What is your favorite niche genre of music?

[didn't-it-rain]

maidcore, japanese psychadelic/noise rock, visual kei, broken transmissions

love les ralizes denudes

most of the music i listen to is 'niche' in terms of popularity, but the nichest thing i adore is electroacoustic improvisation (or EAI for short).

i believe oren ambarchi has some electro acoustic stuff, i like him quite a bit

 

[Danyyyyy]

Lolicore (and subgenres like kusoikore and reizokore), maidcore, power electronics, denpa, Japanoise

YESSSSSS ITS AWESOMEEEE I mostly listen to reizokore :D

 

[Skathon]

Deathcore, grindcore, aggrotech/dark electro, deathstep/minatory.

 

[bloberta]

emo, skramz

 

[yume]

Unsure if any of these count as niche, but drift phonk, breakcore, city pop, synthwave, and maidcore would be on my list.

 

[didn't-it-rain]

Can't really think of much right now but I guess avant-folk is fairly niche. Natural Snow Buildings, Caroliner Rainbow, Big Blood, etc. https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/avant-folk/ Would like to check out more field recordings, modern classical, tape music, etc...

 

[sunshiningbackwards]

Slowcore. Stuff like Have A Nice Life, Giles Corey, Duster, Grouper, Bedhead, Codeine, Low, etc.

 

[Rocinante]

Progressive rock

 

[corpsegrinder18]

I'm interested in what (if any) smaller genres of music you guys listen to

Lately i have been really into gothic rock and black metal (mostely depressive suicidal black metal)

 

[StarlightDreamer]

Utattemita (歌ってみた), or essentially, human covers of Vocaloid songs. As much as I adore the original vocal synths, there's just something more impactful about the sound of a human voice.

Here's a song I often listened to, in the darkest depths of my depression.

 

[Heavenbound]

For something niche I would have to say vaporwave or is it called mallsoft?

 

[murmur]

i think itd be mashups, old school nola, and jersey club... but only twerknation28 on a blue moon, i dont recommend it either i just got used to it when i was going to raves in and near jersey, personally i cant consider the electronic, alternative, or even experimental noise stuff i listen to to be all that niche.


heres one of my favorite mashups

 

[jonghyun]

Whatever genre Nicole Dollanganger is, that slow angelic high pitched music with devastating lyrics

 

[HerculePoirot]

Bebop & hardbop jazz (Gillespie, Parker, Monk, Rollins, Miles...)

 

[Kasumi]

grindcore, not sure how popular j-core is.

J-core is great, 'Laur' is one of my fav artists

 

[prone2fury]

plunderphonics is sooo underrated. it's so much fun seeing a little squad of songs get Frankensteined into something that sounds unique, but still good.

 

[MemeticNeoplasm]

I mostly listen to prog rock, zeuhl, RIO and other obscure prog adjacent subgenres. Weird shit always seems to work for me.

Zeuhl:

RIO:

Avant-garde:

 

[ForgottenTomb]

I am a huge fan of DSBM, I have yet to find another person who finds it as comforting as I do. It seems to be the second biggest black sheep in black metal, even black metal fans I know don't like it, because of the dreary and lethargic mood and atmosphere of the music.

If you can recognize my profile picture, you might have an amazing taste in music.

 

[Rocinante]

I mostly listen to prog rock, zeuhl, RIO and other obscure prog adjacent subgenres. Weird shit always seems to work for me.

Zeuhl:

RIO:

Avant-garde:

Magma is based

 

[loyalskateboard]

I'm not sure if it counts but Minecraft parodies give me a strong sense of nostalgia.

 

[Reality_Surfer]

Gay remix songs - espec the drain gang ones.

 

[nerve]

will forever be on the hunt for more idol pop/harsh noise...

 

[psp3000]

I enjoy lowercase and outsider music every once in a while

I thought this discussion might enjoy this music genre site or maybe it best suited for the Music Megathread I'm not sure

 

[Realkitten]

I love this

 

[WonderingSoul]

New wave of British heavy metal

 

[fuaruhan]

I'm interested in what (if any) smaller genres of music you guys listen to

Recently interested with New-age, music for yoga and meditation lol. Enya released a popular new-age song called "Only Time"

 

[bijou]

murder folk and coldwave

 

[(wfsth?)]

Not a genre but Jack Stauber.

 

[Toji]

i enjoy listening to k-pop (mainly BTS)
also scenecore, alternative metal and
phonk, artists like crystal castles too but i don't know the specific genre they fit into :)
vaporwave and synthwave i also love.

 

[internetgirl]

whatever the hell sleep token is