Progressive Metal Music

I've been using the custom chart function at https://rateyourmusic.com/ recently. It allows me to drill down to highly specific combinations of genres, influences and descriptors, such as "instrumental noise rock influenced by krautrock" or "noisy avant-prog influenced by post-punk". Back in the day I discovered a lot of new music from obscure internet radio stations. Recommendation algorithms however have never worked for me, they usually just recommend stuff I already know.

https://www.music-map.com/ can help a bit. It knows surprisingly underground bands.

Random browsing on Bandcamp can produce results too.

I use angrymetalguy.com and spotify reccomended artists on band pages.

Accidently from memes, nowadays (sadly). I found out about Simpsonwave and Phonk that way and the latest that I found out was this trio of retired Englishmen who decided to start do freestyle hip hop music on their spare time. While I am more of the "milk from a dirty glass" -kind of lifestyle of a person, I like the attitude behind those filfthy lyrics and how they break age norms. The trio is called The Northern Boys and I would say Party Time is a good song to start 🤣

YouTube was a major source for me, before they did something with their algorithm and how they messed up search function by adding more recommended and promoted content rather than show only the actual results. I love to find good music videos. Like Felix Colgrave made a really cool music video for Fever The Ghost's song SOURCE.

I usually try to just look around on websites like https://rateyourmusic.com for albums with appealing genre tags, but nowadays it's really hard to find something captivating there. Now, I'm mostly reading music reviews of new albums that come out and sometimes ask for a recommendation from my friends and fellow music listeners that I stumble across online. That's how it's been for the past four years now, basically.

The link doesn't work for me, is it the same as everynoise.com?

I've been mostly using Spotify and some Dutch review sites. I still have a Last.fm account but don't use it much anymore, Spotify has mostly replaced it.

If this gets traction, maybe we could sticky it?