Does Europe (exlcuding the UK) produce any good music?

[Bosh]

The only good European band outside of Britain seem to come occasionally from Sweden

The Swedes have given us some of the best punk of the last decade, especially Refused although bands like No Fun At All aren't bad either...
And they also have quite a bit of good metal...

[Kropotkin]

There's good music all over the place, in pretty much all countries but the problem is usually that you never get a chance to hear it or hear about it. As Boshko just said for example, there's plenty of good metal in Sweden but not even here you hear about it. It's all mainstreamed. You have go look for it yourself.

[CyberGnu]

Calc II, if you like Rammstein you should check out Megahertz. Not quite as good, but almost.

Boshko, don't forget the Hives

[Kropotkin]

The Hives is crap and everyone knows it.

[Seeker]

'....with gay accent"

well that part's true.

[VetLegion]

Rammstain is just a bad copy of Laibach, because market wants more and Laibach doesnt provide

HIM

nobody mentioned Prodigy

[Adagio]

Re: Does Europe (exlcuding the UK) produce any good music?

Originally posted by ThePantaloonDog
This is a derivative thread from the Canada and U.K. music blows goats.

Now the question is does AMerica only recieve the most god-awful stuff from continental Europe or is it truly a "musical desert" as a friend from Malta once described European music.

Europe and music... just doesn't fit. It takes many years between the few good artists, that exist in Europe. And most of them doesn't survive long, since Europeans only listens to hard metal and those one beat "songs" known as techno...

I hope (and believe) there's more difference in the music in America... (But I guess, I'll find out, when I finally get enough money, to move out of Europe...)

EDIT: The only place in Europe, where there's released some good songs "often", is Germany (e.g. Die Toten Hosen), but most of them, only sings/raps in German, so I don't think they'll be released in America... (Btw, I'm NOT German )

[Buck Birdseed]

See, the problem is that quite a few of the really good bands in any country will want to make music in their own language. Something like, I dunno, Kent or Håkan Hellström, miles above anything coming out of the UK, never reaches global popularity because of the language barrier...

[CyberGnu]

VetLegion, Rammstein and Laibach have completely different sounds. (I'm assuming you refer to Laibachs "Opus Dei" and "Nato" phase, since they change style with each album)

Rammstein reinvigorated hardcore/industrial in a way not seen since the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

While I love Laibach as well (have all their albums except for that painfully bad one featuring children singing about peace), they never influenced other music quite as much, IMO.

BTW, ever sen Rammstein live? Amazing. Best live show I've ever been to (and that actually includes Laibach promoting Opus Dei).

Good call on Prodigy, though. Can't believe I missed that...

[CyberGnu]

Kroppie, I quite like them. I missed all the hype about them, though, since they are still fairly unknown over here...

[RGBVideo]

Apocalyptica.

[Combat Ingrid]

Al'Kimiya, nice list! You should also check out the following bands:

3rd AND THE MORTAL (Norway)
WITHIN TEMPTATION (Netherlands)
THE GATHERING (Netherlands)
HAGGARD (Germany?)
VINTERSORG (Sweden)
OPETH (Sweden)
KATATONIA (Sweden)
BATHORY (Sweden)- "Hammerheart" and "Blood on Ice" CDs
TRISTANIA (Norway)

Judging from your list, you will probably like several of these bands

[Al'Kimiya]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
Al'Kimiya, nice list! You should also check out the following bands:

3rd AND THE MORTAL (Norway)
WITHIN TEMPTATION (Netherlands)
THE GATHERING (Netherlands)
HAGGARD (Germany?)
VINTERSORG (Sweden)
OPETH (Sweden)
KATATONIA (Sweden)
BATHORY (Sweden)- "Hammerheart" and "Blood on Ice" CDs
TRISTANIA (Norway)

Judging from your list, you will probably like several of these bands

Well I didn't name all bands I like, just the ones I knew which country they were from Thanks anyhow.

[Kropotkin]

What about Entombed?

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
What about Entombed?

Used to be good, but not for the last 10 years or so
Too many good Death Metal bands turned into commercial junk in the mid-nineties...

At least there are some exceptions, like THERION, TIAMAT etc. Very far from Death Metal nowadays, but still great