What's the last new (to you) band you got really into?

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chunes@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 141d (6 replies)

Ghost. Square Hammer is the song that initially melted my face off.

Edit: Almost forgot, I think I got into Dirt Poor Robins even more recently. I just love their sound, it's like nothing I've heard before. A lot of their songs possess religious undertones, but not obnoxiously so. Some faves:

Fizz@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 141d

I started listening to Ghost a few years ago after listening to Square Hammer. They are so good I have no idea how I got through my life without hearing them earlier. Love their costumes as well.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 141d

I got super into "Square Hammer" last Halloween!

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 141d

dimjim@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 141d

You found a fantastic band to get into! My wife and I are bummed Ghost's current tour is done, we went to four of them because the production value of their latest tour was so damn good.

Sheldan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d

I got into them a few years ago and for me it was the live video of 'Mary on a cross' which then got me into their discography.

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 141d

Congrats on finding the best band ever 🤘

Do this song next

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DV1eHQpcA

Jarix@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 141d

Kyuss

gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 141d

Latest band I got really into has gotta be Viagra Boys

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 8 pts · 141d (2 replies)

Vendredi sur Mer (Switzerland) - catchy, original electropop with a lot of lullaby-ish spoken word. Much of Charline's early work was co-written by wunderkind Lewis Ofman.

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 141d (1 reply)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqUMFj51X0 (NSFW)

Well I'm not exactly sure on the specifics of what this song's about, but it's catchy and I like the video.

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 4 pts · 141d

The song's about emotional ambivalence in relationships. That whole first album of hers is just fabulous.

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 141d

A timely question! I've been listening to Neutral Milk Hotel a lot recently, and for the first time. I'd heard of the band back in the day, but somehow never listened. The Wikipedia entry lists a number of my favorite bands as influenced by them, so I guess it's no surprise that I enjoy it so much.

Triumph@fedia.io · 8 pts · 141d (2 replies)

Greta van Fleet

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 3 pts · 141d

Great music.

negativenull@piefed.world · 1 pts · 141d

Same here. Fantastic

cuboc@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 141d

Igorr . Ils sont fous, les Français!

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 7 pts · 141d (3 replies)

I just found out about fleshgod apocalypse, they're fantastic. If symphonic death metal speaks to you it's worth checking them out!

A few choices:

The Fool

And the Vulture Beholds

I Can Never Die

riquisimo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d

Checking them out now via their most popular videos on yt. I'm digging "Epilogue!"

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 141d

One of my favorites of all time! I can listen to both the Agony and Labyrinth albums on loop!

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 140d

symphonic death metal

Might also want to check out the classics, Therion's ‘Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas’ and ‘Lepaca Kliffoth’. They aren't very symphonic, but are the points where Therion were moving from death-doom to their proper developed sound.

CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 141d

Electric Callboy!!

They’re a German electronicore band who fuses metal, EDM and techno and they’re pretty fun/funny

We Got the Moves!

Cochise@lemmy.eco.br · 5 pts · 141d (1 reply)

The last one is Lord of the Lost. Scratched the itch of getting a metal band that I don't have to worry about being a nazi cult in the future.

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 141d

Damn, these songs are good on their own, he's got a nice rich voice. But then oh my fuck, also the costume work is hella good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I9CYu668jA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dh58ATKrSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3LrJ2MPSs

reallyzen@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 141d

Igorrr - can't understand no one around me have ever heard about them.

dragontology@retrofed.com · 5 pts · 141d

A friend told me about Bad Omens (metal) and I’ve been listening to them. I don’t usually like heavy music these days, but sometimes it can be cool and they have some clever lyrics.

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 141d (2 replies)

Kaleo - rock and roll from Iceland

Amigo the Devil - found on a murderfolk playlist

Parov Stellar - techno-swing

Bridge City Sinners - murderfolk

Mariache el Bronx - mariache cover band

Plastic Bertrand - French surf rock (?)

the_blast_of_us@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 141d (1 reply)

If you like Amigo the Devil and don't know them already, check out Harley Poe. Murderfolk/Horrorfolk

stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 141d

Will do, thanks!

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 141d

They've been around or several years now, but I just discovered Brothers of Metal a month or so ago from one of their tracks being in the game Pistol Whip, and I'm slowly becoming obsessed.

They're such a fun balance of epic viking fantasy and tongue in cheek humor.

POWERSNAKE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpiK6ncKQfM

The Other Son of Odin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFGkutszRFA

Death of the God of Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469fV_JzIwM

Brothers Unite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIWAC0Dw6JE

Yggdrasil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yYMjU8xDg

gjoel@programming.dev · 4 pts · 141d (2 replies)

Bloodywood - A Bollywood themed metal band. Great fun!

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d (1 reply)

Check out the Andre Antunes with Nooran Sisters mashup. (He has more of these with various Indian and Pakistani singers.)

gjoel@programming.dev · 1 pts · 139d

That's awesome!

Teh@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 141d

I’m currently waiting for Jesse Welles to take the stage. His song “RED” hooked me hard.

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 4 pts · 141d (2 replies)

In This Moment - alternative metal (?)

Just finished listening through their discography last week.

YouTube

TIDAL

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 141d (2 replies)

Fcukers have been putting out an astonishing amount of music in the last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyJat1RGPi4

Which is awesome, Nora wasn't going to be able to keep Vengaboys vibe alive alone forever.

Shits too depressing these days to not have mindless party music.

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d (1 reply)

Oh, I like. Silly club music is the other genre besides metal that can hack my shitty brain into working for a few hours, and they've got a nice beat.

Bon Bon is pretty good too. Sounds like almost the same beat to me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnpIO-OTx0

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

They just dropped a whole album yesterday, before that it was just singles.

I haven't listened tho, but I get the feeling each album is like a "set" where all the tracks blend into each other.

The start of every new track, is the end of the last one.

Which would explain why so many feel so similar.

The band is just a DJ and a vocalist after all. Kind of a Sophie Tucker type deal.

DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 141d

I probably heard stuff on the radio (CBC-1) and even on Lemmy that I've taken a liking to the first time I've heard them, but have yet to search for them. But here are a few relatively recent stuff. I pretty sure I've listened to each of the first 3 at least 10x, maybe ≥20x.

Clarissa - Ela [might be "bedroom pop"/lo-fi/dream pop/techno-pop/soft] (2021)

https://lemmy.world/post/18462542

ELA - Clarissa

https://vimeo.com/586751589

2:52

(You can probably download this directly from Vimeo.)

Yeah, I know, 2 young attractive barefoot women who kiss in the end and the translation, IIUC, indicates that her parents wouldn't understand their relationship, but I've taken quite a liking to the music.

Ivana Máchová & Miriam Hrušková - Terezka [sounds a bit like ABBA] (1979)

https://lemmy.world/post/35969218

Cold Showers - "Sliver" (Official Video) (they sound a bit like Depeche Mode)

https://lemmy.world/post/31824931

[21st dekaday, 2787 YAE] Laura (music by Nick Gudgeon; Dancer Laura Beanland Stephens) [the music has a bit of a Tycho feel to it] (2018)

https://lemmy.world/post/33108498

wp:Sally Go 'Round the Roses

[R&B pop]

American Bandstand 1963 – TOP 10 – Sally, Go 'Round The Roses, The Jaynetts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwIuMLQe2A&list=RDPOwIuMLQe2A&start_radio=1

3:31

"Sally go round the roses

(Sally go round the pretty roses)

They won't tell your secret

(they won't tell your secret)"

Also, this sounds like great My Bloody Valentine: 😁🙂

How to make Shoegaze in 2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN67L4LJxgw

2:17

JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social · 3 pts · 141d (3 replies)

In the span of like 2 weeks I discovered a bunch of new music. I never get why people cling onto the stereotype that you stop listening to new music once you hit a certain age. I'm finding new shit all the time.

Die Spitz - Doom/Punk/Grunge band from Texas. They have really wild shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB01l-V_vAE

Tropical Fuck Storm - Aussie Rock & Roll. Kind of a sad boy druggy aesthetic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t663s10WwPE

Earth Tongue - New Zealand classic Heavy Metal with Ozzy and Satan in mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qUjVRe8fs

Spite - Deathcore. Kinda boring old school Myspace era stuff to be honest. Takes me back to 2007 when I was a wee lad though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qUjVRe8fs

Am I the crusty Deathmetal head now?

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 141d
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

Same thing with age. I’m in my fifties, stumbled into Tropical Fuck Storm through King Gizzard a year or two ago and realized that all the new bands I was listening to were all Australian (I’m in the US). Probably from watching so much Like a Version. I listen to a lot of new music based on either covers of songs I know or cool band names. My current obsession, Apes of the State, is driving me into folk punk now. A little while ago I was wondering who was making the best protest songs for all of today’s bullshit. Folk punk is soothing my soul while I fight the power.

Jarix@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 141d
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tronx4002@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 141d

Men I Trust

Hackworth@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 141d

ANIMA! Moving Mountains is my favorite.

scytale@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 141d

They kinda blew up recently because of their KEXP performance, but I discovered Angine de Poitrine like 2 weeks before that.

I also discovered 88Kasyo Junrei around the same time. Fantastic band.

logicslayer@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 141d

Don Broco. Nightmare Tripping released yesterday.

callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 141d (2 replies)

Castle Rat: Medieval Fantasy Heavy Metal. I would say more Rock than metal, and kind of an 80s feel.

They are incredible. Great music, fun lyrics, presence and themes to their shows.

Also shout out to MIRE and their new album. Heavy metal.

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d

Castle Rat are mostly heavy/doom with lots of emulation of Black Sabbath. For some reason several such woman-fronted bands cropped up in recent-ish years, namely also Druidess and Hail Darkness

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d

I'm not big on actual 80s music, so I feel like they have some type of modernization that gets my goat. Castle Rat was the soundtrack to painting cibderblock basement walls a vague gray teal. Pretty good match.

Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 141d

Really got into? The Strokes three or four years ago.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 141d

It's been a year or so but probably Reagan Youth

muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 3 pts · 141d

Ho99o9

Industrial, hardcore, punk, rap, metal, all at the same time.

"Street Power"

Linktank@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 141d

More artists than bands, but:

Lubalin and Su Lee

Hyaline_Cat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d (1 reply)

Sleep Theory - not to be confused with Sleep Token

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 141d

Super good band, got to see them open for Nothing More in '24

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d

Been digging the Wee Hairy Beasties:

https://youtu.be/59nn4Yepnzk

Beacon@fedia.io · 2 pts · 141d

Mamalarkey their song Big Trouble is such a goddamn banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tNxl2Q2hzw

BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d

Wooze. Put their entire discography on a playlist, hit shuffle. You're welcome.

Battle Tapes. Their latest album is a few years old, but it's solid all the way through. Their entire discography is also worth it, though.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 141d

I need to check out if Ashnikko has anything other than Worms that is good. I found the song looking for songs specifically about BPD and the list I was using said most of her discography is about it.

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d

A few recent ones are Ducks Ltd, Cindy Lee and MJ Lenderman/ Wednesday.

UsefulIdiot@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 141d (2 replies)

I can’t stop listening to these two freaks from Belgium called La Jungle.

https://youtu.be/a-YEC8cjJGA

Super high intensity fun fast jams

I don’t understand why they aren’t huge

CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 140d (1 reply)

This is a whole subgenre of EDM called Jungle, which is probably why they aren't popular as it was never super popular to begin with and they are one group in a sea of groups.

UsefulIdiot@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 139d

Sure, but they don’t play jungle music. They also probably suffer because there are other bands called Jungle.

But I love them the best and hope you enjoy listening to them.

fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d

Fluisteraars and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (specifically the microtonal albums).

seathru@quokk.au · 2 pts · 141d (1 reply)

Peeling Flesh: They don't have high production values, thought provoking lyrics or a coherent style, But it is an interesting mix of genres that fucking slams.

muxika@piefed.muxika.org · 2 pts · 141d

Same here. I think they toured with Whitechapel. The G Code is a batshit crazy album and I love it.

backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 141d

Haywire. Musically they might not hit me as deep and profound as say, Bad Religion. But for live show intensity… Fuck, it’s like the 90s again. A sweaty crush of humanity getting their eardrums blown while someone back-flipping off the balcony knocks their teeth out. Fun for all ages!

elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 141d

They are Gutting a Body of Water

riquisimo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 140d (2 replies)

I think for me that might be Unleash the Archers. I ended up looking through their discography and while their earlier stuff was a tad rough, everything from the album "Apex" onward is great. The quintessential UtA single for me is Awakening.

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d

Someone snuck their song Northwest Passage into a sea shanty Playlist and then they were in my life from then on. Soulbound is in my rotation, too

ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 140d

My roommate said he was trying to find bands that reminded him of Gojira and found them YouTube. For me the one song that reminds me of them is "Tonight we ride" from the intro to everything after it's just my favorite.

https://youtu.be/UOvZKJlrtk8

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 141d (1 reply)

I don’t know how new they are but band of horses and Lord Huron

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 141d

I definitely meant "new to you". My example is like a decade old, but I discovered them just recently.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 141d

Ladrones

I don't know Spanish.

systemglitch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d

Billy Talent

I've been getting into decades old music since.

AverageEarthling@feddit.online · 1 pts · 138d
XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d

Seconding Castle Rat and Unleash the Archers. To add diversity, I found Cellar Darling around the some time. Some type of metal, vague Scandinavian influence, ethereal vocals, and, now a necessity to life, hurdy-gurdy solos

BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 140d

I got really into Flopsy's Dream and their debut album Pleasant Pudding last summer.

It's the secondary project of Tom Davies, a Geoguessr YouTuber I've been following for years. Soft, laid-back rock that hit the spot just right for me.

johsny@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

Royal Blood and Spoegwolf.

gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 141d
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MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 141d

Two that I just absolutely LOVE after I came across them:

Theocracy:

https://youtu.be/143Bj62fm-Y

Uplifting Christian power metal. They SHRED and bring me hope in this dark world.

Smash Into Pieces:

https://youtu.be/3NpjfRKOblg

I'm digging pretty much everything they do. "Trigger" is a favorite but I play the dopamine out of everything they make. That's a really rare and fantastic feeling to vibe so well with a group/artist. :D

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 140d

Oh God so many

Lebrock

Fm84

Przm

Dylan Gossett

Ryan Birmingham

Billy strings

So many more but these are what comes immediately to mind.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 141d

The newest artist I got into is Amélie Farren, who came out with some singles and a debut album last year.

But the artist I got into most recently is Chicago's own Beach Bunny, whose 2025 album Tunnel Vision I've been listening to on repeat for weeks now, along with the single "Year of the Optimist", which: if you're going to check out one song from them, that's the one IMO.

Beth@piefed.social · 1 pts · 141d

Johnny booth

bizzle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

Mamaleek were a breath of fresh air when I discovered them around five years ago, after thinking I've heard basically all genres already. It was like hearing good music for the first time again.

hopesfall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

Definitely Kalandra

Another banger

Don't even know the genre (always a good sign in my book)...folky proggy post rock?

moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d

Apes of the State, which is now sending me on a folk punk deep dive

islandcoda42@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 141d
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