I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or "djenty" stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.
I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of "professionals" I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of "Oh, really, you too?"
Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
Apocalyptica - started covering Metallica as cello quartet instrumentals, now has a drummer and a number of original songs, often with guest vocalists.
Brass Against - brass and other classical instruments. They cover Rage Against The Machine as well as other random songs and make occasional mashups of them. Not instrumental.
Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker's vocal talents and lyrics. However as a guitar nerd and PtH fan I approve of their inclusion.
I'm also a fan, I just didn't want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I'll check out the rest.
Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker's vocal talents and lyrics.
Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them and they do have deluxe albums with instrumental only versions which I really appreciate. I often can't work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.
I'm also a huge fan of Opeth, Caligula's Horse, and TesseracT with vocals but I haven't ingrained every track's lyrics in my brain like I have PtH.
CHON, Covet and Mestís are pretty laid back and so fucking excellent.
Cloudkicker has been around for a long ass time; early-mid 00's on Myspace. One of the progenitors of the 'bedroom guitarist' project, although he toured with Intronaut as his backing band awhile back.
Arctopus and Blotted Science are fucking weird and I love them.
I often can't work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.
Can relate 100%. I have audio processing oddities that make understanding lyrics difficult. With how many times I've listened to their albums (1500 times in a row for Palimpsest! I've got the Last.FM receipts for it, even) I know the lyrics mostly by heart. Instead of my brain being distracted trying to comprehend it gets distracted trying to sing along. Thus, instrumental for getting work done.
Also I can't keep my boys Between the Buried and Me out of this post any longer. Suuuuuuuuch a fucking band. The new album rules, too!
Totally valid, no rush. My guitar whispered to me a bit yesterday but its been a few weeks so I stuck to warming up rather than pushing for tempo.
I've mostly been working on Black Dahlia Murder's Statutory Ape and Protest the Hero's The Dissentience in terms of full songs. A few scattered PtH riffs off Palimpsest; intro to Sun of Nothing and the sweeps at the end of Selkies by BTBAM to round things out.
Haven't written anything in years, just working on my chops.
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theparadox@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 310d
I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or "djenty" stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.
I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of "professionals" I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of "Oh, really, you too?"
Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
Edit: I'm stuck at work with my PC being worked on so here are some more random artists whose music I appreciate:
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 310d
Have another: Animals as Leaders
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 310d
Tosin is the greatest guitarist of the millenial generation.
Also his co-guitarist Javier has an excellent project as Mestís.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
Another great band!
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 310d
Plini as well as The Omnific!
theparadox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 310d
Arch Echo
Behold...the Arctopus
Blotted Science
CHON
Cloudkicker
Covet
Haunted Shores
Intervals
Mestís
Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker's vocal talents and lyrics. However as a guitar nerd and PtH fan I approve of their inclusion.
theparadox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
I'm also a fan, I just didn't want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I'll check out the rest.
Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them and they do have deluxe albums with instrumental only versions which I really appreciate. I often can't work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.
I'm also a huge fan of Opeth, Caligula's Horse, and TesseracT with vocals but I haven't ingrained every track's lyrics in my brain like I have PtH.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 309d
CHON, Covet and Mestís are pretty laid back and so fucking excellent.
Cloudkicker has been around for a long ass time; early-mid 00's on Myspace. One of the progenitors of the 'bedroom guitarist' project, although he toured with Intronaut as his backing band awhile back.
Arctopus and Blotted Science are fucking weird and I love them.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 309d
Can relate 100%. I have audio processing oddities that make understanding lyrics difficult. With how many times I've listened to their albums (1500 times in a row for Palimpsest! I've got the Last.FM receipts for it, even) I know the lyrics mostly by heart. Instead of my brain being distracted trying to comprehend it gets distracted trying to sing along. Thus, instrumental for getting work done.
Also I can't keep my boys Between the Buried and Me out of this post any longer. Suuuuuuuuch a fucking band. The new album rules, too!
theparadox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
Behold the Arctopus mentioned!
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UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 309d
Hehehe I knew that would draw you out. Where's your riffs?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
on my exteral drive, I've been busy :(
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 309d
Totally valid, no rush. My guitar whispered to me a bit yesterday but its been a few weeks so I stuck to warming up rather than pushing for tempo.
I've mostly been working on Black Dahlia Murder's Statutory Ape and Protest the Hero's The Dissentience in terms of full songs. A few scattered PtH riffs off Palimpsest; intro to Sun of Nothing and the sweeps at the end of Selkies by BTBAM to round things out.
Haven't written anything in years, just working on my chops.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 309d
A few more;
Alluvial
An Endless Sporadic (Guitar Hero fans know)
Scale the Summit (but only the first couple albums - Carving Desert Canyons specifically)
TRAM (Tosin Abasi plays jazz)
Teramobil (GREAT introduction to my favorite modern bassist, Dominic LaPointe)
Trioscapes (Between the Buried and Men's bassist Dan plays jazz)
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 309d
I feel seen lol
wabafee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 310d
Bonus points for cattle decapitation
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 309d
I’m big on Opeth, Bodom (rest in power, Alexi), Dimmu, and Graveworm.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 310d
Technical death metal to amp up on the drive in, instrumental prog to get the work done, black metal to decompress on the way home.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 309d
For me:
Power metal or speed metal to start the day or complete a task really quickly
Death metal or epic heavy metal to push myself through tasks
Black metal to go through the day on a sustainable pace
Death-doom when I'm going through a lot of very small, context-shifting tasks for a long time and it's driving me crazy
Atmospheric black metal or dungeon synth to focus on a complex problem, and also when I'm on latter part of the day and really tired.
Death-thrash to wake myself up when I'm sleepy.
masterspace@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 310d
A lot of us sing like Michael Bolton.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 310d
Damn you! I am not an original thinker. :(
masterspace@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 310d
We're all just different parts of the universe looking back at itself in different ways.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 309d
Please keep both hands on the steering wheel.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 309d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 310d
Then you get cancer, and can’t go to your 9-5 job. Which wasn’t paying for health insurance anyway. So fuck you and die.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
What crawled up your ass?
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 310d
*Gestures vaguely at the state of affairs of the world*
yakko@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 310d
I'm just glad Oderus never found out how I live
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 310d
Was loving Ne Obliviscaris on the way in this morning - such contrasts between dark and light!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 310d
They're solid.
You should try Saor
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 310d
Yo you get it
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 310d
Everything sucks ass but if you can get paid good and get paid easy it can suck less.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 310d
Or work a shitty job for low pay, that’s the best
(/s if it wasn’t obvious)
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 310d
Well I can't say that being a graduate student is a stable job, but my research is absolutely fueled by technical death metal and sugar 🤘😈🤘
Smaagi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 310d
Same, but with plundering and pillaging as lyrics.
sundray@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 310d
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 309d
I do that, as well with sometimes riddim, hitech, psycore, hardcore, tekk…
🖤🤘🏻🎸🔊
individual@toast.ooo · 1 pts · 309d