This sub is so full of detached people who just don't keep up with music. In another thread i accused someone of being an "dad" but I suppose you got the lewronggeneration" youth too.
So anyways - some recommendations if you think music in the last decade has been shit, this is gonna get messy and all over the place but hopefully some of you will be less glum about what's out there.
Heavy Hitters
These bands already have some degree of success:
- Ghost (pop / stoner-rock / glam-metal)
- Mastodon (sludge, prog rock, hard rock, psych)
- Baroness (sludge metal, grunge, prog rock). Here's a first listen to their upcoming album Gold & Grey
- Tame Impala - Stoner/psych rock that went a kinda psych-rock/synth-pop turn on the last album.
- King Gizzard ( psych, garage, experimental, splashes of metal)
- Starcrawler (70s proto-punk ala Iggy Pop or Runaways meets 90s alt-rock - promoted by Dave Grohl and Ryan Adams even)
- Black Keys just dropped a new music video.
- Royal Blood -(Blues Rock/ Hard Rock) - Have released two albums which are both overall pretty basic rock n roll but they do usually only use modified bass and no guitar which is very unique.
- Cage the Elephant - They released a new album "Social Cues" earlier this year
- Queens of the Stone age- (Hard Rock / Stoner Rock (although I don't really know what that term means)) - They're overall a bit of an older band but their newest album "Villians" which is a couple years old is quite good
Metal
- Windhand (grunge, doom metal. Imagine...Electric Wizard fronted by Mazzy Star)
- Monolord (heavy as shit doom metal)
- Power Trip - the newest thrash metal kid on the block
- Yob - progressive doom metal
- Red Fang Sludge metal, hard-rock type of outfit. Fucking great music videos.
Blackgaze (black metal meets shoegaze, sometimes other pop or folk elements)
- Myrkur mixing pop sensibilities with black metal, folk, choral and shoegaze (she's opened for Smashing Pumpkins, even dueted with Billy Corgan, performing Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. She's dropping a folk album this year)
- Deafheaven mixing black metal and shoegaze
- Alcest
- Møl They take what Deafheaven popularized and just kind of turn up the volume on it. It's far more intense.
Punk
- Mannequin Pussy - punk, noise, pop all kinda swirled together.
- Daughters Grindcore, punk, math rock type stuff
- Perfect Pussy Noise punk / Noise pop
- Mantar Blacked-doom-punk
- Nails - death metal meets hardcore punk
Industrial-ish
- Author and Punisher (industrial - heavy as shit, makes his own midi-controlled instruments)
- Chelsea Wolfe (electronic/industrial, folk/electronic, doom, goth - she's opened for A Perfect Circle, dueted with Chino from Deftones, with Deafheaven, with Myrkur, with Russian Circles..She has a folk album due out this year)
- Youth Code (industrial - think..Frontline Assembly type shit)
- Health
Stoner Rock (psych, prog, Sabbathian, type stuff)
- Rival Sons - hard rock/blues rock
- Uncle Acid (punky, bouncy, Beatles-ish, hardpsych.)
- Blues Pills (blues rock - ala Cream/Janis, splashes of Heart and Dusty Springfield, they draw fairly large crowds in Europe. The album art for their last two albums is the same guy who did Cream's Disraeli Gears)
- Black Mountain (stoner rock, splashes of 80s cinematic synth, psych)
- Ruby the Hatchet (psych, prog, doom, hard rock - there's Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd influences all over the place. They're amazing performers.)
- Comet Control (psych/space rock)
- Mondo Drag (prog/psych - think Pink Floyd meets Uriah Heep)
- Blood Ceremony (sabbathian riffs meets Jethro Tull flutes)
- The Watcher - Black Abyss This shit has hints of Soundgarden and Black Sabbath all over it.
- Samsara Blues Experiment- blues, doom, psych, desert rock.. Very "jam" and spacey.
- Elder - prog rock
- Royal Thunder - Alice in Chains, meets Mastodon, meets nostalgia 70s rock.
- Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious - think.. The Animals meets The Doors
- Earthless - listen to this shit. It rips. It's like Hendrix meets Hawkwind.
Misc
- Pinkish Black (doom, goth, new wave)
- Nothing - alt-rock/grunge, indie, dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk. It's kinda bleak. It's very 90s.
Bigger/Established Indie Rock
- Vampire Weekend
- Alt-J
- Grizzly Bear
- Arcade Fire
- Animal Collective
- MGMT - latest album uses some goth imagery in music vids, and finds a bunch of unique ways to really talk about how the internet has ushered in a new dark age of sorts.
Indie Rock
- Car Seat Headrest
- Japanese Breakfast (check out her california dreaming cover)
- Silversun Pickups (these guys are so great)
- Ty Segall
more indie but i'm giving up on linking shit - this is taking forever
- Alex G
- Parquet Courts
- Idles, Cloud Nothings
- Protomartyr
- Jeff Rosenstock
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra
- Crumb
- Cass McCombs
- Amen Dunes
There's so many good bands. So many people trying out something utterly new, shit like (and extreme - so warning) LINGUA IGNOTA which i can't even begin to describe...
Nevermind there's been some stellar releases from some older bands in the last few years -
- Alice in Chains
- NIN's last three (2 EPs and 1 LP)
- Smashing Pumpkins (a follow up is coming within a year or 2, as is a christmas album)
- Rammstein
- Marilyn Manson's last 2. He has one due to drop this year that's a collab with Shooter Jennings, described as a mix of Bowie's Diamond Dogs and The Killing Joke (80s goth band).
- Tool's new one drops in August.
- Opeth's new one drops in the Fall
- Bad Religion
- Arctic Monkeys
- Weezer
- Jack White
- Sleep
- Judas Priest
This covers a lot of fucking ground. If you like rock music and can't find a thing to like here.. i don't know what to tell you. This isn't the halcyon days of Van Halen jerking off all day long, and you're not going to get a Aqua-net infused glam metal revival. Nu-metal and rap metal has come and gone.
But rock is still vital and alive. Some of you need to be spoonfed. So here's the spoon.
I hope it helps.
Submitted June 11, 2019 at 11:22PM by horroronly2 http://bit.ly/2MEAjGN
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