What are you listening to?

reyler · October 3, 2015

I'm not much of a metalhead, really, and my tastes in the genre defintely skew more towards the melodic.

disafear · October 10, 2015

Melodic things are certainly great, I'm in much of a melodeath phase atm. ^That song took a while to get into but I did start to enjoy 3-4 mins in :P

Some more melodic things

Shad_ · October 11, 2015

When I first started listening to heavier music I was pretty big into melodeath and power metal. The first concert I ever went to was In Flames opening for Iced Earth in 2002. I suppose it's a fun claim to say the first time I ever got bloodied up in a mosh pit was to the mother of all melodeath classics: Behind Space. <_<

I went through a long period where I listened to pretty much everything that you could label metal, but I eventually resolved on a small handful of subgenres and struggle to take interest in much outside of them. I like my metal with an occult or pagan aesthetic, and more often than not that implies at least a little cross-over into black metal. If I do just want to bang my head a bit, I expect some traditional instrumentation in the package--Korpiklaani, Alestorm, stuff like that.

Outside of metal, I've been a fan of post-rock for ages and always felt it had a lot of interesting parallels to black metal. The eventual merger of the two into post-bm has been the most delightful trend of this decade.

I like to think that music as a whole is constantly improving as more good ideas end up incorporated into the spectrum. My all-time favorite band didn't even exist until 2008, and that's pretty cool: