A woman after my own heart. Enjoys metal music and has sleep problems. Got some song recommendations?

Hell yeah! Two actually. Dying Wish has been my new/favourite band for this year. Highly recommend if you enjoy the early 2000's metalcore; As I Lay Dying, etc. Pretty much every song I've listened to is a banger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffLw_S9MrhA

More recently? Riot City. The 80's thrash is on point. Pretty decent mix of more chilled out and intense too. I've been rocking out to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaXX28D70h4&list=RDMMaaXX28D70h4&start_radio=1

Wildcard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0z98gCe560&list=PLdIvmMAK3JdIx6D2D5Bgtx-jljttHzivE&index=154 I know slam is pretty niche, but this fucks pretty hard if you're into it. All instrumental stuff, so might be an outlier if you enjoy brutal death metal/slam, minus the toilet noise vocals. (Personally, I think it kind of adds, but doesn't make this any less nasty. I love it.)

Auspicious K wrote:

Hell yeah! Two actually. Dying Wish has been my new/favourite band for this year. Highly recommend if you enjoy the early 2000's metalcore;

Dying Wish is pretty good, I'll have to add them to my collection.

Auspicious K wrote:

Highly recommend if you enjoy the early 2000's metalcore; More recently? Riot City.

Auspicious K wrote:

The 80's thrash is on point

Most of the music I enjoy is from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s so this is perfect for me. I'm a sucker for 80's hair metal.


Earlier this year I discovered Lena Scissorhands and have pretty much enjoyed every song and band she's been in. She's the lead singer in several bands, including my favorite: Infected Rain. They produced my favorite song Dying Light. I will listen to that song for hours on repeat.



Some other of my favorites from her:



If you're interested, here's a full list of the songs she's in that I like


And here's a list of all the rock/metal bands I like


And here's a couple I think you might like
Butcher Babies
Blackbriar



I hope you find something you enjoy from this information dump. I don't get to share my music often so I went all out, lol

Glad you enjoy 'em! I actually have some fun trivia regarding Lena and IR. I've got a huge soft spot for 90's and very early 2000's nu/alt metal and discovered IR through that - specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y4Vg-7HCjQ this song. Remains my favourite of theirs. The funny part though? I was mutuals with her on Insta for maybe 1-2 years before I ever discovered IR, then I found out she was the singer and it blew my mind a little lol. Small world. She's awesome though, really cool person and friendly.

A band you might also enjoy (who happen to also be French and female-fronted): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97oUM_fjs8 Or in terms of thrash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvArjYkRqlo This band actually has a lot of influence and history within thrash, pretty cool listen if you're into that kind of thing.

Only heard stuff here and there from Blackbriar and Butcher Babies, I was really into Until Eternity by Blackbriar when I heard it. I really enjoy Lacuna Coil, so probably no surprise haha. In keeping with female-fronted bands, one of my favourites (and potentially one of my alltime favourite songs) is female fronted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4SVRApGhM The level of hype I get from their stuff is pretty unreal, some of my best listening for end stages of workouts. One of those early metalcore bands I discovered as a teen, along with As I Lay Dying and it's just never stopped being peak enjoyment for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5jnFzm4DSc

But no, I enjoyed everything provided! The Death Dealer track a little less. Kind of an audiophile though and my tastes are pretty vast, so I'm always happy to listen to new (or old) stuff you're enjoying; lay it on me! P.S. How do you include the thumbnail/mini player for YT vids?

Wow, the fact you already knew you already knew about Lena, and were friends with her on IG, that's awesome. Never thought someone in our community would know about her let alone be somewhat close to her, relatively speaking. Small world indeed.

Auspicious K wrote:

The Death Dealer track a little less

Gasps! That one is my favorite.

Auspicious K wrote:

I'm always happy to listen to new (or old) stuff you're enjoying; lay it on me!

I pretty much listed every band in my rock/metal collection, the last list was a export of my Rock/Metal folder, lol. What other genres do you like?

Auspicious K wrote:

How do you include the thumbnail/mini player for YT vids?

In our our Custom BBcodes drop down there's a YouTube BBCode that accepts a video id and renders a YouTube video wherever your cursor is at when you clicked it.

As with all of our BBCode, you can cut/paste it anywhere and also type it out manually like so:




We also have a BBCode for rendering thumbnail size videos, it's in the same drop down.:

Great minds (and/or) tastes think alike! And sorry! Lol. As for genres? Techno, hardstyle, DNB, industrial and rap stuff are my mainstays. I've always gone to more techno events, despite my love of metal. Oh and neat, thank you!! I didn't even register the custom codes dropdown, d'oh.


Something non-metal, possible one of my favourite 'recent' songs. Or at least last year. Very, very 80's, so you might appreciate.

Sometimes lay half naked after showers, is that weird?

Auspicious K wrote:

As for genres? Techno, hardstyle, DNB, industrial and rap stuff are my mainstays.

Oh cool, rock, metal and rap are primary genres. The louder and more bass the better. For rock and metal I like faster paced songs you can rock out to. For rap, I like it bass heavy and offensive. No mumble or pussy shit here thank you.

Auspicious K wrote:

Something non-metal, possible one of my favourite 'recent' songs. Or at least last year. Very, very 80's, so you might appreciate.

Speaking of 80's vibes, you can't go wrong with Steel Panther





Unfortunately this is the clean version. The explicit version is age restricted, here's a link to it though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRcksH2_HQ