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Progressive Metal Music

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Community for progressive metal music, please share some songs and bands you enjoy or discuss anything regarding the progmetal scene.

Prog rock also welcome to post here, but the main focus of the community should be progmetal.

Some other music communities: https://beehaw.org/post/516009

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Given we all live in a decidedly niche music sphere, I thought it might be helpful if we share our tips/tricks for finding new artists. Here's my tried and true: everynoise.com

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[–] teemuki@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been using the custom chart function at https://rateyourmusic.com/ recently. It allows me to drill down to highly specific combinations of genres, influences and descriptors, such as "instrumental noise rock influenced by krautrock" or "noisy avant-prog influenced by post-punk". Back in the day I discovered a lot of new music from obscure internet radio stations. Recommendation algorithms however have never worked for me, they usually just recommend stuff I already know.

[–] virku@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Just stumbled upon this post. Thank you for this! Did a quick test of combinations and it gave me list of albums where three of the top five were in my favorites and the two others were totally new for me. Three tracks in I am loving the first one.

[–] MRPP@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.music-map.com/ can help a bit. It knows surprisingly underground bands.

Random browsing on Bandcamp can produce results too.

[–] polyrhythm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is cool and helpful, thank you for sharing

[–] TiredTarsier@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Accidently from memes, nowadays (sadly). I found out about Simpsonwave and Phonk that way and the latest that I found out was this trio of retired Englishmen who decided to start do freestyle hip hop music on their spare time. While I am more of the "milk from a dirty glass" -kind of lifestyle of a person, I like the attitude behind those filfthy lyrics and how they break age norms. The trio is called The Northern Boys and I would say Party Time is a good song to start 🤣

YouTube was a major source for me, before they did something with their algorithm and how they messed up search function by adding more recommended and promoted content rather than show only the actual results. I love to find good music videos. Like Felix Colgrave made a really cool music video for Fever The Ghost's song SOURCE.

[–] Applesaucenema@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I use angrymetalguy.com and spotify reccomended artists on band pages.

[–] legendarydromedary@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The link doesn't work for me, is it the same as everynoise.com?

I've been mostly using Spotify and some Dutch review sites. I still have a Last.fm account but don't use it much anymore, Spotify has mostly replaced it.

I'm considering switching back to Spotify for just that reason. I jumped over to Tidal a few years back as they pay artists more, but their recommendation algorithms are garbage in comparison.