To be fair, late for KGLW can be 12 albums in or 20 albums in. The scale for them is way different. Like they formed after I left highschool and none of them have died. Eric left. Yet their discography is big enough for 5 bands combined.
Yeah, but listening to all of it, you get the sense it's more 12 albums with 10 fluff pieces around them.
In no timeline am I ever putting Laminated Denim up against IDPLM&L, or Gumboot against Nonagon. Their bar for quality is kinda loopy.
I liked Phantom Island, a good B+ record from them with some of my favorite singles. They're still an extremely strong band, they sometimes spend 1-3 albums fucking around before making another hit.
Daft Punk. Discovered them too late to go to an actual concert.
And same with Caravan Palace. Loved the original ensemble and style, the spirit of their concerts. The current getup is nice too, but with different vocalist and a few other band member changes, it's just not the same...
Same with Daft Punk. I have listened so much to Alive 2007 and it breaks my heart that I could have seen that show live in my city if I had not been a stubborn teen who "only listens to real music" (rock and metal).
I wasn't yet into music in general when RAM came our but I remember bumping to the song with pharell on the radio all the time in school when I would be driven around places.
Then now I'm like damn, I missed an opportunity to experience their music being mainstream.
There was the tron music too which was kind of a trigger to get into them more for me.
And the new tron Ares music with NIN feels kind of like a spiritual successor in some parts where they reference their sound.
Big Country - Influenced your favorite band, bagpipe guitars, google it.
They Might be Giants - Not JUST a fun jokey band, just mostly one. Some of their songs are lyrically and musically brilliant tho despite the light tone.
The Menzingers - A lighter hardcore band with a southern rock vibe that puts out really heartfelt and just awesome stuff.
Musical tastes change over your lifetime too, so what was cool when you were a teenager might become cringe later on in life, and vice versa.
And even later on, the things that became cringe might make a comeback and become cool again.
As a broad category, 70s Disco is a great example of that. The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, ABBA, etc etc. were overplayed, but it was popular music because it was good.
60s and 70s soul samples become the foundations for new rap and dance tracks.
I love Judy Collins, Mary Hopkins, Harry Belafonte and other late 60s and 70s vocalists even though they were big before I was born.
Low. Heard Hey What and absolutely loved it, then found out that Mimi had just died. Saw Alan solo a couple years later at a festival, and you could still really feel his grief in his voice.
Oingo Boingo was done and gone like almost a decade before I became a fan. And I started out right, becoming a fan of the "Only a Lad" album before most of the rest. Never did come around to the 1994 album "Boingo," but to each their own.
Every time I heard the band name "Daft Punk," it meant nothing to me. Toward the end of their existence I finally put the name with the music and hot damn that's good stuff.
Yeah similar to me. I thought they were some no name one hit wonder with "harder, better, faster stronger" and only recently I realized they were very popular in the 90s already and "around the world" is from them, which is like the background music of my childhood memories.
My old roommate sucked. His favorite band was a Canadian thrash metal band called 3 Inches of Blood. I assumed they also sucked. Many years later I actually listened to them and they're amazing. In the meantime they had broken up.
Happy ending, though. They did a reunion show last year and I was able to go see it!
I too love a good spelunk of the aged veins of music.
I also love connecting people with the right resources. So what kind of music are you into? =) (Or if that's too broad, what kind of music are you seeking to get into?)
Oh god, what don't I like. I like everything from Thrash/Death and Progressive Metal to classical piano and everything in between. Folk music, music from other cultures, Middle-Eastern, Greek, Spanish, South Asian, East Asian, Caribbean, etc. Good video game music, like the Ori soundtrack, lots of Mario games have good soundtracks, like the Galaxy games. Zelda games. Horizon games.
I'll say, Equilibrium was quite similar to some bands I do follow. Good one there.
Sunlounger was pretty chill. Might be something I'll slap on while working or playing Rocket League.
Venjent... what if I told you I was like one of the top 0.01 % listeners of Venjent on Spotify in 2025, I think. Some kind of small number like that. 😅 He's truly inspired. Really sick beats. I tend to pair him up with Fox Stevenson for a solid time of straight bangers.
Some early as well as recent favorites of mine:
HIM
The Crown/prev. "Crown of Thorns"
The Haunted
Dimmu Borgir
Metallica
CKY
Foreign Objects
Meshuggah
Mattias "I.A." Eklundh [my kids love this guy's music, lol]
Opeth
Finntroll
Children of Bodom
Sonata Arctica
Animals as Leaders
Lamb of God
Tesseract
Textures
The Ocean
The Omnific
Dissection
Amon Amarth
Linkin Park (the first two albums; basically their first album was the first taste of metal I ever had; thought it sounded so badass; I don't really open them up nowadays though, there's just so much better stuff out there)
Bro there are so many good bands, I have about 1700+ bands that I follow on Spotify. (Quite overwhelming at times, actually.) But maybe you get the picture of what kind of weird sounds I'm into. Really liking a lot of syncopation. I want to be intrigued by the music, you know? 🙂
I rarely get new suggestions on Spotify anymore. I've like added the entire network of bands that have any kind of relation to one another. 😅
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed some of the shared songs.
Venjent… what if I told you I was like one of the top 0.01 % listeners of Venjent in 2025, I think.
My goodness dude! Hahaha That's is some serious dedication! =p
Equilibrium is one of favorite folk metal bands to date. Sunlounger is growing to become my go to artist, when I need to chill out. Venjent is a really interesting artist. I love his ability to utilize sounds from anything and apply them into a music format.
As for your list, HOLY SHIITAKE! You seem to have the metal music corner of music well covered. lol I've heard 12 of those listed and know I like, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica, CKY, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth and (of course) Linkin Park. I'll check out the rest over the next several days.
Bro there are so many good bands, I have about 1700+ bands that I follow on Spotify. (Quite overwhelming at times, actually.)
ROFL! I can totally understand the overwhelming sense you would get. This is why I only follow a 30 or so bands on Spotify.
If you're looking for more chill music/song suggestions, I would suggestion:
HIM - I tried to find a song from HIM this time while suppressing my premonitions, but I just couldn't. There are just so many songs about love, partners, etc. and that doesn't apply to me right now.
The Crown - I can see myself getting into them the rest of the year, for sure. I enjoyed Gone to Hell and Death Explosion from them (so far.)
The Haunted - I liked All Against All. I'll be checking out there stuff a bit more, but later.
Dimmu Borgir - I already knew about them. They are a 'nasty' band. Hahaha. Puritania is by far my favorite song from them.
Metallica and CKY I've heard and like some of their songs. Metallica more so.
Foreign Objects - I'm digging their Galactic Prey album. For sure gonna come back to this one.
Meshuggah - They have a cool sound, but I just can't find myself liking their songs.
Mattias “I.A.” Eklundh - Minor Swing through me for a loop haha. I like that one. Same with New Air.
Opeth - IDK... I think it's a bit too moody for my liking.
Finntroll - It's alright to me. Wish I could understand their lyrics ha.
Children of Bodom - That's my shit! 👍 I seem to like Melodic Death Metal music quite a bit. Power Metal is fun too.
Sonata Arctica - I could see myself enjoying some of their music. But I think I'm currently in a 'heavy hitting' phase musically. Symphonic metal is pretty cool. My introduction to it was Nightwish's Wishmaster album.
Animals as Leaders - I had a few friends years ago that were really into them. I think they have some interesting sounds, but sometimes, math metal can be too much for me.
Lamb of God - I've definitely heard of them and heard a few of their songs. Yeah IDK man. For whatever reason, I can't find a song that I like enough to add to my Spotify. I might come back to them later for a deeper dive.
Tesseract - Not feeling it.
Textures - Not feeling it.
The Ocean - I liked Holocene.
The Omnific - Turns out, I liked their Objects de Vertu song some time ago. I liked Outback Overdrive. They feel like a band I would enjoy diving deeper into.
Dissection - Pretty good.
Amon Amarth - Of course, I've heard of them and like their song Twilight Of The Thunder God hahaha. I've been meaning to come back to them and hear more of their stuff. Liked Shield Wall.
Linkin Park - Really dude?! LOL! I wasn't born yesterday! I like their stuff. Mostly their earlier stuff as well.
At the Drive-In - Literally the hot shit of late 00s and early 10s done in the mid 90s. They were so ahead of their time it's a shame they kinda get lost being inspiration for what came later. They totally deserved to be the focal point.
Converge - I was always aware of them. They were kind of just another band at the time they were at their best. Then I really got into them this past year. I totally wish I could have fully appreciated them when we were younger. Going to one of their early shows would have been a highlight of my life.
Nine Inch Nails - I just never gave them a proper chance until the past few years. They totally deserve their reputation. Their stuff is awesome.
Toots Hibbert (and the Maytals). He died in 2020. I would never have been able to enjoy his music before then anyway so.... there's always the recordings. My morning playlist is almost all Toots
Skitliv. Big fan of the 'Maniac' era in Mayhem (Wolfs lair, Grand declaration, Chimera) then one day I learn that Maniac is vocalist in Skitliv. However I'm to late to the party so no live concert's or anything 😡
I got my first tickets to a Rush concert later this year as well. I never thought I’d have a chance to see them live so I jumped as soon as I heard about it. I only wish Neil Pert was still around…
Almost all of them. And I often think they’re someone no one else listens to. Like I found this singer I really liked last December who I thought at first was America’s answer to Corinne Bailey Rae until I heard her speak and found out she’s British too. Still, I liked her sound and was in my happy little bubble listening to the indie artist I found who no one else knew about: Olivia Dean.
Now I’m just dreading finding out that Apes of the State have won a Pulitzer Prize or something. At least I know no one’s heard of this Britney Spears person I’ve started listening to.
I discovered Jeff Buckley just after he toured Australia. I was looking forward to his next tour, then he died. 😥
As a tween I, for some unknown reason, decided that I liked Nirvana and therefore didn't like Pearl Jam. It wasn't until I was much older that I realised that was silly and I could like both if I wanted.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. If there was ever a voice of love and peace, it was a giant of a man with a giant's heart. If I could bring one musician back from the dead, it would be the Hawaiian avatar of humankind's best qualities.
Westkust. Found them through Keep Driving, loved them, looked them up, and was super disappointed to learn they broke up. At least there's Makthaverskan with some of their ex-members and a similar sound.
There is this really funky band called mating ritual, and I got really into their music over the past year. After awhile I started to wonder if they were touring, and found out that they had just wrapped up their 'goodbye forever' tour, including a show in my city a couple months ago.
I somewhat recently found out about an artist called Foreground Eclipse. According to the Touhou Wiki, they disbanded in 2013 and they were considered a screamo and post-hardcore metal band but because of the singers voice, they might fall under "kawaii metal" (cute metal). A good example of their music would be In A Night When Her Sorrow Resounds Around.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Edit: that is assuming too late as in “wish I would have been into this band in high school” and not “half the band has died or they are broken up”
To be fair, late for KGLW can be 12 albums in or 20 albums in. The scale for them is way different. Like they formed after I left highschool and none of them have died. Eric left. Yet their discography is big enough for 5 bands combined.
Yeah, but listening to all of it, you get the sense it's more 12 albums with 10 fluff pieces around them.
In no timeline am I ever putting Laminated Denim up against IDPLM&L, or Gumboot against Nonagon. Their bar for quality is kinda loopy.
I liked Phantom Island, a good B+ record from them with some of my favorite singles. They're still an extremely strong band, they sometimes spend 1-3 albums fucking around before making another hit.
That's the trick though. You will listen to all of Gizzard's albums. Their highs are so high they get the benefit of the doubt for everything else.
Both.
So hyped to see KGLW at the top
Daft Punk. Discovered them too late to go to an actual concert.
And same with Caravan Palace. Loved the original ensemble and style, the spirit of their concerts. The current getup is nice too, but with different vocalist and a few other band member changes, it's just not the same...
Same with Daft Punk. I have listened so much to Alive 2007 and it breaks my heart that I could have seen that show live in my city if I had not been a stubborn teen who "only listens to real music" (rock and metal).
I wasn't yet into music in general when RAM came our but I remember bumping to the song with pharell on the radio all the time in school when I would be driven around places. Then now I'm like damn, I missed an opportunity to experience their music being mainstream. There was the tron music too which was kind of a trigger to get into them more for me. And the new tron Ares music with NIN feels kind of like a spiritual successor in some parts where they reference their sound.
Stevie Ray Vaughan.... a week before he died :(
Consider the Following
Big Country - Influenced your favorite band, bagpipe guitars, google it.
They Might be Giants - Not JUST a fun jokey band, just mostly one. Some of their songs are lyrically and musically brilliant tho despite the light tone.
The Menzingers - A lighter hardcore band with a southern rock vibe that puts out really heartfelt and just awesome stuff.
The Menzingers still play well in concert. "America, You're Freaking Me Out" hits a lot harder now.
I saw them live one time and was blown away. Then I listened to their albums and was kinda underwhelmed.
They have their greatest hits, it is best to stick to those.
+1 for TMBG. But they are still touring (at least as of 2025).
Amy Winehouse.
Musical tastes change over your lifetime too, so what was cool when you were a teenager might become cringe later on in life, and vice versa.
And even later on, the things that became cringe might make a comeback and become cool again.
As a broad category, 70s Disco is a great example of that. The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, ABBA, etc etc. were overplayed, but it was popular music because it was good.
60s and 70s soul samples become the foundations for new rap and dance tracks.
I love Judy Collins, Mary Hopkins, Harry Belafonte and other late 60s and 70s vocalists even though they were big before I was born.
Bear vs. Shark.
By the time I discovered them, they had already broken up. Very short lived band that apparently put on great live shows.
ETA: not sure if this is the kind of answer you were looking for, but it's the first thing that popped in my head.
This is the kind of answer I'm looking for.
SOPHIE. They died like a month after I found their stuff. Hell of a producer.
Low. Heard Hey What and absolutely loved it, then found out that Mimi had just died. Saw Alan solo a couple years later at a festival, and you could still really feel his grief in his voice.
I live in Duluth where they are from. Mimi's passing hit this whole community really hard.
Oingo Boingo was done and gone like almost a decade before I became a fan. And I started out right, becoming a fan of the "Only a Lad" album before most of the rest. Never did come around to the 1994 album "Boingo," but to each their own.
Goodbye Goodbye is such a great song 🤘
For sure.
On the Outside and WYSIWYG are two of my favs.
Every time I heard the band name "Daft Punk," it meant nothing to me. Toward the end of their existence I finally put the name with the music and hot damn that's good stuff.
Yeah similar to me. I thought they were some no name one hit wonder with "harder, better, faster stronger" and only recently I realized they were very popular in the 90s already and "around the world" is from them, which is like the background music of my childhood memories.
My old roommate sucked. His favorite band was a Canadian thrash metal band called 3 Inches of Blood. I assumed they also sucked. Many years later I actually listened to them and they're amazing. In the meantime they had broken up.
Happy ending, though. They did a reunion show last year and I was able to go see it!
Saving this post to go spelunking after it has amassed some replies. Great question! I love music exploration.
I too love a good spelunk of the aged veins of music.
I also love connecting people with the right resources. So what kind of music are you into? =) (Or if that's too broad, what kind of music are you seeking to get into?)
Oh god, what don't I like. I like everything from Thrash/Death and Progressive Metal to classical piano and everything in between. Folk music, music from other cultures, Middle-Eastern, Greek, Spanish, South Asian, East Asian, Caribbean, etc. Good video game music, like the Ori soundtrack, lots of Mario games have good soundtracks, like the Galaxy games. Zelda games. Horizon games.
The list goes on. Ever expanding. 🤯
Oh boy! I'm very similar to you and your music taste then.
Let's see... We'll try these out and see what you think of them. A yay or nah is workable, but more info is useful.
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Step Up (I'm On It) [Southern Rock / Southern Metal]
Equilibrium - Snuffel [Folk Metal / Speed Metal]
Ghost - Kaisarion [Glam Metal / Heavy Metal]
Venjent - Till Death We Do Art [Electronic / Drum and Bass]
Sunlounger - White Sand - Chill Out Edit [Trance / Chillout]
How fun!
I'll say, Equilibrium was quite similar to some bands I do follow. Good one there.
Sunlounger was pretty chill. Might be something I'll slap on while working or playing Rocket League.
Venjent... what if I told you I was like one of the top 0.01 % listeners of Venjent on Spotify in 2025, I think. Some kind of small number like that. 😅 He's truly inspired. Really sick beats. I tend to pair him up with Fox Stevenson for a solid time of straight bangers.
Some early as well as recent favorites of mine:
Bro there are so many good bands, I have about 1700+ bands that I follow on Spotify. (Quite overwhelming at times, actually.) But maybe you get the picture of what kind of weird sounds I'm into. Really liking a lot of syncopation. I want to be intrigued by the music, you know? 🙂
I rarely get new suggestions on Spotify anymore. I've like added the entire network of bands that have any kind of relation to one another. 😅
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed some of the shared songs.
My goodness dude! Hahaha That's is some serious dedication! =p
Equilibrium is one of favorite folk metal bands to date. Sunlounger is growing to become my go to artist, when I need to chill out. Venjent is a really interesting artist. I love his ability to utilize sounds from anything and apply them into a music format.
As for your list, HOLY SHIITAKE! You seem to have the metal music corner of music well covered. lol I've heard 12 of those listed and know I like, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica, CKY, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth and (of course) Linkin Park. I'll check out the rest over the next several days.
ROFL! I can totally understand the overwhelming sense you would get. This is why I only follow a 30 or so bands on Spotify.
If you're looking for more chill music/song suggestions, I would suggestion:
(Songs)
Tokyomane - Far Away
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
(Artists)
Loafy Building
no one's perfect
Ocie Elliott
Kalaido
Thanks cool dude. I figure you've heard of Math Rock. But if you haven't... https://www.last.fm/tag/math+rock
What music suggestions would you have for me? Like I mentioned, I'm into just about everything. So what'cha got? =)
I like those artists you posted, very LoFi, very chillable 👌
Well that long list I posted earlier were some suggestions 😁 Some more:
You might tell that I'm mostly big on metal, math core, and djent, which are my favorite genres, I suppose. 😊 Enjoy!
(I'll check out the bands and artists above in a few days. Promise.)
While you're waiting for me to check them out, here's my version of music suggestion wall. =p
Punk Rock
AFI - All Hallows EP
Sloppy Seconds - Destroyed album
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes album
Teenage Bottlerocket - So Dumb song
Electronic / Electro / DnB / House / Dubstep
Kavinsky - OutRun album
Cinnamon Chasers - Speeder song
Ghost in Real Life - Alive song
Thomas Barrandon - Body
Dark Electro / Techno / Darkwave / Synthwave
Gesaffelstein - Pursuit
Metal
Nekrogoblikon - No One Survives music video
Mick Gordon - Faust song
IDK, Just listen
Carpenter Brut - The Misfits / The Rebels music video
Blood Cultures - Where The City Can't See
[Boris Brejcha - Dimension, Kick It - Andrea Botez Remix
Alright. So I'm going through these now.
HIM - I tried to find a song from HIM this time while suppressing my premonitions, but I just couldn't. There are just so many songs about love, partners, etc. and that doesn't apply to me right now.
The Crown - I can see myself getting into them the rest of the year, for sure. I enjoyed Gone to Hell and Death Explosion from them (so far.)
The Haunted - I liked All Against All. I'll be checking out there stuff a bit more, but later.
Dimmu Borgir - I already knew about them. They are a 'nasty' band. Hahaha. Puritania is by far my favorite song from them.
Metallica and CKY I've heard and like some of their songs. Metallica more so.
Foreign Objects - I'm digging their Galactic Prey album. For sure gonna come back to this one.
Meshuggah - They have a cool sound, but I just can't find myself liking their songs.
Mattias “I.A.” Eklundh - Minor Swing through me for a loop haha. I like that one. Same with New Air.
Opeth - IDK... I think it's a bit too moody for my liking.
Finntroll - It's alright to me. Wish I could understand their lyrics ha.
Children of Bodom - That's my shit! 👍 I seem to like Melodic Death Metal music quite a bit. Power Metal is fun too.
Sonata Arctica - I could see myself enjoying some of their music. But I think I'm currently in a 'heavy hitting' phase musically. Symphonic metal is pretty cool. My introduction to it was Nightwish's Wishmaster album.
Animals as Leaders - I had a few friends years ago that were really into them. I think they have some interesting sounds, but sometimes, math metal can be too much for me.
Lamb of God - I've definitely heard of them and heard a few of their songs. Yeah IDK man. For whatever reason, I can't find a song that I like enough to add to my Spotify. I might come back to them later for a deeper dive.
Tesseract - Not feeling it.
Textures - Not feeling it.
The Ocean - I liked Holocene.
The Omnific - Turns out, I liked their Objects de Vertu song some time ago. I liked Outback Overdrive. They feel like a band I would enjoy diving deeper into.
Dissection - Pretty good.
Amon Amarth - Of course, I've heard of them and like their song Twilight Of The Thunder God hahaha. I've been meaning to come back to them and hear more of their stuff. Liked Shield Wall.
Linkin Park - Really dude?! LOL! I wasn't born yesterday! I like their stuff. Mostly their earlier stuff as well.
And now I feel like Frodo.
(Now I'm gonna music suggest wall you bro! Sheesh. Haha)
The herbalizer. Discovered them after they already broke up
At the Drive-In - Literally the hot shit of late 00s and early 10s done in the mid 90s. They were so ahead of their time it's a shame they kinda get lost being inspiration for what came later. They totally deserved to be the focal point.
Converge - I was always aware of them. They were kind of just another band at the time they were at their best. Then I really got into them this past year. I totally wish I could have fully appreciated them when we were younger. Going to one of their early shows would have been a highlight of my life.
Nine Inch Nails - I just never gave them a proper chance until the past few years. They totally deserve their reputation. Their stuff is awesome.
Since you like At the Drive-in, have you listened to the Mars Volta?
Also, Nine Inch Nails is still on tour.
I've heard a song here and there but I haven't given them a serious listen. I know it's the same singer and guitarist.
The Vincent Black Shadow. They only put out a couple albums, but they were absolutely fantastic.
Toots Hibbert (and the Maytals). He died in 2020. I would never have been able to enjoy his music before then anyway so.... there's always the recordings. My morning playlist is almost all Toots
The Gits - I was huge into grunge and punk in the 90s, I have no idea how I missed them. Unfortunately, their singer Mia Zapata was murdered.
They only have two albums but they are both zero skips for me.
Deadsy
Awesome! So sad about Elijah's mental health issues.
Kids, don't do drugs.
Nirvana. It hit me hard ten years later.
Skitliv. Big fan of the 'Maniac' era in Mayhem (Wolfs lair, Grand declaration, Chimera) then one day I learn that Maniac is vocalist in Skitliv. However I'm to late to the party so no live concert's or anything 😡
Rush. I had heard the occasional song, but it never really stuck.
Then a few years ago, I listened to a full album. Then another. Now I'm a huge Rush fan (and my spouse is sooo tired of hearing them).
I got tickets to see them play next year.
I got my first tickets to a Rush concert later this year as well. I never thought I’d have a chance to see them live so I jumped as soon as I heard about it. I only wish Neil Pert was still around…
Company of Thieves
Almost all of them. And I often think they’re someone no one else listens to. Like I found this singer I really liked last December who I thought at first was America’s answer to Corinne Bailey Rae until I heard her speak and found out she’s British too. Still, I liked her sound and was in my happy little bubble listening to the indie artist I found who no one else knew about: Olivia Dean.
Now I’m just dreading finding out that Apes of the State have won a Pulitzer Prize or something. At least I know no one’s heard of this Britney Spears person I’ve started listening to.
I discovered Jeff Buckley just after he toured Australia. I was looking forward to his next tour, then he died. 😥
As a tween I, for some unknown reason, decided that I liked Nirvana and therefore didn't like Pearl Jam. It wasn't until I was much older that I realised that was silly and I could like both if I wanted.
I discovered Jeff after his death, just before his mother released the unfinished album.
He was a timeless talent. My son and his friends are big fans, even without my prompting.
Choking Victim
The Do is so underrated. Unfortunately, they disbanded but their music is eternal.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. If there was ever a voice of love and peace, it was a giant of a man with a giant's heart. If I could bring one musician back from the dead, it would be the Hawaiian avatar of humankind's best qualities.
But there may be a worthy successor to his voice.
I found Royal Republic way too late in my life
Slade
Nightmare boyzzz from Alabama. Moved to the south 10 years too late! Awesome punk rock.
Westkust. Found them through Keep Driving, loved them, looked them up, and was super disappointed to learn they broke up. At least there's Makthaverskan with some of their ex-members and a similar sound.
LEPER
There is this really funky band called mating ritual, and I got really into their music over the past year. After awhile I started to wonder if they were touring, and found out that they had just wrapped up their 'goodbye forever' tour, including a show in my city a couple months ago.
Hers
Warren Zevon
I recently discovered a (sub) genre too late - Riot Grrrl music. Bikini Kill is one of the founding bands.
I somewhat recently found out about an artist called Foreground Eclipse. According to the Touhou Wiki, they disbanded in 2013 and they were considered a screamo and post-hardcore metal band but because of the singers voice, they might fall under "kawaii metal" (cute metal). A good example of their music would be In A Night When Her Sorrow Resounds Around.
Broadcast. RIP Trish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce903sW_4J8
The Graduate