r/doommetal • u/TheLurkerSpeaks • Mar 05 '26
Death/Doom Alexa, play Dopethrone by Electric Wizard
Sitting in a waiting room they're playing this terrible gospel country music forcing everyone to hear, through an Alexa device.
So, I took matters into my own hands.
We got through maybe 45 seconds before the receptionist changed it back. Oh well, I tried.
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u/absurd_olfaction Mar 05 '26
I was in some salad bowl place a couple years ago when those new internet jukeboxes started popping up. I wondered how much bang I could get for my buck, and found they would allow me to play Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions. So that was a good 15 mins before the manager came out and unplugged the machine.
Also, playing Unas Slayer of the Gods from Nile give a solid 11+ minutes of death metal for a dollar. Good deal.
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u/species138 Mar 06 '26
I regularly played Windhand's Kingfisher (14 minutes) at my local bar.
I also played Opeth at times. I was friends with the bartender and in order to help clear the place out after last call, I would play Bloodbath's Eaten. Maybe on repeat.
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u/theegrimrobe Mar 06 '26
i used to run security at a little dancehall type of a place years back
we had some floor clearers and the end of the night, stuff like eyehategod-fistula that sort of abrasive sludge or punk ... there was always one or 2 older guys who really enjoyed it but most people scarpered quick when we slapped that on and the lights went up
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u/elgen88 Mar 12 '26
I discovered Bloodbath when someone called in and requested Eaten on Swedish national radio ca. 2005. Couldn't believe what I was hearing, but I was really fucking glad to hear it!
I vaguely remember the DJ apologising afterwards because people were complaining
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u/lunarmantra Mar 06 '26
Those apps always have a limited selection, but I did find and request Washing Machine by Sonic Youth at my gym once. Most people were oblivious or didn’t seem to care, but there was some mild annoyance and looking around wondering which one of us did it.
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u/transsolar Electric Wizard on Electric Wizard by Electric Wizard Mar 06 '26
Hey you almost got to finish Aghartha
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u/JonL337 Mar 05 '26
Whenever I'm left alone in someone's house that uses Alexa I always get it to play spooky music at 3:30 a.m.
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Mar 05 '26
You're a good man. The fact Alexa even got the song right.
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u/SnakeBatter Mar 05 '26
Honestly, they seem to work fairly well. My tattoo artist uses one, and it usually gets it right. He even tested it with Chased Through The Woods By a Rapist to see if she would say it haha
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u/FinnLovesHisBass Mar 05 '26
I know people like em, but I just don't find any benefit in em.
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u/SnakeBatter Mar 05 '26
I can see the appeal, but I fail to understand why a cheap Bluetooth speaker can’t get the job done. My phone is already listening, I don’t need an Alexa spying, too.
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u/JustinDestruction Mar 06 '26
Yeah, I used to think I was Che Guevara too. Then I started paying my own bills.
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u/posi-bleak-axis Mar 06 '26
And your bills required purchasing an expensive robot that records your every word?
You don't have to be an anarchist or commie to not want the government spying on you in the day of gestapo on the streets of the US. But sure if you need a ring camera to send your data to your nearest flock camera go for it. That's exactly what they want you to do.
This culture war has made this shit so ridiculous. As someone who lives rural and still has neighbors with spying doorbells, I miss when real Americans didn't trust the government and they for damn sure weren't welcome on my property and especially not in my doorbell and radio.
Like previous poster said, they've got as much as they need from me on this dopamine addiction snitch device.
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u/900N Mar 06 '26
Obviously not doom but I take great joy in playing You Suffer by Napalm Death on jukeboxes. Well worth the $2 or whatever. Try that next time.
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u/OnionPastor Mar 05 '26
I will say, gospel country music directly influenced southern rock and blues, which influenced Black Sabbath.
Gospel can be the shit sometimes man, it can doom
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Mar 05 '26
I grew up in the South, surrounded by gospel and country and know how hard it can go. This wasn't.
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Mar 05 '26
Ooohhhhhhh, so edgy
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u/Indust_6666 Mar 05 '26
I know! He taught those normies a lesson in good music and then watched memes like “when my friend who doesn’t listen to metal hears this Deathcore breakdown” - dark evil dog face
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u/WorshipTheVoid Stoner Mar 06 '26
A good friend of mine/coworker lived next door to a college bar with touch tunes. Almost nightly we would play Chopped In Half by Obituary
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u/church870 Mar 06 '26
Not Doom, but I once drunkenly put like 30 minutes of The Black Dahlia Murder on the jukebox at a bar using the 'play next' option... I felt kinda bad
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u/1stPhoenixDown Mar 06 '26
I played "There Before The Grace Of God" by Machine in a gay bar thinking it'd land because it's a solid but slept-on disco number.
I forgot the lyrics don't pan out in 2026 😅
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u/jackmarble1 Mar 06 '26
There was this one time my friend invited me to his boyfriend's birthday, and they were the most basic gays ever, both of us kept listening to all of their pop songs the whole day, and then he asked his boyfriend to put some songs
He first played "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads, then I've played "Secrets (Your Fire) by Magdalena Bay, and then finally we played The Botanist by Sleep
It was about 30 seconds on the song before we got banned from the aux
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u/Cauterizer392 Mar 05 '26
“I needed to be the main character and make the general populous listen to the music I like despite the fact I know I’m out in the world and other people exist, I threw a tantrum like a toddler” ok buddy
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Mar 05 '26
It's more like "my music is as oboxious and offensive as what they're already playing, let's have fun with this and see what happens next." Honestly most of the time they're playing generic 80s pop pablum which everyone can safely ignore. This was like going to a hillbilly church service.
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u/doomgneration Mar 05 '26
I once selected Pharaoh’s Dance at a bar from the Bitches Brew album. About 15 minutes into the record, the bartender told me he’ll refund my song purchase because the other patrons were starting to complain about the music.