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I like DEP and The Locust...

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by matthewsimpson1

...so what else is out there for me to discover? Which other bands are doing this kind of thing?

Thanks in advance

matthewsimpson1 | 18 Jun '08, 12:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I know they've both split

but Cutting Pink With Knives and Help She Can't Swim have a similar sound, but slightly more pop and electro than said bands


erm....

Help She Can't swim sound as much like DEP as Brian Molko sounds like Barry White. I like both bands but they are seriously nothing alike.


you took the thoughts right out of my brain

apart from the liking both bands bit. Dillinger are astoundingly good.


I'm actually asumed they thought DEP was a different band.

There has to be another band with the initials DEP.


DEP

Dogs encounter Ponies
Daisy's Ecstacy Parade
Don't Ever Panic

I don't know if they are bands - but they should be.


daughters are good

their first album is a bit similar to the locust.canada songs its called


Canada songs is great

but my ipod tried to play me a track today whilst on shuffle. I lasted .3 of a second before skipping it. I have a headache. It is not headache music.


I heard they (Daughters) demolished them

at virtually every show.

Wouldnt be hard. Fuck TFOT.


They did.

Mainly because they're better in just about every way.

Fear Before The March of Flames - Art Damage
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!


^this^


Behold...The Arcotopus,

Orthrelm and Psyopus might well float your boat.


^this^

certainly


well,

trencher are a bit like the locust but with less sass.
tigers! are a band from leeds who did one great 7" which is worth tracking down.

a lot of the other bands that jp from the locust was in sound like the locust. apart from the swing kids (who are better then the locust) and struggle who i think are a hardcore band.

for bands that sound like DEP get a copy of "we are the romans" by botch. then give up listening to any tech hardcore metal stuff because it's better than everything else.


we are the romans

isn't really tech is it? I mean it has it's mathmatic moments (and is brilliant), but it doesn't sound impossible to play like alot of dillinger stuff.


i know

it is fairly tech to a point - lots of time signatures, loops and tepping. mainly i didn't want to say metalcore because it makes me think of avenged sevenfold.


yeah

I do like the way they use 5 in a bar like any normal person would use 4. They really want an extra beat to shout in.


An Albatross...

...and Mass Movement Of The Moth are good bets if you like all things Locust (although MMOTM's earlier EPs are far more "spazzy" than the album).


May I second the albatross

possibly even better live than DEP and locust


Down I Go

Holy Molar


^this^

i need to give holy molar a listen


Arab On Radar?

They remind me of The Locust, although they don't actually sound that similar.


Some have been said

But these are good:

An Albatross, Daughters, The Post Office Gals, Some Girls, Holy Molar, Das Oath, Love Like... Electrocution, Loma Prieta, Trencher


got in there before me with some girls

they are awesome though


Yeh they're ace

I forgot about Melt Banana. Shall be seeing them next week!


yeah me too!

:D


nope

i think you owe me a drink. i'm not sure why. but i'm sure you do.


Some Girls

Melt Banana
Converge


Have a look at

most of the bands on Three One G Records.


burn! piano island burn!

by the blood brothers, if you haven't got that already.
and circle takes the square are good in places.


Also...

Aotea and Stand by For Action are probably worth checking out as well


again, like the last 2 bands I recomened

i think both bands have split, but theyre both still awesome


One of my favourite bands at the mo is

The Number Twelve Looks Like You.

I'd recommend the album Nuclear.Sad.Nuclear

Awesome stuff.


Also

Gay For Johnny Depp are incredible. Definitely recommend them.


i was going to say the number 12...

and GFJD are pretty rocking too


yay

=)


good call on Gay For Johnny Depp.

Bloody brilliant live as well.


You may like the following

Swing Kids
Orchid
Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
Ed Gein
Tower of Rome
Spazz
Das Oath
Charles Bronson
Orthrelm
Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower


yeh these are all awesome

i haven't heard 'judas goats and dieseleaters' yet. is it as good as 'its a shame..' because that album's amazing.


Yeah that

Ed Gein album is really good. I would try and get hold of but its loads more of a straight up grind record, that is prob why i still prefer 'Its a shame..'


Charles Bronson and Scholastic deth if we are getting into

spazzy type power violence stuff too


<3

Swing Kids
Orchid
Murder of
The Plot to blow up the eiffel tower

Not really anything like either Converge or DEP, but still awesome.


Ace recommendations thus far but also try

As The Sun Sets
Curl Up And Die
Harlots
Hella
Me and Him call it Us
Phoenix Bodies


Phoenix bodies are awesome

i'd also recommend xbxrx


Ones that haven't been said

Breather Resist
Chariots
Between the Buried and Me
The Red Chord
From A Second Story Window

Straying a little bit, but you might like them.


Lye by Mistake

Cloacal Kiss
Sawtooth Grin
Cephalic Carnage
Crowpath
Down I Go
Fuck the Facts
Intronaut
Krupskaya
Orgone - The album these guys released last year is absolutely frickin' amazing.


Crowpath!

Not listened to them guys in ages.

Old Cuts and Blunt Knives and Red on Chrome were both brilliant records.
Didnt think much of Son of Sulphur though.


agree with you on the Crowpath

records. also really like what i have heard of Cloacal Kiss and Sawtooth Grin maybe add these as well:

Executive Distraction Tasks
The Motel Bible
Oktober Skyline
Thumbscrew


Definitely Cephalic Carnage

they're a deathgrind Dillinger that write almost exclusively about weed. Awesome.


there was an amazing band called ephel duath

or something like that
like italian jazz metal


turns out theyre still going

www.myspace.com/ephelduath

they sacked two members

the remixes are less good


Im sure

I saw them supporting DEP, or someone.

They were ... entertaining.


was the drummer like 100?

he's gone now. hopefully not to the other side


He was pretty old i think

Can only properly remember the Italian cliche guitarist.


He was about 50 and a jazz drummer,

but was only in the band for the time of The Painters Palette album/subsequent tours.

Last time I saw them (Oct 06 perhaps) their new drummer was reading sheet music while playing. Never seen that before.

They opened for DEP back in 2004. Poison the Well were in the middle. That gig was amazing.


^This

"He was 50 and a jazz drummer"

Damn, I wanted to post that but you got there first.

Good band by the way.


Awesome band

The Painters Palette is one of my favourite albums.

Can't wait to see where they go with the next album which they're about to record.


CAR BOMB


not really!


Ultra Dolphins are awesome!

But nothing like DEP or The Locust..


I misread DEP as DBP

and thought it referred to Dave Benson Phillips. Gungecore!


:D


With a more grindcore edge...

...the following are worth checking out:

Pig Destroyer
Discordance Axis
Tower Of Rome
Tusk (specifically their first album Get Ready. Their latest album and some of the one before are not like this at all)


Cro-Mags

not anything like them really, but im listening to them now and they are fucking awesome


Cro-Mags

Are mint, yeah...but it's embarrassing/annoying that they're the buzz band in hardcore at the moment, for everyone to name check to prove dey is ol skool!


black cobra?

like lightning bolt, if they were slightly... ermmm doomier? with vocals.

i can't explain anything, but.. yeah. FUCKING AWESOME


erm

seeing as half these bands now are nothing like The Locust (who are shit by the way) and DEP, I'll say Transistor Transistor, Norma Jean, 1000 Travels Of Jawaharlal, everything's been said


LOL

You called the Locust shit and recommended NORMA JEAN?!?

Ouch.

Most of the bands have been said already.


i'd say

black cobra fitted in with those two.

it was just an incredibly lazy description.


like

being clubbed to death by a cave-troll with a solid gold sledgehammer.


...

Best description ever.


They're much more closely related to Dillinger

than half of the stuff mentioned in this thread.


I don't think anyone's said

Agoraphobic Nosebleed yet. So 'Agoraphobic Nosebleed' I think.


Not really as metal as DEP

but Naked City are well worth a listen. I'd be very surprised if DEP and other bands of this ilk weren't influenced by them.

Also, The Boredoms.


Plot to blow up the eiffel tower

Blood Brothers
Cattle Decapitation
Holy Molar

(if they havent already been said)


Cattle Decaptitation

are immense! Their last record was amazing, although I wouldn't really count them among the legion of Converge/DEP soundalikes - they're definitely more of a pure death/grind outfit.

I read somewhere yesterday that they're releasing a new LP this year, can't wait!


XO Skeletons?

Another Wes Eisold project, bit more like Error though.


<3

I love XO Skeletons!


Pg.99

Slightly more punky but chaotic and brilliant.

I dont get why The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower have been mentioned so much. They sound nothing at all like either band.