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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
Here's my chart: https://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/collage.php?user=vaotix&type=7day&size=3x3&caption=true
Currently listening to Myrkur's new EP. Also Lacuna Coil released a new song.
I'll also be giving a listen to Einar Solberg's new solo album. He's the singer for the prog metal band Leprous.
The new Kendrick & Keem release was on repeat for a few days since it dropped. Currently re-discovering Daft Punk's Discovery.
Discovery is a timeless record. Have you checked out the accompanying anime movie Interstella 5555?
I had no idea about it! Generally not big on anime but I might check it out with one of my siblings who is.
How are the two connected? Does it tell a similar story to the one told throughout the album?
You're right that the story is similar. A Japanese animation studio made it a couple of years after they released the album. It's like a feature film-length music video. If you're into listening to albums beginning to end it would be a great way to experience Discovery.
I’ve been listening to Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain. I’m on a big psychedelic/funk kick these days. I’m open to some recommendations too.
You've probably already heard these but...
There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone. Setting aside all the profound sociopolitical circumstances out of which this album arose, this music is deep funk, so deep Sly can yodel and make it work, make it as black as the space that cowboy is floating in, so deep you can just fall into it and never stop falling. Amazing stuff.
Cymande by Cymande. This is a smooth, flowing album, and the percussion (congas and bongos), both full and hollow, gives off a natural feel. Some parts of the percussion sound like bullfrogs, and the flutes are fireflies. The bass guitar hypnotizes.
Boscoe by Boscoe. A pessimistic side to funk, a genre that is generally more upbeat and positive.
Was crate digging through Funkadelic this morning! "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" is my more mainstream favorite of there's, and my all time favorite Funkadelic track is a little lesser known, "I'm Never Gonna Tell It".
Big fan of Maggot Brain.
Recommendation: give Kourosh Yaghmaei a twirl.
A classic. My god I love that song.
I've been checking out a bunch of the bands from this /r/poppunkers post about female vocalists. Really digging Future Teens so far.
I've been listening to a lot of rap this past week.
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
Madvillany - Madvillain
Born Sinner - J. Cole
and a bunch of others.
My eternal quest for perfect vintage throwbacks continues.
We might have to talk about Ren. He's a problem. He's getting people to read Animal Farm and watch A Clockwork Orange. We can trust CNN to get right on that.
Ren thinks you should hear Dirt Miller and Chinchilla. I think so too.
The new 100 Gecs album is amazing. Been listening to it a lot. Hollywood Baby and The Most Wanted Person are my current favorites.
Hollywood Baby is great. Out of all the hyperpop artists that came out of the woodwork in the last five years, no one has surpassed the Gecs for me.
Same! Was driving around to this album earlier today. "Hollywood Baby" is songwriting perfection.
Recently stumbled upon the outsider house/ambient label 100% Silk. Discovered them through the late Cherushii's great EP with Maria Minerva being recommended to me through Spotify ("Out by Myself" is great). Another recommendation I'd give from this label is Auscultation's album L'étreinte imaginaire. Something about this type of music really helps me get into a productive groove.
On the dirtier side of things, Paranoid London's self titled album always lingers in the back of my mind and is completely hypnotic every time I listen to it. It's so simple, yet so effective to me.
I also have been really enjoying the catalogue of hip-hop collective Griselda, particularly Westside Gunn's HWH series and Flygod is an Awesome God. Honorable mentions to Supreme Blientele and the original FLYGOD. I've been consistently enjoying Mach-Hommy's output too - recently dropped a new EP with Tha God Fahim, that also happens to be on streaming this time.
It's probably been done to death so I'm sorry if that's the case. Ever since I found Ren a few weeks (ok maybe months) back I've been on his music and the band he is part of The Big Push.
I absolutely love the stories he tells, how open his is about mental health and the "one shot" videos are brilliant. It's so good to see his music really hitting hard for so many people.
Not this week, but discovered Em Beihold recently
I particularly like Goo, Rollercoasters Make Me Sad, Groundhog Day, and Numb Little Bug.
Thank you. You have awesome taste in music.
Not sure if you've heard of Keifergr33n. One of my favorite artists. He has a series called "What's Happening" that you can also find hour long mixes of with awesome visuals. Great to have on in the background at a party.
Keifergr33n - What's Happening 2 Vol 5
reminds me a lot of Kleptones back then... fantastic stuff!
A night at the hop hopera
Live'r than you'll ever be
From Detroit to JA
Babymetal's newest album sounds different from their past albums and I like it
They've definitely changed their style a bit. I like it, but not sure I like it more than their older stuff.
Tom Brosseau - Grass Punks
Country: USA
Release Year: 2014
Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk
Featured Instruments: acoustic bass, bass, electric guitar, male vocals, mandolin, synth pads, tenor guitar
My response to the music: All the rustic, cozy narrative beauty that comes to fruition on Perfect Abandon is in its staging ground here. And that staging ground? Yep, you guessed it: the Los Angeles city bus system. Songs of observation. Confessional, charming acoustic-driven tunes of longing, home, and memory.
Tom Brosseau – North Dakota Impressions
Country: USA
Release Year: 2016
Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk
Featured Instruments: acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, electric bass, harmonica, male vocals, spoken word, tenor guitar
My response to the music: More charming, stripped-down Brosseau. More introspection couched in plainspoken, rustic poetry. More walks down memory lane. More heartbreak, but also more hope.
Lhasa - La llorona
Country: USA (Mexico)
Release Year: 1997
Genres: Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Featured Instruments: accordion, banjo, bass guitar, clarinet, double bass, drums, female vocals, guitar, lap steel, musical saw, programming, sampling, sousaphone, violin
My response to the music: Charming female-led folk sprinkled with spice and garnished with jazz manouche coziness.
Nalle - The Sirens Wave sample
Country: UK
Release Year: 2008
Genres: Psychedelic Folk, Avant-Folk
Featured Instruments: accordion, bouzouki, cello, clarinet, female vocals, flute, gimbri, guitar, hammered dulcimer, handclaps, harmonium, jaw harp, kantele, male vocals, mbira, moog, oscillator, oud, recorder, shruti box, singing bowl, viola
My response to the music: Vocals halfway between selkie and hag, lyrics sung in Finnish and English, a music caught between two worlds, using that tension to blend something beautiful and mysterious. Track 3 is the lure, and if I'd been Odysseus' shipmate, I would've been livid that I'd plugged my ears and missed the music. Actually, I wouldn't have known any different, but let me take a moment to observe: ignorance is not bliss. This music is. Human voices, don't wake me now. Let me stay submerged a while longer.
Colette Magny - Colette Magny
Country: France
Release Year: 1967
Genres: Chanson à texte
Featured Instruments: double bass, female vocals, guitar, spoken word, vibraphone
My response to the music: Husky, feminine rawness couched in passionate protest music. Magny is the opera diva singing over the PA system at Shawshank, and I'm the baffled prisoner standing in the exercise yard. To this day, I have no idea what she's saying, but when I hear her voice, I feel free.
Richard Dawson / Ally May / Jazzfinger / Nev Clay - Dawson May Jazzfinger Clay sample
Country: UK
Release Year: 2009
Genres: Contemporary Folk
Featured Instruments: acoustic guitar, female vocals, male vocals
My response to the music: Although this is a four-way split recorded by different artists at different times in different locations, I'm interested only in the first part featuring Richard Dawson. Some very good, accessible tunes herein from a guy notorious for his inaccessibility. For anyone who wants to delve further, the other parts of the split have Drone, Poetry, and Noise.
Richard Dawson - Motherland sample
Country: UK
Release Year: 2008
Genres: Avant-Folk, Soundtrack
Featured Instruments: male vocals
My response to the music: A haunting, open album that is full only in its minimal spaces. Meditative, nuanced, and just a touch frightening as it hints at melancholy without actually being so.
Rosario Alfonso - Lo primero
Country: Chile
Release Year: 2018
Genres: Singer/Songwriter, Folk Pop
Featured Instruments: female vocals, guitar, male vocals, ukulele, Venezuelan cuatro
My response to the music: A beautiful, intimate, warm little debut. Ever so charming and vulnerable.
Akkajee - Akkajee
Country: Finland
Release Year: 2013
Genres: Finnish Folk Music
Featured Instruments: female vocals, nyckelharpa, violin
My response to the music: The kind of acoustic duo that can sing and play the listener into a trance. When the mysterious, rustic strings aren't weaving their own droning spell, they are executed perfectly in support of the playful, traditionally-cadenced vocals.
Cocanha - i ès ?
Country: France
Release Year: 2017
Genres: Polyphonic Chant, Occitan Folk Music
Featured Instruments: bottle, female vocals, foot tapping, handclaps, male vocals, psalterium, spoons
My response to the music: Polyphonic singing with attitude and with an aim to dance!
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen-Shah
Country: Pakistan
Release Year: 1989
Genres: Qawwali
Featured Instruments: harmonium, male vocals, tabla
My response to the music: Whereas Jewish music spins, Islamic music snakes, and on this recording, that snaking is a hypnotic, passionate pursuit of melodic vocal runs.
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - Prairies (sorry but I can’t find a streaming link)
Country: USA
Release Year: 2005
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz
Featured Instruments: female vocals, guitar, viola
My response to the music: The thing about prairies is that at a glance they look like a great expanse of one type of vegetation, but when you get down into the grass and explore the spaces, you see that there is actually a wide variety of life. And that's the comparison I'm making with this cozy, yet challenging little avant chamber jazz album. This debut introduces Halvorson's bubble wrap popping drip-drop guitar playing to the world, and Pavone's violin sweeps over it like wind on the prairie, coming from whence no one knows and going to what is only someone's guess.
Mary Halvorson Quintet - Saturn Sings
Country: USA
Release Year: 2010
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz
Featured Instruments: alto saxophone, bass, drums, guitar, trumpet
My response to the music: As you draw closer to someone, you become more able to freely express yourself. This mystery of private exposure is true not only of relationships but of music. It's all in the comfort level of conversation, knowing when to bend and when to break.
Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone - On and Off
Country: USA
Release Year: 2007
Genres: Chamber Jazz
Featured Instruments: female vocals, guitar, viola
My response to the music: A short yet challenging album. Guitar, viola, and the strange voices of two women. If you can stomach Braxton's wankery, you will enjoy this neat little subversive dish.
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks
Country: USA
Release Year: 1990
Genres: Television Music, Dark Jazz, Ambient
Featured Instruments: clarinet, drums, electric guitar, female vocals, flute, piano, synthesizer, tenor saxophone
My response to the music: As long as this album is playing softly over the speakers, I don't care if silent, sunglassed operatives escort me into a deep-red velour-draped room with a one-way glass wall at the back. I'm just going to assume Julee is back there singing to me anyway.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle
Country: USA
Release Year: 1973
Genres: Spiritual Jazz, Third Stream
Featured Instruments: bass, cello, clarinet, drums, English horn, female vocals, flute, male vocals, nose flute, oboe, piano, saxophone, spoken word, tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet, violin
My response to the music: Imagine being a boxer, and unlaced gloves is part of your winning strategy. Kirk is the drunken master of jazz, slippery, unpredictable, unstoppable. Imagine being able to do the things Kirk does and be taken seriously. Kirk, flying at right angles to the Divine, breaking the glass between you and eternity.
I went to visit a friend in Hawaii a few weeks ago, he used to live in the Bay Area and was a big rap and hip hop guy. Yet when I was with him he was only playing Hawaiian music, and I was really enjoying the laidback and relaxing nature of the songs.
Natural vibrations - okana road
Someone introduced me to a band called
Inhalerthis week and I've been giving them a bunch of spins....I only found out later that the lead singer is Bono's son. I knew I recognized that voice!
They sound like a mix between U2 and The Killers to me. Not a bad thing at all.
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
An atmospheric/indie rock gem. I posted a bit more about it here
Furnace Floor - S/T - https://furnacefloor.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-demo
Was recently introduced to this free 3-track death/doom demo and enjoy it thoroughly
Oromet - S/T - https://transylvaniantapes.bandcamp.com/album/oromet
Transylvanian Recordings consistently releases good stuff and this funeral doom is no exception
The new Ocean record is great - https://theocean.bandcamp.com/album/holocene
Also discovered these two piano/indie/folk gems lately:
https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/romantic-piano
https://nicoledollanganger.bandcamp.com/album/married-in-mount-airy
These are songs I know I've listened to more than once this week, in no particular order:
AnnenMayKantereit - Barfuß Am Klavier
grandson - Overdose
Oomph! - Labyrinth
mewithoutYou - "Tortoises All the Way Down"
ALPHAMEGA - No Longer Broken
Hiraeth Bokyo 望郷 - Stop Asking Me If I'm Okay
Whoa. You're the only other person (besides me) who I've ever seen mention AnnenMayKantereit on here. I'm a huge fan too (and I don't even speak German!). I just absolutely adore Henning May's voice. The first time I heard of them was 11 years ago when one of their improv busking videos went a bit viral, and I've been following them ever since.
p.s. Some other of my favs of theirs:
Roxanne cover (ft Milky Chance)
Tom's Diner cover (ft Giant Rooks)
Sometimes I like to lie (original song)
And their Live in Berlin concert from a few years ago is great too.
That's a cool busking clip! I hadn't seen it before. Those covers are great-- Tom's Diner was how I found them. Sometimes I Like to Lie is definitely another one of my favorites. Es ist Abend is one I really like too. There's something about that session recording that I enjoy more than the studio version, but either are great.
I know how you feel. I almost always opt for watching/listening to live recordings over studio albums. The imperfections are what give bands (and especially singers) their character. That, and most album tend to be way too overproduced for my tastes. Which is why I also tend to prefer stripped-down arrangements, and more intimate concert footage, like you normally see on NPR Tiny Desk and such.
Listening to one of my live music playlists while I send out invites... so came accross another AnnenMayKantereit song I love but didn't mention before, Ausgehen (Proberaum Session)
And I thought you might appreciate it too. :)
That is awesome, thank you! That playlist looks really good too.
Thanks. I was hoping you would notice that and maybe explore it a bit. :P
It finally feels like summer where I am, so Summertime by the incomparable Doc Watson has entered my rotation.
Bonobo - Tides
I just can't get Jamila's voice out of my head.
After watching a YouTube video on the evolution of industrial music, I’ve been exploring some of the catalog from those early pioneers (Throbbing Gristle, Coil, etc.)
I like Coil. Try The Snake River Conspiracy -
lovesong
How Soon is Now
Vulcan
I went to the Blink 182 concert in Brooklyn last week so I've been hooked and listening to all the old albums since.
I’m listening to the posthumous album of a young french artist who died a few months ago, he was highly talented. here is an extract
My husband just discovered Rogue Traders and Watching You is my favorite of theirs: https://youtu.be/rqvOMrYXd7A
Half Moon Run's latest album came out yesterday and I've been listening to it on repeat!
I've been switching between 80s Japanese city jazz, Irish folk/punk, Meg Myers stays heavy in the rotation, and then whatever classic rock Spotify thinks I'll like lol
Been on a huge "angsty" kick lately with the music I've been jamming to. I think the songs in my top rotation so far are these:
This isn't the Tenka-Ichi-Budokai by I Hate Myself
start-crossed by foxtails
You, In Weird Cities by Jeff Rosenstock
Pale by Modern Color
Something about it just makes me want to start a band and scream, semi-melodically, into a mic. lol
I just went to a Plini, Sungazer, and Jakub Zytecki concert, mainly to see Adam Neely (got to meet him - he was manning the merch line!) but everyone there was absolutely killing it.
I'm currently obsessed with Threshold by Sungazer as a result - been stuck in my head the past week as I try to make sense of it musically. It's conceptualized as 33bpm (slowest recognizable beat) with 19-tuplets (fastest recognizable notes), but because they normally split it up into 6-6-7 you can also feel almost like the very natural 3/4 at 100bpm. Adam Neely has a great video on it - The Psychology of Extreme Rhythms
The new Avenged Sevenfold album just dropped Friday and I'm in love with it. It's a controversial release because it's far from a typical metal album but I've branched out to so many different genres in the last 3 years that it makes me appreciate it even more due to its diversity.
I highly recommend it for any progmetal fans.
Been a lot of A State of Trance lately. Been trying to get back into Trance after taking nearly a decade off.
But a lot of music has been synthwave, but even that I’ve taken a bit of a break from, so right now I’ll just list some of my favorites:
Stranger Love - Ollie Wride
Alone with You - Phaserland
Sophie Teenage Dream - morgan willis this one is a full album because it’s amazing.
Just a small sample size of my favorite synthwave track.
Ever since the Youtuber ‚I did a thing‘ played this song I‘ve been obsessed with it. Rediscovered it this week and can’t stop listening once again. If anyone has recommendations for something that sounds similar, please I‘m begging you, let me know.
https://youtu.be/6QTE1Qx-T5I
I also fell into a Chinese 60s rabbit hole, mainly because I was looking for songs that sound like the one above. Give it a try, it‘s really good! And try Cambodian psychedelic rock aswell while you‘re at it, it’s fun!
https://youtu.be/IEOjedaFvE4
Other than that I‘m listening to my Synthwave/Chillwave playlist that I curated over the years. And I also just discovered the band ‚The Growlers‘ and particularly like Night Ride by them. I wish I knew where I heard it first.
https://youtu.be/VyRxTTegjXM
This song has been on repeat for a bit. :)
Been listening to the new Foo Fighters album, But Here We Are, non-stop since it came out last Friday. It is definitely an emotional ride since its about the grieving of the loss of Taylor Hawkins and Dave's mother, Virginia. It is similar but also very different from all their past albums and well worth a listen if you're a fan of the band or Rock in general.
I haven't payed much attention to them past Wasting Light, is it worth jumping back in? Sonic Highways really left a bad taste in my mouth..
There are a couple of decent songs from Concrete and Gold and Medicine at Midnight is pretty meh. This new album is probably their best album since Wasting Light. There was a ton of emotion put into this album and all of the songs reflect that. The most Foo Fighters sounding songs from it are probably Rescued, Under You, But Here We Are, and Nothing at All. The rest definitely sound different from traditional Foo Fighters music but are all very good. My biggest complaint is probably with the production as I am not a big fan of Greg Kurstin's production of Foo Fighters albums (he produced both Concrete and Gold and Medicine at Midnight).
I recently rediscovered The Eels and I love his voice. Hombre Lobo is a fantastic listen
I mostly listen to electronic music, and within that I mainly listen to Jungle and Drum & Bass. Everything from older choppy sounds to smooth modern rollers, I'm into it all:
Photek - Rings Around Saturn (1998)
Big Bud - A Way of Life (1999)
Rizzle - Paradise (2016)
Sabre & Safire - Genie Method (2019)
Black Barrel - New Era (2023)
Gimme some shuffling drums, funky bass, nice atmospheric sounds and I'm happy d-_-b
I tend to listen to music without vocals/lyrics, I often find human voices distract from the melodies and textures and rhythms I'm listening for.
(First post on Tildes! I hope to see many more drum and bass folks here soon!)
I've been listening to a lot of Earth is a Black Hole by Teenage Wrist. Really solid alt-rock/grunge album, the track Earth is a Black Hole is a stand out for me, had it on repeat through the last few weeks.
I've also been listening to Atum by the Smashing Pumpkins. It can't be overstated just how much I'm a fan of the Smashing Pumpkins. I've been a member of Smashing Pumpkins forums, groups and subreddits for years! Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness absolutely changed my life as a 15 year old (33 now, where have the years gone!)
That said, I've had my issues with Billy Corgans SP output since the band split after releasing Machina II for free. There's been some great stuff and some really poor stuff but I'd put Atum in the former. There's 33 songs here that run the gamut of the Pumpkins entire sound from hints of the psychedelic dreamy-shoegaze rock of Gish and Siamese Dream to the beautiful angsty stadium rock of MCIS, the brooding goth tinged electro-acoustic of Adore to the high level industrial concept of Machina I&II. There's some filler and it's not a perfect album, the production isn't fantastic which comes from Billy recording and producing the album himself (his "love it or hate it" voice is too far up front).
My stand ours from the album are below,
I've been listening to the PJ Harvey discography. She has a new album being released in July. A couple videos from it are on youtube. Every album of hers has its own identity, and all her songs take you on an unexpected journey. She's vastly underrated as a songwriter, and her live performances (going from present day all the way back to her beginning in the 90s) are extremely compelling. She's just so wildly intelligent and talented, I feel fortunate to have been enjoying her work for years, as we are about the same age. Everything she's done is gold for me, and her new tracks are mysterious, beautiful, eternal.
I've been on a Liquid Drum & Bass roll this past week, but I've been listening to Sleep Terror's Railroad to Dystopia this evening, pretty fun wild west themed instrumental Technical/Progressive Metal album.
Both of these are winners - I love them. Thank you for sharing!
I had a weird sense of nostalgia and have been binging Especially in Michigan from The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
It rocks decently (not as much as their old stuff) but then shifts to a beautiful chorus.
Went to a Dead & Company show last week so I’ve been listening to them along with some Bob Weir, Miles Davis and revisiting some lounge music with Martin Denny.
new (to me) artists/songs I've been listening to are half man half biscuit and blur's new single. also been listening to a lot of tom lehrer, dexys midnight runners and buzzcocks
I've been listening to the new Sleep Token album Take Me Back To Eden and I really like it. It does have a couple forgettable ones for me but the title track is easily my favorite, just because of how empty it makes me feel.
The Ocean - Holocene, which came out recently. I'm mostly into post-rock and I liked their previous work.
And I've always been attracted to sad/melancholic music since forever.
What I listen to is usually as I describe a mixture between j-pop, hardcore, and denpa. What I listen to everyday changes, I take all the music I like and put it on Musi and throw it on shuffle. Like today I remember listening to dx choseinou full metal shojo, marenol, and nhelv. Along with others. Earlier in the week I remember listening to leica (yamada) and raika (nanawoakari)
I like to dance, so I've been listening to salsa and regueton. A little bit of Tame Impala, as well.
King Gizzard and the lizard wizard mostly: I am seeing them for the first time at the Salt Shed this weekend!
What's your favorite Gizz release this year?
I am going to be honest with you, I am late to the party on Gizz so I've started listening to their earlier stuff first. I'm only at 12 Bar Bruise, but that said Gila shreds- love it. Any suggestions?
No suggestions. I despise the Gizz. Just wondering what you like among their 825 albums over the past decade.
fair enough - haha
Gnaw Their Tongues.
I have passively listened to them in the past but this last week it’s been a deep dive into the band’s discography. Absolutely hooked.
Been hooked on Oh Wonder's No One Else Can Wear Your Crown album. The acoustic versions of the songs are so good.
I’ve been reading this excellent book (I know this is a music thread, just bear with me) called Who They Was, an autobiography of a guy living in a rough housing estate in London. It’s written in slang, like Trainspotting or A Clockwork Orange, so it’s been reminding me of a lot of the UK hip hop I used to listen to in the early 2000s - so to the point, I’ve been listening to a lot of Taskforce, Skitz, Skinnyman, Braintax etc this week.
I don’t usually listen to an appropriate music genre for the book I’m reading, but when it works it can really enhance the experience and give you full immersion!
I wouldn't quite call myself a metalhead- my brother does, and he listens to stuff that's even harder than what I personally like.
Though to be fair, it depends on whether you consider Metallica to be metal or not. I'm not going to get into THAT discussion, but I've been listening to both the Hardwired album, and their new on 72 seasons. 72 seasons is pretty good, but I like Hardwired just a little bit more.
In addition, there's a Japanese band (all girls) called Band-Maid, and they are excellent. Not sure how fair it is to compare them to Babymetal though.
The thing about metal that's great is that it is actually pretty eclectic with the sub-genres. While there are some gatekeepers that won't consider them "true metal" nowadays (whatever that means). Metallica is definitely metal. They just stopped being a thrash metal band more or less IMO. Some parts of Death Magnetic still have that thrash sound. But Load/Reload are metal albums just not necessarily heavy ones throughout.
You can say the modern crossover metal scene is heavily influenced by bands like Metallica and their contemporaries. While I'm a bit of a classic Metallica fan (...And Justice For All and earlier), I will almost always try whatever they put out at least once.
Except Lulu, I could not finish that album. I genuinely tried.
I'm a pretty big metalhead but I listen to a bunch of genres.
Here are a few:
*Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (Rock)
*Cloak - Black Flame Eternal (Blackened Death Metal)
*Omnerod - The Amensal Rise (Progressive Death Metal)
*VHS - Quest for the Might Riff (Crust/Death Metal)
*Metro Boomin - Across the Spider-Verse (Rap/Hip-Hop)
Aimer - Atemonaku
I've been really loving Ordos, especially their album House of the Dead.
It scratches that I hate life, the universe and everything itch just right for me.
In no particular order (or new-ness):
El Bueno Y El Malo - Hermanos Gutiérrez
Do You Want More?!!!??! - The Roots
13 - Blur
Live at Electric Lady - Denzel Curry
NOIR - Blue Sky Black Death
Chulahoma - The Black Keys