alex0486

I am looking to expand my music collection and I have recently stumbled upon a few non-mainstream bands that I liked and I would like a few suggestions of more. A few of my favorite bands right now are:

Element Eighty, Crossfade, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Flaw, Shinedown, SOAD, Three Days Grace, Cold, Disturbed, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Audioslave, Nickelback, Incubus, Staind and The Killers

A few of my older favorites are:
Metallica, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana, Guns N Roses, Creed, etc.

I'm not a big fan of excess screaming like Killswitch Engage, although I do like a few of their songs that are lighter. I'm not a metal guy.

Can you recommend some music to me that I may not have on this list. Mostly non-mainstream stuff.

Metal_Head

A Dying Dream. AFI. The Agony Scene. A Kiss Farewell. Alexisonfire. Alivia. All Out War. All That Remains. A Minute Till Midnight. Amon Amarth. Anascara. And Juliet. A Perfect Murder. Arch Enemy. Arms Akimbo. As I Lay Dying. A Static Lullaby. As We Fight. Atreyu. At The Gates. The Autumn Offering. Avenged Sevenfold. Beneath the Sky. Between the Buried and Me. Black Dahlia Murder. The Bled. Bled Across Miles. Bleeding Through. Blood Brothers. Broken Front. The Bronx. Bury Your Dead. Caliban. Camp Kill Yourself. Casualties. Cataract. Chara. Children of Bodom. Confide. Cradle of Filth. Crass. Damageplan. Darkest Hour. Dark Tranquility. Dead Radical. Dead to Fall. Devildriver. Dillinger Escape Plan. Dimmu Borgir. Dog Eat Dog. Drowning Victoria. Dry Kill Logic. Edicius. Eiffel65. Eighteen Visions. Elctrikchair. Eminem. The Enemy Within. Evergreen Terrace. Fall River. Fatal Pudding. Fear Factory. Filth. Forever is Forgotten. Freya. From Autumn to Ashes. Full Blown Chaos. Furion. God Forbid. Green Day. Haste the Day. Hatebreed. Haunted. Heaven Shall Burn. Himsa. Hot Hot Heat. If Hope Dies. I Killed The Prom Queen. Ill Nino. Immortal Souls. Indefinite Beauty. In Flames. Iniquity. Invocation of Nehek. Iron Maiden. It Dies Today. Kalmah. Killswitch Engage. Kittie. Lamb of God. Led Zeppelin. The Letter Red. Life Sentence. Linkin Park. Love is Red. Martyr AD. Meshuggah. Metallica. Misfits. Mnemic. Most Precious Blood. Motley Crue. Mudvayne. My Chemical Romance. Nodes of Ranvier. Nora. Norma Jean. Norther. No Warning. Offspring. Ozzy Osbourne. Pantera. Point Zero. Poison the Well. Quantice Never Crashed. Queen. Quiet Riot. Ramones. Remembering Never. Rhetoric. Rise Against. Sacrificial. Scarlet. Scorpions. Section 8. Shadows Fall. Slayer. Slipknot. Sludge. Soilwork. Sparks Light the Friction. Stemm. Still Remains. Suffocate Faster. Sum 41. Superjoint Ritual. Sworn Enemy. Symphony in Peril. System of a Down. Taetre. The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Thought Not Taken. Three Inches of Blood. Thrice. Throwdown. Tiger Army. Tool. Trivium. Twisted Sister. Underoath. Unearth. Unseen. Used (only some songs). Van Halen. Victims of Chaos. The Virus. Walls of Jericho. Watch Them Die. White Stripes. Withering Surface. Wolfheart. X. Zao. Zombie Apocalypse.

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Metal_Head

ew. no incubus.

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ArtistInTheAmbulance

Are Killswitch Engage considered excess screaming? I like a few songs, wouldnt say they had a big amount of screaming in though. Is some of their stuff I havent heard a bit more... screamy ?

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alex0486

Thanks for the list, however a few comments.

Eiffel 65? How is that rock? I guess since I have only heard one of their songs I can't really comment.

Also, a few of those bands are too heavy for me. Atreyu and Dillinger Escape Plan stick out because I have heard some of their stuff and it just gives me a headache.

Also, about Killswitch, I like a few of their songs like "The End of Heartache," but a lot of that album is screamy.

Soundgardener

Dillinger Four
Dio (classic metal)
Interpol
Shadows Fall
Finch
Strata
Suicide Machines
Placebo
Radiohead
Kings of Leon..................

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Soundgardener

It isn't. They are one of the worst bands in the world. Let me explain their genre to you: Europop, Electronica, Trash.

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maryjane88

well these are some i'm familiar with
memento
thornley
nin
life of agony
apartment 26
radiohead
our lady peace
silver cahir
arms bent back
eighteen visions
smile empty soul
man madegod
social burn
closure
the used
thrice
sr-71
hopesfall
theres more but it's all i can remember for now hope it helps

TheBig3

Did someone really list Ozzy in a thread that wanted non-mainstream bands?

Anyway, do yourself a favor and don't concern yourself with mainstream/non-mainstream. Whats good is good, if you pay to much attention you become snobby like the tools that write for Spin.

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TheBig3

Why no? Incubus has integrity, I don't think Incubus made the same CD thus far. Like them or not, there doing alot better than bands that get super hype.

For every Howie Day who says he'll change his sound every CD and doesn't we'd be lucky to get a band like incubus who says nothing and actually changes styles. Though they did speak out heavily againa rap/nu metal.

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