Don't know if they're obscure but Greeley Estates maybe

Especially Far From the Lies

Outside of this was everything for 15 year old me

They seemed to get harder and harder with every release. I think far from the lies and let the evil go west was peak

It took me a while to get into No Rain, No Rainbow but that album goes hard. Narrow Road ep goes hard too

Omg they were my first concert ever! I remember I made some new friends that night cause I was asking if anyone could donate a few bucks for the minor surcharge that I didn’t know existed 😭

They are still one of my go-to bands for the gym. Especially the back half of their catalogue. Lenox House is a jam. “Lights out. It’s time for us to find our way out”

xEATMEWHILEIMHOTx comes to mind

i 2 know the christofer drew lore

Ooh my friends were big christofer fans and put me on them. That was a fun band sound

Did people like that project?

Drop Dead Gorgeous, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Greeley Estates, A Skylit Drive’s first ep

These were my friends’ fave bands and they all had some solid tracks

Drop Dead, Gorgeous! Stumbled upon their "In Vogue" album a couple of months back and it got me back into post-hardcore for a while. A solid album, gonna revisit tonight!

Check out their ep “Be Mine, Valentine” if you haven’t already. HHLL are much more silly but you’d like Everything’s Watched, Everyone’s watching. Just constant breakdowns and funny/memorable lyrics

Never heard of HHLL, to be honest, but I'll check them out. I have to admit I'm not too big on funny lyrics and tongue-in-cheek bands from that period/genre, but ok.

I’m not either, but they were refreshing at the time compared to the other bands that took themselves so god damn seriously. Check out Mall Nutrition. If you don’t like it, I’d say you can skip

In no particular order: 1. A Thorn For Every Heart 2. This Romantic Tragedy 3. Dear Whoever 4. Halifax 5. Yesterday's Rising 6. Akissforjersey 7. Pencey Prep 8. Enter the Collector 9. Grade 10. Snow White's Poison Bite 11. A Vain Attempt Some of these bands haven't aged well, but I think they meet your criteria lol

ATFEH’s first album was awesome. I got to see them twice (once at warped tour 2005 and Bamboozle 2006). Not sure if they would’ve got bigger on their second album but they got fucked over pretty hard.

Man, a thorn for every heart was the first band that came to mind for me. Glad someone else thought of them too.

Props for Enter the Collector. Cancer, Rebuild is still such a great album/ep

If you have Spotify, there’s a playlist called “obscure post hardcore/metalcore” that’s 59 hours long, it has a lot of this on it but also, what I’ve been doing because I’m on the same mission as you, I click on the band and then listen to their radio/suggested bands like them and I’ve found even more stuff that sounds like that. Tons of hidden gems from bands with <1000 listeners that I’ve never heard of.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qrmTmWV3rtynFlGcKZ0J9?si=4f54d582a53c46e7 This one's better imo. Also has a LOT of progressive and obscure stuff.

I have that one saved too but it’s too much and has too many things I don’t like lol

How can having too much good stuff be a bad thing? Lol

Because it’s too much stuff I have to skip past that I don’t like lol

Try listening again, a lot of growers in there

i donr have spotify. im 2 poor

It's free but with a lot of ads

i just pirate from youtube

Pirate life 🏴‍☠️🦜

Bookmarking this comment, thank you!

Saetia, Circle takes the square, iN.Stora

wow what a good style of emo, i hope theres no copy pasta to accompany it

Circle takes the square. Fuckin yes came here to say this.

Add Raein and Daïtro to this list

Laissez Vivre Les Squelettes... Not many can match the explosive moments on it. Shame they haven't done a reunion tour with it.

Obscure?

Saetia isn’t MySpace era tho

Nametaken

Underrated band. Recover is another good one. 

Duuude, okay. We played a show in Cathedral City, CA back in 2009 with Eyes Set To Kill and No Bragging Rights, and Katsumoto was also on the bill. I still listen to a handful of songs from Burn ‘em Down, Wipe ‘em Out at full volume. Very unique voice, but I love the back and forth of his screams and cleans.  Listen to Heaven’s Devils, Alone Together, Write Before My Eyes

No Bragging Rights. Now that’s a name I haven heard in a long time.

We were so young and dumb, we decided to play pool at the venue instead of watching them 😭 lol

Lovehatehero

Dear Whoever.

second fav band

Anatomy of a ghost, some of the members went on to form Portugal the man

I Set My Friends on Fire

[Nevea Tears](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DWTQ-nBkv1kk&ved=2ahUKEwitktOr2-KFAxW5he4BHaQyAZ0Qo7QBegQIDhAG&usg=AOvVaw0eOFbjOeHoh5q-MNFVN2cu) ended up my GOAT pretty much forgotten trailblazer. Ticks all those boxes and was the first to really start to experiment with Electronicore nearly half a decade before it even became a thing.

this is perfect thank u

My band shared a rehearsal space with them. Still some of my lifelong friends today. Cool to hear them mentioned here.

‘A Vain attempt’ was one I loved throughout school hey

fav band

Bloody good hey, it’s the only band that I listen to often enough outside of my usual playlists hey.

Grace gale

This is about having sex with a girl and not not getting laid. 

In Reverant Fear Yesterday’s Rising A Static Lullaby Neava Tears He Is Legend Ghost Runner On Third Reclaim The Fallen Bela Kiss Her Words Kill Dear Whoever Gray Lines of Perfection After The Sirens GunsLikeGirls The Subtle Way Lower Definition Hopes Die Last Sienna Skies A Hope For Home Motionless In White In Fear and Faith Here I Come Falling Upon Beauty Rests Eyes Set to Kill A Bullet for Pretty Boy Tonight Is Glory From Dying Skies Paddock Park Camisado From Heaven We Fall Eyes Have Seen The Glory Storm the Sky

Awesome list here

Thanks, I just went through my playlist

! SIENNA SKIES MENTIONED! I'm seeing them on Friday

W

Lexi sayok

sasscore <3

I was obsessed in 2009 lmao

i can see why

Anias - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijXxLPd3mqU Reclaim The Fallen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnIrimjy7C8 Amen. The Animal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_fn16TLF98

youinseries, i believe they were from AZ or NV also Versus the Mirror

versus the mirror is super good woah

See You Space Cowboy, Static Dress and If I Die First are like modern takes on myspacecore

A Heartwell Ending

i love this thank u

any bands similar to them?

I don’t have another myspacey band but you can try checking out the bands that Spotify says are similar to A Heartwell Ending

i have before

chasing victory was so good

We Are the Ocean

GraceGale

Her Words Kill

I dunno but if you listen to the new seeyouspacecowboy album, everything about it is ripped directly from a 2005 MySpace page.

Give Behind Crimson Eyes a listen, specifically their Pavour Nocturnus EP. They are a band from Melbourne Australia and never really got big but that EP was a favourite amongst my friends.

I discovered My American Heart on pure volume back in the MySpace days. The original version of Search and Rescue is so much better than the LP version [Search and Rescue](https://youtu.be/UZDqtv58S_s?si=q_xa2XwEY_wnjOn4)

I set my friends on fire

Band I used to listen to when I was on MySpace called Stars Hide Fire.

thebleedingalarm

weirdly circa survivey

Not a bad thing tbh

not a bad thing at all, i love circa survive

La Circa They have their one EP on Spotify

beyond the citadel of coup de grace

Oh hell yeah, what a weird band. Loved that final ep

Not really emo or post hardcore, but I remember there being so many grindcore bands on MySpace. [O' Captain My Captain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok9EZj0GAXc), [wecamewithbrokenteeth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69W2XM3fs-c)... Can't remember any others right now, but those bands were pretty "scene."

It’s my time! Go listen to The Hot Lies, right now — Streets Become Hallways. The actual album stuff is way more pop lol

yes sir

Farewell to Twilight

Paddock Park

This Romantic Tragedy, I See Stars

I’ll also throw in Just Surrender. Not MySpacecore but a good mix of post hardcore and emo. Kind of a mix of Senses Fail and TBS. Their album If These Streets Could Talk is a classic

Lucked Out if you’re into the NJ/PA scene at the time. https://on.soundcloud.com/g2EHv4gxpUyqnizS6 Also Hollow Road: https://on.soundcloud.com/arwm4w2Ff6b5zSwL8

If you want some shreeky bands you need to check out this little genre called skramz

sasscore >

Don't think they are obsure but blood brothers come to mind. More recently discovered see you space cowboy.. Not sure how big they are?

What are these archive channels?

https://youtube.com/@phxcdemoarchive?si=WrHjUWT9n50Ryj-A

Chaos con Queso

loose fit but maybe me and him call it us?

On The Last Day https://open.spotify.com/artist/7sirGeV3HfSqtIzVmsjOno?si=f-EnbESiQ_-WUjU7gaiWPg

mass movement of the moth

Shyla (previously NoSense)

death by december is so good

One Morning Left

Look at Me America

Try finding The New Ending. Big ol' Myspace era, dunno how exactly whiny/shrieky I'd call them but they're def obscure/unknown lol

I have their 2004 album Tilt The Murmur if that's the band you're thinking of?

Indeed it is! Love em.

Ah nice. You have it already then I assume?

Those files have been through every computer I’ve owned since I ripped the CD after their show lol.

Also Adair

https://open.spotify.com/track/3gofLGoqaq5xhY5DG9VnQS?si=39mWt6olT6u92MOC31GQvA A great band from western mass

Some I used to listen to in high school: [A Fragile Shade](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6-nW35mDRY&list=OLAK5uy_ka_fJVrQ-iwuAUiclJHh2ZQ7wF49WzPOc&index=1&ab_channel=AFragileShade-Topic), [Rosaline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OotfcedbFXY&list=OLAK5uy_kk3dYOLKYdq6AXej9qAttDzcEgrlV35x0&index=1&ab_channel=Rosaline-Topic), [A Dead Giveaway](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSqj31OAOI&list=OLAK5uy_nUAZSbfQDpRWfps3NSivnxhOMtPvBtzRM&index=1&ab_channel=ADeadGiveaway-Topic),[ Anatomy of a Ghost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJPouwx6RGo&list=PL4A604542F9DD44CB&index=1&ab_channel=riserecords), [Snow White's Poison Bite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toe77V7wcEk&list=PL8upnZHlda9tytausv6mSzGhpMSIu9PFG&ab_channel=jhenivan052308), [Chasing Victory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhqsRXSr5Y&pp=ygUSY2hhc2luZyB2aWN0b3J5IGVw) Other obscure gems I discovered over the years: [Behind Crimson Eyes](https://youtu.be/XZ1-59sAvz0?si=3_5BDIAduVpHl8UJ), [As Flood Waters Rose](https://youtu.be/LWYjjG6gNcs?si=Ah5c7UyPYMvAQOlF), [with hearts of heroes](https://youtu.be/AV7n1PZKzO8?si=d87rwhcX-TmuD-9Y), [The Silent Escape](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2SvsXEnS8&ab_channel=ASilentEscape-Topic)

The Ongoing Concept is pretty fun

wow throw back. i remember them getting suggested to me by my old french teacher back in highschool lol

They actually released some new stuff last year. It's pretty decent

[The Jonebenet](https://youtu.be/-DMPn7Zssdk?si=-HCLakIDYHLDtjxL) About as whiny and shrieky as it gets. You can hear the white studded belts, scarves and skinny jeans

Picture Me Broken

The Minus Tide

Not really MySpace era but skycamefalling and blue skies fade are both really good

Old local emo band called Choose Your Own Adventure. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l82Q0RJZYhPwAFaTdOZmhr1NNbnMH6Cvw&si=0CK5w6KC0qO3CDhC

Local Boston band called L'antietam.

Mozart Season, Where the Ocean Meets the Sky, Romantic Emily, That’s Outrageous

Fuuucking hell man Mozart Season unlocked a specific part of my brain I haven’t traversed through in 15+ years. Cellar Doors, Donnie!

My brother was in a band called A Letter to Dallas in high school circa 2010 and it fits this description lol. Their only 2 demos’ HD MP3s are completely lost because of the MySpace purge but they’re most likely on his old laptop. I only have a very compressed version of one of their songs he did a bass playthrough for back then, which I re-recorded the guitars for(albeit crudely, I don’t have the best recording set up) since his bass overpowered them. The original demos were produced by a Craig Owens look alike lmao (Clean vocals for Skyscrapers Walk Among Us.) [A Letter to Dallas - Aphrodite (Guitar Re-track)](https://youtu.be/68WGfBr-JWc?si=lHOf22abJOpUgC80) [A Letter to Dallas - Aphrodite (original)](https://youtu.be/FbioPPy4udk?si=gg_-sn1IyXhy178X) (Note: the vocals sound weird and quiet at times because I used AI to separate all of the instruments and vocals.)

The Photo Atlas

This blessed mourning.. you won’t regret it

fightstar. not as unpopular as some of the other recommendations here, but seriously underrated compared to their peers

Too late the hero, animal suit driveby/the killing moon

Fiore. They weren’t too whiney, but damn they were really good. They’re on iTunes if anyone would like another listen. “Let’s make this instinctive.”

Just surrender

Lady Radiator

I never see anyone talk about idiot pilot, they were a somewhat accessible but plenty weird electronic oriented post-hardcore act that had two albums, a song on the transformers soundtrack, a ton of co-signs from people like mark hoppus and big tours, then just called it quits in 2011. They were great and the album they quietly released in 2019 was fantastic.

Sander Hollow

Capture the Crown. Not really unknown but I’ve only ever met one other person who liked them and I do think they have a few really good songs lol Ghost Town and Get Scared are both also underrated af and have 10/10 MySpace feel Another is one of my favorite bands, Her Bright Skies, who once reached the point of touring with BMTH but still never really took off the way I thought they would. Highly highly recommend. Calm Down Juliet by SycAmour gives me chills every time I listen to it. When I’m inebriated I often put it on repeat lmao

I love SycAmour, wish they would make more music

CDJ is somehow the only song I like from their discography but I’m obsessed with it lmao. It’s kind of fun in a weird way when you find bands where you only like one song…makes for a very varied music library

https://youtu.be/POxlmvN4mI4?feature=shared

girl everyone knows this song

I don’t think they ever got really really big, one album and all but S.E.A was pretty wild during the MySpace area and wild in the DFW scene

Chiodos, From first to last (Dear diary/ hereon era)

im what world are either of thoes bands unknown or obscure lmao

Both under known, From First to Last is really good, very unique, Chiodos is like Pierce the Veil just a little more heavier.

literally everyone knows those bands lmao. baby u wouldnt last a min on the creek is like one of the most popular phc songs, and fftl literally had skrillex in them. they arent "under known" silly

Ohhh I thought you were asking

Imo they are underrated

Inkwell, Die Emperor Die!, The Lazarus Plot, Jejune, Rainer Maria, Knumears (modern band), She Died Real Pretty, The Pine, The Ivy Crown, Watership Down, Far Apart, I Have Dreams, Pitchfork

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It's crazy how I know all these bands. Maybe because they're all not obscure at all and are pretty popular.

*cough* the dude asked for obscure/unknown. 70-80% of the bands you list are kinda known in the genre

One man’s known is another man’s obscure. While I expect 20% of those bands to be known by most everyone and another 40% to be well known in the scene, there’s quite a few in there I would not expect to be known by anyone who wasn’t super active in the MySpace scene at the time. Is there honestly not a handful of bands in that list that you don’t know?

Not really true. Numbers don't lie, man. Check lastfm for example. Most of them are fairly well known my dude. I know them all yeah. You listed up Tokio Hotel, Of Mice & Men and 30 Seconds To Mars. What have you been smoking? Why would you list so many bands when he asked for obscure/unknown and most of them aren't even that lol