Introducing Obscure/unknown groups

[Perad]

Right this thread is here to give people the chance to introduce a emerging or underground group. Although a few people may know these groups, most won't. The only rule is that the group must have released a record of soemkind, be it a single or EP. Or they have some music on www.purevolume.com. There's no point recommending a band no one can listen to.

The format is as follows.
Band:alexisonfire
Genre:emocore
Best/Favourite Songs:Get fighted, white devil
Brief Description:A good band, maybe not my favourite, but recently they have grown on me alot. They have mature lyrics and can play instruments well.

Recommend away

[Duke Manboy IV]

All right, this may be a problem. The definition of "obscure" will cause the problem, since some people I know call bands like "Marylin Manson" obscure, what's ridiculous to be blunt. I, and lots of other, on the other hand, would be able to name you several bands you never heard of before in your entire life. These bands are very local and most of them haven't even made a record yet, they only do carnival shows and stuff.
I would like a definition for "obscure/unknown" though.

Band: Belgian Associality
Genre: Hardcore Punk
Favourite songs: "Boerderie", "Wodka", "Frak aan", "Bompa punk",...
Brief description: A bunch of drunken, overaged, unemployed losers that can each play their instrument in an awesome way and together do nothing but making great music, smoking and drinking.

Band: Fuck no Darm
Genre: Grunge
Favourite songs: "Wij zijn Fuck no Darm", "Suicide", "Theofiel de pedofiel",...
Brief description: This duo (two friends of mine) makes incredibly raw and good grunge and only play live. There is one problem with them though: the vocalist/guitarist always is stressed and drinks his stress away. He usually drinks too much and on stage he is fucking pissed; his guitar is splendid because of this, but none can understand his lyrics because he just starts shouting and yelling and in the end all songs sound like "lalalala"

Band: Fusion
Genre: Punk (some hardcore, some softcare)
Favourite songs: Can't remember any, I was too drunk last time I heard them.
Brief description: a good band with a cool "fuck off, we don't care"-attitude. Female vocals are the finishing touch to make this a talented band.

Band: the Agitators
Genre: "Farmer punk"
Favourite songs: They play Dropkick Murphy's covers only, yet are incredibly busy writing their own songs at this exact moment.
Brief description: A Dropkick Murphy's cover band with great vocals and a very talented bass player. They have the ambition to become as famous as the Dropkick Murphy's.

Band: the Roadrunners
Genre: Rock & roll
Favourite songs: They never tell anyone the titles of their songs, since they want to be obscure, but there is this one song that sounds incredible. I'll annoy them until they give me the title and edit this post.
Brief description: A young father, an overaged hippie and a gypsie in a band. This should be fun, and it is. The guitarist can play Jimi Hendrix with his eyes closed and the drummer drums as if his life depends on it. This is one all should know.

Band: Naked Monk
Genre: Grunge
Favourite songs: "Come on", "We are Naked Monk", "Another brick in the wall (Pink Floyd cover, but own version)",...
Brief description: Some secondary school friends decided to make a band without one of them knowing how to play an instrument. Now they are known in the entire village with their cool, catchy grunge and good Pixies-covers.

Some other bands: Muddy Yard, the Norvikings, Raised Finger, Mindswitch,...

[Perad]

Ok obscure, is not to well known. Bands that have failed to grace the big stage.

[Duke Manboy IV]

Well, that still doesn't do it. Look up obscure in the dictionary, because in my opinion, giving a concert for 120 people is big and giving a concert in front of 7 people ("Fuck no darm" actually did that) isn't.
I need to know: where is the line between being obscure and not being it.

[Perad]

Ok fine, what about relatively unknown. So lets say bands skimming the top of the "underworld" to bands about to emerge. How sthat for you?

[Shadowed|banned]

iamnotheend, mind giving a better description of Alexisonfire? If it weren't for the genre, I'd know nothing about what kind of music they play.

[Angry Panda]

Band:Refused
Genre:Punkish Hardcorish Crazy Goodness.
Best/Favourite Songs: The Refused Are Fucking Dead
Brief Description:The fucking rock. for a breif sample of a song go here... www.pwned.nl

[Perad]

iamnotheend, mind giving a better description of Alexisonfire? If it weren't for the genre, I'd know nothing about what kind of music they play.

http://www.purevolume.com/alexisonfire is sample not there best stuff tho. Basically... and i quote "a blend of turbulent and explosive dynamics with intricate guitar melodies and beautiful singing."

[Duke Manboy IV]

some more bands...

Band: Twenty 4 sunrise
Genre: Rock & roll
Favourite songs: "Rock kitten", "Poes", "Ode aan 't pagode",...
Brief description: Awesome drumming, slow and smooth bass and nice, relaxed guitar solo's: the perfect ingredients for an awesome rock band.
These guys have no ambition of becoming a rock star though and will probably never become famous.

Band: Trashed little ponies
Genre: Hardcore punk
Favourite songs: Don't know any titles, but saw them live and it was worth it.
Brief description: A lot of distortion and chaos on stage, yet good music and nice to pogo upon.

[soupnazi]

Band: The Aquabats
genre: Ska/electronica/silly
best songs: Captain Hampton and The Midget Pirates, The Cat With Two Heads, Chemical Bomb, and Pizza Day
info: they are a southern california band... they are very fun and silly... They dress up in super hero costumes... some of their songs are kinda ska-ish... some are electronica-ish, they are all pretty entertaining though...

Band:Flogging Molly (ok they arent that obscure but i know tons of people who dont know who they are...)
genre: punkish, hard and heavy, crazy good times. They have a very irish, celtic sound to em, but it kicks major arse
good songs: The Kilburn High Road, Black Friday rule, Devils Dance floor
info: Irish band, they were on warped tour this year... you just wanna get up and dance, and club people in the face with a baseball bat when you listen to them....

[Duke Manboy IV]

Band: The Aquabats
genre: Ska/electronica/silly
best songs: Captain Hampton and The Midget Pirates, The Cat With Two Heads, Chemical Bomb, and Pizza Day
info: they are a southern california band... they are very fun and silly... They dress up in super hero costumes... some of their songs are kinda ska-ish... some are electronica-ish, they are all pretty entertaining though...

Band:Flogging Molly (ok they arent that obscure but i know tons of people who dont know who they are...)
genre: punkish, hard and heavy, crazy good times. They have a very irish, celtic sound to em, but it kicks major arse
good songs: The Kilburn High Road, Black Friday rule, Devils Dance floor
info: Irish band, they were on warped tour this year... you just wanna get up and dance, and club people in the face with a baseball bat when you listen to them....

Flogging Molly are quite known indeed and they rock indeed. Let me give you another review on them. Don't know about the other band.

Band: Flogging Molly
Genre: Punk - Irish Folk (like the Dropkick Murphy's in a slight way, only far more Folk and far less Punk.)
Favourite songs (you forgot some good ones): "Cruell mistress", "Death valley queen", "Drunken Lullabies", "What's left of the flag",...
Brief description: A good Irish folk band with more balls then any other folk band I'd say. They have good songs with the real Irish attitude audible in it, yet the drumming keeps it all entertaining until the end.

Band: Sonar
Genre: Smooth rock & roll
Favourite songs: "Human", "From this day", "Angela", "Schoentje", "Little black", "Allright",...
Brief description: This band is hard to place within a genre, but they are hard not to enjoy and keep you happy with their songs.

[Darkstar_]

Band: Caroline's Spine
Genre: Adult Alternative
Favorite Songs: Turned Blue, Attention Please
Breif Description: Sounds really good first heard them on XM Radio.

Band: Nonpoint
Genre: MetalCore
Favorite Songs: Something in the Air Tonight, Things Haven't Changed.
Breif Description: I got their CD way before their released date to check them out. The sounded fast straight to the point and hardcore.

Band: Nailbomb
Genre: Metal
Favorite Songs: 24 Hour Bullshit, Their whole CD pretty much.
Breif Description: The combination of two great metal bands into a super band that only wanted one CD then wanted out. Didn't stay along for long. Get their only CD Pointblank.

Band: Boy Sets Fire
Genre: Emo
Favorite Songs: Handful of Redemption, My Life in the Knife Trade, Rookie.
Breif Description: Used to be a local NC band. They can kick it pretty good...they start of really mellow then they hit it up to high gear and go all hardcore. Had on CD...i think it was taken off the shelves though.

Band: 3rd Strike
Genre: Metalcore
Favorite Songs: Their Whole CD.
Breif Description: A really good band that went off the radar after their first CD and later fell apart. Still a good band though.

I have many more but my hand is tired from typing all of this.