• theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    19 days ago

    I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or “djenty” stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.

    I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of “professionals” I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of “Oh, really, you too?”

    Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
    Their Dogs Were Astronauts (mostly instrumental)
    Wide Eyes (mostly instrumental)
    Caligula’s Horse (instrumental only tracks available)
    Polyphia (mostly instrumental)
    Protest The Hero (instrumental only tracks available)
    TesseracT (instrumental only tracks available)
    Apocalyptica (started covering Metallica as cello quartet instrumentals, now has a drummer and a number of original songs, often with guest vocalists)
    Collapse Under The Empire (post rock, mostly instrumental)
    Parhelia (post rock, mostly instrumental)
    Opeth (occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal)

    • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      20 days ago

      Arch Echo

      Behold…the Arctopus

      Blotted Science

      CHON

      Cloudkicker

      Covet

      Haunted Shores

      Intervals

      Mestís

      Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics. However as a guitar nerd and PtH fan I approve of their inclusion.

      • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        Arch Echo
        Intervals

        I’m also a fan, I just didn’t want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I’ll check out the rest.

        Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics.

        Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them and they do have deluxe albums with instrumental only versions which I really appreciate. I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.

        I’m also a huge fan of Opeth, Caligula’s Horse, and TesseracT with vocals but I haven’t ingrained every track’s lyrics in my brain like I have PtH.