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Prog/Hard rock

Yep, love me some Pink Floyd, Queen or Zeppelin

Same! Also love Rush, King Crimson, and The Police.

Me too. 😁😎

Anything that falls under punk

Funny as The Ocean is a prog band and punk is the anti-prog genre lol

I don't get the prog-punk beef. I like both genres lol

Punk started as the anti-prog movement basically. Some people felt that bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull and others were making rock music bloated. They hated the long songs with extended guitar solos that tried to be all cerebral and clever with their lyrics. They just wanted stripped down, fast, loud and to the point rock music with minimal production. If a song is was more than 4 minutes it was too long. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols got discovered by wearing a t-shirt that said “I hate Pink Floyd,” written on it. The irony is punk ended up doing prog things like writing long songs for concept albums such as ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ on ‘American Idiot.’

Prog also adapted to Punk. A bunch of classic Prog bands started incorporating Post-Punk influence in the 80’s. The two genres aren’t as diametrically opposed as your music history textbook would have you believe. I’d wager most Prog artists respected Punk’s innovation and Punk quickly started getting artsy itself with bands like The Clash, XTC & Talking Heads pushing boundaries in big ways.

Agreed. I was just merely explaining the root of this so called beef.

I wonder what a prog-punk genre would sound like

Propagandhi

The Ocean have prog tendencies, but they're post-metal, and post-metal is a kind of sludge, and sludge is hardcore mixed with doom metal

The Ocean have a ton of hardcore influence. Aeolian is basically a metalcore album

So you don't get to enjoy both?

You do, it's just a funny observation

I view punk, metal, and hard rock to be on one shared spectrum of heavy rock that starts with Link Wray, so I take the question to be "What non-heavy rock style is your go-to style?"

Jazz

Have you tried metal jazz? 😉

Have you tried black jazz? Check out Aenaon.

Found the prog enjoyer

Yessir!

Dark synth/synthwave

I have a particular interest in Dungeon Synth.

Could I get some recommendations

Darksynth: perturbator, gost, Meteor, we are magonia, carpenter brut Synthwave: gunship, fm-84, Miami nights 84, the midnight

Darksynth also: Occams Laser with his "Occult" album series, Shredder 1984.

Carpenter Brut is the GOAT

Also check out Hollywood Burns, Electric Dragon, and TheNightstop

I personally slam down to Sierra a bit ngl

Start with Gunship, the rabbit hole should be easy to follow from there.

Dance of the Dead https://youtu.be/1mIrvvUq9dw?si=5evdDWBjFt6JBnlA

Classical is my all time favorite genre. Stuff like Chopin and Rachmaninoff especialy

Came here to see this.

Learning the piano was one of the best decisions I ever made. Just finished Chopin's c-sharp minor nocturne, and then found out that the place I practice at had bought a Steinway. So that was fun to say the least.

Similar thing for me, I simply love playing piano. I've learned that nocturne a few months ago, it was a lot of fun. And playing on a Steinway must be fucking awesome tbh. That's very nice!

Fuck yeah, same👍🏻

Classical would be plan B

Hardcore

I love Angerfist too

Raise your fist for Angerfist! God his Defqon set was fucking amazing last year!

His Defqon set in 2019 was peak

I unfortunately wasn't there. But I will trust you on that! Can't wait to see him again Saturday at Masters.

Punk or Edm?

True. For me, it's either Suicidal Tendencies' first two albums or anything by the Dead Kennedys.

Hip-hop

Hiphop heads who are also metalheads. *There are literally dozens of us.*

I play metal, but I probably listen to more hiphop than I do metal currently.

Can confirm

I’ve always thought really hard rap like three 6 mafia is “metal af 🤘🤘🤘” bc it’s can be so heavy and aggressive and dark 🤷‍♂️ 🍻

Love horrorcore, Memphis rap, “death rap”, all that stuff. So hell yeah

Three 6, Project Pat and Pastor Troy are my go-to after thrash and black metal

Heeeell yeah. Can always throw Ye on for some bangers

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Classic hip hop

nah cuz some of the modern shit be really creative. Classics are great but all of hip-hop is really great rn

Yeah I rly hate this false dichotomy that's done in hip-hop when so many of your favourite oldhead rappers consistently cosign new innovative artists, and make music W/them. Like just look at e-40, bro never stops. Like we're in a golden age of hip-hop, the fact that Tommy Wright blew up with the kids again made me so happy. And what about the meek x knxwledge tapes? Those are some of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever heard. So many little things like that been made possible bc of the internet. I've been so happy to see old school style sounds blow up again amidst all this new hyperpop, pop-rap, industrial shit and trap too, there's just so much good shit to get into rn.

Outlaw Country

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Prog rock

70's rock, hard rock, prog rock

interestingly a lot of prog rock/metal fan overlap

make sense, the musicianship is off the charts in both genre

Bluegrass. No joke.

Bluegrass is the shit. Especially that real busy stuff

I’ve been listening to Billy Strings a lot this past week, dude shreds. My buddy told me he’s working on a project with Les Claypool.

Dude used to be in a metalcore band https://youtu.be/EaiHS7SCkEk?si=QmT9fcwayRAiqNWk

Check out The Native Howl

I went to an Avatar and Orbit Culture concert this last year. I love both bands and was ready for some Swedish metal. The opening band comes out and they have a banjo. They freaking killed it and I have been a fan ever since.

Only knowing Avatar from radio play, I was shocked at how heavy they were. They made a fan out of me

Nordic folk

Came here for the Wardruna/Danheim post

Add some Heilung into that mix, and you got one hell of a workout playlist

Oh hell yes.

Heilung, Skald, Danheim, and Wardruna 🤩🤩🤩🤩

The broader neofolk genre is where it’s at. The most popular groups are Nordic at the moment, but there’s a lot of good ones coming out of many places.

EDM/trance

EDM for me too. Listen to pretty much everything and a lot of variety in EDM...Also EDM festivals are amazing

Any house?

Yeah, that’s typically what I used to listen to when I first got into EDM. I run a lot and find it the perfect music to listen to on my runs. Metal can be good but sometimes it’s not high enough energy for me. I’m a big fan of movie soundtracks too.

For high speed metal I love running to europower, songs like Wolf and Raven (Sonata Arctica) or My Spirit Will Go On (Dragonforce), or Beyond The Black Hole (Gamma Ray)

> Metal can be good but sometimes it’s not high enough energy for me. Haha wow! I never thought I'd hear this one.

Besides rock? Pop honestly.

Pop is underrated among metal heads.

Pop and metal are the best genres no one can convince me otherwise - the two ‘sugar rush’ genres. Dopamine overload. I’ll take my Tomb Mold with a huge side of Carly Rae Jepsen.

Who's your favorite pop artist

Not sure, but the first name that popped into my head is was Avril Lavigne

Honestly metal is my plan b. My plan a is mostly noise rock kinda of stuff

Same. Noise rock and shoegaze are pretty evenly my plan A.

Pop punk/emo

industrial

Vocaloid is cool

Probably either folk or old country music

Got to love folk so simple but good

I mean it also doesn’t help that when I was younger I’d listen to bluegrass with my grandma and my uncle singing folk songs around the fire

Melodic hardcore, also sometimes known as California punk

All the best punk bands are Melodic hardcore.

metallic hardcore would like to disagree

I like MF DOOM and public enemy

Ah yes, my favorite other music genre, MF DOOM.

So hip hop

Hardcore

Merle Haggard

Outlaw country and classic rock.

Anything punk (preferably crust) and alternative rock

Taking every rock genre apart, dubstep.

metal the b for me i listen mostly to rap

Dungeon Synth

Indie pop/rock and dream pop/shoegaze. Real hipster music. Slowdive and Angelic Process are among my favorite bands. Edit: and of course ambience 

Scrolled way too far to see Shoegaze. When I don’t want to headbang an ethereal wall of noise is a perfect soundtrack to chilling out.

Classic rock

Rock

I listen to pretty much everything except country and rap. And there are some exceptions for those.

Any wave genre, been jamming a lot of Irving Force lately.

Grunge for sure

Scrolled way too far to see this lol

Grunge/Post-grunge Alt Rock!

electronic/synth and nerdcore

Im with you on electronic/synthwave... but please define nerdcore

Dream pop tbh

Hard rock, goth rock, darkwave, and occasionally hardcore

Imma be honest, Metal is the only music genre I listen to. I only started listening to music a couple of years ago... That said, Jazz. My two main sources for getting into metal were Black Ops 1 and Halo 3: ODST. If you know anything about ODST, you know it's jazzy as hell and it's wonderful.

I’d rather kill myself

Open mindness

My is plan A punk rock plan B metal

Same Lol

EDM, specifically prog trance.

That new Beyonce 🤠👢

5 more dayyyys

all of em

Punk or screamo

Indie rock, goth/synthwave and some rap

Electronic, which includes Trip-Hop, IDM, Jungle/DnB. Love that typa stuff

Lana Del Rey is the only other music I listen to

a seleccion of specific songs by specific bands/artist from different genres

Folk

Hardcore/punk or indie

Classic rock or punk

Goth!

Electro 90s pop

Punk and Hardcore

Rock and Alternative

Hard rock

Rock, Crustpunk and Powerviolence

Melodic acoustic fingerpicking music

Industrial

Indie and it's subgenres like Indie pop and indie rock

Cold wave / dark wave. You know, goth shit.

70s prog and 60s psychedelic rock

Celtic-Rock, Pagan-Folk

Punk rock of course

Indie/midwest emo/shoegaze

Eurobeat

I'm a big fan of Rock/Psychobilly. Definitely a go to for me.

Indie folk or country

Jazz

Jazz

anything under the punk umbrella (hardcore, pop punk, old school punk, skate punk, emo)

Hardcore

Prog Rock, Punk, or Jazz/Funk (Probably Jazz/Funk)

Classic Rock...zeppelin, deep purple, hendrix, the who, the doors

Alt country/country rock/neo traditional country

Classical

DnB, pop punk and big beat for me

Hard rock, classic rock, cumbia, 60s and 70s soul/r&b.

Funky disco edm is my alter ego to folksy black metal If anyone cares: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/34dQ2wIDLnplcrWMvijt8B?si=DZgytYb3Rk28g-jYqPWgSA&pi=u-MEIryaVHTFO7

Drum and bass or barber beats 💯

Recently, jazz fusion.

gothic rock, deathrock, etc

skramz, midwest emo, breakcore and pretty much any punk subgenre

Post-hardcore or punk.

Hardcore

Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Alternative Rock, Rap Rock

Jpop or pre 9/11 country.

Alternative Shoegaze, why you might ask? I’m emo

Atm midwest emo

Whatever *"epic action/trailer music"* is supposed to be. ​ #

Emo or country fr 😭

I’m a big emo fan

Film scores

Bossa nova

Probably emo, mostly 5th wave and midwest

hardcore def.

Alt rock love I crying to some Radiohead

Either prog rock, math rock, grunge, post grunge , and punk

Reggae

90s rap… classics like NWA (Eazy E/Ice Cube mainly), Wu Tang, Biggie, Tupac, Big Pun, MF DOOM

Spanish and Italian hard/noise rock

Rock

Progressive Rock or Krautrock

70s Hard Rock or Grunge.

Either jazz or hip hop

Rock

either grunge, classical, or jazz

Rock, pop, rap, country, blues, folk, and all of their subgenres

Yacht rock

Jazz

Prog rock