Music You Keep Returning To

[cookiecutter]

Wormed - Planesphaerium
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Anything by Trist or Devourment
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten and Pierced From Within

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Planisphaerium is certainly one for me too...one of those things I can always toss on if I don't know what to have on.

 

[divine_torture]

Awaiting The Autopsy as of late. Also Watain and Deathspell Omega, and any of Hypocrisy's older works.

 

[-CC-]

These are a couple of albums that have remained a mainstay in my playlists ever since the early 90s and onwards

Dying Fetus - Purification Through Violence
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Demilich - Nespithe (come on this should be on everyones list)
Entombed - Left Hand Path
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation / The Fat of the Land (not metal, but some of the greatest two albums ever made)

Ofc there's more but lets keep it short

 

[Blind Guardian]

Theory In Practice - Really all albums
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side, has gotten at least one spin every six months for the last 12 years.
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Entombed - Clandestine and Wolverine Blues

 

[sevag00]

Yeah, some of the albums are really addicting that you can't pass a day without listening to them.

Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
Savatage - Sirens
Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness
Helstar - Nosferatu
Marduk - Plague Angel
Luror - Cease to Live

 

[GamerOfDK]

I keep getting back to Susperia, Dragonforce, Slayer, Carcass and Kreator after breaks.

there's so much music, you can always hear something new, so it's not a problem.

 

[ArneZ]

Soilwork - Figure Number Five

Still not sick of this. Seriously.

Not to be an asshole or anything, but why do you like it so much? I never really got into that album at all. One of the albums in my collection I never pick up to hear again. I like their old stuff and up to "Natural Born Chaos", but thats as far as it goes.

topic: Most bands im listening to im getting back to. But bands I just can listen to once in a while and still going back to are bands like Dragonforce and Children of Bodom and many grindcore\brutal death metal bands. Its not bands you can listen to every day and enjoy...

 

[Dak]

I believe the reason some of our favorites fall behind in the "most-played" category is because we come to know them so well that they lose their immediate thrill. We still enjoy them and love them for the same reasons, but those reasons are no longer new. We start looking for new acts to fulfill those same requirements, and we constantly compare them to our ultimate favorites, even if we don't listen to the ultimate favorites as much.

I would agree with this. A lot of Metallica stuff would fall into this category for me. Theres a lot of black metal that would fall under stuff I really like but also have to be in the right mood for.

A band that I will always listen to though is Evergrey. It's something I can put on regardless of mood. Oddly enough an album that never was even close to a favorite that gets played whenever I don't "feel" like anything in particular is Tripsis by Alchemist.

 

[tagradh]

Not to be an asshole or anything, but why do you like it so much? I never really got into that album at all. One of the albums in my collection I never pick up to hear again. I like their old stuff and up to "Natural Born Chaos", but thats as far as it goes.

Figure Number Five is gay as fuck but catchy as shit.


Virus - The Black Flux
Mithras - Forever Advancing... Legions
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Dalek - Abandonned Language
Enslaved - Ruun


I dunno if these really count as I do consider them some of my favourite albums but I can put them on at any time and enjoy. There are other albums that I love and have listened to just as much but need to be more in the right mood for them.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I believe the reason some of our favorites fall behind in the "most-played" category is because we come to know them so well that they lose their immediate thrill. We still enjoy them and love them for the same reasons, but those reasons are no longer new.

well yeah that's reasonable. i got the impression that some people in this thread were saying that the total listens for their supposed 'favourites' are lower than some of their supposed non-favourites, which makes much less sense to me.

still, my absolute favourites rarely wear out their welcome, and when they do it isn't for long.

 

[MasterOLightning]

The best of the Opeth albums have held up damn well. I still listen to those. The mediocre Opeths basically never get played by me though.

Lately, I've found the Krallice - s/t and SVEST - (DsO split) to be getting very regular plays for several months. Krallice probably makes my top 10 this decade, and the SVEST songs are better than the DsO one that a few people mentioned already. I guess they share the same ultra-trebly nature, and more overt melody without sounding melodeath with BM aesthetics. coughdissectioncough

V5 is right that Figure Number Five is actually really awesome, and probably will end up being the best thing to come out of 2000s pop melodeath, as little as that is saying.

Other albums that I never considered to be among my favorites (and probably gave 8/10s at the time), but listen to often:

The Ruins Of Beverast - Unlock the Shrine
N.I.L. - s/t
Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
Blood Of Martyrs - Ex Nihilo
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (in the FNF league of albums way better than they have any right to be)

 

[ossa]

Planisphaerium is certainly one for me too...one of those things I can always toss on if I don't know what to have on.

Hah... none of my friends understand why I like this album so much. It's always what I put on when I'm not sure what else to listen to, and I always end up enjoying it. It's gotten to the point where my friends will hear the first few notes and then go, "....Charlie, are you playing WORMED AGAIN?!? TURN IT OFF!"

Thanks btw for being the one I found out about that from.