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It's that time of year again, a Sunday where I'm bored and want to listen to some interesting music

What are your favourite rock bands from places besides the U.S., Britain Australia, etc?

For reference, I am currently enjoying the following artists:

  • Bjornarna, Asta Kask (Swedish)
  • Die Toten Hosen, Die Artze (German)
  • Kult, Republika (Polish)
  • Metro Luminal (Estonian)
  • BTR (Bulgarian)
  • Kino, Bi-2 (Russian)
  • Indochine, Telefone, Luke (French)

Doesn't necessarily need to be from where you were from, just nice music to jam to!

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

Love Telefone and Starshooter from France.

Big fan of The Pillows, The Pees, and The Blue Hearts from Japan.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Soda Estereo and Aterciopelados - really great LatAm bands

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ferris X Shocky X Swiss – Bullenwagen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMnhNo4SYQc

[–] FoxFairline@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Fahnenflucht "Wer Wind sät wird Sturm ernten" is one of my favourite punk/metal albums of all time.

[–] pan0wski@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For Croatian I'd recommend:

Slovak: Horkýže Slíže - Silný refrén (Lyrics in English)

[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They're an old band now, but Raga Rockers (Norwegian). Also Dum Dum Boys from same era.

Great question! Looking forward to checking back in here for suggestions later.

[–] marquisalex@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Otoboke Beaver - Japanese (songs are a mix of Japanese and English)

Death Pill - Ukrainian (but sing in English - used to have some songs in Russian, but they re-wrote them)

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

I love Republika, If you like them try [Tilt].(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmYJXd2d5s)

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago
[–] btsax@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Québec has an interesting music scene for complicated cultural reasons. Elephant Stone is one of my favorites, like if George Harrison was from Montreal

https://elephantstonemusic.bandcamp.com/album/le-voyage-de-m-lonely-dans-la-lune-2

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hump Back - 「番狂わせ」(Bankuruwase - Upset) - Japanese

Linked to an invidious instance because the publisher only made their music available in Japan last I checked.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In Extremo, Saltatio Mortis, Feuerschwanz, Lord or the Lost, Orden Ogan, Brothers of Metal, Faun, D'Artagnan

I'll add more later

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To categorize all of them are roughly in the Folk Rock / Middle Ages Rock category.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Glintshake — post-punk / indie-rock, with some jazz on the albums. Iirc earlier albums are noisier, but I prefer ones starting with the incomprehensibly-titled ‘Oeshch Margziu’. (Also the guitarist Evgeny Gorbunov is the main dude in Inturist.)

Andre Antunes with Nooran Sisters — ‘If System of a Down were from India’ — he has similar mashups over various other Indian and Pakistani singers. And e.g. ‘Māori Haka in NZ Parliament goes metal’.

Therion's ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ album and the ‘Les Épaves’ EP consist of covers of sixties-seventies French pop.

Angine de Poitrine are currently very popular, they're from Québec and play microtonal math-rock. If you peruse the music@lemmy.world community, you've most certainly seen them.

Gromyka — hilarious indie-pop playing on some Soviet-era imagery.

Fedul Zhadny — 90s-style punkish rock and synth-punk, he's in NOM since 2014.

I've recently discovered The Original Noiseketeers, a Dutch band that has only a few tracks on YouTube from various years. The music is acid/psychedelic rock and dub.

Peter Cat Recording Co. — Indian jazzy indie-rock. This album is mellow, other ones might be more interesting for you, but iirc they don't quite reach into punk territory.

By the way, check out Sun City Girls. They're from the US, but they incorporated Arabic motifs in their music, which is often noisy ruckus, particularly on the earlier records.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Math rock is a thing? Quick search tells me that unfortunately it's not actually about (aboot) mathematics, darn. Pretty neat music though!

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Dunno how you missed the existence of math rock. It's pretty much prog rock married to hardcore punk, and is mostly about complex and changing time signatures, so the folks have to count stuff all the time. As someone has put it, "it's unclear how the musicians know where in the song they are".

Check out The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mammals, Ruins, Lanzallamas, Needle Play, UneXpect.

If you dig any of that, you might also like Mamaleek, although they are different, and also change the sound considerably between the albums: trip-hop metal on earlier albums, bluesy metal on later ones.

[–] cuboc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hang Youth (NL)

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago
[–] atotayo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

a bunch of great bands from italy are: Pornoriviste, etta, bull brigade, prozac+, bambole di pezza, punkreas, gli ultimi, il muro del canto.

Have fun

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

A couple of punk bands from Denmark:

No Hope For the Kids

Gorilla Angreb

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Peanut Butter Sunday and FUUDGE are two French Canadian bands worth checking out!

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Honningbarna, Norwegian.

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Quetschenpower (sp?) - Punk af accordion music from Germany.