any good bands in your local scene?

[fishfartz]

tell us about your local scene and what the vibe is like. dish the dirt!

 

 

what kinds of bands are prevailant in your area? is there a particular spot you and your band prefer because of the acoustics/atmosphere?

 

 

 

if there were a local battle of the bands, how would yours rate?

 

 

 

by the way I understand music is not competition but it would be nice to know you'd slaughter the local bands if there were a life or death battle of the bands.

 

 

we want drama

[Sty1es]

None.


Except mine.


EDIT: To add to the arrogance, I have a story or two. We've had bands get pissed at us when we outplay them, we've had crowds yell out for us to come back on after our set and do it again during other bands' sets....LOL. I think the best was when someone asked us to play Slayer and our idiot frontman said "{censored} Slayer" and had an empty can of beer chucked at his head. Good job {censored}ass.

[AgentOrange]

Sickbay Parade are sweet, my sisters boyrfiends band so im obliged to give them a plug...

www.myspace.com/sickbayparade

Hes the drummer, but unfortunatelly none of the recordings are perticularly high quality, so they dont do them justice, but im sure theyll get to recording something soon.

James

[cobrahead1030]

we've got a few local metal bands that do pretty well...everything form southern metal, to metal core, to death metal, to more radio friendly stuff; we've got a pretty nice diverse heavy music scene around here

[thefyn]

Orlando here.

Nothing much happeneng. 5 billion dead are good but the guitarist left them (I had a disasterous audition for them. A powertube went on my 5150 and I broke a string in the first 10 seconds.)

All of the bands that are supporting us are typical screamo, spazcore, fasion core, core core bands. Fkn awful.

My bro is in a good band called Carnevil. They have a great sound and frontman.

I am pissed with my band. They are classic talk talk talk and do nothing. They {censored} up every gig we play after i nag them to practice and concerntrate.

If anyone is in Orlando there is a big local band gig in the Scienece Center. My band will be there. Wait for us to {censored} up! Its on Friday.

Here is my mellow band:

www.myspace.com/thesevensisters

[Sim-p-mortal]

{censored} all around here metal wise (can't seem to get my band a full lineup), aside from up and comers Raise The Dead, who just supported Testament in London.

www.myspace.com/raisethedead

[poida]

Melband Australia!

Belakor and NeObliviscaris (their drummer won fastest feet in Australia about a week ago)

[Sordid1]

Des Moines has quite a few talented musicians and some really good bands. I will leave names out since I don't want to forget anyone but definitely some talent floating around here.

[JimAnsell]

Originally posted by Sty1es None. Except mine. EDIT: To add to the arrogance, I have a story or two. We've had bands get pissed at us when we outplay them, we've had crowds yell out for us to come back on after our set and do it again during other bands' sets....LOL. I think the best was when someone asked us to play Slayer and our idiot frontman said "{censored} Slayer" and had an empty can of beer chucked at his head. Good job {censored}ass.

why not find another singer!?
you do nothing but rag on the guy.
saying "{censored} slayer" on stage in front of a metal crowd could get your whole band burnt at the stake in some countries

but you're right....little to no good bands around here

[charliedango]

On August 18th the only club in town that features original rock bands is closing down after 12 years of operation. Also on the chopping block is the towns only all-ages venue for indie, punk and hardcore bands. It sucks, but we manage.

The only band from this area that acheived anything was a group called N.I.L.8

EDIT: Oh yeah, and V Shaped Mind, but I don't count them because they were more of a "we got successful because we're friends with Mudvayne" sort of band.

[eyeball987]

Around here it's punk'ish rock bands. Some are actually pretty good and put on great shows. I stayed away for awhile because I don't really like punk but these guys are more rock than punk. They do dress the punk part though. Luxury Pushers comes to mind at the moment.

[des67]

Erm I like these guys

http://www.myspace.com/poisoning

and these guys

http://www.myspace.com/azriel

andthese guys are totally different to the other two

http://www.myspace.com/onthisdaywemetgambaspilpil

no 1 and 2 are hardcore-ish bands, 3 are all ambient and mogwai-sh at times

[des67]

Originally posted by Sim-p-mortal {censored} all around here metal wise (can't seem to get my band a full lineup), aside from up and comers Raise The Dead, who just supported Testament in London. www.myspace.com/raisethedead

I was wondering where I'd heard them from, I just realised they're on the same label as azriel (loal band to me , link above)

sounds pretty good though

[nwright]

Indy's metal scene is doing pretty well ATM...A lot of bands I dig...

Check out Demiricous - they released their debut on Metal Blade not too long ago, and they are my band's bro's...Good times hangin' in the studio and getting crazy:
www.myspace.com/demiricous

This band just signed to Prosthetic and are recording their album now:

www.myspace.com/yearofdesolation

This band is a cool band in our area, pretty heavy stuff:

www.myspace.com/amongsttheswarm

And, finally, shameless...We've played with Anthrax, God Forbid, Arch Enemy, Chimaira, Hate Eternal and more...Currently fielding some interest:

www.myspace.com/judgementband

We have a lot of others as well. Good times for Indiana metal, IMO.

[Ripfence]

There are a ton of great players here. Some really interesting bands too, not all are country. The alt-rock scene is blooming, it wouldn't surprise me if a couple bands made it big soon.

[DoubleBarrel]

Originally posted by thefyn Orlando here. My bro is in a good band called Carnevil. They have a great sound and frontman.

Carnevil are very cool. Good band, good music, and good dudes


If you dig Robin Trower & Hendrix, you should check out "No Circus". they played with Chris & Carnevil at the social one night and blew me away. Especially since they are all under 17.

Mostly cover bands around here, and most of 'em suck. Except for us

[Sim-p-mortal]

Originally posted by des67 I was wondering where I'd heard them from, I just realised they're on the same label as azriel (loal band to me , link above) sounds pretty good though

 

 

Yeah, RTD are pretty damn good, like carcass mixed with a bit of a hardcore sound, and both guitarists can really play!! They shred, but its all tasteful, some great riffs too, they just got a new drummer who i haven't heard yet but apparently he's immense, and their new songs are sounding a slightly more death-metal esque.

[des67]

Originally posted by Sim-p-mortal Yeah, RTD are pretty damn good, like carcass mixed with a bit of a hardcore sound, and both guitarists can really play!! They shred, but its all tasteful, some great riffs too, they just got a new drummer who i haven't heard yet but apparently he's immense, and their new songs are sounding a slightly more death-metal esque.

 

 

Yeah normally I'm not into the whole death metal gutteral growl thing but it sounds really good to my ears, I'll keep my ears open to them if they're playying up here anytime soon.

[Blackwater]

The scene in Lawrence, KS is so diverse. There are at least five to ten shows happening every night. It is a college town so all of the national and underground acts want to come through. As far as local bands...{censored} there is at least a few hundred and there is a {censored} ton of diversity of styles.

My personal Favs:

Black Christmas
The Esoteric
Theta
The Cast Pattern
Septinomicon
Coalesce....(kc as well)
Lethe

This list could go.....

[6AM]

This is a list of some of the bands from my city.

Every Time I Die

Dead Hearts

It Dies Today

Herod

Cutie Is What We Aim For

It makes me want to move.

[des67]

Originally posted by 6AM This is a list of some of the bands from my city. Every Time I Die Dead Hearts It Dies Today Herod Cutie Is What We Aim For It makes me want to move.

I like a couple of those bands...........*ducks*

[nrarocks]

We've got some good ones in Minneapolis----After The Burialand Nostalia are pretty good.

[shredhead666]

There's a good band here called The Edison Project. They have some pretty catchy tunes and some KICK ASS harmonies.

As for our band... we've done a few battle of the bands type things, and always come in 2nd. Hahaha....

[cmfguitar]

Originally posted by Blackwater The scene in Lawrence, KS is so diverse. There are at least five to ten shows happening every night. It is a college town so all of the national and underground acts want to come through. As far as local bands...{censored} there is at least a few hundred and there is a {censored} ton of diversity of styles. My personal Favs: Black Christmas The Esoteric Theta The Cast Pattern Septinomicon Coalesce....(kc as well) Lethe This list could go.....

 

 

I believe The Esoteric and Coalesce have played in Columbia before. I haven't seen them but have heard good things.

 

I'm sure the central Missouri scene isn't much different than Lawrence. There are though only a handfull of acts that I could see making it big.

 

Hillary Scott (alt country, pop)

The Confident Years (pop punk)

Bald Eagle (punk)

 

My personal favorites though are The Follow http://www.myspace.com/thefollowusa

[Sordid1]

Originally posted by nrarocks We've got some good ones in Minneapolis---- After The Burial and Nostalia are pretty good.

 

 

our label mates Countach are from up there and those guys rock. And yes I would be saying that if we weren't on a label together.