Ina

For every week I expand a bit beyond my starting point. What bands where you thinking of?

Though I put it outside my intro ... With point to my question where to post my stuff. How do I edit an already posted item, found a misspelling?

After my formative years as a Hard Rocker came busy years of finding my place in the Swedish society with limited mental resources for any deep dive in new music. It wasn't that easy before internet. But here I am now with a paused life due to long covid. What I have now is time on the sofa with most days disabled with fatigue but with a brain screaming for challenges and distraction. Spotify is very helpful in providing me with all the metal I missed during most of my life. Now on my sofa I made it a thing to find out what I really clicked with in the new music landscape and it landed in melodic death metal. I really like the tracks that has a creativ construction and played by skilled musicians. There is so much work put into each track that every song becomes a piece of art. I preferably listen to the albums done the last 10 years, I find the music more mature and refined, more to my liking. The guys are more grownups… My favorites just now: Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Meshuggah, Periphery, Gojira, Leprous, Polyphia and Mastodon. Mastodon has been a favorite the last year and their music has unfortunately got a bit boring … I don't like to listen to the same old songs over and over again. But shit, there are so much to grasp in just the niche of progressiv metal, it will last for the rest of my life. Without long covid I never would have had this new and rich music experience. For that I am thankful.

I'm new here to and perhaps even the oldest one ... 62 ... Metal is ageless. My first language is Swedish. Have you always listening to metal? I'm trying to figure out the best way to post your things in this forum. Ina

Where is best to post your thoughts when wanting many to se it? With just a quick glance there are more than one way to go?

Nic Nocturnal is a realy good YouTuber

The missing text was long and nice with spell check and all … that's life… I’m from Sweden and my formative years were filled with Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa … the list is longer … BUT you should all envy me for the opportunity to have had progressive metal in its infancy, around me. I am drawn to the real super skilled musicians especially the guitarists and the drummers. The building of the song can’t be predictable and the voice must be sharp as a knife if it’s clean singing. Long Covid hit me and the only good with it is that I got time to revisit the music world and Spotify and wow, it had grown since I last checked. Where to start exploring? Nordic progressive metal and a couple groups I fell in love with; BlodyWood, Electric Callboy, Polyphia and Mastodon. As of today I have a 85 hours playlist to escape with. It’s a mix of my really high tempo favorites with the best progressive metal tracks that you can offer a person of my taste. (A troll is playing with me … or is it my fried brain … I lost a bit of the text again … but no one can accuse me of not trying.) So my favorites just now on my 85 hour playlist are; Periphery, Mastodon, Texture, John Petrucci, Architects (Nordic groups… Evergrey, Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Leprous, Aviana, Children of Bodom, Wheel, Katatonia, Obscura and of course Meshuggah. Rick Beato is a giant in the world of really skilled musicians. Ola “knelt before him” and recognised the great work he is doing in promoting progressive metal.

Can't find the answer I did to your request to present my taste in music.

Just saw Rick Beato and Ola Englunds talk together and decided to look for the community Ola reffered to. I live in the middle of nowhere with few friends to share my taste of music with. It's sad ...