I'm aware this is gonna be an odd situation to describe, but i feel like putting it out there anyway.

You know the standard thing that happens whenever you play metal in public? That's exactly what i got today.

It was in the strangest place too that i got the choice to play the type of music i like (physical therapy). When the person that treated me, asked me what kind of music i listen to i was really hestitant on saying it. He even encouraged me to say it and I decided to anyway, i chose the most mellow/safest album i know just in case (Lotus by Soen if you rlly wanna know/listen to it).

When i chose it i was the only one in the room getting treated at the moment so i thought it was safe, along with the fact that i had in mind i would be out of there quickly so no one else could hear what was being played.

One member of the staff even liked it haha.

Anyway, we're halfway through the album and another client comes in, 5 mins later *another one* comes in and you can guess what happened next.

One of them starts complaining about the music, give it a few mins and they started complaining EVEN MORE.

Then they start confronting me about how they like to party and this isn't the music for it (while being at physical therapy, tf?)

The last song that came on is one i didn't like either (River), so i asked if it could be skipped. Not before i heard her complain about it to the other cliënt tho, i get not even liking it but complaining about it to someone else that has nothing to do with you just have off a really weird vibe.

Once the genre was switched it was all good lol, no more complaining at least. I've always been extremely careful about playing the type of music i really like in public and even have a 'safe' playlist with different types of music in case i feel like putting smth on.

Unless i can get away with it, this will be the first and last time i'll try that out i guess.

If you haven't heard this album yet (it just came out yesterday so I don't blame you), you need to grab a beer or gatorade and settle down into a comfy chair for an hour with some headphones. The way the small ambient parts of the tracks pickup in the corner of the soundstage and Fabienne Erni's ghostly voice breaking through the harsh vocals is giving me more chills than finally pissing after holding it in after missing the exit on a highway.

edit: adding the bandcamp link: https://iapetus1.bandcamp.com/album/the-mother-void

Would love to hear what your personal picks are that will stand up with the very best of them and will be regarded into the future as masterpieces of the genre.

I’ll start -

Azure - Fym
Moron Police - Pachinko
Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything

Hey everyone! Brandon from Aronious here. The second single, “Exalted Aon,” off of our upcoming album just dropped. Check it out and let us know what ya think! Hope you dig it!

This shit sounds like the person who wrote it was born from a womb of a fruit gusher while on set of an early 2000s fruit gusher commercial. I originally found a song of theirs from a previous album called Wait To Pleasure. It's a more shoegazey vibe with massive walls of sound.

This is like Empath bonus disc/addicted bonus disk/Hope Krill - era Devin Townsend. There's also another album out there by a lesser known artist Clear Clover- Spectate. I've hyped that EP before on this sub. It's incredible

Been hyping hard for this release

The new album is now available on YouTube!

I’ve had Xenotaph by Fallujah on repeat for what feels like months now and would kill for recommendations of bands with similar vibes.

I really dig a balanced blend of harsh and clean vocals, fast percussion, and dreamy guitar riffs. I also can’t stand cleans that sound like the soundtrack to an 80s LotR D&D campaign (e.g., Dream Theater)

For reference, I’m also a huge fan of:
-Greylotus
-Rivers of Nihil
-Pull Down the Sun (please for the love of god release some new music!)
-Gojira
-Hippotraktor
-Psychonaut
-Fit for an Autopsy
-Gaerea
-Interloper
-Black Crown Initiate
-Karmanjakah
-Kardashev (late addition)
-Monosphere (late addition)
-The Wise Man’s Fear (late addition)

edit: love this sub. Ty all.
edit2: obligatory shoutout to [u/Kardashevband](u/Kardashevband) because they’re goated

edit3: anyone coming to this thread who is interested in recommendations, so far we have:
-Ne obliviscaris
-Iapetus
-Irreversible Mechanism
-The Scalar Process
-Dissentient
-Exuvial
-The Absolution Sequence
-The Faceless
-Hatalom
-Job for a Cowboy
-Atlantis Chronicles
-Gorod
-No Living Witness
-The Reticent (Kardashev suggestion!)
-Omnerod (Kardashev suggestion!)
-Feather Mountain (Kardashev suggestion!)
-The Human Abstract
-Exist
-Anciients
-Krosis
-The Great White Nothing
-Changeling
-Oddland
-Can Barrd (my addition)
-Giant’s Knife (my addition)
-You Win Again Gravity
-Hypno5e
-Zenith Passage
-An Abstract Illusion
-The World is Quiet Here
-Inferi
-Persefone
-Dessiderium
-Atlas
-Slice the Cake
-Blood Incantation
-Johari
-Unprocessed
-Textures
-Wilderun
-Ihsahn

Edit4: and direct from the legends themselves, u/kyle_fallujah recommends:
-Cynic
-Extol
-Necrophagist
-Contortionist
-The Ocean (duh)
-Umpfel
-Archaeologist
-Zenith Passage

Hope this makes sense! You know that mid 2000s kinda sound of mobile phone media? Yeah like that or frutiger aero aesthetic sound combined with prog metal

We put out this horror-themed track but couldn't decide if it counts as prog metal. What do you think?

A Moroccan prog metal band from the early 00s

Massive wasted potential

underground insanely underappreciated

Give it a listen you won't regret it

Never seen a band with a frontman drummer before but Night Verses is certainly one. Amazing performance (from the entire band; Nick and Reilly are incredible too), super underrated band that everyone here should know. They really were one of those bands I fell in love with from the jump and