Where do you find new music?

[Mortis_Kull]

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[GameFreac]

Forums

Last.fm

Google bands that sound like "insert band here"

Randomly find them in some other fashion

[JägerWolf]

[that was strange, I was somehow logged me back into my old account]

-Deathgasm Records
-Wrekage w/ (once w/) Brian, Corey, and Mitch
-Vibrations of Doom
-Terrorizer
-Some of the Metal Reviews in Rue Morgue Magazine (one issue they had made me discover Razorback Records).
-Hells Headbangers
-Nuclear War Now! Productions
-Zero Tolerance
-Blood Harvest
-Ebay and Amazon's suggestions
-Echoes of Crom Records
-Shadow Kingdom Records
-Friends
-Youtube
-Venues & Show events (PS Warehouse made me discover and heard Living Decay!)


That's all I remember as of now.....

[Odinson666]

well last fm , youtube, blabbermouth
and from people who know what i listen to
i normally go in borders and read all the metal mags out for that week , but i find print reviews are deceptive - alot of magazines are in bed with the labels so in print they sound kick as but when you listen to them you are disappointed ,

[badcarburetor]

... i find print reviews are deceptive - alot of magazines are in bed with the labels so in print they sound kick as but when you listen to them you are disappointed ,

Good point, but sometimes it's about reading between the lines.

If the article is full of comparisons and other filler, odds are the writer got stuck with it and has to do something to promote whoever is on Nuclear Blast/Roadrunner/Century Media...

Diana and I recently were laughing about a Kevin Stewart-Panko full page on Blackguard. Dude did his job to promote them, but it was full of understatements and back handed "compliments."

I find that the reviews of the smaller bands - especially in the Choice Cuts of Terrorizer and other similar media - is where to get the real tips. Usually by the time a band is on a big label most of us have already vetted them.

[stewvee]

Any sort of music outlet (print/online) that relies on advertising is usually hogtied by its advertisers unless it's a case where the music outlet (print/online) has an editorial board that appreciates or totally fucking digs what is being advertised in its pages or on its site. This is rare.

I loathe almost all print and online music writing as it's written by passionless idiots, except for:

http://www.chromiumdioxide.com/
http://www.truemetal.org/snakepit/
http://www.lotfp.com/index2.php
http://poetry-of-subculture.blogspot.com/

[Odinson666]

there are alot good fan generated blogs out there
the dude on the needle drops is a little bit of a hipster but he is pretty passionate about music so i respect his opinion , granted personal taste factors in as well
for me what i look for in new music is not just heavy, there has to be chops , good songwriting and originality - which is the key , there are so many band out there that are almost cover bands of their influences , it's like thanks but if i wanted to here that i have -into the pandemonium at home or whatever the case maybe
so finding bands that are bringing something new to the table is more of the challenge i can find bands busting out the same old same old just clicking on itunes