What unleashes your inner beast, your inner animal? I'm looking for some music I can run to and let go of some rage. It doesn't necessarily have to be overly aggressive or scream metal or anything, it just has to be something that cuts to the bone.
The only example I could think of would be Death Grips. Some of their songs make me want to run into caves carrying large bones so I can fight gargantuan and dangerous animals.
Anything with Danny Carey on the set, here is why. His ability to separate time signatures with different hands and feet blow my fucking mind. Edit: Forgot this one which demos his use of polyrhythms. And this one that shows off his fascination with math. The time signatures of the chorus change from 9/8 to 8/8 to 7/8. 987 is part of the fibonacci sequence.
I'm sure I could come up with plenty, but lately I've been listening to more punk lately, so I would have to go with Death From Above 1979. Raw sound and energy, and if you ever have the chance to see them live, take it! I've seen them live twice now and both shows were absolutely incredible. There's a certain raw energy in the air that I just haven't been able to find at any other show.
I can back this up! I saw them last summer in Toronto and the atmosphere right before they went on was electric. And once the opening chords of Turn It Out hit the air, the whole crowd just surged and the place went nuts.
As a drummer, anything that hits hard and has a lot of fills (although admittedly I'm not a huge metal fan, but I do appreciate and respect the genre). I can't help air-drumming, hitting something or waving my arms around like a mad man if it has a heavy beat. Especially if Dave Grohl is drumming. I mean, you can just hear Dave's aggression on Monkey Wrench. And Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for the Foo Fighters is just an animal.
o man great topic, i feel like so much music stimulates very ancestral parts of our psyches. i could go on at length but i'll just mention a few things im currently stuck on that gives me that feel, taking cues from your Death Grips reference without being overly obviously similar
(obviously the Prodigy and B L A C K I E are touchstones) Kirin J Callinan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT75jUEUoO0 NGUZUNGUZU:
care$$ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP71Sr9iCbM Babyland:
slow news day - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOfjhUH1yrg A lot of Philly / Jersey / Baltimore Club is raw and primal af:
DJ Sega marmite - http://soundcloud.com/djsega/marmite-dj-sega-remix-dj-sega
Woo hah - http://soundcloud.com/djsega/woo-hah-got-you-all-in-check maybe i'll be back for more later. if looking for more recent + accessible (relative term) raw stuff maybe ICEAGE or Pissed Jeans would work [edited cuz n00b. what kindve code r we working with here? html clearly did not work]
Well... it's pretty aggressive, and there is quite a bit of metal screaming... and that's explicitly what you're saying it doesn't have to be, but for me: "All Shall Perish - The Price of Existence" is my favorite album to workout to recently, especially weight training. Also, I've been jamming "Periphery - II This Time it's Personal" for cardio. Once I get through track #10, I'm done with the cardio.
The Pretender - Foo Fighters
Black Skinhead - Kanye Black Skinhead takes a little explaining. When I listen to it I'm not really listening to it for Kanye, I'm listening to it because it's got a very simple, very brutal drum and bass line that just grips my reptile brain and makes me feel like I could arm wrestle a Putin trained bear and win.
I love me some Midnight Juggernauts Try out Into The Galaxy, Shadows, Nine Lives and Tombstone. Especially Nine Lives can get me going. Besides that, Daft Punk's Alive 2007.
Techno Musik! I was into rap music for as long as can think and still appreciate good rap. I always liked edm but I always couldn't really get into it. A few month ago i tried out MDMA and went to a techno party with a couple of friends. And since then its techno all the way for me (didn't take MD again). When I go to a club that plays good techno music, I can just loose myself in the music as much as I never could with any other type of music. There's something in this music that really has an impressive power. I'm not saying you should do drugs, but you should definitly give techno music a try.