Bands We Haven't Heard Of

[Darkdale]

List five bands, you like, that you don't think others have heard of:

1. Sunny Day Real Estate
2. Once Hush
3. Sloan
4. New Pornographers
5. Steven Kellogg and the Sixers

 

[Jaymes]

1. VNV Nation
2. Krishna Das
3. Kaizers Orchestra
4. Skyclad
5. E Nomine

 

[Darkdale]

1. VNV Nation
2. Krishna Das
3. Kaizers Orchestra
4. Skyclad
5. E Nomine

What kind of music are we talking about here?

 

[Buttons*]

1. Supercell
2. Monkeyshyne
3. South FM
4. Lola Ray
5. Man Made God

 

[Darkdale]

1. Supercell
2. Monkeyshyne
3. South FM
4. Lola Ray
5. Man Made God

Metal? What kind of music?

This is kind of cool that everyone is listing bands I dont' know. I know a lot of bands.

 

[Buttons*]

most of them are alternative, some are metal. All are local

 

[Jaymes]

What kind of music are we talking about here?

Oh no, don't ask me to classify music. :biglaugh: I can't do that for the life of me. VNV Nation is... kind of technoish, I think. It's got synths and interesting vocals. Krishna Das does Hindu and Buddhist chanting and has a lovely voice. Kaizers Orchestra is... different. They're Norwegian and I think would be classified as rock. Skyclad does rock music with violins, which isn't as distasteful as it sounds. E Nomine has angry German vocals paired with high-pitched Latin choruses, which I adore.

 

[Buttons*]

oh OOMPH! is a good German band!

 

[Bishka]

1. InsideOut(acapella)
2. Opera Babes
3. Yes
4. Octapella
5. Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band

 

[Master Vigil]

Let's see...

Eye C Snakes
Dimmu Borgir
Entombed
Liquid Tension Experiment
Kokin Gumi
The Pattern
Simon Says

That's all I can think of now.

 

[YmirGF]

1. Synergy (Larry Fast) (early syth)
2. Frontline Assembly (industrial)
3. Econoline Crush (alternative/industrial)
4. Phillip Glass (impressionist)
5. Kate Bush (great singer, not well known (i think), a 5 octave range)

and everyone must go buy something by Mike Oldfied. He is the greatest. Might I suggest "Ommadawn" for starters.

 

[Darkdale]

You guys are making me feel out of touch. I was expecting to know all the bands you listed. I know none@! Gah!

 

[Aqualung]

Echo and the Bunnymen is probably the only group that I know that is lesser known. All the rest are fairly mainstream (though 80s) groups that most people (from the 80s) would know.

 

[Jaymes]

Oh! And Japanese bands:

1. HYDE
2. L'arc~en~Ciel
3. FAKE?
4. B'z
5. Miyavi

SID and The Pillows are also really good...

 

[standing_alone]

The one "major" band that I like that no one I ever talked to has heard of is "Sentenced." They're a metal band from Finland. Everyone that I make listen to them ends up loving them, too. Very good band, but they are no longer - they released their last CD "The Funeral Album" this year. There are some other bands, but none really worth mentioning.

 

[Yerda]

List five bands, you like, that you don't think others have heard of:

Any five?

1. Enzo (http://www.enzo-online.co.uk)
2. St. Ninja Street
3. Biffy Clyro
4. Idlewild
5. Da Flava Boyz (http://www.daflavaboyz.com/)

Two I'm in, one is a friends band, and the other two are pretty big over here.

EDIT: Added a couple of website addresses incase anyone wants to have a look. Da Flava Boyz have a few songs for download, whereas the Enzo site is still under construction. I'll add the rest of them urls when I find them.

 

[painted wolf]

Five 'small' bands you should have heard of but probably haven't.
1) Plato's Hal0 (wonderful "progressive" I guess) sadly they are defunct now.
2) Resistant Culture (native american heavy "punk" metal)
http://www.seventhgenerationrecords.com/artists.html
http://www.seventhgenerationrecords.com/offerings.html
3) Jim's Big Ego (no way to label this one, Jim is wonderfully divercse and throughly enjoyable)
"unpop for the unpopular" as he likes to say. I've gotten to see him several times its always a great show, and all his music is avalable on-line for free.
http://www.bigego.com/
4)Jim Tyrell (Jim is actually a guy I game with from time to time, Like JBE all his music is avalable for free download and it is fun and quirky. Check out "drunk on the meach" :biglaugh:
http://www.jimtyrrell.net/
5) Land of the Loops. (again it isn't boxable.. alternitive, synth, and odd)
http://www.uprecords.com/artists/landoftheloops/

now five "big" bands you may have never heard of:
1) Nightwish. (beautiful metal)
http://www.nightwish.com/
2) the Cruxshadows (goth rock)
http://www.cruxshadows.com/
3) KMFDM (founding band of the Industrial movement and one of my fav's)
http://www.kmfdm.net/
4) Mc Chris (nerd-core funny stuff, geek rap)
http://www.mcchris.com/
5)Dream Theater (a major progressive rock group... most of you have heard them though you may have neaver heard of them... they are frickin' awesome!!)
http://www.dreamtheater.net/

I could go on and on... I LOVE music, all kinds of music. I have over 400 cd's and it isn't enough. :jiggy:
Lately I've been getting into more and more local and small bands. Many of them while growing in popularity are concsiously avoiding the major music industry. I could literally list hundreds of bands and garentee that you havent heard of at least 40% of them.

wa:do

 

[Quoth The Raven]

1. InsideOut(acapella)
2. Opera Babes
3. Yes
4. Octapella
5. Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band

Ooh, if we're doing a capella, what about:
1.The Nylons and
2.The Flying Pickets
Here's a curly one for you yanks... 3.The Bay City Rollers.
4.Icehouse.
5.This Is Serious Mum

 

[Master Vigil]

Dreamtheater Rocks!! What do you think of Octovarium??

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu is one of my favorites.

Five groups I can think of..
Kataklysm
Demon Hunter
Mnemic
Hypocrisy
In Flames