In one of those sort of "roundy-up" nearly-the-end-of-the-year type ways I wondered what new bands people have got into this year. They can be new or old bands, and you can have got into them by yourself or been introduced to them by someone else!
Okay, here are mine -
Arkona - Russian folk BM with amazing female vocals
Blut Aus Nord - French industrial BM
Drudkh - Ukrainian atmospheric BM with folky bits
Nortt - Slow as hell Danish funereal BM that you would dig your own grave to, or pull dead bodies out of ponds, but strangely uplifting
Pestilence, Possessed, Nocturnus - proper old school metal
Faun - Nice pretty German folk music
I think that's it!
Next!
Bands you have discovered for yourself this year
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Maisey
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This year...I can think of some recent ones. I'll skip out the really famous ones that I only got into recently. Being 17 I am still 'discovering' obvious bands.
She Wants Revenge - Just pure awesome, love it.
Thomas Dolby - actually an old school synth master, bought an album after seeing him support Depeche Mode.
Die Laughing - JUST getting into
KMFDM - Heard for the first time on a free comp, needed more.
The Cruxshadows - I don't care what people day, they are great on CD and even better live. Awesome
Razed in Black - I really like a few songs, flirting with them at the moment
Loads more, but those are the most interesting (others irange from Front 242 to Muse!)
She Wants Revenge - Just pure awesome, love it.
Thomas Dolby - actually an old school synth master, bought an album after seeing him support Depeche Mode.
Die Laughing - JUST getting into
KMFDM - Heard for the first time on a free comp, needed more.
The Cruxshadows - I don't care what people day, they are great on CD and even better live. Awesome
Razed in Black - I really like a few songs, flirting with them at the moment
Loads more, but those are the most interesting (others irange from Front 242 to Muse!)
Nationalise the f**king lot.
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The JAMs/The KLF - Heard "The Queen And I" here, and continued from there
Rosetta Stone - Thanks to the Pilot of the Forres Taxi
The Art Of Noise - A mate in town gave me loads of stuff
The Beach Boys - OK, I didn't quite discover them this year, but I finally got around to buying some compilations, and loving most of what I heard.
The Trashmen - From hearing The Ramones' cover of Surfin' Bird
The Rivingtons - From learning where The Trashmen stole Surfin' Bird from
Rosetta Stone - Thanks to the Pilot of the Forres Taxi
The Art Of Noise - A mate in town gave me loads of stuff
The Beach Boys - OK, I didn't quite discover them this year, but I finally got around to buying some compilations, and loving most of what I heard.
The Trashmen - From hearing The Ramones' cover of Surfin' Bird
The Rivingtons - From learning where The Trashmen stole Surfin' Bird from
The Marder and Romance
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I saw them on Jools Holland a few months ago and enjoyed them very muchMotz wrote:The Dresden Dolls - Simple piano + drums cabaret combo
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Fully seconded. Best catch of the year.Maisey wrote: She Wants Revenge - Just pure awesome, love it.
Unfortunately I discovered them one day after they'd played in Berlin and now they cancelled their support slot for Placebo.
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
David Wrench Especially for his cover of Radiohead's "Creep" and the fantastic "Fvck You (and your war on terror)".
Stephen Cooper & The Charlies. The only CD I bought with money this year was theirs. and worth it.
Tricks Upon Travellers They sound like they'd make the Levellers cry.
Tofu Love Frogs. Same reason, but no MySpace link 'cos they split up a million year ago (AFAICT.)
Pressgang I forget how I got into 'em, but I think it had something to do with Holmfirth.
Lack of Limits Crazy folky pixie-jazz from Germany. How can you NOT love it?
Stephen Cooper & The Charlies. The only CD I bought with money this year was theirs. and worth it.
Tricks Upon Travellers They sound like they'd make the Levellers cry.
Tofu Love Frogs. Same reason, but no MySpace link 'cos they split up a million year ago (AFAICT.)
Pressgang I forget how I got into 'em, but I think it had something to do with Holmfirth.
Lack of Limits Crazy folky pixie-jazz from Germany. How can you NOT love it?
Quite a lot, and far too many to list or remember. Been a better year for new (and old) bands than most others.
Honourable mention however simply must go to Blast for turning me on to the mighty VdGG.
Honourable mention however simply must go to Blast for turning me on to the mighty VdGG.
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
mh wrote:Quite a lot, and far too many to list or remember. Been a better year for new (and old) bands than most others.
Honourable mention however simply must go to Blast for turning me on to the mighty VdGG.
Forgot about Hawkwind and The Chameleons
Now what's all the fuss about Shriekback?
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This is less discoveries than quasi-rediscoveries, sooooo....
Fugazi: I hadn't listened to these self-righteous bastards in years. Repeater, Steady Diet of Nothing, In on the Kill-Taker and Red Medicine seriously rock. No wonder I've seen them so many times.
Wall of Voodoo: I'd never heard anything except Mexican Radio until just a few weeks ago. The stuff with Stan Ridgeway on vox is fantastic, sort of a synthy Dead Kennedys, in a way. Think synth-heavy new wave meets spaghetti-western guitar. Very well done, very interesting.
Jessica's Crime: as I mentioned, the former bass player is an old friend of my family. I found them via google and myspace, and then ordered the album through CDbaby. Gone to Texas is one hell of a good record. I find it to be particularly well-suited to driving hell-bent for leather across great swaths of the American West. It combines elements of everything I like.
The Geraldine Fibbers: I have always liked Carla Bozulich's cover of the entirety of Willie Nelson's Red-Headed Stranger, and thus I tracked down her previous work. It ain't country, and it ain't quite punk, but it's really fantastic. It's not the usual boring-as-sin alt-country crap either. Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home is an excellent record, with some fine, fine guitar playing on it.
Zeke: More of the 'hadn't listened to for years' stuff. Kicked In the Teeth and Dirty Sanchez are quick and dirty; sort of like Motorhead crossed with the Ramones screeching across the desert at a million miles an hour fueled entirely by the finest high grade meth Midwestern trailer-trash can produce, fronted by a man called Blind Marky Felchtone.
Fugazi: I hadn't listened to these self-righteous bastards in years. Repeater, Steady Diet of Nothing, In on the Kill-Taker and Red Medicine seriously rock. No wonder I've seen them so many times.
Wall of Voodoo: I'd never heard anything except Mexican Radio until just a few weeks ago. The stuff with Stan Ridgeway on vox is fantastic, sort of a synthy Dead Kennedys, in a way. Think synth-heavy new wave meets spaghetti-western guitar. Very well done, very interesting.
Jessica's Crime: as I mentioned, the former bass player is an old friend of my family. I found them via google and myspace, and then ordered the album through CDbaby. Gone to Texas is one hell of a good record. I find it to be particularly well-suited to driving hell-bent for leather across great swaths of the American West. It combines elements of everything I like.
The Geraldine Fibbers: I have always liked Carla Bozulich's cover of the entirety of Willie Nelson's Red-Headed Stranger, and thus I tracked down her previous work. It ain't country, and it ain't quite punk, but it's really fantastic. It's not the usual boring-as-sin alt-country crap either. Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home is an excellent record, with some fine, fine guitar playing on it.
Zeke: More of the 'hadn't listened to for years' stuff. Kicked In the Teeth and Dirty Sanchez are quick and dirty; sort of like Motorhead crossed with the Ramones screeching across the desert at a million miles an hour fueled entirely by the finest high grade meth Midwestern trailer-trash can produce, fronted by a man called Blind Marky Felchtone.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Undisputably true. The man is brilliant.Motz wrote:Foetus - You could teach the whole GCSE music curriculum from this guy's back catalog. Fact.
Really? I may have to check them out. I had been under the impression they were some sort of porno-goth industrial band.Motz wrote: The Dresden Dolls - Simple piano + drums cabaret combo
And probably some more that I'll remember in a while.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
They've got a gothic edge to them, but not in the batcave nonsense sense. For some reason they reminded me of Ute Lemper, but given that I've not heard anything by her for ages, that may be a total lie. Their records are nicely produced too, none of this dodgy wall of sound stuff.
@Si: Shriekback are The The done properly. Where Matt Johnson starts out promising but evens out, they just keep going. [Note: Comparison based on "Big Night Music" vs "Soul Mining" and "Oil and Gold" vs "Infected"]
@Si: Shriekback are The The done properly. Where Matt Johnson starts out promising but evens out, they just keep going. [Note: Comparison based on "Big Night Music" vs "Soul Mining" and "Oil and Gold" vs "Infected"]
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Still haven't managed to see them live yet. Apparantly the singer is alright...
Still haven't managed to see them live yet. Apparantly the singer is alright...
Been a while, ahem
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Tokamat.Fusion.Test.Reactor from our own Belgian Limburg is the most recent one (the bastard child of The Prodigy, Hawkwind and Ozric Tentacles), but I have to admit that MySpace and especially Pandora.com gave me a lot of interesting bands! 
Amongst others:
- the Dark Ambient March Music of KARJALAN SISSIT,
- the flipped-out film-music-meets-glitch-and-noise of Darrin Verhaegens SHINJUKU FILTH,
- the even more fecked up sounds of VENETIAN SNARES,
- the eerie ambient of NORTHAUNT,
- some individual HEARTLANDERS!... as our James always said before: talent will out! And we have a lot of talent on this forum!
IZ.
Amongst others:
- the Dark Ambient March Music of KARJALAN SISSIT,
- the flipped-out film-music-meets-glitch-and-noise of Darrin Verhaegens SHINJUKU FILTH,
- the even more fecked up sounds of VENETIAN SNARES,
- the eerie ambient of NORTHAUNT,
- some individual HEARTLANDERS!
... as our James always said before: talent will out! And we have a lot of talent on this forum! IZ.
The TheMotz wrote:@Si: Shriekback are The The done properly. Where Matt Johnson starts out promising but evens out, they just keep going. [Note: Comparison based on "Big Night Music" vs "Soul Mining" and "Oil and Gold" vs "Infected"]
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met him this October in MoscowMotz wrote:Foetus - You could teach the whole GCSE music curriculum from this guy's back catalog. Fact.
very nice person
that conversation made me listen his albums
i was really impressed
YES! their cover of "Orgasmotron" is amazing.boudicca wrote: Yat-Kha
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I want some of whatever you were drinking when you wrote this.@Si: Shriekback are The The done properly. Where Matt Johnson starts out promising but evens out, they just keep going. [Note: Comparison based on "Big Night Music" vs "Soul Mining" and "Oil and Gold" vs "Infected"]
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You lucky thing! Guy's a genius, fact.ormfdmrush wrote:met him this October in MoscowMotz wrote:Foetus - You could teach the whole GCSE music curriculum from this guy's back catalog. Fact.
very nice person
that conversation made me listen his albums
i was really impressed
Tim thinks he's s**t, but what does he know?
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no 'star' behaviourboudicca wrote:You lucky thing! Guy's a genius, fact.ormfdmrush wrote:met him this October in MoscowMotz wrote:Foetus - You could teach the whole GCSE music curriculum from this guy's back catalog. Fact.
very nice person
that conversation made me listen his albums
i was really impressed
Tim thinks he's s**t, but what does he know?
that's the main