Propagandhi’s new album right now - At Peace
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This track is unironically bitchin’. I want to make a metal cover of this so bad, or maybe just a really aggressive electronic version.
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If you haven’t watched this one yet…Sums up 2025 nicely so far.
"Igorrr says the song is about:
…going deep into severe matters. A need to explore these feelings. Nothing is a joke here: Black metal influences, traditional Tibetan instruments, and excessive distortion to make it even darker. It’s an exploration of an inner feeling that you are possessed and infested by a bad spirit. No fight is possible; you have already lost."
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Damn, I wish he still did breakcore. Did he sign to Century Media or something? 
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Check “ADHD” (first single from the incoming album)
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Man, this one disappointed me. The first 45 seconds or so was really cool, then it turned into a mediocre Behemoth rip off with a couple little glitchy parts. Sure it’s heavy, and it’s ‘good’, but it really sounds like a thousand other blacksomethingorother bands out there.
I think this is probably them just recreating a thing they love without messing with the formula too much. And maybe it’ll get some people interested in heavier music that wouldn’t otherwise go looking for it. I’m just not sure this track is pointed at people already down the rabbit hole of super heavy music.
ADHD is a straight up banger in the vein of Very Noise so they definitely haven’t lost it.
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i personally was also taken aback by how rinsed clean of anything exhibiting what i know from his previous works. i wonder how different my reaction would have been if it was released under a different artist name than the Igorrr moniker
i did like the fact that the track is in a triplet-based odd meter though. not easy to play let alone write functionally.
also the video imagery is fucking DOPE
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Kaiju - Justice
Been 13 years since Ninth Wave, I’ve been hoping one day we would get more Trifonic, and here we are!
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Im getting tired of 90s and 2000s melancholy alterna grunge music…
Nowaday im listening to party rocknroll…like guns and roses paradise city.
Im Over the sad sensitive emo songs.
Also i dont listen to emo music because its too into itself.
And some metal is way too psycho…idk
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haha let’s change the title of this thread to what are you NOT listening to?
xD
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Wait, wait, wait, have you even tried Meshuggah?
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Evil ribbit. That’s quality bullfrogcore.
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I kind of run under the assumption that when people say “i don’t like metal” that they aren’t talking about Meshuggah because… Meshuggah transcends this genre.
Based on the rhythmic/harmonic complexity and the apparent display that nothing they write is random, I cannot in my right mind label it as simply just “metal”. This only happens occasionally with bands/musicians/producers, and I am aware that they overwhelmingly incorporate pretty much all of the defining characteristics of musicality that define metal, but they are not just metal. So when people say “I don’t like metal” my response a lot of the time is “have you heard Meshuggah though?”
I am not what anyone would consider a fan of metal or a metalhead., though I do enjoy it from time to time. depends on my mood. the distortion and rawness and aggressiveness and energy of the genre overall is all front and center, but I don’t see Meshuggah as only “metal” despite the timbral and cultural characteristics. I have spent a good amount of time analyzing their music and as an experienced person in that field I can confidently say that while it fits within the niche of sonic requirements to be nestled under that umbrella term, I could not label their repertoire as strictly that. The complexities of their metric modulation and polyrhythmic qualities blended with the tonalities they work within – exponentially hyper-activated by the FX and distortions they use – create a web of audible intricacy that places them far above many modern composers above the nomenclature of a simple label. It’s fucking impressive, what they’re able to pull off. It almost fits in the niche of modern 20th-21st century avant garde orchestral/ensemble chamber music like that of Elliott Carter for example, along with the changing by layer that is revealed in aspects of minimalist music. It’s obviously not those things either though.
So yeah when people say they don’t like metal I’m like, “surely you like Meshuggah though.” This doesn’t happen often in music. I mean it was kind of the same thing in electronica, notably with Autechre or Aphex Twin, where we all thought, yes this is electronic music technically…but it’s more then just electronic music.
Scholars in the future may agree.
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And Mastodon?
What’s crazy is (IIRC) they broke this soft rule on the ‘I’ EP where the drums were just a completely random take and they orchestrated everything else around them. I’m too lazy to re-research, but even in their sometimes-random moments they manage to do the unthinkable with it
I had them cued up at first and then I was like, “Hey, wait a minute…”
There are a few outliers too, sometimes you can get non-metalheads into bands like God Forbid, Darkest Hour, or maybe even some of Shadows Fall or Killswitch. The American metalcore scene was just sugary enough to get outsiders into it for a brief moment in time
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