MicShazam

I'm not really checking out any new music and haven't been for a while. I'm busy playing the albums on my record shelf that I've gotten since christmas or just giving some love to some old favorites.

I don't want this thread to just collect dust and generate spider webs until I start checking out new tracks again, so I'm going to post some of what I've been listening to.

I think that I can say without a doubt that my tastes in metal are rather... deviant (as in deviating from what I see other MB'ers gravitating towards). I rarely find myself listening to old-school meat and potatoes stuff like thrash, death metal and power metal anymore. There are exceptions, but it's pretty clear to me that I prefer more modern sounding metal styles and bands that are sort of placing themselves between several different styles.

Here's some kind of half-baked attempt at defining my tastes in metal through a series of songs. I haven't thought this through, to be honest. I wanted to post something, so I'm just gonna wing it:

Crisis - Bloodlines


Dir En Grey - Yokusou Ni Dreambox Aruiwa Seijuku No Rinen To Tsumetai Ame


Stam1na - Ikoneklasmia


Jinjer - Dip a Sail


Waltari - Below Zero


This is basically where my head is at these days, as far as metal is concerned. I need to explore a lot of 90's, 00's and 10's metal to find some more things to listen to. I'm just not feeling 99.9% of all bands in more 80's bound metal genres.
Sure, like Crystal Viper (heavy metal) and Megadeth (thrash metal/alternative rock/hard rock), but it's almost never what lights a fire under me anymore.

It's funny to me that I used to hate these modern metal genres, like nu-metal, groove metal, djent based progressive metal, metalcore, etc. - because these days, it's all that I care about. Every time I check out another old school death metal, black metal, heavy metal (etc.) track, I feel at least somewhat bored and and feel that I can't really relate to it. If you consider my age (born in 1981), you'd think that I would be all about 80's metal, but it doesn't do anything for me anymore, unless it's Megadeth (only a slight exaggeration).

The album that made me realize how much my tastes in metal have changed was King of Everything by the Ukrainian band Jinjer. I bought the album recently and I felt like it made it clear to me that, as a metal listener, I am not who I once was.

Jinjer - Just Another


From now on, I'll do what makes sense and be way more open to everything metalcore, groove metal, and other "new-fangled" metal things that the kids listen to these days. There's no point in pretending that it's not where I was meant to go.