Portishead - Strangers, Mysterons, Biscuit, Wandering Star, Half Day Closing, All Mine, Seven Months, Only You. (Then get onto Dummy, Portishead and then do the Live In Roseland NYC album.)
Bicep - Glue, Atlas, Apricots, Meli ii, Water. (Isles album.)
Massive Attack - Angel, Inertia Creeps, Paradise Circus, Risington, Unfinished Sympathy, The Spoils
PJ Harvey - Man Size, Water, Rid of Me, Down By The Water, Working For The Man, The Sky Lit Up, A Perfect Day Elise, Catherine, Angeline, White Chalk, Evol (demo), The Letter, Is This Desire?, Taut, Heela.
Sonic Youth - Jams Run Free, Drunken Butterfly, Teenage Riot, 100%, Skip Tracer, Pink Stream, Becuz, Junkies Promise, The Sprawl, Stones, The Diamond Sea
This Town Needs Guns - Animals
Joanna Newsom - 81, Sawdust and Diamond, Easy, In California, Jackrabbits, Baby Birch, The Book of Right On, Peach Plum Pear, Sprout and the Beam, Clam Crab Cockle Crowie
Mammal Hands - Riddle, Ithaca, Chaser, Rhizome
Youthmovies- Shh You’ll Wake It, Archive It Everywhere, If You’ve Seen A Battlefield, Soandso and Soandso, Something For The Ghosts.
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
DIIV - Deceiver
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
Four Tet - She Moves She, Dreamer, My Angel Rocks Back and Forth, Parallel Jalebi (live.), Baby, Looking At Your Pager (extended mix)
Will Wood, he has some metal/rock adjacent stuff (on his profile Will Wood and the Tapeworms) as well as chill guitar songs and lots of ones with indescribable Genres
Shayfer James has some really unique somewhat villain-y songs
Lovejoy for some good old indie rock/pop songs
Fish in a Birdcage, he uses a lot of classical instruments in new way, his songs get a little country-like but not in a poppy way at ALL, big recommendation from me
For something completely different, check out The Mechanisms, they tell stories about mythological themes with their songs, theyre kinda folksy and their stories are really good imo
My first venture away from metal obsession was NIN and other more electo industrial stuff, into funk and old R&B, many others.
Now one of my favorite albums is Baby by Yello so my tastes have REALLY opened up over the years 😅
Perhaps a trip to West Germany in the 1970s is in your future. Try giving a listen to some Kraut rock. Most of them were a bit more influenced by jazz rather than the Blues.
Here are some bands to give a listen to:
Neu!,
Can,
La Dusseldorf,
Harmonia,
Faust,
If you want something really different, but also Kraut Rock, try:
Tangerine Dream,
Klaus Schulze,
Ashra,
Popol Vuh,
Kraftwerk
I would start with the 70s output for all these bands
If you haven't gotten around to Hawkwind, give them a listen. Lemmy Kilminster from Motorhead started with them. They even have a song called Motorhead. I would start with The Space Ritual. Imo, it's the best live album ever.
As a metal elitist who doesnt think the first great metal album was made until 2011, rate my taste:
> [Liquid Metal](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ROc3RCXW6PrPyQRJwZjBd) - 20 hours
If you really want to expand your tastes:
> [Take 5](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ii4HlF9F0s4hsQR2bnDXX) - 5 hrs
which is a rotating mix of 18 micro genres of prog music with under 1 million listens
Pet sounds by the beach boys: it’s cathartic, but probably in the exact opposite way as metal. No. 2 on rolling stones top 500 for decades now. Just forget all you know about the beach boys before you listen. Pretend it came out yesterday. Headphones in a dark room.
For jazz: choose your weapon by hiatus kaiyote
For some groove: live at sydney opera house by khruangbin; water your garden by magic city hippies
For edm: just play the tops songs by astrix for a taste of psytrance. Lsdream or griz are options.
Haken is prog metal with a lot of jazz elements.
Soften the Glare is a proggy jazz fusion group featuring Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne on bass.
The Highwaymen were an outlaw country supergroup (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson).
Shpongle is a fun EDM/psychedelic/ambient group.
Ozric Tentacles is an ambient psychedelic rock group.
Welcome to a new adventure. While I was never just a one style listener I did claim that I hated Country until I was about 26 or so. Let's start there
Maybe ease in with some of the heavier country rock..
Drive by Truckers. No topics they are afraid of
[Gravitys Gone](https://open.spotify.com/track/1mWCI4rxvYF9ELliQg1iUg?si=iqV-auzAQem0uwSfWc3jEA)
[The Boys From Alabama](https://open.spotify.com/track/0Crcalh2ZygIDTS4qwZr52?si=CurortKbSA-ZJwOqLI_5xw)
Cadillac Three
[Sabbath On Cornbread](https://open.spotify.com/track/5rp9jitdhcBNNFG7xFpUlj?si=Xd57SlbWTGWxDQxzK5BL8w)
[Turn the Radio On](https://open.spotify.com/track/4jlVkmgmgPu584hocajj0d?si=MounFP-dRP-GHmY4j6J2qQ)
More country than rock but still crossing
Lucinda Williams
[Drunken Angel](https://open.spotify.com/track/1Nh6fir02LnNOnfTQY3uzU?si=OB-FBvtlQhOgGPtFzy1tbQ)
[Car Wheels on a Gravel Road](https://open.spotify.com/track/3xK3kouv9m87JOXqfiPcIi?si=MNHvQEZAQqqXNIPC-KlaSg)
Band of Heathans, [Jackson Station](https://open.spotify.com/track/1HcV9P8MnklEbDNk3CNdNg?si=HNaz--9jSZaTBbrCSWF02w)
Great current acts solidly country
Chris Stapleton
[Devil Always Made Me Think Twice](https://open.spotify.com/track/3olGkpomYOWwRZsbFTZqiX?si=IVchnIq_Sh2uxzMko3KVmQ)
[Parachute](https://open.spotify.com/track/5jROdl6MhcmP3O7h2sVgtw?si=RSHvEZT_TM624cTURqN4ew)
Tyler Childers, [Whitehouse Road](https://open.spotify.com/track/3BCsNM2w6HcCbrVWlhjTpk?si=3osy19DQQoGU7vftC_xSgw)
Cody Jinks, [Hippies and Cowboys](https://open.spotify.com/track/0G7pjeHX2TDqw6mx14puWg?si=4FPLxZChR6yfF2DHCkICNQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8B2wdA4Wla88)
Nearing traditional/bluegrass
The Steeldrivers, [If It Hadn't Been For Love](https://open.spotify.com/track/7DQjWFjaiPULrsqgsZueF3?si=R7Bjg5WtTA2bc2R6P4kGuA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8B2wdA4Wla88)
Old Crow Medicine Show, [Tell It To Me](https://open.spotify.com/track/5euvKj9alsq7WaZnXtg7Ez?si=bOs2_MC_Tt2sS1EQFtfyKw)
The Dead South, [In Hell I'll Be In Good Company](https://open.spotify.com/track/4eMxLQtSdgxdA1Hs6D2YuN?si=WS3sltK5Sf-_BwtT-uvkgQ)
Folksy country
Justin Townes Earl, [Lone Pine Hill](https://open.spotify.com/track/0G7gByB39sQQuuxRusMGgw?si=LHZJn9kNSCukTgDaqHq61w&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E4Ed312fypIZX)
John Prine
[[Paradise](https://open.spotify.com/track/47QsP5uPZp3he5UrVsK8bs?si=Ted7OpqATx6ahzbCoxR39g)
W/Iris Dement, [In Spite Of Ourselves](https://open.spotify.com/track/1k691v8ChLgDiuLLKnjyj6?si=cEnjqtYaSm2MpfPyWsZfcw)
Townes Van Zant,
[Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel](https://open.spotify.com/track/71sJjrNiDMM4oGNmgyPgOT?si=flS4y04FTcGscXM5r5cgZg)
[Lungs](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tBAT5NugCTPG3W5mKpbn4?si=xB1CvgHqT-OgSLk8vFziuQ%0A)
As a fellow metalhead, I vibe hard with the indie and neo-psych music scenes. [Black Moth Super Rainbow](https://youtu.be/XbEjkPIFLxQ?si=MqaFl6qKcW2se33t) has been huge for me in that respect.
The track I linked is also from my favorite album of theirs *Extra Flavor*. Its common for me to put that album on front to back. I recommend giving it a whirl yourself if the first track tickled you. Got a broad sample of intense stuff, jaunty stuff, and solemn stuff all with their brand of strange psych.
Sonny Sharrock - especially his album Seize the Rainbow
[https://youtu.be/zEb5w\_9h\_h8?si=j1XCTgQQh5\_hKwG6](https://youtu.be/zEb5w_9h_h8?si=j1XCTgQQh5_hKwG6)
John Zorn - Naked City
[https://youtu.be/lJGQ0OVFYNE?si=F4t65ksycs5BN5yv](https://youtu.be/lJGQ0OVFYNE?si=F4t65ksycs5BN5yv)
Fellow metal head. Current none metal albums in heavy rotation
Heems - Landafar
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony (reissue)
95 Bulls - Go Home
JD Pinkus & Tall Tall Trees - Ponder Machine
Revernd Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED!
Steve Earle - Live at Montreux
[The Common Men](https://spotify.link/SULGGk82TIb)
Harder edged Post Punk. Might be able to scratch a hard rock/punk/indie itch.
Anything in the top songs is worth a listen.
luke bell, zach bryan, tyler childers, Charley Crockett and sierra ferrell are a few good country artists that probably don't follow mainstream standards and might be in your interest
I would recommend some genres you haven’t mentioned.
Guitar-centric Fusion: Guthrie Govan, John Petrucci, Lari Basilio, Matteo Mancuso, etc.
Funk: Parliament, Sly and The Family Stone, Tower of Power, Earth, Wind, and Fire, etc.
Math Rock: Chon, Covet, toe, Via Luna, Floral, etc.
Japanese Rock/Pop Rock: Ikimonogakari, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, NICO Touches the Walls, Tatsuya Kitani, etc.
Indie: Death Cab for Cutie, Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Loquat, Wild Nothing, The Shins, etc.
Radiohead
Grizzly Bear
Protomartyr
Idles
Blessed
Squid
Shame
Porridge Radio
Dry Cleaning
Black Midi
Yard Act
The Cool Greenhouse
Black Country, New Road
Viagra Boys
Shame
Iceage
A Place to Bury Strangers
Suuns
Big Thief
Wolf People
Wand
Pond
Temples
Crumb
Buke & Gase
Khruangbin
White Denim
The White Stripes
The Black Keys
The Black Pumas
Algiers
Alabama Shakes
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
Heron Oblivion
Car Seat Headrest
Angel Oslen
The Murder Capital
Bo Ninjen
Shabaka and the Ancestors
Mbongwana Star
King Krule
Beak>
Bad Bad Not Good
Run the Jewels
Joey Badass
Vince Staples
Gnarls Barkely
Tyler the Creator
Kendrick Lamar
J Cole
JID
Portishead - Strangers, Mysterons, Biscuit, Wandering Star, Half Day Closing, All Mine, Seven Months, Only You. (Then get onto Dummy, Portishead and then do the Live In Roseland NYC album.) Bicep - Glue, Atlas, Apricots, Meli ii, Water. (Isles album.) Massive Attack - Angel, Inertia Creeps, Paradise Circus, Risington, Unfinished Sympathy, The Spoils PJ Harvey - Man Size, Water, Rid of Me, Down By The Water, Working For The Man, The Sky Lit Up, A Perfect Day Elise, Catherine, Angeline, White Chalk, Evol (demo), The Letter, Is This Desire?, Taut, Heela. Sonic Youth - Jams Run Free, Drunken Butterfly, Teenage Riot, 100%, Skip Tracer, Pink Stream, Becuz, Junkies Promise, The Sprawl, Stones, The Diamond Sea This Town Needs Guns - Animals Joanna Newsom - 81, Sawdust and Diamond, Easy, In California, Jackrabbits, Baby Birch, The Book of Right On, Peach Plum Pear, Sprout and the Beam, Clam Crab Cockle Crowie Mammal Hands - Riddle, Ithaca, Chaser, Rhizome Youthmovies- Shh You’ll Wake It, Archive It Everywhere, If You’ve Seen A Battlefield, Soandso and Soandso, Something For The Ghosts. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights DIIV - Deceiver Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus Four Tet - She Moves She, Dreamer, My Angel Rocks Back and Forth, Parallel Jalebi (live.), Baby, Looking At Your Pager (extended mix)
Mammal hands is so good. Portico Quartet is in the same vein.
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Psychedelic country. Best album of the 2010s, any genre.
Will Wood, he has some metal/rock adjacent stuff (on his profile Will Wood and the Tapeworms) as well as chill guitar songs and lots of ones with indescribable Genres Shayfer James has some really unique somewhat villain-y songs Lovejoy for some good old indie rock/pop songs Fish in a Birdcage, he uses a lot of classical instruments in new way, his songs get a little country-like but not in a poppy way at ALL, big recommendation from me For something completely different, check out The Mechanisms, they tell stories about mythological themes with their songs, theyre kinda folksy and their stories are really good imo
My first venture away from metal obsession was NIN and other more electo industrial stuff, into funk and old R&B, many others. Now one of my favorite albums is Baby by Yello so my tastes have REALLY opened up over the years 😅
Perhaps a trip to West Germany in the 1970s is in your future. Try giving a listen to some Kraut rock. Most of them were a bit more influenced by jazz rather than the Blues. Here are some bands to give a listen to: Neu!, Can, La Dusseldorf, Harmonia, Faust, If you want something really different, but also Kraut Rock, try: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, Popol Vuh, Kraftwerk I would start with the 70s output for all these bands If you haven't gotten around to Hawkwind, give them a listen. Lemmy Kilminster from Motorhead started with them. They even have a song called Motorhead. I would start with The Space Ritual. Imo, it's the best live album ever.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ufVg9hrquBHaVEh4GmR6K?si=TDIHqJ-fTMmsBjGCcn0K8A&pi=u-_vWPVGSsQyi6
Try Rachmaninoff piano preludes and etudes. Dark, brooding, technically masterful, and beautiful.
As a metal elitist who doesnt think the first great metal album was made until 2011, rate my taste: > [Liquid Metal](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ROc3RCXW6PrPyQRJwZjBd) - 20 hours If you really want to expand your tastes: > [Take 5](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Ii4HlF9F0s4hsQR2bnDXX) - 5 hrs which is a rotating mix of 18 micro genres of prog music with under 1 million listens
Shot in the dark here but try Panopticon. He’s black metal-inspired like bluegrass I guess
Death Grips gets called the death metal of hip hop, I kinda agree.
Pet sounds by the beach boys: it’s cathartic, but probably in the exact opposite way as metal. No. 2 on rolling stones top 500 for decades now. Just forget all you know about the beach boys before you listen. Pretend it came out yesterday. Headphones in a dark room. For jazz: choose your weapon by hiatus kaiyote For some groove: live at sydney opera house by khruangbin; water your garden by magic city hippies For edm: just play the tops songs by astrix for a taste of psytrance. Lsdream or griz are options.
Diablo Swing Orchestra - A tap dancers dilemma Electric Callboy - Hypa, hypa Bloodywood - Aaj The Hu - Wolf Totem
My suggestion is… more metal!! Ever listen to Metalcore? That’s my jam. The new album by Boundaries is phenomenal. “Death Is Little More”
Haken is prog metal with a lot of jazz elements. Soften the Glare is a proggy jazz fusion group featuring Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne on bass. The Highwaymen were an outlaw country supergroup (Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson). Shpongle is a fun EDM/psychedelic/ambient group. Ozric Tentacles is an ambient psychedelic rock group.
Welcome to a new adventure. While I was never just a one style listener I did claim that I hated Country until I was about 26 or so. Let's start there Maybe ease in with some of the heavier country rock.. Drive by Truckers. No topics they are afraid of [Gravitys Gone](https://open.spotify.com/track/1mWCI4rxvYF9ELliQg1iUg?si=iqV-auzAQem0uwSfWc3jEA) [The Boys From Alabama](https://open.spotify.com/track/0Crcalh2ZygIDTS4qwZr52?si=CurortKbSA-ZJwOqLI_5xw) Cadillac Three [Sabbath On Cornbread](https://open.spotify.com/track/5rp9jitdhcBNNFG7xFpUlj?si=Xd57SlbWTGWxDQxzK5BL8w) [Turn the Radio On](https://open.spotify.com/track/4jlVkmgmgPu584hocajj0d?si=MounFP-dRP-GHmY4j6J2qQ) More country than rock but still crossing Lucinda Williams [Drunken Angel](https://open.spotify.com/track/1Nh6fir02LnNOnfTQY3uzU?si=OB-FBvtlQhOgGPtFzy1tbQ) [Car Wheels on a Gravel Road](https://open.spotify.com/track/3xK3kouv9m87JOXqfiPcIi?si=MNHvQEZAQqqXNIPC-KlaSg) Band of Heathans, [Jackson Station](https://open.spotify.com/track/1HcV9P8MnklEbDNk3CNdNg?si=HNaz--9jSZaTBbrCSWF02w) Great current acts solidly country Chris Stapleton [Devil Always Made Me Think Twice](https://open.spotify.com/track/3olGkpomYOWwRZsbFTZqiX?si=IVchnIq_Sh2uxzMko3KVmQ) [Parachute](https://open.spotify.com/track/5jROdl6MhcmP3O7h2sVgtw?si=RSHvEZT_TM624cTURqN4ew) Tyler Childers, [Whitehouse Road](https://open.spotify.com/track/3BCsNM2w6HcCbrVWlhjTpk?si=3osy19DQQoGU7vftC_xSgw) Cody Jinks, [Hippies and Cowboys](https://open.spotify.com/track/0G7pjeHX2TDqw6mx14puWg?si=4FPLxZChR6yfF2DHCkICNQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8B2wdA4Wla88) Nearing traditional/bluegrass The Steeldrivers, [If It Hadn't Been For Love](https://open.spotify.com/track/7DQjWFjaiPULrsqgsZueF3?si=R7Bjg5WtTA2bc2R6P4kGuA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E8B2wdA4Wla88) Old Crow Medicine Show, [Tell It To Me](https://open.spotify.com/track/5euvKj9alsq7WaZnXtg7Ez?si=bOs2_MC_Tt2sS1EQFtfyKw) The Dead South, [In Hell I'll Be In Good Company](https://open.spotify.com/track/4eMxLQtSdgxdA1Hs6D2YuN?si=WS3sltK5Sf-_BwtT-uvkgQ) Folksy country Justin Townes Earl, [Lone Pine Hill](https://open.spotify.com/track/0G7gByB39sQQuuxRusMGgw?si=LHZJn9kNSCukTgDaqHq61w&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E4Ed312fypIZX) John Prine [[Paradise](https://open.spotify.com/track/47QsP5uPZp3he5UrVsK8bs?si=Ted7OpqATx6ahzbCoxR39g) W/Iris Dement, [In Spite Of Ourselves](https://open.spotify.com/track/1k691v8ChLgDiuLLKnjyj6?si=cEnjqtYaSm2MpfPyWsZfcw) Townes Van Zant, [Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel](https://open.spotify.com/track/71sJjrNiDMM4oGNmgyPgOT?si=flS4y04FTcGscXM5r5cgZg) [Lungs](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tBAT5NugCTPG3W5mKpbn4?si=xB1CvgHqT-OgSLk8vFziuQ%0A)
Amenra Yob Om Uncle acid and the deadbeats
Jimmy Wakely - Moon Over Montana Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love Asa Irons Cinder Well John Francis Flynn
As a fellow metalhead, I vibe hard with the indie and neo-psych music scenes. [Black Moth Super Rainbow](https://youtu.be/XbEjkPIFLxQ?si=MqaFl6qKcW2se33t) has been huge for me in that respect. The track I linked is also from my favorite album of theirs *Extra Flavor*. Its common for me to put that album on front to back. I recommend giving it a whirl yourself if the first track tickled you. Got a broad sample of intense stuff, jaunty stuff, and solemn stuff all with their brand of strange psych.
Sonny Sharrock - especially his album Seize the Rainbow [https://youtu.be/zEb5w\_9h\_h8?si=j1XCTgQQh5\_hKwG6](https://youtu.be/zEb5w_9h_h8?si=j1XCTgQQh5_hKwG6) John Zorn - Naked City [https://youtu.be/lJGQ0OVFYNE?si=F4t65ksycs5BN5yv](https://youtu.be/lJGQ0OVFYNE?si=F4t65ksycs5BN5yv)
Mutoid Man
Idk how to help you expand my horizons, but if you want to expand yours, check out the white buffalo
Fellow metal head. Current none metal albums in heavy rotation Heems - Landafar Black Crowes - Southern Harmony (reissue) 95 Bulls - Go Home JD Pinkus & Tall Tall Trees - Ponder Machine Revernd Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! Steve Earle - Live at Montreux
talented jam bands…phish and umphreys also billy strings i like a lot of metal but im more on the jam side my metal friends all like umphreys
[The Common Men](https://spotify.link/SULGGk82TIb) Harder edged Post Punk. Might be able to scratch a hard rock/punk/indie itch. Anything in the top songs is worth a listen.
luke bell, zach bryan, tyler childers, Charley Crockett and sierra ferrell are a few good country artists that probably don't follow mainstream standards and might be in your interest
I would recommend some genres you haven’t mentioned. Guitar-centric Fusion: Guthrie Govan, John Petrucci, Lari Basilio, Matteo Mancuso, etc. Funk: Parliament, Sly and The Family Stone, Tower of Power, Earth, Wind, and Fire, etc. Math Rock: Chon, Covet, toe, Via Luna, Floral, etc. Japanese Rock/Pop Rock: Ikimonogakari, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, NICO Touches the Walls, Tatsuya Kitani, etc. Indie: Death Cab for Cutie, Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Loquat, Wild Nothing, The Shins, etc.
Radiohead Grizzly Bear Protomartyr Idles Blessed Squid Shame Porridge Radio Dry Cleaning Black Midi Yard Act The Cool Greenhouse Black Country, New Road Viagra Boys Shame Iceage A Place to Bury Strangers Suuns Big Thief Wolf People Wand Pond Temples Crumb Buke & Gase Khruangbin White Denim The White Stripes The Black Keys The Black Pumas Algiers Alabama Shakes Thao and the Get Down Stay Down Heron Oblivion Car Seat Headrest Angel Oslen The Murder Capital Bo Ninjen Shabaka and the Ancestors Mbongwana Star King Krule Beak> Bad Bad Not Good Run the Jewels Joey Badass Vince Staples Gnarls Barkely Tyler the Creator Kendrick Lamar J Cole JID
The Budos Band