#sikth

[fosh-star]

Don’t ask me about my music taste unless you want a 6hr lecture on my favourite progressive metal bands.

[soundsanssprechen]

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It’s yesterday’s game They’re playing 3D chess Above our heads right now Manoeuvring their pieces Into more optimal positions Calculating the optimum amount of patience To make that next worst nuke more deadly They’ve dropped 2 on human filled cities already I promise you I know they’re up there now Just like they hide them deep down below So you don’t listen To “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” Don’t listen to them Don’t listen to me Go! Listen! Mankind be vigilant Play Disco Elysium Again

[bosmeri-spinor-society]

I heard there are these things called “wombbats? (sp?) from a Ka’jitii trader. I think he said his name was “Ba’iik?” You know how weird they are with the shapes and 4 moons. 3/4 body rhyme, sharp tusks.

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Wombats on the Isle

Selene shines sweetly on the solitary isle

So free from tree for lack of forest’s foresight

You think the power is solid?

No, see her ripples reflect through each eco-pond

You do not yet know the number-death

That Natural Law will arraign to its side

Your zeros mean nothing to nullify

Inevitable

Boar screams

Frogs squeak

But even the lowliest of swine

Can move the Kinesis more than you

You are the ever constant self

Fulfilling victimhood

On you head is just a

Third eye to blind

In-animal

Un-life

Return to Sweet Earth

[sergeantpoliteness]

the sapphic riff in question

dear god I dont wanna learn this

[haveyouheardthisband]

[wolpatinga]

3, 5, and 9 for that ask game

hey!!!!

3. A song I'd choose to introduce someone to my favorite genre

okay, i like genre hopping. truth told, it's kinda hard for me to keep track of the minutiae of micro-genres, and i'm not really sure what genres most of my favorite songs fit into. that being said, i know i like djent (prog metal (prog rock (lyrical rock music) + heavy metal (loud distorted guitar solos)) + percussive guitar in aggressive rhythms). famously, djent is 'not a genre', but i can't think of a djent song i don't like. but how to get someone into djent?

wildfire, periphery. i say this bc i think trying to find something less aggressive would be disingenuous. i like songs with guitars and screaming, and this song is that. oh, that, or cracks of light by sikth. the lead singer for sikth is the VA for ancient reptilian brain (et. al.), so maybe that'd interest DE fans. that's how i got into this genre, anyways

5. A song you think most of my followers haven't heard before

DUNDONNELL. (hymn of the highlands, phillip sparke). i go nuts for a brass fanfare, and this is one of my favorites

9. A song in a language I don't speak

i have my problems with eurovision, but i've taken a shining to käärijä, who represented finland in 2023. i've been trying to learn finnish for the past sixteen years, but i never can stick to it for too long. i am finnish, at least on paper, and i like to pretend that listening to finnish pop music is a proper substitute for the family i've lost contact with if i had to pick one of his songs, yhtä vailla

[every-eye-evermore]

Shout out to my favorite regular at work- she gave me a big list of music recommendations after hearing I wanted to listen to more metal

I typed all them out under the cut:

Bury Tomorrow - Cannibalism ((???) metalcore)

Sikth - Death of a Dead Day (avant garde (???))

Death - The Soul of Perseverance (prof death)

Deftones - White Pony (nu metal)

Dirge - Dirge ((???)) (doom, post elements)

Trivium - In Waves (melodic metalcore)

Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon (melodic metalcore)

Gojira - Magma (prog/post sludge/grave)

Septicflesh - Modern Prometheus (symphonic death)

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (grave metal)

Leprous - The Congregation (prog)

O’Brother - Garden Window (alt)

Volition - Protest the Hero (mathcore)

[verminfang]

Tagged by @shillelagh

I'm actually not too sure where the venn diagram of mutuals who do tag games and actually have spotify is but I'll no pressure to do it tag @importantangeldefendor based on that being someone I vaguely remember posting a spotify wrapped this year

let your spotify predict your 2024! shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

January - Spite by Vandaveer

February - Can't Keep Johnny Down by They Might Be Giants

March - Zydrate Anatomy by Repo The Genetic Opera

April - It Ain't Psychedelic (Unless You Kill Someone) by The Golden Pelicans

May - Devoid of Redemption by Pallbearer

June - Chain Breaker by Brothers of Metal

July - Babes in the Abyss by Sleep of Monsters

August - Discipline by Nine Inch Nails

September - Slaughter Beach by Clutch

October - Vivid by SikTh

November - The Forest Dark by Green Druid

December - New Millennium Cyanide Christ by Meshuggah

[hornpoint]

i cant stand when people pronounce “sixth” as like, “sikth”

[thesternj]

My top 100 albums of all time (revised 2022 edition)

Explanation: years ago for my 25th birthday i did my first propper top 100 with albums being posted onto my at the time fairly active Facebook but it’s kinda lost to time and my tastes have changed alot since 2015 so here’s an older and more comfortable in his skin list that’s shifted with a somehow even more diverse taste in music.

100.Dead End Kings - Katatonia

99.w^w^^w^w - Car Bomb

98.Black Clouds and Silver Linings - Dream Theatre

97.Rammstein - Rammstein

96.I Am - Texas in July

95.The Future in Who’s Eyes? - SikTh

94.Bite Your Head Off - King Parrot

93.Exmilitary - Death Grips

92.Nothing is True & Everything is Possible - Enter Shikari

91.Wolf - Tyler,The Creator

90.Mouth of Swords - The Safety Fire

89.Grind the Ocean - The Safety Fire

88.Ghost Reveries - Opeth

87.Prequelle - Ghost

86.Material Control - Glassjaw

85.Colors - Between the Buried and Me

84.A Kind of Magic - Queen

83.Beyond the Permafrost - Skeletonwitch

82.Palimpsest - Protest the Hero

81.Deep Blue - Parkway Drive

80.Masters of Reality - Black Sabbath 

79.Metal Resistance - BABYMETAL

78.Maximum Overload - Dragonforce

76.The Living Infinite - Soilwork

75.A Snow Capped Romance - 36 Crazyfists

74.In Waves - Trivium

73.Chaosphere - Meshuggah

72.The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage

71.10,000 Days - Tool

70.Remission - Mastodon

69.Mechanize - Fear Factory

68.One Day Remains - Alter Bridge

67.Deconstruction - The Devin Townsend Project

66.Sounds of a Playground Fading - In Flames

65.Pork Soda - Primus

64.Sacrament - Lamb of God

63.Axe to Fall - Converge

62.Yoshu Fukushu - Maximum the Hormone

61.Ziltoid the Omniscient - The Devin Townsend Project

60.Fragile - Yes

59.Shogun - Trivium

58.A New Era of Corruption - Whitechapel

57. Grey Britain - Gallows

56.Remain in Light  -Talking Heads

55.Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God

54.Sentenced to Life - Black Breath

53.Painkiller - Judas Priest

52.Brave New World - Iron Maiden

51.All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us - Architects

50.Eremita - Ihsahn 

49.Alpha -Sevendust

48.Gnosis - Monuments 

47.Digimortal - Fear Factory

46.Ire Works - The Dillinger Escape Plan

45.[id] - Veil of Maya

44.That Handsome Devil - That Handsome Devil

43.Haji’s Kitchen -Haji’s Kitchen

42.Chaos A.D. - Sepultura

41.Slipknot - Slipknot

40.The Way of All Flesh - Gojira

39.Blood Mountain - Mastodon

38.Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus 

37.Joy as an Act of Resistance - IDLES 

36.Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie

35.Among the Living - Anthrax

34.Wisconsin Death Trip - Static-X

33. Nostalgia - Corelia 

32.Fat of the Land - The Prodigy

31.Aenima - Tool

30.Bitterness the Star - 36 Crazyfists

29.Blackbird - Alter Bridge

28.Trees are Dead and Dried Out Wait for Something Wild -SikTh

27.The Discovery - Born of Osiris

26.Dirt - Alice in Chains

25.Scum Fuck Flower Boy - Tyler, The Creator

24.Alaska - Between the Buried and Me

23.L.D.50 - Mudvayne

22.The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains

21.Sheer Heart Attack - Queen

The Top 20

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20.Toxicity - System of a Down

The wild mixture of heavy guitars, duelling rambling (complimentary)  lead vocals and heavy HEAVY political commentary makes this seminal 00’s STAPLE as iconic as it is but don’t get it twisted there is nothing but BANGERS on Toxicity and i can’t even think of a weak link here.

19.Dum Spiro Spero - Dir En Grey

An enigma of a band that never stays still, Dir En Grey’s ambitious growth is on full display here with what i reckon is their defining moment with as much disgusting soundscapes as there are beautiful crescendos and let’s not forget one of my all time favourite vocalists of all time KYO putting on performances that dive into inhuman sounding at times and just adds to the ominous presence this album has as a whole.

18.Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

A concept album based off of the simple idea of “what if we can condense the feeling of what it sounds like to switch between radio stations into 1 album” and QotS nailed it super hard and i can’t just sit here and list off all the stand out moments as it’s all so varied and yet so focused that i can only say listen to this album in full as it’ll give you that intended vibe even in an age where we are consuming media digitally more than ever.

17.Worship and Tribute - Glassjaw

Glassjaw are kind of an underdog band in my eyes, never broke out in terms of mass popularity, but in hindsight are iconic with their very emotional delivery and emo infused post-hardcore styled song structures which all come together with something of a “sound of things to come” album without it being completely obvious about it at first.

16.To the Pain - Nonpoint

An album by a band that the Smackdown vs Raw games introduced me to this high on the list?! FUCK YES AND I’D DO IT AGAIN, Nonpoint’s “To the Pain” is something is a rare treat to me: hard rock/metalcore infused with south american rhythms and blistering vocals that are parts rap and other parts nu-metal delivered by a guy who’s voice is so unique to me it’s nothing short of special (to me atleast).

15. Buiiku Kaesu - Maximum the Hormone 

To say MTH shaped my weirdest parts of my taste is an understatement, i’ve tried to describe MTH over the years and at this point calling them a Japanese System of a Down doesn't do them justice: Nu-metal,Funk,Punk,deathcore,metalcore,ska,rap just doesn't roll off the tongue but it rolls off of the many vocalists of this band’s collective tongues as does their fun word play, their ability to change styles on a dime and not to mention giving us the best parts of Death Note’s OSTs (don't @ me) Buiiku Kaesu formed me and i’m eternally grateful. 

14.MM.. Food? - MF DOOM

OK full transparency, my rap knowledge isn’t close to my metal/rock/video game ost knowledge, BUT that does not matter in the slightest as MF DOOM was a once in a generation talent, an ear for unique samples, a flow that’s unrivalled in my ears, natural charm in delivery, sure some lyrics haven't aged too well but he’s done so much great here that it’s easily glossed over with what i consider my favourite Rap album. Rest in Power MF DOOM, ALL CAPS REMEMBER THE NAME.  

13.White Pony - Deftones

At a time ruled by the dumber Nu Metal bands, Deftones decided to deliver upon the world a low key killer but don’t get me wrong there are HEAVY parts on White Pony that can rend flesh (“Knife Party” being the key example as Rodleen screams like her soul is being burnt from her body)  but what gets me is the band’s control of atmosphere with stuff like “Digital Bath” and the infinitely sexy “Passenger” and let’s not forget that their label made them turn possibly my favourite deep cut “Pink Maggit” into seminal Nu Metal banger “Back to School” (which tbf im not fussed about)...BUT this isn’t my favourite of Deftones’s albums, that honour goes to…

12.Diamond Eyes - Deftones

This is the album that opened my ears up to Deftones in the first place, so many bangers from a focused and hungry Deftones, atmosphere so dense it’s transcendent at points, grooves so heavy Meshuggah would blush, Chino’s insane range comes out in full force from subtle and sensual deliveries like “You’ve Seen the Butcher” and “Beauty School” to visceral screeches on “CMND/CTRL” and “Rocket Skates”, if you’ve never felt like you got along with Deftones maybe you’ve needed this album to get you hooked much like it did to me. 

11.Silent Machine - Twelve Foot Ninja

Twelve Foot Ninja are fairly obscure but i sure as shit treat them better than that personally, they are so unique in what they do and it’s not even funny, they move from heavy riff based modern metal to smooth jazz to reggae to ballades with ease and this album is one of those “helped me expand what i thought what a song’s soundscape can be within 3 minutes” type of deals. Me describing this album won’t do it justice, please just listen to it if you like metal and want to hear what it can do when it doesn't take itself too seriously “but seriously enough to go hard at times).

10.Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta

Ok, Full transparency: it took me decades to get my head around this album but “Frances the Mute” is one of the most rewarding relistens i’ve ever had, this is a complex story that i can’t do justice but i’ll attempt to explain it’s sounds: a progressive and psychedelic ride through a southern american city scape with injections of jazz, prog and rock that gives this such a dense soundscape and has to be absorbed as a whole sitting over any of it’s singles (which i reckon is why it took me so long to fully understand this album).

9.Coal - Leprous

From the first listen of this heartbreaking album, i knew i loved Leprous, the musicianship on display is only second to Einar Solberg’s gruelling vocals throughout delivering some of the most well crafted lyrics i've ever heard alongside having a cheeky guest feature from another god tier vocalist in Ihsahn solidified “Coal” to be an all timer for me and not a day goes by where i don't think about the gorgeous cover art.

8.Volition - Protest the Hero

Protest the Hero nails a certain vibe for me, very tongue in cheek lyrics that are scathing yet playful; however it never detracts from the devastating topics they cover in Volition and how they accompanied these well delivered stories using technical yet catchy mathcore song structures. I don’t feel like I can do this justice but if you need something fun yet cynical and aren't afraid to tackle heavy subjects, I'd highly suggest “Voiliton”.

7.Alive or Breathing - Killswitch Engage

1 word: ICONIC. The work KSE have put in for the genre of Metalcore as a whole has been nothing short of influential, Alive or Just Breathing gave the world riffy yet melodic metal that was easy to sing along with and in the end it only got more about those hooks and riffs as time went on (specially when Jesse Leach left and Howard Jones joined for those also very influential years).

6.Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal - Periphery 

P2 changed how i listened to albums honestly, it made me sit back and appreciate a lot more the music and also it made me appreciate how context can add a lot to a song you may not of been into on a first listen, this for my money is peak Periphery and nothing says it better than P2’s sheer beauty in it’s production being spotless, it’s composition being on point, Misha being one of the greatest guitarists of all time and let’s not forget Spencer’s sheer range on display with his vocals. P2 is a landmark moment for Djent and Prog Metal and i hope it’s revered in years to come alongside your “Moving Pictures” or “Dark Side of the Moons” of the world (but hey that’s just like my opinion man)

5.Nocturnal - The Black Dahlia Murder

Parts Death metal, parts melo-death, parts nerdy and horror based lyrics and themes but all PEAK MODERN DEATH METAL! There i said it, “Nocturnal” is peak modern death metal that covers so much that i can’t do it justice (you’ll hear this atleast once more this list) please if you like heavy music with alot of melodic elements then go listen to Nocturnal.

4.Slaughter of the Soul - At the Gates 

THE Melodic death metal album, plain and simple, it set the standards for bands like The Black Dahlia Murder to your Killswitch Engage's and countless others with it’s melody based riffs and lead guitars and solos whilst staying vicious with it’s vocal delivery whilst not losing a single ounce of it’s sense of aggression that leads to a standout of the 90s metal hall of fame.

3.New Junk Aesthetic - Every Time I Die

I remember the first time i heard this band, it was on Metal Hammer sample CD and it had “The Marvelous Slut” by Every Time I Die on it and holy fuck that changed me, a song that’s less than 2 minuets long that really made me go out of my way and find the album and boy howdy did i find ETID,

This album is a really REALLY fucking great Hardocre album with some of the greatest lyrics i’ve ever heard, winding around and around using contradictions in forms of questions to only be highly self aware and genuinely funny at times in a snarky way only Keith Buckley could deliver and let’s not skimp on the fact the whole band is firing on all cylinders with this.

For years this and Numbers 2 and 1 have danced around but New Junk Aesthetic can sit comfortably as the one that stayed in the 1st slot for YEARS before this was finalised.

2.Human - Death

If you put a gun to my head and said “show me what you think perfect death metal is” Human by Death would be my answer, not because it’s the most brutal or is the most definitive, but it’s that it metalness lies in how it baffles people at times, its brutality is the mirror it holds up to what it means to be human (i swear this is about Human by Death and not NieR Automata,promise). Gnarly vocals, technical and calculated playing and honestly impressive albums for it’s time, a real “shape of things to come'' album and it really doesn't get the credit it deserves as why death metal,tech death and all of the other prog death sub genres evolved.

1.One - Tesseract 

I think this was a slow burn but not in a traditional sense, i loved it on release however my love was directed more at the Concealing the Fate EP at the time as i had never felt that way about a large piece of music before, fast forward to 2022 and i have finally realised this album makes me feel even at times where i was at my most apathetic to life. It’s serene from front to back however it’s not just that it’s also heavy and groovy to a point where it warped how i enjoyed certain musical patterns WHEN SOMETHING MAKES YOU APPRECIATE HOW HARD A TIME SIGNATURE IS BUT DOSN’T MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A PRETENTIOUS TWAT THEN THAT’S GOTTA MEAN SOMETHING RIGHT?

Oh and i would be doing a disservice if i didn’t mention how Dan Tompkins became my favourite vocalist of all time with everything on “One” coming of as genuine and passionate whilst never needing to go overboard, he’ll let the music breath when it needs to and even on songs like “Autumn” where it’s a long gap in between his vocals but it feels like a cleansing few minutes to let the atmosphere stew and boy does this album’s atmosphere make for the finest comfort food.

And that was the redo of my top 100 albums from almost a decade ago. I gotta say a lot has changed but in the end I still can’t convey how I really feel through words but I hope you guys will enjoy the albums I suggest in the meantime :) (I’ll also make a playlist of select songs from each but i’ll do that soon as it sounds like a fun side project).

[sergeantpoliteness]

all the queers will FALL IN LOVE when they see me play deftones riffs or some shit I do why I think bitches will like mathcore sikth....

[slrmagazine]

SOL INVICTO (Feat. Members of Deftones, Cypress Hill & Sikth) Announce Debut EP & Drop First Single

SOL INVICTO (Feat. Members of Deftones, Cypress Hill & Sikth) Announce Debut EP & Drop First Single. #solinvicto

Underground metal visionaries Sol Invicto, the dynamic project formed by producer/guitarist Richie Londres, Stephen Carpenter (Deftones), and Eric Bobo (Cypress Hill), are thrilled to announce the release of their long-awaited debut EP, ‘Loosely Aware’, dropping November 8th, 2024. Accompanying the announcement is the release of their first official single, “The Obvious Play”, alongside an…

[darkarfs]

Vexovoid - Call Of The Starforger Dean Roberts - Be Mine Tonight Lord Buffalo - Holus Bolus The Gathering - Mandylion HammerFall - Avenge The Fallen Mamaleek - Vida Blue Ihsahn - IHSAHN (Orchestral Version) Sleep Terror - Railroad to Dystopia Sleep Terror - Above Snakes Kraanerg - Heart of a Cherry Pit Sun Erang - Tome X Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals Ithaca - They Fear Us Sikth - The Future in Whose Eyes?

[wolpatinga]

mecore playlist, in no particular order:

short, fast and loud by fall out boy

just apathy by chonny jash

sang by dana wilson

mr hyde jive by chonny jash

wax wings by periphery

saturn by gustav holst

in the mood by glen miller orchestra

joyce's 71st regiment by thornton boyer

it must be me by bernstein/hadley

saturnine by red vox

living room music by john cage

tupelo by sikth

overture from tommy by the who

outliars and hyppocrates by will wood

windsprints by richard saucedo

theme from the last time travel from professor layton three by tomohito nishiura

riften wed by julie giroux

dundonnell from hymn of the highlands by philip sparke

welllllllllll by jacob collier

the thunderer by sousa

golden by fall out boy

smallest church in saint saens from disco elysium by british sea power/mikee goodman

halcyon hearts by katahj copley

4242564 from soul eater

erlkönig by franz schubert/jessye norman

easy easy by king krule

tokyo lights by sikth

2econd 2ight 2eer by will wood

moanin' by charles mingus

war! team fortress two song by movieblaze525

the swan by camille saint saens/tod bowermaster

better on the outside by red vox

reptile by periphery

russian sailor's dance from the red poppy by reinhold gliere

moonlight jellies on my grandfather's guitar by concernedape

memories lie by red vox

toy car from professor layton three by tomohito nishiura

invisible man by queen

pavlove by fall out boy

soft fuzzy man by neil cicierega

take a chance on me by abba

walking illusion by vine

aikido! neurotic erotic by will wood

champion of ennui by chuck salamone/vinny vinesauce/diane aragona

einsamkeit hetalia. fuck you. the duet one

sending postcards from a planecrash by fall out boy

going to go back there some day by rachael yamagata

sunshine riptide by fall out boy

cotard's solution by will wood

cherry blossom kiss by chieko kawabe / kristine sa

what a time to be alive by fall out boy

stains of time from mgr:r by jaime christopherson

gandalf by johan de meij

smash the mirror by the who

x heart x fingers by patrick stump

pretty in punk by fall out boy

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