Awesome bands no one has heard of

[jmc7590]

yea. can u guys name some bands that are awesome but not very well known. next to the band name can u list what type of music they play? thanks

[D3adcell]

I dont know if they are very well known or not but Trivium is good metal.

[BugenhagenXIII]

Sonata Arctica. Power metal.

[KuDoSe]

Sonata Arctica. Power metal.


I know plenty that know of them.





Plus, fi you're going to do a thread like this, be less specific, because they only people you could mention are your own bands that only the band members know of.

[BugenhagenXIII]

Well, I don't know anyone who's heard of them.

[Cats]

Fantomas
Avant-Gaurd Metal

Mr. Bungle
Avant-Gaurd-Funk-Metal-Jazz-Rock-Everything

Ween
Wierd Rock, like Primus.

Cornelius
Fun Electronica Rock.

Bis
Catchy Pop-Punk, and then catchy Electro-Pop.

Jaga Jazzist
Amazing Jazz Electronica.


And now for non-bands.

Daedelus
Romantic Electronica Glitch-Hop.

Autechre
The absolute pinacle of modern Electronica.

Ra
Electronica.

dDamage
Electronica.


I realise that a lot of my listings are relatively well-known, but they in the eyes of the general public, nobody knows who they are.

[JW]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. I rule for having some Avant-Guard that Cats (seems like he) hasn't heard. They use a lot of homemade intruments and whatnot. Also, the Books and Pinback are good.

[Cats]

Ah HA!
That's where you're wrong!
I've got the song 'Sleep Is Wrong'.
Thanks to Dahg for putting the mp3 up at NNet a while ago.
MWAHAHAHcough.

[JW]

Lol. That's where I learned of them as well. '...of Natural History' is a great CD, if you're into that type of music. I haven't heard 'Grand Opening and Closing,' which is the one with Sleep is Wrong, but I'm sure it's good, too.

[Mauler]

Impaled Nazarene, awesome metal. Nuclear metal!

Tomahawk, another Patton band.

Beherit, Finnish black metal.

Peccatum, melodic ambient'ish .. stuff.

Star of Ash, just check this out.

Ulver, badass electro stuff, just don't try any of the older albums.

[Pats]

My friend's band that recently broke up. "The Involuntary Vampire" or whatever is decent. The other songs aren't that great.
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=4733073&Mytoken=20050422082951


I guess that's all I can think of for right now.

[Ihsiin]

Darkflight - Ambient doom metal with a touch of epic black metal. Link. (http://darkflight.vlvo-lan.net/music.html)
Aardtmann op Vuurtopberg - Drone doom metal. Link. (http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~akkerh/aardtmann/discography.htm)

Yeah.

[KuDoSe]

Ra
Electronica.

One of my radio stations used to play them ALL the time. So that's far beyond well-known.

[Expo'86]

A local band (Sheffield, UK area) namely 'Hooker Bentley'. They're sort of prog rock. Good band, especially the track 'Wake Up'. Check them out.

[Wes]

22-20s - A indie band that aren't known over int he states. They will be big in the UK soon enough, they've played at Glasto, too. Also my friends brother plays bass for 'em.

Polysics - A Japanese techno punk band.

[FingerTapper]

www.purevolume.com/cutinsilence

cut in silence (metal)

[Cats]

One of my radio stations used to play them ALL the time. So that's far beyond well-known.

I am certain there are two different 'Ra's.

One Ra is an actual band with multiple members.
I guess they play conventional music.
They probably have a chance of being well-known.

My Ra is just one guy.
He makes psuedo-noise electronica.
He's released one album on an obscure label, and it isn't available in most stores, even on the internet.
There is very little chance that a large amount of people have even heard of him.
http://www.raspage.com

There must be some mistake.

[Wes]

Admit it Cats, you listen to pop music.

[Cats]

You'll have to catch me first!

[Rather]

22-20s - A indie band that aren't known over int he states. They will be big in the UK soon enough, they've played at Glasto, too. Also my friends brother plays bass for 'em.




The 22-20s will never be big.

[Haver]

The 88-80s however, are positively gargantuan.

[KuDoSe]

I am certain there are two different 'Ra's.

One Ra is an actual band with multiple members.
I guess they play conventional music.
They probably have a chance of being well-known.

My Ra is just one guy.
He makes psuedo-noise electronica.
He's released one album on an obscure label, and it isn't available in most stores, even on the internet.
There is very little chance that a large amount of people have even heard of him.
http://www.raspage.com

There must be some mistake.


True then.
That guy is so gunna get sued.

[JW]

The band RA capitalizes their name, or at least they do on their album covers. So maybe not.

[Cats]

True then.
That guy is so gunna get sued.

They'll have to catch him first!


But I'm unsure as to whether the copywrite laws that cover names apply internationally.

[Ihsiin]

He could claim that Ra refers to the ancient Egyptian god, and as no one can own the rights to a myth, they can't sue him.

[Nelson]

Bloc party ae good but i dont know if anyone has heard of them they r a good indie band

[cubist]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is awesome . .

ASVA is pretty cool. So are Estradasphere.

Yes, I'm just naming bands I know from the Web of Mimicry label. I'm obsessed with Secret Chiefs 3, which is the greatest of them all.


edit: I don't suppose anyone here is into Isis, or more importantly, Neurosis?

[Jesus]

Cold Chisel.

[cubist]

But everyone's heard of Cold Chise-
Oh, wait. I forgot the world revolves around America.

[Xeno Overlord]

M83
Mortiis
Neurosis
Pere Ubu
Sikth
The Meads of Asphodel

[Cocoa Christ]

Sinistah - drum and bass / digital fast pace
Papoose - On-the-fly freestyle rap
The Crimson Romance - Arizona screamo my friend Joe plays in.
The Vexed - local punk , bleh
The DirtyButts - more local stuff...
Julie's Haircut - experimental rock / etccccc
Shellac - Math rock.

[MCAHCSOW]

Das Oath. They're good. Sorta punky kinda shit. Loud and fast. Short songs. Not shit titles and not songs about girls.
Wolf Eyes. Noise.
Jesu. Slow... grind... I guess. Oh snaps, they're in the new Maxim Blender.
Tub Ring. An odd band, much in the vein of Mr. Bungle.
I'll SAY Porcupine Tree but honestly, I thought more people would have heard of 'em. But whenever I mention 'em, not many people know. But that's fucked up considering they're so associated with Opeth and Opeth is becoming huge. They're like atmospheric old synthy prog-rock/metal.

But how do you measure this stuff? There's different "mainstreams" in different countries.
Isosceles isn't that well known here but they could be well known in other places. They're rap, if nobody knows.
This board seems to know their music though, so it'll be a good time posting here.

[JW]

Anachronic XP

[MCAHCSOW]

What do they play?

[JW]

Lol, it's just some techno that mark b. monkey from this forum makes with his friends. Good stuff though.

[MCAHCSOW]

Haha, techno can be awesome. You got a link to their stuff?

Once I get on my better computer I have to download some of the stuff people are mentioning.

[JW]

I can't remember their site, but you can just ask him for it. I think he has his IM addresses listed, and if not, just PM him about it.

[MCAHCSOW]

Alright, thank you. I'll post about 'em once I hear 'em.

Oh, and ...coconut, I just read this. I like Isis. I have their new album but haven't heard their other stuff. The CD store here is garbage and I've only recently started ordering things online.

It's very very cool, there's two songs on it I could see being played at my funeral.

[JW]

Coconut also said some stuff about bands from the Web of Mimicry label, which you should also check out.

http://www.webofmimicry.com

[Ihsiin]

Jesu. Slow... grind... I guess.

Jesu are drone doom.

[MCAHCSOW]

Christ, you people and your sub genres. Drone doom, lol.

Psychadelic grind folk/bluegrass with doom/black metal inspired acoustic breakdowns.
Hm, that'd be the shit.

[Ihsiin]

Meh, sub genres are useful in metal, given it's tendency to fluctuate.

[JW]

But when you get tendencies to start naming insane genres like "Pansycore" and "Folk Metal" it gets ridiculous.

[MCAHCSOW]

lol Pansycore actually made me laugh out loud.

Sub genres aren't really necessary, and if you're gonna have 'em, only go as far as to say Doom Metal, Black, Death, Heavy, etc.

I don't need a sub genre of a sub genre, when does it end?

[Ihsiin]

Sometimes it becomes ridiculous but doom, black, death and so on are such broad terms, it sometimes helps to have sub genres within sub genres. Take, for example, Avrigus and Earth, both firmly doom metal, yet the difference between them is massive.
In the end, I suppose it doesn't really matter. Music is music, after all.

[Cocoa Christ]

Tub Ring. An odd band, much in the vein of Mr. Bungle.Tub Ring is awesome!

"Well I don't believe, that we could concieve, of an af-ter-life, It's meant to be percieved. Catastrophies, calamities, everyone loves a tragedy BUT there's guns there's guns guns GUNS pointed at our heads Everytime we close our eyes. But who are we, the little folk, to do about this bakery full of lies? We don't need no one to turn out the lights for us, (when we go to sleep)... catastrophies calamities, when we dream we like to dream about the tragedy in after life. Of percieved... reality... a catastrophy.. a calamity. DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN... RAHHHW RAHHW ..."

Haha

[Cats]

Anachronic XP

Yeah!!



Here's someone I just found out about last night.
The Quiet American.
He makes ambient compositions with sound that he records from all over the world.

He's also making a movie consisting of still pictures of his life.
The movie will play at thirty images a second, and he takes thirty pictures each day.

But the thing about him that most interested me is that on his website he gets people to submit their own recordings of ambience from around the world, each about one minute long, and he posts a new one every week.
'One Minute Vacations' it is called.

This guy is a true artist.

Here is his website. (http://www.quietamerican.org/)
And here is One Minute Vacations (tucked away very discretely.) (http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html)

[MCAHCSOW]

It's an interesting concept but nothing that really speaks to me. I listened to a few things, like Bleeding, and some others but I'm not gonna go listen to the stuff religiously or anything, haha.

People have probably heard of this band, but Hawkwind, anybody?
Lemmy's first band, me thinks. It's really good stuff. Really spacey.

Edit: Can someone hook me up with some Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

[JW]

http://www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com
http://www.webofmimicry.com

Or IM and I can send you some full albums.

[MCAHCSOW]

Ooooh, IM would work. I'd like to have some full albums.

jesus_was_a_flamer@hotmail.com, on MSN, if you will. It'd be greatly appreciated.

[Moses]

Here's someone I just found out about last night.
The Quiet American.
He makes ambient compositions with sound that he records from all over the world.

I am reading that book.

[Xeno Overlord]

But when you get tendencies to start naming insane genres like "Pansycore" and "Folk Metal" it gets ridiculous.

or Sassy Fashioncore!!111!!

[Mauler]

Beherit.

[Ihsiin]

Ecthalion.

http://www.metal.ee/ecthalion/main.php?act=media

[Xeno Overlord]

Behold...the Arctopus
Secret Chiefs 3 (Suprised no one mentioned this one)
Astarte
Cruachan
Xiu Xiu
Necrophagist
Mnemic

[Spatula]

Solex - Indie Rock
Matisyahu - Reggae
Film School - Mellow Indie
Nyles Lannon - Indie-Depressive (compared to Elliot Smith)
Gruvis Malt - Whatever the Fuck They Want To Be
Amon Tobin - Trip Hop/Trance/Dance

is that enough?

[cubist]

. . Yes, I'm just naming bands I know from the Web of Mimicry label. I'm obsessed with Secret Chiefs 3, which is the greatest of them all.


Secret Chiefs 3 (Suprised no one mentioned this one)
So am I =]
No, I'm not being a nitpicky arsehole-
Yes, I'm being a nitpicky arsehole, BUT when I saw your post I thought, "Whoa, I didn't mention them? What's become of me?"



I'll shutup now.

[valin]

Yeah, Amon Tobin's damn good. Although, I don't think he should be classified as unknown (no offense).

Nobody I've talked to seems to know
The Black Heart Procession
Calla
Vitriol
Velvet Cacoon
Sun Kil Moon
or
Architecture in Helsinki

If you do, send me music by them, and quick!

[cubist]

Wow, more AiH fans. I love Architecture. Best aussie band in a long time.

[Haver]

Who else loves algebracore?

[Cats]

I prefer Physics-Hop.



Architecture In Helsinki will probably gain my full-fledged following in time, but for now I just like them.
I'm always surprised whenever an Australian band get any international recognition.



AMON TOBIN!!!

I just say he makes "Cinematic Electro Jazz Drill 'n Bass".
But I might be wrong.



Add.
Beta Erko
I've only heard two of their songs, but it sounds like the most extreme Glitch music I've ever heard.
More than Four Tet's 'Rounds'!
More than Daedelus's 'Her's Is >'!
More than Prefuse 73's 'Extinguished: Outtakes'!
More than Autechre's 'Gantz Graf'!

The only problem is, their album 'I'm OK, You're OK' is quite difficult to get.
And forget about finding ANY mp3s of their music.
I might just buy it.

[Xeno Overlord]

So am I =]
No, I'm not being a nitpicky arsehole-
Yes, I'm being a nitpicky arsehole, BUT when I saw your post I thought, "Whoa, I didn't mention them? What's become of me?"



I'll shutup now.

Shove it :) :)

[cubist]

Haha, I'll be sure to.


Anyway,
King of Per- no, wait, too early.
Gods of Shamisen. Mark is in that band, and I love Mark. He created the Estradasphere live DVD, he talks a lot of shit (or maybe I talk a lot of shit, and he just tries to respond) and . . yeah.

[JW]

Lol.

Is Mark like Sir Millard or something?

[cubist]

Mark is arkmay on WoM, he's from Gods of Shamisen as I said. They're greatness.
Millard probably wouldn't like it if I bandied about his real name (Christopher) so I- damn.

[Bombardier]

Has anyone mentioned Autechre?

[JW]

Probably.

And if not, Autechre's not as unknown as a lot of groups.

[Bombardier]

And if not, Autechre's not as unknown as a lot of groups.
I live in a small town.

:(

[JW]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lexington,+TN&t=k&hl=en

I live in a smaller town.

Oh well, maybe I just assume people know about them because they're good.

[Rather]

I wouldn't have guessed that there were 'awesome bands no-one has heard of', because, you know, there's a reason no-one's heard them...

[cubist]

Here's one

Mezcla de Refresco.

No-one here has heard of them.

[Cocoa Christ]

Julie's haircut anyone?
Also:
The Aislers Set
The Long Winters
and Thalia Zedek

Although I may be spelling the last one wrong, I've heard a couple of songs and they sound pretty good.

Sleater-Kinney is a nice surf-like band with female vocals. Somebody may have heard of them before, though.

[Cats]

Has anyone mentioned Autechre?

Yes, I have!
I win one point!
But I wish I had more to add to this post.
I lose one point.

[JW]

Julie's haircut anyone?
Also:
The Aislers Set
The Long Winters
and Thalia Zedek

Although I may be spelling the last one wrong, I've heard a couple of songs and they sound pretty good.

Sleater-Kinney is a nice surf-like band with female vocals. Somebody may have heard of them before, though.

Yeah. I've got Sleater-Kinney's "One Beat."

[cubist]

Mm, this isn't exactly a band . . Australians should know that Daniel Johns and Paul Mac formed The Dissociatives. What most don't know (I only do because I was a hardcore Silverchair fan when I was younger) is that they previously collaborated on a five track EP, I Can't Believe It's Not Rock.

It's fucking awesome fucking. I'm listening to it now for the first time in ages . . floored. I have so much more appreciation for it now.

[Cocoa Christ]

Yeah. I've got Sleater-Kinney's "One Beat."
Good stuff.