ITT: Make up a fake band/artist name and others tell you their genre and backstory

ITT: Make up a fake band/artist name and others tell you their genre and backstory

Hell(o)

Japanese hardcore punk band that fell apart after releasing one EP. Got a 6.2 from Pitchfork.

Bandcamp “avant” made by a 17 year old. Like The Residents but even worse.

Mango Cremes

Houston rapper and crip Maxo Kream decides to chage his lyrical topics to a more positive, health-focused style

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>This is a real picture

Holy shit.

Holy Shit is a stoner rock band from Austin, Texas. They broke up after 3 records.

Living bones

Jump Into Dumpsters

Indie Pop, heavy on the Pop, but they're one of those groups that everyone likes.

yes it is
where do you think Warhammer took its inspiration from

Uriah Bleep

70s rock/kraut mixed with techno
made by an engineer dude who used to be in unknown bands while in univerity in the 70s, recorded demos and never released them, then abandoned rock and was taken by the wave of techno, and incorporated old tapes into it

One hit wonder pop punk band whose song "High School Hellhole" saw a resurgence in popularity after it was made into a meme All Star-style.

Lemurs With Femurs

Living Bones is a Third-Wave Ska band that made a name for itself by simultaneously incorporating surprisingly complex Mathrock progressions into their tracks while never sacrificing their trademark jovial bounciness (and occasional xylophone cheesing).

Their third album was an experimental fusing of classical Blues chords and Alt rock that was a beautiful fluke, an underdog endeavor that beat the odds to actually sound pretty good.

Because of various internal conflicts, the band's lineup past then has changed frequently, to the point that none of the founding six are still in the band.

The Mechas

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tongue in cheek indiefolk, probably inspired by the mountain goats. ignored at the time but posthumously a cult band, and they do reunion tour and album that gets mixed reception.

Electric Filth

Oh man, they were the rival group of Def Lepperd back in the day!

They got fucking shafted by a scumbag label rep who fucked over their cut of the profits from their best album, and couldn't keep up with DL after that.

Personally, I'm a LwF guy, but Def Lepperd is pretty cool too.

The Mechas are an alt-rock band based in New York City, NY. Their song "Reprecussion" was featured on the FIFA 17 soundtrack
Lemurs With Femurs is an American punk band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band is well known within only the Philadelphia Metro Area

Telemaque
Le Fou
white-mound

The Odd Numbers

Bio boosted bass boys

Le fou was a French noise punk band who broke up after the bassist attacked and killed a public official in a terror attack

The Odd Numbers was an English boyband and pop group that saw great popularity in the early to mid 2000s. In contrast to their squeaky clean music and lyrics Richard Longfellow, the band's lead singer and songwriter, led a life of debauchery that culminated in his death of Autoerotic Asphyxiation in summer of 2011, which promptly ended the band.

>Electric Filth
British powerhouse done by a dude that used to live under a bridge. Known for using lots of found percussion.
>Telemaque
Cult punk band from Argentina that got big during the dictatorship years. The band would eventually start taking elements of tape loops to create complete chaos in their live shows.
>Le Fou
French baroque pop band with really sarcastic lyrics. The band was a reaction to the Merseybeat style that was blowing up in the world at the time, bringing in French instrumentation, often featuring violins, oboes and accordions. Notably, the guitarrist and singer was a big gypsy jazz fan, and was able to fuse that, baroque stylings and merseybeat pop into one cohesive whole, which caused the band to blow up in most of France.
>white-mound
English garage producer that got big during the 90's, known for throwing house parties to get around rave restrictions, while living on the White Cliffs of Dover.
>The Odd Numbers
Power pop pioneers that released an album and broke up shortly after touring most of the US. The band was noticeable for their "noisy" sound due to the guitars, use of steel picks and steel drums combined with their pop melodies which were achieved through bluesy chords.

white-mound was a shoegaze band from the mid 90s that hit moderate success with their first album. They broke up mid tour due to tension that built up during the recording of their second album. There were talks of the band rejoining for a short tour but it fell through when one of the members became ill and passed away quietly in 2009.

Forbies is an electronic trio from fucking Arkansas, of all places.

The three boys all have other projects going on outside of BBBB that showcase both their comprehension of and execution upon contemporary Music Theory, which they apply pretty liberally while constructing their tracks.

Their Mascot (who appears on every Album Cover) is The G.F.G., an over-the-top rabid and psychotic Hulk ripoff who is usually depicted ripping something in half.

Throat Culture

Oh Shit and the Fuck Ups

The Thistles
Iarinnbourne
Ironic soundclound trap-grime fusion. All the members died in a car accident when one accidentally veered off the road while stoned.
Screamo band formed during high school that released several EPs during the 90's, before breaking up when all the members left college. The band is known for never actually releasing an LP.

The Mozzies

Five young bucko's from Oakland who grew out of their pop punk fase into a noisy, mathcore-y style of hardcore punk

Throat Culture (1976-1980) was an experimental music group from the U.S, and are often considered one of the pioneers of the following genre of industrial, despite their short-lived career. Their album covers would contain provocative (and often satirical) art, followed by cryptic booklets inside the packaging.
Their music notably contained very few conventional instruments, with most percussion being every-day objects and often relying on vocals that have been characterized as "ear-hurting loud [...] and absurdly over the top."

Rabias

Super Sharp Scissors

will contribute to thread soon

From the wintery boredom of New England comes the next indie rock sweethearts, with their first self-titled record being an ironic and tongue-in-cheek homage to Morrisey.

They are most famous for their hit single, "Johnny Marr Can Succ My Dick"

Lonely Daze

One skinny white guy from Mississipi whose music is characterized by abrupt time changes, microtonal arragements, field recording pieces, and dense, layered and intricate chello arpeggios.

solo shoegaze project by a skinny hipster, occasional guest spots for backing vox.


Splattered Paint

A depressed teenager in the midwest who does a lot of acid. Despite being well-connected in the indie scene, he insists on recording his EP's in ancient tape-based 4track portable recorders, in order to "capture the accidents that give the record life, man."

Hip-hop centered plunderphonics duo from the South. They are most known for their psychedelic, AnCo inspired soundscapes. They wear backwards baseball caps.

Libyan Badminton

Minimal house producer from Chicago. His style has slowly evolved, incorporating trap, ambient, grime and RnB into his songs. People eagerly await his debut record, "Courts."

Jewish nerdcore hip-hop rapper from new jersey preforms in a parody of a rabbi outfit.

Sabrias al-Gad (born November 14, 1989), also known by his stage name Rabias, is an American-Iranian singer and songwriter. He was born in Newark and was raised in Buffalo, New York. His debut album Out Back There (2007) has been certified seven times platinum and was followed by successful albums such as Dreamer (2009), It Just Goes On (2011), and That's Why (2016).
Lonley Daze is an American R&B group from Minneapolis, Minnesota formed in 1988. The group reached its height of popularity in the 1990s. During the group's first experience with fame in 1993, its members were Frankie Owen, Taylor Holland, Joseph Ball, Peter Hart and Toby Bradley. Early hits included "Come and Get It," "Chill", and "Mr. Popularity". Ball was voted out of the group in 1995 and embarked on a solo career. The group continued for a time with its remaining four members, but eventually recruited singer
Scott Robertson, who would be introduced on their 1998 album Rush. The group went on hiatus in 2000, while its various members worked on side projects, such as the group Tres. Robertson and Bradley also recorded successful solo albums.

Saddaru Oh

Deepthought

This dude's cousin.

Terminal brain trauma

chemtrails over Chernobyl

To Be Frank

Saddaru Oh is an Iraqi Post-Hardcore band, noted mostly for their extremely controversial lyrics and stage antics. Their most popular song, "Seal Team 6" contained blatant threats against the United State Navy Seals and ended in a lawsuit. The members of the band are completely anonymous, wearing shemaghs on stage, and have given no interviews since their formation in 2003.

Odeziah

Apathy Now

Sadaharu Oh, also known as Wang Chen-chih, is a retired Japanese–Chinese baseball player and manager who played 22 seasons for the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1959 to 1980

The first word in the filename sums it up pretty well

Apathy Now was a South Boston based crust punk group noted for rarely showing up to gig's and usually being too drunk to be coherent, onstage or off.

They discussed making an album once.

in my defense it's my photo re-downloaded

Retrying for those two:>The Thistles
>Iarinnbourne
Terminal Brain Trauma is an Italian-American industrial punk band from Florence. Formed in 1987 by trumpeter Vincenzo Moro and drummer Bill MacArthur, later joined by bassist Thomas Salvano and live recording engineer and producer Michel Nicosia, the band is known for its use of found percussion and inspiration in free jazz, later taking inspiration from direct noise. It has cultivated a close relationship with Steve Albini ever since 1990, when Albini saw them live.
To Be Frank is an indie rock band formed in Worcester, Massachussets by Frank Williams (guitar), Frank Nielsen (bass) and Frank Michaels (drums, vocals). The trio met in college, and recorded multiple albums in a portable 4 track. The group is known for their prolific output and heavy use of jazz scales.

Post-rock band that utilized a dirtier bass sound than most post-rock bands, until realizing Jakob did it better than they did and they all ended up binging on heroin.

Apotheo

I'm making two for this one:

1. Politically charged, eco-anarchist noise and ambient project from Florida. The brainchild of eco activist and Berklee-trained composer Lennard Conroy (born April 1989). Features a rotating cast of musicians, incorporating classicaly trained string and woodwind players as well as seasoned punk and avant-garde veterans. Known for its use of field recordings to depict dramatic, post-apocalyptic soundscapes. The project's been on an indefininte haitus after Conroy was arrested for his ties to extremist left-wing terrorist cells.

2. A pop-screamo band from Iowa founded in 1999. With a shifting roster of musicians, as well as their close ties to the Midwestern folk and metal scene, the band has slowly shifted away from their original sound, morphing from EP to EP into a wild mix of hardcore punk, screamo, suicidal depressive black metal and freak-folk. Originally known for their poetic and confessional lyrics, the lyrical subjects of death, loss and suicide feature prominently, growing more and more esoteric as their discography develops. 2018 will see their 5th LP, "A Mandala Of Heresy"

The Thistles was a gutter rap collective from Detroit, Michigan known for their 1992 hit "Get Mine." "Mine" (pronounced Minnie), was a most likely fictional man who lived next to MC Busride's mother in the Merry Gold projects. As legend has it, in April 1991, while The Thistles were writing the majority of their debut, Mine (32) robbed Mrs. Busride (37) at gunpoint after spending the night with her then attempted to sell the items he stole back to MC Busride himself while outside a pawn shop. MC Busride came into his hand and started opening and closing his fist really fast making the squelching sound that was to become the foundation of their infamous "cum style" form of beat production.

I was going for Scottish post-punk band but I guess that works.

Technically a Supergroup, Oh Shit! And The Fuck Ups is the twenty-two-piece band that stars in the Netflix Original Comedy Series of the same name, comprised of various celebrities from the American Entertaimment Industry who rotate in and out of the lineup based on availability; the only permanent members are the Frontmanly Duo of Jack Black and Phil Collins (of course playing Lead Guitar and Primary Drum set, respectively).

ShitFuck, as fans of the show refer to it, is presented as an off-beat variety talk show hosted by JB and seconded by PC, with the actual band members participating in games, improv exercises, and other segments, to the benefit of a studio audience who arbitrarily vote for a winner of that episode by the end. Each episode ends with that week's lineup covering a contemporary pop song, with comedic parody lyrics replacing the original bars. Episodes are released once every two weeks.

The application process for playing in ShitFuck is a simple high-school-level playing test, with a short sight reading segment, a short musical passage assigned two weeks beforehand, and a scale test. Hilariously enough, applicants who pass their test but do not provide an instrument of their own will be given one at random, which they must attempt to play the day of the show.

It is heavily implied in-show that the show exists as a tax-evading money-laundering front, and that both Jack and Phil will be screwed if the band ever sucks hard enough to garner national attention.

Ozone Avenue

I would unironically watch this.

Uncle Eric and the Contractors.

pic related

Country band
Their lead singer got arrested after he got caught by their neighbors raping a cow.

DeathSmiles

Peligroso

Peligroso is an Italian Musician who became famous through the internet, with a surprisingly well-engineered silly rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

She is 4'10" and primarily plays the accordion.

Al Gore fronted Ecclesiastical metal band with songs mainly focusing on the global warming. Frequently tour with Rage Against The Machine.

Chow Men

A spacey sounding chiptunes DJ ends up doing the music to an indie 32-bit space exploration game.

My favorites

What instrument would Al Gore play while he sings?

Also, Chow Men was a delightfully catchy gimmick group in the eighties, kindred to the styles of Men Without Hats and The Village People.

Their gimmick was that every member was Asian-American, and they played it for laughs. Post-breakup, The Keyboardist would later speak in front of a congressional hearing regarding the federal legalization of gay marriage, and the Bassist would ironically die in a car accident right out of the Bay Area.

Al Gore would take frequent breaks from singing in their 10 minute + epics to play the pan flute masterfully. His fiery pan flute solos were rumored to have restored the Ozone layer by 10% during the band's short lifespan.

Brick

Naturalizer

I preferred Birck.

Brick is a thrash metal band hailing from Dublin with a lyrical emphasis on clitoral searching.
Their hit songs include 'A little more to the right,' 'Where the fuck is it?,' and 'I Prefer Men.'

>Naturalizer
Naturalizer is an electronic musician hailing from Alaska, known for taking folk songs from around the world and re-arranging them with analog synthesizers. Their real identity is unknown.

AntiFur

Brick was THE stoner rock group whose sound perfectly captured that dry nineties cynicism so many bands strive to emulate.

Except that they were formed in Sydney, Australia in '71, and mutually disbanded on good terms in '80, never managing to gain a foothold amidst the massive popularity of Australian Bog Rock in the country.

Birck was an L.A.-based Brick cover group (the name being a cheeky poke at Brick's front man, who suffers from dyslexia) that literally did the near-impossible, reviving the sound of a band created before it's time.

Unfortunately, Birck was formed in '08, ten days before the US Housing Bubble began to collapse. They did better than their inspiration, but not by much.

Fuck that sounds cool.

Marsland

Oh my god

He was up for fucking election, and instead we got the Commander-In-Briefs himself, Dubya "Strategery" Bush.

Marsland is an experimental prog-rock band from New York City, founded by singer-songwriter Ray Dust. Their 2021 album, “In the Spiral of a Black Hole”, was praised for how it invoked artists such as David Bowie and Pink Floyd while adding a futuristic spin, and has seen increasing word-of-mouth publicity while gaining a rabid fanbase.

Acid rock group formed in the late 60s most famous for their self titled concept album released in 73. Continued popularity throughout the years releasing a total of 8 albums before announcing retirement from the studio. All members continue touring although no longer playing to the crowds they once did. Singer Leslie Ann Paul and guitarist Steven DeWitt also maintain solo careers while drummer David Mawin authored an autobiography in 2010 titled "To Mars And Back" Bassist Kyle Dylan is an avid comic book collector and movie buff often writing reviews for movies both new and old on his blog.

>Azure Shield
>AntiFur
AntiFur is a New Zealander crust punk group, formed in 1991. The band is known for its inspirations in both the Dunedin Sound and Maori traditional music, as well as its staunch vegan philosophy and "preachy" lyrics. The fast speed of the songs, combined with the jangly sounds, can be downright dazzling at times.

DeathSmiles is a parodic band featuring “MC Smile”, “Zach Hello”, and “Flowerlander”. Their gimmick is covering Death Grips songs, but changing the lyrics to be so family-friendly as to be compared to a children’s song, while at the same time rapping in a high-pitched, anime girl-like voice.

Acid Barrett
Azure Shield is a Norwegian band formed in 2009 that on their 2012 debut album, "Glacial Wind," fused the sounds of power metal and blackgaze to create a truly unique sound. Off using classical Nordic instrumentation to accompany their sound, they've been known for their ability to fuse otherworldly spaciousness with some truly aggressive riffs.

Bataille

Big Black Dog

>AntiFur
I’m laughing like crazy at the name, but here we go.
AntiFur is an electronic punk band formed somewhere in the United States during the early 2020’s. Their name is meant to represent their overall “deconstruction”, as it were, of the furry fandom - from attacking its more questionable subcultures in their lyrics to their visual presence, which in contrast to the expensive fursuits of most, opt for amateurish paper-mache heads and Kiss-like makeup. Their debut album, “Everyone Silently Tuning Out”, sparked controversy due to the cover art featuring a panel from an infamous kemono doujin, not to mention CD copies of the album being randomly found in shopping malls and supermarkets.

>The Violets
>Evergreen Eyes
>Acid Barret
Acid Barret is a Welsh psychedelic band based in Swansea, formed in 2016 by sibilings Owain (drums), Morgan (keyboards, synthesizers) and Cynthia Griffith (vocals, fiddle). The band is known for making heavy use of Pink Floyd samples, heavily modified to create soundscapes, as well as a Roland TB-303 machine for the basslines, which often feature the squelchy sounds of acid house.

A 50’s-style rock n’ roll group, not too dissimilar to Stray Cats. Their song “Doghouse” managed to find moderate success in states like Texas and Utah.

Desert Cottontail

Ryan Olson

>The Violets
A pop-punk band comparable to Green Day formed during the mid-90’s. The band members look strikingly like those of the Ramones.
>Evergreen Eyes
A rather generic indie folk-pop band that mainly got popular due to one of their songs being featured in VidLii’s AudioSwap library, and as such got overused constantly.

4/10

Seawater