what are SteamGifters listening lately?

@leonidas56 Totally check out Desert Sessions, their 11th and 12th sets dropped not too long ago. Its John Hommes' (of QotSA and EoDM) side project he works on occasionally with random people of interest. Each album varies hugely and each is eclectic and something different.

I have been listening to Depeche Mode's Black Celebration album. It still holds up.

Traditional Irish folk, pleasantly earthy, dark and straight.

Lankum - Cold Old Fire

Their latest album shows some possible Comus inspiration to gain a general apocalyptic tinge. Very good indeed. Unfortunately the first two tracks are edits - still great.

Lankum - The Livelong Day

(Full version of first track Lankum - The Wild Rover )

Metal: Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson solo songs and Samson, iced earth, Ozzy Osbourne, Some Metal core , Scar Symmetry
Rock: Beck, Beck Gran Turismo 2 song credits
Iron Maiden - BRAVE NEW WORLD https://open.spotify.com/album/1hDF0QPIHVTnSJtxyQVguB?si=dfmlyDTIQ3q_4c1y433ptg
SOME 70's 80's music
Last song on Spotify Rime of the ancient Mariner. https://open.spotify.com/track/6K8ROjiPJqyHDJS0sA0dwH?si=6XYuVVw8TyGPQOZOr0bIvQ
Some epic música on Zombie Escape SG server & others on CSGO and some skillet too
Industrial Instrumental
Electronic Rock/Metal mix , Celdweller Clayton
Some games OST: GTA Vice City
Gary Numan - Cars
Electronic DnB, Trance, Dubstep, Bass, Instrumental Trap, : Vini Vici, Armin van buuren , Apashe, Liquid Bloom,
Samaya - Shamanic Elixir [Mix] Shamanic Downtempo / Folktronica https://youtu.be/VNP0-Tb9big
Lot of prangui on YouTube videos on TV and Spotify
Latest stream https://youtu.be/8_tuUxW2fgw
Porangui - Ayahuasca https://open.spotify.com/album/40rtMMCMaECsR8Vf1wuTGE?si=DuaKpCVQRVCT0yszxfEVuw
Luis Miguel

THIS IS BECK https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWnOeK8JLcb4?si=8ZTjziLGQHqPam6gMxPVXw

Chill covers https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX3iWJN79KKoY?si=rfh6vIG8S1eYzJOi4ieolg

Liquid bloom https://open.spotify.com/album/7i15cdu7eF2pBUhhgpSJYq?si=hxuMjPVLRFqRA1PKO-tCCA

Liquid bloom mose remixes https://open.spotify.com/album/4c8uTNkvzr3NvjVsRILmMk?si=rqUZDGXCTmaJa8Igo_-mdA

Indian Chill https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX3AQIJcCkXwU?si=oekkGTJERAGMFlN13UVtIg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ey6be2OPuzdVm0DHesd5s?si=DkHVqL59QGqB1kuGFfbThw

This is apashe https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0FYKDC?si=zDL9XPp-ROSO7YnO7_xg1w

This is infected mushroom https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO43Sibe?si=9mK5ux6YR3iKhwiwkNAPdA

CloZee (Artist I discovered like a year ago. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1496XxkytEk26FUJLfpVZr?si=G8jqVhdaSxqn1Vyv_Cs9kw

Ara Malikian - paranoica Android live https://open.spotify.com/track/6IYBHawWQpylpwtXGcNsLT?si=WHYHwO7KQYiNHicgQ3Q2fg

Japan music: Hanatan, EGOIST, ALI PROJECT, Anime songs

No game no life Opening https://youtu.be/CaksNlNniis
EGOIST GREATEST HITS ALTER EGO https://open.spotify.com/album/6orek0p1f4UT2bPXH1GUcu?si=udKhZqVST4qjqUwGlbSOlQ

In the mould of Zombi, the French duo Vaisseau have released an album which often has the sound of an early/mid-80s Rush album except without the vocals and final arrangements: I'd say both bands remind me of Signals in particular. (Less well-known reference but Goblin are in there as well.) We've got chunky Miami Vice synths and C-movie soundtrack ambiences. I can almost see the denim-clad young ninja who ties his chequered bandana in front of a nocturnal neon cityscape as he gets ready to take down the baddies. Add to that a hand-drawn cover straight from a 70s occult hard rock album (these days it probably makes one think of a Tower Defense game more than anything else) along with a dollop of Trans Am po-mo irony to end up with quite an offering.

Vaisseau - Horrors Waiting In Line

found this yesterday by chance and it's been blasting ever since.
Utah Saints – Something Good '08

fun fact: in 30-40 years the retirement homes will have the best music in town!

Well...so the new Elder album has been out for a while. I adored their previous release so was Internet-there the day it "dropped". I have let things stew for a while because I did not want to be unfair. But my opinion has not changed: while the previous album's sound is still there, this just sounds like a painting by numbers, phoned-in exercise in repetition. In fact the image that most came to my mind is that this could be the output of a neural network trained on the previous Elder albums, fractally self-similar to fifty thousand more alterna-Floating World albums such an algorithm could instantaneously generate. It's all there, but the spark has gone. Having said that most reviews are positive (although I am having a hard time taking seriously those who call this album original in some way or another) so...you know what they say about taste. Give it a try.

Elder - Embers

And to provide a second, contrasting mushroom soup, here is an album by Spanish group Arenna, purveyors of stoner prog in the Elder vein, which I like very much.

Arenna - Given To Emptiness

Rhye - Helpless

Blisss, like all their songs

No, not at all. This is a 1980s ambient psychedelia group. Back then, I got this double album from another bargain bin based purely on the label it was on - Nate Starkman and Son, the Savage Republic label no less. I was not disappointed. This is a fabulous collection of outsider ambiences which are very diverse yet somehow coherent, and often straddling the borderline between hometaping and studio work. It is very far out although few traditional psychedelic rock style elements are used. Special mentions to "Nierika", "You are my rescue" and the final track although the album is another Gesamtkunstwerk as I cannot help saying, while anxiously eyeing the poseurmetre needle which now pushes 11 out of 10. Better stop then.

Anyway, a classic if you like this sort of thing.

Drowning Pool - Satori

Laika - Black Cat Bone

Superb atmospheric pathos-laden black metal of the Russia/Ukraine school. Would work perfectly as a soundtrack for that Dyatlov Pass mystery. There are some metal-extraneous noises that probably make this technically post BM unless that's just the Kármán vortex street luring those innocent travellers to frozen doom?

A special mention for the second track, 'Пыль' - pure magic.

Хмарь - Мгла

Tatiana Bulanova - Ne plach! (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqDXZGj4yk

Shura - Ty Ne Ver Slaezam (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUcJrsK2IFs

How about some religious gothic organ music with electric elements?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tDpoLXD3Js&ab_channel=Jacaranda
Quite unusual style, even among game sountracks, but if something is fire, this is it!

Smerichka - Vodogray (1966) (ukrainean neo-folk, optimistic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRfUcz_fXMk

Weirdly enough, I've been listening to Miley Cyrus' covers for the last 30 minutes or so. To be clear, I despise mainstream pop, but this girl is apparently really gifted - she just needs decent material to sing (and apparently she's awesome in rock format).
Zombie

havent updated in a while myself but i've been listening a lot of japanese hip hop, some highlights

Beck - Spice of Life
Buddha Brand - 天運我に有り 撃つ用意
Nujabes - luv (sic.) pt 3 [ft.shing02]
God Inc. - El Dorado throw down

Buddha Brand has been what i've been listening the most, i love beck since i was a teenager, Just discovered Nujabes and i am really enjoying his blend of hip hop and jazz, and God INC... i cant find anything about that band aside from that one song

PIG - Mobocracy (Militant Mix)
Genre: Industrial Rock
Released: Nov. 2020

Friend of mine sent me this recently.
I now love Majestica.

And I STILL hate Christmas songs but that ones great.

Rammstein - Deutschland

Medieval Classical circa 500 A.D. - 1500 A.D.

Crimony... This girl is so good....

Shout Baby -- Ryokushaka

The song from the Godzilla vs Kong trailer

Big Red - Screwmourai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQyjYiV4NA