Bonus points for cattle decapitation

Technical death metal to amp up on the drive in, instrumental prog to get the work done, black metal to decompress on the way home.

I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or "djenty" stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.

I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of "professionals" I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of "Oh, really, you too?"

Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:

• Their Dogs Were Astronauts -mostly instrumental.
• Wide Eyes - mostly instrumental.
• Caligula's Horse - instrumental only tracks available.
• Polyphia - mostly instrumental.
• Protest The Hero - instrumental only tracks available.
• TesseracT - instrumental only tracks available.
• Apocalyptica - started covering Metallica as cello quartet instrumentals, now has a drummer and a number of original songs, often with guest vocalists.
• Collapse Under The Empire - post rock, mostly instrumental.
• Parhelia - post rock, mostly instrumental.
• Opeth - occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal. Huge fan of most of their work in general.

Edit: I'm stuck at work with my PC being worked on so here are some more random artists whose music I appreciate:

• Anup Sastry - very djenty, mostly instrumental, some guest vocals occasionally.
• Scoredatura - djenty, mostly instrumental.
• Rishloo - psychedelic prog rock? not instrumental.
• HAKEN - instrumental only tracks available.
• Brass Against - brass and other classical instruments. They cover Rage Against The Machine as well as other random songs and make occasional mashups of them. Not instrumental.
• Pomegranate Tiger - prog metal.
• Modern Day Babylon - djenty, instrumental.

A lot of us sing like Michael Bolton.

Please keep both hands on the steering wheel.

I'm just glad Oderus never found out how I live

Was loving Ne Obliviscaris on the way in this morning - such contrasts between dark and light!

Everything sucks ass but if you can get paid good and get paid easy it can suck less.

Well I can't say that being a graduate student is a stable job, but my research is absolutely fueled by technical death metal and sugar 🤘😈🤘

Same, but with plundering and pillaging as lyrics.

Then you get cancer, and can’t go to your 9-5 job. Which wasn’t paying for health insurance anyway. So fuck you and die.

I do that, as well with sometimes riddim, hitech, psycore, hardcore, tekk…

🖤🤘🏻🎸🔊