unknown and underrated bands

[anANGRYkangaroo]

Be prepared, I've got a lot here. Hopefully all my code worked properly, I dont want to have just wasted an hour typing and searching Here is a good assortment of some of my favorite songs from bands you've probably never heard of.



Falconer- Swedish Power/Folk metal. Really fast in some songs, about half are in Swedish, half are in English, and a voice you wouldn't expect in a metal band

English

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Carnival of Disgust
Spirit of the Hawk
The Clarion Call
The Legend and the Lore

Swedish

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Vid Rosornas Grav
Ridom, Ridom
Svarta Änkan
O, Tysta Ensamhet

Alestorm- Scottish Pirate Folk Metal. Yep, you heard that right. Kind of fast, like Falconer, but it is all in good fun

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Keelhauled
Shipwrecked
You are a Pirate!
Swashbuckled
^This one is making fun of another Pirate band, "Swashbuckle"^
No Quarter

Korpiklaani- Folk metal again, frequently using banjos, accordions, fiddles, flutes, etc. The singer has quite a growl to his voice, and it may seem a little heavy, but its one of the happiest bands I've ever heard.

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Vodka
Tequila
Metsamies
...and lastly from them, a Motorhead cover, complete with violin guitar solos
Iron fist

Puscifer- The love child of Maynard James Keenan (you may know him from "Tool") and Milla Jovovich. Kind of a trance-ish alternative band, really interesting.

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The Mission
Queen B
Indigo Children
Momma Sed
And now, time to make fun of country
Cuntry Boner

Nightwish Probably the most popular of the bands I am suggesting here, a lovely European power metal band, with female vocal leads, with a distinct opera sound to her voice. In some songs, they allow Marco to sing as well, and I must say, he has the exact beard I want to grow one day XD

For most of the bands existance, they had a vocalist named Tarja Turunen, the woman with the opera voice, giving the band a unique, mysterious feel. For their most recent album, due to conflict, Tarja was replaced by Annette Olzon, bringing a new flavor to the band. Annette also has a upper soprano range, but has more of a pop feel to her voice.

Tarja Turunen

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Over the hills and Far Away
Siren
Nemo

Annette Olzon

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Storytime
Amaranth
Bye bye Beautiful

Hell, lets throw some Marco into the mix

Marco

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The Islander

Lastly, a bit of Eluveitie, yet another folk metal band (I like folk metal, okay?) from Switzerland. They have two vocalists, one male, and one female. I only listen to the female most of the time, not personally a fan of growling/screamo.
Interesting side note, some of their songs are in an extinct language called Gaulish.

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Omnos

One more! the Dreadnoughts are a punk polka metal group from Vancouver, and they are just friggin awesome.

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Antarctica

Polka Never Dies!

If you actually listened to all that, I love you.

 

[wakeup]

poets of the fall, if you've played any of remedy's games you may have heard one of their songs a iconic one was used for the credits of max Payne 2. their music is fantastic and their not very well known unfortunately

 

[xplosive59]

Gonna split mine into sections...

Not unknown but under rated:

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Hybrid (Symphonic 90's IDM/Electronica)
Spiritualized (Modern Space Rock/Experimental Rock/shoegaze)
Boredoms (Japanese Experimental Post-Rock)
Flying Lotus (Experimental Trip Hop)
Karunesh (Ambient New-Age)
Drudkh (Ambient Black Metal)
Nokturnal Mortum (I talk about these guys alot) (Epic Black Metal)
Mono (Japanese Post-Rock)
Spinalcord (Japanese Progressive Metal)
Darkspace (Crushing Space Black Metal)
Unexpect (Avant-Garde Metal with an amazing Bassist/Chapman Stick player)

Unheard of and Under rated:

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Apokefale (Blackened Melodic Grindcore)
Alghazanth (Epic Black Metal)
Adavant (Blackened Power Folk Metal)
Jaga Jazzist (Jazz Fusion Post-Rock)
Minenwerfer (Pure Black Metal)
Njiqahdda (Ambient Black Metal)

There are a load more but I cannot be bothered to add any right now.

 

[EvilMaggot]

RAVENFACE!!!!

more from them!

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From thier upcoming album

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They need to get thier music spread! they are awesome!

The singer is my Brother and I think I know who you are ;P

Big up for repping them though, I was going do it but I'll give you props and I'll let him know.

i like!

Please do support them and go their facebook page and give them a like, we'll be eternally grateful and you get some sweet tunes.

Second album drops soon.

http://www.facebook.com/ravenfacedmetal

Hmm not sure that you do just huge fan of them ^^ Patrick J. Petersen but thanks ^^ imo they need to be heard by everyone!

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Here Come the Mummies. Seeing them live is always fun, and it almost immediately alleviates any stress I may have had that day. They perform dressed in full mummy atire, and they have a great energy about them. Watching them just makes you feel good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhG2lBLCtdA&feature=plcp

That's one of their animated music videos. I know I talked up their live performances a lot, but it can be hard to find good live footage. Here's a piece of live footage I was able to find. It features their signature invention; The Cowbelt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDiXPx2OqPI&feature=fvwrel

 

[deathzero021]

Astarte [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAPdEvuxs0]. An all-female black metal band from Greece. Truly amazing talent. Without a doubt my favorite black metal band. They add much variety and passion into their music. what keeps me away from the "traditional" black metal style is it's generic and predictable sound.

Another good band i might suggest is Abagail Williams [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04W_rAvBAg]. Another experimental black metal group (sadly disbanded now) however they're a bit more known.

And to finish off, an indie death/thrash band Deceased [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pPOp7lu0Hs] is a one of a kind. Still active and still keeping it brutal. A unique blend of thrash and death with harsh but understandable vocals.

 

[Lyri]

Hmm not sure that you do just huge fan of them ^^ Patrick J. Petersen but thanks ^^ imo they need to be heard by everyone!

Aha you weren't one of the two people I thought you could be, well played sir.

I'll see what I can do about getting James to maybe give you a shout out on the facebook page, thanks for supporting RavenFace and keep spreading the word.

 

[piinyouri]

Spoiler: Anacrusis, proggy thrash band

Spoiler: Anchorhead, a goofy and fun band that didnt last long, but gave us this masterpiece.(This is only the second half, can't find the full thing sadly.)

Spoiler: Anthriel, power/prog that wrote an album about Drizzt.

Spoiler: Anubis Gate, spectacular proggy rock/metal stuff

 

[wookiee777]

Alright. How about some obscure Atmospheric Black Metal?


Sorry, I don't know how to embed. Color me embarrassed.

EDIT: Never mind, a kind gentlemen helped me learn the secret art of embedding.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

Joan as Police Woman is one that I discovered recently. Not totally unknown, but she's never had any particularly wide-reaching mainstream success. Here are some of her best songs:

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[OmniscientOstrich]

Alright. How about some obscure Atmospheric Black Metal?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzxTVc4E7I

Sorry, I don't know how to embed. Color me embarrassed.

Voila! For future reference you have to put the link in brackets and cross out the following:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzxTVc4E7I]

Track ain't bad either btw, sounds kind of Drudkh-esque.

 

[unicron44]

I'll go with a few.

First I'll do unknown with is Gang Colours. He makes cool, atmospheric synth music.

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Another unknown is Peter & Kerry. I really don't know much about them but I stumbled upon them recently and I like what I hear.

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Peter & Kerry Peter & Kerry

Now for underrated.

Japandroids get a lot of love from blogs and Pitchfork and I like them a lot.

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Next is probably one of my absolute favorite bands, Metronomy. I think they are far more well known in the UK, but are virtually unknown in the US so I put them in the underrated category.

 

[wookiee777]

Alright. How about some obscure Atmospheric Black Metal?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzxTVc4E7I

Sorry, I don't know how to embed. Color me embarrassed.

Voila! For future reference you have to put the link in brackets and cross out the following:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzxTVc4E7I]

Track ain't bad either btw, sounds kind of Drudkh-esque.

Okay, thanks for the instructions on that. And thanks for embedding it for me. I'll try it on my post now. EDIT: It works! Thanks again!

 

[Dangit2019]

They got a bit popular because of their song "Sail", but AWOLNATION deserves a deeper look as the rest of the album is almost completely different.

 

[EvilMaggot]

Hmm not sure that you do just huge fan of them ^^ Patrick J. Petersen but thanks ^^ imo they need to be heard by everyone!

Aha you weren't one of the two people I thought you could be, well played sir.

I'll see what I can do about getting James to maybe give you a shout out on the facebook page, thanks for supporting RavenFace and keep spreading the word.

Ill always support Ravenface and keep spreading the word about them truely a great band that just needs to get more attention and thanks the least i could do for them

 

[TheFunPolice]

This guy is incredible, He recorded 90% of the instruments himself *aged 17* and he's been getting bigger and bigger over the past year

Did I mention he's also a good friend of mine? I'm not saying he's amazing just because I'm friends with him, His music actually IS incredible

Ladies and Gents, I give you, GEORGE BARNETT!!!




And the rest of his album is up on youtube