Music that rocks in 2022

let's try something - this is a thread for new music that rocks. TO BE TOTALLY CLEAR: this is a genre-agnostic definition of "music that rocks." this is not necessarily music with guitars and acoustic drums. it is music that when you hear it, you think "this rocks." to me, that is music that gives you a jolt of energy, makes your pulse quicken, etc. but whatever new music makes you think "hell yeah this rocks," please post it on this thread.

does music rock in 2022?

came out at the end of 2021, but I'm still basking in just how much the latest Mastodon album ROCKS

that's what this thread is a reaction to tbh, how much new music is chill and vibey etc., WHICH IS FINE, but it seems like there also has to be new music out there that's about energy/aggression/rocking that i'm missing out on

https://boringct.bandcamp.com/releases

^ off to a good start!

music that rocks in 2022: is it a vibe?

There are two kinds of people in the world, vibers and rockers

cool thread idea

tha retail simps - love without friction

i'm betraying the concept of the thread by posting something that is very traditional guitar and drums and retro rock n roll but i'm anticipating this 2022 rock record

tanya tagaq - colonizer

i never got into her previous music but this new song is pretty rocking imho. like suicide but with with extremely guttural inuit throat singing. there's not really any release which makes it somewhat less rocking, but it is pummelling and aggressive

boris - the fallen

the new boris album is mostly (excellent) non-rocking post-rock, drone, shoegaze and slowcore, but this is the one super rocking song on it

wu lu - broken homes

this guy's signed to warp and most of his stuff is warp-style idm. afaik this is the only song of his so far that sounds like this, kind of birthday party-ish dreadrock with a great bassline. really hope he makes more in this style

The most rockin' metal band I've heard in a long time is Maule. They're like a cross between early Iron Maiden and early (pre-Rick Rubin) Slayer, and their album is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1QPVaJcAg

Drug Church

la colonie de vacances - ECHT

french band with 12 members (including what looks like four drummers) doing proggy math-rock

I don't love this thread title at all but appreciate the concept.

Anyway this came out less than 2 months ago and it sounds like Bleach & Local H:
https://bigneckrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/greener-grasses

xp Wu-Lu is great. This one track "Times" has the Black Midi drummer:
https://wu-lu.bandcamp.com/album/times

A little background on La Colonie de Vacances: it came to life when 4 French indie bands (Pneu, Marvin, Papier Tigre and Electric Electric) made a tour together a few years ago. On one of the shows (I happened to be there when I lived in Tours) they had the four bands playing in each corner of the stage, and it was so much fun that they made it project of its own.

oh nice, thanks for the info!

Lol sorry about my dick comment. I unwittingly absorbed ILM's stigma against usage of "rocks" a long while back and look where it got me.

Definitely doesn't rock rock, but I really enjoyed listening to this spooky, synthy sci-fi audio play.

https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/empathy-alpha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0ZisvuUF4

https://thankleeds.bandcamp.com/album/thoughtless-cruelty

This was about a month ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfJkMTVWu3U

well, shit. I'm fucking hooked.

Whoa
https://fivepebbles.bandcamp.com/album/forgetmenot

Haven't heard much 2022 music yet, but the new Garcia Peoples definitely rocks at times. It also vibes and boogies and other similar actions.

zillas on acid are my pick for rockin sounding dance music

https://zillasonacid.bandcamp.com/album/a-wonderful-time-in-a-terrible-club

be forewarned that this "rocks" in the indie rock/post-punk sense, but I like this album by Swedish band Levande Dod. kinda Feelies-y, kinda Chronophage-y

apologies for missing the umlaut

this album starts off like it vibes and chills but give it a minute - track 3 is maybe peak 'rocks':

https://brutalitygarden.bandcamp.com/album/spectra-vol-1

Gazy/groove/rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcJ_O5vthYU

i like this Irish band called Sprints, doing the talk-sing post-punk thing but with a lot more emphasis on the punk than most of these bands: https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-modern-job

On 1st listen, I'm actually liking the 3rd Secret song, featuring Krist Novoselic, Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil, and Bubba Dupree with two female vocalists (Jillian Raye and Jennifer Johnson). A bit Heron Oblivion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj7ZM6V64yI

This Generacion Suicida performance gets me, such a great mix of punk, HC, gothy bits and just looking badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WB5OPFkFAs

Rocks like early Incubus & sElF
https://springsilver.bandcamp.com/track/little-prince

or maybe it was sELf

new album by plosivs (john reis of rocket from the crypt & rob crow of pinback + others) hits the spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgqbQ4PwqJA

Built to Spill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTWH5rq9DGc

Momma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZWxWsEiGBQ

Tony Molina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TUnk9-Casw

Fu Manchu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrA4YT_lmw

Milly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-RclcvHW9k

new album by plosivs (john reis of rocket from the crypt & rob crow of pinback + others) hits the spot

great to hear! it's a keeper, for sure

the 90s-ness of Milly and Momma is really something to behold. i was familiar with tony molina so his 90s-ness is less striking.

Perhaps more specifically Chicago 1994.

I might be wrong but I believe a member from each of those bands (Momma and Milly) plays on this:
https://larry187.bandcamp.com/album/ep-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HaEhJ-wvyw

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Carson: Dirty Dream Maker

lotta discourse out there about the chat pile album. i'm here with the firm stance that ... it is good

i like how embarrassingly direct and emotional a lot of the lyrics are, it comes across as distasteful when most music is too tasteful, though this seems to be the sticking point for a lot of listeners (specifically the song "why")

it reminds me a bit of harvey milk

adore the chat pile record

feels like if an anthology of short horror comics took form as a sludge metal album

drum production is very shitty in a good way

fun and fucked up in equal measure, v difficult balance to maintain

I love it, too, and for me “Why” is the stand out track. I love how direct the lyrics are. The words are so perfectly chosen and delivered.

Still waiting for my copy to get here, just got caught up with the comp of their two EPs. It's set my expectations for the full-length very high, "Rainbow Meat" is like the platonic ideal of my favorite kind of noise rock song, completely unhinged and off-putting but also deeply hilarious.

Somewhere between Scratch Acid, Pissed Jeans and S/T era Daughters is where Chat Pile sits for me. They do simple but powerful so well. “Why” is just the latest example but “Crawlspace” hit me in a similar way. Really great band.

i love the killdozer/laughing hyenas era butch viggish production, everything sounds so textured and tactile.

xp - Yeah "Crawlspace" is a great track too.

Current favorite is "grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg"

Thanks for the tip on Momma slightly upthread. That nails a certain 90s vibe better than just about anything I've heard. Love the newest album.

Yeah, that Momma track is truly uncanny in how anachronistic it feels. Though the production is maybe a bit more 2020s hi-fi. Also one hell of an earworm, been stuck in my head for days.

grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg is fantastic but really haunting. also, good call on the Killdozer/vig production comparison. Still a bit surprised they have been getting so much more love than say the Bummer album from last year or pretty much every Pissed Jeans record, but I'm glad. Might also be timing, people being ground down, wanting some authentic noise and angry punk

JOBBER!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFeLi6JI4dA

Not from 2022 but new to me - I've really been digging this Japanese group the Cabs, like very tight 90s-informed math rock with both pretty melodic singing and screaming over it; distinctive melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXWVGkNtj2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXWVGkNtj2M

https://lame-orecords.bandcamp.com/album/open-up-that-heart

Good punky pop / poppy punk

Upchuck - Boss Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFP52D_NGpM

Odradek - Canary Wharf
(Brazilian mathy rocky trio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFFk7H3L_WI

Nice stuff

This shit ROCKS in 2022...

https://vanillabox.bandcamp.com/album/i-walk-the-devil

show me the body - we came to play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO2pLviiTi8

Upchuck - Boss Up

Enjoying this and the album.

i think i like the new show me the body album? sometimes it gets a tad too nu-metal-y for my taste but i respect the noise and energy

yeah i love it. rocks super hard

whoa i like this

The Disq album hasn't hit me yet as a whole but there's definitely some solid rockin moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCI1gSwElO4

The new Mindforce is sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTil4bicdaA

Mindforce RULES. This is good news.

https://persher.bandcamp.com/album/man-with-the-magic-soap

pretty incredible noise rock from "sexual jeremy" https://sexyjerry.bandcamp.com/album/the-real-sexual-jeremy

kinda cheating but i've been catching up on death metal and the undeath, phobophilic, autopsy and dream unending albums from this year all rock insanely hard

Dream Unending is incredible, yeah

imo the Darkthrone album belongs here
https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/track/stalagmite-necklace

I was not looking for music rocks, but this rocks in a classic sense (Tasche de la Rocha & the Psychedelic Roses)
https://taschedelarocha.bandcamp.com/album/tasche-de-la-rocha-the-psychedelic-roses

Saw this described on Twitter as "if Deftones and Helmet were the same band" and...yeah, I'm into it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46LJtxX564

i missed that there was a new kitchen's floor album this year, the first in seven years: https://kitchensfloor.bandcamp.com/album/none-of-that

i admire their drummer's dedication to using some kind of metallic clank percussion on half the songs

and by "their drummer" i guess i mean the one guy who's in the band now

https://civicivic.bandcamp.com/album/taken-by-force

Really digging these guys.

i like the title track a lot

Bandcamp interview with PigsPigsPigsPigsPigsPigsPigs (who have a new album out):

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/pigs-land-of-sleeper-interview

wow pigsx7 do indeed rock

I like them a lot, waiting for my copy of the new one to arrive.

Gotta have thread starter NA's new rock music album here -
https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/

ha thanks

Bands with higher end production and no Bandcamp presence are sus but I like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH2ArSV0h54

civic album rips, thanks for that one

I think these guys have been mentioned in the metal threads a few times, but not so much metal as Stooges-inspired proto-punk so I'm bringing 'em up here again. Ecstatic Vision has a new live album out and it absolutely slays, just ferocious stuff:

https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-vision-live-at-dunajam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u1oHpc3AWI

Ecstatic Vision rules so hard

They do, indeed, I hope to catch them live one of these days. I was already a fan, but this live album just slays so hard.

saw them open for YOB not too long ago and it was very fun

ahh heavy psych records.
the new home to the lords of altamont.
also, love how every digital album release : 6.66 euros

Yeah Heavy Psych puts out some decent stuff, but I reallllllly wish they'd get some good US distribution. Forced Exposure puts out some of their stuff, but not all, and often way after it comes out officially. Their shipping costs are pretty high ($10 for a $14 CD) and when they do show up in a shop, they are frequently priced nearly at old import level prices.