music

A lot of commercially produced pop music is shit. I kind of see it like complaining you can't get good food from McDonald's when there are so many other options out there, but you need to find them yourself.

I am loving Absolute Elsewhere from Blood Incantation this year. That album goes from death metal to pink Floyd and back again.

Earlier in the year Lord Dying released an album that's great too. Better Lovers has Greg Puciato from Dillinger and sounds like them in a good way. Tides From Nebular put out a great instrumental album, as did Kiko Loureiro, formerly of Megadeth. Same with Nock Johnston again in the instrumental guitar space.

A surprise one for me was Planetoid by Terrapath. They're a small band and I came across them on a torrent website, loved the album so I picked it up on a band camp Friday.

Rivers of Nihil have singles out, so they're teasing a new album I'm excited for.

And I just opened my music app to see Opeth, Distant, Body Count, Jinjer, Worm Shepherd, Gilipojazz, and First Fragment have all put out new music I haven't listened to yet.

I like prog and death metal, but it will be the same in whatever genres you're into. Dig a bit deeper and look into the sub-genres and you'll find stuff you like there. No one is going to serve you good music on a silver platter