[Nadinus]

(Original post by Daisy.)
the cat empire!

I've heard of them!

[louisedotcom]

(Original post by dani2511)
MuteMath, Anberlin, Haste the Day, The Send, The Classic Crime......

.....Emery, Blindside, House of Heroes, The Fold, Number One Gun...

i could go on forever

My boyfriend loves them
Saw them last year supporting the used and were pretty good.

Im quite sure that all the bands I listen to most people will have heard of. I dont really make an effort to listen to unknown bands, if I do its usually coincidance.

[Brighten]

Matty Pop Chart, Karl Blau, Unbunny, The Diskettes, Little Wings, Half Japanese, The Judys(!!!).

[Threshold]

How about Threshold (strangely enough!), Amaran's Plight, Budgie, Pagan's Mind, Poets of the Fall, and, changing genre slightly, Sister Hazel.

[JesterFromHell]

Týr are excelent

Hmm well I supose these are well known in the metal world but a random selection of bands I like:

Melechesh, Taake, Myrkgrav, Belphegor, Sigh

Gotta admit the majority of bands I've seen about here I haven't heard of.

[Giga Flare]

(Original post by RichE)
In all honesty I have no way of knowing which of the above 8 are biggest (relatively). None of them could fill a stadium, and I'm used to most of my friends not having heard of them so how does one quantify their relative cult status?

I tend to look at an artist's MySpace views (assuming they have a MySpace page), as well as their number of Last.fm scrobbles/listeners. Of course, this is subjective, and not guaranteed to be accurate; but it does have the advantage of being quick and easy to determine. For me, <50,000 MySpace views is suitable credence for an artist to achieve 'cult' status.

(Original post by RichE)
Baptist Generals
Cocorosie
Hawk and A Hacksaw
Islaja
Third Eye Foundation

I'd say these two are the lesser known of that list (also, my favourite two of that list).

~

Now for a few personal recommendations:

Kashiwa Daisuke:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...dID=1000365746

Greg Heffernan:
Solo: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=81916765
Band: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=175188393

Mitsuto Suzuki:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...did=1000727311

Yasushi Yoshida:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...dID=1000517850

Motoro Faam:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=75423479

[Planto]

(Original post by xBeccaxxGOKx)
I've heard of them 3.
More Yngwie and Dream Theater though.

I've heard of Tyr (the only decent song I've heard from them being a version of The Wild Rover) and Yngwie, Symphony X and Dream Theater are extremely well-known bands.

I have loads of obscure stuff but to be honest the most obscure that I actually listen to anything like regularly are probably The Dresden Dolls, Tegan and Sara, The Sounds, Scarling., maybe Rilo Kiley and Regina Spektor count a little bit. Emily Haines?

I have bits and bobs of obscure metal that I sometimes listen to but, apart from Opeth (who are faily mainstream, really), it's just one or two songs from most artists.

I also have some neo-classical/romantic work from composers like Javier Navarette (Pan's Labyrinth) and Garry Schyman (Bioshock).

[Metal_Gear]

(Original post by Meg_Lili)
Ooo, I love Blaqk Audio! Can't wait for a new album (Or a new AFI one for that matter!)




I like L'arc en Ciel, and I have High and Mighty Color saved in my favourites menu under 'Bands', so I must have listened to something of theirs and liked it! Maybe I should go check them out again.


C-

*falls over* +rep

[blahbloo]

(Original post by Kyle4691)
Týr
Burzum (although infamous in the scandinavian countries)


and skindred (Y)

Tyr is one awesome band, Eric the Red is a very good album. The Edge- I can just never get fed up of that song. Rest of them, I have heard of and have listened to.

[ApathyAndExhaustion]

most of the bands i listen to are relatively obscure, because i have quite niche music preferences. recently i've been listening a lot to hellbender, torches to rome, twelve hour turn, shotmaker and maximillian colby. torches to rome are a great hardcore band featuring mike kirsch - formerly in fifteen, navio forge and pinhead gunpowder (alongside members of green day) - and the others are variations on the early 90s emo formula, but all definitely worth checking out.

[Jackathon]

The sunshine underground are pretty good.

[tom_tom_tom]

The Birthday Massacre ... GREAT BAND

[Jehuty^]

(Original post by dani2511)
Anberlin

Legendary band

..Anberlin, Vertical Horizon, Machinae Supremacy, Mae, The Black Mages

[punkskamonkey]

Naming the 5 most obscure bands I listen to seems fairly pointless, so I shall name five bands most people won't have heard of:

The Ergs!
Polar Bear Club
The Don Ramos Players
Teenage Bottlerocket
The Gaslight Anthem

[Ayla Phoenix]

Well, I'm sure some people on this forum will have heard some of these

Neutral Milk Hotel
The Sea and Cake
Deathspell Omega
Efterklang
Apparat
The Besnard Lakes

(Y) we can all be pretentious indie hipsters! yaymax

[Meg_Lili]

(Original post by Hylean)
I know of them. AFI's lead singer trying to be goth, thankfully they're a lot better than AFI.

Burn.
And the goth phase was yeeeears ago. Now its more Sparkly-eyeshadow-Nail-Polish-and-jewellery phase.

(Original post by Reaper23)
*falls over* +rep

Hehe, danke schön!

(Original post by Kyle4691)
lol, yeah its shocking, i want them to come uk

but i dont think theyd do a tour for some reason

No, seems a bit unlikely unfortunately
Maybe they'll come over supporting one of the bigger Scandinavian bands (I was going to say Faroese bands, but there aren't exactly many more bigger bands!)
Actually, having looked at the tour schedule, they're over in April on the Paganfest tour, and in August for Bloodstock. Still not exactly a tour of their own though.

C-

[spartakist]

Zveri, Splin, Dzem, Christine and the Arsonist, Tantsy Minus

Most of my obscure bands seem to be foreign...there is some really good music out there if you can accept not understanding the lyrics!

[ApathyAndExhaustion]

(Original post by punkskamonkey)
Naming the 5 most obscure bands I listen to seems fairly pointless, so I shall name five bands most people won't have heard of:

The Ergs!
Polar Bear Club
The Don Ramos Players
Teenage Bottlerocket
The Gaslight Anthem

I know all of these bands. Definitely into Gaslight Anthem (Sink Or Swim was last year's best record and the new EP is stunning), The Ergs! and Teenage Bottlerocket. Not too into Don Ramos Players or Polar Bear Club.

[MSB]

I'm so cool that no one would've heard of any of the bands that I listen to.

p.s.

(Original post by Ayla Phoenix)
Neutral Milk Hotel

'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' is quite possibly the most beautiful album I have ever heard. It took me a good month of looking to find it in a music shop though.

[Albannach]

A few I like, not sure of how mainstream a couple have become;

Commuter
Arab Strap
Helios
The Decemberists
Tokyo Police Club
Hot Hot Heat
LCD Soundsystem
New Young Pony Club
The Postal Service (probably more mainstream now)