How fun!
I'll say, Equilibrium was quite similar to some bands I do follow. Good one there.
Sunlounger was pretty chill. Might be something I'll slap on while working or playing Rocket League.
Venjent... what if I told you I was like one of the top 0.01 % listeners of Venjent on Spotify in 2025, I think. Some kind of small number like that. 😅 He's truly inspired. Really sick beats. I tend to pair him up with Fox Stevenson for a solid time of straight bangers.
Some early as well as recent favorites of mine:
- HIM
- The Crown/prev. "Crown of Thorns"
- The Haunted
- Dimmu Borgir
- Metallica
- CKY
- Foreign Objects
- Meshuggah
- Mattias "I.A." Eklundh [my kids love this guy's music, lol]
- Opeth
- Finntroll
- Children of Bodom
- Sonata Arctica
- Animals as Leaders
- Lamb of God
- Tesseract
- Textures
- The Ocean
- The Omnific
- Dissection
- Amon Amarth
- Linkin Park (the first two albums; basically their first album was the first taste of metal I ever had; thought it sounded so badass; I don't really open them up nowadays though, there's just so much better stuff out there)
Bro there are so many good bands, I have about 1700+ bands that I follow on Spotify. (Quite overwhelming at times, actually.) But maybe you get the picture of what kind of weird sounds I'm into. Really liking a lot of syncopation. I want to be intrigued by the music, you know? 🙂
I rarely get new suggestions on Spotify anymore. I've like added the entire network of bands that have any kind of relation to one another. 😅