#saturn plays bass

[saturnplaza]

INTRODUCTION (redone)

HIYA MY NAMES SATURN OR JAYDEN//MIKEY ALL WORKKKK Whichever you'd like to call me!

I am non-binary and Pansexual:p

I'm also a minor (15) don't be a creep or I will show up to your house with a Glock 19

Single 😭

I USE THE TAGS #Saturn ______ for post organization ex: Saturn rambles, Saturn is zero zero posting again, Saturn does art-- etc... #vent or #Rant for well vent or rant posts

#x3 for moot interactions

use #anon asks, to find your answer to the anon you gave

I ALSO HAVE A SIDE BLOG FOR WHEN I GET JAILED (which isn't often) @saturnneedtopost

STATUS - ONLINE SEND THEM ASKSS PLZ IM NEEDY

Song of the mood:

Message - Busting

MORE INFO ABOUT ME AND MY BLOG UNDER THE CUT!

I love music, writing and art!

I also play bass and sing :p

I hope to one day be in a band.

I do sometimes use this blog to vent, though I am mostly a bandom blog

Also I'm an emo little shit.X3

Bite me >-<

I also have, Severe Anxiety, Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Severe Paranoia.

I AM AN ARTIST (art Blog in progress)

I WRITE FANFICTION

I AM AN EDITOR

(Links attached and below)

I'M INTO ALOT. like alot alot...

So much I can't name SO ILL DO TOP 5 FANDOMS (not in order) IM IN -- split by bands, and misc. (Cause I am mostly a Bandom blog)

BANDS!!:

+ MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

+ Pierce The Veil

+ FALL OUT BOY

+ SLEEPING WITH SIRENS

+ PANIC AT THE DISCO (no pftw and vlv)

OTHER!!:

+RESIDENT EVIL

+YELLOWJACKETS

+LIFE IS STRANGE

+CRY OF FEAR

+THE GOLDFINCH

-SOCIAL MEDIAS-

I'm on alot of social medias so I'll make it easy for you all

LINKTREE All of my fanfiction gets promoted on this blog and posted onto my A03! https://archiveofourown.org/users/SATURNPLAZA/pseuds/SATURNPLAZA

I ALSO WRITE ON LIVEJOURNAL !!! If you are more interested in more intimate writing, or blogging this is where you'd want to be-- I use it as an online diary from time to time

https://saturnplaza.livejournal.com/ SOCIAL MEDIAS TikTok -- https://www.tiktok.com/@saturnplaza I EDIT WOOO WHOOO. I have always loved editing and I am pretty good at it (I may just be biased cause its myself) --- I edit alot of random things I'm into --- Fair warning my upload times do very --- But I am very active with moots and fandoms Tumblr -- You don't need a link we're on my blog: AH YES, my infamous blog where I yap about the most random shit cause I am the queen of yapper town. I am very active and interact a lot with people.

[starlitsilver]

bass is so important. and sexy

[vivisviolets]

Hi vivi! Hope you are doing well ❤️ I would love to join your game! initials: S.Q

pronouns: she/her, preferred gender: he/ him

3 of your fav things: FOOOD! , music 🫶, jamming out💕

Thank you so much!!! 💙

S.Q 🩵🎈🦕 ☇✑ The Sun (reversed), Seven of Cups (reversed), Five of Swords, King of Swords (reversed) (bonus card), Nine of Cups (reversed) (bottom of deck) ☇✑ 111, 333, 1313, 2323, life path 5, Aries/Virgo/Gemini/Cancer/Aquarius placements (rising, degrees, 1st/6th/3rd/4th/11th house, Venus, Mars, etc) "rescued"/escape, jade, bottle green, channeled song - The Dull Flame of Desire - Björk (feat. Anohni) ☇✑ the reversals may appear *scary* but HEAR ME OUT wait a damn minute (meme)- how interesting the images I picked, mostly kisses when I was searching (and then I picked the 3rd bc cute socks lol),- they'll be many moments of "renewal", framed like a film the two of you collaborated on to make... the colors blossoming like film developing,- both of you reaching into each other's heart- this will be emotionally mutual. not give and take- instead, both of you becoming ingrained in each other, weaving yourselves into the space around you- it's an intense experience... especially to your heart- I can feel it squeezing itself and beating deeply..and I'm hearing another song- Jóga by Björk ("-This state of, emergency, how beautiful to be - State of, emergency, is where I want to be") I feel this intensity may come as some sort of "relief". like one, or both of you, may have been made to be a ghost, a *stain* on the wall- this could have been due to bullying by peers/family... something about being in this big community and being on the outside of everyone (maybe you or this person experienced this exact scenario- I'm hearing during preschool, church, or maybe even a support group for "struggling"/troubled children...❤️) (*An Echo, a Stain* by Björk- I swear to you all of these songs aren't biased this is coming up naturally.. it's like being played through subway speakers- like her music got chosen as the film's soundtrack-) Good god ANYWAYS- WOO- ok, I want to get into who quote-on-quote (cus free will exists) "your" person is-... I know I already picked so many signs but he may be on the cusps of Capricorn in his placements (sidereal astrology?), or have Saturn placements... Nothing about this young man is inherently "bad", but there are areas (linking back to where his Capri/Saturn placements are) that are karmic, this may come from a family line- as I'm seeing darkness... but it's not- bad... its just shades of color, the shades of color he was brought into- harry potter mention (ik pls hear me out) but it's giving Slyterine energy. your person doesn't have a bad reputation, at all actually, but due to association of certain themes in his life, it would be "easy" to place judgments on him... yet there is something about his (outward?) appearance that- makes anyone who would be quick to judge, suddenly at ease around him. *for example*: maybe he was homeless, or in foster care in his early stages of life, and people may assume from that background that his personality is callus, avoidant, maybe even volatile... but he isn't- he's instead a little shy, caring, and altruistic- this is the type of guy who volunteers at emergency housing shelters -those are the characteristics I want you to look for, as you search through this world & keep an eye out for your person. you have to pay attention to the ones who transform their brokenness. ok- I have got to mention, the downtime you'll share with this person- is so "unique".. it's like you'll be sitting somewhere with people walking around you, and it's like everyone is in fast-forward/blurring, and you two are in this non-blurred bubble, just chilling. because yall own the time and space 🌌around you or whatever~ also this person is an artist of some kind, I'm hearing musicals like guitar/bass/piano/etc, and you'll inspire them a lot, and oh speaking of you'll both be really into certain fandoms- maybe not hp💀💀- but similar book taste is coming through, anime/series/movies, and music! I'm seeing concerts being a regular date for both of you (I'm hearing Ryn Weaver?)!! despite past experiences, I know both of you have built enough inner peace to keep growing~ together❤️.

*i hope this was helpful my darling ♡~ consider leaving a tip on my Patreon if you enjoyed, or follow and become a violet~ doesnt matter to me tho :>~ sending you on your wayyyy, bye bye!!*

[80svxmpire]

!  𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎

My name is Demi but you can literally call me whatever you'd like! I'm a minor so please be aware of that. I'm part of the LGBTQIA+ community and I am audhd! My pronouns are she/her/he/him & I am Greek-American. My interests include... The 80s glam metal & rock scene, Kelly Nickels, Nuno Bettencourt, MCU & X-Men, Editing, Writing, My Ocs, Playing bass, Vampires, Criminal minds, Stranger Things, & more! The music I like... L.A. Guns, Extreme, Nuno Bettencourt, Hanoi Rocks, Guns N Roses, The Struts, Billy Joel, Mitski, Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Buckley, Skid Row, Mac Saturn & much more ! If you like any of these things you're in luck because I will try my best to post all about the 80s glam scene as well as other stuff such as rants about my ocs, the mcu, and other stuff! if you'd like to be mutuals, please go ahead! I love talking to people!! 📷 Insta ; banshee.shescreams 👾 Disc ; buckys _ plums

[sonicmusicmusings]

Green Grove from the Saturn 3D Blast played on shuffle, and for a short while I legit thought it was a Lost World track... The Saturn soundchip is really good??

Yes! The Saturn was using PCM CD quality audio being read straight from the disc, so composers could use the exact synthesizers they wanted! The Saturn in particular used a Yamaha YMF292 chip that had modes for both FM synthesis and PCM audio, as PCM could take up a lot of space on disc. That 5th-gen era of consoles (PS1/N64/Saturn) was a really experimental time where a lot was happening. (It's also a great Wikipedia rabbit hole to fall into...time to close a couple tabs...)

I've done Act 2, so why don't we cover Act 1?

I do like the soundfont used for this whole soundtrack, it has such a lush and clear sound. The rhythm section is so nicely set up--piano in the background with a bright bass and active drums. There's some low synths in the very back as well that sparkle deep in the mix--like how water can sparkle under moonlight. The melody is a muted but flowing violin synth. The bridge section has some nice chordal movement, followed by a gorgeous piano solo that flows into the turnaround.

Oh, and before I forget--Richard Jacques is the composer on this, and this track quotes a song he would later write for Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast--listen to this, then listen to It Doesn't Really Matter, especially the chorus! The vocals are preformed by T.J. Davis, who also worked with Jacques on the Sonic R soundtrack. I love seeing composer and artist continuity, especially in SEGA!

[chucksrus84]

They say coincidences can be interpreted as clues to our destiny. Well, today, I'm counting down four amazing coincidences that would make you do a double-take. Let's start with Game of Thrones alums Jacob Anderson and Nathalie Emmanuel.

As Game of Thrones fans, we're all familiar with Grey Worm and Missandei's ill-fated love story, but did you know that the former co-stars went on to star in separate projects as vampires? Yes, you heard that right. Jacob Anderson, formerly known as Grey Worm, lassoed a lead role in AMC's series, Interview with the Vampire, as the complex, forlorn vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac; enticing audiences with his and his co-star's (Sam Reid) electrifying scenes. Similarly, Nathalie Emmanuel was featured in the gothic horror film The Invitation, as the descendent of an ancient vampire family. To say the least, it would seem coincidences have a way of leading these two actors to where they were supposed to be, but it doesn't end there.

Like rings circling Saturn, sometimes it takes years, if not decades to lead one person to the role they were meant to play. Take for example, Sam Reid. When Sam Reid snagged the role as Dido's love interest (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) in the 2013 historical drama, Belle, he never imagined he'd be playing one of Anne Rice most iconic characters ten years later; turning a role played by several actors into the most memorable and awe-inspiring incarnation to date. To watch him as Lestat, you'd think he was absolutely possessed but I digress. The coincidences I noted doesn't end with Reid but actually begins with Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Black Mirror.

Earlier, I alluded to the fact that like the rings of Saturn, sometimes people are traveling towards a predetermined destination. In Gugu Mbatha-Raw's case, that's double true. In 2016, Gugu along with her co-star Mackenzie Davis starred in a Black Mirror episode called San Junipero. It was the fourth episode of the British syfy and it featured vivacious party girl Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) falling head over heels for shy, homebody Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis), in a 1987 virtual reality simulator. It was a fantastic…no, beautiful love story between two women with a happy ending and one of Black Mirror's most popular episodes.

But what struck me about the role that Gugu played was not only the affect it had on fans of the syfy show but also the affect it unknowingly had on propelling her former co-star (Sam Reid) to land a role in which the dynamics of his characters relationship with the lead who played opposite him (Jacob Anderson) as well as the dynamics of the relationship between the actors themselves, were strikingly similar if not the same. Watching Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid interact pulled me back to the days when San Junipero dropped on air and drew accolades from critics in television and film. There's something magical about it, as if Gugu and Mackenzie stepped through that door of possibility so that Sam and Jacob could fly. You know what I mean but I'm getting ahead of myself. That's not the only coincidence there is. The next and last one will absolutely blow your mind.

Last but not least, our fourth amazing coincidence has to do with co-stars Jacob Basil Anderson and Bailey Bass. Did anyone in the #iwtv fandom know that the stars that play Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia have the same birthdate. That's right, Jacob and Bailey were both born on June 18th, 13 years apart.

I don't know what it is, but these talented actors seem to be destined for something big. From my vantage point, the stars seem to be aligned in their favor and that's all for today, folks.

Thanks for reading.

[retropopcult]

"Walking on the Moon" is a reggae song by British rock band the Police, released as the second single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). The song was written by lead vocalist / bassist Sting. It went on to become the band's second No. 1 hit in the UK.

The video was shot at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1979. It features the band playing their respective instruments near a Saturn V moon rocket (although Sting is seen with an electric guitar, not bass) intercut with some NASA footage. It was directed by Derek Burbidge.

[weneverlearn]

Awesome, recent PBS (!!!) special on Guitar Wolf, with loads of live action and a couple good, brief interview segments.

Guitar Wolf explaining how he decided on the new bassist after Billy Bass Wolf passed: "Anybody can play guitar... but very few people have explosion personality."

This 25-minute flick is from a series of short live band mini-docs called Subcarrier, "produced by Alabama Public Television in Birmingham, filmed exclusively at SATURN."

[cliffburton]

anyone knows abt a pedal that can make bass sound like cello/bowed strings? i wanna play moribund (the intro to saturn devouring his son) on bass and have that kinda sound

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 13/11/2023

BUSTER HAND

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips Volume A

Ripped by Zoom

Yesterday's post on World Out There covered a very particular specialty by ripper Jamangar - arranging songs into the style of Undertale/Deltarune's music. The instrumentation and overall sound of Toby Fox's music is of course iconic, yet there's another half to the equation that's equally as fun to see played with - the distinct melodies and tunes that those instruments play part of!

I've explored this a bit in the past with kris gaming and SUNGORE, yet for as good as those are (SUNGORE especially, good fucking lord) they're missing that one key ingredient that I love to see in melody swaps: when the instrumentation used sounds like it could only ever be from that game. I feel like the N64 was home to a lot of these sorts of games, due to its lack of CD playback - the sampling used by developers to give their games that musical oomf needed to sound on par with what was on PlayStation and Saturn, has resulted in some of the most immediately-recognizable soundscapes in gaming. Be it Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 007, Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards, or the topic of today's rip: Super Smash Bros, and BUSTER HAND.

Before Smash Bros. were to become known for its absolutely insane quantity of music and having people from all over the industry collaborate on contributing remixes, the original Super Smash Bros. already had such a striking soundscape, with instrumentation unlike anything I've heard since. The instruments only really sound vaguely like equivalents in the real world, occasionally trumpet-like, occasionally like marching drums, and many times something wholly its own. Final Destination carries that torch further than anything else in the game - its shredding guitars sounding almost like whirring meteors whizzing by in the distance, its bass so throughly un-bass-like, yet setting the scene althesame. With that rock-solid of a foundation, BUSTER HAND doesn't need to do more than it sets out to in order to be a distinct and lovely treat to the ears - every part of Deltarune's Rude Buster is here and accounted for under this bizarre, yet immensely rocking set of instruments. The handling of the bassline and guitars in particular always help sell any Rude Buster arrangement, and they're handled absolutely perfectly here.

Zoom unfortunately had a falling out with the SiIvaGunner team a few years back, and to my knowledge now goes under a new alias and doesn't wish to be associated with the channel any longer. It was a personal affair that I wish not to intrude on, and thus I won't look for let alone link to their socials as I typically do. Yet I hope wherever they are out there on the internet, they can be proud of the work they did on SiIva's first four seasons - producing several of my all-time favorite rips in the process.

[saturnplaza]

ZERO ZERO -- NON VOCALS

[autisticenbydonnie]

Introducing - Ivory, Zephyra and Milldew !

the members of 'Designation: Zer0'

(Saturn, Pluto and Mars are their band names)

this took me weeks but its chill.

Zeph gets an update and yall finally meet the other two!

Other Random Facts !

Milldew made Zeph's and Ivy's Cloaking Charms. he has shapeshifting powers so she doesn't need one.

Ivory is non-verbal most of the time and uses her phone to communicate.

Milli can also play the bass but only plays if a song calls for it.

They all live in an apartment in new york. Mill works backstage for some venues and Ivy is in human high school online. Zeph… is working on it. they also get money when they all play gigs.

Milli uses a wheelchair for when they go out. one part is because ze can't disguise zir tail, but also because it deals with chronic fatigue.

all of their scars are from their childhood. that and other reasons are why they try to stay away from the hidden city. (:

the band was actually Zeph and Ivy's plan.

if yall have any questions about them, don't be scread to ask ! :)

[saturn-noctua]

I made this at like 3am and I'm really proud of it considering that I've never made a serious cover of anything before and I only play bass.

[venus-star-bynding]

HEY GIRLIES (INTRO POST)

ok so... i suppose it's about time to introduce the cast. if you've been following vsb you know who they are, but, just in case you need a list...

Tess Starriy- Ness AU. chimera, part Giigian, PSI user. likes women and hitting people with her baseball bat.

Yuki Tazimile- Lucas AU. not a chimera, but a PSI user nonetheless. likes sunflowers and crying in her room at 3 AM.

Mitzuki Tazimile- Claus AU. chimera, part Giigian, PSI user. former Commander of the Pigmask army. WILL kill you. likes stargazing and punching things with her platinum arm.

Zalind Rosze- Jeff AU. chimera, something user?? does she have PSI?? we don't know. i don't think she knows either. likes bazookas and geometry.

Tillie Scarlette- Porky AU. not technically a chimera, but is considered one anyway. PSI user. former Vessel of the first Emperor of the Mind, Gyiyg. likes murder and the color pink.

Franklin Tenni- Ninten AU. chimera, PSI user. hopes you don't notice i only named her that to make franklin badge jokes.

Twinkle Roosevelt- Lloyd AU. chimera. the subject of philosophical debates on whether she is technically alive or not. a bit jealous that Zalind got PSI and she didn't.

Jack Mars- Duster AU. chimera, part Giigian, PSI user. also in a band called the Runaways. likes playing the bass and drinking paint.

Madame Fassaud- Fassad AU, though you could probably guess that. chimera, mostly made of plastic. PSI user, due to being a Monarque nymph. likes capitalism and listening to electra heart without understanding the meaning of the album.

Colonel Ivory- former colonel of the Pigmask army. chimera (?). seems mean, but will cry if you compliment his cape. likes embroidery and baking.

Roj Saturn- a Saturnian. from Saturn. who speaks Saturnian. obviously. chimera, PSI user. wears a red kerchief as a hood that she sewed herself. will adopt any traumatized child she finds in the dirt. likes cinnamon scented candles and baking pies.

Codyrwin- Tillie's Mindkin. former second Emperor of the Mind, after Gyiyg was killed. annoying. hates being called Cody. would kill you, but can't use PSI. likes arcades and taking over cities.

Soline- slightly aged up Fuel AU. chimera. drummer for the Runaways. likes fire and being way too loud at 12:30 AM.

Eyes- Tess's Mindkin. cellist for the Runaways. tends to jump into situations without thinking. gives the best advice, somehow. likes adventures with his friends and killing gods.

Vittoria- Queen Mary AU. Franklin's Mindkin. violinist for the Runaways. everyone's mom. likes singing and dramatically standing on the balcony of her castle watching over the land.

Truman- a Mook. PSI user. guitarist for the Runaways. drunk all the time. not to be trusted, in the nicest way possible. likes drinking paint at home depot and seeing how many public spaces he can get kicked out of.

Telestra Starbov- the last surviving Starman. PSI user. a former general of the Pigmask army, though she doesn't like to talk about it. singer for the Runaways. likes standing very still and staring at you.

Saf Saturn- another Saturnian. from Saturn. y'know. PSI user. very sarcastic. curses too much for a Saturnian. pianist for the Runaways. likes guns and occasionally drinking paint.

Tamothy Timor- a robot created by the Pigmask army. backup singer for the Runaways. thinks he deserves his own tv show. likes using the sparkle emoji and thinking he's the most popular Runaway.

Roxanne- Mecha-Porky AU. possibly the only creature in existence who idolizes Tamothy. plays tambourine for the Runaways. has no musical talent at all but was adopted into the band after escaping from the Pigmasks. likes video games (only when she wins) and gossiping about the Pigmasks.

Bunnie Larimar- a girl from an alternate dimension. guitarist for the Runaways. no one knows about the world she comes from because she never talks about it. likes women and making bad decisions.

Love Tazimile- Yuki's Mindkin. backup singer for the Runaways. brother of Gyiyg, the former Emperor of the Mind. very sensitive, cries easily. likes dogs and flowers.

have fun! i will not elaborate further. (/lh)

[dustedmagazine]

BCMC — Foreign Smokes (Drag City)

Photo by the Visualist

Each of the four pieces on BCMC’s Foreign Smokes, a full-length collaboration between the guitarist Bill Mackay and the multi-instrumentalist Cooper Crain, begins somewhere small — a few investigatory notes from Mackay’s guitar, a warm drone from Crain’s keys. Ideas are trotted out, the pace and intensity accelerating when both players latch onto something. There is little in the way of pyrotechnics, though the music never stands still or bogs down. This is improvisation as exploration and exchange; one player cuts a trail in a few directions, giving his counterpart options; gesturing with a question, rather than dictating anything.

At the outset of the third track, “Ripple in High Tide,” Mackay bends a few short notes, while Crain sets twinkling touches around the margins. They go on like this until a prodding two-note bass pattern rises up and marches forward. It is a steadying presence, a clockwork plunk of pebbles producing the titular wavelet. Mackay’s picking remains relatively plain, allowing Crain an opening to send shafts of glimmering synth down over the proceedings. Crain’s part established, Mackay takes another step, playing each note just a bit harder, sending the echo farther out. Halfway through, Mackay locks into step over the bassline, walking his guitar into compact bursts as synths sway and sparkle and the organ drone applies greater and greater pressure. This model for playing off of each other — a sonic wall built one intriguing stone at a time — allows either one of Crain or Mackay to incite the action without overshadowing what they’re creating together.

A pearly organ riff emerges from the opening ease of the last song, “Sunset Saturn.” After a few bars, Mackay joins in, sending picked guitar notes tailing out into the reddening sky. The pair trade the spotlight over a persistent drone until they’re deep in conversation; Mackay’s guitar is vivid and peaceful, strumming over a meandering organ which builds to a pleasant bluster, Crain letting loose like a cosmic prog-rocker. Throughout Foreign Smokes, Crain plays with great vitality and without ostentacion, allowing his parts to grow organically from the scene he and Mackay are forming, with the tangible excitement of ad hoc realization. Like his work in Bitchin Bajas, the space illuminated by his music is liable to shift; the ground you’re standing on is still solid, but look up and your surroundings have swirled and warped. What begins in tranquility can quickly turn sordid and eerie, dropping you somewhere more brambled and complex by the end. Sometimes, however, there’s unease from the start. Track two, “The Swarm,” is underlaid by drawn out minor synth chords, which are soon joined by tense squiggles of guitar. Fuller, ostensibly more charismatic guitar and organ parts strive to break through over the top, but the song’s anxious feel breeds on these shifting keys and billowing textures; the bright and the palpable unsettled by hoots from a threatening forest.

The sound of Foreign Smokes is deceptively straightforward considering the rich ambience and evocative moods the pair achieve. While it rewards multiple listens with novel wrinkles – cymbals that settle into the mist, a flinty synth stab that might’ve been shorn from a Depeche Mode chorus  – and is fleshed out and dramatized with a supporting array of synthesizers, the album’s greatest bounty is gathered from the immediate and simple interplay between Mackay’s lightly affected guitar and Crain’s similarly stripped down organ. The first time through, you hear Foreign Smokes in the familiar voices of those instruments, piped and plucked from around the corner, music filling a room you’re not sure you’ve reached until you’re at the center of it.

Alex Johnson

[athetos]

hello ash the great opinions haver! any recs for metal albums that Aren't evangelizing/fascist/both?

My opinions are only adequate, but I have quite a few! I don’t know what particular genre of metal you’re into so here’s a decent variety!

Parkway Drive - a metalcore band that has quite a few songs off their album In Reverence that attack Catholicism and talk about killing God, the abuse prevalent in the church, etc. I highly recommend that album as well as their latest that just came out, Darker Still, for very anthemic metal that’s still very aggressive.

Archspire - a technical death metal band with my favorite bassist - seriously these guys shred. Very fast and aggressive, very heavy. Their music is concept albums based around human experimentation and are hard to explain, but phenomenal. All their music is good but Bleed the Future and Relentless Mutation are peak of their game.

Rings Of Saturn - a deathcore/technical death metal band that has lyrics about alien invasions and cosmic horror. Fantastic riffs, but if you’re not huge on deathcore’s growl vs screech dynamic you might not be as a big a fan. But they have instrumental versions of ALL their songs, and after their vocalist left this past year are solely instrumental! My personal favorite album is Ultu Ulla.

Blotted Science - instrumental experimental death metal where each song represents a different neurological condition of some sort. Very terrifying and just, one of my favorites of all time. The bassist from Cannibal Corpse is one of the members; I believe the other members are also from well-regarded death metal bands as well. Their album Machinations of Dementia is to die for.

Gatecreeper - a death metal band that’s great in all regards, but their EP An Unexpected Reality is my favorite album of 2021 - and it’s only 7 songs. 6 of them are just over a minute long, thrashy and violent, and the last is an over 10 minute long doom metal track. I’m still blown away listening to it today.

Brand of Sacrifice - a deathcore band that writes songs inspired by Berserk! Very vicious and explosive. They have some really cool stuff going on and shred. I don’t have a favorite album yet, but you can’t really go wrong just checking out whatever their most played is.

A day to remember - a metalcore/ post-hardcore - pop punk hybrid whatever you want to call it that’s one of my favorites. They have some poppier stuff as well as some very heavy stuff. I recommend Homesick and Bad Vibrations the most.

Dragonforce - this goes without saying. Power metal about dragons with extremely long guitar solos. What more could you possibly want? Inhuman Rampage is my favorite.

First Fragment - while their newest album didn’t resonate with me as much, their album Dasein is exquisite. I have no idea what the lyrics are; they’re in French, but my brief Google translate sessions tell me they’re about… philosophy? Truths of the universe? Scifi stuff? I have no idea. But if you love technical death metal and some delicious bass lines listen to that record.

Fleshgod Apocalypse - symphonic heavy metal that is relentless and melodic and brutal all at once. They have instrumental versions of some of their songs too. They’re concept albums as far as I can tell, with their album King being medieval themed and epic-sounding, and their album Veleno being nearly as good. There’s also an aria in one track. Much respect.

Avatar - I haven’t been as big a fan of their newest album, but these guys are anthemic metal that mixes clean vocals and screaming and have really cool concepts. Their album Feathers and Flesh is amazing, and tells the story of an eagle (day) and an owl (night) fighting.

The Dillinger escape plan - very manic sounding extreme metal that makes your brain explode in the best way possible. Not for everyone but you gotta at least check them out. Ire Works and Dissociation are my go-to’s, I have to listen to them more.

Bring me the Horizon - started out as an adequate if unexciting death metal band, jumped into the scene metalcore pool, slowly “matured” and refined their tone to fit on hard rock radio, then released Post Human Survival, one of my favorite albums from last year, somehow. Your mileage will definitely vary, some ppl still swear by their old stuff (although beware of the misogyny that was everywhere at the time), but their albums There is a Hell and Sempiternal are pretty good and throw stones at christianity, while Amos is as good as you can get for something that’s tame enough to get airplay. But post human survival is the best; there’s even features with Amy Lee and babymetal!

Cannabis Corpse - haven’t listened to an album of theirs in full but they’re a death metal band that has all original songs but the titles and lyrics are all about weed and are parodies of cannibal corpse song titles. They shred.

I’m at work and don’t have time to type up more, but if you’re still hungry for me, I also recommend inanimate existence, irreversible mechanism, alestrom, powerwolf, ice nine kills, and - since they no longer consider themselves a Christian band - Underoath, one of the best metalcore bands of all time.