That is fun but takes time. I have done album listening (from first to last) to couple bands like Enslaved, Katatonia, Judas Priest and plan to do it to other bands in future. It really shows how band changes through years!
Itās been an interesting journey. Will probably do it with Coheed & Cambria next - at least they do a fair bit of genre-bending through their history. NIN would be a good one to do too, actually.
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After talking about all these bands, I started to look through my metal list. I realize, even with lockdown, I do not have enough time to listen to everything.
Then I am in dilemma. Looking at the cast of the differnet bands, you always find somebody played somewhere else and the list expands.
How do you guys handle that? How do you discover new bands? How much time do you spend per day listening to music?
I have a Hugo 2, some AT headphones, an Innuos Zen Mini and a pair of LS50W2 at my work desk, so I generally have music on pretty much constantly, generally I let it run to Roon Radio. But then thatās hearing rather than listening (I do draw a BIG distinction between the two). But Iām aware enough of the music that it will grab me if something interesting is going on. Then it goes onto the list for proper listening later through my home system.
It is a little problem. I search music from this forum, reviews sites, Bandcampā¦ and add interesting albums to my collection. Then go through latest additions and play them. At least, I check couple tracks and see if it is a keeper or not. There are some albums that Iām not sure and usually leave them and listen later.
Sometimes I go through Artists and see if there is something that was added but are not actually interesting and remove them.
Gonna repeat my request from a while ago:
Any concrete recommendations for albums that resemble early Dream Theater with Mike Moore, Ć la Images & Words and Awake? I am not exactly happy about their later efforts, which for the most part are extremely percussion-heavy.
Not the easiest thing to recommend, really - DTās affect on subsequent bands seems to be focussed more from Train of Thought onwards.
Maybe give Big Big Train a try. I donāt know them well enough to give you an album, but what Iāve heard from them has that softer prog feel.
Tks; but BBT lacks the āprog metalā aspect that early DT has - they sound more like a softer, folkish prog band to me. Others have already given some good directions, such as Majestic; but I still hope to become aware of many more.
Most likely this has already been recommended to youā¦ Psychotic Waltz: The God-Shaped Void
Good stuff, but not as melodic as early DT. This seems to be a tough nut to crack!
Not melodic prog metal (for that Iād recommend Demonās āThe Plagueā), but a long time crossover favorite of mine:
If you ever wondered what a fusion between reggae and metal would sound like, try thIs.
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Sean such a good album.
Itās been on several times in the office.
Definitely feels like a bit of Tool in it, but that is not a bad thing at all
Mike
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Skindred are fantastic.
Maybe 6 years ago, I was invited to the Warwick bass guitar factory/HQ in Germany, thinking it was a factory visit - turned out to be a gathering of a bunch of Warwick artists and other invitees. Big stage, BBQ, barā¦ was awesome. Got to chat with the likes of Scott Reeder, Ryan Martinie, Guy Pratt, Steve Baileyā¦ bunch of amazing guys.
One of the highlights - a reunion of Benjiās old supergroup Mass Mental.
One of my all time favorites. Raw and doomy proto-death metal.
Originally released in 1987.
I have a ānumbered editionā CD.
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I like the intro of one video of āgo mexican goā: I wrote this song and recorded it on a tape - not digital - on a tape ā¦
Another band from Brazil: Angra
I found them by accident. There some guest artists from other bands, Rhapsody, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Epica.
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During the aforementioned Warwick performance, Benji shared about how he didnāt know who Rob Trujillo, Suicidal Tendencies etc was, and that Rob sent him the demos on cassette tape, which he listened to in his car.
I check Encyclopaedia Metallum now and them. It is quite interesting to see, how many new songs appear still on cassette first.
Yep - AndrƩ Matos was a great singer and even considered to replace Bruce Dickinson when the latter left Maiden in the 90s (an infinitely better choice than Blaze Bayley, by the way); sad that he died so early.