Terminal TiltLooking for new #music can be really hard, especially when you try to avoid algorithms. I find myself searching if a band I just discovered and like is AI. The killer is when you discover "AI music" on #Bandcamp. Then it turns into a whole thing where I have to go report them for violating Bandcamp's Generative AI policy.
The search continues, and it is a minefield. This is a perfect example: I found a new metal album, and the music is actually human-made. But they wrapped the final product in clearly algorithmic, uncanny valley "AI artwork." Your eyes are immediately lied to before you even press play. It’s exhausting.
I have a confession: the search just broke my radar. I thought I found a killer new Power Metal band called Saint Reaper. The album sounded incredible, and I was about to recommend it right here.
Then I dug into the background. The "band" is totally fake.
I only realized it was AI when I traced it back to a YouTube network called "Hard & Melodic Music Records" that pumps out fully polished albums for multiple fake bands every few weeks. They even fabricated fake human names for the band members to bypass Bandcamp’s human only rules.
It is absolutely heartbreaking that finding indie music now requires forensic accounting to avoid algorithmic content farms. The deception is deliberate.
Enbie Book@terminaltilt I've reported it to bandcamp.
Thank you, it looks like it was taken down.
https://saintreaper.bandcamp.com/album/poems-of-the-damned-2
Artemysia@terminaltilt omg that's so bad. Like folks for the love of god, find a couple of reenactors and a photographer. They're probably charging peanuts these days anyway, but support your creative community.
It is so frustrating.