No touhou music fans here?
I am greatly disappoint.
Well, my favorite non-touhou bands are
- Nevermore (RIP)
- Arch enemy
- In flames (RIP good in flames)
- Opeth (RIP good heavy opeth)
- Blind guardian
- Symphony X (new album hype!)
- Iced Earth
- Dream Theater
- Metallica (RIP)
- Manowar (RIP)
- many others who're not important
I still love them, especially Blind guardian, Dream theater and Symphony X, but since touhou and doujin in general music came into my life back in 2012 the term metalhead is no longer applicable.
Favorite circles are, with no particular order other than the very first:
-------POP/ELECTRONIC POP/ELECTRO/TRANCE/ETC------
- ShibayanRecords - The best there is, Shibayan is one of the few humans who can be called God without exaggeration. Pretty much every vocal song he has conjured is a journey.
- Halozy - sample
- Eastnewsound - sample
- NJK record -sample - Mostly a notable mention, since they made too few, but good, albums.
- ZYTOKINE - sample
- Syrufit (RIP ;_;) - sample
- Digital Wing/ デジウィ - Some of their songs are way too catchy to be real, like this or this, if Three magic didn't exist my horizons wouldn't be this broad now.
- Amateras Records - sample
- Lila'c Records - Good trance is rare. sample
- 堕悪祭怪&昼 (Mohican Sandbag) - sample
- 幽閉サテライト - aka Yuuhei Satellite, you probably know them from this
- IZMIZM - sample - Why is izna singing instead of making music???
- Liz triangle / りすとら ( could also be classified as Rock sometimes) - sample
- 発熱巫女~ず - Their music, especially as of late, is exceptional (Incorporate jazz and other music elements)
- Alstroemeria Records aka the guys who made Bad Apple - DOMINATED DANCEHALL and before era
-----METAL/ROCK-------
---------------JAZZ/LOUNGE/SWING/CLASSICAL/INSTRUMENTAL/FOLK--------
- 交響アクティブNEETs aka Tokyo Active NEETs - sample 4 views?
- AssaultDoor - sample
- オーライフジャパン aka O-LIFE.JP - sample - These guys could have been in everything as well.
- Tutti Sound - sample
- Golden City Factory - sample
- CarrotWine/ARA - sample - Really diverse artist, has also made quite a bit of 16/8-bit music.
- 狐の工作室 aka Fox factory, Kitsune's Workshop - sample
- 街角麻婆豆 (Machikado-Mapoze) - sample -Multitude of different folk genres and dances from all around the world. The main guy of this circle can play like 50 different instruments.
- DDBY - sample
- Azure&Sands - sample and another one
- As/hi Soundworks - sample - Also a diverse circle, love their classical pieces most.
- SWING HOLIC - sample - Initially part of SOUND HOLIC, seems to have became a circle of its own now.
- OrangeCoffee - sample
- ついったー東方部 (tanigon) - sample
- flap+frog - sample - As chill as it gets.
- Probably more I forget
--------EVERYTHING/RD-sounds--------
- SOUND HOLIC - sample - sample - sample - sample
- IOSYS
- Pizuya's Cell - sample - sample - He's made some piano solo albums but I don't really like them.
- RD-sounds - sample - Genre of their own. Recommended to anyone. Try finding videos with lyrics as they are integral to the experience. - more sample - last
Sorry for the extremely lengthy post, but it pains me that music this good is left unnoticed.Also excuse me if any of the videos have bad sound quality, I don't use youtube to listen since I already have a good collection, I just use it to share. There are many more good circles out there. But these are the ones I've delved in. And many of them need much more recognition from the western community I think.
Sorry for advocating secondary-ness but I love the music too much. Everyone should play the games of course!