Albums you should know but probably don't.

[TheDriller]

^ Tasty

 

[VH1]

Absolutely loved The Flaming Lips and a big plus on Mayhem's GDoW being their best!

Artist: Oren Lavie
Album: The Opposite Side of the Sea
Year: 2007
Genre: something around folk
Recommended If You Like: prog, folk, soft music
Sample Song:

 

[GarethSE]

Artist: Blind Idiot God
Album: Cyclotron
Year: 1997
Genre: Instrumental/Dub/Rock/metal
Recommended If You Like: Roots Tonic, anything by Bill Laswell.
Sample Song: Going to include two songs to show both sides of what they play.

 

[ahjteam]

Artist: Before The Dawn
Album: Deadlight
Year: 2007
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Recommended If You Like:
Sample Song: Deadsong

 

[Terminus]

Artist: Head Control System
Album: Murder Nature
Year: 2006
Genre: Progressive Groove Rock/Metal
RIYL: Garm, Arcturus, progressive groovy music
Sample Song: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrUKcwwNFA&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Decimator]

Holy crap! That Dead Letter Circus song is the most awesome thing I have heard in a long while! Thanks for posting.

Great thread.

 

[metalfanat1c]

Artist: ASG
Album: Feeling Good is Good Enough
Year: 2005
Genre: Stoner/Southern
Recommended If You Like: Anything southern... Pantera, Skynyrd, etc.. it's all here.
Sample Song:

 

[timislegend]

artist: mew
album: no more stories are told today, i'm sorry, they washed away
year: 2009
genre: alternative?
recommended if you like: jonsi, broken social scene, the flaming lips
sample song: sometimes life isn't easy

 

[guitarplaya18]

Artist: Cloudkicker
Album: Beacons
Year: 2011
Genre: Instrumental metal/rock
Recommended If You Like: Good music
Sample Song: "Oh, God" & "We're going in, we're going down"





Artist: Moving Mountains
Album: Foreword Ep
Year: 2009?
Genre: Post rockish
Recommended If You Like: Good music
Sample Song: "With One's Heart in One's Mouth"


and here's a song that will be on their new cd

 

[Ashgarth]

Artist: Ufomammut
Album: Eve
Year: 2010
Genre: Sludge / stoner doom
Recommended If You Like: Sludge, drone, stoner doom etc..
Sample Song: Pt.1 from album, it's a 44 minutes song divided in 5 parts.

 

[locus_coeruleus]

This thread is a great idea, but I think that we should keep it for unknown bands. I mean, no Angra, Morbid Angel, Before The Dawn, etc. Most people already know those bands.

 

[GarethSE]

Maybe someone doesn't though.
I know a hell of a lot of people who have no idea who Morbid Angel are.

 

[joelplagues]

Artist: La Dispute
Album: Somewhere At The Bottom Of The River Between Vega And Altair
Year: 2008
Genre: Alternative/Post Hardcore
Recommended If You Like: ambient and spoken word as well as hard hitting,
emotional music full of passion in every word spewed from the vocalists mouth.
Sample Song: Harder Song :New Storms for Old Lovers-AMAZING
Softer Song :Last Blues for Bloody Knuckles

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5dqA1QIYII&feature=fvwrel[/ame]


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOwOr8U1Hg&feature=related[/ame]

 

[SirZephyr]

My fave album of the year 2010.

Artist: The ocean (The ocean collective)
Album: Heliocentric
Year: 2010
Genre: Post rockish
RIYL: Tool, Isis..
Sample song: Firmanent

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCGIFoP-Io"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCGIFoP-Io[/ame]

 

[P-E]

Artist: Amia Venera Landscape
Album: The Long Procession
Year: 2010
Genre: (Atmospheric?) Post-hardcore
RIYL: Underoath, Cloudkicker
Sample song: Empire

 

[mva801]

This thread is a great idea, but I think that we should keep it for unknown bands. I mean, no Angra, Morbid Angel, Before The Dawn, etc. Most people already know those bands.

I've seen Morbid Angel a bunch, but hadn't heard of those other two. Keep 'em comin'!

 

[Terminus]

Artist: Paganizer
Album: Scandinavian Warmachine
Year: 2009
Genre: Death Metal
Recommended If You Like: Bloodbath, Dismember
Sample Song:

 

[fenders]

artist: mew
album: no more stories are told today, i'm sorry, they washed away
year: 2009
genre: alternative?
recommended if you like: jonsi, broken social scene, the flaming lips
sample song: sometimes life isn't easy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA_9MoEyENU

BIG + to this. One of my favorite bands this past year. I like their older album more though

 

[Sam Bottner]

Artist: The Contortionist
Album: Exoplanet
Year: 2010
Genre: Progressive/Deathcore
Recommended If You Like: Ion Dissonance, The Yellow Sign
Sample Song:

 

[Seizure.]

Artist: Urfaust
Album: Der Freiwillige Bettler
Year: 2011
Genre: Blackmetal, Ambient, Experimental
RIYL: Best band i heard the last 2 years, and proud to have played bass on the new (best to date) album.
Sample Song: