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Oh wow, I slept on the last year's release from Legendarium. Dutch power/death metal with epic lyrics and a melodic punk heart. Also, they have a stylophone [pos].
Here try one of those more melodic, clean vocals tracks, it's catchy and approachable:
Legendarium - My Life In Your Hands
https://legendarium.bandcamp.com/track/my-life-in-your-hands
If I put my life in your hands
And you would put your life in mine
There'll be no storm we can't withstand 
@duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.placeThis isn't my usual music genre, but I just listened in after your recommendation, and I really like it!
Currently using it as my "coding music" while continue to learn Rust! 
Thank you for the tip! 
@duke_of_germany Legendarium have a lot of charm and I'm glad you're having fun with them!
They're the band of a guy I knew from metal Twitter, back when that was a thing, and there's just something about them that really works for me.
Since I just found out about the Bandcamp charity today:
If you have any other great recommendations at hand, please let me know! 
@duke_of_germany Oh wow.
I don't know how many of these will tickle your fancy, but let me just pick a few faves:
2025 stuff:
Old Nick - The "Where Poison Apples Grow" EP
https://grimestone.bandcamp.com/album/old-nick-the-where-poison-apples-grow-ep
Quirky, punky black metal (and one track of hardcore techno) with a DIY ethos, clearly stated anti-nazi values and a healthy balance between aesthetics and having a sense of humour about the entire thing.
Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth
https://artofpropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/scorched-earth
Very sad post-black metal. I've been enjoying tracks from this album lately although I'm not 100% decided on how I feel about it. May not be very broadly approachable but it's pretty and it makes me cry a bit, so there's that!
Metalish faves from From 2024:
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/album/greif
Avant-garde black metal/gospel/soul fusion. These are the more famous ones out of these recs. This album's a little more chill than some of their earlier work, but no less enthralling.
Bloody Keep - Rats Of Black Death
https://grimestone.bandcamp.com/album/bloody-keep-rats-of-black-death
Some of the same people as Old Nick, similar vibes.
Gaerea - Coma
https://gaerea.bandcamp.com/album/coma
Emotional post-black metal. This track has post-hardcore vibes that grabbed me immediately: https://gaerea.bandcamp.com/track/world-ablaze-3 (although Wilted Flower might be my favourite track on the album)
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/muuntautuja
Psychedelic black metal from Finland. May be a bit impenetrable? Very groovy though.
Random stuff I'm throwing at you that I like!
New Jazz Underground, Axel Tosca, Gina D'Soto - "Harlem to Havana": Afro-Cuban Modernism VOL.1
https://newjazzunderground.bandcamp.com/album/harlem-to-havana-afro-cuban-modernism-vol-1
Hako Yamasaki - Tsunawatari
https://wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tsunawatari
Japanese folk of the 1970s
Moonring OST
https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-158-moonring-o-s-t
This dungeon synth album is also indie video game merch!
God Is An Astronaut - Epitaph
https://godisanastronaut.com/album/epitaph
Seminal post-metal album.
Kennnelklubben - Kennnelklubben
https://kennelklubben.bandcamp.com/album/kennelklubben
Modern Swedish synthpop.
Stopping now, but I have a lot of random great music on bandcamp!
Actually, feel free to browse my collection:
https://bandcamp.com/13hirteen
(Note that I subscribe to Grime Stone Records and it's one of the best $4 a month I spend but there's a lot of their weird and cool releases in my collection as a result)
Thank you so much for compiling all these recommendations!
(I *might* have just bought all of these... 
)
I am completely new to Bandcamp! Today felt like the right time to create an account, and thanks to your tips, I could jump-start my collection!
(I mostly listened to music via Spotify during the past years. But it felt like I always listened to the same things...)
Tomorrow I will start exploring my new collection when I go for a long walk! 
@duke_of_germany Ahaha, you have been on a spree!
Honestly, I've really enjoyed buying from artists and exploring new digital music like this.
The accessibility of that exploration, and a community of music fans making recommendations here and elsewhere, led me to get more broadly into so many new-to-me genres and brilliant, obscure artists that I'd have never discovered otherwise.
I have! And I enjoyed the music already during my walks! 
I feel the whole algorithmic suggestions don't work so well for me anymore.
(On Spotify, it feels like I "listened myself into a corner".)
The good thing about it: getting real recommendations by human beings again feels even more exciting now! 
@duke_of_germany On a lighter note, I am so thrilled that you are getting extra excitement now. 
The excitement is real!! 
I now found an ok way of loading mp3 files to my Apple Watch (an app called "Player for Watch"), so I can even take the music with me when I am going for a run! 
And I saw that some artists offer cassette editions of their albums, so I am even tempted to revive an old cassette player I must still have somewhere.
(All cassette editions I looked at where sold out though, so it seems I really have to be quick when they come out!)