The OFFICIAL Unknown Bands thread...
 

Unknown bands/artists rule...lets face it. But...they're unknown. So this is the official Unknown Band thread, for your buying (or most likely, downloading, pleasure). List bands you like that others might not know about, with the following info...

1. Name
2. Type - Rock, Rap, ...
3. Who They Sound Like
4. Anything else...(origin, best songs, ect.)

So here's one...

1. Name: 10 After
2. Type: Alternative, Punk, Lo-Fi Rock
3. Sound Like: Blink 182
4. Ect.: From California, download Shift Change or Loser, both great songs.

1. Name: Cyanide Breed
2. Type: Death Metal
3. Sound Like: At The Gates
4. From NY, listen to Soiled Unborn, website: www.cyanidebreed.net

1. Name: Sacristy
2. Typle: Black Metal
3. Sound Like: Ulver
4. email me if you're interested [email protected]

1. Evolution
2. Type: Rock/Metal/Progressive Metal
3. Sound Like: Can't think of anything
4. again email me if you are interested

1. Name: Sky Came Falling
2. Type: Emocore
3. Sound Like: Shai Hulud
4. Download: The Fall

1. Omnisoul
2. Type: Electronica-influenced Rock
3. Sound like: David Gray, early Radiohead (at times)
4. Download: You Say
5. See Them Where: Lion's Den, New York City, February 8th (their 3rd show there)
omnisoul.com

[Disclaimer: I know the bassist]

1. Helms
2. Type: post-rock
3. Sound like: bastard child of Slint and Sonic Youth
4. Download: "Nothing Can Keep Us from Stopping", "At Night the Ringing Filled Their Rooms like the Bells of Distant Churches", and "Horace - Age 19; Powers None"

Reviewed their cd for the college radio last semester and recently wrote a longer, more comprehensive review for the Fredricksburg Alternative Press.

1. Particle
2. Rock influenced by funk, disco, jazz and electronica
3. Closest description of sound would be would be jazz funk groups like Galactic and Medeski Martin & Wood mixed with some electronic rhythms.
4. From Los Angeles. Download "Knee Knocker," "Road's a Breeze @ 3 a.m." and "Ed & Molly".

website: www.particlepeople.com
fan site: www.roadsabreeze.com

1. Killfloor
2. Metal
3. Cross between Staind, Hatebreed, and Pantera
4. From Kansas City. New cd coming out soon. http://www.killfloor.net/main.html

Some people may have heard of this band, but I'm going to add it anyway...

1. Les Savy Fav
2. Type: post-punk
3. Sound: high energy dance-able rock
4. I believe they met in Rhode Island but established themselves in Brooklyn. As far as recordings goes, I only own 3/5, their debut album, but I've heard that ROME (Written Upside Down) EP is incredible. But if they ever come through your town, you HAVE to go see this band. Its the most insane live show I've ever seen. I saw them at JMU (in VA), and the singer was doing ballet moves onstage and running around in the audience. They even showed people from the crowd how to play their individual parts in this long, closing drone and the band members went dancing on the floor. As far as experience and feeling like you are actually part of the show, Les Savy Fav floors every other contemporary band.

And one more...

1. Do Make Say Think
2. Type: instrumental post-rock
3. Sound: loads of sonic depth and texture
4. Buy & Yet & Yet NOW. Or download songs such as "Reitschule", "Classic Noodlanding", or "End Of Music"

Gdrlv, Out of the descriptions I've seen you give of your tastes, I think you would really enjoy this band. They are labelmates of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and I saw them play with Fly Pan Am (has a member of GY!BE in it) last October.

<ol><li>Apartment 26<li>Rock/techno-metal?<li><i><font color=green>"likely to be lumped in with bands like MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY and NINE INCH NAILS, and for appearance's sake ORGY"</font></i><li>Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler's son, Biff, is a founder member and vocalist. Now working on their second album, the first was called "Hallucinating" (producer: Ulrich Wild).</li></ol>

Excellent Recommendation....thanks Bus.

I'm listening to "Happy Outside" (dl'ed it from their site).

1. Memorized Dreams
2. Metal
3. Sound like ????
4. Download Ancient Sin and Revelating Paradise



http://www.memorized-dreams.tk/

Go to the multimedia section to hear the sound clips(be sure to provide feedback on their board....they do read it.)
I believe they are gearing up to release their first album.

1. Inkubus Sukkubus
2. Rock (Goth)
3. Sound (a little ) like Siouxie and the Banshees
4. Download: Supernature, Storm , Vampyre Erotica (pretty much all their stuff is great. ) They did a pretty good cover of "Paint it Black"

http://www.inkubussukkubus.com/

1. Ambionic
2. Rock/Lo-Fi
3. Sound like Incubus...with Weezer mixed in, I guess
4. Listen to them at MP3.com or IUMA.com...good stuff. They're from Cali.

These guys are so darn cool, they defy your little 4 question questionnaire... the Moffatts!! I mean they are totally awesome! I'm also a fan of Dudez-a-plenti

1. My Favorite Plaid Straightjacket
2. Rock/Metal
3. Taproot, SoulFly....sorta
4. www.teammfps.com

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan
2. experimental-jazz-math-grindcore-metal
3. sounds like a crack-induced orgy between charlie christian and napalm death
4. their full-length, entitled Calculating Infinity and their recently release EP, entitled Irony is a Dead Scene (featuring Mike Patton on vocals) are essential for anyone who appreciates avant garde music on the aggressive end of the spectrum.
www.dillingerescapeplan.com


1. Cool Hand Luke
2. spiritual, dynamic post-emo rock
3. sounds like mineral with some hardcore screams thrown in here and there
4. they released two CDs completely independently: an ep called So Far... and a full-length called I Fought Against Myself... their new album is coming out on floodgate records soon.
www.coolhandluke.net

1. The Faint
2. New Wave Revival, Duran Duran mixed with The Clash electrosynth pop
3. Sounds extremely incredible, insane sense of rhythm, 5 person band, sounds like techno with vocals.
4. Extremely talented band, download Glass Danse, Your Retro Career Melted, Total Job to get a taste of them. 3 albums, Blank Wave Arcade and Danse Macabre are their electro albums, first album Media is very emo ish.

sorry, the webpage is www.thefaint.com

1. Year of the Rabbit
2. Space Rock, Rock
3. Failure
4. Lead singer is Ken Andrews who was the vocalist and song writer in Failure. Download "Hunted" from www.yearoftherabbit.net. Get the 4 song ep there too. They signed with Elektra and are supposed to have an album come out this Spring.

1. Cave In
2. Rock
3. Heavily influenced by Failure
4. They have a new album coming out in March. Bottom Feeder is a great song.

Shouldn't we NOT name the bands.. I mean , cause if we do.. they will just be mainstreamd and we will just have to hate them huh.... ;)

1. The Exploding White Mice
2. punk rawk
3. The Ramones, Jesus and Mary Chain (Psycho Candy era)
4. They're Australian, and I got a cassette ep, "Nestful of Vipers" back in like, '87. There was a rockin' cover of Pipeline on it, and they were all pretty catchy tunes (for me anyway). I never saw any of there other releases, never saw any cover on them from the music mags or anywhere. It'd be cool to finally track down some of their other stuff and give it a listen.

If all these are unknown bands, then wouldn't they not be posted because nobody knows about them? :hscratch:

Theses bands are unknown to the masses.
You won't find them on your MTV, Vh1 or even your local Clear Channel Radio Station.

Also, I my opinion the music mentioned in this thread is about 10 times better than the crap manufactured and forced down everyone's throat.

Yeah, that was the thought when creating the post.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try to check 'em out sometime this week...

I've heard of the Helms, Year of the Rabbit, Cave In, The Faint, Cool Hand Luke, Godspeed you Black Emporer!, and the Dillenger Escape Plan. We played some of them at the college station I am at. (helms, cave in, godspeed, and cool hand). Here is my college's top 30 list of unknowns according to you guys (at least some of them):

# ARTIST Recording
1 PRIMAL SCREAM Evil Heat
2 CALLA Televise
3 DAMONE From The Attic
4 TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS Hearts Of Oak
5 CROOKED FINGERS Red Devil Dawn
6 ROGERS SISTERS Purely Evil
7 DRIVE LIKE JEHU Yank Crime
8 DELGADOS Hate
9 WE RAGAZZI The Ache
10 SLOWREADER Slowreader
11 GOLDEN SHOULDERS Let My Burden Be
12 KINSKI Airs Above Your Station
13 DATSUNS 3-Song Sampler
14 EARLIMART The Avenues [EP]
15 PAUL WELLER Illumination
16 MEAN RED SPIDERS Still Life Fast Moving
17 ATOMIC 7 Gowns By Edith Head
18 RETISONIC Lean Beat
19 OWEN No Good For No One Now
20 BYRNE Slowly And Gloriously
21 LITTLE WINGS Light Green Leaves
22 FAVORITE ATOMIC HERO Who Will Save You Now
23 STITCHES Twelve Imaginary Inches
24 MUSIC The Music
25 TONY ROMANELLO Counting Stars
26 ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT Live From Camp X-Ray
27 JOSEPH ARTHUR Redemption's Son
28 AMERICAN CHILLS Nine Times
29 SUMMER AT SHATTER CREEK Summer At Shatter Creek
30 MELLOWDRONE A Demonstration Of Intellectual Property [EP]

You really liked The Datsuns sampler? I thought it was pretty vapid, but different strokes I suppose.

I saw Calla play with Interpol back in Dec. :thumbsup:

I also have the Joseph Arthur album in front of me to review. I'll have to see what I think of it.

To tell you the truth, I really don't like the Datsuns. Pretty bland ACDC crap. That Joseph Arthur is good if you liked some of his previous work. I saw Calla just a few weeks ago actually.

here's a shameless plug for my band in brooklyn.....

1. TEAR US APART
2. Post-Hardcore / Emo
3. Rival Schools, Quicksand, Husker Du, Jawbreaker
4. CD comes out beginning of March - www.tearusapart.com

Name: Atari Champ
Sounds Like: Weezer

They're from California...download 'Life Was Easy' or 'He was an Astronaut'. I believe they're on MP3.com. Good ****.

Band: Dog Fashion Disco
Album:Anarchists of Good Taste
Type: Heavy Metal/Death Metal/Nu Metal
Who they sound like: early Metallica/bands that can scream alot

You listen to Shai Hulud? Rock on. Their current drummer (Tony Tintari) is kinda a buddy of mine.

Name: The Mountain Goats
Type: Lo-fi, Folk
Sounds like: Sorta like Gordon Gano from the Violent Femmes - but only sorta.
Listen to: The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton, Going To Georgia

Name: Death on Wednesday
Type: rock / punk / or something
Sounds like : Smoking Popes, kind of
Listen to: If You Want, Stare

I guess if its ok to throw out shameless plugs, then I can have you guys check out my friend's band: 9 Litre

Name: 9 Litre
Type: Punk, Emo-core, Metal-Punk
Sounds like: Thrice...??
Listen to: Pennies

They're not signed and all the stuff they've done is self-produced.

Self promotion is welcomed!

Name: Drive-By Truckers
Type: Southern Rock
Sounds Like: Kind of like Skynrd
Listen to: Southern Rock Opera, their last cd.

Name: Steve Burns (yep, that guy from Blue's Clues)
Type: Rock, techno (depending on the song)
Who he sounds like: Can't really say, but his favourite group is Radiohead, and he is being produced by one of the members of the Flaming Lips.
Anything Else: He hasn't got a contract yet, but you can check out a sample of his music at http://www.steve-burns.com, or download some of his stuff off Kazaa. His best songs include Mighty Man (2 versions, both good), My Eyes Are Full, and What I Do On Saturday. Really hope he gets a record deal soon.

The Pimps....formerly The Good Year Pimps.

From Rockford, IL. They appeared on the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack, as well as in the trailer for Crazy/Beautiful. (not sure if they were on the soundtrack or not)
They've got that rock/rap hybrid that's so common nowadays, but they're awesome live. Even better than in their early-90's incarnation, as Sarkoma.

Briefly signed to Hollywood Records, but refused to edit their tracks on the second go-round, and consequently ended back in the minors.

1. Name: Deadboy and the Elephantmen
2. Type: Rock
3. Sound Like: ???
4. Listen here, http://www.deadboyandtheelephantmen.com/

1. Name: American Pearl
2. Type: Hard Rock / Metal
3. Sound Like: AC/DC meets Tesla but heavier
4. Straight Up Heavy Hard Rock with actual singing (no mumble at the floor Staind/Creed Grunge stuff) and actual Guitar solos (remember those?) A must for REAL Rock fans who hates todays rock radio all that awful depressing no-talent Grunge and Alternative.

http://www.americanpearlnet.com/

1. KJ-52
2. Type - Rap
3. Sounds Like - Eminem
4. http://www.kj52.com