What album are you listening to? v.7

[Deathless]

Marillion - Distant Lights (Leicester)
Journey - Freedom
Doctor Butcher - S/T
Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger

First time listening to NMB and I enjoyed that album for the most part.

[hefdaddy42]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies

[hefdaddy42]

The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South, The River North

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I haven't heard tremontis solo work but I'd argue that the first three creed albums are better than anything alter bridge has done aside from their debut. I think alter bridges work has gotten progressively worse with every release.

Fascinating, you don't like tracks like "Cry of Achilles", "Bleed It Dry", "Isolation", or "Blackbird"? 

[senecadawg2]

Allegation – Apoptosis

[hefdaddy42]

Home Free - Land of the Free

[senecadawg2]

Saor – Origins

[hefdaddy42]

American Aquarium - Wolves

[twosuitsluke]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies

Fishing for fishies
Don't make them feel happy
Or me neither
I feel so sorry for fishies

 

[ReaperKK]

I haven't heard tremontis solo work but I'd argue that the first three creed albums are better than anything alter bridge has done aside from their debut. I think alter bridges work has gotten progressively worse with every release.

Fascinating, you don't like tracks like "Cry of Achilles", "Bleed It Dry", "Isolation", or "Blackbird"? 

I like Blackbird but the other two are forgettable. I think that's my problem with Alter Bridge, it's not bad but it's also not very memorable to my ears.

[nick_z]

Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror

Synthwave and beyond...not sure how this was received by people "in the know", but I found it to be thoroughly entertaining. Plenty of cool guest spots too (Gunship, Ulver, Greg Puciato, Sylvaine, Tribulation).

[twosuitsluke]

I haven't heard tremontis solo work but I'd argue that the first three creed albums are better than anything alter bridge has done aside from their debut. I think alter bridges work has gotten progressively worse with every release.

Fascinating, you don't like tracks like "Cry of Achilles", "Bleed It Dry", "Isolation", or "Blackbird"? 

I like Blackbird but the other two are forgettable. I think that's my problem with Alter Bridge, it's not bad but it's also not very memorable to my ears.

I'm with you Reap. Alter Bridge is fine, and Blackbird is easily my favourite song of theirs but I find then to be forgettable. I'd take Creed over Alter Bridge any day.

[nick_z]

Saor – Origins

Really enjoyed this one!

[Buddyhunter1]

Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror

Synthwave and beyond...not sure how this was received by people "in the know", but I found it to be thoroughly entertaining. Plenty of cool guest spots too (Gunship, Ulver, Greg Puciato, Sylvaine, Tribulation).

I don't know what "in the know" means but I thought this was a lot weaker than Trilogy and Leather Teeth. I wasn't that into Leather Teeth at first but it really grew on me, a really nice short but sweet record. This new one is a lot more metal-focused and despite that always being an influence for him (Roller Mobster, for example) it seems to work a lot better for him when it's not so surface-level.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I'm not sure whether I'm surprised that this band seems to be pretty obscure.  I'm rarely ahead of the hype, so I don't know if I've somehow caught them before most people, or if they're doomed to perpetual obscurity.  But it's really intoxicating music, "The Fact In Fiction" and "Coda" are splendid pieces especially. 

I haven't heard tremontis solo work but I'd argue that the first three creed albums are better than anything alter bridge has done aside from their debut. I think alter bridges work has gotten progressively worse with every release.

Fascinating, you don't like tracks like "Cry of Achilles", "Bleed It Dry", "Isolation", or "Blackbird"? 

I like Blackbird but the other two are forgettable. I think that's my problem with Alter Bridge, it's not bad but it's also not very memorable to my ears.

I'm with you Reap. Alter Bridge is fine, and Blackbird is easily my favourite song of theirs but I find then to be forgettable. I'd take Creed over Alter Bridge any day.

This is definitely not an opinion I hear too often.  Stapp has just gotten too hard to listen to for me for long since he's often the poster boy for the excesses of yarling.  Tremonti was always a big fan of metal, but he tended to hide those influences a lot more in Creed.  So with the simpler guitar work and without Myles and Mark's voice to latch onto, what appeals to you more about Creed?  I've had many AB songs stuck in my head, so I can't relate to them being forgettable. 

Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror

Synthwave and beyond...not sure how this was received by people "in the know", but I found it to be thoroughly entertaining. Plenty of cool guest spots too (Gunship, Ulver, Greg Puciato, Sylvaine, Tribulation).

I don't know what "in the know" means but I thought this was a lot weaker than Trilogy and Leather Teeth. I wasn't that into Leather Teeth at first but it really grew on me, a really nice short but sweet record. This new one is a lot more metal-focused and despite that always being an influence for him (Roller Mobster, for example) it seems to work a lot better for him when it's not so surface-level.

I don't know if I'm "in the know" either, but synthwave is definitely one of my more heavily listened to styles in the past half decade or more now.  I've always like Carpenter Brut, but never quite as much as most other people seem to who are really into it.  Maybe I haven't given them enough plays yet, but this album is actually my favorite so far.  "Stabat Mater" and "Paradisi Gloria" are my favorite cuts at this point.  Having Sylvaine definitely helps. 

[Bluefish]

[Bluefish]

[Buddyhunter1]

"Stabat Mater" and "Paradisi Gloria" are my favorite cuts at this point.  Having Sylvaine definitely helps.

Sure, those songs do have a cool gothic atmosphere to them. Though if you want gothic synthwave, Perturbator's last album was even better for that imo.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Yeah, that album had as much if not more darkwave and gothic rock on it as darksynth.  For people not familiar with them that sounds like splitting hairs, but despite the similarities in name and broad descriptions they're quite distinct.  I like the more overtly electronic stuff on older albums like "God Complex", "Venger", "Future Club", "Sentient", or even "Messalina, Messalina" or "The Other Place" on the latest album.  But I guess that's kind of a newer thing some bands are doing now, since both derive from the 80s.  CHVRCHES had "How Not To Drown" with Robert Smith on their album last year, for example, which is one of their least electronic songs yet, albeit still great. 

[Zoom E]

Graham Bonnet Band - Day Out in Nowhere
Diamond Head - Borrowed Time
Seventh Wonder - The Testament

[nick_z]

I don't know what "in the know" means but I thought this was a lot weaker than Trilogy and Leather Teeth. I wasn't that into Leather Teeth at first but it really grew on me, a really nice short but sweet record. This new one is a lot more metal-focused and despite that always being an influence for him (Roller Mobster, for example) it seems to work a lot better for him when it's not so surface-level.

I don't know if I'm "in the know" either, but synthwave is definitely one of my more heavily listened to styles in the past half decade or more now.  I've always like Carpenter Brut, but never quite as much as most other people seem to who are really into it.  Maybe I haven't given them enough plays yet, but this album is actually my favorite so far.  "Stabat Mater" and "Paradisi Gloria" are my favorite cuts at this point.  Having Sylvaine definitely helps. 

Sorry - I just meant I haven't listened to a whole lot of synthwave, so I am coming at it with limited background. Not that you necessarily need it to appreciate an album, I get it  It was just a way to invite more comments and maybe have further recommendations.

I love The Midnight and Perturbator, and I definitely enjoyed Gunship's self-titled and Timecop 1983's Night Drive...

I haven't checked out the Trilogy collection from Carpenter Brut. As I said, Leather Terror was a ton of fun to me, with its faux-horror movie concept...I'll be sure to go back and check out the rest.

And yes, Perturbator is moving into all sorts of interesting directions...

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Some other synthwave/darksynth albums I'd recommend:

Dance With the Dead - Out of Body
Dead Astronauts - Constellations
Deadlife - God in the Machine
FM-84 - Atlas
GosT - Non Paradisi
Lazerhawk - Dreamrider
LukHash - We Are Stardust
Mega Drive - Seas of Infinity
NINA - Sleepwalking
Scandroid - s/t
Signal Void - This Liminal Reality
Turboslash - Speed
VHS Glitch - Land With No Future
Volkor X - This Is Our Planet Now
ZETA - s/t

[Buddyhunter1]

I haven't checked out the Trilogy collection from Carpenter Brut. As I said, Leather Terror was a ton of fun to me, with its faux-horror movie concept...I'll be sure to go back and check out the rest.

Definitely check out Trilogy - it's fantastic. And Leather Teeth has the same concept as Leather Terror to my knowledge, so you should enjoy that one too.

I'd add Dan Terminus - The Wrath Of Code to Litho's list. And the IAMTHEKIDYOUKNOWHATIMEAN EP, though it's not really synthwave except for the last song.

[Sacul]

Planning for Burial - Below the House

A friend of mine said I'd love this since I'm a big fan of Have a Nice Life. Well this is a lot closer to doom metal actually (the tags say "doomgaze" lol), and it's kinda cool. Might revisit it.

[jjrock88]

Motley Crue- Too Fast for Love

Queensryche- The Warning

Van Halen- Fair Warning

[Glasser]

Even though Ozzy re-recorded all of his vocals in the studio I look at this as a half live kick ass version of Sabbath classics. I listened to bootlegs of both shows they did at The Ritz and he sounded awful unfortunately. The band kicks ass, very cool hearing Brad Gillis crushing these tunes! 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

(the tags say "doomgaze" lol)

That's a tag I've been noticing increasingly in recent times.  The early bands tended to be shoegaze with some doom metal and drone elements, but lately there has been another wave of doom metal with strong shoegaze, ethereal wave, and dream pop influences, which has been what has drawn me in. 

[nick_z]

Some other synthwave/darksynth albums I'd recommend:

Dance With the Dead - Out of Body
Dead Astronauts - Constellations
Deadlife - God in the Machine
FM-84 - Atlas
GosT - Non Paradisi
Lazerhawk - Dreamrider
LukHash - We Are Stardust
Mega Drive - Seas of Infinity
NINA - Sleepwalking
Scandroid - s/t
Signal Void - This Liminal Reality
Turboslash - Speed
VHS Glitch - Land With No Future
Volkor X - This Is Our Planet Now
ZETA - s/t

I haven't checked out the Trilogy collection from Carpenter Brut. As I said, Leather Terror was a ton of fun to me, with its faux-horror movie concept...I'll be sure to go back and check out the rest.

Definitely check out Trilogy - it's fantastic. And Leather Teeth has the same concept as Leather Terror to my knowledge, so you should enjoy that one too.

I'd add Dan Terminus - The Wrath Of Code to Litho's list. And the IAMTHEKIDYOUKNOWHATIMEAN EP, though it's not really synthwave except for the last song.

Thank you both for the recs 

I think I've come across some stuff from Dan Terminus, Dance with the Dead and VHS Glitch. These are all noted, and I'll definitely explore some more...

[Glasser]

A total classic!!!

[jjrock88]

Boston- Third Stage

Eagles- Hotel California

Whitesnake- s/t

[Blind_FaithX]

A frail becoming- daylight dies

[nick_z]

A frail becoming- daylight dies

I don't have this particular album but, in reference to your request in the Insomnium thread, it looks like you found yourself a good band to satisfy your craving for melancholic music!

[TAC]

A frail becoming- daylight dies

I don't have this particular album but, in reference to your request in the Insomnium thread, it looks like you found yourself a good band to satisfy your craving for melancholic music!

For some reason I have Dismantling Devotion Saved in my Spotify.

[Blind_FaithX]

A frail becoming- daylight dies

I don't have this particular album but, in reference to your request in the Insomnium thread, it looks like you found yourself a good band to satisfy your craving for melancholic music!

Haha, true. Although earlier I was also listening to your suggestions;) right now none of those band are doing the « Insomnium effect » on me as well as them but there is definitely some potential as this kind of music rarely works on the first few listen. Also, I feel like the guitar solos on the Daylight dies album are impressive. You should check that band man.

[Blind_FaithX]

A frail becoming- daylight dies

I don't have this particular album but, in reference to your request in the Insomnium thread, it looks like you found yourself a good band to satisfy your craving for melancholic music!

For some reason I have Dismantling Devotion Saved in my Spotify.

Haven’t listened to this one yet!