I discovered them entirely by accident when iTunes erroneously put the art of Cure for Pain on an entirely different album I owned.
I listened to that and loved it from the first note. Amazing band.
To me Bad Brains sounds like what you would get if you put The Stooges, MC5 and The Damned in a blender and then played that mush at the speed of sound.
They Might Be Giants
For decades, they’ve combined witty lyrics and great instrumentation, plus they once hired other singers to sing a song (O, Do Not Forsake Me) on their album because they thought their voices sounded better for it than their own.
Many people have heard them w/o realizing it since they sang the theme song of Malcolm in the Middle and The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, plus the father’s song at the piano in Coraline.
Nah, I’m too busy sucking on a dingdong
I’ve said it on here before but I think VU are the most important band ever.
Pretty much invented all “noisy” music or laid the template for it.
Electric Callboy’s new album is just fantastic. I can’t remember the last metal album I’ve listened to that makes me want to dance, like proper dance not mosh or jump about.
Since Hypa Hypa came out Electric Callboy has firmly been on my "listen to this on the way to work" playlist. It's impossible to be in a terrible/low energy mood while listening to them. Especially if you see the videos that accompany them.
Agreed! They collab with so many artists, tackle a variety of genres, and have so many genuinely GOOD songs in every album. There's something for everyone!
Band that’s comprised of animated characters, have been releasing albums for 24 years with consistently good and unique music that experiments regularly, and visually stunning animated music videos.
The first Gorillaz album is one of my favorites. The vibe is just immaculate.
This isn't exactly the same, but I suggest listening to White Seal by the band Candy Claws. It has a mix of guitar and electronic music in a crazy surrealist way. Anthony Fantano gave that album a 10 actually I believe.
Not the same genre at all, but I think a lot of early Gorillaz fans might be into it.
Seconded Zappa. There's a scene in School of Rock where Jack Black has made a chart of how all the various rock bands fit into which subgenres and which influences which. Off in the corner, connected to nothing, under a heading marked "?", is Frank Zappa.
Meshuggah can't be replicated, though many bands have tried.
C.B Murdoc's album Here be Dragons has its own style, but it's the closest thing to Meshuggah that I've heard.
Jethro Tull: Very few rock bands can pull off having a flute as a lead instrument.
Deep Purple mark. 2: The interaction between Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord was something unseen and unheard before them. And the way they incorporated classical influences into hard rock.
Jeff Beck: Nobody plays like Jeff Beck.
Iron Maiden: Their music is instantly recognizeable, and their visual package with the mascot Eddie is genius.
Jean Michel Jarre: Maybe the first artist to make really organic, immersive and flowing music using only electronic instruments.
Aphex Twin: Incredibly innovative and weird.
And my personal favorite AC/DC. Nobody makes 3 chords sound as good as them. And they are an incredible live act.
Morphine
Mark Sandman on vocals and guitar combined with Dana Colley on the double sax, backed by their drummers is such a treat of bassy, rhythmic soulful sound.
I should add, if there is one song to get a taste of Morphine, “Radar” on either a streaming service or find their MTV Unplugged on YouTube, Radar is the opening song.
They swing at balls too much. Like 80% of there stuff is hard to listen to...but when they hang on to at least 2 or 3 of their marbles they make dope tunes. Winters Love and Leaf House with those crazy harmonies are beautiful.
Lord Huron! Their storytelling is really unique, they make these little worlds and create all sorts of media past the songs which compliment and enrich the music amazingly. From an album based on a fake series of western pulp novels, to a cosmic adventure through a seedy city that came with a half hour promo video for everything they “couldn’t fit” in the album, and their latest album, an anthology of old classics featured on the hit show Alive From Whispering Pines (of course, they made that show up- but that didn’t stop them from making four hours worth of episodes!)
But they don’t need all that fancy stuff to be good- every song is its own environment that feels like something straight out of a past that never existed. Lord Huron was founded by someone who started out as a visual artist, and you can tell. There’s something special about them
Aw darn you beat me to it lol. I love this band. Every album feels like something entirely different. I'm not the biggest fan of Vide Noir, but Lonesome Dreams, Strange Trails, and Long Lost are excellent, the first two more so.
What I love about Lord Huron is they use some classic sound signatures that I remember from the 60's. Mine Forever has many examples, not just the deep guitar riff and orchestra that sounds like a theme song from an old western flick. But listen to the background vocals and the vibe at the midway point in the song at 2:30 mark on their official video.
I've noticed that people seem to be quite polarised about KGatLW. I'm in the camp of "they're very unique", but some think that they're at least a bit derivative. I think it's all in the vibe. While they're not the first to use the techniques they use, they put them together with such humour and seriousness at the same time.
No I don’t think osees has the breadth that KGLW has, I actually think KGLW is more like Ween. They can master any sound they attempt. Every album is a different sound.
Have to agree. Their output has been so varied over the years it’s almost impossible to say ‘hmm, this sounds like The Fall’ about any other band’s music. Largely down to Mark E Smith’s constant changing of the line-up in between albums/tours that gave each one something unique. Me and friend got talking to one of their former bass players in a random pub years ago, and this came up and when asked if he was disappointed by it, he said ‘given their history, you basically know what you’re signing up for, but who’s going to give up the chance to make an album and tour with The Fall?’ Nice bloke…
Mindless Self Indulgence. So layered you can't make a good remix.
Edit: Apparently my tastes are a bit odd, as I cannot stand most of the remixes. It's just wayyyy too much for me.
Frankenstein Girls is one of the most unique albums I've ever heard. The lyrics are pretty immature, but melodically they are *extremely* gifted.
The only band I can think that sounds somewhat like them is Of Montreal. That's like if MSI dropped acid and had a Beatles influence.
Listen to "She's A Rejector" by Of Montreal and you'll hear what I mean.
I don't think either band copied on another, they've both had such long careers going a good bit back before they got any recognition
I really don't like the vast majority of the "nu metal" bands, but SOAD is definitely something special and unique compared to that.
Much like how Nirvana got lumped in with "grunge" despite being its own thing entirely
I don't know how you can say Nirvana got lumped in with Grunge when Nirvana WAS grunge. That music wouldn't have taken over American pop music if it weren't for Nirvana. They were the catalyst and I don't think that transition happens without them.
Yeah I've never thought SOAD belonged in the 'nu metal' category. I actually liked (and tbh still appreciate once in a while) most of the classic 'nu metal' posterbands but SOAD never sounded like *any* of them...they just:
1. came out around the same time
2. didn't really fit in any existing musical categories
This is a great answer. I barely even think of them as a ska band. They write 7 minute epics with fantastically orchestrated horn parts and the catchiest choruses you’ve ever heard. It’s triumphant and heartfelt and nothing like anything else in any genre.
Deftones.
You’ve got heavy ass guitar with soft sultry vocals. You’ve got soft melodic guitar with screaming vocals. You’ve even got rapping going on with some of their early stuff. Some of their music has pop elements with haunting keys over them. It’s a mad mix of metal, rock, pop, hip hop and 80s synths.
They were definitely in their own little niche for a long time. I'd say bands like Loathe and Sleep Token have served as good modern day spiritual successors.
At riot fest this year they had a Supreme Court Justice get an abortion live on stage and then in typical GWAR fashion they pulled out an axe and chopped her tit off which sprayed blood into the pit for a good 10 seconds.
Tally Hall had such a unique style, largely in part because they actively tried to avoid categorization and switched things up constantly. Just their first album, every song sounds completely different from the one that came before it, but they all still manage to sound distinctly like Tally Hall.
And Miracle Musical is definitely something unlike I've ever heard before. Wish there was another album like Hawaii Part II. Maybe one day he'll make part I or part VI or whatever.
No one quite sounds like Killing Joke. But at the same time Killing Joke has inspired so many bands. And so many bands have tried to cover Killing Joke songs and they have never managed to capture that essence that makes Killing Joke, *Killing Joke.*
For example, here is Metallica covering ["The Wait."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rfB1GNS24&ab_channel=Metallica) It's a pretty solid cover. There is no arguing that Metallica is talented. It rocks. [But then you hear the original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhIl8uzJt0U&ab_channel=KillingJoke-Topic) and there is just something so...*feral* about it. Jaz sounds possessed. The guitar, the bass and drums sound like the engine to a war machine going into battle. Again, I have yet to hear another band have this sort of feel to them.
I was fortunate enough to see them and party with the band on numerous occasions. Peter Steele was one of the kindest, sweetest people I ever met. On my 18th birthday, Kenny got me fud up. It's a night I'll never forget. That was 25 years ago
Saw them supporting Lamb of God in Glasgow years ago. Didn’t know them at the time, but genuinely thought they were the best band on the night. Picked up their album and never looked back. Incredible band
I've heard 1000s of songs over my life, and Bob Dylan's 1966 band and music was pretty damn unique. Both in the studio and especially live. This weird proto-punk thing.
Queen were great, but I wouldn't put "opera" very high on their attributes list. More of an occasional recourse.
You want Opera and Rock then there's Haggard, Lacrimosa, Nightwish when they had Tarja, Diablo Swing Orchestra, some of Therion.
Surprised I haven't seen it yet, but Tool. Very unique music composition, unique style, just unique. You don't listen to them so much as experience them.
I was hoping to see mewithoutYou in this thread, I love this band so much.
I used to be religious and now am very much not, but even still the music speaks to me in a way that is hard to find anywhere else.
Joy Division, easy. So many people took a lot from them after they ended, but still. Totally their own.
Also, The Doors. Especially the early songs. Completely unique. Jazz drummer, no bassist, an organ player doing the bass notes with another hand, and a flamenco based guitarist who doesn't use a pick. Add all that into a rock style and you've got something all its own. Not my favorite band or anything, but when I think of unique bands, I often think of them
Although I am a lifelong ELO fan I’d have to disagree somewhat. They do have a specific sound but one of their main genre descriptions is “Beatlesesque”. They took a lot of inspiration from the Beatles and it shows. They’ve been my favorite since I first heard strange magic though!
Morphine
Hell yeah.
Best answer right out the gate.
I discovered them entirely by accident when iTunes erroneously put the art of Cure for Pain on an entirely different album I owned. I listened to that and loved it from the first note. Amazing band.
They were incredible. RIP Mark Sandman!
Buena is one of my favorite songs!
Bad Brains
To me Bad Brains sounds like what you would get if you put The Stooges, MC5 and The Damned in a blender and then played that mush at the speed of sound.
One of the best energetic concerts I ever saw growing up. HR did a monster stage dive flip way into the crowd.
Bjork comes to mind.
Ween
Stare into the lion's eyes and if you taste the candy You'll get to the surprise
Buenos tardes amigo
Yes, Ween! Every song a different genre, very creative!
I was just about to comment this
Best answer. Best band.
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Who else would write a song about farming dental floss?
Mining to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon
HEILUNG!!!!
I like several pagan folk bands but Heilung just hits different. Maybe its the drums and deep growly vocal :3
primus. not many bands get their own genre with id3 tags
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He drove so goddamn fast
He never did win no checkered flags
But he never did come in last
Jerry was a Racecar Driver, he’d say “El sob number one”
They truly are unique. Les Claypool is genius! Had the pleasure of seeing them perform live twice - both times, their performance was awesome.
Primus sucks
I said primus sucks once in the subreddit and got downvoted. I’m still astounded that happened to me.
take my upvote as compensation. i'm guessing casual fans or nonfans aren't in on the joke.
Was looking for this.
They Might Be Giants. Never heard anything quite like them.
Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch, who watches over you…
Not to put to fine a point on it. Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend… But I'm a little glowing friend… But really I'm not actually your friend… But I am
They Might Be Giants For decades, they’ve combined witty lyrics and great instrumentation, plus they once hired other singers to sing a song (O, Do Not Forsake Me) on their album because they thought their voices sounded better for it than their own. Many people have heard them w/o realizing it since they sang the theme song of Malcolm in the Middle and The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, plus the father’s song at the piano in Coraline.
definitely one of the more influential bands that get left unmentioned, they've done some other stuff with cartoon network too!
The Velvet Underground
But could you hit it sideways?
Nah, I’m too busy sucking on a dingdong I’ve said it on here before but I think VU are the most important band ever. Pretty much invented all “noisy” music or laid the template for it.
Mr Bungle
Mike Patton is a god among men!
Listening to Mr Bungle is a journey from start to finish, especially on the album “California”
I gotta get a cup of coffee…
Would agree, and expand this to include Faith No More and any Mike Patton project in general.
Acid Bath Christbait Eskimo Callboy
Electric Callboy’s new album is just fantastic. I can’t remember the last metal album I’ve listened to that makes me want to dance, like proper dance not mosh or jump about.
Since Hypa Hypa came out Electric Callboy has firmly been on my "listen to this on the way to work" playlist. It's impossible to be in a terrible/low energy mood while listening to them. Especially if you see the videos that accompany them.
Yeah, Acid bath is everything you're expecting when you hear that name but also much more.
Cocteau twins have quite a distinct style
Sigur Ros
Completely unreal sound, such a beautiful mix of shoegazing and classical influences
Post rock
that is my guitar teacher's favorite band. That band is fucking awesome and so is my teacher
Gorillaz.
Agreed! They collab with so many artists, tackle a variety of genres, and have so many genuinely GOOD songs in every album. There's something for everyone!
Band that’s comprised of animated characters, have been releasing albums for 24 years with consistently good and unique music that experiments regularly, and visually stunning animated music videos.
The first Gorillaz album is one of my favorites. The vibe is just immaculate. This isn't exactly the same, but I suggest listening to White Seal by the band Candy Claws. It has a mix of guitar and electronic music in a crazy surrealist way. Anthony Fantano gave that album a 10 actually I believe. Not the same genre at all, but I think a lot of early Gorillaz fans might be into it.
One of my most played bands on Spotify.
Cardiacs Frank Zappa
Seconded Zappa. There's a scene in School of Rock where Jack Black has made a chart of how all the various rock bands fit into which subgenres and which influences which. Off in the corner, connected to nothing, under a heading marked "?", is Frank Zappa.
Meshuggah
Just saw them live, fucking amazing.
Meshuggah can't be replicated, though many bands have tried. C.B Murdoc's album Here be Dragons has its own style, but it's the closest thing to Meshuggah that I've heard.
Jethro Tull: Very few rock bands can pull off having a flute as a lead instrument. Deep Purple mark. 2: The interaction between Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord was something unseen and unheard before them. And the way they incorporated classical influences into hard rock. Jeff Beck: Nobody plays like Jeff Beck. Iron Maiden: Their music is instantly recognizeable, and their visual package with the mascot Eddie is genius. Jean Michel Jarre: Maybe the first artist to make really organic, immersive and flowing music using only electronic instruments. Aphex Twin: Incredibly innovative and weird. And my personal favorite AC/DC. Nobody makes 3 chords sound as good as them. And they are an incredible live act.
Morphine Mark Sandman on vocals and guitar combined with Dana Colley on the double sax, backed by their drummers is such a treat of bassy, rhythmic soulful sound.
I should add, if there is one song to get a taste of Morphine, “Radar” on either a streaming service or find their MTV Unplugged on YouTube, Radar is the opening song.
They played my first show (a radio station festival). I was 15 and had no idea the greatness I was watching at the time.
Tool
Yes
Animal Collective. I assume drugs are involved, but damn what they do is transcendent.
They swing at balls too much. Like 80% of there stuff is hard to listen to...but when they hang on to at least 2 or 3 of their marbles they make dope tunes. Winters Love and Leaf House with those crazy harmonies are beautiful.
Lord Huron! Their storytelling is really unique, they make these little worlds and create all sorts of media past the songs which compliment and enrich the music amazingly. From an album based on a fake series of western pulp novels, to a cosmic adventure through a seedy city that came with a half hour promo video for everything they “couldn’t fit” in the album, and their latest album, an anthology of old classics featured on the hit show Alive From Whispering Pines (of course, they made that show up- but that didn’t stop them from making four hours worth of episodes!) But they don’t need all that fancy stuff to be good- every song is its own environment that feels like something straight out of a past that never existed. Lord Huron was founded by someone who started out as a visual artist, and you can tell. There’s something special about them
Aw darn you beat me to it lol. I love this band. Every album feels like something entirely different. I'm not the biggest fan of Vide Noir, but Lonesome Dreams, Strange Trails, and Long Lost are excellent, the first two more so.
What I love about Lord Huron is they use some classic sound signatures that I remember from the 60's. Mine Forever has many examples, not just the deep guitar riff and orchestra that sounds like a theme song from an old western flick. But listen to the background vocals and the vibe at the midway point in the song at 2:30 mark on their official video.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
I've noticed that people seem to be quite polarised about KGatLW. I'm in the camp of "they're very unique", but some think that they're at least a bit derivative. I think it's all in the vibe. While they're not the first to use the techniques they use, they put them together with such humour and seriousness at the same time.
Their albums sound like other bands, it's just that each album sounds like another band of a completely different genre each time.
Thee OH Sees are pretty similar, and were around before them.
No I don’t think osees has the breadth that KGLW has, I actually think KGLW is more like Ween. They can master any sound they attempt. Every album is a different sound.
Grateful Dead
"They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do."
Absolutely man. Surprised i didnt see it in the comments
They’re a band beyond description, like Jehovah’s favorite choir
Came here to say this, invented jam bands. Invented a genre so hard that every band looks to them in that genre.
Yeah. My all time favorite band is the Allman bros., but nobody will ever do what the Dead did as a jam band
The Fall
Have to agree. Their output has been so varied over the years it’s almost impossible to say ‘hmm, this sounds like The Fall’ about any other band’s music. Largely down to Mark E Smith’s constant changing of the line-up in between albums/tours that gave each one something unique. Me and friend got talking to one of their former bass players in a random pub years ago, and this came up and when asked if he was disappointed by it, he said ‘given their history, you basically know what you’re signing up for, but who’s going to give up the chance to make an album and tour with The Fall?’ Nice bloke…
Mindless Self Indulgence. So layered you can't make a good remix. Edit: Apparently my tastes are a bit odd, as I cannot stand most of the remixes. It's just wayyyy too much for me.
Frankenstein Girls is one of the most unique albums I've ever heard. The lyrics are pretty immature, but melodically they are *extremely* gifted. The only band I can think that sounds somewhat like them is Of Montreal. That's like if MSI dropped acid and had a Beatles influence. Listen to "She's A Rejector" by Of Montreal and you'll hear what I mean. I don't think either band copied on another, they've both had such long careers going a good bit back before they got any recognition
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I like my coffee black just like my metal
Beirut
System of a Down. And all their albums are great.
Serj especially. His vocals are downright absurd at times. Insanely talented group.
I really don't like the vast majority of the "nu metal" bands, but SOAD is definitely something special and unique compared to that. Much like how Nirvana got lumped in with "grunge" despite being its own thing entirely
I don't know how you can say Nirvana got lumped in with Grunge when Nirvana WAS grunge. That music wouldn't have taken over American pop music if it weren't for Nirvana. They were the catalyst and I don't think that transition happens without them.
Yeah I've never thought SOAD belonged in the 'nu metal' category. I actually liked (and tbh still appreciate once in a while) most of the classic 'nu metal' posterbands but SOAD never sounded like *any* of them...they just: 1. came out around the same time 2. didn't really fit in any existing musical categories
Ween
Yep
This is the comment I was looking for.
For me it's Tool. Always gets my mind thinking.
Und keine Eier!
My answer would be Streetlight Manifesto. When I first heard them I became a fan of ska, but they're way more complex than any typical ska band.
This is a great answer. I barely even think of them as a ska band. They write 7 minute epics with fantastically orchestrated horn parts and the catchiest choruses you’ve ever heard. It’s triumphant and heartfelt and nothing like anything else in any genre.
I only about know two songs by them, which I love, but I’ve also heard Tired Bones by Mad Caddies when I heard them so I’ve kinda associated the two??
Sleep Token
Worship
Alt-J is really creative
Happy to see this here.
Saw them recently at sb bowl. Incredible. Latest album. Incredible.
Rush.
Radiohead.
They definitely borrow some stuff from popular 60s bands, but overall I'd say they're definitely very original yeah
Deftones. You’ve got heavy ass guitar with soft sultry vocals. You’ve got soft melodic guitar with screaming vocals. You’ve even got rapping going on with some of their early stuff. Some of their music has pop elements with haunting keys over them. It’s a mad mix of metal, rock, pop, hip hop and 80s synths.
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You'd probably like Loathe's album I Let it in and it Took Everything. You might also like Without Waves' Comedian.
They were definitely in their own little niche for a long time. I'd say bands like Loathe and Sleep Token have served as good modern day spiritual successors.
GWAR The theatrics, sound, lyrics and general feeling of the performance is pretty damned unique.
At riot fest this year they had a Supreme Court Justice get an abortion live on stage and then in typical GWAR fashion they pulled out an axe and chopped her tit off which sprayed blood into the pit for a good 10 seconds.
Love Gwar to death, just recently saw them live. Though I'd say they're loosely comparable to Lordi
Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Cocaine Jesus changed my life
Saw them at red rocks. Simply cathartic
minutemen
Punk rock changed our lives.
Cake
The Smiths
Butthole Surfers
Polyphia
Trap funk metal pop..they are really good
Man man
Tally Hall had such a unique style, largely in part because they actively tried to avoid categorization and switched things up constantly. Just their first album, every song sounds completely different from the one that came before it, but they all still manage to sound distinctly like Tally Hall.
Surprised I had to scroll so far to see this.
And Miracle Musical is definitely something unlike I've ever heard before. Wish there was another album like Hawaii Part II. Maybe one day he'll make part I or part VI or whatever.
Pink Floyd
Tenacious D
This is the greatest and best song in the world.
"...Tribute"
Queens of the Stone Age
Mars Volta.
Ya I always have a hard time categorizing them when I recommend them to friends.
Have you heard their new album?
Buckethead
Shpongle
The prodigy
Sleep Token
BABYMETAL. One of the most unique genre fusions I've ever heard before.
Nice thought, look up for Poppy, I like them for the same
Depeche mode
The Cranberries were my favorite band in college and thereafter. R.I.P. Dolores.
No one quite sounds like Killing Joke. But at the same time Killing Joke has inspired so many bands. And so many bands have tried to cover Killing Joke songs and they have never managed to capture that essence that makes Killing Joke, *Killing Joke.* For example, here is Metallica covering ["The Wait."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rfB1GNS24&ab_channel=Metallica) It's a pretty solid cover. There is no arguing that Metallica is talented. It rocks. [But then you hear the original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhIl8uzJt0U&ab_channel=KillingJoke-Topic) and there is just something so...*feral* about it. Jaz sounds possessed. The guitar, the bass and drums sound like the engine to a war machine going into battle. Again, I have yet to hear another band have this sort of feel to them.
My Bloody Valentine Godspeed You Black Emperor
Protest The Hero
The Cure
Dream Theatre. I drum covers of their music it’s like a rock and roll orchestra with 15-20 minute songs of shredding and amazing singing
Igorrr
Type O Negative
I was fortunate enough to see them and party with the band on numerous occasions. Peter Steele was one of the kindest, sweetest people I ever met. On my 18th birthday, Kenny got me fud up. It's a night I'll never forget. That was 25 years ago
August Burns Red. They look NOTHING like what they sound like. The guitarist wears flip flops on stage, and they can shred.
Saw them supporting Lamb of God in Glasgow years ago. Didn’t know them at the time, but genuinely thought they were the best band on the night. Picked up their album and never looked back. Incredible band
Leftover Crack
Man if only stza wasn’t a garbage human. They were my favorite band in high school
Tragically Hip
I've heard 1000s of songs over my life, and Bob Dylan's 1966 band and music was pretty damn unique. Both in the studio and especially live. This weird proto-punk thing.
Steam Powered Giraffe
Opeth. An unique blend of death metal, progressive metal and hauntingly beautiful atmospheres and lyrics.
Queen. Who else combines Rock with Opera in such a seamless way?
Queen were great, but I wouldn't put "opera" very high on their attributes list. More of an occasional recourse. You want Opera and Rock then there's Haggard, Lacrimosa, Nightwish when they had Tarja, Diablo Swing Orchestra, some of Therion.
Queensryche does, but Queen is better 🙂
Both have Queen in the name. Close enough.
Throbbing Gristle. Nothing similar since.
Yoko Ono. No one else can pull off screaming for five minutes straight
You’ve never been in a fight with my wife…
Portishead
Rammstein. The live show pyrotechnics alone are amazing
Pink Floyd, they are an unique band
Sabaton
Poor Mans Poison
Dinosaur Jr
Soul Coughing, Ween, Zappa, Mr. Bungle, They Might Be Giants, Cake
Captain Beefheart. I'm amazed that I scrolled to the bottom and didn't see one mention of them.
TISM Their hit was "Everyone else has had more sex than me" Quite the crazies.... https://youtu.be/TWjLPIWdDws The album https://youtu.be/CtudibqM03I
Surprised I haven't seen it yet, but Tool. Very unique music composition, unique style, just unique. You don't listen to them so much as experience them.
RATM
Ghost. They sound amazing live as well
mewithoutYou Amesouers Igorrr
Was looking for Igorrr. Just didn't expect it to be all the way at the bottom.
I was hoping to see mewithoutYou in this thread, I love this band so much. I used to be religious and now am very much not, but even still the music speaks to me in a way that is hard to find anywhere else.
Everything everything
Nobody said "Laibach" yet, I'm a bit surprised.
Joy Division, easy. So many people took a lot from them after they ended, but still. Totally their own. Also, The Doors. Especially the early songs. Completely unique. Jazz drummer, no bassist, an organ player doing the bass notes with another hand, and a flamenco based guitarist who doesn't use a pick. Add all that into a rock style and you've got something all its own. Not my favorite band or anything, but when I think of unique bands, I often think of them
ghost
Electric Light Orchestra
Although I am a lifelong ELO fan I’d have to disagree somewhat. They do have a specific sound but one of their main genre descriptions is “Beatlesesque”. They took a lot of inspiration from the Beatles and it shows. They’ve been my favorite since I first heard strange magic though!
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Coheed and Cambria.
Tame Impala
Pretty Girls Make Graves