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Very cool. Recommendations on where to start to get into something like this?

Find a site with daily music uploads. Check back daily for bands with dank album covers. Download. Rinse. Repeat.

My wife won't stop listening to the new Stolas album. Great band with lost potential. WTF is Linkin Park even doing anymore. I thought the last album was them trying to get back on the nu-metal bandwagon, but after the new single from One More LIght - Heavy (ironically) is the most boring song I've heard in ages. The new While She Sleeps is solid, glad to see them coming back strong.

Chicks that scream ftw. TK from ling counts right? /s Just found these guys recently, and hey they're japanese too: Story of Hope: https://www.facebook.com/soh.sendai/ mildrage:

This album still gets me rock hard. The guy Peet, who made it, is a bit of a lovable dick hipster, and only makes crappy electronic stuff now that he grew up out of his emo sceney weeeny life, but at least we got this out of him. nintendo-core:

My dad never was really too into music from what I could tell. Around highschool he started listening to XM top 40's. My mom was pretty much only into church music. In something the apple does fall far from the tree. Somehow both me and my wife only listen to metal, even met at a metal concert.

I guess it's not that surprising since avril lavigne has a big Japanese fanbase (apparently) , but when she was on the new crappy ONE OK ROCK album Ambitions, as a guest vocalist I almost puked. Loved the bands early stuff but the last two albums have been pretty cringy, IMO.

Managed to make it onto the GHOUL tour Blu-ray. House of Blues in Chicago, I'm the crowd surfing one waving my hands like a maniac:

I listen to a large variety. As long as that variety is a sub-genre of metal

Anyone have recommendations for djent or any heavy, rhythm sections mixed clean/scream vocals? I've really been enjoying anything with low tunings and polyrhythms lately.

Probably already covered by someone, but the boys (and girl) are back: http://www.maximumthehormone.jp/news.html

ぷるぷる (purupuru) The mimetic word for wobbling.

A little old now, but just now getting back into playing songs off of this album. Working through 流転の塔 now. If anyone else is trying to find tabs for Dum Spiro Spero, it ain't easy. Ended up buying the band score from amazon.jp around $30: https://www.amazon.com/x300C-SPIRO-SPERO-x300D-score/dp/4401356705

Anybody else enjoy some J-Djent? These guys have a feel very similar to the Djent/prog-metal/alt metal band Tesseract.

Fun post-hardcore act, can't say I know much about them. Their first album had more of an elctronic/dance influence, while their newest EP, that the video is from, is more just post-hardcore style. Really enjoying their latest EP. https://twitter.com/sst_official?lang=en

Crystal Lake's current drummer, 田浦楽's solo project. Happened to catch these guys in Shinjuku Anti-Knock last march. Very solid metalcore act live and they have 3 EPs currently. Lots of music videos for these guys, enjoy!

Went to ACEN over the weekend. Found some dank plushies...

Anybody seen Onibaba? Really enjoyed this one, even if the ending could've been a bit more thought out. onibaba bae

I use JPOD101 and podcasts, as well as skype calls with my tutor biweekly. I've been studying 2.5 years and honestly didn't think listening would continue to be as challenging as it is. Anime can also be useful, but I find its really easy to just zone out and go off of the video vs what they are saying (which can also be useful in its own right). Takes a lot of practice, but I don't actively have to try to improve my listening like I do writing, grammar, reading, etc.

Decided it was finally time to come hang out here. Went to that one dude's panel at ACEN two years in a row, so I figured I should finally check the place out. Glad to be here