| DarthMetalliCube said: You're into Babymetal?? Hell yeah sista! 🙌 Catch Me if You Can live at the "1997" show always gets me pumped when I excercise esp. Also been revisiting this overlooked gem. Kinda reminds me of Linkin Park with a modern twist: Epica Always gets the goosebumps going. I'm more into their older stuff generally speaking, I can always listen to the "We Will Take You With Us" with the live orchestra, but they still have a few great newer tunes, this one in particular: This guy has some great hard rock/metal covers that run the gamut - everything from Killing in the Name of to Cotton Eye Joe to Party Rock Anthem. But this might be my favorite. It's great b/c I always loved the tune of Toto's original song but felt it would fare a lot better if it was a bit harder: Clutch has been my favorite rock (non metal at least) band of the last few years. They're more stoner rock, but I'd guess you'd call much of their stuff hard rock. They sort of have the early Sabbath vibe, so if you like Paranoid you'd probably like a lot of their stuff: These guys are pretty wild, creative, and often goofy. I enjoy the fact that they have that catchy, in-depth, folky sound but also don't take themselves too seriously and like to experiment. (This gets bonus points for a hilariously randomly placed Super Mario pipe sound effect XD) That's a small blip of stuff I've been into for the 2020s. A lot of Babymetal, Clutch, and some Trollfest but plenty of other random tunes. Some folk metal. I enjoy a lot of dark synth and synth wave but that's not exactly "hard", that is more background music for writing. |
Baby Metal's the flat-out coolest band in the world today, IMO. I'll be seeing them in concert June.
Anyway, thanks for sharing those songs! Dreamscape and Trollfest were both new discoveries for me. You're right, Dreamscape reminds me a lot of like a tech-skeptical Linkin Park variation and that's right up my alley. And the Trollfest tunes just made me smile. 
And yeah, I like it when musicians integrate video game sound effects into their work too. 
