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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
The Body are good. I've seen them a few times and I even got to open for them once. I still think it's challenging even for a fan to tell one song from another with them, but they are good.
My favorite "shoegaze with teeth" band of the moment is probably Nothing. And they were quite good live as well.
And sure there's a lot of bad metal but the ratio of bad to good is pretty abysmal in every genre of music.
Tryptikon, Obsequiae,Yob and Panopticon are just a few groups who I feel are pushing metal forward in very smart and interesting ways. In a lot of ways metal has the most fertile ground for interesting music at present. It's just that when it's bad it's really bad. Which is also the case for most kinds of music I love.
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No, I agree. And I really loved Nothing’s first album. Like, a lot. Think it landed in my arbitrary and ever-shifting-in-number year end list for 2014. Lost track of them after that, but yeah.
Deafheaven, The Body (that album with Haxen Cloak was *kisses fingers*) and Nothing... and Panopticon, yep. Not sure I know the others, but I have never been a big metal guy ever, and haven’t been a frequent listener of true metal (not counting metal-adjacent bands like Sleep) in ages, so I probably have some catching up to do.
Deafheaven just grips me in a way similar to early WITTT, back when they were exciting and new, only with all this sugary goodness on top. Mmmm.