What is some music you like?

[Yimpa]

USA, USA, USA! 🇺🇸 

 

[integral]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkkYjHdWJIKALlU6zGzC7YI2d4UluzwB0&si=Yqee9u-Zqj8y_SsM

Full playlist 739 songs

Edited March 7 by integral

[Nilsi]

No idea what the movie is about, but I found this gem in some random Instagram post, and I absolutely love it.

[ZhenZhenZhen]

 

[salvation___________]

@Leo Gura This is the music I'm sure you've been looking for, as I was. This is the music you were talking about in this Blog Post about Metaphysical Music. I reccommend you to listen to the album "Utopia" by the artist Björk, here's a link to the full album. It is very experimental and avant-garde, and it is themed around a utopian isalnd in the sky with mutated birds and plants and people. The sounds sound design is very extra terrestial and phsyical. The majority of the lyrics (make sure to read them while listening) are about topics like metaphysics, universal love, submission to the universe, God (even though not explicitly), consciousness, and spirituality. In terms of content and sound it's the most directly spiritual, metaphysical and transcendental music or piece of art I've ever consumed (and therefore my favorite). I never wrote a blog post before but I did for this because everytime I listen to Utopia I think of all the nondual teachings and about your channel. I know music is not your main thing, but I know your content and nonduality very well and I can assure you with 100% certainty that if you take one hour of your day to listen to it you will be shocked at this music. My favorite songs from it that showcase what I described are "The Gate", "Utopia", "Body Memory", "Claimstaker", "Saint", and "Future Forever".Thats it from me, it would be nice if you let me know what you think of it in case you do listen to it.

Edited March 8 by salvation___________

[Jannes]

 

[Nilsi]

This album is the apex of one of the most fascinating and misunderstood musical movements: post-hardcore.

As the name suggests, post-hardcore emerges out of hardcore, which itself is the distillation - no, the acceleration - of punk’s rawest impulses. If punk was already a rejection of aesthetic and social order, hardcore was the point at which that rejection became sheer sonic violence, a kind of thermodynamic law of excess: faster, louder, angrier, more relentless. And yet, post-hardcore comes along, not to reject that intensity, but to metabolize it, to bend it toward something else - something more dynamic, more exploratory, more structurally and emotionally nuanced. It doesn’t abandon hardcore’s energy; it refines it into something that isn’t just rebellious, but generative. If punk and hardcore were about setting everything on fire, post-hardcore is about seeing what new, strange forms might emerge from the ashes.

And here’s where things get philosophically interesting. The genre starts coalescing in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s - precisely when postmodernism, once seen as the cutting edge of thought, begins to feel exhausted, questioned, even challenged. In the same way that punk rock was an assault on traditional musical structures, postmodernism was an assault on traditional epistemologies - on grand narratives, on certainty itself. But by the late ‘80s, that skepticism, that sense of ironic detachment, was starting to curdle. And what happens next? You get a kind of intellectual and artistic whiplash, a desire to retain the radical energy of these movements while also pushing toward something new. Hardcore fractures into post-hardcore. Postmodernism frays into what? A return to sincerity? A new kind of intensity? The same impulse, the same tension.

Now, do Unwound solve this dilemma? No, of course not. But you can hear them wrestling with it at the height of their creative powers. This album is that struggle rendered in sound - intellectual, visceral, desperate, methodical, yet never losing its raw power. And it’s criminally underrated. It’s the kind of record that’s too ahead of its time to be properly appreciated on release, the kind that needs to marinate in the subconscious of the culture for a generation or two before its real impact becomes clear. Maybe one day people will finally catch up. And when they do, I hope they actually sit down and listen to this thing - really listen - because it’s absolutely worth it.

[Nilsi]

9 hours ago, salvation___________ said:

@Leo Gura This is the music I'm sure you've been looking for, as I was. This is the music you were talking about in this Blog Post about Metaphysical Music. I reccommend you to listen to the album "Utopia" by the artist Björk, here's a link to the full album. It is very experimental and avant-garde, and it is themed around a utopian isalnd in the sky with mutated birds and plants and people. The sounds sound design is very extra terrestial and phsyical. The majority of the lyrics (make sure to read them while listening) are about topics like metaphysics, universal love, submission to the universe, God (even though not explicitly), consciousness, and spirituality. In terms of content and sound it's the most directly spiritual, metaphysical and transcendental music or piece of art I've ever consumed (and therefore my favorite). I never wrote a blog post before but I did for this because everytime I listen to Utopia I think of all the nondual teachings and about your channel. I know music is not your main thing, but I know your content and nonduality very well and I can assure you with 100% certainty that if you take one hour of your day to listen to it you will be shocked at this music. My favorite songs from it that showcase what I described are "The Gate", "Utopia", "Body Memory", "Claimstaker", "Saint", and "Future Forever".Thats it from me, it would be nice if you let me know what you think of it in case you do listen to it.

This album has always felt a bit underwhelming to me, especially considering that both Björk and Arca are among my favorite artists.

Their solo work just operates on a different level - more focused, more fully realized. Here, it feels like Björk is already past the height of her creative powers, and while the collaboration has its moments, it never quite reaches the level of alchemy you’d expect from these two.

Still, a good shout.

[Carl-Richard]

@Nilsi

What do you think about metalcore? 

 

 

[Nilsi]

8 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

@Nilsi

What do you think about metalcore? 

 

 

Like it quite a bit.

Jane Doe by Converge is easily my most-played gym album.

I’ll check out your video later.

[Nilsi]

56 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

@Nilsi

What do you think about metalcore? 

 

 

Yeah, after watching this, I think I gotta take back what I said - because I absolutely hate it. I didn’t realize that most metalcore (outside of a few old-school records) is basically just sugary pop-metal garbage.

As for the whole "is it metal?" thing - I don’t really think of Converge as metal at all. To me, it’s more like the most extreme possible expression of hardcore, almost in a Nick Landian sense, where it accelerates hardcore so violently that there’s barely anything left of that very Heideggerian struggle of the punk rock subject - the whole being-in-the-world, the sociological tension of the punk individual. Instead, it just spirals into this totally post-human zone of pure grief and devastation. Like, whatever was left of the punk subject gets obliterated in the process. But metal? Nah, I don’t really hear it in Jane Doe. 

I guess there are the heavy, tuned-down guitars and the “metal” screams, but that just feels like a byproduct of pushing the hardcore sound to its absolute limit on that record. It never gives me the sense that someone sat down and thought, “Hey, let’s mix hardcore and metal, that would be rad.” 

You can also just pretty easily prove this genealogically - just listen to Converge’s early records. There you clearly hear a hardcore/post-hardcore band, not a metal band. 

Edited March 8 by Nilsi

[Nilsi]

This is exactly the kind of creative intent it takes to make a 10/10 record. Absolutely adore this band.

They’re like some magnificent bird - perhaps an evolutionary "dead-end," maybe not crucial in the grand scheme of things, but their sheer beauty justifies itself.

Edited March 8 by Nilsi

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, Nilsi said:

“Hey, let’s mix hardcore and metal, that would be rad.” 

It's interesting how that fusion has essentially happened twice (or who knows how many times?). Thrash metal was the first time in the early 80s (combining NWOBHM with hardcore). Then thrash metal evolved into more extreme metal in the early 90s (particularly death metal), and then this extreme metal (or rather the At The Gates riffing style 😂) fused with hardcore/post-hardcore again to essentially form metalcore. But then you also have genres like deathcore that emphasize the more extreme aspects again.

I essentially grew up with Bullet For My Valentine and such bands (and later also Trivium), which is true At The Gates metalcore. As a guitar player, that way of playing riffs is burned into my bones. When I first heard Slaughter Of The Soul which is the At The Gates song the video guy referenced, only a few years ago, I was like "wot? That's where all that is from?". It's such an effective way of writing riffs. It's almost like the invention of palm muted chugging itself (which Thrash metal picked up and went crazy with). It gives a blueprint and spawns an entire universe of creative expression.

Edited March 8 by Carl-Richard

[Nilsi]

 

[Jehovah increases]

 

[Yimpa]

It’s so bad that it’s GOOD!

 

[Eskilon]

On 28/02/2025 at 0:51 PM, AION said:

 

LMAAAAO
This is too good!

[Jehovah increases]

 

[Jehovah increases]

 

[Cireeric]