Immortal - Ice Worlds

OH NOOOOO!!! the first face-painted-metal song i've ever liked!!! nooooooooo! It might partly have something to do with the production not sounding like shit, and this KILLER fan video homeboy made. I dig the lyrics and intentional simplicity of all the riffs, its so catchy. And the vocals, yes, they are perfect for the subject matter. I must have stacked 20 plays on this bitch.

Glenn Gould, Bach

I wish in addition to favoriting and liking a video you could click "FUCKING LOVE" because I would on this one. Everything in this clip is so perfect. his singing is so dope, and that part where he goes up to the window then instantly shreds again. so good.

Harpsichord Facemelter

Those chug chugs on that low A are fucking metal, and the right hand is doing sweeps and shit

Manatees

Manatees I discovered last year, one of those ones where I was setting out to find a particular sound, trying to answer the question I often get in my head... "Are any groups out there doing THIS? does anyone sound like THIS?"
I've found a lot of bands that way actually, Between the Buried and Me 9 years ago is one that comes to mind.

Well it turns out Manatees are indeed killing it in an exact style i'd been wanting to see/hear.

I think the question that started my research was "does anyone else sound ANYTHING like MARE? And kind of doom, but with a younger more progressive edge, rather than the old-school-basement-dweller-black-metal-dude edge."

I quite like the songs in this clip, but if it does anything for you, pick up their albums, hella good to listen to as whole pieces.

and one more note to add there, I noticed they are coming out of UK, and that marks the first euro metal band that I have given two shits about in a long time, since like Aeon or Decapitated. Lets not shit ourselves here, America is killing it at metal.

Luxembourg Koen

I can't exactly explain to you how this ended up on my youtube favorites list. AH YES, I remember, I was just blindly watching through many accordion performances and just being interested by the range of styles of music to which accordion can accompany so perfectly. I have this "cool list" when it comes to music, where its almost a failsafe that if you do any of the things on the list correctly, the music is instantly cool. One of the cool list items is accordion, another is the saw. If these are done well, instant cool. We will get to more of those another time, but I'll give you a hint at one more... organs!

If there was a question of whether or not I was going to favorite this, that was definitely answered by my need to see that crushingly beautiful japanese girl play awesome fucking music again. I mean look at her! the smile, the eyes, the outfit... what a fucking doll. Definitely givin me the ol' yellow fever.

Oh, yeah, and the song kicks ass too. I don't know of this group, just found this randomly.

Omega Massif - Space Jam

I mentioned about Omega Massif before, but I caught up with this video late last summer kicking back with my macbook pro in a hammock, and i was drawn the fuck in. i watched this the whole time like "WOOOOOAAAAAHHHHH DUUUUUDDE". There's definitely been this movement in doom to incorporate space themes and spacey synth elements, but Omega Massif is going for it all-in. The mountain and glacier imagery they were using like every other "epic" heavy band was no longer Massif enough, they had to go to space, the HUGEST THING EVER! i love this shit

My favorite John Lennon Song of All-Time

Like tons of us, i grew up hearing tons of John Lennon, and earlier on, the Beatles. Like, so much so that I had to go through about 15 years of rebelling against what everyone else liked and what my parents liked before I got into listening to some Lennon again, and even then this Plastic Ono Band album had totally slipped past my memory. A while ago I rediscovered it and instantly remembered this song being a part of my memory since... always, and how it always spoke to me even when i was like 7. I fucking love this song, it's gotta be my favorite.