Bands people don't seem to know about.

[mParadox]

Actually... as far as I know Nightcore is not an actual band. I love it but from what I have been told, it's just taking a song and speeding it up, mixing it up a bit, and giving it alot of bass. All the songs I have heard by them, well over 30 because I think its awesome, already exist. They've just been mixed by random people and labeled 'Nightcore'
I could be wrong but I think thats what it is.

Touche. Excerpt from Yahoo answers.

Nightcore is a techno band that is made up of two boys from Alta, Norway, named Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm. They mix techno/dance music into faster and happier sounds. This upbeat band has great songs like, ?Will My Heart Survive,? ?Look at Me Now,? and ?Don?t Say Goodbye.? All these songs are included in their ?Sensacion? album.

 

[Plastic Muscles]

Spoiler

Now I think about it KT Tunstall is very unknown and underrated over in North America, but definitely not England .

 

[Bilbo536]

Dropkick Murphies
Ugly Kid Joe
Extreme
Dream Theatre/Liquid Tension Experiment

 

[Polaris19]

I have to list Faunts. I'm sure a lot of you have heard their M4, Part II at the end of Mass Effect, but I don't think many keep up with the rest of their stuff, even if they only have two actual albums and an EP. I could be wrong, but I don't see very many people mention them.

There's also a band named Kyte that I'm starting to get into. I've recently realized that I'm partial to shoegaze rock.

Damn! Ninja'd and I didn't even notice.

Glad to see another Faunts fan floating out here!

Faunts completes me. Dunno what it is about them, but I adore their music.

Their one of those rare bands that does not mind being under the radar, because they know their music is unlike almost anything else out there. "Explain" is the one that does it for me. Just such a masterpiece.

 

[FortheLegion]

Not enough people know about AleStorm
They are the creators of the Genre Pirate metal

I'm not normally the angry type, but I currently wish to swear at you an obscene number of times in as many languages as possible.

RUNNING WILD ARE THE ORIGINAL AND THE BEST PIRATE METAL BAND EVER.

They were only doing it TWO FREAKING DECADES before Alestorm, kthx.

Learn yourself, boy: http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=306

Forgive me for my ignorance I was unaware of this band.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Three I will probably shit my pants if anyone else has ever heard of:
Spit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH30fb5Yxd0]
Strength In Numbers [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2Vamp-n94]
I.R.A.T.E. (couldn't find any of their stuff on youtube)

 

[octafish]

I'm always suprised when people don't know who The Sonics are considering how influential they were. I mean, they invented punk in 1964.

 

[ClassicJokester]

Like TriggerUnhappy said, Streetlight Manifesto. They have incredibly talented members (no, not that kind of member), and I think most people would warm up to 99 Songs of Revolution if they found a song they know on it.

Also, judging from experience, not a lot of non-bass/non-music people have heard of this guy, but Jaco Pastorius was one of the craziest bassists of all time. He wrote/arranged some awesome latin (Invitation), swing (Liberty City), funk (The Chicken), rock (Blackbird/Word of Mouth), reggae (Good Morning Anya), and straight up atonal (Chromatic Fantasy) big band songs back in the day (60s and 70s), and has been one of the most influential people of modern music, especially music with a R&B or Jazz background, like the pop and the rock and the roll.
Sooooo check it out if it sounds at all interesting. Or even if it doesn't.

 

[michael_ab]

i can name MANY in the celtic genre, but we seem to be focused on rock for now. has anyone heard of ramona falls? fantastic band out of, you guessed it, ramona falls! which is a few miles west of portland oregon

 

[Kris015]

Katatonia, Alexisonfire, Kellermensch.

 

[fozzy360]

I have to list Faunts. I'm sure a lot of you have heard their M4, Part II at the end of Mass Effect, but I don't think many keep up with the rest of their stuff, even if they only have two actual albums and an EP. I could be wrong, but I don't see very many people mention them.

There's also a band named Kyte that I'm starting to get into. I've recently realized that I'm partial to shoegaze rock.

Damn! Ninja'd and I didn't even notice.

Glad to see another Faunts fan floating out here!

Faunts completes me. Dunno what it is about them, but I adore their music.

Their one of those rare bands that does not mind being under the radar, because they know their music is unlike almost anything else out there. "Explain" is the one that does it for me. Just such a masterpiece.

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My favortie tracks are Instantly Loved, Twenty-Three, M4 Part II, and Sleepwalker. Soul stirring stuff right there. I have to admit though, I have not listened to Feel.Love.Thinking.Of enough to pass judgement just yet.

But yeah, you're right. They seem perfectly at home with they do. They don't seem to make music just to become popular. They love what they do, and it shows in the songs they create. Beautifully haunting songs they have.

 

[blankedboy]

Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Royksopp
Crossfade
Spiralmouth (cookies for those who know what genre these guys do, and what game they did the entire soundtrack for )
Chef (another cookie-worthy one)
Scrunter (worth six cookies )
Destra (also worth six)
Villa Fuzz (sixty internets for he who knows this one)

Quote me if you're cookie/internet-worthy.

 

[the-kitchen-slayer]

Cryoshell, finnish group that did the commercial music for some bionicle commercials. Now they're a band, and they've upgraded their old stuff

 

[That_Guitarist_Guy]

Meshuggah, Between The Buried And Me, The Human Abstract, Disarmonia Mundi, Diecast, Unearth, Gojira, Cynic, Atheist, Sky Eats Airplane

 

[David_G]

I don't listen to a lot of not-popular bands, but I've been experimenting in the last couple of months, so I've discovered some pretty good bands.

Spoiler: Acrimony

Spoiler: Blotted Science (These guys are fucking awesome, anyone who likes metal will like them)

Spoiler: Electric Wizard

Spoiler: Meshuggah

Spoiler: Strapping Young Lad

EDIT:
Also, some Macedonian punk bands:

Spoiler: Dojka

Spoiler: Nexus

Spoiler: Defekt

Spoiler: S'klet

Spoiler: Decadence

 

[ENKC]

Not enough people know about AleStorm
They are the creators of the Genre Pirate metal

I'm not normally the angry type, but I currently wish to swear at you an obscene number of times in as many languages as possible.

RUNNING WILD ARE THE ORIGINAL AND THE BEST PIRATE METAL BAND EVER.

They were only doing it TWO FREAKING DECADES before Alestorm, kthx.

Learn yourself, boy: http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=306

Forgive me for my ignorance I was unaware of this band.

As long as you now realise the error of your ways. Be very careful throwing around terms like "creator of a genre" without having some basis for thinking it. Two decades, mate. TWO DECADES.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Van Canto


They play A Capella Hero Metal.

 

[there is no spoon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXpfkgL87c

Let them, and these guys will take you on a journey.

How did I not...music so good(falls to the ground huddled and weeping) Thank you good sir. You truly have introduced me to a fantastic band.

 

[AroLombardi]

Dream Theater and Tool, but that's probably because everyone at my school is a junkie.