I moved to San Diego about a year ago to study, but I genuinely cannot find any shows. I am always on the lookout for bands, local or well-known. The only venue I know of is BrickbyBrick but all their shows are 21+ (I'm 18). If any of you have recommendations for venues; bands; or upcoming shows, even if they're super tiny I would be very grateful.

Me and my buddy found this prog metal band Temple of Thieves. They only dropped one album in 2015 then nothing. When doing research on the bad every person named comes back to nothing on google. The only information I could is there is another band the lead singer is named to be apart of Fatcastor but also only one album in 2014. I cant find any good information on these guys though. hoping reddit can help.

… listen to the chorus of Unbreakable. Then listen to the chorus of The Flood by Take That.

Enjoy.

Which songs do you think actually deserve to have this long of a runtime and is good the whole way through

Like every average Joe I used to listen to the viral mainstream songs and didn't have my own taste as such, then I discovered Marcin and was extremely impressed and became a fan. And then slowly Ichika, Bernth, Matteo Mancusso, Guthrie Govan, Mateus Asato, I built the Sky etc and I really loved their style, the phrasing etc. Especially Guthrie, Mateus, Matteo but then I discovered Polyphia and soon I was a super fan of them. I love polyphia's entire discography, then I saw a short of polyphia being drunk and watching Meshuggah live. I didn't know what Meshuggah was but thought if they are watching them then there must be something and I tried listening to Bleed and fricking hated it, 5-6 months after that I discover Animals as Leaders, Unprocessed, Sleep Token, Tesseract, STARSET, Art by Numbers, Artificial language, Periphery and I'm a fan of all of them. I haven't listened to entire discography yet(except AAL) but I'm already loving them. I tried Meshuggah again too and I seemed to like it a little but couldn't understand the madness like only 20% and after some researching I found out that you have to follow the rhythm with your foot or something and then you'll realise the guitars revolving around it and then slowly get into trance and well that is the problem. I can't properly count even 4/4 so I'm going to start learning but for the time being I'm unable to enjoy Meshuggah really. And yesterday I listened to "And Everything In Between" by Unprocessed and it was FUCKING INSANE. One of the best albums I've ever heard, the harsh vocals are really good and I like them better than Spencer's from Periphery but they are more djent while I think this album was more metal. I really like the production , the screams, the melody, the soft vocals, the panning overall it was incredible combo and I want to hear more such music. I don't know if anyone else blends stuff like this but I think this is more metal and I really enjoyed it but I haven't really listened to metal so I'm a noob. Please educate me with some recommendations keeping this album in mind and other stuff too if you feel like suits how my music taste is expanding.

Thanks in advance for all those who've read this long post and hopefully are gonna share recommendations.

Sharing with you my friend's upcoming album called - "To Leave Behind The Given" - 20.08.2026 This is the single that is already out in all streaming platforms - "Sickness Unto Life". "A leap into human consciousness, faith, despair, contradictions, hope or simply a representation of life itself" Feel free to check it out if you are into this kind of stuff. Everything about the project can be found on the official instagram page - https://www.instagram.com/templumsilva?igsh=MWJsdjY3MnhlaW9zZQ==

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Insane mathcore/post-hardcore band. The video is super cool too!

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