Reel Big Fish (best known for 1997's "Sell Out" from "Everything Sucks/Turn the Radio off") Lemon Demon (best known for 2006's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" from 'Dinosaurcestra') Aquabats (best known for 1997's "Super Rad" ('Fury of the Aquabats!') and 2004's "Fashion Zombies") Less Than Jake (they usually only know "I'm A Dude" from the 'Good Burger' soundtrack) Head Automatica (best known in the mainstream for 2006's "Graduation Day" from 'Popaganda!') The Funky Kings (local blues/rock band) Streetlight Manifesto Catch-22 Goldfinger Fastball (known for 1998's "The Way" from 'All The Pain Money Can Buy') mc chris (best known for the songs of MC Pee Pants on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force") Nine Pound Hammer The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (known for 1998's "Impression That I Get") The Great, Great, Greats (my band XP) They Might Be Giants (famous, just not where I am) Daft Punk (again, famous, not where I am except in Kanye West's "Stronger")
(let the records show I live in a hick town where many girls did not know the Beatles were British and that the American flag is not the Ralph Lauren flag)
Listen to Stand out Riot. Like a kind of metal Streetlight manifesto I guess. Unique sound. Shy Child are good and Fight Like Apes were good when I saw them live qith We Are Scientists. Though they are getting a little more media.
Reel Big Fish (best known for 1997's "Sell Out" from "Everything Sucks/Turn the Radio off") Lemon Demon (best known for 2006's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" from 'Dinosaurcestra') Aquabats (best known for 1997's "Super Rad" ('Fury of the Aquabats!') and 2004's "Fashion Zombies") Less Than Jake (they usually only know "I'm A Dude" from the 'Good Burger' soundtrack) Head Automatica (best known in the mainstream for 2006's "Graduation Day" from 'Popaganda!') The Funky Kings (local blues/rock band) Streetlight Manifesto Catch-22 Goldfinger Fastball (known for 1998's "The Way" from 'All The Pain Money Can Buy') mc chris (best known for the songs of MC Pee Pants on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force") Nine Pound Hammer The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (known for 1998's "Impression That I Get") The Great, Great, Greats (my band XP) They Might Be Giants (famous, just not where I am) Daft Punk (again, famous, not where I am except in Kanye West's "Stronger")
That list is not unknown. Most of those bands are massive. Daft Punk. Are you kidding?
As Blood Runs Black (Death metal) www.myspace.com/asbloodrunsblack
No... Just no. As Blood Runs Black and any band similar to their style should be relocated to some uncharted island in the Pacific, so they can suck all by their lonesome.
I'm not cool enough to know of bands that no one on the Internet has heard of (unless I pull out a shitty local band and pretend they're actually good, but I'm not that pretentious) I'm just going to list a few good bands that your average being with a social life probably hasn't heard of.
The Fratellis and the Arctic Monkeys are awesome bands of what I would venture to say is the same style. The Fratellis new album sucks, but check out their first one for some great music. The Human Abstract is the definition of a good metal band. Be Your Own Pet largely sucks, but they have a few good songs and I think if they would get rid of the "omg were punk lets mak musik dat dont mak no sense!!!!" attitude (see Food Fight, which for some God-awful reason used to be on their myspace) they might actually do something good.
cleverlymadeup: ok i'll try and break this up a bit into probly known and less known
more known:
vnv nation covenant (the swedes not the other one) imperative reaction icon of coil/panzer ag/combichrist (andy's a busy boy) frontline assembly/delerium/conjure one/noise unit (bill leeb and rhys are also busy boys and yes delerium and frontline assembly are the same band) download/hilt/plateau/ohgr/doubting thomas (side projects of skinny puppy) juno reactor (they were in the matrix reloaded, the higher energy stuff in the highway scene) fantomas/peeping tom/lovage/malador/mr bungle/tomahawk/just anything mike patton does haujobb
less known:
and one this morn' omina c-tec/cybertec phil western (easy listening techno) ayria/epsilon minus (a couple friends of mine) das ich decoded feedback hoccico the retrosic rotersand (any band that has a song feature daleks is awesome) noisex tweaker velvet acid christ cut.rate.box die form lycia love spirals downwards black tape for a blue girl voltaire (when you're evil is the BEST song ever) fiendflug
i listen to a ton of electronic stuff so list is kinda populated with that
I was hoping... HOPING someone would mention Download... :D
That said, its nice to see some industrial on here. Here's more unknowns:
" SPK " Test Department " Haus Arafna " Throbbing Gristle " Merzbow " Clock DVA " Nurse With Wound " Coil " Einsturzende Neubauten " Zoviet France " Lustmord " Download " cEvin Key " The Swans " Crash Worship " Whitehouse " Legendary Pink Dots " Aphex Twin " Autechre " Venetian Snares " Otto Von Schirach " Richard Devine " Shapeshifter " Xanopticon " Wisp " Flashbulb " Jega " Exile " Terminal11 " Xingu Hill " Somatic Responses " Jean Micheal Jarre " Karlheinz Stockhausen " Pierre Schaeffer " Iannis Xenakis " John Cage " Godspeed You Black Emperor! " Gridlock " NKVD " Stuntrock " Pyorecto Mirage " Synapscape " Atrium Carceri " Nordvargr " Brighter Death Now
As Blood Runs Black (Death metal) www.myspace.com/asbloodrunsblack
No... Just no. As Blood Runs Black and any band similar to their style should be relocated to some uncharted island in the Pacific, so they can suck all by their lonesome.
Why I risk being called a wanker again im pretty sure Blood Runs Back are whats called 'deathcore' which takes the death from death metal and the core from hardcore. Its full of of riff based guitar and bass (apposed to chordal work) and doesnt stick to major or minor scales. The vocals growl and often but not allways the lyrics share themes from death metal such as death (hur hur hur) decay, religion and humanitys faults and flaws. The drums are pretty.. tech.. not so much a standard 4/4 beat, theres a lot of tom fills (to the point where the song is mostly fills) and lots of double kick. Deathcore also has breakdowns.. Which are fun to play =D
Almost everyone I know knows of all the metal bands mentioned in here, hahaha. Not saying "Omfg, you fucking metal noobs, get a clue!" fuck, we all started somewhere after all. Guess it depends on where you're from and where you get your music/info from, whatever.
Some that I and all my mates know but you guys may not.
Mithras - Extreme metal/death metal with ambient (UK) Anaal Nathrakh - Post black metal and grindcore (UK) Pig Destroyer - Grindcore (USA) Hyatari - Drone (USA) Sunn O))) (who are one of the most well known bands I can think of in really really really "heavy" metal circles) - Drone (USA) Eluveitie - Folk metal (Can't remember) Waylander - Folk metal from the days before it was cool to be folk metal (Ireland) Warning - Doom metal (UK) The Gates Of Slumber -Doom Metal (USA)
And the two American black metal bands who are actually GOOD Wolves In The Throne Room - Check out the album Dia Artio, if you're into your nature worshipping 'grim' 'evil' metalness, blerurghh. Awesome Leviathan- Check out his new album Massive Conspiracy Against All Life. For songs that make his addicton to heroin sound mystical and shit, hahaha.
magnus gallant: promethius: the demise of fire and flame
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise, quite a maligned album within black metal fandom, Emperor are regarded by many to have lost a lot of their "true" black metal feeling, if you believe in such bullshit, after the release of Anthems to the welkin at Dusk, but I myself love their entire output and think they got better with each release. Having said that I don't like Zyklon, and I don't really care for much of what Ihsahn has done since Emperor, although his two releases under his own self-titled solo stuff is qute good.
When I saw Emperor at the London Astoria for one of the last of their reuinion shows, I was furious that they only played one song from it. Still, awesome band.
TheNecroswanson: Nightwish sucks and everyone in Washingon but me listens to them, they're not unknown. I dunno if anyone's heard of them but I kind of liked Hocus Crocus. 80's metal band that rather than singing yoddled.
I see a lot of good bands here, but I'm missing a lot of crucial ones and I see a few errors.
Rammstein can in no way be called industrial or death metal. It's hardrock, heavy metal at most. But they're a good band. If you like them, try Oomph!, Rammstein got a lot of inspiration from them. Another good German bands are Tom Angelripper, Subway to Sally and Blind Guardian (the last one works a lot with Iced Earth).
Being Dutch I've known about Within Temptation from their first cd. I like their old work a lot better. Mother Earth was OK, but everything after that just sucked in my opinion. Bands like Nightwish and Evanescence are fine bands, but I just got bored with them after a while and stopped listening to them. Perhaps I'll pick up one of their cd's again someday.
Does anyone her listen to folk-metal, like Finntroll or Korpiklaani? I always get cheered up when I do :). Their both bands from Finnland. The best metal comes from Scandinavia, no question about it. Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Venom, Emperor, Arch Enemy...
Continuing into the metal genre: Volbeat, Wolf, Trivium, Apocalyptica (four guys with cello's playing metal, it's great), Blind Guardian, Clawfinger, Mercenary, Evergrey, Masterplan, DevilDriver, Coal Chamber. I could go on. O, and for those fans of Japanese bands, try Maximum the Hormone. The cd Buiiki Kaesu!! is just great.
Requi3m: I see a lot of good bands here, but I'm missing a lot of crucial ones and I see a few errors.
Rammstein can in no way be called industrial or death metal. It's hardrock, heavy metal at most. But they're a good band. If you like them, try Oomph!, Rammstein got a lot of inspiration from them. Another good German bands are Tom Angelripper, Subway to Sally and Blind Guardian (the last one works a lot with Iced Earth).
Being Dutch I've known about Within Temptation from their first cd. I like their old work a lot better. Mother Earth was OK, but everything after that just sucked in my opinion. Bands like Nightwish and Evanescence are fine bands, but I just got bored with them after a while and stopped listening to them. Perhaps I'll pick up one of their cd's again someday.
Does anyone her listen to folk-metal, like Finntroll or Korpiklaani? I always get cheered up when I do :). Their both bands from Finnland. The best metal comes from Scandinavia, no question about it. Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Venom, Emperor, Arch Enemy...
Continuing into the metal genre: Volbeat, Wolf, Trivium, Apocalyptica (four guys with cello's playing metal, it's great), Blind Guardian, Clawfinger, Mercenary, Evergrey, Masterplan, DevilDriver, Coal Chamber. I could go on. O, and for those fans of Japanese bands, try Maximum the Hormone. The cd Buiiki Kaesu!! is just great.
In 2005 I would have agreed with you and been pleased to see another Paramore fan.
Now though, they're pretty mainstream. They get decent radio play and have been on MTV a bit ever since "Riot!". Which is nice because they're a very good band that deserves attention.
zen5887: I hear too much simple plan and not enough Rush!
AMEN!
Second
Where I live, anything from Finland doesn't exist. Lordi Nightwish Stratovarius Sonata Arctica Helloween (oops German) I hear people driving down the road listening to some rap shithead or hip-hop bullshit and it drives me up the wall.
finally, someone posted That Handsome Devil. my fav indie band of all time. their coming out with there new album on August 5th, can't wait, you guys should go to their myspace and listen to them, there nuts.
there not indie, but almost no one, even people who have played rock band and guitar hero, don't know about honest Bob and the factory-to-dealer- incentives. i have to tell them, and even then, their still like "what?"
---If you aren't into metal, listen to some of these bands anyways. The worst thing that'll happen is you'll get a lot more of the easter eggs in Metalocalypse.
Anyways, I just worked the Black Dahlia/Cryptopsy/Vader show last night... See if you can guess where I live?
Requi3m: I see a lot of good bands here, but I'm missing a lot of crucial ones and I see a few errors.
Rammstein can in no way be called industrial or death metal. It's hardrock, heavy metal at most. But they're a good band. If you like them, try Oomph!, Rammstein got a lot of inspiration from them. Another good German bands are Tom Angelripper, Subway to Sally and Blind Guardian (the last one works a lot with Iced Earth).
Being Dutch I've known about Within Temptation from their first cd. I like their old work a lot better. Mother Earth was OK, but everything after that just sucked in my opinion. Bands like Nightwish and Evanescence are fine bands, but I just got bored with them after a while and stopped listening to them. Perhaps I'll pick up one of their cd's again someday.
Does anyone her listen to folk-metal, like Finntroll or Korpiklaani? I always get cheered up when I do :). Their both bands from Finnland. The best metal comes from Scandinavia, no question about it. Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Venom, Emperor, Arch Enemy...
Continuing into the metal genre: Volbeat, Wolf, Trivium, Apocalyptica (four guys with cello's playing metal, it's great), Blind Guardian, Clawfinger, Mercenary, Evergrey, Masterplan, DevilDriver, Coal Chamber. I could go on. O, and for those fans of Japanese bands, try Maximum the Hormone. The cd Buiiki Kaesu!! is just great.
Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise, quite a maligned album within black metal fandom, Emperor are regarded by many to have lost a lot of their "true" black metal feeling, if you believe in such bullshit, after the release of Anthems to the welkin at Dusk, but I myself love their entire output and think they got better with each release. Having said that I don't like Zyklon, and I don't really care for much of what Ihsahn has done since Emperor, although his two releases under his own self-titled solo stuff is qute good. When I saw Emperor at the London Astoria for one of the last of their reuinion shows, I was furious that they only played one song from it. Still, awesome band.
The Adversary was awesome. Peccatum was hit or miss. The album in question was an intentional swansong for the band and is probably their most poetic effort.
In defense of them and other more well known black metal bands (Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, that's pretty much it that could be considered 'well known') There's no shame in adding orchestra to the music. Fuck, 150 years ago most songs that were written by the most well known musicians took months, even years to assemble and took a small army of the most talented instrumentalists to play. You don't see jack shit outside of movies and bugs bunny cartoons anymore where musicians try to really create art with their music. I salute the guys who stuck with their piano/violin lessons as kids and turned it into something besides high school pageantry and college grants. (My sister played violin for the last 17 years and now goes to school on a free ride.... but couldn't produce you a 3 note song for money - trust me, she's nothing more than an organ grinder's monkey in the world of music)
Anyways, back on track to sum up my comments... Zyklon is a helluva band, with a nice mix of Orwellian dystopia and Apocalyptic vision (Anaal Nathrakh) But they're essentially what you get when the scands play their version of American-style Death metal... and it'll never sell here. The same can be said about American bands that go the black metal route. No one over there will ever take them seriously.
Requi3m: The best metal comes from Scandinavia, no question about it. Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Venom, Emperor, Arch Enemy...
Yeah, Venom are Brits, Arch Enemy is from Poland (ok that's pretty close to Scandinavia) and Children of Bodom NEVER FUCKING COVERED THE FINAL COUNTDOWN ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_bodom#Cover_songs )... so you probably don't like them as much as you think. (I hear that band's name thrown around every day and that's still the only song a VAST majority of their so-called fans can recollect)
Well, I was gonna say Leaves' Eyes, but first post beat me to it XD Everybody's heard of Within Temptation and Nightwish, seriously. Somebody mentioned Asian Kung-Fu Generation and Flow, too. They're pretty good.
Ah... anyone ever heard of Ensiferum, Opeth or Falkenbach? They're pretty awesome. *quickly looks through iPod* I don't think Rentrer en soi (Jrock) is very well known... Theatre of Tragedy of course corresponds to Leaves' Eyes, so if you've heard one, you've heard the other... Bump of Chicken (they did the Tales of the Abyss opening song, Karma)...
Ooh, there's Daargard. They kick total ass. I listen to the GazettE a lot as well, but I think they're pretty popular.
I think that's it, not counting the two people that did video game soundtracks. Or those random guys that did songs in Wolf's Rain.
Edit: Hey, someone mentioned Korpiklaani! I forgot about them.
Oh yeah, and MedicDroid (if that's even how they spell it ._.''). They're a local band, so I wouldn't be surprised if no one knew them, but they're going to be in the Twilight movie. *shrugs*
Ah... anyone ever heard of Ensiferum, Opeth or Falkenbach? They're pretty awesome.
Opeth is about 3 posts above yours, foo.
But if you threw them in the middle of all those other names I haven't heard of, I'll be checking those out.
Yeah, I hadn't read all the other posts yet -- there are a bunch that I put, and even more that I knew about, like Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys. Specifically the latter -- when you have shirt at Hot Topic and a song on The Departed soundtrack, I'm sorry, people have heard of you.
Abney Park, if someone hasn't mentioned that already. Steampunk goth/metal/rock/techno. Man Man is pretty awesome, though anybody who's into the indy scene has probably heard of them; sort a weird folksy circus sound. Also there's this french classical/techno artist Maya de Luna; don't know if that's her name specifically or if she qualifies as a band, but it's got a pretty unique sound. Hercules and Love Affair...don't even know how to describe them. Modernized trance disco?
Requi3m: The best metal comes from Scandinavia, no question about it. Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Venom, Emperor, Arch Enemy...
Yeah, Venom are Brits, Arch Enemy is from Poland (ok that's pretty close to Scandinavia) and Children of Bodom NEVER FUCKING COVERED THE FINAL COUNTDOWN ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_bodom#Cover_songs )... so you probably don't like them as much as you think. (I hear that band's name thrown around every day and that's still the only song a VAST majority of their so-called fans can recollect)
Yes, Venom is indeed English. Didn't do my research there, my bad. I'm sure however, that Arch Enemy is Swedish and not Polish.
And how did you conclude I only know the alleged cover of The Final Countdown when I say I think Children of Bodom is a good band? I'm sure I know pretty well how much I like them after listening to their music for about 7 years. Don't draw conclusions without the proper knowledge. It's usually wrong and it just makes you look stupid.
The world needs to hear more Volbeat and Clutch (Youtube now please).
TheNecroswanson: Nightwish sucks and everyone in Washingon but me listens to them, they're not unknown. I dunno if anyone's heard of them but I kind of liked Hocus Crocus. 80's metal band that rather than singing yoddled.
That's Focus, you tool. The song was called Hocus Pocus. Starring Dutch rock legend Jan Akkerman. Also, Nightwish kicks ass. You suck.
I'm sure I mentioned them a while ago, but anyone been listening to the new Living End album? I'm astonished at how well they've managed to turn themselves around from State Of Emergency, a fairly meh album apart from Into The Red.
White Noise on the other hand... Probably album of the year for me. Jumping around from RATM style riffage to ska to typical Living End rock, it's probably the album of the year so far. Go, buy it. If you can't then download it and buy it when it comes out. It's astonishingly good.
Anyone ever heard of Goratory? They are hilarious. I seem to remember one of their songs was called "Her Limbs Won't Fit In The Fridge". I'm not a fan, I just saw one of their song names when I was looking for music and thought "why not?"
Soilwork are really good but no-one I know has even heard of them except from me.
Requi3m: And how did you conclude I only know the alleged cover of The Final Countdown when I say I think Children of Bodom is a good band? I'm sure I know pretty well how much I like them after listening to their music for about 7 years. Don't draw conclusions without the proper knowledge. It's usually wrong and it just makes you look stupid.
Reel Big Fish (best known for 1997's "Sell Out" from "Everything Sucks/Turn the Radio off")
Lemon Demon (best known for 2006's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" from 'Dinosaurcestra')
Aquabats (best known for 1997's "Super Rad" ('Fury of the Aquabats!') and 2004's "Fashion Zombies")
Less Than Jake (they usually only know "I'm A Dude" from the 'Good Burger' soundtrack)
Head Automatica (best known in the mainstream for 2006's "Graduation Day" from 'Popaganda!')
The Funky Kings (local blues/rock band)
Streetlight Manifesto
Catch-22
Goldfinger
Fastball (known for 1998's "The Way" from 'All The Pain Money Can Buy')
mc chris (best known for the songs of MC Pee Pants on "Aqua Teen Hunger Force")
Nine Pound Hammer
The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones (known for 1998's "Impression That I Get")
The Great, Great, Greats (my band XP)
They Might Be Giants (famous, just not where I am)
Daft Punk (again, famous, not where I am except in Kanye West's "Stronger")
(let the records show I live in a hick town where many girls did not know the Beatles were British and that the American flag is not the Ralph Lauren flag)