Non Mainstream Bands. Indy w/e u wanna call em.

[Dooxy]

My favorite non mainstream bands arreeeeee
Coheed and Cambria
HIM
30 Seconds to Mars
Alkaline Trio
Live
Kasier Chiefs
Rammstein
Taking Back Sunday
Zebrahead
Motely Crüe

and more. Anyone heard of any of them? love 'em or hate 'em?

I live in Canada in the year 2006 :D Soooo Depending in what country or time period you are currently living some of these bands might be pretty mainstream :P

[J!nX]

H.I.M is very mainstream, The Alkaline Trio not to sure about but I love them to death saw them in november live was a great show. Taking back sunday and coheed and cambria also mainstream.

My Bands List:
3 Inches of Blood ( from canada btw :-P)
Gackt
Dir en Grey
Nuajabes
Nobuo Uematsu
Dragonforce

[OMNOMNOMALY]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]I live in Canada too, so I'm sort of in with the "underground" Canadian music *laughs*

pfft.
Coheed and Cambria? Mainstream where I am. Same with Kaiser Chefs, and Taking Back Sunday. *squeals* I LOVE NUJABES! I INTRODUCED MY FRIENDS TO THEM ^__^

My favourite indie (and we'll say semi-indie, some of them are getting pretty big) bands are:

Armchair Cycnics - from BC. Very very very good! They do quiet and loud music equally well.
Freezepop - Don't know where they're from, but they're very ladytron meets metric.
The New Pornographers - Always getting bigger and bigger. Canadian!
People in Planes - Don't know alot. They do "if you talk too much my head will explode. The title alone makes you love it.
Pilate - from Toronto!
Panic! At The Disco <-- getting less underground by the minute XP nothing groundbreaking, but their music is fun.
Jack's Mannequin - Don't know alot about them, but they're catchy.
The Juliana Theory - Canaadian ^__^
IMA Robot - the lead singer has a really unique voice.
Daphne Loves Derby - Acoustic-y goodness.
City and Colour - Eeee! Dallas Green =DDDD
The Bravery - very Killers-esque. Fun.
Brand New - weird, inconsistent styles.
Arctic Monkeys - These guys are HUGE in Britain, but they just started playing their music here.
Saves The Day - some music is better than others. Some sounds like they made it in a garage XD
The Scene Aesthetic - pretty and acoustic.
She Wants Revenge - intense. And not for children =P
Rock Kills Kid - They were on the OC! I was amazed.

And that's my bigger than I thought list of "underground" bands that I listen to.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[Dooxy]

where do you ppls live up here in canuck land? I'm in the Gta =D
those are some perdy cool bands.. @ least the ones I've heard of there.
But I think P!atd are over rated, Im not hating on any type of musicks here.. But lemme compare P! to rap music, they are comming up too fast, these artist arent all that good, rap music is like u goto bed on Fri. night, wake up monday morning and this guy is #1 on the charts.
Last month who knew who Ne-Yo was?... exactly... same with P! but this is just my opinion :D

[Transtic Nerve]

[QUOTE=Dooxy]My favorite non mainstream bands arreeeeee
Coheed and Cambria
HIM
30 Seconds to Mars
Alkaline Trio
Live
Kasier Chiefs
Rammstein
Taking Back Sunday
Zebrahead
Motely Crüe
[/QUOTE]

With the exception of Zebrahead, every single one of those bands is a "mainstream - band"... If they get radio play on a regular basis, then they are mainstream...

My favourite non-mainstream bands:
I would say 10 Years but theya re mainstream as of the last 4 months.
- Death From Above 1979
- Darkest Hour
- Opiate For the Masses
- Fischerspooner
- .... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
- Dead Poetic
- Godhead
- Econoline Crush (they're Canadian)
- Trust Company (althought they may be very close to mainstream)
- The Zutons

[Dooxy]

None of these bands get regular or literally any airplay here. Never seen any one of these on MuchMusic or MTV but I got MTV like last week lol, where do ya'lls live? Maybe someof these band are huge in Europe because i think HIM are pretty big, and in Canada the Highest Coheed has ever reached was 23rd on the charts i think, don't see them anywhere considering most countdowns start from 20 :(

I put Motely Crüe there cuz theyre old lmao:P ya k they are mainstream lmao but if you ask 10 teenagers on the street i dont think they wud know who they are.

[J!nX]

Dead poetic is good :)

[boothten]

[quote name='J!nX][size=1']Dead poetic is good :)[/size][/quote]
[size=1]Well, it's nice to know the new kids here at OB are fully reading and following the rules.

There are quite a few bands I listen to that wouldn't be considered mainstream. The Academy Is..., Armor For Sleep, The Black Dahlia Murder, Burden of A Day, Dead Poetic, The Fall of Troy, Fleshandbloodrobot, Glass Casket, Into The Moat, Job For A Cowboy, Saosin, Scary Kids Scaring Kids (My favorite band at the current moment), Senses Fail, and UnderOath are only a few bands I listen to that wouldn't really be considered mainstream. However, many of those bands are becoming more widely known. UnderOath for example, they've gotten much more listeners since Warped Tour here in the U.S.

I wouldn't really consider Brand New a non-mainstream band--they've been getting quite a bit of air-time here in San Diego.[/size]

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=trebuchet ms]Lan, we need to be friends, lol.

Our tastes seem to be pretty even, so I'll list bands that Lan hasn't listed. These are all at the top of my list of favorites, as I can't say I listen to much that would be considered mainstream. I took out bands that had easily accessible videos, or any bands who have really caught on at my area. THese include The Bled, Every Time I Die, The Chariot, He is Legend, etc.

Auditory Aphasia (...Other...)
Bloodjinn (Metalcore)
Christiansen (Hardcore Punk)
Circle Takes the Square (Screamo)
City of Caterpillar (Post-rock/Screamo)
Ed Gein (Metalcore/Punk)
Emberghost (Emo)
Fear Before the March of Flames (Screamo)
Flee the Seen (Punk/Emo)
The Handshake Murders (Metalcore)
iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou (Post-rock/Screamo)
Kaddisfly (Emo)
Kylesa (Punk/Metal)
Malady (Indie Rock)
The Number Twelve Looks Like You (Hardcore)
Pageninetynine, Pg. 99 (Screamo)
Say Anything (Indie Rock)
Suicide Silence (Metalcore)
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (Metalcore)

Have fun with it. ^^

And for the record, I live in North Carolina.[/font]

[J!nX]

[quote name='Lan][size=1']Well, it's nice to know the new kids here at OB are fully reading and following the rules.[/size][/quote]

Well, Didn't know 1 lined posts aren't allowed anymore. Sorry, I haven't used these boards since version 2 / 3. And for the record I'm not a child :-P

Also, going into deat metal you guys can't forget Caustic Christ, Gwar(even though they are pretty popular), and dead to fall

[Dooxy]

[quote name='Lan']Senses Fail[/quote] mwuahahaha sensed fail rocks sox by the minute. I'll look into some of the bands above :D u ppl seems perdy coolio.

The Sitcom also rock out loud xP listening to them while skating mwuahaha totally owsome.
112, Placebo and Closet Monster rock. :p

[Gen. Andronicus]

Emo bands are millionaires in the making.

[Guest Pixie_rich]

my favourite underground bands are probably Dark By Design, Sander Van Doorn and Mega NRG Man

[Justin]

[QUOTE=Transtic Nerve]With the exception of Zebrahead, every single one of those bands is a "mainstream - band"... If they get radio play on a regular basis, then they are mainstream...

My favourite non-mainstream bands:
I would say 10 Years but theya re mainstream as of the last 4 months.
- Death From Above 1979
- Darkest Hour
- Opiate For the Masses
- Fischerspooner
- .... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
- Dead Poetic
- Godhead
- Econoline Crush (they're Canadian)
- Trust Company (althought they may be very close to mainstream)
- The Zutons[/QUOTE]

Your musical taste, TN, interests me.

The interesting thing about bands like Coheed, TBS, and basically all those bands listed original is that they all have strong ties to the underground--even if they aren't underground anymore. The Free World is moving into an interesting era of musical ecclecticness.

I'll just give a list of bands I like. I don't care much at all for mainstream music...though, that's begining to change:
Norma Jean.
Bleeding Through.
AFI(one of the few mainstream bands I enjoy).
As I Lay Dying.
God Forbid.
Chasing Victory.
Bury Your Dead.
the Used(another).
the Bled.
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.

I could, like most such as myself, go on forever.

-Justin

[Jakehammaren]

J!nx, Gwar and Dead to Fall aren't death metal bands, just to let you know. Granted, they're awesome bands.

My favorite non-mainstream bands:

Ensiferum
Thyrfing
Mithotyn
Korpiklaani
Finntroll (although they're mainstream in Scandinavia)
Moonsorrow
Equilibrium (the German viking metal band, not the electronica artist)
Norther
Agathodaimon
Adorned Brood
Butterfly Temple
Asmegin
Bloodbath
Demonoid
Folkearth
Imperanon
Menhir
Nomans Land
Sinergy
Windir
Xasthur
Týr
Kalmah

Among others.

And I keep seeing tons and tons of very mainstream bands popping up under nearly everyone's non-mainstream lists... I'm not trying to pull elitism here (I love plenty of mainstream bands - In Flames, Children of Bodom, even some super-uber mainstream ones like Black Dahlia Murder and stuff like that). I just think that non-mainstream bands are what belong in a post about non-mainstream music. I was truly hoping to see some new bands here for me to check out.

And whoever put 3 Inches of Blood - hell yes. Love 'em. If you ever get the chance to see them live, do it. It's one of the best shows I've seen in my life. By the way, some other great Canadian metal bands: Into Eternity, Strapping Young Lad, Kataklysm, Tvangeste... there's more, those are just the ones off the top of my head. But yeah, check out Into Eternity's latest album, Buried in Oblivion. They're from Canada, and that album rules.

[Justin]

You'll have to tell where the heck is the Black Dahlia Murder mainstream? They're a rare play on even my satellite radio, they'd never be seen on MTV, and if you asked the average rock fan about them, you'd likely get a strange look.

Granted, they're big in the underground, but unless they're mainstrema in some other country, I don't know what you're talking about.

Thoough, I must say, I'd like to live in a country where the Black Dahlia Murder could be mainstream. They're certainly one of my band's biggest influences.

-Justin

[John]

Most of the non-mainstream bands I listen to (and thus, most of the bands I listen to period) are or were still really popular on the indie/underground circuit. Guess who's lazy about finding bands? :whoops:

Apocalypse Hoboken
Christiansen
Curve
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Drive Like Jehu
Fugazi
My Bloody Valentine
Pavement
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Propagandhi
Sage Francis
The Secret Machines
Slint
Soul Coughing
Soul Hooligan
Wolfmother

[Box Hoy]

Myspace is a pretty good place to find really underground stuff. I have way too many bands to list em all because of that damned site.

Here's a few though.
-Slaves on Dope
-Trashlight Vision
-Eluveitie (courtesy of jakehammerman)
-Facecage
-209
-Abby Normal
-Bella Morte
-Blitzkid
-Crisis
-Genitortures
-Graveyard Boulevard
-Makeshift Romeo
-Stereo Junks
-Virus 9
-Wache the Dead
-Larry and his Flask
-The Roe
-Illis Amora
-Desolation
-Fathohm

[Jakehammaren]

Black Dahlia Murder is one of the biggest Death Metal bands around right now, actually. For some reason, they've gotten huge in the hardcore scene as well, thus expanding their audience. They have a strong rotation on Headbanger's Ball (which is MTV, by the way), Uranium, Metal Asylum - all of the metal television shows, basically. All the big magazines cover them (and they've been featured on covers of some such magazines), and they get lots of press all over the web. They're huge! It's not a bad thing by any means - the kick ***. I'm just saying they're quite far from being an underground band. Their success is well deserved.

You see, "mainstream-ism" goes beyond simple radio-play. For example, I've never once heard Nightwish or In Flames on the radio, but those bands are massively mainstream. And again, like I said, being mainstream isn't bad by any means (unless it ruins the integrity of a band, but that's a different story).

[Justin]

I see. We simply have a different interpretation of what's mainstream.

-Justin

[Otogi-san]

Damn Jakehammaren, you beat me to it. ;) Also, have you heard Norther's cover of The Final Countdown? It's hilariously good.

I'll just list off a few, since I have schoolwork to do.

Absu, Sleep Terror, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Zombie Devourment (technically a local band, but not mainstream).

[DeadSeraphim]

[color=indigo][size=1][font=arial]I don't listen to a lot of non-mainsteam stuff, but I do listen to some. Namely, Apocalypse Hoboken, Crossbreed, The Kovenant, Bollweevils, The Descendants, Deadsy, The Flaming Tsunamis, The Herd, Leftover Crack and Zeromancer.[/font][/size][/color]

[The F-Bomb]

Here's My list:
Jupiter Sunrise
I Voted 4 Kodos
The Matches
Suburban Legends
The KGB
Larger Than Life
Lucky Boys Confusion
Bloc Party
Paramore
Anberlin
The New Pornographers
Figaro

I highly doubt you could find most of these bands at your local cd retail store (with a few exceptions of course)

[Justin]

[quote]Black Dahlia Murder is one of the biggest Death Metal bands around right now, actually. For some reason, they've gotten huge in the hardcore scene as well, thus expanding their audience[/quote]

I think the reason BDM has such weight in the hardcore scene is that they aren't really pure death metal. Not in the Cannibal Corpse/Nile way, anyway. They incorporate a lot of hardcore structure into their music, such as the breakdowns and other mosh-pit-friendly pieces.

If you're a fan of BDM, try out Through the Eyes of the Dead. They kind of pick up the same thread as BDM, but they put a different spin on it. It works out quite amazingly.

-Justin

[saru-miha]

I like Knee Deep...I also know Knee Deep.
Well... uhm...
I "know" Coby. I've really met him once or twice through my brother. ^^;
And I like them a lot. Not because I know him.
Of course, some people at school got word of the band some local guys started and started walking around in the T shirts. Without actually LISTENING to the music and actually UNDERSTANDING the emotion that the boys put into it.
But, sadly, they either recently disbanded or are going through serious problems.
Even though he is getting pretty mainstream, Marc Broussard.
He's got amazing vocal talent.
"Wow, all that soul coming from that little white boy?" Yes, he gets that a lot. XD