I got an album in the mail yesterday called "Marathon" by the Finnish group Track N Field. What I've listened to so far is pretty good, it's a nice upbeat ambient/chillout album:
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Listened to any good music lately?
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Listened to any good music lately?
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Been listening to lots of stuff lately, actually.
Black Stone Cherry - Wow, just amazing hard dirtcore style rock. The lead guitarist is amazing, and they have a hard edged crunch to their sound few Southern bands have these days.
Suicidal Tendencies - Going back to my high school days! Now that I'm older, I can really appreciate their musicianship, as they didn't get a whole lot of respect back in the day. Rocky George is amazing on his Ibanez, and is one of just a handful of mainstream rockers using a 7-String (Wes Borland is another that comes immediately to mind). Their early 90's stuff was where they hit their stride, incorporating more thrash metal into their sound. Robert Trujillo was also absolutely amazing on his 5 string bass, showcasing almost Les Claypool like ability (and his funk slap-bass style is incredible).
Big Wreck - Little known Canadian pop-rock outfit. Ian Thornley is probably more well known as a solo artist. Amazing stuff, especially on their second album. Most songs use all sorts of different guitar tunings (and they even use an electric banjo for Ladylike).
Michael Angelo Batio - Known as the fastest shredder alive, his guitar work is almost supernatural. He routinely plays a double guitar (V shaped, not double neck), using each neck to play different passages, and before it was stolen, he used a QUAD guitar in live shows. No other guitarist has ever done that. His hands move so fast at times, your eyes cannot literally follow them. They just blur.
Buckethead - Again with the prodigy guitarists. His music has a surreal, otherworldy quality, and he sounds like no other artist out there, period. His amazingly long fingers allow him to hit chords I don't think anybody else is capable of. They just seem to fly across the strings of their own accord. Sure, he's weird, what with wearing a KFC chicken bucket on his head, but nobody on this earth can doubt his guitar skills.
That makes up the bulk of my current listening.
Black Stone Cherry - Wow, just amazing hard dirtcore style rock. The lead guitarist is amazing, and they have a hard edged crunch to their sound few Southern bands have these days.
Suicidal Tendencies - Going back to my high school days! Now that I'm older, I can really appreciate their musicianship, as they didn't get a whole lot of respect back in the day. Rocky George is amazing on his Ibanez, and is one of just a handful of mainstream rockers using a 7-String (Wes Borland is another that comes immediately to mind). Their early 90's stuff was where they hit their stride, incorporating more thrash metal into their sound. Robert Trujillo was also absolutely amazing on his 5 string bass, showcasing almost Les Claypool like ability (and his funk slap-bass style is incredible).
Big Wreck - Little known Canadian pop-rock outfit. Ian Thornley is probably more well known as a solo artist. Amazing stuff, especially on their second album. Most songs use all sorts of different guitar tunings (and they even use an electric banjo for Ladylike).
Michael Angelo Batio - Known as the fastest shredder alive, his guitar work is almost supernatural. He routinely plays a double guitar (V shaped, not double neck), using each neck to play different passages, and before it was stolen, he used a QUAD guitar in live shows. No other guitarist has ever done that. His hands move so fast at times, your eyes cannot literally follow them. They just blur.
Buckethead - Again with the prodigy guitarists. His music has a surreal, otherworldy quality, and he sounds like no other artist out there, period. His amazingly long fingers allow him to hit chords I don't think anybody else is capable of. They just seem to fly across the strings of their own accord. Sure, he's weird, what with wearing a KFC chicken bucket on his head, but nobody on this earth can doubt his guitar skills.
That makes up the bulk of my current listening.