times Devin has taken the difficult route just to avoid making easy, low-effort, mainstream-appealing music. Certainly some of his iterations are more commercial in sound, but that's hardly a bad thing just in itself, and he is
the Devin Townsend Project was because he felt it was becoming too commercial, too safe, and therefore too artistically restricted, and he endured a lot of criticism to move on without DTP. Same thing for Strapping. Numerous
That's a very rudimentary and ultimately inaccurate reduction of somebody with a deep and varied catalogue. There are certainly some albums he's done that are more commercial and less interesting, but the whole reason he retired
Yeah that’s a pretty ridiculous statement. The guy just loves music ands does what he loves. Don’t see how you could listen to Terra or City or Ocean Machine and come to the conclusion that he’s trying to make a buck.
It's obvious in this web page we are brought toghether by one music genre, but what about the rest?
I wanted to know which are your other favorite musical genres out side metal (if you have any), and if you may want to comment why.
I didn't create a poll so it could be more open, besides I wouldn't be able to fill all the possible genres, so...
Ok, so, just feel free to discuss this and tell what you think
I like goth rock, psychedelic rock and I have a thing for New Age music otherwise I like the odd occasional song from different genres but I wouldn't consider myself a fan of those genres.
I love so many genres, but if I really had to choose specific genres, it would be Jazz, Classical, Hip-Hop, Pop Music (A la The Beatles), and Alternative/Indie in all of its myriad forms.
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"You travel within the glory of my memories, insect. I can feel your fear as you tread the endless expanse of my mind. Make yourself comfortable... before long I will decorate my home with your carcass."
I'm from a black neighbourhood, this neighbourhood, and I've not seen a white boy with a guitar on a music poster here in my lifetime.
However, the local music scene is rocking and I grew up here.
My station, my roads, my everything, here; am like 'Hello?'
In 2015, I saw them filming this as I stepped out of the train station walking home fresh from work in my construction gear, I was on the phone to a good friend I knew from Soho at the time, and I said 'I don't know who they are, but look at their chains/bling'..
Turns out it was promoting Straight Outta Compton (2015) that movie there;
Hip-hop, all the way. In fact, that's what I've been listening to for many months now while metal is on pause. I'm trying to get deeper into hip-hop, just like how it happened with metal a few years ago.
PS: You have some cool hip-hop to share? I'm all ears.
My favorite genre outside metal is dark folk, but in fact this style derives from black metal and post-punk.
Some instrumental dark folk music is really very similar to black metal rhythms and emotions.
Synthwave (though the Synthwave I listen to nowadays is more metal influenced, i.e. Darksynth)
Post-Rock
Ambient (usually Dark Ambient)
80s Goth Rock/Darkwave
No Wave
Trip-Hop
Hip-Hop
Celtic Folk
Celtic Punk
Hardcore/Crust Punk
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"... And I will face the grave with you
You'd only have to ask me to
Take this flesh up from this stone
And let it burn..."
Modern Classical, Post-Punk, Progressive Rock/Electronics, Dark Ambient, Experimental Hip Hop.. anything if music it's close enough with dense atmosphere, I'd love to listen to it.
I've actually been into a lot of Wave stuff since Darkwave can get pretty Metal and some Metal bands I dig implement Wave in their music (I.E. Abstract Void)
I've actually been into a lot of Wave stuff since Darkwave can get pretty Metal and some Metal bands I dig implement Wave in their music (I.E. Abstract Void)
I don't think "wave" means much as such - it just indicates a movement of some sort (e.g. second wave of black metal). I didn't do any research, but I imagine it mostly comes from "New wave", which was at first mostly just a declaration of doing something different, and "No wave" as a deliberate reaction. I dunno, maybe Dark wave is from that same era, and clearly it has some post-punk roots, but I wouldn't exactly put Blondie, early Swans and Elend even into the same umbrella category. Random -wave microgenres, like vaporwave, don't seem to have any connection with New wave.
There's so much good stuff around it's extremely difficult to pick just one genre or subgenre. Right now I'd say it's between some funky jazz, fusion and experimental and progressive electronic music, space music, psychedelic stuff, etc. that's just as hard to categorize, post-punk also kicks some ass. Japanese fusion jazz especially is some of the best, the jazzy 80's Japanese pop, city pop or whatever people call it sounds cool.
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!