What is your favourite overlooked underrated band.

[Bostonjohn]

That intro bro what the actual fuck, also holy fuck 25 mins I'm gonna be fkn dead tomorrow, or I could pull an all nighter.

Isn't going anywhere. Save it for later.

 

[Vallrain]

Isn't going anywhere. Save it for later.

The video is sick, as in sweet, can't be youtube friendly, made my blood fetish tickle a little lmao, that's worth the watch, they're definitely having fun about half way in lol now am hooked.

 

[jlp95]

They suffer as dreemstate does for their use of devil worshipping hard core screaming that throws off 90 percent of all people which I never understood.

For me the false chord screams need to serve a purpose, so the overly hard to understand stuff ironically as I listen to instrumental an pagan folk music annoys me, as it seems to take my attention away.

And I'm a sucker for soft and hard, and they do it well enough they sound like a wish version of disturbed, dreamstate is lucky they have a chick, as female screamers are a rarity lol, so they get a tiny boost.

Sometimes I wonder why bands like this rot at the bottom but disturbed went hard, they sound pretty good, perhaps it's their live though haven't heard em, and most screamo bands sound awesome live, where as pop stars often sound shit to me live.

This is a really, really good example, disturbed quality lyrics with bullet style music, but about 50 percent heavier and softer lol, perhaps it's the mix.

Like dreamstate is too soft for people who enjoy death core but also to heavy for those 90 percent that hate screamo 😔 😟.

You know of index case?

 

[Mondriaan]

 

[Vallrain]

You know of index case?

No but I have listened to all their music as you suggested 😆.

I'm a sucker for new music, work is boring without some sick beats.

 

[Vallrain]

For a band popping up post ww2 they sounded fairly chill lol.

Assuming my attempt at reading the non translated wiki page is even 12 percent accurate lmao.

They are definitely quite hidden, bro has more talent than Bieber but no desire to lean into what others wanted, just having fun making music, assuming they're long dead now though, I saw albums released 20-25 years ago.

The language threw me and had to google to figure it out 🤣, thanks for the addition.

 

[littleblackangel]

Cold Cave

They are so amazing live too

 

[GarGoil]

Conor Oberst

 

[Vallrain]

Cold Cave

They are so amazing live too

I saw that the marines are gonna deport LA in a few hours so maybe they should do a live show in the streets as the shots start ringing out.

I'd watch the shit out of that and it would give them hellah exposure 🤣.

I'm convinced one dick head is gonna shoot at the soldiers to try and egg a shoot out for their political agenda, quite worrysome, but cold cave getting deported live would be a historical concert for the ages.

Just gonna spotify them and piss off my boss some more with, "strange music" which I think is code for "anything but mass produced pop and dubstep..." will get back to you once I've had a chance to listen to them more in depth.

 

[Vallrain]

Cold Cave

They are so amazing live.

Lmao, he came up to me on the second track as I'm on the fork and his like "what is this I feel like I wanna cut my throat listening to this" ahh fk his a funny cunt.

I notice the bands we GG-ians like are quite deep with the crudeness and not singing about how lovely and kind the world is, which makes total sense.

Though hopefully you are at least chill and not always sad, as this band seems to be a sad, dark and honest one, gives the helpless existential nihilistic vibe to it, and dealing with nihilistic tendencies is kinda shit, though not the fault of the nihilist, or the lesser depressed or saddened individual, a song i like by my top band thats more uplifting emo is "Background Sad" where "Icon For Hire" sing about a sadness that hides in the background that never goes away, and I think about that "Background Sad" alot since I heard it.



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I really like it when the girl adds those clearly spoken lines like poetry throughout the music in Cold Cave, gave me chills.

 

[Denim Chicken]

Hanson

 

[LonesomeLoser]

While they certainly have a following of their own and have left some sort of lasting impression on progressive rock/metal, I feel like King's X may count as overlooked. They're pretty great.





This is a different subgenre, it's emo-adjacent with some "math rock"(?) elements but I always thought Juliana Theory deserved a bigger following.




Yet another subgenre of rock, The Tubes kicked a lot of ass in their heyday but most people seems to know them for only one big hit She's A Beauty which is an admittedly great pop-rock banger but it doesn't exactly define their catalog.




In a somewhat similar scene and space as The Tubes is The Plimsouls, they were a solid post-punk adjacent band but their biggest hit may be their best and it's a banger. I use the term "hit" very loosely because it barely scraped the bottom of the Billboard Hot 100 and only due to its use in some Nicolas Cage movie called Valley Girl 🤣






And to veer into a wholly different genre, which is Americana, James McMurtry is one of the most masterful singer-songwriters who would be put on the same tier as Neil Young or even Bob Dylan in a just world. IMO.





There is so much more too but I am spent so I'll just leave you all with this.

 

[Vallrain]

Conor Oberst

My first impression is, who ownes a phone without a fucking camera, but the duet style in oblivion center is nice, though again a very sad ... ohhh seems orbest is like my bae Lindsey Stirling, where the artist hops around and does alot of music with other artist perhaps. Which I like as you get a good stylistic mix, I'm hoping the lady I can here is his lady lead cause I like her voice, and I prefer the sounds of a woman over a man lmao, personal preference is all that is, next up to binge.

Though my boss didn't say shit yet, he does know I can crush him to death to be fair, I'm trying to think of a lesser known artist that hops around a bit, linsey is too popular I fear, only 3m monthly on spotify, I was gonna pick neoni but they have 7m monthly Listeners even though lindsey is literally pure tallent



the violin is from her own piece called "Guardian" and it fits quite well with this track with mako, though if you dont know neoni they are a dark pop band if you are curious and haven't heard of them i can link one of their better tracks, unlike Lindsey they have some flops.

 

[Vallrain]

Hanson

Holy shit lol, I have 3k liked songs and Hanson is one of them lmao twas "MMMbop".

Kinda sound like 90's pop with a darker lyrical undertone but with a happy uplifting sound, not sure I know of a similar artist or band, listening makes me confused 🤔.
Like am I meant to dance or slit my wrists 😆, I'm also trying to reference similar bands to add to the challenge a bit.

I don't have a lot of strictly pop as i listen to some slightly more heavy music but..... that said "Redhook" is kina "heavy" (screamo not deathcore) but the sad undertone lyrics and up beat backing track are similar, "Cure 4 Psycho" is a little softer but most of their stuff is more screamo like "(Dreamstate) and (Index Case) which are kinda linkin parkish but heavier" also 210k monthly Listeners so not super popular.

Let me know if too heavy and I'll try again, and thanks, my boss apriciate the bopping backing track, though I doubt he is listening to the words lmfao, will keep us busy and will switch up after lunch.

 

[Vallrain]

While they certainly have a following of their own and have left some sort of lasting impression on progressive rock/metal, I feel like King's X may count as overlooked. They're pretty great.

I'll tackle in parts in spare time lol trying only to use what is in my collection and only give out those I really like lol without using ai to cheat and metal came up with only Metallica and you probably know who those guys are.

Though not super similar and with only a modest 100k monthly Listeners, I'm a fan of falconshield, they kinda make hymes to video games and most have some good metal sounding vibes but their style shifts alot depending on the game, if you are a gamer you might appreciate them.



I'll look at the others but king x is still playing.

 

[Alex Sickboy]

The Stooges
MC5
Dick Dale
Ramones
The Allman Brothers Band
Iggy Pop
Patti Smith
Uriah Heep

 

[Vallrain]

The Stooges
MC5
Dick Dale
Ramones
The Allman Brothers Band
Iggy Pop
Patti Smith
Uriah Heep

The stooges - seemed to have some good beats, but the slow 🐌 vocals didn't hit the spot for me, though I don't have a lot of metal as well, as far as strings go I'm more of a violin simp, and in the wind genra perhaps floutus are my bae, metal is one of my weaker ports of knowledge though.

Dick Dale - was good shit, @Father Corpse named them on page one, though we were in agreement that the jaz metal crossover period is sorely missing as of late, if composed well it makes for some mad bop. In contrast theres alot and i mean alot of pop drowning em out with ai lyrics lol.

Mc5 - at first sounded a little soft but their live shit is awesome, like the kicking out the jams album had alot more of a heavier tone, but still not quite there to add to my strange collection, perhaps the studio albums were trying to be a softer more unique sound which did them in.

The Remones - I'm a sucker for rock n roll, probably why I like screamo music so much, a blend of heavy and soft with a slightly quicker pace lyrically than the Stooges still with a soft metal vibe but more focus on the lyrics than the rifts, sounds like blink182 if they poped up 20 years earlier, though I may be off on that tid bit lol, blink likely coppied their format the more I listen.

- reminds me of punk rock like "Tonight Alive" except they aren't screamo and aren't as good live or as popular.



Every time I reload listening to the next Band it deletes my shit I need to make a new comment after alman Brothers.

Alman Brothers Band - they kinda sound like soul, blues but with a heavier twist of rock, will listen to more of their less popular albums in a bit once I start a new comment.

 

[John/G\]

Old Man’s Child, the Pagan Prosperity.

 

[Vallrain]

This is a different subgenre, it's emo-adjacent with some "math rock"(?) elements but I always thought Juliana Theory deserved a bigger following.

- though originally I really liked them they did a taboo practice I despise and raped their old stuff that fans liked instead of composing a new album.

Warning rant inbound. The thing I'll say out the bat is re-branding songs is a pet hate of mine, especially when it is the artists own songs, acoustic rebranding is as far as I can stand, but it seems they took all their most popular songs from 20 years ago and released two mini albums around them, why not make new music, I know it's alot harder and with a small following not in their budget it still makes me red with rage, reminds me of the veronica's untouched where the kept releasing fkn ep's, remixes and I eventually dropped them, like just stop lmao.

Though you gonna need to tell me what math rock is lmfao, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock rock, question mark....ahaha.

Reminds me of little known "Hey Monday" a band that only released a single album before breaking up, though not sure why, I found them by accident, she sounds like a heavier avril lavigne without that pop nonsense in her new stuff, though the album was pretty fkn mint ngl, less of a band more of a one hidden album lol, not as soft, I was trying to find a soft reference but thought you might like a hidden album.

 

[Vallrain]

Old Man’s Child, the Pagan Prosperity.

Old Man's Child slightly heavier than others but alot softer than my bae deathcore band Lorna Shore but they are a bit on the popular side as good deathcore is harder to find as there is so many indi bands that prefer the copy paste method, if you really like heavy stuff you'd love them.
As far as the album Pagan Prosperity I actually prefered "In Defiance Of Existence"



these cunts are legit top tier.