under 5000 monthly listeners
Tyrant of Death coming in at just over 4000 listeners!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0v9Vjvjg6Swl0ZzJFEersr
He's excellent. If you like industrial metal or the Doom soundtrack you'll probably like ToD. There's no vocals, so I imagine this will appeal to DnB and EDM fans as well.
I recommend Generation Bliss (link for bandcamp because it's not on Spotify.. wtf bro this your best album!)
https://tyrantofdeath1.bandcamp.com/album/generation-bliss
I must have listened to this 50 times
ohhhh shit.. I started playing it and I'm getting chills at 20 seconds in. It's so good. I've never heard anything like it.
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Technically they're just over the 5000 monthly listeners limit (6955), but Xanthochroid is still relatively unknown and my favorite band of all time, so I can't not share them.
Captain Squeegee. A rare combination of ska and psychedelic rock. Their album To the Bardos! is particularly great, and ranks among my top 5 albums of all time.
The Brotherhood of Dae Han. Southern rock with a hint of
black metalmetalcore.Black Bonzo. A modern-ish prog band that sounds straight from the 70s.
Bubblemath. Progressive jazz fusion. Their first album was light on the jazz and pretty low-budget, but their second album, Edit Peptide, is the best in the subgenre, IMO.
Lotus Child. Indie alterna-rock. They only had one album, but it's creative and interesting.
Yay! Black Bonzo! Lady of the Light is a great album.
Edit: oh that's right, the album is self-titled
200ish listeners a month... Criminal. This will likely be my hip hop album of the year if not the album of the year for me
Lori Denae - 16 monthly listeners. Kinda Wanna is a great song.
Maida Rose - 1,192 monthly listeners. Harmony of Heartache is great too!
Argyle Park and their official unoffical sequel AP2. Around 2.5k combined. My favorite song is "A New Wound" which is actually incorrectly listed as "A New World" but it is so unpopular that will probably never be fixed.
Technically they somehow exploded to 5800 monthly listeners, but Valkyrik could use some more love. Last time I checked all their songs were at >1000 plays, even though, again, that somehow changed recently.
I have no idea how to judge the number of listeners, but Norwegian artist Making Marks (formerly mylittlepony) is great.
And Nineteen Forty-Five literally has no bad tracks on either of their published LPs.
People tend to use monthly listeners on Spotify for this. It’s not a perfect metric as other platforms isn’t included, but it does the job
Rocket Scientists - https://open.spotify.com/artist/3cOczMBbwR9ANxjDHpnkBJ
If you're into prog they've got some good stuff.
Dean Ween / Mickey Melchiondo is part of the band if that's a selling point for anyone.
Do they have to be established artists, or can I list just any random artist here from DeviantArt?
