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Ditto. I prefer progressive rock or classical music while doing deep-work. Instrumental, specially ambient or Middle-Eastern, is nice too.

English vocals are distracting during work, but strangely I don't mind any other language (Turkish for example), because my brain cannot fathom it, and remains focused.

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Yeah, "wildly" (as in _very_) foreign languages work well.

I'm glad I discovered The Hu (for example [0] -- edit: forgot about the intro on this one, might want to fast forward a minute), with which I am usually not worried to be distracted because of the lyrics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE

Two recommendations for you then - Bloodywood, Indian folk metal (in Punjabi and/or Hindi apparently); and Babymetal (BABYMETAL), Japanese "kawaii" metal (apparently) (one of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pcFhPZQYg ).

Didn't know "Indian folk metal" was a thing, but Bloodywood is bloody fantastic. (I speak Hindi).

If you like The Hu, try Yat-Kha [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXgzc--MgvA

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