Y

Watermelon In Easter Hay by Frank Zappa, from the Joes Garage Act III album. Probably the best guitar piece of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiAl0Tvm3eo

Dear Alice by Chick Corea from The Mad Hatter album. Probably the best bass solo I've ever heard or ever will hear by Eddie Gomez.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4HfFwVy-h0

Supper's Ready by Genesis from the Foxtrot album. Back in the days when Genesis were awesome, before Peter Gabriel left the band. Luckily they made the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway before he went, probably my favourite concept album of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa89bt0GZvQ

Nostradamus by Al Stewart fron the Past, Present & Future album. Al Stewart is a great folk rock artist which is one of my favourite music genres.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZm1_jtY1SQ

2112 by Rush from the 2112 album. Another one of my favourite music genres, progressive rock. Rush, Genesis and Yes are my 3 favourite bands, but the early stuff before all three of them went crap. Like the vast majority of bands that started in the 60s and 70s they went commercial in the mid-80s, starting to replace guitars with keyboards and started replacing 10+ minute songs with 3 or 4 minute songs without any changes to time signatures and even abandoning anything apart from 4/4 or 6/4.

Imo the music industry went right down hill from the mid 80s onwards across EVERY type of music from jazz to pop. And most of it was down to electronic bollocks too, if not replacing drum kits with digital drums it was making these drum kits SOUND like digital drums/drum machines. And it got even worse in the 90s too. Solos of any kind started to disappear from popular music. :(

Whoaaa Señors you are all rocking hard!! :o

I missed this thread up top.

Here is mine, with the state of the world lately this song still has meaning as much as when it first came out

https://youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs

Hopefully these haven't been posted in the last 8 pages... :)
Lately I've been getting into a few groups. Let's go international.

First up, the French group Skip The Use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXf7wEpBPI
I love the art and animation style in this, especially the facial expressions.
The video is based on a french graphic novel. The lead singer has actually co-produced a full length movie based on it that's coming out soon, called Zombillenium. The trailer looks really cool and early screenings have people saying they love the soundtrack.

Next up, the UK group The Correspondents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABS-mlep5rY
They do a lot of interesting videos, especially using in-camera practical effects like this one or my other favourite of theirs "Inexplicable", or hand drawn artwork by the lead singer.

Third, the Canadian bluegrass band The Dead South.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
I'm not normally a country fan, but these guys are pretty cool.

Now that we've swayed away from the hard stuff anyways, I thought I might raise a little danish flag here with some decent local pop-rock from Nephew.

Most of their stuff is in pure danish, some is a blend, and they've done
a few versions in 100% english, but imo they didn't succeed in
tranfering the quirky humorous word play to english.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9eTihrKM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO4QAQijZXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyzs_wwgs-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUHOG4qSc18