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Captain Squeegee. A rare combination of ska and psychedelic rock. Their album To the Bardos! is particularly great, and ranks among my top 5 albums of all time.
The Brotherhood of Dae Han. Southern rock with a hint of
black metalmetalcore.Black Bonzo. A modern-ish prog band that sounds straight from the 70s.
Bubblemath. Progressive jazz fusion. Their first album was light on the jazz and pretty low-budget, but their second album, Edit Peptide, is the best in the subgenre, IMO.
Lotus Child. Indie alterna-rock. They only had one album, but it’s creative and interesting.
Bubblemath is amazing. Will check out your other recs almost wholly for their inclusion.
The Brotherhood of Dae Han. Southern rock with a hint of black metal.
Which songs have hints of black metal? What I listened to sounded a lot more like metalcore.
Maybe I used the wrong descriptor. I’m not into screaming, so I tend to group all screaming/growling metal into the “black metal” label. 🤷♀️
Hah, yeah, of the harsher metal genres, Black Metal is probably the one with the least screaming ;)
Thanks for the correction! I’ve fixed the post. 😁
Yay! Black Bonzo! Lady of the Light is a great album.
Edit: oh that’s right, the album is self-titled
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Tyrant of Death coming in at just over 4000 listeners!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0v9Vjvjg6Swl0ZzJFEersr
He’s excellent. If you like industrial metal or the Doom soundtrack you’ll probably like ToD. There’s no vocals, so I imagine this will appeal to DnB and EDM fans as well.
I recommend Generation Bliss (link for bandcamp because it’s not on Spotify… wtf bro this your best album!)
https://tyrantofdeath1.bandcamp.com/album/generation-bliss
I must have listened to this 50 times
ohhhh shit… I started playing it and I’m getting chills at 20 seconds in. It’s so good. I’ve never heard anything like it.
ToD is nice, I have 3 albums :D
Nice!! I have almost all of them but I keep going back to the classics.
Monarch ! the slowest band on earth a French Drone metal band who is heavy as hell and plays so slowly that it’s edge between music and noise. Pretty great if you want to set-up a dark-ambience or want to chill out over slow music.
Also they’re great on stage and the musicians are accessible like you can talk with them after the concert
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Seriously though, this sounds like it’s right up my alley!
Technically they’re just over the 5000 monthly listeners limit (6955), but Xanthochroid is still relatively unknown and my favorite band of all time, so I can’t not share them.
Remember Twilight
With 230 monthly listeners, a lot more “unknown” than the others here :D A band since the late 90s, they call their music kammermusik-core (chambermusic core) and it combines several chamber music instruments with “spoken singing” and metal. The lyrics are German and usually about philosophical topics. Never successful, but they enjoy the project and treat it as a hobby. Originally met them as support for Haggard in 2004 (far more successful, good friends with the band, sometimes some member overlap) and they became one of my favorite bands ever since. Conveniently, the singer sometimes visits the city I live in for his day job, which is when we meet up (as a small band most of their touring is in their region, which is the opposite end of Germany, so I’m not seeing them live that often).
Not my favorites, but 2 bands I still love and listen to often, even smaller:
All:My:Faults
- Youtube - Taste these forbidden fruits and they’ll do you much worse than just throwing you out of paradise
- Spotify
65 monthly listeners, a German industrial/electro/metal/rock project with mostly English lyrics. Defunct since ~2008
Jessica’s Crime
52 monthly listeners, an American indie rock (with some post-rock, post-punk and industrial influences) duo from 1995, another hobby project that’s active on and off, though the last anyone heard from the founder was in 2019 on Facebook, 6 years since the last album :/
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I have no idea how to judge the number of listeners, but Norwegian artist Making Marks (formerly mylittlepony) is great.
And Nineteen Forty-Five literally has no bad tracks on either of their published LPs.
People tend to use monthly listeners on Spotify for this. It’s not a perfect metric as other platforms isn’t included, but it does the job
Pil & Bue - Norwegian 2-man band, emotive, melodic rock https://open.spotify.com/track/0kVNwwh6CGOoraQY7OBNEY?si=upyFAkKIR4WMqlKCwvQj_Q
Cybernetic Witch Cult - Doom metal with prog and stoner elements. https://open.spotify.com/track/7CYECvyqaE0Q2LqP9klpPq?si=ftVDlzEUSFS-ExUpVxGIrA
horseshoe theory - retrowave/synthwave/chillwave https://open.spotify.com/track/6ac1uMRP1AJxhfyTZLd6s1?si=8rNAQuJTR8Gv2n7-d-gvfA
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Joshua Rotten. A few singles, an EP, decent music that simply went nowhere and he hasn’t made anything in years.
Maybe my favorite band at the moment
Fathom XIX
Https://youtube.com/channel/UCJVgKoi_psT6xj1Ng1NVuwA
Also if you’re into pop punk
Lori Denae - 16 monthly listeners. Kinda Wanna is a great song.
Maida Rose - 1,192 monthly listeners. Harmony of Heartache is great too!
Found them through their singer’s YT channel. They describe themselves as acoustic stoner rock, which I feel is a good description. Lots of influence from Queens of the Stone Age.
Diamons Dallas Tex Although I’m pretty sure, a guy named Lil Texas is behind it, but I do not have confirmation.
200ish listeners a month… Criminal. This will likely be my hip hop album of the year if not the album of the year for me
Argyle Park and their official unoffical sequel AP2. Around 2.5k combined. My favorite song is “A New Wound” which is actually incorrectly listed as “A New World” but it is so unpopular that will probably never be fixed.
