Easing off metal and listening to rock now.
 

My metal addiction for the last 3 years is finally subsiding, now I'm finding alternative rock (big genre) to really mesh with me

What I loved about metal was the instrumental richness and it's fantasticness. Theatrics as Wiki would describe it, is the perfect word. That's absolutely what made me freaking love it. It's like blasting a performance song after song.
Then turn on the radio and it's like lol..

A few days ago, I forgot my iphone so I turned on the radio. Needless to say, the pop, rap, r & b, country, and latin music stations did nothing for me, if not annoy me.
Then I went ahead and listened to the one I could tolerate, the alt/christian rock station and I enjoyed it much more than I thought. It's like metal, but the singing replaces the role of the lead guitar.
It's a whole new sensation, that you don't get from metal. I can describe it as more soul and spirit.
There's also a theme where it's like "Get up and fight". Which is invigorating.
Metal (at least what I typically listen to) felt more like "Kill them all" embued me with anger. Which felt energizing in it's own way, but the way it makes me want to channel that energy felt different.
Metal made me want to ravage a house down with a sledge hammer, whereas rock made me want to build a temple.

If you like stirring music, why not try prog rock? Instrumental passages, drama, power, great (often nonsensical) lyrics: it's all there. Then of course there's classical, if you haven't checked that out already. But for prog rock, assuming you haven't tried it before, have a listen to these:

My question is if you are open to sum of the decent or good mainstream Rock groups there are.

Mutemath

Tomahawk

April March-Le Temps de l'amour

Umlaut

Silverchair... Prob one of the top 3 rock bands ever : )

You need some Clutch:



They have lots of good ol' fashioned rock.

^Seconding the Plankman, and the Trollman.

Also suggest checking out my desert rock thread.... Shameless promotion here.

I don't shut my doors just because the music is mainstream—I'm not one of those "kvlt metal heads."

I'll listen to anything, but it just needs to be palatable to me. In that regard I'm fairly defined. I've even compartmentalized several playlists based one a singular mood.

Let me demonstrate:

Established Playlists-

• Black Rose- Gothic Metal/Rock playlist. Melancholy, Feminine, Romantic-esque
• Carpathian- Low Fi Black Metal playlist. Desolate, eerie, scenic.
• Dancefloor- Electronic/Pop/Dance playlist. Upbeat, party-like, Hip
• Destruction of Earth- Mixed extreme metal (Death metal primarily, melodic death, black, thrash, and Hardcore varieties). Sound should be self-evident.
• Heroes Unite - Power Metal. Self-evident.

Moods that have yet to work-

• Gangster
• Country, South sounding
• Teeny Bopper
• Girly, Boybandish
• Old sound. 60s, 70s, 80s or Older

I got several more, but in this particular case with alternative rock and christian rock. They fall under Modern Spirit.

• Modern Spirit - Invigorating, Zealous, Positive, Moreso masculine.

It helps if I can transmit a sample of my playlist.

Here's an example of what I consider top tier songs from the following playlists. I love both enthusiastically. Same caliber, different moods.

Destruction of Earth:



Modern Spirit:

Haven't checked that out yet. I'm on it.

From my experience with prog rock, the only band I listen to that's conventionally prog rock would be dream theater.
Of that list, Pendragon did it for me. The other ones felt like it dragged on after 3 minutes.
Most of the songs I listen to are under 5 minutes.

Would it count as prog if I mentioned a few bands of mine that have long songs?
Wintersun, Nightwish, Epica, Summoning and Opera IX show up when I sort my songs by length and when I pick ones I rated high.