Music Discussion thread

[Kman]

replying to this here cuz it was getting off topic

the heavy side of punk is literally 79020 times better than the heaviest side of metal anyways so i feel you

just start jamming hardcore and powerviolence and grindcore and skramz instead of death metal and black metal and thrash trust me on this

been there, done this. I`m still a fan of Pig Destroyer (heh...now that is somewhat fitting...lol) and Nasum. Some Madball here and there is nice to.

Black Metal is quite a difficult topic. I think the stuff from the early-mid 90s is still interesting to hear for its simplicity and often gritty or voluntarely bad recording habits.

I don`t even know what powerviolence and skramz is. Am I getting old or what?

you should check these guys out before you disregard grind as a whole cause they blow pretty much every other band in the genre out of the water

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seriously though this is like top 20 albums ever

or if you're looking for something a little more unique these are always worth a shot

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jazz infused grindcore with probably the most shrill scream of any band i've ever heard



psychedelic infused grindcore (clean vox too surprisingly but it works so w/e)



progressive grind with a ton of elements of other genres thrown in (including jazz and post hardcore and a bunch of other shit)

powerviolence is heavily influenced by grindcore but the songs are structured around the contrast between intensity and quiet (lots of start-stop sections in it) and is generally a lot more technically challenging to play. much more evil and brooding sounding rather than just smashing you with constant noise

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a noteable example of this would be the contrast between the first 34 seconds of this vs the rest of it



these guys pretty much formed the genre and to this day are the best band in it



in this a good example of this contrast would be 0:45 - 1:10 vs the rest of the song

skramz is more properly known as screamo, but unfortunately that term got dragged through the mud by scenesters so now everyone thinks that screamo is shit like asking alexandria or pierce the veil, so people who know what the genre actually is just use that term around people who aren't aware of what it actually is. it's an off shoot of hardcore, but with a much more melancholic tone to it and much more shrill screams. it takes a good deal of influence from early powerviolence bands too as it generally also has a very prominent start-stop structure usually.

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these guys were pretty much the band that invented the genre along with pg. 99 and saetia and are a pretty good example of the genre as a whole.



this is probably the most noteable band from the genre that's still around today. they take a much more technical approach to it (lots of odd time signatures and time signature changes) but still have the same super shrill desperate sounding screams with a sort of overall "sad" tone to their stuff

so yeah

now you have knowledge

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Any good Punk Rock bands that anyone know? I can't stick with Titus Andronicus forever you know.

i could make you a very long list