Music thread

[kamikazekeeg]

If you want something to really bang your head to, Maximum the Hormone came out with a new version of their old song "Shimi", doing it with the pop group Atarashii Gakko! and it's great.  I love the original, but this is such a fun take that works perfectly with their usual mixing of styles.  I love in particular when a band re-records old stuff, especially if they are just as good, if not better than what they use to be and Maximum can still go hard.  Maximum is just an absolute favorite band of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRgh01Xb1U

[kamikazekeeg]

If wanting a good rock/heavy metal album, check out "Rebirth - Greatest Hits" from Old Gods of Asgard.  It's a collection of the music they've done for Alan Wake 1/2 and Control, but it all works together as like one great rock album.  Don't even have to know the games, only one song is actively talking about story stuff from the game, and that's Herald of Darkness, but even then, it's a good song to listen to on its own, I probably heard it a dozen times before I actually got around to playing Alan Wake 2 lol

[redblaze57]

As of right now I think the worst album this year is
Incubus - Morning View XXIII

The re-recording of this Album is just... Bad. Brandon Boyd just sounds off to me. The bass is almost non-existent and whenever you do hear it, it's very muted. Unless they aren't allowed to make money off that album due to some weird copyright BS, I think it was a bad idea to remake this album.

[cygnusjaklynn]

My Top 20 favorite bands/artists
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bO3Xbm6eHZsXSS4OKw2ka

Nightwish
JAM Project
DragonForce
Celldweller
Lacuna Coil
HIM
Kouji Wada
Spineshank
Static-X
Subway to Sally
Iris
LiSA
Faun
Rhapsody of Fire
Essenger
Scandroid
The Birthday Massacre
Ghost
Shoko Nakagawa
KANA-BOON
L'Arc En Ciel

[Cartagia]

Spineshank?  Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

[dhaabi]

My Top 20 favorite bands/artists
L'Arc En Ciel

You may find these items in the database interesting.

Light My Fire: L’Arc-en-Ciel
Don't Be Afraid: L'Arc-en-Ciel

[marvelvscapcom2]

Anyone here like My Chemical Romance or Evernescence?

[kamikazekeeg]

This might be one of the very few pop albums I've ever listened to nearly all the way through, but Lady Gaga's new album "MAYHEM" has some pretty good  tunes lol There's definitely a few songs I'm not super into, but there's a lot of that works for me, that whole "Dark Pop" vibe she has, some kinda throw back synthy stuff, it just has more to it that works for me compared to most pop. 

I've liked a couple songs of hers in the past like Judas, but generally never listened to much since.  The real standouts are definitely Disease and Abracadabra, but there's some other good bops too.  It's mostly the first half of the album that I think works for me, the latter half not so much, but as someone who rarely listens to pop songs, that's pretty good.

[dhaabi]

Previous Annual Listening Stats: 2024

Favorite Albums Released in 2025
Out of the 50 albums released in 2025 that I listened to last year, I have four marked as being regarded as something of a favorite.

Billy Woods - Golliwog | May 9, 2025
Tatsuro Murakami - Mita Koyama-cho | May 23, 2025
Tyler, the Creator - Don't Tap the Glass | July 21, 2025
Joey Valence & Brae - Hyperyouth | August 15, 2025

For context, I listened to 897 total albums last year with 48 marked as favorites. As always, I'm generally open to all sorts of genres and welcome suggestions. Here are some listening stats for those 48 favorites:

Nationalities
?: 1
CA: 2
FR: 2
JP: 16
NL: 1
RU: 2
UK: 4
US: 20

Decades
?: 2
1950s: 1
1960s: 2
1970s: 4
1980s: 13
1990s: 3
2000s: 9
2010s: 5
2020s: 9

And lastly, I listened to music this past year from 31 different countries: AT, AU, AZ, BE, BR, CA, CH, CN, CO, DE, EE, ES, FR, GH, IS, JP, KR, MX, NL, NO, PO, PR, RU, SE, SI, TW, TZ, UK, US, VN, ZA

[kamikazekeeg]

I wasn't keeping track of everything I was listening to last year, though my favorite album was Ghost's new album, "Skeleta". It was an album that grew on me, as other than a few particular songs, it didn't really hit me, especially coming off of Impera, but songs like Peacefield, Satanized, Lachryma, are super strong songs for me.  It's still below albums like Impera and Meliora for me, but still a solid album.

Can't remember if I listened to much else, I did listen to the new Castle Rat album, which is good, but I didn't listen to it enough compared to something like Skeleta and I had just found the band last year, so it was more just listening to that and their previous one at the same time.