Alterna/Hard Rock Playlist

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For those who are searching for some new (and not so new) alternative/hard-rock songs suggestions:

Creatures - 311
Did My Time - Korn
Liberate - Disturbed
Send the Pain Below - Chevelle
Show Me How to Live - Audioslave
Just Because - Janes Addiction The Boys of Summer - The Ataris St-Anger - Metallica Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes Driven Under - Seether Faint - Linkin Park Stupid Girl - Cold So Far Away - Staind Minerva - Deftones Caught in the Rain - Revis Going Under - Evanescence Headstrong - Trapt Free - Powerman 5000 Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park Serenity - Godsmack Set Me Free - Velvet Revolver Girls Not Grey - A.F.I.
These Days - Alien Ant Farm

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I dig “So Far Away.” Very cool song.

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Dude, that new AFI song is bullshit compared to their older stuff. Pure unadaultered bullshit.

Download God Called In Sick Today and you’ll see what AFI was like at their prime. Such a good song.

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Nearly all of these songs have already been comletely played out by radio stations. I do highly recommend the new 311 album however.

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Some stuff I’ve been playing lately:

Hatebreed - Perseverance (great liftin’ CD)
Nevermore - Enemies Of Reality
In Flames - Colony
Henry Rollins - Big Ugly Mouth (spoken word)
Soilwork - Figure Number Five
Ebony Tears - Evil As Hell
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon (not for sale yet, you have to download it)
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
NOFX - War On Errorism
Strapping Young Lad - SYL (Another great workout CD)
Bury Your Dead - You Had Me At Hello
Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn
The Misfits - anything with Danzig on vocals.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Sonata Arctica - Silence
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

And if I have time, a little Enya to cool down to.

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Minerva is one of the shittiest songs on the new Deftones.

If you’re into their messier stuff (noisecore-ish), the new album is pretty awesome. It is one of those ones you have to listen to a few times though, give it a chance. I didn’t like it the first time I listened to it either.

However White Pony is still better IMO.

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DAOX: 311. Is the new one good as the Blue album? I did not like the others (thrashed them after collecting too much dust, specially the one after the Blue one).

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CHRISMCL: Downloaded it. Not bad. Ive got a problem with AFI: The first song I heard from them was <i>Whatever I Do</i>. It took a while before I got to know the groups name, and when I did some searches, I expected all songs to kick ass as much, only to find out they were more mellow. From all the publicity they get from punks and skaters, I expected more KA (kick ass).

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DAN C, thanks for the post, but as someone else mentioned, these songs are all on heavy rotation for any corporate-owned rock station.

How 'bout if people list some cool new songs that you won’t hear on the radio!

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Dan, that’s a really tough call because the styles of the albums are quite different. The new one is just so laid back that it would almost be impossible not to like it. My recommendation would be to download a few of the songs and see if you like it before you buy the album(THIS is why record companies are just shooting themselves in the foot by cracking down on file sharing).

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Khellandros/Skie…

There’s no Haunted, Shadowsfall or Amon Amarth on your list? Check those bands out.

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I don’t know what it is about that Evanescence album, but I really dig it. Must be the girls voice.

What about Ministry! Their stuff is really good and always will be. Makes NIN look like the Goo Goo Dolls.

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BradTGIF, early Ministry sounds like … well … Depeche Mode! Ok, I know they were obligated to realease the wussy albums before they could do their industrial thing.

I really like about 10 songs by them, from The Land of Rape & Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, and Psalm 69.

Stop bashing NIN! His old stuff is great!!

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Jeff,

You’ll never see Johnny Cash remaking a Ministry song… :o)

However, NIN is a good band, I do like their stuff.

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Khellendros seems to have the clearest path to the truth here. For those interested in the tough guy (wonderful, IQ-draining, lifting music), or at least tougher than average, or maybe just kick ass hardcore aspect, you are strongly urged to seek the following:

Full Blown Chaos “Prophets of Hostility”
Sworn Enemy
Old Integrity (Seasons in the Size of Days and previous)
Ringworm
Terror
No Warning
Give Up The Ghost ( pka American Nightmare)
Godbelow
Converge (may actually make you smarter!)
Dillinger Escape Plan (will certainly make you smarter)
Poison The Well
Himsa
The Agony Scene

Moving onto the more metal end of the spectrum, find enlightenment (lifting wise, that is) in the folowing:

Dying Fetus
Skinless
Evergrey
Rhapsody
Crowbar
Killswitch Engage
Bloodbath
Lost Soul
Vital Remains
Nasum
Anaal Nathrakh
Charger
Nile

While this list hardly represents the entire elite of the metal world, listening to each artist or title listed will, in some small way, contribute to your lifting prowess and, in general, just make you a better human being. Friends don’t let friends listen to 311 and “artists” of that ilk.

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Carl, excellent list! And yes, I also enjoy The Haunted, Shadows Fall, and Amon Amarth, I just haven’t been listening to them lately.

Terror… oh man oh man, this CD beats so much ass it’s not even funny. Sworn Enemy, Full Blown Chaos, Death Threat, Buried Alive, Irate, Shattered fuckin’ Realm…

OK, I feel the need to go break something now.