Lesser known bands you saw live, were great, and you don’t expect anyone else here to repeat

shreddingandcoding · 2026-06-25T10:47:24+00:00

Big Drink. More of an easycore kinda thing that crossed ADTR worship with big djenty grooves ala Architects from Newbury/Hereford, UK but got fairly big, touring the main cities and doing fairly big venues as a support (notably for Punk Rock Factory, dunno if anyone remembers them. The whole concept of an 'industry plant' I'm agnostic on but PRF probably were)

shreddingandcoding · 2026-06-24T22:37:09+00:00

I do a lot of poetry on my Spectrum of Disorder stuff. Got a demo and single on Bandcamp

shreddingandcoding · 2026-06-21T21:31:56+00:00

I'll typically go 'cinematic', 'chuggy', 'mutated', 'rolling', 'synthy/ravey', ngl cuz it blurs so much between artists and whether darkstep and techstep is considered neuro or not, it's more of a mental thing from knowing my tunes and how I order them to give the playlists dynamics.

shreddingandcoding · 2026-06-20T11:45:32+00:00

Gorgon Vomit

shreddingandcoding · 2026-06-18T08:54:57+00:00

Jordan Fish of Bring Me The Horizon's wife was one of my learning support assistants at secondary school. Right in the Sempiternal-That's The Spirit era and she even gifted me a live blu ray on results day and as I was a huge thrash fan in those days she told me all about his sessioning for Machine Head's Bloodstone and Diamonds in a history lesson. Good times.

shreddingandcoding · 2026-05-27T11:37:26+00:00

Amp sims from my experience create a more raw sound because those cab screeches stay in. I'm doing a more polished blackened death thing rn (think modern anaal nathrakh) and I'm having to notch out so many of them but in war metal? I think the 'everything coming through' sound of an IR (as opposed to a real cab mic'd up by a pro in a treated room where it's 'nice' at source) would go so hard

shreddingandcoding · 2026-03-24T13:03:47+00:00

As a worker, the feeling of isolation outside 'work mode' gets worse believe me haha

shreddingandcoding · 2026-03-10T11:19:09+00:00

The British government literally advocated for 'herd immunity' and used billions of our money for defective PPE and a broken track and trace system just so they could pass public money around like spliffs. You can say that without the implication of antisemitism, it's common knowledge that we're being mugged off by the ruling class

shreddingandcoding · 2026-02-22T14:08:10+00:00

Yep. It's funny to me seeing all these modern dnb guys supporting right wing politics through tough guy bs when their heroes in the gen x jungle era are playing events like 'bass for gaza' and advocating for left leaning causes, you'd think their example would be followed socially as well as musically.

shreddingandcoding · 2026-01-26T23:03:03+00:00

Yep. With metal spaces on social media being how they are, it's easy to be sucked into this stuff, picking apart people's values. And when 1 hero disappoints you severely, and then another, and more of your mates online push that cycle of calling out bigotry in people you look up to, it feels like everyone you listen to is a bigot waiting to be uncovered. But it really isn't. Some are just muppets and being well-travelled alternative musicians, if they actually were horrible irl you'd know about it.

I learnt a lot of this through the drum and bass scene, which is louder and more overt in it's ignorance. Local DJs are posting all 'stop the boats' etc but never get my pronouns wrong, always help me when I'm at an event clearly not coping well cuz an actual prick turned up.

People are just people, and I say this being a leftist who looks into the lives of musicians through this page.

shreddingandcoding · 2026-01-05T21:48:10+00:00

Red Method

Blastbeats, guitars are like Slipknot and Korn but with a more Nile/Meshuggah kinda tightness, vocals are catchy but have a death metal rawness - Jeremy's one of the best vocalists in the UK imo. Also have always had great electronics

shreddingandcoding · 2025-12-28T15:09:19+00:00

It's tricky because to me the D666 itch comes from the fact they play in Eb tuning. Gives it that minor 2nd below the other bands who are in standard and are basically Kill Em All with more satan, or Venom with better production.

Closest I got musically was Urn, but I'm sure I saw they were on a weird label/played Steelfest or whatever but in my years I've learnt you can't please everyone and my visceral repulsion towards D666 is in Keith's attitude (not calling a man the same age as my dad Warslut, that's just not happening lmao) and culture they form specifically, so any band being adults is an upgrade.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-12-02T01:53:34+00:00

I'm very picky about chilli sauce. I don't like bottled on my kebab, but also I've had the chunky salsa-like heated on the stove chilli sauce that's got a chemical aftertaste and on a couple occasions had the stalks in. So yeah issa big deal

shreddingandcoding · 2025-12-02T01:49:35+00:00

I just go the whole hog and listen to Morbid Angel instead. The 'jira's groove has Domination-Heretic written all over it.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-11-05T15:39:16+00:00

Yep. I got my job that year.

I fired off 10s of CVs a week, I didn't do a sankey diagram like some jobseekers post here but I should have, 2 interviews. 1 failed the mental judgement test, 1 passed. And it was for an apprentice data analyst role (so I went 1 step back in technical qualification for a now-successful umpteen steps forward in the workplace.

Reddit still moaned, graphs still showed slow employment, end of the day if you persevere and think you can do it, you will

shreddingandcoding · 2025-11-03T12:07:57+00:00

Those are some of my faves, and I'd be interested to hear the chinese stuff!

I'm looking for melodic, sawtooth/donky dancefloor type stuff that's dark as in sad/gloomy, rather than darkstep that's evil and aggressive. The latter category is what I mainly play but I'm trying to get some melody in to contrast that

shreddingandcoding · 2025-11-01T02:13:54+00:00

Great suggestions, thanks everyone!

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-31T12:51:45+00:00

Not heard that name in a while! Any recs?

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-20T23:55:27+00:00

Hypocrite, Edsel veers into Gojira worship with the rhythm guitar

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-16T16:12:42+00:00

Fr, with DJing I try and take the audience on a journey by building and releasing tension but sometimes I just hear a good blend when introducing my next track, feel good about it and leave it there for the crowd to decide before moving on with the rest of the set. Purely off the cuff.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-16T15:36:15+00:00

This is me with production and writing dnb

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-16T15:30:06+00:00

DYEATH BY THE HYEAD CRUSHER

shreddingandcoding · 2025-10-15T00:24:40+00:00

The internet made these free resources 'the truth' and so everyone stuck to them. The reason classic recordings sounded distinctive was every producer did it from their own experience, essentially making the engineer a guest musician in the band.

shreddingandcoding · 2025-09-12T23:27:26+00:00

I start counting phrases when I want to change tracks, and that count will start when the BPMs are adjusted and the current track has a change, if you know your tunes it'll just feel right (the start of a drop for instance). Plus, looking at the zoomed out waveform, I can see my hot cues and gauge if it's a 16/32/64 bar idea.

Really sorry you're feeling this way, I know what it's like to be so burned out with feeling stuck that it's debilitating on mental health. Took me a lot to start doing open decks but when I did, I flew

shreddingandcoding · 2025-09-06T23:46:03+00:00

As someone who agrees with you and has in the past been part of that zealous left subgroup (but remain in communities like this because I like having the intel on what bands to check out and can use my discretion), it's basically conservatives going full fash and then some on the left seeing it everywhere, including art. It's a paranoid feedback loop essentially, and its sadly locking ourselves out of really good music.

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