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theparadox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or “djenty” stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.
I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of “professionals” I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of “Oh, really, you too?”
Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
Their Dogs Were Astronauts (mostly instrumental)
Wide Eyes (mostly instrumental)
Caligula’s Horse (instrumental only tracks available)
Polyphia (mostly instrumental)
Protest The Hero (instrumental only tracks available)
TesseracT (instrumental only tracks available)
Apocalyptica (started covering Metallica as cellos quartet instrumentals, now has a number of original songs with guest vocalists)
Collapse Under The Empire (post rock, mostly instrumental)
Parhelia (post rock, mostly instrumental)
Opeth (occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal)
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Tosin is the greatest guitarist of the millenial generation.
Also his co-guitarist Javier has an excellent project as Mestís.
theparadox@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Another great band!
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Plini as well as The Omnific!
theparadox@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Arch Echo
Behold…the Arctopus
Blotted Science
CHON
Cloudkicker
Covet
Haunted Shores
Intervals
Mestís
Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics. However as a guitar nerd and PtH fan I approve of their inclusion.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
A few more;
Alluvial
An Endless Sporadic (Guitar Hero fans know)
Scale the Summit (but only the first couple albums - Carving Desert Canyons specifically)
TRAM (Tosin Abasi plays jazz)
Teramobil (GREAT introduction to my favorite modern bassist, Dominic LaPointe)
Trioscapes (Between the Buried and Men’s bassist Dan plays jazz)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Behold the Arctopus mentioned!
SoyjacksPointing.jpgUniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Hehehe I knew that would draw you out. Where’s your riffs?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
on my exteral drive, I’ve been busy :(
theparadox@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Arch Echo
Intervals
I’m also a fan, I just didn’t want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I’ll check out the rest.Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics.
Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them. I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
CHON, Covet and Mestís are pretty laid back and so fucking excellent.
Cloudkicker has been around for a long ass time; early-mid 00’s on Myspace. One of the progenitors of the ‘bedroom guitarist’ project, although he toured with Intronaut as his backing band awhile back.
Arctopus and Blotted Science are fucking weird and I love them.
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.
Can relate 100%. I have audio processing oddities that make understanding lyrics difficult. With how many times I’ve listened to their albums (1500 times in a row for Palimpsest! I’ve got the Last.FM receipts for it, even) I know the lyrics mostly by heart. Instead of my brain being distracted trying to comprehend it gets distracted trying to sing along. Thus, instrumental for getting work done.
Also I can’t keep my boys Between the Buried and Me out of this post any longer. Suuuuuuuuch a fucking band. The new album rules, too!
theparadox@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
I feel seen lol