The band thread.
 

Talk about your band, what type of music you play, where you come from, label you're signed to, etc etc. Hm, if you don't have a band, and just a rock duo or something, talk about that.

Address Unknown is my gothic rock band... duo, actually. I sing and play guitar, and my wife plays bass. Isn't it strange how many husband-and-wife goth bands there are? Faith and the Muse, Mephisto Walz, Two Witches, etc. Anyway, we're not signed, but our demo goes out tomorrow. You can hear it on http://myspace.com/addressunknown23

Do I really have to at this point?

Yes, yes you do!

I'll have a band togethor soon, but until then it's only a rock duo. We use a drum machine for the drum bits, my bud plays guitar, and Ilearning how to play bass. We only have one song recorded, so we couldn't get signed... even if there was a nearby record studio, or whatever.

You mean signed to a label? Fuck it, just release free shit on some netlabel.

www.myspace.com/clinictwentyfive

It's like noise made with ambient sounds with abit of drone, some jazz....and epicness.

It's hard to explain but worth a listen I reckon. Plus I have cool pictures... XD!

I'm not quite sure whether I should call my project a solo project or not... I've collaborated with pretty much the same people all the time, but we've never officially established a band. Oh well, I'm planning to get a band anyway when I move to Oslo, so I might as well post.

I believe I've shared my myspace url with you before (http://www.myspace.com/minyaliel). I'm having a real hard time labelling it, so I'm not going to, but instead name my strongest influences - new wave, classical music and opera, postpunk, glam rock, darkwave, cabaret and show tunes, folk music and jazz. All my songs seem to be rather bleak and dark, sometimes even to the point of sounding twisted and filled with madness - but then I do have a few songs (like the one posted up on myspace) which draws more on my love for ethereal, darkwave and ballads... I'm a musically split personality *lol*. I've been writing songs like mad lately, so once I get all of the musical arrangements done and get someone to play I'll actually have enough material for an album (yay).

For those of you who want to get your music out there, available to the masses, but lack the means of a record company or similar... check out TuneCore.

Or electro goth band, Hexotericka, has just released a new song for streaming and download at http://www.reverbnation.com/Hexotericka

"Defined" is the second track off our "Lamentations" demo disk.

Great stuff, Darcnyss. :D

Your wife??? When did that happen???

You have an amazing voice, I like the minimalistic, ambient quality of The Bride's Plaint.

We were handfasted a about a month ago. It was a private ceremony, we're going to have a public one next Halloween.

Alice Sweet Alice - Psychedelic Darkwave from New England
 

Alice Sweet Alice (ASA), a Psychedelic Darkwave musical group based in New England—USA, was born as a side project of Scott Martinez in the late 1990's. Playing bass for other groups as well as singing backup vocals. All of Scott's previous music in bands and recording was done on the West Coast, in the San Francisco bay area. Most notably Scott released a 9-song LP with Autumn Cathedral, and shared the bill with such acts as Fields of the Nephilim, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Posies, Diatribe and Neurosis.

Alice Sweet Alice obtained label representation through Renaissance Records in April of 2008 after teaming up with vocalist and keyboardist Ali Kat and guitarist Jeffrey Galios in the fall of 2007. Alice Sweet Alice is currently in the studio recording their premier release, First Light, due to be released in the summer of 2008 and will be available for sale on iTunes and Amazon, as well as distributed to stores all over North and South America. Alice Sweet Alice is also working with Ravenheart Music, a subsidiary of Renaissance Records, based in Worcestershire, England.

Alice Sweet Alice have been compared to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Doors for their hard-hitting rock and psychedelic tendencies, and Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine for their inspired use of the darkwave sonic spectrum. Alice Sweet Alice's music and lyrical content leans towards the macabre, though sometimes inwardly so. Each track is a vignette of its' own—and if listened to carefully, often possesses a sense of dark, dry humor. Subject matter is very diverse, and there is no musical formula. Each song is individualistic in tone and structure.

I can't post links because I'm brand new, so if you want more information, do a GOOGLE search for ALICE SWEET ALICE MUSIC and go to one of our websites. Show us some love!

—Scott

After going to the warped tour with my friends, almost had a chance to play some songs, they wanted to go from "the shitty slow ass" music I play... to screamo...

Good, I like Screamo when it's done well.

too bad that's few and far in between

(http://www.myspace.com/lifeinsodom) All the info is there and on our website www.lifeinsodom.com

We got a gig at the local christian church! Best part is, we won't be restricted to playing christian rock, or gospel!

My band (if you can call it that) is called Atavism Ball. It's only a friend and I, but we play all the instruments to figure out songs and plan to record them. If anything we could call it batcave/deathpunk. Inspiration from the Sex Gang Children and Rudimentary Peni are kinda evident I think. We're working on releasing a two song demo (er, single?) sometime soon.

I'm probably join a band in the near future.
A friend told me if I wanted to join a band he wants to make. He says it would be a hardcore band, but we have different ideas of hardcore. To me hardcore is still about GBH, Dead Kennedys, and The Exploited. To him, hardcore is Atreyu and similar bands.
Then there's this ska band in my college, but I don't know the guys.
And then again a friend with absolutely no experience wants to start one with me and other inexperienced friends and just get the hang of it as time goes by.
If I have any say on the name of the band, I'd love a name that was mentioned in here once, either by JCC, gothicusmaximus, or Splintered: The Sellouts.

Research it first, I saw the BillyBones live and the singer had The Sellouts sewn on his jacket.

There can be more than one band with the same name.
An example of this is The Subhumans (UK and Can)

The Tailybones. Right now, it's a solo thing. I program music and sing to it.

I can't really say what the genre of it is. It's more just me making songs that strike me as fun at the time. My first song was "Viper Riot" that a few of you SAW.

Essentailly, it's supposed to be a band consisting of drums, bass, violin, and guitar. I'm the vocalist. It's mainly just for fun. But my singing seems to have gone the way of too much punk influence. I need to start making up the melodies and then slap them to a track instead of making a track and slapping some vox to it. The drums probably wont happen, the potential drummer seems more interested in friends and what little I gave to her than starting a project. *echoes of a bitter heart right now* Violin is Despanan. The guitar... whoever the fuck wants to do it, really. I have a friend with a hard on for starting a band with me, but he has a boner for metal and I'm a wimpy elitist prick who avoids metal like the plague.

Ugh, personally... I don't know what to do...

My friends want to play screamo, and I want to play something softer, and with less screaming.

So far Hexoterika is the best one. The vocals could use some more work. They are far to mellow. Like the singer is about to fall asleep. He projects no emotion. But the music is good.

My other band broke up, so I decided to continue my solo work. I changed the name from Harlequin Jack and the Absynthe Bunny to Minister Sin. My music has gone far more dark industrial than psychedelic techno.

Ressurecting this thread to see what people think of this:

www.myspace.com/bluemasqueradeproject

I recorded it in about 10 minutes.

For those that don't recognise, the one track up at the moment is The Bells verse IV (By the great Mr Poe) put to chords (not sure it's really music)

So tell me what you think.

It's very rough. And the vocals aren't quite high enough in the mix.

My band is called Radia. It's another husband and wife team and all done independently. We are much on the softer side of things, with a more dreampop/melancholic rock sound (think a similar feel to bands like The Cocteau Twins, The Sundays or Curve).
The link is the usual myspace jargon plus /ispeakcorruption
Can't post links yet as am still too much of a newbie. Stinkin' Newbies :P

I like it :D it's pretty decent.

Well I guess I'll describe my solo side project...
The current name is Girl Singer, I play bullshit piano and sing. I guess I could classify it as experimental indie shit. It's fun, I'll be making a demo sometime this year.

That reminds me of something. I planned on starting a solo side project, alot like yours, I'll be playing piano, singing, and playing guitar. I'll record a cd, have copies made, and give them to my friends. Lolz, I've always wanted to do this type of thing.

My band (not really a band since I program and produce everything) is mainly Alt Rock with some Nu/Heavy metal trappings more so now than before, there is a chance that NO ONE on this site likes this type of music but its what I have fun playing.

myspace.com/1delayedreaction

Dandyflower. It's a duo with no vocals just yet, but only for the simple fact that I can't get my mic to work right.

Dandflower's Myspace

Finding a name is hard, we changed it 2 times. First we were Lunatica but they already existed, so we turned to Crimson Moonlight (and they already existed anyway). Now we have no name, but it doesn't care until we begin to play around.

I can't tell what kind of music we play, you'll have to listen it and judge yourself.

i record stuff in my room and mix it together. my friend does some percussion also.
check my music out, the song that i'm most pleased with is 'robotique'.
my band is called Death Choir.
this site wont let me post urls so i'll tell you

myspace/ghouldivision
vampirefreaks/ghouldivision

you should know how to fix a url

how about The Riot Club? or maybe Lesion?
those are two i thought up that i don't need to use.

Dunno.. I always wanted something wich was involved with lunar eclipse..

how about Lunaire Ekleipsis?

Mmm... We'll think about it. What is that? German?

it's what lunar eclipse is derived from. lunaire (old french) ekleipsis (greek).
but there's also the latin version : Lunaris Eclipsis.

Yum sounds better... there are good chances we'll use this.. if it has not been used yet.

My band just finished wrapping up our debut EP and I am in the process of trying out guitar and bass players! Music is in the vein of NIN/Depeche Mode and I'm looking for people we are willing to be on tour full time. If anyone is interested, or if you know anyone who would be interested please email me at Jsdobyns@**********, and I can send you a private preview page that has some of the songs. I'm located in CT.

I actually have two bands. The first and oldest - spanning 10 years - is F.R.C. F.R.C. is a primarly metal band that blends various styles from across the metal emporium. My second band - although not as old but more well known - is Epitaph. epitaph combines various bits from ambient, darkwave, death metal, and ethnic.
Unfortunitly, the only recordings that were made are on reel to reel so there is nothing on digital format. There is also no website yet - still working on it.

Forget a band, I'm going solo musical duo at most.

I am working on songs for my first tape, I already have one song in the 50 percent range I'm working on lyrics for 2 more. It may be a terrible tape, but it's not going to be an terrible unfinished tape.

I'm Snail Bob. I've released two shitty albums, and I'm working on a third, potentially less shitty album. I play some shitty Prog-ish, Metal-ish, Avant-Garde-ish stuff, but Amazon.com says I'm Pop.
My shitty Myspace page is: Myspace.com/SnailBobMusic
My shitty Official page is: **********.com/snailbob

Iron fist is my "new" band. It's me playing all the instruments, crust/grind style stuff. And I'm also in a small local black metal band, we still dont have a name, I play bass.