Favorite Foreign Bands?

[Phoenix_XIII]

My favorite foreign bands are pretty much all Japanese bands.

My top favorite Foreign Band would have to be Maximum the Hormone. I love that band. They're so awesome. Their lyrics, the guitar, drumming, singing, everything about them is epic.

 

[Ghengis John]

Japanese rockers "The Pillows" tend to be pretty awesome, as are the French band "Air".



Of course there's a lot of good french Electronica isn't there?

Then there's The joy Formidable, They're English:


And Metric, They're Canadian:

 

[Froken Keke]

Well, most of my favorite bands are brittish, so...?

 

[Colour Scientist]

Foreign?

Most of the bands I like are foreign, like ones from the U.S. and the U.K. so those.
I don't really have a concrete favourite though.

 

[Naeo]

Sigur Ros (Iceland, post-rock), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWiJWLiSKro] Rammstein (Germany, heavy metal), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRklZatZjg] Mogwai (Scotland, post-rock), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFd6k1BHDk] Boris (Japan, sludge/doom/heavy/progressive/thrash metal, ambient, drone, and some more), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld0jEcFUFko] Tenhi (Finland, neofolk), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti7AGjvGcn0] and The Church (Australia, progressive/space/standard rock) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bHSvzbEe0k]. Among a few others. But, those are my favorites, depending on my mood.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

My favorite Japanese band..

And my favorite Foreign band altogether...

 

[ohHaiGuiz]

Rammstein,Angra,Sepultura to name a few.

 

[jprf]

My favorite foreign band has/had to be the Jimi Hendrix Experience, although calling it a band is perhaps stretching it a little- let's face it, Hendrix is the main attraction.
It remains to this day one of the finest examples of blues-rock guitar ever.

 

[12GaugeLobotomy]

Most of my favourite bands are from Scandinavian countries. Something about the cold and frostbitten north that inspires the darkest, vilest metal out there..


To be fair though, the music scene in my home country is a bit stagnant :/

 

[Dags90]

Foreign?

Most of the bands I like are foreign, like ones from the U.S. and the U.K. so those.
I don't really have a concrete favourite though.

America? How exotic!

The point of these threads isn't actually to post your most favorite band from a different country. It's to one up each other in musical obscurity/sophistication without overtly seeming like hipsters. It's about looking worldly and such.

In that vein, I present Airys:

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

Two Door Cinema Club. I mean, they're Irish, so they speak the same language as me, but they count:

 

[New Troll]

Razorlight, Prodigy and Rammstein. Those be my three favorites.

 

[Kryzantine]

Probably DDT, from Russia. Though if we're talking all time, there's no question it's Kino, also from Russia and basically the country's own version of the Beatles. Russian rock exploded because of the latter.

Apocalyptica qualifies as well. Where Russian music sometimes merges symphonies and rock groups for the sake of music, Apocalyptica just merged the genres themselves.

 

[Gaiseric]

Blind Guardian. They are tied with Iced Earth as my favorite bands.

Spoiler

edit: Sonata Arctica is cool too.

 

[Colour Scientist]

America? How exotic!

Yeah, most people haven't heard of it.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

My two favorites are Maximum The Hormone and Tokyo Jihen:
This is the only video I could find with this song.

 

[putowtin]

Woodkid

he's french, he rocks!

 

[Shadow flame master]

Newest to me is Two Door Cinema Club. I also like Pheonix, Metric, U2, Tokio Hotel. Does Awolnation count 'cus I'm american. My favortie band altogether though is Muse. I love all of their songs so yea, they're awesome.

 

[disfunkybob]

This makes me reminisce about my youth. Not that I was suicidal as much as they are Australian! Around the same time I started giving bands nationalities. Do you know how hard it was back then?! My parents didn't get internet until 1998! And back then I upgraded my parents' computer with a 56k modem! Upgraded to a 56k modem! Using Napster with 56k would take the entire day for a few songs. Bah, you kids got it easy. Get off my lawn!