In this thread you will post quality alternative bands nobody has heard of

[GTS_300_Coupe]

The thread is dedicated to all those talented bands out there that the mainstream population will never get to hear because the top 40 pop charts are flooded with no talent droning garbage.

Post your favourite alternative band(s) here and a few sample songs you recommend anybody to download if they were to check out the band.


The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing
The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secrets
The All-American Rejects - Stab my Back

The Starting Line
The Starting Line - Inspired by the $
The Starting Line - Hello Houston
The Starting Line - The World

Treble Charger
Treble Charger - Brand New Low
Treble Charger - American Psycho
Treble Charger - Friend of Mine

Oleander
Oleander - Are you There
Oleander - Boys dont Cry
Oleander - Never Again

Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights - Diamond Eyes
Hawthorne Heights Life on Standby
Hawthorne Heights - Dissolve and Decay

New Found Glory
New Found Glory - My Friends over You
New Found Glory - All Downhill from Here
New Found Glory- Sonny


Thats all I can think of at the moment, I'll come back later with more bands. :

[MISTA FIESTA]

Cold - Stupid Girl
Cold - Happens All the Time
Cold - Different Kind of Pain
Trust Company - Stronger
Trust Company - War is over

[Tote]

Buckcherry have an awesome new album to be released in april, copies are on the net, I'd recommend it to anyone who likes hard rock. It's available on import from Japan.
Album title is "15"
Regards,
Tote

[big_pete]

not really a 'band' but they used to call him 'the one man band' even though he is a rapper/producer....
DJ QUIK

[Venomous]

Originally Posted by GTS_300_Coupe

The thread is dedicated to all those talented bands out there that the mainstream population will never get to hear because the top 40 pop charts are flooded with no talent droning garbage.

Post your favourite alternative band(s) here and a few sample songs you recommend anybody to download if they were to check out the band.


The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing
The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secrets
The All-American Rejects - Stab my Back

The Starting Line
The Starting Line - Inspired by the $
The Starting Line - Hello Houston
The Starting Line - The World

Treble Charger
Treble Charger - Brand New Low
Treble Charger - American Psycho
Treble Charger - Friend of Mine

Oleander
Oleander - Are you There
Oleander - Boys dont Cry
Oleander - Never Again

Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights - Diamond Eyes
Hawthorne Heights Life on Standby
Hawthorne Heights - Dissolve and Decay

New Found Glory
New Found Glory - My Friends over You
New Found Glory - All Downhill from Here
New Found Glory- Sonny


Thats all I can think of at the moment, I'll come back later with more bands. :

Hey, by the look of it you listen to most of the same types of music as me, although All american rejects and Hawthorne Heights are now pretty mainstream overseas (I downloaded HH's new album, it leaked, and its quite good, alot better then the last one)

Anyway here goes some

Anberlin
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Anberlin - Naive Orleans
Anberlin - The Runaways

From Autumn To Ashes
From Autumn To Ashes - Where Do You Draw The Line
From Autumn To Ashes - Kansas City 90210
From Autumn To Ashes - Milligram Smile

H.I.M.
H.I.M. - And Love Said No
H.I.M. - Burried Alive By Love
H.I.M. - Killing Loneliness

He Is Legend
He Is Legend - The Seduction
He Is Legend - I Am Holywood
He Is Legend - The Walls Have Teeth

Plus so much more, so so so much more.

[blutura]

Originally Posted by XR8 Guy

Anberlin
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Anberlin - Naive Orleans
Anberlin - The Runaways

anberlin rocks, but you're missing their best songs

paperthin hymn
(The Symphony Of) Blasé
the feel good drag

check 'em out at http://www.anberlin.com

they are touring at the moment too, but I think all the shows have sold out

[Redrum]

Anything by Damaged!

[Venomous]

Originally Posted by blutura

anberlin rocks, but you're missing their best songs

paperthin hymn
(The Symphony Of) Blasé
the feel good drag

check 'em out at http://www.anberlin.com

they are touring at the moment too, but I think all the shows have sold out

Yeah, anberlin kick ИИИИ, i just grabbed three of the songs i liked and wrote them down here, yeah i really wanted to go, too bad im under 18, damn that ИИИИes me off something crazy.

[bathurst77]

"In this thread you will post quality alternative bands nobody has heard of "

I will?
That seems very bossy of you.
...Maybe later...

[svo347]

Black Lung.. cd Iridium.

[THORNSPAWN]

Allow me to go through my collection
Band - Album - Song
After Forever - Decipher - Zenith - Gothic
The Amenta - Occasus - Zero - Melbourne band, insane drumming
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus - Exhile of the Sons of Uisliu - Death Metal Early album
Amorphis - Eclipse - Empty Opening - Latest album, note the change from their early stuff
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit - Underworld - recommend this band
Apoptygma Berzerk - You And Me Against The World - Maze - electronic rock stuff
Bathory - Hammerheart - Valhalla - 80s metal rules
Burzum - Filosofem - Dunkelheit - quite relaxing if you like this sort of thing
Covenant - Nexus Polaris - Chariots of Thunder - electronic meets black metal
Dark Funeral - Attera Totus Sanctus - Feed on the Mortals - awesome black metal
Devin Townsend - Physicist - Namaste - If you haven't heard of Devin Townsend then you suck
Elend - The Umbersun - Du Trefonds Des Tenebres - you want wierd listen to this
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse - Towards the Pantheon - more awesome black metal
Flowing Tears - Serpentine - Justine - easy listening gothic rock
Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols - Teethgrinding - even more awesome black metal
H.I.M. - Razorblade Romance - Right Here In My Arms - very good gothic rock
Hypocrisy - Abducted - Roswell 47 - one of my all time favourites
In The Woods - Strange In Stereo - Path Of The Righteous - strange indeed
Isengard - Hostmorke - Thornspawn Chalice - yep that's where I got my name from, old black metal
Kittie - Oracle - Into The Darkness - All chick band I'm surprised they're not more popular
Moonspell - Wolfheart - Vampyria - another of my all time favourites
My Dying Bride - Trinity - Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium - awesome death metal, must listen to this song
Old Man's Child - Revelation 666 - In Black Endless Void - damn I have some awesome black metal
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times - Hallowed Land - if you like Metallica you'll like this
Ragnarok - Arising Realm - Time Before The Birth Of Eight - yet another awesome black metal band
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times - Walk The Path Of Sorrow - brilliant early black metal
Satyricon - Volcano - Repined Bastard Nation - a nice taste of their latest offering
Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear - Der Tans Der Shatten - Gothic metal but their later stuff sucks
Within Temptation - The Silent Force - Forsaken - another band I'm surprised isn't more popular

that's about all I could be bothered typing at the moment
Enjoy
:sm_headba :sm_headba :sm_headba

[BlueKoop]

Senses Fail
Amber Pacific
Fall Out Boy
Silverstein
Finch
Thrice
Alkaline Trio
Story of the Year


... ect ect

[biomechanic]

Originally Posted by THORNSPAWN

Allow me to go through my collection
Band - Album - Song
After Forever - Decipher - Zenith - Gothic
The Amenta - Occasus - Zero - Melbourne band, insane drumming
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus - Exhile of the Sons of Uisliu - Death Metal Early album
Amorphis - Eclipse - Empty Opening - Latest album, note the change from their early stuff
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit - Underworld - recommend this band

etc etc

I heartily endorse these products or bands. You have excellent taste, sir!

My selection:

Hypocrisy - All Turns Black
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Armor for Sleep - Stay on the Ground
Armor for Sleep - Car Underwater (for all you emo kiddies)
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
Cruciform - Paradox (one of the best solos I've ever heard)
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Godflesh - Empyreal
Immortal - Tyrants
Immortal - Beyond the north waves
Immortal - In my kingdom cold
Jesu - Tired of me
Jesu - Your path to divinity (The Endless Path remix)
Maudlin of the Well - Geography
Maudlin of the Well - Heaven and Weak
Maudlin of the Well - The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth
Maudlin of the Well - Catharsis of Sea-Sleep and Dreaming Shrines
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity
Mazzy Star - Five String Serenade
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Charlotte
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Sparkly
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - On The Low
Haujobb - Penetration (Floor Mix)
Miranda Sex Garden - Peep Show
Miranda Sex Garden - Andera Sempre
Miranda Sex Garden - Cut
Miranda Sex Garden - Sunshine
Nazxul - Totem
My Dying Bride - Heroin Chic
My Dying Bride - The Cry of Manking
My Dying Bride - The Whore, the Cook and the Mother
My Dying Bride - A Kiss to Remember
Opeth - April Ethereal
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - The Drapery Falls :sm_headba
Skinny Puppy - DaddyuWarBash
Skinny Puppy - Candle
Skinny Puppy - Jahya
Three Month Sunset - Stom-ache
Walk the Earth - Rivers of Drought
VNV Nation - Beloved

[WOLF]

Local Bands like Hobbs Angel of Death, Destroyer 666, Gospel of the Horns & Spear of Longinus....should be heard ATLEAST once!

[Mark351]

Originally Posted by robscure

Local Bands like Hobbs Angel of Death, Destroyer 666, Gospel of the Horns & Spear of Longinus....should be heard ATLEAST once!

Definitely - you going to the show at the Green room, Feb 17? Gospel of the Horns + Denoucement Pyre + Veil of Anguish.

[WOLF]

Originally Posted by DeathXR

Definitely - you going to the show at the Green room, Feb 17? Gospel of the Horns + Denoucement Pyre + Veil of Anguish.

Yeah sure DeathXR I will be there...I have rarely missed a Gospel a gig over the last 8 or so years!!! The Denouncement lads should do a good job too...
good to see some decent gigs happenin again!

[THORNSPAWN]

Originally Posted by DeathXR

Definitely - you going to the show at the Green room, Feb 17? Gospel of the Horns + Denoucement Pyre + Veil of Anguish.

Veil of Anguish is my brothers best mate's band, I go to most of their gigs
so I'll more than likely be there too.

[Feathers]

Originally Posted by XR8 Guy

H.I.M.
H.I.M. - And Love Said No
H.I.M. - Burried Alive By Love
H.I.M. - Killing Loneliness

Soul on Fire and their version of Chris Isaac's Wicked Game are great too. PLUS they are touring in March this year!! (already have my ticket!)

Originally Posted by THORNSPAWN

Apoptygma Berzerk
Covenant
Paradise Lost

Originally Posted by biomechanic

Miranda Sex Garden
VNV Nation

I agree wholeheartedly!!

I'll add:
Deine Lakaien - Into My Arms
DeVision - Strange Affection
Bella Morte - The Rain Within Her Hands
The Last Dance - Nightmares/Do You Believe in Angels/Parade
Lacuna Coil - Heaven's a Lie
Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampyre Erotica/Paint it Black
Icon of Coil - Floorkiller
The Cruxshadows - Leave Me Alone (shaft 20/20 mix)
ASP Der Schwarze Schmetterling - Sing Child/Imbecile Anthem
Wolfsheim - Kunstliche Welten/Sparrows and the Nightingales
Ikon - King of Terror/Blue Snow Red Rain
KMFDM - Sucks/A Drug Against War/Godlike/Juke Joint Jezebel/F%&k Me
Mesh - You Didn't Want Me

[Venomous]

Originally Posted by Feathers

Soul on Fire and their version of Chris Isaac's Wicked Game are great too. PLUS they are touring in March this year!! (already have my ticket!)

Yeah, Dark Light by far is their best album to date i think, this album really got me into them, the other's never really catched me, but now im hooked lol. I wish i could go, but once again im under 18, damn it blows, all the good bands come over here and play over 18's shows.

[Feathers]

Originally Posted by XR8 Guy

Yeah, Dark Light by far is their best album to date i think, this album really got me into them, the other's never really catched me, but now im hooked lol. I wish i could go, but once again im under 18, damn it blows, all the good bands come over here and play over 18's shows.

You could always organise a weekend away to Sydney. Their show here at Luna Park is all ages. :

[crusher]

Dream theater! Not alternative. Prog metal/rock.

Their guitarist is a robot! dead set. Listen to him play and youll agree.

[HLC]

Originally Posted by crusher

Dream theater! Not alternative. Prog metal/rock.

Their guitarist is a robot! dead set. Listen to him play and youll agree.

Petrucci is a freak. noone can play THAT perfect night after night.

and when they covered Metallica's 'Master Of Puppets' album live, he played the solos better than Kirk does. :sm_drool:

[KEV EB XR8]

you young people, ha , wouldnt know good music if it hit you.

C&W - blues ah sweet

Paul Bonner- fire
Paul Bonner- a Land of our own

Sweet !!!!

[XRated]

Maybe a bit more Indie/Lo-Fi and some are probably a "heard of", but anyway:
Elliott Smith (most of his stuff, but in particular anything from his Either Or album and From a Basement on the Hill)
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
The Beta Band - The Three EPs
Mogwai - Come on Die Young, Mogwai (self-titled)
Eskimo Joe - A Song is a City
Anja Garbarek - Briefly Shaking

I've got a pretty broad taste, and a lot of my friends think I'm weird - but what would they know - they listen to R&B top 40 crud.

I've got lots of other unknown artists & groups but they fall under different genres (electronic, Trip-Hop, roots, drum n bass, acid jazz etc).

[NEG]

Nightwish
Hammerfall
Manowar
Gamma Ray
Blind guardian
Dreamtheater
Iron Maiden
Iced Earth

just to name a few.

[GreenMachine]

Iron Maiden is a quality alternative band that no one has heard of???

[Psycho Chicken]

Originally Posted by GreenMachine

Iron Maiden is a quality alternative band that no one has heard of???

No one after 1987 at least.

[lukey]

Its good to see in this thread lots of people like the same bands I do.

Academy Is
Acceptance
Armour For Sleep
Funeral For A Friend
Taking Back Sunday

..to name a few more good ones

[klawsterfobik]

/me fires up WinAmp.

Boy Sets Fire - kinda of Hardcore
Rookie
Handful of Redemption
Bathory's Sainthood
Release the Dogs

A Fire Inside (AFI) - Punk Rock (gone soft with their last album)
Silver and Cold
Paper Aeroplanes [makeshift wings]
The Prayer Position
The Sacrifice Theory

Camp Kill Yourself (CKY) - Metal
My Promiscuous Daughter
Flesh Into Gear
Triple Maniac Disease
Close Yet Far

Dropkick Murphys - scottish punk
The Gang's All Here
Rocky Road To Dublin
Walk Away
Good Rats

Finch - hardish core
Letters to You
Perfection Through Silence
Project Mayhem
What it is to Burn

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Punk
Switchblade
Little Rude Girl
Skunx
Mainlining Murder

Pennywise - Punk Rock
Any / All

Rise Against - Hardcore
State of the Union
To Them These Streets Belong
Swing Life Away
Blood Red, White and Blue

Tegan and Sara - Folk
Take Me Anywhere
Walking With a Ghost
So Jealous
Speak Slow

The Used - softcore / emo
A Box Full of Sharp Objects
The Taste of Ink
Sound Effect and Overdramatics
I Caught Fire (in your eyes)

Hilltop Hoods - Aus. Hip Hop
The Calling
Nosebleed Section
Immortal MC's
Dumb Enough

The Herd - Aus. Hip Hop
Long Lunch
Scallops
I Was Only 19 (redgum cover... awesome)
We Cant Hear You

Rancid - Punk
Old Friend
Ruby Soho
She's Automatic
Salvation

...and im not even halfway through my playlist

[MotherNatureVer2]

My cousins band Glance is awesome (well hes not in it anymore but they still rock )..... They have a CD called apercu (hes the drummer on that one) and theres another but Im not sure of the name ......