Hip Music for you Oh-So-Hip Gaming Den Gamers

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:13 am

Heres Angtoria demonstrating that everything is better as symphonic metal by covering Kylie Minogue's Confide in Me. (Ignore the crappy vid, this one had decent sound at least.)

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue May 24, 2011 2:13 am

Truckfighters just ran me over

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:20 pm

I'm kinda in love with Japanese Cartoon right now.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:37 am

Can't Stop the Top (youtube link)

zeruslord · Post by **zeruslord** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:35 am

Bands that you probably haven't heard of:
The Gaslight Anthem - sound like a young punk Springsteen? probably my favorite newish band. Also, their lead singer is a fantastic acoustic soloist and troll
ITP: an egyptian electronic band
Matisyahu: a Hasidic Jewish reggae artist
Northern Kings: a Finnish metal pop cover supergroup
Van Canto: a capella metal covers
Joe Satriani: guitar-driven instrumental rock, occacionally heading towards a more electronic sound
Wintersun: finnish symphonic folk metal, I guess?

Bands that you have heard of:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, but not his solo stuff
Jethro Tull
Dire Straits
The Eagles
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:12 pm

If you like Gaslight Anthem, you'd probably like Social Distortian and Against me!

If you like Wintersun, then I strongly suggest you listen to Opeth. It's probably the best symphonic metal group out there.

Wesley Street · Post by **Wesley Street** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:07 pm

The wife and I watched Sucker Punch on Saturday. Alright movie but I'm obsessed with Bjork's Army of Me right now.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:26 pm

Mister Cavern used this as the hacking music in a far-future sci-fi game. It fit pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD4H-E0UT0Q

Wesley Street · Post by **Wesley Street** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:38 pm

I just downloaded a bunch of late-'90s Camp Lo. Luchini (aka This Is It) is a great caper track.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 10:23 pm

A friend of mine has released his band's first album. Seriously got some catchy riffs.

Meyerman - Who do you think you are?

Listen and then buy!

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:45 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdXzNTS_jM

I never got very far in Mother 3. This is tempting me to look for my old translated ROM file so I can see just what I missed.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:40 am

http://tindeck.com/listen/qulu

A sometimes-trying FF13 Let's Play just managed to justify a chunk of otherwise regrettable downtime. The technical guy made and inserted this in a video where the audio recording failed for a couple minutes midway through.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:19 am

Thai rap is strange yet addictive.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:46 am

What are some new power metal and prog metal releases/bands out there? I'm all sad about the departure of Roy Khan from Kamelot and am looking to cheer myself up by broadening my horizons.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:34 pm

Surgo: Check out Fair to midlands.

More prog metal than actual power metal. But there is some power metal as well.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:24 pm

A few years back, Evanescence split up. Amy Lee, the lead singer, went one way and kept the name of the group. Ben Moody, the lead guitarist, went the other and created a new group with American Idol contestant Carly Smithson called We Are the Fallen.

WAtF released their album a year or so ago. I liked it. The music is - unsurprisingly - similar Evanescence, but it has a roughness and eccentricity that I found unique enough. The singer is a good fit for the band, and she can pull out the stops sorta like Amy Lee.

But Evanescence just released their new album - the first since the split. And in listening to the two, you realize what WRtF is missing: the ability to be quiet.

WAtF's Smithson powers through almost every song (except "Sleep Well, My Angel"). She sings really well, but listening to all that power, you get tired. By the end of the album, your ears are begging for a break.

Amy Lee has a voice with less weight. She still can pull down some awesome power, but her voice also has a lot of agility and can be light and soft.

All of that translates into the fact that I've been listening to Evanescence's new album (Evanescence) on repeat for the last few days. They remain one of the few bands I actually love.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:11 am

Ooh, new Evanescence album.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:35 am

I'm really liking Labrinth (featuring Tinie Tempah) - Earthquake {OK, British Rap, Bass, Digital Druids} and Rizzle Kicks - Down With the Trumpets {OK, British Rap, Trumpet, Ghetto Blaster}.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:59 pm

Not a huge fan of Jason Derulo, but his latest single, Breathing {OK, Dancing, Kinda Creepy} samples VAST's Touched {OK, Attempted Suicide, Kinda Creepy}, and since I love VAST, I gotta give the new guy some props.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:58 pm

Maj wrote:I'm really liking Labrinth (featuring Tinie Tempah) - Earthquake {OK, British Rap, Bass, Digital Druids} and Rizzle Kicks - Down With the Trumpets {OK, British Rap, Trumpet, Ghetto Blaster}.

Earthquake is so addicting. The whole house has been humming/singing it .

The Rizzie Kicks video was good.

THere's something going on with the autotune proliferation recently. It looks like some of the artists are trying to play with either their lyrics or their own voice so it becomes a more personal autotune. This is cool but it still doesn't excuse synth autotune. Synth is good but not for everything.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:18 am

One of the games I'm looking forward to released its theme song as a downloadable mp3.

http://www.grimrock.net/wp-content/uplo ... -Theme.mp3
http://www.grimrock.net/2012/02/03/crea ... -grimrock/

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:20 am

G.O.P. Waltz
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/prog ... /gop.shtml

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:11 am

I was just doing some casual web searching, and I learned that The Megas revealed a few new songs in a concert earlier this year. This one's pretty nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ApAMlrKNo

I'M NOT THE BREAKMAN

Sometimes I can't see the blue through the red
Hard to see the good through your trail of dead
You say you'll do all you can to save them
Killing your own won't make you human

I woke to turn this man to cinders
Circuits afire, as I remember
Again I hear a promise spoken (spoken)
My rage repairs what once was broken

CHORUS:
They lost me, forgot me,
Made you from parts of me.
If you're the one--my father's son--
Then what am I supposed to be?
What am I supposed to be?

You say those things you do are what you choose
This thing, you call your will, I call a ruse
We follow a path, we walk the program. (program)
I've accepted the machine I am.

I wear a mask to hide what's been erased.
How do you kill a man who has your face?
My heart is gone, there's only fire. (Fire)
I met the maker, and the man's a liar.

CHORUS:
They lost me, forgot me,
Made you from parts of me.
If you're the one--my father's son--
Then what am I supposed to be?
What am I supposed to be?
What am I?

I had a name; my father called me Blues.
He tore my heart from my chest to give to you.
I'm not broken---I'm not the Breakman.
I was the first, I am the
Protoman.

CHORUS:
They lost me, forgot me,
Made you from parts of me.
If you're the one--my father's son--
Then what am I supposed to be?
What am I supposed to be?
What am I?

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:03 pm

I've been looking for some new music, and I thought it was time to resurrect this thread.

The Decemberists- Shankill Butchers. Atmospheric, interesting, indie folk. They're a really versatile, interesting band, and while all their stuff is folk-esque, it varies quite a bit.

Fang Island- Daisy.Hyper-energetic, vaguely psychedelic post-rock. They describe themselves as "everyone high-fiving each other," and that's a better description than anything I could give.

Death Grips- Hacker. NWA meets Black Flag meets weird-ass techno meets noise-rock. Listen.

Swans- Jim. Swans started off playing what is essentially proto-grindcore, moved on to weird orchestral post-rock, and now are doing what can only be described as apocalyptic electric kinda-blues.

Flying Lotus- Do The Astral Plane. An experimental electronica artist proving he can make dance music. Sort of.

Hot Chip- I Feel Better. Indie electro-pop. Watch it for the video, if nothing else.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:40 pm

The best cover of Ghostriders in the Sky I've heard: Die Apokalyptischen Reiter's

Ghoultown is pretty awesome too, and pretty much an integral part of Dead Man's Hand's soundtrack.

Found these guys a while ago, pretty awesome steampunky music, The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing