| Description | Band |
| Ethnically Armenian politically-orientated American metal band | |
| Seminal British 1980s indie rock band with cult following and eccentric, camp singer who holds flowers | |
| Glasgow's most successful post-rock band | |
| Bob Dylan's backup band during the 1960s who later became a seperate successful group in their own right | |
| Politically-oriented Welsh rock band whose guitarist went missing in 1995 | |
| Jazz fusion Canterbury group that had none of its original members left by the time of its dissolution in the early 1980s | |
| Electronic music duo from Rochdale, England, known for their cold, sterile sounding beats | |
| Californian band that started off as nu-metal, then gradually acquired softer influences on later albums, bassist as of 2009 is in a coma | |
| Their singer was found dead in Paris in 1971 | |
| American duo that tries out many different styles of music on their albums, but is not a parody band | |
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| French progressive rock band known for inventing the 'Zeuhl' genre | |
| Band that created the most critically acclaimed shoegazing album, which nearly bankrupted Creation Records | |
| Seminal progressive rock band formed in 1969 that has only had one consistent member, the guitarist, with the lineup otherwise changing completely several times | |
| German band with a black American singer, who was later replaced by a Japanese singer | |
| Band consisting of four young males from England, one of whom killed himself at a young age, then they reformed after his death with a different name | |
| The singer of Sun Kil Moon's previous band | |
| Late '60s and early '70s psychedelic group from Birmingham, England, whose singer was in a band with Eric Clapton once | |
| Band whose first album features Andy Warhol's banana | |
| They wear eyeballs on their heads during performances and no one knows their real identity | |
| Their original singer left the band due to mental illness, and their keyboardist died in 2008 | |
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