Progressive Metal Music

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Community for progressive metal music, please share some songs and bands you enjoy or discuss anything regarding the progmetal scene.

Prog rock also welcome to post here, but the main focus of the community should be progmetal.

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How do you find new music? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by neverbeenbretter@sh.itjust.works to c/progmetal@sopuli.xyz

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Given we all live in a decidedly niche music sphere, I thought it might be helpful if we share our tips/tricks for finding new artists. Here's my tried and true: everynoise.com

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[–] legendarydromedary@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hschen@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, never heard of everynoise, seems cool but a bit weird considering it just gives you like 200 names

[–] neverbeenbretter@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IIRC, there's some sort of algorithm working under the hood that procedurally generates genres/categories. I could be wrong though, it's been a really long time since I read into it.

[–] hschen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Ok i get it now, i didnt realize i had to press scan to start i just searched for progmetal and it showed me a bunch of names. didnt realize it was like interactive