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[oscillate]

I'm a rock musician and 23, so I feel like I should be more into "new" bands (i.e. bands that started in the past 2-3 years), but I cannot for the life of me stand most of the stuff I hear floating around YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Facebook.

Maybe some of you can turn me on to some decent stuff.

My go-to artists and influences: Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Misfits, Black Flag, Nirvana, The Cure, Foo Fighters (Self-titled, Colour and Shape, Wasting Light), White Stripes/Jack White/Dead Weather, MC5, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Ramones, Refused, Thursday, The Police, Underoath, XTC, The Clash, The Pixies, The Kinks, Beatles, Ghost, Jackson Browne, AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars (first album), and the occasional guilty pleasure metal band.

I'm not a fan of whatever the whole "indie" scene that's been popular the past few years. Hate that whoa **** too and ****ty four on the floor folk stuff. To each their own, just not my cup of tea. Basically I connect with most stuff that has really solid and emotional songwriting. If it's real, has a great melody and structure, and is arranged beautifully, I dig it. Haven't really been hearing that with many bands that I've heard the last few years, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by oscillate

I'm a rock musician and 23, so I feel like I should be more into "new" bands (i.e. bands that started in the past 2-3 years), but I cannot for the life of me stand most of the stuff I hear floating around YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Facebook.

Maybe some of you can turn me on to some decent stuff.

My go-to artists and influences: Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, The Misfits, Black Flag, Nirvana, The Cure, Foo Fighters (Self-titled, Colour and Shape, Wasting Light), White Stripes/Jack White/Dead Weather, MC5, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Ramones, Refused, Thursday, The Police, Underoath, XTC, The Clash, The Pixies, The Kinks, Beatles, Ghost, Jackson Browne, AFI, 30 Seconds to Mars (first album), and the occasional guilty pleasure metal band.

I'm not a fan of whatever the whole "indie" scene that's been popular the past few years. Hate that whoa **** too and ****ty four on the floor folk stuff. To each their own, just not my cup of tea. Basically I connect with most stuff that has really solid and emotional songwriting. If it's real, has a great melody and structure, and is arranged beautifully, I dig it. Haven't really been hearing that with many bands that I've heard the last few years, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

[The Batlord]

Early Underoath?

[oscillate]

Originally Posted by Frownland

More into the second one, to be honest. But the song doesn't really go anywhere...

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Early Underoath?

I dig some of their earlier stuff. Instrumentally it's interesting, but I think they hit their stride in terms of songwriting with Aaron.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by oscillate

I dig some of their earlier stuff. Instrumentally it's interesting, but I think they hit their stride in terms of songwriting with Aaron.

If by that you mean when he started singing clean vocals, then no, that's just when they went from being awesome to boring. I'd take them over plenty other melodic metalcore bands, but that's not saying much.

[oscillate]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

If by that you mean when he started singing clean vocals, then no, that's just when they went from being awesome to boring. I'd take them over plenty other melodic metalcore bands, but that's not saying much.

If by that, you mean they got someone who could scream and not sound like a dying cat and the drummer started singing and writing melodies, which in turn informed songs that were composed more intelligently, then yes.

Define the Great Line and Lost in the Sound of Separation are great records that defy boring "melodic metalcore" as you described.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by oscillate

If by that, you mean they got someone who could scream and not sound like a dying cat and the drummer started singing and writing melodies, which in turn informed songs that were composed more intelligently, then yes.

Define the Great Line and Lost in the Sound of Separation are great records that defy boring "melodic metalcore" as you described.

And they lost a lot of what made them special to write music that was merely better than 90% of the hundreds of ****ty bands that sounded just like them. But so long as they've got melodies (and I think you might be mistaking "melody" with "catchy") then who cares if they've become indistinguishable from Killswitch Engage and As I Lay Dying, right?

[EvangelionLovr]

Grammatik is dope.

[Nimahuya]

Originally Posted by Sonar

I think you may like Grammatik

Try Emancipator

Tell me if you like it

Yea i liked Gramatik, especialy:
DreamBIG, MoarJive, Drink...Rakija, Day of...Glory, Doing my thang, Balkan Express, Oriental Job...and Gray Tea (this is very slow and specific but great nonetheless)

Emancipator was even better, out of his whole discography i found just a few average tracks, all rest was either very good or brilliant!

Many thx for ur suggestion - it was a bullzeye

[Sonar]

Originally Posted by Nimahuya

Yea i liked Gramatik, especialy:
DreamBIG, MoarJive, Drink...Rakija, Day of...Glory, Doing my thang, Balkan Express, Oriental Job...and Gray Tea (this is very slow and specific but great nonetheless)

Emancipator was even better, out of his whole discography i found just a few average tracks, all rest was either very good or brilliant!

Many thx for ur suggestion - it was a bullzeye

I love them both too, and I'm happy to know I helped you to discover something as cool