Punk Rock

There's a Finnish band called Eppu Normaali that I like. Their early albums were punk, but then they adopted a more subtle rock sound. They have written quite a few catchy tunes, and their humorous lyrics are great.

Sorry after listening one song  and onto the next the gimmick wears off for me and I just get bored with them. 

lucas wrote: The only metal sub-genre which would be highly influenced by Black Sabbath is Doom metal, but it has nothing in common with thrash, death or speed metal. Seriously the connection between these bands :

In addition to what Lucas said, but I'm under the impression that lazland is not aware that the founding members of The Mars Volta were formed by former members of one of the most influential post hardcore bands of all time, At The Drive In. So to say The Mars Volta is not influenced by punk/hardcore is just absurd.
I listen to post hardcore daily and every single TMV album shows not just post hardcore influence but actual sections of post hardcore music.

Dave Mustaine, as we all now know as one of the thrash metal pioneers has cited hardcore punk bands as an influence for him musically (and arguably lifestyle wise, lol).

^If those are the only "punk bands of now" you know, you need to look.
Punk is still a creative force, but you gotta look for it, it doesn't come to you. I don't think there is anything you can do with "regular" punk anymore, but if you want to look for punk/hardcore bands that are truly experimental, with amazing musician, avant garde elements, experimental elements, it does exist.

If you' haven't already, listen to The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused, released in 1998. It's one of the most influential post hardcore records of all time and for good reason.
It totally changed the way I Iooked at punk and made me want to dig deeper into the genre.
Where many punk bands have just been rehashing the same 3 chords The Ramones used, Refused was part of a movement that totally broke away with that.
The sheer creativity of the album blows me away and still does 4 years after first hearing it and hearing it over 100 times.

boo boo wrote: AlbertMond wrote: boo boo wrote: Lets stop discrediting bands for having influences, please. If you can find me some King Crimson and Rush that mixes prog with post hardcore influences, then please feel free to share it.   The thing about that is anybody can make any type of music any time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPiO_G-DEHs The above is a song from 1968. That said, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY that it could have been influenced by the mid-late '80s black metal scene. However, it's safe to assume that -on a larger scale- they did it first.   I'm sorry about you CAN'T credit King Crimson and Rush for post hardcore.   I know some classic rock purists want to credit to credit 70s classic rock and prog bands for EVERYTHING, and they're really going overboard with it.   Crediting Ritchie Blackmore for punk rock is one of the more ridiculous examples of an argument someone once tried to make.

I can never feel what it was like in the seventies.

Moatilliatta wrote: Rant about prog and punk

im a huge fan of the Post-punk band Killing joke they do things musicly unic that few other bands have done. none of  there albums sound as the previous...   I have 4 albums from this marvelos band
1 Killing joke (self titled debut from 1980)
2 Night Time from 85  a realy dark almoust gothic in feel very good album, not a bad track on this  record
3 Pandemonium  from 1994  realy good and majestic in sound and killer riffs from Geordie Walker
4 Hoseannas from the basements of Hell mohahahhah

killing joke kikk butt realy and have a minemalistic aproaoch but with a BIG sound and grate arangements and have influenced the hole grunge and hardcore scene all by them self (just ask Dave Grohl, Trent Raznor and Mike Patton)
Jaz Coleman is Englands answer of Frank Zappa in terms of creativity.

Slartibartfast wrote: Hey punk where you goin with that safety pin through your cheek?