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If you’re in a weird band, know a weird band, or just feel like spamming us with your crappy press releases, email us at weirdestbandintheworld@gmail.com. Or better yet, post a link here to the band’s website or YouTube videos so our whole community of weirdness connoisseurs can judge. Fun!

  1. this is someof the wierdest electronic glitch stuff ive ever heard, they have a 2 cd available free on their last.fm page: http://www.last.fm/music/Oiled%2520Monkeys?ac=oiled%20monkeys

    http://youtu.be/ZeJo7oyt_1Q

    http://youtu.be/XMA8CjYtU_c

  2. He was born in a coop, raised in a cage, children fear him, critics rage. He’s half alive, he’s half dead, folks just call him BUCKETHEAD!

    Where’s Buckethead? And if you want proof that he’s weird, listen to this -

    And then it gets weirder –

    Then it gets even weirder –

    And then this is one of the weirdest, but not the weirdest -

    This is probably the second weirdest song that I sat all the way through with Buckethead -

    And this is the weirdest –

  3. Otto Von Schirach is defo weird.

  4. adrian vasquez

    maybe not so “weird” but definitely unique. Maybe y’all already know them? I think they get more interesting when one starts delving into their earlier work and the members’ other projects.

    cheers and thanks for sharing!

  5. The band Foxy Shazam from my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, is pretty weird and odd. They have started to get pretty big as of recently and have gotten less weird in their music, but are still just as weird on stage. I’ll post a few vids for examples…

    This is off their first album, The Flamingo Trigger, and was independently released, I really wish this album was on Spotify, but it is not. (I have the album if anyone is inerested, I can upload to Mediafire)

    This single is off of their 2nd album, Introducing, which was released by Ferret Records. This album was a little less weird and a little less heavy, but still good.

    This is off their latest Self Titled album, released by Sire Records. It is yet again, less weird and less heavy, but still good.

    They have a new album coming out this month(Jan) on the 24th. This is the single off that album, an actual video was made, but hasn’t been released yet.

    Here is one of MANY live performances on YouTube, their weird and eccentric live shows are what make the band…

    Hoped you like them!

  6. Tiger Lillies
    http://youtu.be/5U319VzSqEU

    vicki bennett, people like us
    http://youtu.be/ferUvQINBi8

    FOETUS – JG Thirlwell
    http://youtu.be/-BA93Cp2iHE

    John Zorn’s Naked City
    http://youtu.be/8KNx4UMDEPM

    Secret Chiefs 3
    http://youtu.be/uZ2rewhOGO4

    • Thanks for the suggestions! We had heard of most of these before, but not the Tiger Lillies, who are pretty freakin fantastic.

  7. so… i was at a metal show the other day, and saw this band. they’ve been around quite a while and i was aware of them, but never saw them before (partially by choice)

    they’ve carved out an interesting nitch for themselves, being the only (to my knowledge) active Christian Horror Punk band. the only other i know of was called The Deadlines and that was a decade ago.

    they are called Grave Robber and play with bloodstained coveralls and skeleton masks. in between songs he uses a pitch shifter for any monologue/crowd interaction to make his voice sound undead. and depending on the venue they often shower the crowd with blood as well (not to the extent of Gwar, but… along those lines)

    Grave Robber

    The Deadlines

    and two others i totally forgot…

    Blaster The Rocket Boy/Rocket Man (they went under both names)

    and later versions of Calibretto 13 (they were just a punk band to start and then started writing all horror themed songs.)

    • Sup Spunj13? Long time no see. Christian Horror Punk is indeed pretty specific. Really hoping next someone will turn us onto a Mormon Pornogrind band (even though we vowed never again to write about pornogrind).

      • i’m still here, still following the site every time there’s an update.

        not writing about pornogrind seems like a good idea, UNLESS some very nitch market pops up. Hindu Pornogrind or… Mormon. there IS hari-krishna hardcore, but… that’s not really that weird. (shelter, youth of today.. sort of, cro-mags, 108).. and then Bad Brains was a rastafarian hardcore band, who MIGHT qualify as weird. (especially more recently since their vocalist has pretty much lost his mind)

  8. the Yeastie girls or 1-800-zombie maybe

  9. eh, I’ve seen weirder. I appreciate the effort, though.

  10. Love the website. Have followed you fellas for a pretty long time, and I must say that even when the music sucks the reviews are hilarious and informative.

    So here’s my way of repaying you for all the entertainment…

    Paska: the Finnish, a capella, punk, one-man band.

    Originals that I enjoy the most:

    “Pain in the Ass”

    “Banana Butt Plug”

    Covers:

    “Stairway to Heaven”

    “Ace of Spades”

    “Bohemian Rhapsody”

    “Love Me Tender”

    And for the truly adventurous:

    “Tubular Bells Part 1″

    “Tubular Bells Part 2″

  11. Roger Nusic (yes with an N)

  12. how about dirty sanchez

    • They’re kinda fun. We’ll make ‘em the next “Submit and Vote” candidate.

    • We don’t need a fuckin poll. Their weird. I’ll write em up soon.

      • well some others…that you might want to try and figure out if wierd its hard for me to figure it out
        Witches with dicks
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        the mad
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        abc diabolo
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        gidropony
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        bondage fairies
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        nobunny
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        sleepytime gorilla museum
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        ——————————————————–
        the alcoholic freshman
        math the band
        horse the band
        atom and his package
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        dog fashion disco
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        polkadot cadaver
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        ——————————————-hey and why not marlyn manson? or any of twiggys side bands?
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        electric six
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        phantom limbs
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        i dont know most of the are pretty generic how about dead kennedies
        or any of doc corbin darts music, cancer slug , misfits , the bitchfits…a misfits all girl tribute band…blah blah on and on…FREE KITTENS , Zounds…on and on .. im done

  13. Just discovered this marvelous site (you were linked by Edmund Welles!). So far it reads as a collection of my favorite bands and things I definitely must check out.
    But MORE WEIRD:
    Skinny Puppy
    Lightning Bolt
    Cleaning Women
    Naked City
    Khanate
    Burmese
    Kayo Dot
    Laurie Anderson
    Master Musicians of Bukkake
    Melt Banana
    Otto Von Schirach
    Secret Chiefs 3
    Amon Tobin
    Venetian Snares
    Soul Coughing
    All very odd in their own way…

    • So glad you like the site! I love Amon Tobin and Soul Coughing…never actually occurred to me that they’re weird enough but maybe they are. Lightning Bolt will almost certainly wind up here eventually. Most of the others we’ll have to check out…thanks for the suggestions!

    • somehow its easy to forget melt-banana is wierd

  14. I found a new Gangpol und Mit video which makes me think they could be considered weird enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5w5pj_5JA

    • Thanks man…that’s pretty frickin weird alright. Thinkin we might make them our next Submit and Vote band.

  15. Carbon de'Ceti

    Heh… Cool. I took that picture.

  16. after spending my entire afternoon delving through your entire archive…
    might i suggest some of the following bands?

    Hunab Ku (what Mike Patton would do if always in a metal band… i.e. the Dillinger Escape Plan EP)…

    Shrimp!
    metal themed completely around sea-life… plus vocal effects

    Radiation 4

    oddly, you could buy their cd at hot topic for a while.
    take a vocalist who is apparently into everything, and have him front a slightly mathy metal band, and dress everyone up like mad-scientists. (he also briefly fronted Shrimp!)

    Havalina Rail Co.
    not really sure what to say about these guys… they kind of did a jazz/rockabilly thing.
    i always felt like they were pretty weird.

    Battles
    perhaps not the weirdest, but definitely one of the most unique.
    feat. ex members of Don Caballero and Helmet

    Behold.. The Arctopus
    mathy instrumental metal
    guitar, drums and … Warr guitar?

    All Leather
    featuring bassist JP from The Locust on vocals

    Melt Banana..
    japanese institution in noise-rock

    White Mice
    noise band with giant mouse head masks

    Big Dumb Face
    i’d consider this a Mr. Bungle rip-off personally, but i’ll throw it out there anyways.
    featuring Wes Borland from *shudder* Limp Bizkit

    Mose Giganticus
    tour buddy of the Emotron… his first album in particular was all self-written/played and he toured as a one-piece. thematically all about the end of the world and robots taking over.

    his newest record features a full band and was released by relapse. still playing basements all over though.

    that’s all i can think of for now.
    i know there are others i’m missing, but… they’ll have to wait for another day.

    • Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, man! We’ll let you know when we post some of ‘em…probably will wind up being a few.

      • Jesus. You’re a machine. Also: What is up with WordPress squishing the column width on each reply? Nice work, guys.

  17. Right, I’m just gonna rattle off a few that I can remember right now, I’ll try to think of more at a later date. I’m gonna start with a few of the more famous ones that should really be on the list… in my opinion, of course.

    Tool: Very surprised they weren’t on the list, I’m not gonna keep going on about them, but I can provide many more examples of weirdness if you still need convincing.

    Jethro Tull: I know quite a bit about these guys, so can provide examples of weirdness if you need them.

    Frank Zappa: You know who this guy is. Get him on the list.

    Primus: Probably best known as the band the did the South Park theme. Again, pretty surprised not to see them on the list. Check out Mr Krinkle for an example of weirdness. I’m also throwing Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver in there too just because it’s… it’s pure awesome, guys, you really have to see it if you haven’t. You’ll love it, trust me.

    Mr Krinkle – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOdo7dhvSwg
    Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

    Spirit: Probably best known as the band that the Stairway to Heaven intro was stolen from. I haven’t heard all of their stuff, but Future Games is one of the weirdest albums I’ve ever heard, it’s basically a mixture of normal-ish stuff, Hawaiian-sounding music, “freakout frogs”, Star Trek quotes and all sorts of general weirdness. They also had another album called The Adventures of Kaptain Kopter & Commander Cassidy in Potato Land which is also pretty damn weird (as its name kind of implies), but, to my ears, not even close to being as weird as Future Games. I also have the urge to mention Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus – one of the best albums of all time, though not particularly weird. You might need some convincing with these guys, but, trust me, they are seriously weird. The clip I’m linking you to is from Future Games, it sort of gives you an idea of what the album’s like, but doesn’t really do its weirdness justice, you kind of have to hear the whole thing. Still, give this random clip a listen, see what you think.

    Clip from Future Games – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9Fv9VGqOU&feature=related

    Aphex Twin: Weird bloke. Likes to put his face on everything. Should probably be on the list. Similar to Venetian Snares, but weirder. Just check Windowlicker out, I’m sure that’ll be enough.

    Windowlicker – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJeiRVnlu8

    Now moving onto the less well known acts…

    Christopher Lee: OK, this guy is actually pretty well known. Yeah, it’s that Christopher Lee. Did you know that he’s recently released a symphonic metal concept album? Just saying.

    Christopher Lee – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7S8ZLL2RI&feature=fvwrel

    Green Jellÿ: The self-proclaimed worst band in the world. I mentioned them before. Worth a look.

    Green Jellÿ live – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twjx-wtfXLw

    Anal Cunt: The actual worst band in the world. I hate them so much, but they’re undeniably weird. Can’t say I’d shed a tear if you chose not to include them.

    Anal Cunt’s Wikipedia page – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt

    Trippy Laff: I don’t know if Trippy Laff is a band or what. Just google ‘Trippy Laff’ and three Myspace profiles should come up, as well as some artwork. Like I said, I don’t know what the hell Trippy Laff is, but it’s definitely pretty weird.

    HORSE The Band: They play nintendocore, apparantly. I’m not sure if these guys are weird enough or not, but check them out anyway. I think they’re pretty weird.

    Shapeshift – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF_v7ek5o-s

    Renaldo and the Loaf: Extremely weird. You were warned.

    Songs for Swinging Larvae – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3MbVoLYns

    Scatman John: Just watch the video. He actually did quite a few of these, but this was his only real hit, as far as I can remember.

    Qntal: They sing songs in ancient languages or something. Thought you might be interested.

    Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho: Best known simply as Wagner, but also commonly referred to as “the people’s champion” and “the greatest showman on Earth”. OK, I might have made that last one up. You might have heard of this guy. Believe or not, he’s a household name in the UK. It’s kind of hard to explain why I think he could be a candidate… maybe a picture would help. http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://images.gigjunkie.net/d6d16d3a-113c-4773-9de0-8ec3c6b79027.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gigjunkie.net/artists/Wagner-Carrilho&usg=__BIUHRB81blYtt7POMr-OKB3NQ6I=&h=450&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=71&zoom=1&tbnid=5HAboho6UYa1bM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=80&ei=pIiCTePvMsOH4gbZ_vmLCQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwagner%2Bcarrilho%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4ADFA_enGB339GB339%26biw%3D1003%26bih%3D539%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=691&oei=RYiCTe2pNonChAegk4izBA&page=5&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:71&tx=55&ty=60 Wow, that’s a long link! So, he’s Brazilian, and he got famous through the UK’s X Factor (like American Idol, basically). At the moment he’s on the X Factor tour, where I imagine he’ll just be doing piss-poor verions of famous songs (still pretty watchable, to be fair), but where the real magic lies is at his own gigs. I haven’t been able to find any footage (it’s pretty hard to find amongst all the X Factor stuff), but apparantly Wagner’s own gigs consist of Wagner doing, well, pretty much whatever the hell Wagner wants to do, usually surrounded by attractive women. Naturally, this includes bad pop songs, but also bongo jams, opera singing, and, I imagine, some high-kicking (his signiture move). Keep an eye on this guy, he could be a future candidate. Bonus crazy: Used to have a pet lion.

    The Bran Flakes: Basically, just watch the video, all their stuff seems to be like that.

    Fifty Four Fifty – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkT3pC04mjg

    Omphalectoicxanthopsia: I’ve got to admit that I haven’t actually listened to these. A friend told me they were weird, so I googled them, saw some weird pictures, and just thought “I’m staying the hell away from that”. I don’t really know what their ‘thing’ is, but I thought I might as well mention them.

    Xome: Doesn’t really require an explanation, just watch the video.

    Xome live – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUM6fZFYWzk

    Lightning Blot: Not sure if these are weird enough, but they’re pretty odd, and also pretty cool, so check them out.

    Megaghost – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXoYUmkRBM&feature=related

    Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Again, I’m not sure if these are weird enough to make the list, but they’re certainly trying to be weird. I don’t really know them that well, so I can’t really pick a representative song, but they’ve got some videos on youtube.

    OK, that’s all I can be bothered with for now. Have fun!

    • Hot damn. Some of these we’ve heard of, some we’ll clearly have to research. Thanks the weirdness tsunami! (Is it still bad form to use the word “tsunami”?)

  18. Tool? Surely at least as weird as some bands that are on the list… or are they too big a band to be considered?

    • Bands can be big *and* weird…so yeah, Tool’s a definite future candidate. Although Maynard’s other project, Puscifer, is arguably weirder.

      • Well, that’s cool, it’s just that when a band’s been around for a while they might not seem as weird as they actually are because you kind of get used to them, you know? Yeah, Puscifer is weird, for sure. A Perfect Circle are kind of weird too, in their own way, but probably not weird enough – just a little odd. You might want to check out Green Jello too, if you haven’t yet.

        So, if anyone reading this is doubting Tool’s weirdness, I guess I’ll try to convince you. I once saw a foetus growing inside a skull, whilst a butterfly made of green lasers hovered over me, flapping it’s wings in time with a crazy tribal drumbeat. “This is pretty weird”, I thought, as I saw Tool live for the first time, “what could possibly make this weirder?” The band could have given the audience an anti-smoking lecture, that would have been . . . unexpected. Well, that’s actually what they did. Seriously. Tool. They were, of course, booed thoroughly by their own fans, as I’m sure they knew they would be. Maynard’s dildo mask and boiler suit either lessened the lecture’s impact, or gave it more weight, depending on your feelings towards gas mask/dildo/boiler suit combos – I happen to think they’re pretty snazzy.

        So they’re weird guys (“I have thirty mounted four-horned sheep on my wall” boasts guitarist Adam Jones), they have freaky videos, they collect guns, and occasionally do stupid April Fools pranks, like pretending that they’ve been in an horrific bus crash or that their singer has left the band to become a hardcore Christian. But is their music weird? Well, not all of it, it must be said, but a fair amount of it is pretty ‘out there’. They seemingly base some of their music on mathematical sequences and sacred geometry, including (according to some fans) a kind of ‘secret concept album’ within their Lateralus album, based on two spirals intertwining – I’m sitting firmly on the fence with that one, but there seems to be something in it . . . maybe. One of their songs is a recipe for a type of hash cake/cookie thing, and it’s in German – it sounds evil. A few of their ‘songs’ are simply noise, such as one where they squeezed a cat and added effects to the sounds that it made. They have one song where the track time on your CD player’s display starts to count backwards, which is very worrying if you’re a stoned teenager witnessing it for the first time. Maynard’s lyrics can be pretty unorthodox too, some are actually pretty moving (‘Wings for Marie’/’10,000 Days’ – about the paralysis and death of Keenan’s mother), but for every song like that there’s one like ‘Hooker With a Penis’, where someone who claims to be OGT (that’s Original Gangsta Tool, for the unenlightened) accuses the band of “selling out, laying down, sucking up to the Man”, and it goes without saying that if you accuse a band like Tool of selling out you’ll be made to look pretty stupid. Then there’s Rosetta Stoned, which starts “alrighty, then . . . picture this if you will. 10 to 2 AM, X, Yogi DMT, and a box of Krispy Kremes, in my ‘need to know’ pose, just outside of Area 51 contemplating the whole “chosen people” thingy when a flaming stealth banana split the sky like one would hope but never really expect to see in a place like this” . . . yeah, so there’s that.

        OK, I’ll stop now, but, seriously, the band oozes weirdness. If you’re including bands that made it big then I can think of a few you’ve missed. The weirdest band to ever make it crazy-big is almost certainly Jethro Tull. If you need examples of their weirdness, you know I’ve got them . . .

        By the way, I was looking around this place quite a bit yesterday, and you’ve got some damn good bands on here. Cool site. I was thinking I might stick around for a while. Cheers.

        • Wow, that was the most intensely detailed comment anyone’s left on our site ever. We’re not sure whether to be scared or flattered.

          And oddly enough, you’re the second person this week to point out to me that Jethro Tull is actually pretty fucking weird. So we’ll take that under consideration too.

          Glad you like the site and hope you stick around. We might even get around to updating the fucking thing again one of these days….

          • Yeah, sorry about that, it didn’t seem like so much writing before I posted it. You should probably be more scared of Tool anyway, they have guns and they hate L.A.

            The weirdest of Jethro Tull should mostly be on Youtube, The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles video definitely is, that’s probably weird enough, but that’s not all, they’ve got a lot of weird to give. Like I said, I can think of a few well known bands that would probably make the list, but I also know of some lesser known stuff. I’ll have a think and maybe come up with a list.

  19. No one’s weirder than Tiny Tim, for sure. We’ll probably add him to The Weird List eventually. Patrick Wolf is eccentric but not particularly weird…a fine distinction, I know, but one we ruthlessly insist on making. Darius Greene seems to think he’s weird but as far as we can tell, he’s not. He kinda just sounds like Mocean Worker.

    So that leaves Sunday Driver. Definitely an oddball combination of sounds and styles. We’ll put them up for a vote. Thanks for the tip!

  20. They had me going right up until the dude with dollar signs on his sunglasses.

  21. This article and thread are weak weak weak.

  22. also wesley willis and big fat hungry D

  23. NOBUNNY,The Bondage fairies,The NotoriousMSG,The Aquabats,Holy Molar…………i dont know what weird is people been following the gwar band wagon for a while K.L.F had a album where the frontman was theire car called timelord…maybe thats weird…dont know the clinic wore dr`s masks i dont think thats weird but theres also Uzi rashthat has a dynosaur theme, peelander-z (jap punk band that dresses as power rangers)which is kinda weird with poppy songs about stupid things like tacos,yatagarasu is kinda strange too

  24. Dude, you’re like our new #1 fan. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. Just don’t stalk us, OK?

    • Too late! I’m checking back only 17 days later, and now standing right behind you with a wet noodle in my hand!
      It’s RIGATONI!!!

  25. You win! We finally wrote about Mr. Bungle. But seriously, check out Fantomas too. Even weirder!

  26. Wow, these guys really suck. Which doesn’t necesarily mean we wont blog about them, but I dunno…I kinda want the last three minutes of my life back.

  27. Wow thanks for all the suggestions! We’ll definitely investigate. Cool blog, too. We’ll give you a linkback.

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