Awesome Yet Unknown Bands

**ChadHasADD** · Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 109 Location: Norco, Louisiana

it seems that Hellashes is the only one that knows what "unknown" actually means...

I'm not going to give any of my bands but come on...

HIM? unknown? that's stupid.

**Raen** · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 112

More people need to know who The Killing Tree are. They were Tim McIlrath's other band when Rise Against were just starting out, and they have much more screaming. Haven't done anything since 2003 though.

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**machchunk** · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Posts: 3829 Location: Pasco, WA

Calansho has always been my favorite unsigned band.
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**Bendover** · Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1069 Location: Monroe, WA

Electric Tiger Lily and DaVinci's Notebook (Look em up on youtube, their myspace page has got nothin on it, they're an a Capella group, they're really good, but not quite as unknown as I originally thought, still not enough people know about them.)
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**bballcenter7** · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 1313 Location: in IN

Well, I am 100% certain that no one will have heard of the band I'm recommending, The Toddlers, because they are a local band and are not represented in the national scene at all. They have 4 album releases though, and I shamelessly uploaded their entire greatest hits CD to my YouTube page because they are awesome and they need to be more widely recognized. Here are some of my favorites:

Clumsy

Lone Star State

Act Your Age

The Good Sleep

Here Comes Adam
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**Matt276** · Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 1242 Location: Princeton, NJ

moe. - Rebubula

Go listen to this. moe. is a jam band, and their music is centered on melodic guitar playing and vocal harmony. I started listening to their music this summer, and they gradually became my new favorite band. I've never heard anyone mention moe. in this forum, so I think it's safe to say they're pretty unknown. Seriously, listen to their music. It's amazing.
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**RiSmO213** · Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 97

since no one has mentioned them, drudkh is my favorite black metal band you should erally listen to them even if you don`t like black metal, the atmosphere is just amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stApWJHD5b0&feature=related

**Octavian** · Joined: 27 Aug 2009 Posts: 173 Location: Georgetown, TX

Tsjuder and Gorgoroth are the best well known Black Metal bands....

and Drudkh isnt really "unknown." I mean, they've been around for like, 7 years or so.
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**qays1991** · Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 434 Location: UK

I always thought a lot of british indie bands are nice... the only ones I can think of at the top of my head are...er...rodney?...er..jack's mannequin? wait...isn't that american?

oh yeah, wilco and the kooks are nice too. but what kinda songs are you into cuz that's the question...
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**OnionPowder** · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject:

The Beatles

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

Michael Jackson

Metallica

In all seriousness some of the answers in this thread made me lol. Morbid Angel? HIM? Seriously HIM? Anybody who has a skateboard that is sold in stores based off of them is not unknown.

Just go look in the Metal thread for awesome unknown bands. Bands talked about in there are only popular in the underground scene. I mean a great band like Phlebotomized only has 62 fans in their fan club on Facebook or a band like Aspid who only has 867 listeners on Last.fm (well 1067 if you count their name in Russian Аспид)
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**guitarroker** · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 1993 Location: Iceland

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Incredible progressive rock from Italy. Very nice stuff if you're into that kind of music.

Nektar - Krautrock/German progressive rock. I recommend their album A Tab in the Ocean, easily one of the better progressive rock albums out there.

Spastic Ink - Maybe not so much unknown as they are low-profile but they don't get mentioned as much as they really deserve. Get both of their albums starting with Ink Complete, you won't be disappointed. Excellent progressive metal/rock.
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**Ontwikseltsaar** · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject:

LifeForce.

Don't know them? I don't think they exist anymore...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_LsGSsgwJc
This is a cover by them. Not much else to find on the web... some guy from Last.fm had songs from them and rapidshare'd them :P Their original songs are actually awesome, quite the same style as that cover, but way darker, moodier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMLkX0wO9c
That guy uses one of their original songs - "Breed" - as music here. It's actually one of the happier songs.

(The last.fm page lists two bands called LifeForce, I mean band #1)

**EpicPwnager** · Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 218

[quote="OnionPowder"]Metallica
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What the hell's a metallica?
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