Looking for some new music

[Epical]

Killswitch Engage, but only their new album, which officially releases on June 30th. You can find it on the net though, obviously. You won't like any of their older stuff.

[Thoronas]

Latest Songs From MP3 & Music Blogs / The Hype Machine

[Guitarman]

Killswitch Engage, but only their new album, which officially releases on June 30th. You can find it on the net though, obviously. You won't like any of their older stuff.

Life to Lifeless was their best work imo.

[Epical]

Life to Lifeless was their best work imo.

I'm not disputing that, I'm saying that Belkin (based on his other tastes) won't enjoy their older stuff because it sounds much different.

[Olo401]

Downloaded some Manchester Orchestra the other day.. not bad stuff, reminds me a bit of the early Pumpkins sound.

[TacoTaru]

I'd recommend Dillinger Escape Plan. They pull a fair amount of people that aren't normally into their style. I'm not sure about this one, but I'll toss it out there, American Nightmare/Give up the Ghost. Best thing to do is just myspace them and give one song a listen. If you don't like it, I doubt you'd like the rest of their music (vocally would be the main reason of dislike rather than musically)

As for softer music goes, the one recommendation I say to everyone is Postal Service.

[Qalbert]

Silverchair

[Saga]

How is Minus the bear math rock...

Math rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting)"
"rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music"
"using instruments for textures rather than melodies and riffs, featuring atypical rhythms and some dissonance...math rock concentrated on angular melodies, atypical time signatures, start-stop rhythms, and dissonance, while staying closer to rock music in sound and instrumentation."

Don't tell me Minus the Bear isn't rhythmically complex, doesn't feature 6/4, 7/8, 12/8 time (some other ones, plus a mix of all those), and match just about every description up there. Granted, their drummer does a lot of the intricate but calculated rhythms (maybe more than the guitarist who still fits plenty of the characteristics above), like in the youtube vid I linked, during the verses the set does straight eighth notes on the hi hat and bass drum on 1, 3, snare on 2, 4 for 12 counts, then 1-e-a on the hi hat, snare on 3 for 6 counts, transitions into straight sixteenth notes split on the hi hat and snare for the last count of that segment, then straight sixteenths on the hi hat and bass/snare again on 1, 3 and 2, 4 respectively. It's not very hard to do, but there's a lot to unpack just in one verse.

[Mae]

Lots of Omar fans in here! New Mars Volta album tomorrow 6/23!

One day as a Lion - only 5 tracks, but can't stop listening to it

Puscifer - Moar Maynard

Trans Am - Amazing, not for everyone though

Dredg - softer side of things... cant say im fond of the singer, but the musicality is there, Catch without arms, is their best album overall, previous 2 albums worth listening to though.

[Qalbert]

^Octahedron is great, imo.

[Ruiner]

Puscifer, Isis, and Pelican. Also, Nine Inch Nails.

[Epical]

Might want to give Chevelle a shot too.

[Qalbert]

Might want to give Chevelle a shot too.

I haven't heard them since Seeing Red was on the radio, they still coming out with decent music?

[Nightfyre]

I'll be damned, there are people here who have actually heard of post-rock

Isis and Pelican are usually a good bet, Red Sparrowes is hit or miss (I find them too pretentious). You probably won't like Explosions in the Sky given the bands you listed, but you never know. Can't recommend Russian Circles enough; listen to at least 2 or 3 of their songs because there's a fair bit of variety in their music.

For other music, try Cynic, Dillinger Escape Plan, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, and Green Carnation.

[Qalbert]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Sigur Ros

[Eliseos]

Isis and Pelican are usually a good bet, Red Sparrowes is hit or miss (I find them too pretentious). You probably won't like Explosions in the Sky given the bands you listed, but you never know. Can't recommend Russian Circles enough; listen to at least 2 or 3 of their songs because there's a fair bit of variety in their music.

This. Also look into Bossk, Gifts From Enola, Tides, This Will Destroy You, and Windmills By The Ocean. If you like Isis, Rosetta, Irreversible, and Old Man Gloom are great bands with a similar style.

[Blabj]

Nobodies mentioned it yet so I figured I would. You should sign up for Last.fm - Listen to internet radio and the largest music catalogue online . It'll give you music recommendations based on your library (and most played artists, if you have a huge library of music). You can check out the suggested artists on the site, then download (I mean legally purchase, of course...) their music at a later date, if you like their music!

Another thing to look into is installing the OinkPlus greasemonkey script, which will add similar artists pages to the bottom of most music sites and torrent pages, so you can peruse other artists without ever having to do a single google search! Really handy for finding new music.

[OzzofAsura]

I don't love his singing... but

YouTube - DIMMU BORGIR - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse EXTREME VERSION

This is pretty damn epic. The bassist sings awesome though.

[Never]

So how old is everyone here? 13?

Recommend more bland post-rock and sad attempts at "progressive" rock/metal.

[Epical]

So how old is everyone here? 13?

Recommend more bland post-rock and sad attempts at "progressive" rock/metal.

By all means, feel free to, you know, contribute.