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I listen to so much death metal, especially of the melodic and doomy varieties, but also the technical and the old school. And maybe it makes me a bad metalhead, but sometimes I’m just not interested in phylogeny.
{Cue yet another nonexistent gif: John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank ordering an empty omelette: I don’t want a semantic argument, I just want the protein!}
I just want to share cool death metal that I’ve found. So here it is.
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By now everyone knows that Iceland punches above its weight in music creation. They put out so much good music in so many genres, I will probably never run out of Icelandic music to write about. So here is more Icelandic music I like.
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For years I claimed that I hated pop music. Then Coldplay put out Yellow and I had to eat my words. Nowadays, my taste in pop music skews heavily indie, and often local. But there is no question that pop is music I like.
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Growing up in Arizona, nachos was a food group. Once I hit a certain age, calories became a thing, and nachos became a forbidden pleasure. When I really want to splurge, I might eat cheesecake, but it’s just as likely that I’ll eat nachos. I’m not really talking about the stale discs and hot processed cheese product you get at movie theaters and race tracks, although that has its place too. Real nachos always have certain ingredients – corn chips, black beans, chopped tomatoes, melted cheese, guacamole. Other ingredients are optional – ground beef, black olives, sour cream. But using the same basic ingredients, every plate of nachos is different and every plate of nachos is delicious.
The music I like is like that, too. Chugging riffs, extreme vocals, blast beats. Sometimes there’s contrasting vocals, atmospheric melodies, or additional instruments like keyboards or classical strings. The ingredients are the same, but every album is different and delicious. Here is some music I like like nachos.
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I confess that I grew up with a few stereotypes about the French. And as an adult, my few interactions with French people have not done very much to dispel them. So I’m as surprised as anyone to discover just how many French bands I love – especially because most of them play metal, and all of them are heavy. Here is some French music I like.
