Blake's Awesome Collection of Awesome Songs

On 11/13/2013 at 05:05 AM by Blake Turner

Hey guys, want some songs? Sure you do.

A Great Mass of Death - Septic Flesh

The intro of this song sounds like what would happen if you metallified Dark Souls soundtrack. It's epic, it's haunting, and it's scary as fuck. This is some truly evil sounding shit, and may be one of the best metal riffs I've heard in some time.

Step - Vampire Weekend

If that last song was a little too dark for you, have some Vampire Weekend. These guys make wonderfully beautiful indie pop that leans a little on the experimental side and is as catchy as balls.

Solitary One - Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost falls into that weird group of metal bands like Katatonia and Anathema who used to make extreme metal, and then sort of stopped and tried other thing. Anathema went on to make beautiful alternative/progressive rock, Katatonia started making softer goth rock with some metal thrown in here and there, and Paradise Lost made electronica for some reason. Well, they came back with a vengeance in their last couple of albums, and while the growls are gone, their music is still heavy and atmospheric. Also, they haven't lost their nack for synths, and you'll hear quite a bit of keyboard action on this song.

Thin Air - Anathema

Speaking of, here's Anathema. Hard to believe they were ever an extreme metal act right? Well, they were, and they were damn good. They're still damn good, just a different kind of good. This is the heaviest song on the album btw. At least this has some distorted guitar...

Delicate Cycle - The Uncluded

Well shit. Experimental rapper Aesop Rock teamed up with sugary indie pop queen of darkness Kimya Dawson. The result is a little weird overall, but results in some really interesting songs. Hope you like it.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

11/13/2013 at 10:16 AM

Septic Flesh?

Blake Turner Staff Writer

11/13/2013 at 10:26 PM

They came out in the 80's, when all bands had terrible names lol.

BrokenH

11/13/2013 at 06:23 PM

You are forcing this music on me without my consent as I'm looking at your blog. I'm offended! (Car driven in a library?! My brain-meats....they iz exploding!)

PS: Loved "Solitary One". Related a bit too much to it for comfort. lol.

11/13/2013 at 10:31 PM

I got a feeling you'd like Paradise Lost. I should just do a list of songs you'd like one day lol.

11/14/2013 at 09:45 PM

I'll be looking up more on Paradise lost. Thanks,Blake!

Alex-C25

11/13/2013 at 10:32 PM

Very nice Blake. I think my favorite song here was Thin Air.

11/13/2013 at 10:54 PM

Thanks man! Forgot to put another song up that you might like:

11/14/2013 at 03:56 PM

Thanks for that share. I loved the contrasts between the soft parts and the heavy chorus. I really need to hear more from The Dillinger Scape Plan.

11/14/2013 at 09:40 PM

You really do, given that you like metalcore. They're progressive metalcore. Some people call them Djent, but I don't see that. They're a bit like Mr Bungle in that they fuse genres, they aren't just about odd time signatures, they're also about odd sounds full stop. This is their idea of a pop song.

11/15/2013 at 03:52 PM

Well, i'm not the biggest fan, but I do like Metalcore, specially this kind.

PixlBit

Blake's Awesome Collection of Awesome Songs

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