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I like DEP and The Locust...

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

Thanks in advance



  • 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.

        • *I actually asumed

        • DEP

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

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

  • the new genghis tron LP is super good.

  • 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.

    • They supported The Fall of Troy and were DREADFUL

      • 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!

  • Rolo Tomassi?

  • Behold...The Arcotopus,

    Orthrelm and Psyopus might well float your boat.

  • 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!

  • 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

      • 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

  • 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

  • I misread DEP as DBP

    and thought it referred to Dave Benson Phillips. Gungecore!

  • 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!

  • man are you in for some sweet listening

  • 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.

  • So no-one has mentioned Beecher then?

    Eh?

  • Are Meshuggah close enough to count?

    • what do they sound like?

      • 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.