Listening to chillout or electronic music playlists for programming really isn't for me, what about heavy metal programming playlists? I don't see many around.
by eithed on 4/28/22, 2:50 PM
by sumo89 on 4/28/22, 2:39 PM
by drKarl on 4/28/22, 1:58 PM
For me, programming music can't have lyrics or I'd get distracted from my train of thought. When I listen to metal while programming, I search for instrumental metal. Not necessarily heavy metal, I usually find instrumental power metal or progressive metal. I hope that gives you some hints of what to search for...
by ipiz0618 on 4/28/22, 2:20 PM
Animals As Leaders is a pretty good choice. Their music is instrumental, and so complex (yet enjoyable and very heavy) that you won't even bother to analyze it :). For music with vocals, I find black metal good for focusing. Cthonic is one of my favorites!
by zefcfd on 4/28/22, 2:33 PM
I signed up just to tell you this: Listen to the band "russian circles", it's favorite programming music. Occasionally heavy, no distracting vocals, interesting rhythms (but not too technical to distract), overall very good background music.
by bsg75 on 4/28/22, 3:42 PM
Insomnium, Before The Dawn, Cult of Luna - and similar Nordic Melodeath bands. I used to hate the harsh vocal trend, but then discovered the vocals become something I don't focus on and get distracted by.
Daylight Dies and similar - Spotify has some good "Instrumetal" playlists.
Raised Fist - although the vocals are "In your face" contrary to the above, I'm finding that similar hardcore gets the synapses firing.
by spookybones on 4/28/22, 3:20 PM
I sometimes play the Metal Detector station on my SomaFM app, and I’ll save the songs I like on Spotify. I agree with some other sentiments on here of Doom/Stoner/Sludge metal being good background music. I still don’t know why Sleep’s Dopesmoker album was removed from Spotify. Minimal lyrics. Was my favorite background album for work.
by mindcrime on 4/28/22, 1:30 PM
I listen to metal a lot when coding, but I don't have a specific playlist. I either just let Youtube figure out what to play for me based on whatever they've learned about my tastes, or I use Audacious with my local mp3 collection and put it on shuffle mode.
About the best I can come up with by way of specific recommendations are this series of "Heavy Metal Classics" collections where somebody bundled a bunch of songs into a single YT video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Dgl5xkh4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f25PW3vdEa4
https://youtu.be/FBSvXvzOt4c
and so on. Search "heavy metal classics" on Youtube for more. Some of these are pretty good.
by ecmascript on 4/28/22, 12:49 PM
by toast0 on 4/30/22, 2:08 AM
I'm a fan of curated radio, so when I was In a Metal Mood[1], I tuned into
https://www.radiotunes.com/metal which is run more or less by the same people who do the dance music at
https://www.di.fm/[1] I got to spend a week tearing out Wordpress and replacing it with a just-good-enough replacement that fit our needs. No database, no comments, no plugins, no operational issues.
by proce55ing on 4/28/22, 3:13 PM
by rcv on 4/28/22, 4:36 PM
I can't recommend Lightning Bolt's album "Wonderful Rainbow" enough. It's super heavy, but repetitive enough that I can easily focus while I listen to it.
by alexjplant on 4/28/22, 3:34 PM
Ron Jarzombek is an insanely talented composer and guitarist who makes ff-the-wall instrumental metal that suits this purpose very well. Check out his projects Blotted Science, Spastic Ink, and Watchtower.
A demonstration of his 12-tone composition system is here [1] if you want an idea of the sort of craziness that he's capable of :-).
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpoL0QBKxHA
by ArtWomb on 4/28/22, 1:20 PM
Absolutely. Saw everyone live back in the day: Def Leppard, Ozzy, RJD, Iron Maiden, Lita Ford, Yngvie Malmsteen, Aerosmith, Metallica, Ratt, Wasp, Korn...
by justusthane on 4/28/22, 3:10 PM
This is a timely post for me! I've never been big into metal, but just recently I've found that metal often helps me focus better than the classical, alternative, indie-rock, and hip-hop I usually listen to.
I've had Bloody Kisses by Type O Negative on repeat lately, but I will be combing this thread for recommendations!
Not all of these are precisely metal, but I also enjoy:
- All Rights Removed by Airbag
- Facelift by Alice in Chains
- In Absentia by Porcupine Tree
- Houdini by Melvins
by 37ef_ced3 on 4/28/22, 2:08 PM
Yes. Put some ear plugs in and crank up the Elder or Pelican. Way up.
Filtered through (muffled by) ear plugs, heavy metal is a good accompaniment to software work.
by k_ on 4/28/22, 1:22 PM
Lately I often switch from metal to "viking/norse" music for programming. I would recommend a lot of what ends up in Fimbul Radio [0], and it being a radio takes away the burden of choosing what to hear / when to switch.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm6Sj0_W1E
by jh3 on 4/28/22, 3:37 PM
To name a few: YOB, Animals as Leaders, Neurosis, Pelican, Russian Circles, Isis :)
by psyc on 4/28/22, 2:23 PM
Ministry, esp. old Ministry. Hypnotic and repetitive.
by rolph on 4/28/22, 5:16 PM
it depends on the pace of work, but i usually have music, or soundtracks from various video games.
ive wondered at times how well the elevator ride would go if the canned muzak was replaced by inhouse creations.
something like ministry is a pace to keep while rote typing, but things like elder scrolls, or torchlight, when the task is about developing an abstraction or an unorthodox proc or func
by exabrial on 4/28/22, 4:26 PM
Oh for sure. I prefer female-fronted metal for this... Xandria, Arcadia, Unsun, Nightwish, Sirenia
by standardly on 4/28/22, 4:49 PM
Can't go wrong with Meshuggah. Plenty of chunky instrumentals
by snarkypixel on 4/28/22, 5:09 PM
I listen to dream theater all the time while coding