Stoic Music: which bands or songs do you recommend?
Greetings Stoic Redditors,
i wanted to know if any one of you knows a type of music with stoic lyric? Ive been a Metalhead my whole life but I came to realize that songs like “die MF die”, “Bodies” or bands like “Kataklysm” and “KoRn” got few things in common with my view on things I have developed over the past years. Hearing my old type of music mostly triggers anger and hatred in me and doesn’t calm my mind as i would wish and what is most important: hate keeps the focus on other people and not on myself. “I’m better than you”, I hate you”, “just die”, that’s not helpful for my own development.
Recently I discovered some songs from the German band JBO. One of them is “Gewiss ist nur der Tod” (Certain is only death). It’s a humorous approach to describe death and to be less worried because of it and they are saying that death got no easy job either because of our advancement in medicine and so on. It’s humurous Memento mori to put it in a stoic context or at least I see it as that and it always cheers me up.
I know there are probably millions of songs similar to it but finding some bands or maybe subcultures would be great. Hopefully this isn’t a repost and I hope some you share my experience and have some tips for me.
Posted Oct 6, 2019, 7:43 AM UTC
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I will try those! Thank you very much!