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Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 22 Mar 2008 | |
BANNED  Posts: 317 Joined: 30 Jan 2008     |
my god, he's living disproof to my belief that no-one alive actually types like that... (no offense to Spasmoses, i don't know what he's like as a person, but he just shot all my preconceptions in the head...) i feel hurt... I liked Dragonforce, before they were cool, then i got stereotyped as 'one of those Dragonforce fans' and now i listen in secret... for fear of the wrathful anti-fan... |
Paperboy Posts: 21 Joined: 11 Jan 2008  | Well I know a band that were almost unheard of outside of Finland, until they got a huge break from the Max Payne series. Poets of the Fall. I dont know exactly how to class them, maybe contemporary rock? I dunno. |
Paperboy Posts: 29 Joined: 24 Jan 2008 | Aberdeen City is a band that I believe is rather unknown. But they've been getting alot of attention lately due to the use of one of their songs in a Crysis Physics video thats been making the rounds on Youtube lately. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 77 Joined: 18 Sep 2007   | The Hold Steady, Go! Team, Explosions in the Sky, Gogol Bordello, Iced Earth, Old 97's, the Pillows, Primus, Reverend Horton Heat, and Streetlight Manifesto. All of these is good stuff, i recommend everyone checks them out, if u don't already know of them |
Paperboy  Posts: 49 Joined: 4 Mar 2008 | Hebephrenic. and Plastic Toys, http://www.plastictoys.co.uk |
Paperboy  Posts: 27 Joined: 20 Mar 2008 | i saw dreamtheatre last year, amazing haha, theyre big if you like prog, same with symphony x, their last album killed |
Muckraker  Posts: 285 Joined: 13 Jan 2008 |
Did you mean Focus? With their famous (if a little annoying) track Hocus Pocus? |
Copy Clerk Posts: 60 Joined: 19 Feb 2008 | Lodger are pretty unknown out of Finland. (i'm Swe.) Their songs pretty much everybody's heard (I Love Death, Doorsteps.) but the band is pretty unknown. (Least where i live o_O) |
BANNED  Posts: 502 Joined: 3 Jan 2008 | Does anyone know the German bands "Die Ärzte" or "Böhse Onkelz"? (Die Ärzte have been around for over twenty years now or so, I think that that is pretty impressive for a band that only has 2 1/2 countries as an audience. User was banned for: Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown. (Permanent) |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 18 Feb 2008 |
Stop Drop N Skank is a really good ska band |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 421 Joined: 27 Jan 2008  | Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. The take hard rock and rap tunes and turn them into lounge songs. They're HILARIOUS. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 765 Joined: 25 Jan 2008  |
Gogol Bordello and The Go! Team seconded. Not really a fan of Explosions in the sky and don't know the other stuff (apart from Primus, who I admire but don't really like) but I love Gogol Bordello. Awesome band live. Anyway my contributions to the "I'm more underground than you" thread are: The Mad Capsule Markets - Japanese dance/metal/punk/ska. Pure, undiluted AWESOME. The Living End - Fucking great Australian rock band who flit between genres whenever the hell they feel like it. They've also got one of the best guitarists on Earth. Don't believe me? Take a look - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9uxWT3nokI) 2 Many Djs/Soulwax - 2 Many Djs created mash-up dance music. Check out As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 for one of the best party albums ever made. Soulwax are a wierd indie/dance hybrid that are also well worth a listen. Justice - The spiritual successors to Daft Punk. Like funky house music with big, chunky bass-lines? Of course you do. And if not, why not? Anyway, check em out. Mastodon - The best metal band of the past five years. Awesome, awesome, awesome band. Mr Scruff - Jazzy, mellow dance music with playful lyrics and great sample mixing. Pendulum - Drum N' Bass successors to the prodigy. Like The Prodigy? You'll love this lot... Reuben - Heavy rockers with a knack for catchy melodies. It's kind of emo, but without the annoying voices or suckage. Sikth - Craziest metal band ever. Seriously - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTvoqqn8U8 They've also got the best metal bassist I've ever heard. I'm gonna leave it at that. And don't go telling me that you've all heard of all these bands because if you have I don't care. These are just great bands that are reasonably outside of the mainstream where I live (Glasgow, Scotland) to be classified as vaguely underground. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 382 Joined: 10 Sep 2007  | Turin Brakes. My favourite band. I have yet to say that name to anyone, and have them so much as say "yeah, that rings a bell, I think I've heard of them before". So many heavy metal bands in this topic. You guys have pretty specific tastes, huh? |
Paperboy  Posts: 32 Joined: 15 Apr 2008 |
@xblade0: I've been listening to Rammstein for the past few years, and Dragonforce is not quite unknown in the US since Guitar Hero has a few of their songs. BTW, Rosenrot is the shit! Oh, & King Diamond & Mercyful Fate |
Paperboy Posts: 20 Joined: 28 Apr 2008 | ok, I mostly listen to metal and a tiny bit of techno... Slagmalsklubben (swedish electronica) www.myspace.com/slagsmalsklubben |
Paperboy Posts: 20 Joined: 28 Apr 2008 | ok, I mostly listen to metal and a tiny bit of techno... Slagmalsklubben (swedish electronica) www.myspace.com/slagsmalsklubben |
Beat Writer  Posts: 155 Joined: 25 Mar 2008 | I like the Absence. They're a band from where I live, the guys are pretty nice and they're on Metal Blade. What more do I have to say other than they're pretty damn good. The Black Dahlia Murder is a band I love, but I don't know a lot of people who know, or even like them. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 871 Joined: 3 Apr 2008   | Aqueous rogers. check em out on myspace and thse4walls check em out as well both epic kiwi bands |
Muckraker  Posts: 309 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 | Lets see bands (and artists) no1 knows about, that should be easy for me. Christian marclay - awesome experimental artist Rufus Wainright - Awesome musician son of Loudon and brother of Martha i do not know about America or internationally but no1 in Melbourne knows him. Blue King Brown - A world, reggae, funk sort of band from melbourne. The played with The Cat Empire. Lightening Bolt - Noise Metal FTW Lior - Australian acoustic artist. Strong following but not very well known. Lesser known mbands and musicians i tend to like better than anyone well known or popular. I havn't even begun to list local bands. Such as my band the yesterdaydreamers. Ha how many people know that band :D. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 26 Apr 2008 | Ahab - Funeral Doom Metal |
Paperboy Posts: 23 Joined: 24 Mar 2008 | I Killed The Prom Queen- Aussie Hardcore Metal, |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 90 Joined: 13 Mar 2008 | SHIHAD \m/ |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 5325 Joined: 28 Nov 2007    | Relatively unknown in America (though I know most choices will draw in people saying "I've heard of them, therefore they are not unknown): Rammstein (German industrial with heavy metal influence) Eric Johnson (guitar virtuoso, who is known in guitarist circles, but not much elsewhere, unless they've played GH3) Flogging Molly (Irish folk rock) Dropkick Murphies (see Flogging Molly, with some elements of Punk) |
BANNED Posts: 502 Joined: 3 Jan 2008 |
Thats a no-go there, Rammstein has a large fan base in America. User was banned for: Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown. (Permanent) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 21 Mar 2008 | Estradasphere This is the pinnacle of music. They combine several genres in one song, and keep it consistant. Bulgarian Surf Listen to them here |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1756 Joined: 7 Feb 2008  |
Haven't checked out some of the others but I extremely fucking concur on The Hold Steady, "Boys and Girls in America" is probably one of the best albums I've ever heard. For my own contributions, I don't "do" metal, I'm an Indie-Rock/Pop nerd. Though if you're from Canada, you probably know most of these as here they get radio play because of Canadian Content Regs. - STARS, truly grand experimental baroque-pop (best albums are Heart and Set Yourself on Fire) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 5325 Joined: 28 Nov 2007 |
It does? Most people I talk to just stare at me blankly when I mention the name Rammstein. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 458 Joined: 24 Oct 2007 | I'm surprised no one has said anything about the German Krautrock movement in the late 60's all the way through the mid- late 70's. This movement gave us bands like Can, Kraftwerk, Faust, Neu!, Harmonia, Guru Guru, Ash-ra Temple, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Amon Düül II, La Dusseldorf, and many others. I'm sure some of you guys have heard some Can and Kraftwerk for they are the 2 bands who sold the most records of the bunch. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 9 Joined: 1 Apr 2008 |
Streetlight is one of my favorite bands I listen to some indie bands outta the UK. Anyone ever hear of The Rifles? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 157 Joined: 7 Jan 2008  | I second those who have mentioned Spoon, but must rail against the fact that nobody mentioned the Electric Prunes yet. They're one of the best CA psychedlic rock bands the 60's ever birthed, but I get nothing but blank stares anywhere I mention them. Distorted guitar and drums like Jefferson airplane, electric zither, all kinds of good stuff. I must also raise mention of the Byrds, which while not anywhere near as unknown are criminally unlistened-to. It's not just Turn, Turn, Turn, people. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 72 Joined: 28 Apr 2008 | I listen to happy hardcore, it seems like only 2000 people know about it in Canada... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 85 Joined: 10 Apr 2008 |
*raises hand* If I start listing bands I listen to, only one or two of the persons I talk to on a regular basis seems to have a clue to what I'm blabbing about. |
Beat Writer Posts: 145 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 | The following bands are very underground, at least in Romania: Gogol Bordello, gypsy punk I would also mention Opeth and Porcupine Tree as unknown bands in Romania, even if they are big outside, Sonic Syndicate. |
Paperboy Posts: 20 Joined: 29 Apr 2008 | Krypteria, Xandria and The Crest are fantastic. - All wierd european metal bands fronted by female fingers. Anyone interested in Ska should look for Ska-P. Yes, I know they're quite a big band but no-one I talk to have ever heard of them... |
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well they r well known (in some places) but i hav 2 say that the best music ppl r COSMIC GATE lolz