Favorite recent music

[HugoVirtuoso]

Ruttolehto sis. Päivättömän Päivän Kansa by Moonsorrow

Finnish masterpiece for the ages!

[Pete Mack]

Today's been The Pogues and Symphony Fantastique... Got to love the ORIGINAL Hells Bells tune, from ~1830.

[MattB]

+1 for Leonard Cohen

[Pete Mack]

What an amazing lyricist. So underrated.

+1 for Leonard Cohen

[NimrodPE]

I second "Leonard Cohen +1" ;D

Since yesterday greek songs (tragoudia, laiko tragoudia), for example: Nikos Makropoulos

And, of course, the all-time great classic pieces from Telemann, Schubert, Schumann, Mahler and co: Great playlist from LoGH

Found some days ago, quite the funny dude: NGE Cover

[HugoVirtuoso]

Cthulhus Scorn - Nyarlathotep

Btw, Cthulhus Scorn is basically the Manegarm band with each band member with H.P. Lovecraft names

[Raajaton]

Ruttolehto sis. Päivättömän Päivän Kansa by Moonsorrow

Finnish masterpiece for the ages!

Agreed! Moonsorrow is one of my favorites! I got to see them live in February @ 70,000 Tons of Metal! (Annual Metal Cruise with 60 bands!)

Some of my favorites to listen to while *banding :

Behemoth - The Satanist
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Psycroptic - Psycroptic
Emperor - Into the Nightside Eclipse
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle

[HugoVirtuoso]

This masterpiece is one of the best instrumentals I've heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V47hPO7gSok

Song: Equiliibrium - Aufbruch (Bonus)

I also randomly found this one - more Tolkien-like I guess:

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

Song: Wuthering Heights - Bad Hobbits Die Hard

[Estie]

Speaking of instrumentals, I recently stumbled upon this not-so-recent one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48PJGVf4xqk

Long ago, I loved it; turns out I still do, and judging by the million views on the video, I am not the only one.

[Qyx]

That made me listen to my favorite early Floyd song again -- "Julia Dream" -- still great, don't know why it wasn't on an album (other than the later compilations).

[Mars]

I recently discovered the album 'Fetch' by 'Melt banana', some japanese band. Hard to describe, kind of an experimental punk/melodic/noise/electroninc/pop thing. I have no idea what they're singing about, but it sounds pretty cool . (I usually don't care much for lyrics anyway, I listen more to instrumental music, house, soundtracks etc )

Youtube link.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Here's a wild one from a Japanese band called Boris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbw62iCsS34

Song: Boris - Pink

[Pete Mack]

Most recently I listened to Einhorn's. "Voices of Light", a soundtrack written in the 1990s for "Passion of Joan of Arc" from 1928. Great choral music for a brilliant early movie.

[HugoVirtuoso]

This song is sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1mAV4Crjw

Ensiferum - Way of the Warrior

[Pete Mack]

Hugo--my trouble with much recent metal is that the chord progressions are seriously hackneyed. The one you link is a case in point: excellent guitar playing, but the tune doesn't remotely compare to (say) Thunderstruck or Technical Difficulties. Those are genuinely interesting musically--as is much Van Halen. TwoCello's cover of Thunderstruck demonstrates just how interesting a tune it really is--not to mention making an utterly hilarious music video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk