After a long time I'm finally finding joy again in listening to music. Lately I'm into stuff that combines classical or symphonic instruments (i.e. brass, strings, piano) with modern music styles like electronica, pop or hip hop.

Stuff like the albums Symphonia or Deluxe by Schiller, or the OST of the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942.

Do you have any suggestions for similar tracks?

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[–] sevan@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apocalyptica is a symphonic metal band with 3 cellists as the core of all their work. Sometimes they also have drums, electric guitar, or vocals. It varies from album to album and song to song.

There's a great orchestral version of "Animals" by Architects if metal works for you.

Going back to the 90's Metallica did a concert and live album with the San Francisco Symphony.

It's not exactly what you asked for, but Sean Townsend does great piano covers of rock/metal, especially Killswitch Engage. His music is very relaxing to listen to. Most of his material is on YouTube, which is a shame because I would buy his music if it were for sale somewhere.

[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was astonished to not have found Metallica's S&M as the top result here

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

They recently did a S&M2 which is also great!