I’m pretty shocked no one has said Portugal The Man. With your musical tastes, I have a feeling you’d like them a lot. They have a deep discography that changes a lot over time.

Pearl Jam, RHCP, Faith No More, Tomahawk, James And The Cold Gun, Pelican, Jakob(New Zealand band) and Russian Circles, Tigercub, Mad Season…. ✌🏻🎶

Ween.

I would start with the albums “White Pepper”, “Quebec”, and “The Mollusk” based on your tastes. Their first few albums are quite bizzarre and can be hard to listen to, but you may end up liking them too. Their live performances are all great.

Heck yeah

It's subtle enough that Michael Bublé didn't even know his own voice was autotuned on some of his tracks.

It's super easy to hear auto tune, but it is getting harder as tech improves. If you want to get an ear for it, listen to older examples. T-pain was the biggest early user and once you hear his stuff, you will be able to pick it up in everything.

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Sometimes it can be very subtle. Now days almost every commercial track will have some form of pitch correction on it. For some tracks you’ll be able to hear something called artifacts on a persons voice and it’s usually easier to hear it on longer lower notes. It’s usually accompanied by a tiny digital grainy sound and warble as the software is ever so slightly bending and stretching their voice to push it further in tune. The use of a program called melodyne has made it even harder as this program aims to keep the natural inflections in the voice present while subtly bumping the pitch one way or another and is much more hands on. Autotune brand software is more of a “quick-fix” that will either automatically snap your vocal to the right pitch or more naturally slide into the right pitch depending on the settings. It’s getting harder to tell every day but almost everybody uses it now days unless they’re stubborn or don’t have access.

Yeah, it’s pretty cool music. I like it.

That pretty much sums it up.

50 years? Lol

Here you guys go

https://discord.gg/MJ4JnnPQ

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Is it? I haven't gotten to listening to it yet

From what I've heard it's actually pretty good

Not the first Tool fan but maybe the bravest. A lot of Tool fans have become pretentious gatekeepers who now get a lot of flack in the era of "no I don't know the band but isn't this a cool shirt".

I'm a Tool fan.

Don't forget the new Orbital is legit.

Way it goes man. Look at the difference from 40's music, to 60's music. Then 60's to 80's.

It's too bad the new Paramore album is awful

Ah yes, the But Rock. Ain’t nothing wrong with that

How many more new pop songs are going to sample “Genius of Love”?

Some of it is bad-good, but most of it is bad-bad.

Rarely listen to terrestrial radio. Listened to the local pop station the other day and three new songs in a row used samples from 80’s songs that have been already heavily used before. There’s very little talent or innovation in that genre anymore.

Because its the 2020’s and it’s all about the streams now. Barrier of entry is low now because anyone can with a laptop, some recording gear and some talent can crank out tracks in their basement and upload them to Spotify or YouTube and hope that it goes viral and make $1,500 for 5 million plays.

Just today I was thinking that some clean/mixed-vocal djent (AKA "technical groove metal" but nobody's gonna call it that) artists sound like a modern extension of nu metal, albeit with more technical chops than mainstream 2000s rock/metal had.

You might like Periphery. They're probably the biggest djent band right now and have a new album out soon.

Monuments have a bit of a rocky discography overall, but if you can get into harsh vocals then 2014's The Amanuensis is really good.

Unprocessed are a German band treading the line between virtuosic musicianship and poppy metal, which is a really weird combination. Great production; often lacklustre lyrics but if you're coming from nu metal then that shouldn't be a problem.

I don't think Sleep Token really take many direct cues from 2000s rock/metal, but they're worth mentioning anyway as a major up-and-coming artist right now. They've got a new album out soon as well and the singles suggest that it'll be pretty diverse in sound.

That's just how music works. A new sound is popular, lots of bands distribute a lot of it, and then it isn't new anymore, and people listen to something else.

retropxssy - Wild Horse