Cool Bands With A Cool Menacing Air About Them / Music Forum // Drowned In Sound

Bearing in mind that "cool" and "menacing" are extremely broad, I'd say Sunn0))) and Barn Owl were both in their element here. Not "cool" in the conventional sense, but "cool" if you like their music, which is indeed notably menacing.

FWBTS | 17 Feb '13, 08:37 | X | ^ This | Reply

EARTH

The Knife
Swans

ThisTemporaryLife | 17 Feb '13, 10:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

DaddyorChips this'd this

The Misused Hyphens

josh | 17 Feb '13, 10:52 | X | ^ This | Reply

Crystal Castles

Definitely!

deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 11:12 | X | ^ This | Reply

deep-blue this'd this

start a thread about sic alps please

shrewbie @oceanRain | 17 Feb '13, 11:24 | X | ^ This | Reply

incandenza_ this'd this

QOTSA used to have this quality

furio | 17 Feb '13, 11:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

nah

them two couldn't menace me

furio @deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 11:43 | X | ^ This | Reply

twentynine this'd this

Early Public Image Limited

first 2 or 3 albums.

Elfrim | 17 Feb '13, 12:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

oceanRain this'd this

You're kidding?

Did you see some interviews with them? Did you see some live performances with them? Did you see their artwork?

They fit perfectly to "Cool bands with a cool menacing-air about them". Not menacing like Rammstein or Motorhead, just enough cool menacing-air.

deep-blue @furio | 17 Feb '13, 12:11 | X | ^ This | Reply

Link Wray

furio | 17 Feb '13, 12:20 | X | ^ This | Reply

Nah

they have an air of 'trying too hard to be cool and have a menacing air about them' about them.

Icarus-Smicarus @deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 12:41 | X | ^ This | Reply

heartworms, Teepee_uk, and Huggy_Bear this'd this

Actually I dunno-Earth are certainly cool, but menacing?

DaddyorChips @ThisTemporaryLife | 17 Feb '13, 13:04 | X | ^ This | Reply

Yeah, they are, soz.

DaddyorChips @DaddyorChips | 17 Feb '13, 13:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

Pixies

Odonis Odonis
Dz Deathrays

Lililololaure | 17 Feb '13, 13:25 | X | ^ This | Reply

Curve

Iconic picture: http://www.curve.co.uk/images/tdpics/curvemain.jpg

Dean Garcia & Antoinette 'Toni' Halliday rock.

deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 14:09 | X | ^ This | Reply

DaddyorChips and funkycow this'd this

The Afghan Whigs

Yvash | 17 Feb '13, 14:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_, oceanRain, and incandenza_ this'd this

Really glad nobody has said Death Grips here.

Puds | 17 Feb '13, 14:16 | X | ^ This | Reply

Garbage

Of course, Garbage:
http://i.imgur.com/wnP6SYI.png
http://paranoid13xforever.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/garbage-v008.jpg

Shirley Manson always seems cool & a bit menacing. Esp. when Garbage performs live. I've seen them live last year and they really rocked.

deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 14:17 | X | ^ This | Reply

oceanRain this'd this

But a bit disappointed nobody has mentioned the Bad Seeds.

Puds @Puds | 17 Feb '13, 14:30 | X | ^ This | Reply

uncle_retrospective this'd this

I thought about it, but decided The Birthday Party would give me more cred.

DaddyorChips @Puds | 17 Feb '13, 14:58 | X | ^ This | Reply

Lostprophets

DaddyorChips @Icarus-Smicarus | 17 Feb '13, 15:51 | X | ^ This | Reply

JAMC

ThirstyDog | 17 Feb '13, 16:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

furio, oceanRain, thekidswhopoptoday, and heartworms this'd this

The Cure

Siouxsie & The Banshees

deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 16:06 | X | ^ This | Reply

oceanRain this'd this

Pixies? menacing? Certainly cool and very strange, but I wouldn't say menacing.

FWBTS @Lililololaure | 17 Feb '13, 16:13 | X | ^ This | Reply

furio and andyvine this'd this

Here's a few that haven't been mentioned:

BEAK> - Wulfstan II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udkoNdjLzTg

Weekend - Monday Morning/Monongah, WV (amazing video, which adds to the menacing vibe, for two songs from their album, Sports)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9JQn2HalE

The Soft Moon - Breathe The Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr8ljQD0XkE

The Soft Walls - Black Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SeZNR1Yin8

Women - China Steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LElqwoBOJE

and Liars (obviously) - Scissor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04domJ7F0oY

Coja | 17 Feb '13, 16:44 | X | ^ This | Reply

Can

Faust
Einsturzende Neubauten

DaddyorChips | 17 Feb '13, 16:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

I don't know

there's something slightly unhinged about them.

Lililololaure @FWBTS | 17 Feb '13, 18:03 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ this'd this

Can menacing?

What about Throbbing Gristle? (btw, I don't like this band)

deep-blue @DaddyorChips | 17 Feb '13, 18:06 | X | ^ This | Reply

Early Jefferson Airplan had something sinister about them.

So did the Dandy Warhols.

LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:19 | X | ^ This | Reply

oceanRain this'd this

Musically, rather than as people

Yeah, I'd say Throbbing Gristle too, and obviously Suicide, Coil, The Leather Nun and all that lot.

DaddyorChips @deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 18:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

Yeah, Rammstein have never been menacing- Laibach, on the other hand...

DaddyorChips @deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 18:23 | X | ^ This | Reply

Love this picture:

http://www.duduki.net/photocache/19/performer//Jefferson%20Airplane/tn_400__cover.jpg

LOLpop @LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:25 | X | ^ This | Reply

Calla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z-LBp5RqG4

Karate - There Are Ghosts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp6oNWxr8-Q

Teepee_uk | 17 Feb '13, 18:26 | X | ^ This | Reply

Calla, yes! I played that album to bits when I first got it.

DaddyorChips @Teepee_uk | 17 Feb '13, 18:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

Suicide

LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:29 | X | ^ This | Reply

Early Young Knives as well. They seemed a horrible bunch.

Well, the 2 brothers did, anyway.

LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:32 | X | ^ This | Reply

DaddyorChips this'd this

Collisions is decent too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZFiJGni7o

Didn't listen to the last one, but they're demoing for the new one, apparently.

Teepee_uk @DaddyorChips | 17 Feb '13, 18:40 | X | ^ This | Reply

I don't think being a cunt who makes shit music qualifies someone as cool or menacing though.

DaddyorChips @LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:42 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_ this'd this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV_Hp9r90J0

LOLpop @DaddyorChips | 17 Feb '13, 18:45 | X | ^ This | Reply

What an awful fucking band.

Oissin_ @LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:54 | X | ^ This | Reply

The first ep's and most of the first album were good.

I agree that they're awful now though.

LOLpop @Oissin_ | 17 Feb '13, 18:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

in_limbo this'd this

Would The Horrors, circa Primary Colours - count?

LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 18:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

Krillwave this'd this

The Forestry Commission

www.theforestrycommission.com

thempd | 17 Feb '13, 18:59 | X | ^ This | Reply

the Wu-Tang Clan

fuckyeahdubstep | 17 Feb '13, 19:22 | X | ^ This | Reply

DaddyorChips and JaguarPirate this'd this

Home page

doesn't make for an easy sample track.

oceanRain @thempd | 17 Feb '13, 19:54 | X | ^ This | Reply

the '70s band

please link or I will deem this post as 'unresponsive'.

oceanRain @Icarus-Smicarus | 17 Feb '13, 19:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

No

Icarus-Smicarus @LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 19:58 | X | ^ This | Reply

Listened to Kill the Sexplayer

On the right track, but thought song was average at best, sorry.

oceanRain @funkycow | 17 Feb '13, 20:01 | X | ^ This | Reply

I have discog on most of those

But please recommend Beak record, thx.

oceanRain @Coja | 17 Feb '13, 20:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

-"Formed in early 2012 largely through a frustration at the lack of UK guitar music being released"

Proper lads, proper tunes.

Icarus-Smicarus @thempd | 17 Feb '13, 20:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

Cementimental this'd this

Cool, but not menacing

deep-blue @LOLpop | 17 Feb '13, 20:28 | X | ^ This | Reply

'The band are playing venues right now.'

heartworms @thempd | 17 Feb '13, 20:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

Public Enemy

deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 20:47 | X | ^ This | Reply

also Rage Against the Machine

deep-blue @deep-blue | 17 Feb '13, 20:48 | X | ^ This | Reply

Morphine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgvBWR0Tr7I

Oissin_ | 17 Feb '13, 21:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

DaddyorChips and Teepee_uk this'd this

Raime

Quite different in sound to many of the suggestions mentioned so far but fit the description of cool and menacing quite well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd1EEeNPDAc

The Warlocks (particularly around the time they released Heavy Deavy Skull Lover)

wewerewerewolvesonce | 17 Feb '13, 21:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

Love

freddiehubbard | 17 Feb '13, 22:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

the Who

freddiehubbard | 17 Feb '13, 22:01 | X | ^ This | Reply

mid to late '60s Stones

freddiehubbard | 17 Feb '13, 22:04 | X | ^ This | Reply

I've only got the second Beak record but yeah it'

andyvine @oceanRain | 17 Feb '13, 22:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

MC5

freddiehubbard | 17 Feb '13, 22:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

s really good

andyvine @andyvine | 17 Feb '13, 22:05 | X | ^ This | Reply

Their second album: > >

I'd also defnitely recommend the single they put out late last year Mono/Kenn. Give (almost) everything of theirs a listen here: http://beak.bandcamp.com/

Coja @oceanRain | 17 Feb '13, 22:29 | X | ^ This | Reply

The Jesus Lizard

Drummerdave | 17 Feb '13, 23:01 | X | ^ This | Reply

Oissin_, chadders, and DaddyorChips this'd this

Not mentioned so far:

A.R.E. Weapons
Death in Vegas
The Velvet Underground
Primal Scream for a very brief period when Xtrmntr came out, that faded quickly though.
Hype Williams

Fuzzy_Dunlop | 18 Feb '13, 10:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

has no one mentioned

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds yet?

what is wrong with you all

soapy | 18 Feb '13, 10:46 | X | ^ This | Reply

FilthyLittleCreep this'd this

Someone has.

DaddyorChips @soapy | 18 Feb '13, 10:57 | X | ^ This | Reply

The Cooper Temple Clause

had it momentarily back there

Noblet | 18 Feb '13, 11:16 | X | ^ This | Reply

Happy Flowers

ryanwilson | 18 Feb '13, 11:58 | X | ^ This | Reply

here's a few no one's mentioned

bauhaus
chrome
killing joke
sisters of mercy
cabaret voltaire
the stooges

blicky | 18 Feb '13, 17:39 | X | ^ This | Reply

We should all die for not mentioning Chrome, The Stooges, Kiling joke or Cab Voltaire.

DaddyorChips @blicky | 18 Feb '13, 17:41 | X | ^ This | Reply

blicky this'd this

Mobb Deep

It can't get more menacing than this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH4IopdiKak

thetaxidriver | 18 Feb '13, 17:50 | X | ^ This | Reply

Coil

COIL know how to destroy Angels. How to paralyse. Imagine the world in a bottle. We take the bottle, smash it, and open your throat with it. I warn you we are Murderous. We massacre the logical revolts. We know everything! We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute Truth. NOW, HERE, US.

drop_b | 18 Feb '13, 17:57 | X | ^ This | Reply