bit more on the dark ambient side... love this...

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Melbourne band, it was just the singer on this first album, now she has a full band, most of the first album is clean acoustic with a little black metal added in first and last song, second album has more heavier pieces.

Great Australian Metal/post Rock Band

Been getting into the band Health recently. Mix of electronic/industrial/noise rock-metal.

22 hours ago, red and blue forever said:

Oz Prog Rock Masterpiece

Not sure I'd call it prog but then again I'm not a labels kinda music person.

Always a big Mike Rudd fan.

One of my fav bands, this was off their last record a few years ago.

On 04/01/2026 at 20:04, red and blue forever said:

Ok... Lets Metal!!

some metal groove..

Psychedelic Metal Legends from australia

Dopegoat

Amazing metal pysch

One of the best songs...

Let's not.

Put on your headphones, close your eyes, sit in a comfortable chair and listen to the waves of sound you'll hear in Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto. Glorious. And as a bonus, while you're listening to the slower, second movement, you'll get to hear where Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" came from.

On 23/11/2025 at 03:17, hardtack said:

I shed a tear when this man passed…

1996 is close on my favorite album of all time Hardtack

If I have to be recent, this new song from Pulp is a ripper

18 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

1996 is close on my favorite album of all time Hardtack

I went to the concert he did for that 1996 tour, at Sydney’s State Theatre… it was so good!

On 02/01/2026 at 12:04, rjay said:

I suppose this is going back in time...and maybe I'm getting old but I don't really care.

Can you imagine being at the Mathew Flinders Hotel in 1975, one of the great pub rock venues.

Then these guys show up...I loved them then and still do.

The look on the faces of the su...more p..s bogan brigade was priceless.

They thought they (Enz) were a Bunch of po...ters.

The clothes, the hair, the makeup, the dance, the music (kind of prog at this stage).

It's probably the first time I had seen a Mellotron in Australia...to think a few years later some good Aussie lads would invent the Fairlight and that changed the face of music in the 80's.

It was such a revelation and it still amazes me to think of it every time I here these songs.

Split Enz pre Neil

https://youtu.be/t_WmsRKoeRw?si=yQ4QC0hXltTftHCX

rjay heady days indeed. Co-incidentally l was reflecting last week about Split Enz on another forum. About their very first gig in Melbourne at the Reefer Cabaret. Totally different vibe to the Matthew Flinders. The last video features Phil Judd from the original lineup.

2 hours ago, Tarax Club said:

The last video features Phil Judd from the original lineup.

Yes he was in both vids and co wrote or wrote a lot of the material.

Big change when he left and Neil came in...that was the kicker for chart success.

Even at a young age Neil could write a hit.

Indeed a talented musician who went onto deserved success with Crowded House. Phil Judd’s road since the split with Spilt Enz has been more rocky. A talented artist whose work included the cover of the band’s first release ‘Mental Notes’. But some serious personal challenges too.

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13 minutes ago, Tarax Club said:

Indeed a talented musician who went onto deserved success with Crowded House. Phil Judd’s road since the split with Spilt Enz has been more rocky. A talented artist whose work included the cover of the band’s first release ‘Mental Notes’. But some serious personal challenges too.

Counting the Beat was probably Phil's only chart success since.

He certainly has had his struggles.

On 06/01/2026 at 16:09, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Let's not.

Put on your headphones, close your eyes, sit in a comfortable chair and listen to the waves of sound you'll hear in Rachmaninov's 2nd piano concerto. Glorious. And as a bonus, while you're listening to the slower, second movement, you'll get to hear where Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" came from.

Ok, A little more of a challenge here, lets go Classical.

A challenge as I am trying to recommend something that is perhaps newer, as there seems little point in me recommending you the originals which you will already know.

In odd one first, but the orchestral cover of an 80's game score, really does work very well.

2nd, a interesting take and not what you would call new, but Clara Rockmore, performing Tchaikovsky's Valse Sentimantale On the Theremin

Although you could try some Nightwish Or Apolyptica.... Orchestral classical metal fusion

otherwise I would be heading into the realm of movie soundtracks i.e. dark crystal soundtrack or even Boekelheide salute of the jugger soundtrack, but this could lead down a whole rabbit hole on it's own

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxzzlpX1Dms

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