What are you listening to?

[Night89]

Not a band I'm familiar with and not really my cup of tea either. Is it some kind of black metal? I bet they're Scandinavians.

I can see why people like them, the music is technically demanding and monstrously heavy in places. There's a weird mix of beauty and brutality in this particular track.

Your guess is correct, Opeth is a Swedish band. If death metal is not for you i can recommend their latter albums (Heritage, Sorceress and in clauda venenum) . Those albums are progressive rock without Death metal.





A funny anecdote, before i got into death metal i felt like i was outside a click of people who enjoyed death and black metal. I had in a sense to "break my mind" i don't know how to put it otherwise to enjoy death metal. I remember the artist, Decapitated a band from Poland if you need to check some death metal out.

 

[Night89]

Now for something "not death metal"

David Bowie -Teenage wildlife

 

[okidoke]

Now for something "not death metal"

David Bowie -Teenage wildlife

I miss Bowie. Some of his really early stuff makes me smile.

 

[ardour]

 

[user 148069]

I just can't understand, and I do try, how people enjoy listening to this type of music. I don't like people yelling for a start, and to me it's like the ultimate Karen with a deep voice going off at me. I know everyone is different and tastes vary, I just don't understand what people are getting from this type of sound. I'd love to know what it does for you.

tbh the vid Night posted is more like black or death metal. There are many types of metal. For me it actually is therapeutic listening to music like that. I feel a lot calmer. I use to work with a bunch of metalheads too lol and as people they were nicest and most down to earth persons I have met. A lot of us may have a "menacing" aura but inside we are really big sensitive softies lol
I will leave you with this and if you're listening with headphones on, please turn the volume down a bit

 

[user 148069]

so I know Metallica is hated but I don't care I love their music lol

 

[okidoke]

tbh the vid Night posted is more like black or death metal. There are many types of metal. For me it actually is therapeutic listening to music like that. I feel a lot calmer. I use to work with a bunch of metalheads too lol and as people they were nicest and most down to earth persons I have met. A lot of us may have a "menacing" aura but inside we are really big sensitive softies lol
I will leave you with this and if you're listening with headphones on, please turn the volume down a bit

I appreciate what you say, but I can’t digest that that sort of metal music can be calming. To me that type of sound could only excite the psyche not calm it, but that’s just my opinion. If it does indeed calm you, I wonder what that my say about you? I’m not implying anything, just wondering. And I don’t infer anything negative about people who play it or like it. I

 

[user 148069]

I appreciate what you say, but I can’t digest that that sort of metal music can be calming. To me that type of sound could only excite the psyche not calm it, but that’s just my opinion. If it does indeed calm you, I wonder what that my say about you? I’m not implying anything, just wondering. And I don’t infer anything negative about people who play it or like it. I

it just shows you're judgemental, since you're wondering since it calms me down then what does that say about me? Nevermind, just when I thought this forum can be a place when I can find some comfort, I get proven wrong again. Let's just agree to disagree, good day sir!

 

[TropicalStarfish]

Megadeth makes me sleepy. heh. Used to listen to a fair bit of metal; not no more though..

Ohh Opeth, (just scrolled up), I recall that name I think.

 

[TheSkaFish]

Going through my original YouTube channel, flipping through playlists I haven't touched in years, since I made them in 2010-2012. Dang...what a better world it was then, when things still seemed for the most part OK.

This is the kind of music I was listening to when I was going through the threads on High Existence, reading about aliens and other mystical topics - I forgot how good this song was in particular:

The Asteroid #4 - Outside

 

[okidoke]

it just shows you're judgemental, since you're wondering since it calms me down then what does that say about me? Nevermind, just when I thought this forum can be a place when I can find some comfort, I get proven wrong again. Let's just agree to disagree, good day sir!

Whoa pull in the reins orangecat. Didn't I say I'm not implying anything? I meant in a scientific, physiological way, why it calms you and not me. Don't infer I meant you're some raving lunatic or something. We don't know each other well enough, so let's leave aside the presumptions of judgemental etc.

 

[okidoke]

This is my niece

 

[user 148069]

Whoa pull in the reins orangecat. Didn't I say I'm not implying anything? I meant in a scientific, physiological way, why it calms you and not me. Don't infer I meant you're some raving lunatic or something. We don't know each other well enough, so let's leave aside the presumptions of judgemental etc.

ok, I am cancelling my deletion just to reply to this, I'm no longer going to shy away from arguments this time. I tried to give you a diplomatic response and you presume stuff about me. I bet you didn't even care to watch the vid i link you! You did even though you claim you didn't imply anything. I can read between the lines. If you don't like a certain music then learn to ignore it! I don't like k-pop for example but i don't go to a youtube vid of a kpop song just to complain why others like this kind of music. I'm done, don't like the way i stand up for myself, feel free to block me!

 

[okidoke]

Dear @orangecat, you have read my words completely wrong. I don't know where your anger came. I'm truly sorry if I touched a nerve. It wasn't my intention. You've read between my lines incorrectly and read an argumentative tone in my words, which wasn't the case at all. I did say, "my opinion" and "to me". I was sincerely interested in what you wanted to say about it. You were right that I didn't watch the video you posted, but not because I didn't care, I just didn't have time at that time, but I have since watched it and I appreciate you sharing that. It certainly does help me understand what people get out of it. And I'm glad you get that out of it. I wish I could, it just grates me the wrong way for some reason.

I wouldn't want you to shy away from any argument by the way. I've always tried to be sincere and genuine in what I say. I wasn't complaining about metal music either, just making an observation from my point of view. Each to their own of course.

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

"The black hole is situated in the center of a galaxy amid a group of thousands of galaxies collectively called the Perseus Cluster and located 250 million light years from Earth (meaning it took the light from these galaxies 250 million years to reach us). The sound waves coming from it are in the form of a single note, so rather than a song it is really a drone.

Using the piano keyboard's middle C note as a reference point for the middle of the piano key music range, Fabian's team determined the note is a B -flat. On a piano, the B-flat nearest middle C is located midway between 1/8th and 2/8th of an octave away. In musical terminology, this B flat is 1-1/2 steps from middle C.

The Perseus cluster black hole's B-flat, by contrast, is 57 octaves below middle C or one million, billion times lower than the lowest sound audible to the human ear! In terms of frequency (the time it takes a single sound wave to pass by), the lowest sounds a person can hear is 1/20th of a second. The Perseus black hole's sound waves have a frequency of 10 million years!"

Source: NASA - Interpreting the "Song" of a Distant Black Hole



So basically by music theory, hypothetically if we could hear it, arguably, it's a note that no human will ever finish hearing. Because no human will ever live 10 million years.

 

[ardour]

 

[user 135671]

Just a shameless Katrina Kaif post

 

[TheSkaFish]

Here's another good one from those days. I remember thinking it was cool that a present-day band like The Asteroid #4, was doing a collaboration with Peter Daltrey of '60s psychedelic band Kaleidoscope, who I'd just discovered not long before that time.

Peter Daltrey and The Asteroid #4 - Pounding on the Door

 

[TheSkaFish]

Some of the fighting about music reminds me of how I used to get so mad, when people criticized my liking of punk rock. Or how I'd get so mad if someone made fun of my favorite bands - I got into online arguments, and I'd get so mad it was as if I was a member of the band myself. Not that I was pretending to be, or something - it was just that I took it that personally.

Same goes for cars - I'd get so mad if someone made fun of my love for Mustangs.

I see the error of those ways now and have since stopped doing that. I think it's important to remember, that while we strongly identify with our tastes, a person's like or dislike of a band or genre, or car, movie, whatever, is not necessarily an attack on a person themselves, or their character.

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

Thank you for reminding me. I need to get back into my grind for that game.