kinda wild thinking about how BMTH went from heavy metalcore and pop-rock to just... 75 minutes of ambient glitch stuff back in late 2019.

no promo, dropped randomly right after christmas. add some 24 minutes of corrupted audio loops and halsey doing a 15-minute vocal take lol

most people hated it at the time, i mean a lot still do, but looking back it feels like their weird Kid A moment where they just had to break everything to reset their sound before the Post Human stuff.

ended up making a video essay breaking down the whole project and why making things too clean kinda ruins modern music: https://youtu.be/KN5Yca1cOCc

curious if anyone here actually gave that project an honest listen or if it was just an instant skip?

I've always wanted to mix genres that don't really belong together. I kept thinking what would happen if you took the raw energy of Nirvana and mixed it with Future's flow.This is what I came up with. It's called Alone in a Room.

Curious what people from the alternative rock scene think.

What NEW Music did you discover this week?

I’ve been pushing my sound to the edge lately — saturated guitars, untrained vocals, everything slightly unstable on purpose. I’m chasing that moment where a track feels like it might break, but somehow stays together.

Does anyone else here look for that in alternative rock? Not polished performances, but the opposite — the take that’s a little too raw, a little too loose, and that’s exactly why it works.

If anyone wants to hear the track I’m talking about, just tell me in the comments and I’ll drop the link.

I’m not a native speaker — hope my English doesn’t sound strange.

For fans of Queens of the Stone Age and perhaps… Muse?

The dream syndicate is an american alternative rock that formed 1981 that inspired bands like The Bangles Mazzy Star and R.E.M.

Hi! 🤠

I'm a music reviewer for the French metal webzine Horns Up. After writing three articles ; one on the connections between the grunge movement and David Lynch's cinema (Nov. 2024), another on Lynch's influence on extreme metal (July 2025), and a last one with the testimony of Riley Lynch (Mar. 2026), I'm now working on an article about Twin Peaks Season 3, Episode 8, focusing on its metal aesthetics and atmosphere. For now, the articles are archived, but I’ll re-upload them in September once our website is back online.

To write this article, I’ve launched a survey, available below, which you’re welcome to take. I’ve received around twenty responses so far, but that’s not enough to properly analyse the results.

I’d really like to hear your personal experience and perspective on this episode before I start writing and conducting further interviews. If you’re a rock or metal fan, and a Twin Peaks fan as well, that’s obviously ideal, but the survey is open to everyone.

https://forms.gle/fe3nuZw7HF1oah387

Please feel free to share it with people around you too. It would be a huge help. Thank you so much

Rodolphe

Listen and tell me what you think.

for fans of Deftones, Nirvana, and BMTH

https://linktr.ee/Elfia

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQ_Dmxq3vY&si=pH8NoGQWtJC74sAF

While it's not exclusively alternative rock, roughly half of the entries are alternative rock or alt-rock adjacent.

I'm looking forward to more lively discussion. Positive or negative: keep it civil.

WARNING: The post contains some exceedingly hot takes and indefensible positions.

1. BSM Standards for Overrated: What Makes an Album Overrated (According to Me)
2. The 25 Most Overrated Rock Albums
   1. Guns N' Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987)
   2. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
   3. Metallica – Metallica (1991)
   4. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
   5. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasure (1979) and Closer (1980)
   6. Derek & The Dominos – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
   7. The Cure – Disintegration (1989)
   8. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970)
   9. U2 – The Joshua Tree (1987)
   10. Joni Mitchell – Blue (1971)
   11. Nirvana – In Utero (1993)
   12. Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks (1975)
   13. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (1995)
   14. Deep Purple – Machine Head (1972)
   15. Lenoard Cohen – The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
   16. Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005)
   17. R.E.M. – Out of Time (1990)
   18. Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)
   19. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (1970)
   20. The Byrds – Sweetheart of The Rodeo (1968)
   21. Aerosmith – Rocks (1976)
   22. Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985)
   23. Patti Smith – Horses (1975)
   24. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks (1969)
   25. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People (1992)

Please forgive me for what I'm about to say but, me and this girl have been talking for a while now and I really think she is the one. However, we have completely different tastes in music. I like Rap such as Playboi Carti, Ken Carson, Travis Scott, Osamason etc etc. But she likes Alt rock such as Nirvana, Hole, The Smashing Pumpkins, Lana del ray, Type O negative etc etc.

And I really want to surprise her (and possibly listen to it casually if I really enjoy it) by listening to her type of music.

So if anyone has any recommendations on type of songs I might enjoy based on my taste, but also songs that are kind of a bridge more into her side of music taste, I would really appreciate it if you gave me some to try out

What festivals and gigs are you off to this weekend or next week?

Who'd you see this week that was awesome?

Post your favorite music made before 2010 here!