Underground Metal Bands
 

I'm looking for any underground metal bands that you may know of. Any at all! Hardcore, metalcore, screamo, anything with screaming, double kicks, and some wicked fucking guitar!

Black Dahlia Murder.

I'm not sure where their site is but they're a kickass Death Metal band out of Detroit. Their lead singer carries a sword on stage from what I've heard. Their music is as good or better than any scandinavian death metal band, just brutal and awesome. certainly worth a dl.

Flatlined.

All the band members used to work at a bottle redemption place down the street from me. They have long since broken up(although there was a reuniun show last year). They released 2 CDs I think, both very hard and very good.

Im from Western MA which has a ton of bands popping up around here. The most notable one is STAIND...find their first album Tormented. It is nothing like what you thought STAIND was...so much harder.

http://www.themusicseen.com/bands.htm
This site is a little old but has some good bands and some info about them. The up and comer on that site is Split Shift...I think they just got a major record deal recently. That's what's around my area...hope that helped any

As I Lay Dying (super fast kick drums)
Every Time I Die (good metalcore)
Luddite Clone (brutal grindcore)
The End (fucking metal/grind/screamo lunatics from Canada)
Dresden Nocturne (found these guys a few months ago, good metalcore)
Haste The Day (hardcore)
Ion Dissonance (anger infusing metalcore)
HEWHOCORRUPTS (corporate-core)

Some of these are more underground than the others, but I'm a big fan of them all.

so this thread can be as useful to you as possible, what underground metal bands are you already into? i'll forge ahead with some suggestions regardless...

shadows fall (old-school thrash + metalcore)
mastadon (almost-prog metal, but really heavy)
killswitch engage (metalcore with a great sense of melody)
lamb of god (heavy as hell)
nevermore (mustaine produced their first album, which is about as good a recommendation as can be made for a metal band, i suppose)

lol i've heard of all of them but still GREAT choices, lamb of god are my favorite out of those, they kick SERIOUS ass, mastodon and kse aren't far behind.

I second Ion Dissonance. If you're into "math metal," I'd also look into bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, and Spiral Architect. Other bands I enjoy include Children of Bodom (not actually underground), Between the Buried and Me, and Shadowsfall. If you enjoy any Black Dahlia Murder, check out At the Gates. Very similar; some have come to bestow the moniker "xAt the Gatesx" upon BDM for their striking similarities, although BDM has a big following in the hardcore community because they're straightedge (shallow, if you ask me). Both, however, are good bands. Darkest Hour is another hardcore act that's been compared to many European metal acts, although I wouldn't invest in any of their albums. Most are extremely repetetive. Anyway, enjoy!

Oh yes, if you get any Nevermore, I would reccomend "Dead Heart in a Dead World" first.

immortal souls
crimson moonlight
spiral architect
daylight dies
vital remains
extol
living sacrifice
dragonforce
anata

there's some

Chimaira - Implements of Destruction on eternal loop

Great post, thanks.

Nora
Converge
Himsa
the Blood Brothers
Every Time I Die
the Dillinger Escape Plan
Eighteen Visions
Shai Hulud
Bane
Premonitions of War
Ultra Dolphins

Excellent taste in music man! Others I like are Chimaira, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy, Slayer (not really underground, but you have to mention), Sentenced, Iced Earth, In Flames (namely the colony album), The Haunted, Black Label Society (somewhat underground), Dry Kill Logic, Grimfist, and Eternal Tears of Sorrow.

Wide variety there of tastes. =)

The Red Chord
Prayer for Cleansing
Cast from Eden
A Life Once Lost

all kickass bands (especially blood brothers and DEP) but those are really hardcore rather than metal... yeah i suppose i'm nitpicking but i always just see such a discrepancy in those two genres that i can't group them together. oh well, still an awesome list, i love all those bands

Blood Has Been Shed
Between the Buried and Me
Cradle of Filth (pre-sony)
Lamb of God
Remembering Never
Scarlet (maybe not so metal, but quality stuff!)

Lot of good bands listed here. One I didn't see was 40 Below Summer and Devil Driver. Devil Driver is the new band by the former frontman from Coal Chamber. I've seen both his bands in concert and I can honestly say I think Devil Driver might be the better band. A bold statement, I know, but if you get a chance and go check them out, I think you'll agree. A great website to get a lot of info on underground metal bands is <a href="http://www.shoutweb.com">http://www.shoutweb.com</a>.

cool, i need to check DevilDriver out, as i'm seeing them next month opening for Opeth

chaimaira is awesome


good metal/ metal core bands:

poison the well
from autumn to ashes
18 visions
Chimaira
every time i die
evergreen terrace
unearth
i'd rather die
underoath
shai hulud
sky came falling
killswitch engage
shadows fall
zao
atreyu
diecast
hopesfall
norma jean
candiria

avenged sevenfold
amaran
berzerker
behemoth
emperor
immortal
blood red throne
katatonia
novembre
old man's child
x japan

just in case you don't know, opeth lol

Blackmarket Activities
Trustkill
Ferret
Metalblade
Robotic Empire
LifeForce
Willowtip
Eulogy Recordings
State Of Grace
Victory
roadrunner (suppose people like the shit they put out hahaha i think it rocks that nickleback and killswitch engage are on the same label, fucking metal to the max men)
Hopeless

Those aren't bands as you probably noticed, but labels. If i typed the bands i know... Well you wouldn't be reading long enough to reach this closing statement. So there are a few (or more) labels for you to do your homework on, just google those labels and go to the bands section and you'll be a metal god soon enough haha. Good luck man.

P.S. Underoath sucks, and zao, and all christian metal/core bands for that matter take the entire solidstate label for instance. But i have to admit, The Agony Scene tearrrrrrs it up for being christians

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(sorry)

i don't know how immortal souls or extol sucks lol

Am I the only one that doesn't like 18V?

yes

whats wrong wiht 18 visions


i dont want you to see all these things i hide
when you were holding my hand i didn't think i'd die

I don't dig their music for the same reason I don't like Throwdown, that is, because everything I've heard by both bands sounds numetal. There has never been anything catchy about them with me, even when I saw both bands a while back. Last October I saw Everytime I Die, and it wasn't that spectacular either. People say there's a goldmine of odd-timing to be found with these aforementioned bands, but if I wanted to go math, I'd stick to DEP or Ion Dissonance. Just different strokes, different folks, I guess. Oh yeah, I don't dig Norma Jean, either.

Speaking of odd-timing and with respect to the original post, I'm gonna mention 7 Angels 7 Plagues. Check out Jhazmyne's Lullaby. Once you get used to the vocals, there's a wealth of melody and elusive timing to be found with them.

Reading back, KWSN mentioned that a lot of bands being mentioned are hardcore/metalcore more than they are straight metal. He's right, and although I don't wanna split hairs with some of you either, Bane and Shai Hulud lean more on an old school, youthcrew style of hardcore, rather than the stuff you hear today. Difference being that with some of Bane/Shai Hulud, things might start to sound punk rather than metal. These differences aside, I concur that they're both great bands.

In Flames :|


I still have to go to indie stores to buy their CDs

am i th onlyone in here who listens to evergreen terrace

Haha, we're drifting further away from metal. But yes, I listen to ET also. Good music; terrible tone.

Hatebreed. Great band

From upstate New York....

Disciples of Berkowitz
Held Under
Lariat
Straightjacket
Cutthroat
Wartime Manner
Skinless...you can find these guys on Kazaa...absolutely brutal, and highly recomended.

when you tour with slayer and your lead singer hosts headbanger's ball i think you're far from underground.

even still, great band.

Mastadon!

Cripple Mr. Onion.

I'm not really a metal fan... okay it'd be more accurate to say I can't stand 90% of metal, but I went and saw them play last night expecting them to be completely shit but was pleasantly surprised. While they had their share of hard-out thrashing it actually sounded okay and they had some cool quieter parts where they used some cool effects. Oh yeah, both the guitarists and the bassist (who was VERY good) play gigantic 8+ string instruments.

www.cripple.co.nz for some mp3s

Fantastic band, their new album is coming out soon.

no offense to any dep fans here but i honest to god can't stand them. to me, they're nothing more than random, incoherent noise. but then again, that's only my opinion

Mindrive... they're based out of St. Louis.

I found a new band called Analog, check out their website here for some mp3's and such!

Check out Red Tide, a black metal band from Edmonton.

http://www.infectingtheworld.com