I got super into "Square Hammer" last Halloween!
What's the last new (to you) band you got really into?
7 months ago by Apeman42 to c/asklemmy
sad_detective_man 2 points 7 months ago
Congrats on finding the best band ever 🤘
Do this song next
JohnnyEnzyme 8 points 7 months ago
Vendredi sur Mer (Switzerland) - catchy, original electropop with a lot of lullaby-ish spoken word. Much of Charline's early work was co-written by wunderkind Lewis Ofman.
Apeman42 4 points 7 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqUMFj51X0 (NSFW)
Well I'm not exactly sure on the specifics of what this song's about, but it's catchy and I like the video.
JohnnyEnzyme 4 points 7 months ago
The song's about emotional ambivalence in relationships. That whole first album of hers is just fabulous.
gallopingsnail 8 points 7 months ago
Latest band I got really into has gotta be Viagra Boys
SwingingTheLamp 8 points 7 months ago
A timely question! I've been listening to Neutral Milk Hotel a lot recently, and for the first time. I'd heard of the band back in the day, but somehow never listened. The Wikipedia entry lists a number of my favorite bands as influenced by them, so I guess it's no surprise that I enjoy it so much.
RaoulDuke85 3 points 7 months ago
Great music.
negativenull 1 point 7 months ago
Same here. Fantastic
toomanypancakes 7 points 7 months ago
I just found out about fleshgod apocalypse, they're fantastic. If symphonic death metal speaks to you it's worth checking them out!
A few choices:
SlurpingPus 1 point 7 months ago
symphonic death metal
Might also want to check out the classics, Therion's ‘Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas’ and ‘Lepaca Kliffoth’. They aren't very symphonic, but are the points where Therion were moving from death-doom to their proper developed sound.
CultLeader4Hire 6 points 7 months ago
Electric Callboy!!
They’re a German electronicore band who fuses metal, EDM and techno and they’re pretty fun/funny
dragontology 5 points 7 months ago
A friend told me about Bad Omens (metal) and I’ve been listening to them. I don’t usually like heavy music these days, but sometimes it can be cool and they have some clever lyrics.
Apeman42 5 points 7 months ago
Damn, these songs are good on their own, he's got a nice rich voice. But then oh my fuck, also the costume work is hella good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I9CYu668jA
stringere 4 points 7 months ago
Kaleo - rock and roll from Iceland
Amigo the Devil - found on a murderfolk playlist
Parov Stellar - techno-swing
Bridge City Sinners - murderfolk
Mariache el Bronx - mariache cover band
Plastic Bertrand - French surf rock (?)
the_blast_of_us 2 points 7 months ago
If you like Amigo the Devil and don't know them already, check out Harley Poe. Murderfolk/Horrorfolk
emotional_soup_88 4 points 7 months ago
In This Moment - alternative metal (?)
Just finished listening through their discography last week.
emotional_soup_88 1 point 7 months ago
Have you seen their merch? :D
https://inthismomentofficial.com/...
Apeman42 4 points 7 months ago
They've been around or several years now, but I just discovered Brothers of Metal a month or so ago from one of their tracks being in the game Pistol Whip, and I'm slowly becoming obsessed.
They're such a fun balance of epic viking fantasy and tongue in cheek humor.
POWERSNAKE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpiK6ncKQfM
The Other Son of Odin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFGkutszRFA
Death of the God of Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469fV_JzIwM
Brothers Unite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIWAC0Dw6JE
Yggdrasil - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yYMjU8xDg
SlurpingPus 2 points 7 months ago
Check out the Andre Antunes with Nooran Sisters mashup. (He has more of these with various Indian and Pakistani singers.)
Hackworth 3 points 7 months ago
ANIMA! Moving Mountains is my favorite.
logicslayer 3 points 7 months ago
Don Broco. Nightmare Tripping released yesterday.
callouscomic 3 points 7 months ago
Castle Rat: Medieval Fantasy Heavy Metal. I would say more Rock than metal, and kind of an 80s feel.
They are incredible. Great music, fun lyrics, presence and themes to their shows.
Also shout out to MIRE and their new album. Heavy metal.
SlurpingPus 2 points 7 months ago
Castle Rat are mostly heavy/doom with lots of emulation of Black Sabbath. For some reason several such woman-fronted bands cropped up in recent-ish years, namely also Druidess and Hail Darkness
XeroxCool 1 point 6 months ago
I'm not big on actual 80s music, so I feel like they have some type of modernization that gets my goat. Castle Rat was the soundtrack to painting cibderblock basement walls a vague gray teal. Pretty good match.
sharkfucker420 3 points 7 months ago
It's been a year or so but probably Reagan Youth
scytale 3 points 7 months ago
They kinda blew up recently because of their KEXP performance, but I discovered Angine de Poitrine like 2 weeks before that.
I also discovered 88Kasyo Junrei around the same time. Fantastic band.
muxika 3 points 7 months ago
Ho99o9
Industrial, hardcore, punk, rap, metal, all at the same time.
givesomefucks 3 points 7 months ago
Fcukers have been putting out an astonishing amount of music in the last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyJat1RGPi4
Which is awesome, Nora wasn't going to be able to keep Vengaboys vibe alive alone forever.
Shits too depressing these days to not have mindless party music.
Apeman42 2 points 7 months ago
Oh, I like. Silly club music is the other genre besides metal that can hack my shitty brain into working for a few hours, and they've got a nice beat.
Bon Bon is pretty good too. Sounds like almost the same beat to me?
givesomefucks 1 point 7 months ago
They just dropped a whole album yesterday, before that it was just singles.
I haven't listened tho, but I get the feeling each album is like a "set" where all the tracks blend into each other.
The start of every new track, is the end of the last one.
Which would explain why so many feel so similar.
The band is just a DJ and a vocalist after all. Kind of a Sophie Tucker type deal.
DMCMNFIBFFF 3 points 7 months ago
I probably heard stuff on the radio (CBC-1) and even on Lemmy that I've taken a liking to the first time I've heard them, but have yet to search for them. But here are a few relatively recent stuff. I pretty sure I've listened to each of the first 3 at least 10x, maybe ≥20x.
Clarissa - Ela [might be "bedroom pop"/lo-fi/dream pop/techno-pop/soft] (2021)
https://lemmy.world/post/18462542
ELA - Clarissa
2:52
(You can probably download this directly from Vimeo.)
Yeah, I know, 2 young attractive barefoot women who kiss in the end and the translation, IIUC, indicates that her parents wouldn't understand their relationship, but I've taken quite a liking to the music.
Ivana Máchová & Miriam Hrušková - Terezka [sounds a bit like ABBA] (1979)
https://lemmy.world/post/35969218
Cold Showers - "Sliver" (Official Video) (they sound a bit like Depeche Mode)
https://lemmy.world/post/31824931
[21st dekaday, 2787 YAE] Laura (music by Nick Gudgeon; Dancer Laura Beanland Stephens) [the music has a bit of a Tycho feel to it] (2018)
https://lemmy.world/post/33108498
[R&B pop]
American Bandstand 1963 – TOP 10 – Sally, Go 'Round The Roses, The Jaynetts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwIuMLQe2A&list=RDPOwIuMLQe2A&start_radio=1
3:31
"Sally go round the roses
(Sally go round the pretty roses)
They won't tell your secret
(they won't tell your secret)"
Also, this sounds like great My Bloody Valentine: 😁🙂
How to make Shoegaze in 2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN67L4LJxgw
2:17
JakoJakoJako13 3 points 7 months ago
In the span of like 2 weeks I discovered a bunch of new music. I never get why people cling onto the stereotype that you stop listening to new music once you hit a certain age. I'm finding new shit all the time.
Die Spitz - Doom/Punk/Grunge band from Texas. They have really wild shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB01l-V_vAE
Tropical Fuck Storm - Aussie Rock & Roll. Kind of a sad boy druggy aesthetic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t663s10WwPE
Earth Tongue - New Zealand classic Heavy Metal with Ozzy and Satan in mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qUjVRe8fs
Spite - Deathcore. Kinda boring old school Myspace era stuff to be honest. Takes me back to 2007 when I was a wee lad though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qUjVRe8fs
Am I the crusty Deathmetal head now?
moondoggie 1 point 7 months ago
Same thing with age. I’m in my fifties, stumbled into Tropical Fuck Storm through King Gizzard a year or two ago and realized that all the new bands I was listening to were all Australian (I’m in the US). Probably from watching so much Like a Version. I listen to a lot of new music based on either covers of songs I know or cool band names. My current obsession, Apes of the State, is driving me into folk punk now. A little while ago I was wondering who was making the best protest songs for all of today’s bullshit. Folk punk is soothing my soul while I fight the power.
Gerudo 1 point 7 months ago
House of Protection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trzefJeYKkc
Bilmuri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzONJQRHtj0
Unprocessed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnGRrWNOZ4E
Conquer Divide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqlldj3rDzc
Beacon 2 points 7 months ago
Mamalarkey their song Big Trouble is such a goddamn banger
Hyaline_Cat 2 points 7 months ago
Sleep Theory - not to be confused with Sleep Token
fenrasulfr 2 points 7 months ago
Fluisteraars and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (specifically the microtonal albums).
elevenbones 2 points 7 months ago
They are Gutting a Body of Water
UsefulIdiot 2 points 7 months ago
I can’t stop listening to these two freaks from Belgium called La Jungle.
Super high intensity fun fast jams
I don’t understand why they aren’t huge
CmdrShepard49 1 point 6 months ago
This is a whole subgenre of EDM called Jungle, which is probably why they aren't popular as it was never super popular to begin with and they are one group in a sea of groups.
UsefulIdiot 1 point 6 months ago
Sure, but they don’t play jungle music. They also probably suffer because there are other bands called Jungle.
But I love them the best and hope you enjoy listening to them.
BodePlotHole 2 points 7 months ago
Wooze. Put their entire discography on a playlist, hit shuffle. You're welcome.
Battle Tapes. Their latest album is a few years old, but it's solid all the way through. Their entire discography is also worth it, though.
riquisimo 2 points 7 months ago
I think for me that might be Unleash the Archers. I ended up looking through their discography and while their earlier stuff was a tad rough, everything from the album "Apex" onward is great. The quintessential UtA single for me is Awakening.
ChapulinColorado 1 point 7 months ago
My roommate said he was trying to find bands that reminded him of Gojira and found them YouTube. For me the one song that reminds me of them is "Tonight we ride" from the intro to everything after it's just my favorite.
hardcoreufo 2 points 7 months ago
A few recent ones are Ducks Ltd, Cindy Lee and MJ Lenderman/ Wednesday.
jordanlund 2 points 7 months ago
Been digging the Wee Hairy Beasties:
backalleycoyote 2 points 7 months ago
Haywire. Musically they might not hit me as deep and profound as say, Bad Religion. But for live show intensity… Fuck, it’s like the 90s again. A sweaty crush of humanity getting their eardrums blown while someone back-flipping off the balcony knocks their teeth out. Fun for all ages!
YiddishMcSquidish 1 point 7 months ago
Oh God so many
Lebrock
Fm84
Przm
Dylan Gossett
Ryan Birmingham
Billy strings
So many more but these are what comes immediately to mind.
Nemo 1 point 7 months ago
The newest artist I got into is Amélie Farren, who came out with some singles and a debut album last year.
But the artist I got into most recently is Chicago's own Beach Bunny, whose 2025 album Tunnel Vision I've been listening to on repeat for weeks now, along with the single "Year of the Optimist", which: if you're going to check out one song from them, that's the one IMO.
SlurpingPus 1 point 7 months ago
Mamaleek were a breath of fresh air when I discovered them around five years ago, after thinking I've heard basically all genres already. It was like hearing good music for the first time again.
MonkeMischief 1 point 7 months ago
Two that I just absolutely LOVE after I came across them:
Theocracy:
Uplifting Christian power metal. They SHRED and bring me hope in this dark world.
Smash Into Pieces:
I'm digging pretty much everything they do. "Trigger" is a favorite but I play the dopamine out of everything they make. That's a really rare and fantastic feeling to vibe so well with a group/artist. :D
moondoggie 1 point 7 months ago
Apes of the State, which is now sending me on a folk punk deep dive
BenLeMan 1 point 7 months ago
I got really into Flopsy's Dream and their debut album Pleasant Pudding last summer.
It's the secondary project of Tom Davies, a Geoguessr YouTuber I've been following for years. Soft, laid-back rock that hit the spot just right for me.
XeroxCool 1 point 6 months ago
Seconding Castle Rat and Unleash the Archers. To add diversity, I found Cellar Darling around the some time. Some type of metal, vague Scandinavian influence, ethereal vocals, and, now a necessity to life, hurdy-gurdy solos
systemglitch 1 point 6 months ago
Billy Talent
I've been getting into decades old music since.
AverageEarthling 1 point 6 months ago
The Devils
https://youtu.be/R8qHiTndhIA
Lyric Noel
https://youtu.be/syLdamw6j_0
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Ghost. Square Hammer is the song that initially melted my face off.
Edit: Almost forgot, I think I got into Dirt Poor Robins even more recently. I just love their sound, it's like nothing I've heard before. A lot of their songs possess religious undertones, but not obnoxiously so. Some faves:
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