Recommend an artist/band to the poster above you

[dragoonson]

I dunno what to recommend,so lets go with Mr. Bungle?Pretty cool IMO.

[Intriguing]

At How2PK, great suggestion. I've listened to Lie Down in the Light once already, and just started my second listen through as I wasn't paying as much attention to it as I should have been. I'm really quite impressed in that I love his voice, and surprised in that this is the first country album I've ever really enjoyed. :)

 

 

 

As for you Dragoonson, you should try out Ion Dissonance. Pretty good Mathcore band from Montreal. In my opinion, Breathing is Irrelevant is their best album. However, other fans would probably cite Minus the Herd as their best. I think the thing that drew me to the band in the first place was just the pure chaos of their music, which I think they lost a bit of after Gabriel McCaughry (the vocalist on Breathing is Irrelevant and Solace) left the band, and was replaced by Kevin McCaughry (the vocalist on Minus the Herd). However, other people probably prefer their later album as it's a bit heavier. Anyway, check them out.

[Lenticular_J]

A good-looking girl. Who likes videogames. And interwebs. And musics.

 

Save that crap for the real life pictures thread..

 

I'm sorry Intriguing, I still love you most.

 

 

 

Obviously not your typical taste, but I think you'd like them, if only for the name.

 

 

 

[hide=Cake.] [/hide]

[Jernlov]

And at Cyco, thanks for the recommendation man. I've never even heard of Stoner Metal (or is it something like Sludge?), so I'll definitely check them out.

Stoner metal = very slow doom metal with heavy overpowering guitars and bass. Melodic vocals and songs have a psychedelic feeling to them whilst still being heavy.

 

 

 

I'll recommend Neutral Milk Hotel to you Lenticular. You can start with either of their studio albums. (On Avery Island or In the Aeroplane Over the Sea). Great lo-fi folk rock.

[AdioLovesSquall]

Reverend Bizarre

[Cyco_Reborn]

Sleep Terror, a very interesting Technical Death Metal band.

[cheese666me]

Anal Vomit, peruvian black and death metal

[Kalphite]

Strapping Young Lad

[klankaos]

Kalphite, you liked Rush, right? I'm going to suggest a band you've likely heard of, but if you haven't... You have to. Have a listen at

. My new second favourite band - I just bought Metropolis Part II: Scenes From A Memory, and it's my new favourite thing ever. It's 77 minutes of all one song. I love it.

 

 

 

Oh yeah, Intriguing - just picked up Colors, by Between the Buried and Me. The singing doesn't do much for me, but the music makes up for it - it's one of my new favourites. Thanks =P

[AdioLovesSquall]

Adramelch

 

 

 

irae melanox

 

 

 

oh, and please don't recommend tech death. there's a 99% chance i won't like it. =(

[Intriguing]

@ Lenticular: Mm.. cake.. And yes, that is the best review I've ever given of any band.

 

 

 

As for you Adio, listen to Bethlehem. I in particular recommend their album Dictius te Necare. The vocals in that album are some of the most insane vocals I've ever heard. Pretty cool album.

 

I know I've recommended them before in this thread, and I apologize if you were the person I recommended them to. The thread's getting too big for me to be able to be bothered checking.

[How2PK]

Since you have never (since Lie Down in the Light) enjoyed a country record, I will recommend you another country record. :

 

 

 

Ry Cooder, with the second album of his LA trilogy, My Name is Buddy

 

 

 

While an odd construct on page for a man that jammed with Beefheart, the Stones, and the Buena Vista Social Club, MY NAME IS BUDDY flies with every track. The stellar cast of musicians includes the brothers Seeger, Van [bleep] Parks, Jim Keltner, ... Full DescriptionPaddy Moloney of the Chieftains, and Flaco Jimenez, and grounds the fairy tale atmosphere with musical blood and guts. The ensembles tear through early-19th-century forms (country blues, bluegrass, and old-time arrangements) with a rollicking flair.

 

 

 

With a concept that could have failed on so many levels in lesser hands, Ry Cooder stuns once again in MY NAME IS BUDDY and demonstrates why he is one of America's most adventurous musicians. His chosen material is a loose collection of animal character sketches--the titular Buddy is a cat--based on labor struggles and the lower class in Depression-era America. Think of it as Woody Guthrie meets Beatrix Potter.

 

 

 

Personnel include: Ry Cooder (vocals, banjo, mandola, keyboards, bass instrument); Julliette Cammagere, Terry Evans, Bobby King (vocals); Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger (banjo); Paddy Maloney (whistle, Uilleann pipe); Flaco Jimenez (accordion); Jon Hassell (trumpet); Jacky Terrasson, Van [bleep] Parks (piano); Jim Keltner, Joachim Cooder (drums).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rolling Stone (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Cooder employs the pitch-perfect instrumentation that he's famous for, featuring gutbucket blues and old-timey, PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION fare..."

 

Q (p.117) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] typically thorough exploration of raw American folk, dustbowl blues, jazz and country, all laced with Steinbeck-ian working-class socialism."

[Jernlov]

Efterklang

 

 

 

Start with their debut album, Tripper.

[Range_This11]

Efterklang

 

 

 

Start with their debut album, Tripper.

 

I looked at your Last.fm and I saw you already like Tool, but I'm still suggesting that you sit down with the lyrics in an internet window open and listen to the entire Lateralus album front to back.

 

 

 

My second recommendation would be to listen to De-Loused In the Comatorium by The Mars Volta front to back. Pretty interesting concept album. Check this Wikipedia Description. The album has had amazing reviews and received a few awards from magazines.

 

 

 

De-Loused in the Comatorium is the first studio album by the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Based on a short story by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward, it is the hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who tries to kill himself by overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison. The attempt lands him in a week-long coma during which he experiences visions of humanity and his own psyche. Upon waking, he is dissatisfied with the real world and jumps to his death. The story of Cerpin Taxt is based on the death of El Paso, Texas artist (and Bixler-Zavala's friend) Julio Venegas.

 

 

 

De-Loused became both critically and commercially their biggest hit, eventually selling in excess of 500,000 copies despite next-to-no promotion, and was featured on several critics' "Best of the Year" lists. The album was ranked number 55 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time. "Drunkship of Lanterns" was named the 91st best guitar song of all-time by Rolling Stone[3].

 

 

 

The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics, Jazz rhythms, odd time signatures, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's frenetic guitar riffs, which are often harshly dissonant. The title of this album is taken from the lyrics of the song "Eunuch Provocateur" on the band's previous release, Tremulant.

 

 

 

I've completely stopped listening to my iTunes on shuffle anymore. Good albums are like great paintings. There are many facets to them and many small brushstrokes, just like in an album there are small time changes and different songs, but when they're put all together they make one amazing picture that can't be achieved by listening to a single song or looking at a single brushstroke.

[Cyco_Reborn]

Range This.... You should listen to A Perfect Circle if you dont already, theyre similar to Tool and its the same vocalist, but if you have heard of them then try Russian Circles.

[Jernlov]

@Range_This: The Mars Volta is one of my favourite bands.

 

 

 

@Above: 65daysofstatic, dunno where to start with them but anywhere should be good.

[Kenshinjapan]

Mozart.

 

 

 

Once again, I'll try to stop the cycle of the same bands/genre being slapped around :wall: .

[AdioLovesSquall]

Edgar Varèse

 

 

 

And who the hell cares? We're supposed to recommend something we think the other person might like. If they're a fan of heavy metal, then recommend them heavy metal. I mean, I'm open to new things, but, we're trying to make safe recommendations and enlighten people. What's the point of FORCING the change if people are obviously liking what they're getting recommended?

 

 

 

btw intriguing, i like dark metal very much, so i might as well try that other album; although i heard the vocals are like silencer, and that's a nono for me.

[cheese666me]

Aaaarrghh

 

 

 

thats all i can think of. its kinda difficult to recommend you something since you've listened to almost every band on earth :? :P hope you like them :D their Olum Kadar Soguk, Olu Kadar Soluk is their best album imo.

[Intriguing]

btw intriguing, i like dark metal very much, so i might as well try that other album; although i heard the vocals are like silencer, and that's a nono for me.

 

You heard correctly. Nattramn's (Silencer, Diagnose: Lebensgefahr) vocals are like a tamer version of Landfermann's vocals on Dictius te Necare, so you probably won't like it.

 

Thanks for the recommendation, How2PK. Haven't checked it out yet, but I will soon.

 

 

 

Cheese, try Blut aus Nord. Really cool experimental/ambient black metal from France. The Work Which Transforms God is without a doubt my favourite of their albums. I know Procession of the Dead Clowns is a horrible name for a piece of music, but the music itself is great.

[Ragen]

I highly recommend Devin Townsend's solo material.Ziltoid the Omniscient is a masterpiece. You could get his work with Strapping Young Lad as well if you want something brutal. City is supposed to be their best but I've yet to buy it.

[Jernlov]

Reverend Bizarre

Thanks, they're awesome.

 

 

 

Ragen: Manilla Road, Open the Gates is a good place to start.

 

 

 

Don't recommend me death metal, I won't like it. Anything else, go.

[Range_This11]

@Silver Sword.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go back to your roots my friend.

[klankaos]

Yes, I know I've recommended them before, don't even tell me. But Range This, you liked The Mars Volta's concept album, so I'm going to recommend you sit down with nothing but the CD Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory by Dream Theater, the liner notes to said album, and an hour and eighteen minutes to spare. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me musically. Fantastic musicianship, smooth transitions from light to heavy and back again, and a fantastic story to boot. The album tells the story of Victoria and the brothers Edward and Julian Baynes (the Miracle and the Sleeper, respectively) as seen through the eyes of Nicholas, a man who sees Victoria in a dream and uses hypnotherapy to relive the untold story of her murder. Fantastic work in every possible way.

[AdioLovesSquall]

Fates Warning