POC in Goth/Punk/Alternative Music

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As an addition to the goth/post-punk/alt band masterpost, here’s a list of bands featuring members of color. Most are influential, others new discoveries or future freak gods. Thanks to research and helpful readers, here’s a bit of sick sound suitable for all taste buds:

Goth, dark or industrial:

• Creature Feature - Erik X is an evil composer and organ player with a special gift for raising the dead.
• Plastique Noir -the Brazilian band that made the song “Empty Streets” that’s just too dark to handle.
• O. Children - contrary to popular belief, Tobi O’Kandi is not, in fact, a black reincarnation of Ian Curtis.
• Thrill Kill Kult - sick industrial band with several poc members.
• Glorious Din
• Android Lust - Shikhee is Bangladeshi, and she makes some of the best industrial music ever heard.
• She Past Away
• 13th Moon
• Malice Mizer and Moi Dix Mois
• Phaidia
• Corrupted - awesome japanese doom/sludge band that are considered super influential in the scene.
• Light Asylum - heavy dark synth primarily. It’s really fun and the front singer HAS A MIGHTY POWER.
• Plastic Zooms
• Hocico
• Crowd Pleaser
• Angelspit
  

Punk, hardcore or post-hardcore:

• Bad Brains - why most of the bands on this list even exist.
• Death - not to be confused with the metal band of the same way. Not that you could confuse the members in any way.
• Rough Francis - founded by the sons of David Hackney of Death.
• Pure Hell - afropunk taken literally.
• X-Ray Spex - Poly Styrene was the energy and feel of the band. Actually, she was just energy and feel period. Fun fact: she was also bipolar.
• Radkey - Rad.
• TMGE - Japanese band named “Thee Michelle Gun Elephant” or as they prefer: JAPANESE BAND NAMED “THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT”.
• Tamar Kali - powerful musician, especially known for “Boot”.
• The Objex - Feloney Melony’s got a wicked hawk and voice.
• Stiffed - Santi White now performs solo as Santigold.
• Cerebral Ballzy
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Midori - great jazz-punk fusion band.
• The Redscare
• Le Butcherettes - Mexican garage punk band.
• Atari Teenage Riot
• NOFX
• Stalin
• The Bags
• Dev Hynes - a British musician who started out in a punk band Test Icicles then went solo as a folk/indie musician as Lightspeed Champion and now is doing an electronic/R&B thing as Blood Orange.
• L’Arc-en-Ciel - Okay, so these guys are Japan’s other most famous export. These guys got known outside of japan for doing some major anime theme songs (Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam 00, NANA live action movie, etc) and were the first Japanese act to headline Madison Square Garden (Japanese rock bands really like New York for some reason). Their bassist tetsuya (formally known as tetsu) gets bonus points for being one of Japan’s only out LGBT celebrities (he’s Bi).
• Doll$Box
• Letlive
• The Chariot
• Trashtalk
• Gogol Bordello - self described as “gypsy punk”. Singer Eugene Hütz is Russian-Ukranian with Romani heritage and born with a ‘stache. Nearly crazier than Little Big and Korpiklaani combined.
• Blackfire
• The Bots - punk duo made of two brothers.
• Bow Wow Wow - IIIIIII Waaaant Caaandy!!!
• Love Equals Death
• Ritualization - blackened death metal from Orléans, France
• Teengenerate
• Ten Grand
• Letlive
• Martin Sorrondeguy - spoke out about US based Latino issues in many of his lyrics and was involved in bands Los Crudos, Limp Wrist and Needles.
• Ghost Town

Metal, funk/rap/reggae metal fusion or core:

• Blasphemy - Black metal, the biggest irony on earth as Caller of the Storms remains one of the rare black musicians within the genre.
• Babymetal - this Japanese trio is more metal than a viking woman on her period in the middle of a battlefield drinking the blood of her enemies to the sound of Immortal…for some at least.
• Wicked Wisdom - Will Smith’s wife get a band?? Yes she Will.
• Unlocking the Truth - these 13 year olds played in the streets of NYC before they opened for Living Colour.
• Absolace - amazing metal from Dubai.
• Living Colour - better than Dead Monochrome.
• King’s X - more hard rock, but hey.
• Bionic Jive - one of the better hip-hop/metal fusions.
• Skindred - check out the album “Roots Rock Riot”.
• Ego Fall - a Chinese folk metal band and also Corbac’s fave. Mixing tradition with heavier sounds.
• Static X - Japanese guitarist Koichi Fukuda & Mexican-American bassist Tony Campos.
• Sepultura - the founding members are all Brazilian, currently their lead singer (Derrick Green) is black. “Arise” is a massive album of pure metal awesomeness.
• Straight Line Stitch
• Blood Stain Child
• Sasamaso
• Tenger Cavalry - a folk metal band based out of Bejing who describe their style as “Mongolian folk metal”. Like this and you’d probably enjoy Ego Fall.
• Cthonic - Taiwanese metal band who’s lead singer is also the president for the Taiwanese branch of Amnesty International.Most of their music deals with their goal of an independent Taiwan and they’re really REALLY great.
• Myrath
• God Forbid
• Invasion - a stoner/psych-metal band fronted by a valkyrie space wizard out of London.
• Vodun - like invasion, marries punk, psychedelic, and doom metal influenced instrumentals with soul influenced vocals to create a unique and original takes on doom metal.
• Sevendust
• Animals as Leaders - most suggested band on this list and for good reason.
• Veil of Maya
• Oceano
• Body Count - Ice T’s metal band rules. It would be a little tastier with ice cubes though.
• Hirax - pioneering thrash/speed metal band (with hardcore influences). Katon De Pena is one of the most distinctive vocalists of the then-burgeoning California metal scene. Though they never achieved the success of some of their contemporaries like Metallica or Slayer, they have long been an insiders’ favorite and cited as an influence by bands ranging from Napalm Death to Cannibal Corpse to Darkthrone.
• Infectious Grooves
• Melechesh - an Assyrian black metal band originating from Jerusalem whose lyrical themes include Mesopotamian mythology and occultism.
• Iron Man - American doom metal band with PoC members.
• Sex Machineguns - Japanese speed metal band.
• Hibria - Brazilian power metal band.
• Metallica - their first lead guitarist was Lloyd Grant. Here he is in their first recording.
• Gevolt - Yiddish band from Israel.
• The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
• Gridlink
• X Japan - Probably Japan’s most famous metal export. These guys are the reason Visual Kei (basically Japan’s gothic metal scene) exists. All those flashy JRock bands wouldn’t exist without X Japan. They also recently just played a huge show at Madison Square Garden.
• Maximum the Hormone - Also known as “the guys that did that weird opening and ending to death note”, MTH do a fantastic combination of metal, punk, and even pop. The best part about MTH is that their lyrics don’t make sense even when translated so you can just have mindless fun listening to them even if you understand Japanese.
• Suffocation - one of the most influential death metal acts of all time. Terrance Hobbs’ incredible mastery of the guitar allowed the band to blend complex technicality into the genre without sacrificing raw brutality.
• Versailles Philharmonic Quintet
• Suicide Silence
• The Crimson Armada
• For Today
• Glass Cloud
• Heaven in Her Arms
• Here comes the Kraken
• Issues
• Periphery
• Reflections
• System of a Down
• Fear Nuttin Band
• Year of the Dragon - founder was a member of Fishbone.
• Dir En Grey
  
• Skyharbor
• Spineshank
• Coal Chamber
• Ill Niño
• Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in Dilapidation (FID) - Formed in Tokyo. Rad ladies playing some super hard grindcore.
• Sarcofago - Brazilian band
• Acrassicauda - Iraqi heavy metal. There is a film called “Heavy Metal in Baghdad”, about the band. Another documentary called Global Metal, which is by the same director as Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, is highly recommended.
• Sigh - one of the first japanese black mack metal bands led by a fierce lady.
• Sabbat - Japanese black/thrash.
• Blood Stain Child - rather epic sounding Japanese metal band with contrasting vocals and instrumentals.
• Gallhammer - female Japanese extreme metal band of doom. The wickedest chicks, definitely recommend.
• Avulsed - Spanish death metal band.
• Necramynth - Korean black metal.
• Crossfaith - japanese metalcore.
• Subrosa
• As they Burn - deathcore band from Paris, France.
• Wolves and Jackals - blackened thrash/death metal from Atlanta, GA.
• Infernal Revulsion - brutal death metal from Tokyo, Japan
• Orange Sky - from Trinidad and Tobago.
• Monuments - it’s got saxophone and it’s awesome.
• Ego Likeness
• Peelander-Z - watch the videos, you’ll be happy you did.
  
• For Today - if you’re into Christian metal.
• Dream Theater - John Myung plays in the influential prog metal band with the aid of his majestic hair.

Alternative or too cool to label:

• Bat for Lashes - Natasha Khan’s songs are ethereal.
• Skunk Anansie - Skin is a fierce woman with a fierce voice. Also, her eyes will pierce through your soul.
• Fishbone - literally unclassifiable: ska, punk, crazy cool…
• Dub War - often likened to Skindred. Not because the singer has dreads or anything. Or because it’s the same guy.
• The Slack Republic - fairly new (2005), looking forward to more.
• Pierce the Veil - they’re really more “Punk Pop” than anything else. All members are Mexican.
• Coheed and Cambria
• Alice in Chains
• Boris - japanese experimental metal band highly influential in the doom, stoner, noise rock scene.
• Bleed the Pigs - great band with a singer who has an awesome colorful fro.
• Motherjane
• Jimi Hendrix - duh.
• Asian Dub Foundation
• BIS (Brand-New Idol Society) - considered “alternative Japanese idols”, and have done some amazing things including recruiting a new member who was rumored to be a high school girl and turned out to be Junko Koshino, a famous fashion designer who is 74 yrs old. Their song + video for MURA-MURA is excellent.
• Go Betty Go - chicano rock, “pop punk”. Several of their songs are in Spanish.
• Melt-Banana - Japanese noise rock band.
• Deftones
• Rage Against the Machine
• TV on the Radio
• Rain Machine
• Bloc Party - singer is gay and black.
• Little Dragon
• Asobi Seksu
• Blonde Redhead
• The Go! Team
• CSS
• The English Beat
• Kenna
• Mono
• One Ok Rock
• ELLEGARDEN - JAPAN’S BEST 90s/EARLY 2000s POP PUNK ROCK EXPORT I’M NOT EVEN KIDDING. Part of what contributes to this is Takeshi Hosomi (singer/rhythm guitarist) writing ¾ of the band’s discography in perfect english. Unfortunately they went on hiatus in 2006, but that spawned two more fantastic bands: Takeshi does experimental progressive indie in the HIATUS (its the same guy I swear), and guitarist Shinichi Ubukata formedNothing’s Carved In Stone which is basically a Japanese alt. rock supergroup.
• The Hiatus
• Nothing’s Carved in Stone
• Shonen Knife - you can’t talk about japanese girl rock without the literal originators of the movement/popularity. Because Kurt Cobain said he listened them, a HUGE surge of all girl bands started popping up over Japan.
• O’Brother
• The Pillows - alt rock band from Hokkaido.
• Set it Off
• The Novembers
• Shiva En Exil
• Guns N’ Roses - Slash.
• (Hed) PE - (or Planet Earth) original sound described as “G-Punk”, a fusion of punk rock and gangsta rap.
• Soundgarden
• She Wants Revenge
• Skip the Use - with influence from various genres and a black lead.
• Elsiane - Formed in Montreal. Fronted by Elsieanne Caplette. Trip-hop/downtempo.
• Fall Out Boy’s bassist Pete Wentz English/German and Afro-Jamaican.
• Sonic Boom Six
• Cibo Matto - real cool duo.
• My Vitriol
• Buck Tick
• Wormrot - grindcore from Singapour.
• Toe - post rock from Japan.
• Guitar Wolf - “Jet Rock n’ roll”.
• Gazette
• Kanon Wakeshima
• The Coup - Yesssss.
• Street Sweeper Social Club
• Merchant Ships - post hardcore.
• The Skints - reggae/dub/punk fusion.
• White Town - bzangy deserves WAY more recognition! You’ve probably already heard “I Could Never be Your Woman.”
• The Mars Volta
• Drill Queen - Born Depressed is just the greatest song.
• Death Grips - experimental rap.
• Grateful Dead
• Suffrajett
  

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FOR YOUR SAFETY, S T O P.

DO NOT VOLUNTEER TO HOST RANDOM STRANGERS. DO NOT AGREE TO BE HOSTED BY A RANDOM STRANGER.

DO NOT PUBLICLY POST THAT YOUR HOUSE WILL BE AN ABORTION SAVE HAVEN. OFFICIAL NETWORKS TO DO THIS ALREADY EXIST, NETWORKS THAT HAVE THE ABILITY TO BACKGROUND CHECK, AND SHIELD THEIR VOLUNTEERS FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT

I know how obnoxious this is to say, but please: reblog this. I see these posts a lot, and I know most of you have good intentions. But these unoffical auntie networks are dangerous, both for those trying to help, and those seeking help. Law enforcement sees you. Violent anti-abortion extremists see you.

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POSTING THIS AGAIN!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!

helpful reminders + ways to support abortion seekers in the US right now

some thoughts/reminders based on what i’ve seen on social media today:

• this decision doesn’t just impact women! it impacts anyone who has a uterus! say what you mean and mean what you say, your words have weight and meaning! (glad we could clear that up)
• grieving is normal. having big, messy, unwieldy feelings is normal. taking the time to recognize and sit in those emotions is important. wanting to protest is good. wanting to change things is great. being in touch enough with your emotions to recognize that you’re experiencing trauma is just as important.
• everyone processes differently. my reaction may not look like your reaction, and yours might not look like the reactions of your friends/family members. many people have jobs/situations that preclude them from taking the sort of actions they’d like to in response to this/other social injustices they’ve seen recently. hold space for those people, the people sticking it out in places where they can’t speak their minds for the sake of creating a better place for those who come after them.
• the people in the U.S. didn't ask for this. CNN polled americans after the draft opinion leaked in early may, and at the time 59% of respondents said that they'd support congressional legislation codifying nationwide abortion rights. I know it's easy to make fun of the U.S. by calling us a dumpster fire or saying you're glad your country didn't do this, but know that there are real people on the other side of the globe from you who are reeling from the whiplash of swiveling their gaze between children being gunned down in their schools and the supreme court attempting to delegitimize reproductive rights. it's not a joke for them, particularly not for those who fall into multiple minority communities and will now be facing the brunt of this ruling head-on in more ways than one.
• for fucks sake. donate to abortion healthcare providers. not just PP (we love them too, but the smaller ones need the most help). learn how to support yourself/your friends in the event that you need to get an abortion and don’t live in a state where it’s protected. spend time/money investing in the protection of the rights of the groups that found out halfway through the morning that they have fewer rights than family members only one generation above them. grieve with them. care for them. act just as loudly as your words and posts.

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Please be careful. Fake, anti-abortion, “pregnancy centers” are disguising themselves as pro-choice abortion clinics, and they are collecting a ton of personal data on desperate people who were tricked into coming to them.

👉🏿 https://time.com/6189528/anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers-collect-data-investigation/

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