In honor of the recent blood moon, I'm constructing a new rock collection for you today, VGC. I think you're gonna like it! I'll try to make it flow nicely. Also note again that these are rock songs. They're meant to be played loud, so I recommend that.
Would you like to hear some awesome Asian rap-rock? Of course you would and you can't go wrong with Baby Metal, so here they are performing with legendary Thai rapper F.Hero!
This is a Japanese instrumental metal group with incredible talent called Asterism!
And this is a Japanese group called the Mellows. Heavy guitars. Super cute voice. They call their style cute metal. They're cool. This is a very new song of theirs. That creepy laughter adds a whole layer of mood to the atmosphere for me.
Here's a group that hails from my native Texas you may have heard of before telling you not to put up with people's shit.
Speaking of where I live, while I'm an atheist personally, I grew up in a very Christian household and community environment, so I inevitably got pretty familiar with a lot of Christian music whether I wanted to or not and out of all the many, many Christian rock songs I've heard in my life, this one by Project 86 is my favorite. Believer or not, one has to concede that it just rips. Respecting what I can of my heritage here.
This is a actually a trailer for an indie post-apocalyptic survival game called The Flame in the Flood, but it also serves as a nice music video for some Americana folk rock by Chuck Ragan:
Speaking of America, I'll let this modern-day riot grrl duo provide you some of my thoughts on the current climate of my country.
I think the Japanese power metal of the Lovebites goes nicely here. I just do.
That puts me in the mood for more downbeat tunes. Spiral a little with me.
Going further with the downbeat vibes, here's a shoegaze band well-loved by goths I learned about from Ghosttundra's channel on YouTube (that I'm still trying to promote).
This next song is called Pictures Are Gone and it makes me very, very wistful.
There's a lot of turn-of-the-century nostalgia going around these days. Feeding into that, here's a new sort of KoRn-alike group called Chat Pile that a friend recently recommended me. It fits here nicely, keeping the basic mood but building up a bit more energy.
What can comfort me now? Think I'll go with the opening song to one of my favorite video games of all time, Freedom Planet 2. It feels epic and heroic yet feminine and there's also something I find comfortingly familiar about its '90s platformer inspirations.
...And I think that's a good place to leave this particular collection of mine. Hope you enjoyed it!
