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Dags90

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AnthonTheSkabot said:
Music: Neutral Milk Hotel, Soul Coughing and Tullycraft.
Television: InfoMania, Vanguard and Warehouse 13.
infoMania and Vanguard are obscure? infoMania hasn't even been canceled for a month and it's obscure?

I'm really into The Frozen Embryos, you probably haven't heard of them.
*hair flip*

Points if you get the reference.
 

onewheeled

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I listen to a lot of local punk music (The Secretions, Cobra Skulls, Hit Reset, Phenomenauts, Re-Volts, Carbonites, stuff like that, if anybody cares), I guess that counts as obscure, since most of them don't play any shows outside of California, minus Cobra Skulls, who are INCREDIBLE and you should all look them up RIGHT NOW.


Also, Rabbit Junk. I learned about them from this forum, and whoever it was that posted "Ghetto Blasphemer" by them first, I love you. They're one of my favorite bands now.
 

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Music:

I have many bands that are very obscure which I love but the most obscure would have to be 'Mar' which is funny because the band introduced me to post-rock music which is now my favourite genre.

It's a one-man band though he gets help from other artists when recording and album, I would love to meet him one day, his music really helps me relax and i'd love to tell him how good a musician he is in person.

http://www.myspace.com/silenticeland

Games:

Eternal Silence - This is actually a mod for the source engine but it's a really good game, sadly it has almost nobody that plays it which is a shame because it's so damned good.

For a lot of the game it is a first-person shooter on board large space ships, the objective of each team is to destroy the enemy ship. Now the bit that is really really good is that you can pilot ittle fighter ships wich you can use to attack other enemy fighters and attack the enemy ship from the outside, it's actually got some pretty complex gameplay to it.

FPS gameplay:


Space battle gameplay:


http://www.eternal-silence.net

Movie:

Ravenous, its a great movie with an awesome sound-track, it was in cinemas but it never really took off which is a real shame.

 

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Tunguska Electronic Music Society, possibly the greatest artists to walk the earth. Also a load of really obscure/unsigned metal bands.
 

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Citizen Sane said:
Music: Voltaire- love him but know one knows he exists.
He's actually quite popular in certain circles.

OT: I listen to a lot of math-rock, which isn't the most well-known of genres, I guess. I also play a lot of indie games, which tend to have small but dedicated followings until they make it onto Steam or XBLA.
Other stuff.. I'm interested in quite a lot of obscure-ish scientific things like morphogenetic fields and stigmergy.
 

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I love this one unsigned band jst for it's style and rhythm. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Farewell-Forever/111154428967251?sk=app_2405167945
Check 'em out.
 

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Games:
Dark Cloud 2
Zenonia

Movie
DragonSlayer anybody else here seen it?

Book
Latin Quips At Your Fingertips
 

ShindoL Shill

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KefkaCultist said:
I like a lot of obscure music kinda as I go through related videos on Youtube and find relatively unknown bands. I'll put just a few examples in this spoiler here:
Deathcore/Dubstep hybrid between the singer of Suicide Silence and Big Chocolate. They're both pretty big names on their own, but a lot of people I know haven't heard Commissioner.

Between my dubstep friends who all listen to Deadmau5 I was the one who found Ephixa and they love me for it because dubstep remixes of Legend of Zelda songs are awesome.

Pretty good alternative band that isn't really popular yet. Their music is featured in Black Box TV videos a lot.

Greek metal band that uses and entire orchestra in their songs. Not sure of their popularity in Greece, but in America people shit themselves when I have them listen to this cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It"

They're an independent comedy metal band who have gotten pretty popular due to the Beer! song, but a lot of people don't know anything else by them. Saw them at Warped a few weeks ago too.

Whispered is a Norwegian band that plays Japanese Samurai themed songs and uses traditional Japanese instruments in several of their songs.

Not too obscure since they played Warped Tour and they've been in a bunch of magazines, but it seems that NO ONE I talk to knows who they are so I share them a lot.

So yeah, those are just a few notable "obscure" bands that I have. I don't really have any obscure things other than music.
ive been listening to Enter Shikari for a while. theyre a lot less obscure in the UK. and Psychostick are the pluh.
OT: i listen to quite a bit of indie music (the decemberists etc). not sure about the obscurity...
 

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a unique take on the saturated and boring genre of music known as dubstep:

they call it "treedub"
http://soundcloud.com/skytree/sets/treelights/
 

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I don't really have any books or movies I enjoy that I would consider obscure, but for music my favorite artist is The Flashbulb (Benn Jordan) and I also enjoy Xploding Plastix...I'm not sure how "obscure" those are, but when I talk to anyone about them they say they've never heard of them.
 

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StBishop said:
KefkaCultist said:
Enter Shikari was in a major music magazine in Australia in 2008. I remember because my ex (who wasn't my ex yet at the time) got super hipster-pissy about that as she'd been a fan since before they were signed.
TrilbyWill said:
KefkaCultist said:
ive been listening to Enter Shikari for a while. theyre a lot less obscure in the UK. and Psychostick are the pluh.
OT: i listen to quite a bit of indie music (the decemberists etc). not sure about the obscurity...
Yeah I kinda figured they'd have more popularity in other countries, especially in England since they're from there, but in the states (at least wher I live) they're pretty much unheard of even though they've been on a Kerrang Magazine cover. I saw them at Warped Tour the other week and their crowd was depressingly tiny compared to other bands there (they're awesome live btw).

Also, @TrilbyWill: I love Psychostick. I saw them live at Warped as well and got them to sign a dollar bill of mine. Never heard of the Decemberists so I can't really comment on the obscurity of them.