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- 555: Faux-santanist pop.
- Abnormal Plushies: Band that writes what seems to be wholesome, cheery pop. However, each song has one or two lines that sound out of place and totally change the context.
- Above the Influence: Indie rock band with deeply ironic lyrics poking fun at Scare 'Em Straight tactics. They've been headed off the rails ever since their first guitarist was caught dealing drugs, and they've released an album titled Not So Above It All.
- Absent-Minded Professor: Indie-electronica nerd rock prone to forgetting the words to their songs live.
- Absurd Phobia: Comedy Death Metal
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Orchestral improvisational blues & funk.
- Absurdly Short Production Time: Mumble rap. All of their songs are produced in the span of two hours.
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Punk Rock.
- The Abusive Offspring: A group of adults who pretend to be Bratty Half Pints. Known for their single "And Your Reward Is Parenthood". Friendly Fandoms with Parents Are Wrong.
- Accidental Dance Craze: Disco, with lots of Self-Deprecation.
- Accidental Murder: Death metal but with comedic lyrics.
- Accidental Pervert: Their songs have a lot of innuendo.
- Accentuate the Negative: Covers a wide range of genres, but the lyrics to every single one of their songs are always an angry rant about any subject they can think of. The bitter rival of the band Take That!.
- Accordion Men: A quartet of accordion virtuosos, doing anything from musical epics to covers of Judas Priest.
- Accordion to Most Sailors: A Folk group specialized in sea shanties and Pirate Songs with accordions, often dressing up as pirates.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Punk Rock band that does the impossible: They sing rather than scream.
- Action Bomb: Band members do martial arts and there are special effects that look like explosions.
- Action Girl: Riot Grrrl rock band, who sing about female empowerment, girl soldiers, historical women fighters, etc. All members are advanced in martial arts.
- Adaptation Deviation: Said to be one of the greatest musical groups to ever grace the TV Tropesverse. They had a falling out and everyone lost track of what became of them, but an infinite number of conspiracy theories were born around them. In reality, the members are actually Time Lords who regenerated as other musicians, all of whom are considered the best players of their respective instruments: The vocalist regenerated as Mariah Carey, the guitarist became Jimi Hendrix, the bassist became Les Claypool, the drummer became Neil Peart, and the kayboardist became Elton John.
- Adaptational Heroism: A Progressive Rock group with a Gold and White Are Divine motif, all of their concerts means of providing money for charities. Their most successful tour was done in celebration of their Adaptation Deviation cover album, leading many to believe that they are, in-fact, Adaptation Deviation after returning with a new look.
- Adaptational Mundanity: Famous songs with all the objectionable content removed, like Kidz Bop. Their debut album, Abridged for Children, would be totally unnotable if not for the fact that it features an Adaptation Deviation song. This has lead to conspiracies over whether or not the two bands are actually connected.
- Adaptational Sexuality: A Glam Rock group made entirely out of people on the LGBT+ spectrum. There are rumors that their manager was a former member of Adaptation Deviation, a rumor only compounded when they did a cover version of one of their hit songs.
- Adaptational Villainy: A Death Metal-Goth group with a red, green, purple and black color motif. Their albums are all about plagues, corporate corruption and disobeying your parents, every one of their concerts ending in riots. After releasing an Adaptation Deviation cover album, conspiracy theorists have come to believe that they are Adaptation Deviation under a new look, having grown cynical from their time in the music industry and plan on using their music to reign anarchy upon the world.
- Adaptational Weapon Swap: A guitarist, a bass-player, a drummer and a keyboard player. They are each versed in each other's instruments and after playing a song, they will swap instruments and play each other's. Since they each have less experience with each other's instruments, the songs sound different each time. Rumors abound that they were originally the band Adaptation Deviation before they decided to go underground and experiment with their talents.
- Adam Westing: A comedic rock band made up of hardcore Batman enthusiasts. Similar to the style of The Nth Doctor, the members wear Batman costumes at concerts: the lead singer is Batman, the guitarist is the Joker, the bassist is Robin, the keyboardist is Penguin, and the drummer is the Riddler. Occasionally, Catwoman plays bass when Robin can't make it.
- Adventure Archaeologist: Symphonic Rock Opera band about an Archaeologist who discovers a foreboding prophecy detailing the end of the world and his efforts to stop it. The band have been banned from performing in several cities due to fears that people might think the prophecy is real.
- Advertising by Association: Touts all their albums with "BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PEOPLE BEHIND Adaptation Deviation"... and by that, they mean the lead singer used to be a light technician for them. Their actual music is So Bad, It's Horrible. Adaptation Deviation fans like to review-bomb Advertising by Association's albums.
- Affably Evil: Glam rock band from Bristol, UK that writes entire albums of Villain Songs.
- The Afterafterlife: A Black Metal band-turned Unblack Metal band-turned Death Metal band that abandoned the traditional religious themes in-favor of older mythologies and Lovecraft.
- After the End: Ambient electronic with a lot of field recordings. Sounds more like screamo; they do both. Sometimes within the same song. Despite never doing well in the USA, they have a cult following in the UK that call themselves Enders.
- Against My Religion: Metalcore band that often gets mistaken for Christian Rock.
- Aimlessly Seeking Happiness: As presented in-universe, it's meant to be upbeat pop, but the singer has Stopped Caring and can't muster the energy to enjoy it.
- Airstrip One: A Central-European hybrid of sludge and power metal, with a massive helping of story elements and messages to the audience. Each of their albums is based around harsh criticism towards a given set of Grimdark fiction tropes and thoughtless usage thereof; their debut album, Airstrip One, spells out in no uncertain terms how horrible life would actually be in your typical dystopian police state, and their second album, Corporate Warfare, skewers the usage of Cyberpunk Tropes for the purpose of setting up an "adventure-friendly" world. The band's website and promotional graphics are made to look like rebel propaganda from a dystopian world, and during live shows they always start playing in disguise, only to perform a Dramatic Unmask later on. The band has recently toured with Bomb-Throwing Anarchists, and the lead guitarist gave hints of a possible collaboration between the two.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Produces concept albums about bleeding-edge speculative technology. Lead singer is never credited or seen in public, but does an excellent impersonation of HAL 9000.
- Aliens in Cardiff: A Welsh tribute band for Aliens of London.
- Alien Kudzu: A band from the Deep South. Their style is hard to pin down, but it's best described as an unholy mix of indie rock, rockabilly, and bluegrass with trace influences from country and western. Most of their songs are lighthearted parodies of nerd culture, redneck culture, and people who don't entirely fit into either (like themselves).
- Aliens of London: British nerd rock.
- Alien Sky: Symphonic Ambient band from Texas formed from members of a high school astronomy club. They use melodic guitar and synthesizer combined with florid lyrics and vocals to tell stories about life in the The Future. Their singer is an amateur science fiction writer who writes all the lyrics. Currently, they're putting the finishing touches on the Casual Interstellar Travel saga about the human colonization of space consisting of the concept albums Faster-Than-Light Travel, Single-Biome Planet, Death World, Precursors and ending it with The Federation. After finishing with this, the singer has planned out Used Future, a saga about the grimy underside of the Future and The Battlestar, a saga about the first interstellar war. The plans for both were nearly sent into Development Hell after a terrorist attack occurred at one of the band's shows, killing several members of the audience, the band's drummer and bassist, the band members' parents, and a light technician. A former member of All Drummers Are Animals was brought on as the new drummer while a former member of Awful British Sex Comedy became the new bassist.
- All Drummers Are Animals: Percussion quintet. One of it's former members went on to become the new drummer for Alien Sky after the old one was killed in a terrorist attack.
- All for Nothing: Angsty Nu Metal band from Southern California.
- All Men Are Perverts: Riot Grrrl
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Electronic band that only makes remixes of Engrish from video games. Their first two singles, "(I! Garland! Will) KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!" and "You Spoony Bard", became YouTube sensations, with over 50 million views each. Their career came to an abrupt end after somebody set up them the bomb, killing two members and a light technician.
- Alone Among the Couples: Emo rock about loneliness love being painful.
- Alone with the Psycho: American death-metal band. Consists of four guys and a girl, all dressed in black and disguised to the point that they all look the same.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Indie rock band based out of Massachusetts performed by five people: two guitars, bass, drums and synthesizer. They dress up like famous villains (Vader/Emperor Palpatine, Sauron, Megatron, etc.) and do songs that show they're not really the bad guys or are just really incompetent. They played their first gig at a small-time comic con, setting up within a hour and performing a song about how Darth Vader is not really a bad guy. Their Redwall-themed spoof of "I Am The Walrus" about Sela Vixen became a #1 hit in Japan but stalled at #95 in their native United States. Sometimes they'll dress up like famous heroes (Luke Skywalker, Aragorn, Neo, etc) and do songs that show they're not really good guys or are just really incompetent. Currently on tour with Instant Cosplay Surprise and Eviler than Thou.
- Always Camp: A Glam-Disco ensemble singing group composed entirely of drag-queens. The concert bars serve only Zima Clearmalt and Appletinis while they're showing and all of the bathrooms are gender-neutral.
- Always Chaotic Evil: A Thrash-Grindcore-Black Metal band with lyrics centered around Kick the Dog moments. (Sounds just like Anaal Nathrakh)
- Always with You: They display images of their former members as large projections behind them live.
- Ambiguously Human: Light horror rock.
- Ambiguously Trained: Hipster Alternative Indie Folk Music from the Deep South that made it big in Portland, Oregon. Forgoes the stereotypical lumberjack/denim-look in-favor of a foe military uniform.
- Ambiguous Situation: The band members all wear shrouds concealing their faces and they sing lyrics that are open to several interpretations.
- American Kirby Is Hardcore: An American kawaii metal band (think Babymetal) made up of Kirby fans. The lead singer/guitarist is a Dreadful Musician dressed as Kirby, the rhythm guitarist is dressed as Meta Knight, the bassist is dressed as King Dedede, and the drummer is dressed as a Waddle Dee.
- Americans Hate Tingle: British band whose albums have sold so poorly overseas that they're only popular in Britain.
- Ammunition Conservation: Nu Metal band whose lyrics deal with the nuances of combat, including preventing wasted bullets.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: Industrial noise with echoes of vaguely familiar tunes played with out of tune instruments and things pulled from the scrapyard. Their albums frequently end in multiple cacophonous medleys of conflicting musical styles with delirious nose yodeled mondegreens just before fading out with screams, wailing, and crying children.
- Amnesiac Liar: Their songs are made up of lies about history and keep trailing off as though the singer was forgetting lyrics.
- The Amoral Attorneys: Cheery indie-pop band from Washington, D.C. (which famously has "more lawyers than people") who sing about how awful lawyers are (and life in DC more generally, but it's the lawyer songs that get them gigs). All members, past and present, have been lawyers, although only the singer is a Big Law hotshot; the lead guitar and bassist work for the Department of Justice and the drummer works for the DC Public Defender Service.
- Amusing Injuries: A quasi-pop-punk/indie band with quite a bit of acoustic guitar in their sound and song lyrics that suggest a fixation with sadomasochism.
- Anachronism Stew: Medieval electronica.
- Ancient Conspiracy: New Age.
- And I Must Scream: Metal band with lots of unsettling ambient electronic elements and a strange fascination with the idea of being "trapped".
- And Man Grew Proud: Dronecore instrumentals, Ã la Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
- The Anti-Grinch: A Goth Folk Singer that tries very hard to appeal to the Hip-Hop crowd, but ends up becoming the whitest thing ever.
- Anti-Hero: Metal rock band is known to writing many albums and donates charity for the society, but it includes violence and gore. The less said about it, the better.
- The Anti-Nihilist: A Doom/Power Metal band know for their albums which start out with depressive lyrics and slow music, but by the end of them the songs become much lighter and bombastic, with the lyrics shifting to existentialist and hopeful themes.
- Apocalypse How:
- Extremely loud, abrasive electronic noise.
- A versatile metal band: speed, grove, trash, black, death, heavy, you name it.
- Apocalypse Not: Death metal spoof.
- Apocalypse Wow: Death metal band with with spectacular special effects at all their concerts.
- Apocalyptic Log: Might be nice if they lightened up a little. The songs at the beginning of their albums have a fairly optimistic tone, by the final tracks the lyrics are incredibly depressing and the singer sounds like he's been screaming for an extended period of time.
- Apocalypse Maiden: An all-girl goth/metal band that's an offshoot of Apocalyptic Log. In an interview, cited Kittie as a major influence.
- Apathetic Citizens: Political punk band, similar sound to Anti-Flag, British-based; their first single was "48%" (the proportion of eligible voters who voted in the 2005 UK general election)
- The Apathetic Students: They didn't pay much attention to their music lessons, so they only have a slight clue of what they're doing. Widely regarded as So Okay, It's Average.
- Applied Phlebotinum: Experimental nerd-comedy offshoot of Dirty Commies with a strong Frank Zappa influence. Too weird to describe.
- Archive Panic: One dude who makes experimental music like the Residents. Ever since 1967, he's released at least twenty albums a month, not to mention the number of bootlegs, singles, live albums, mixtapes and compilations...
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Emo+Death Metal+Children's rock. Each song starts out dark, gets darker, then becomes trivial.
- Art Course: Expiremental album that teaches you how to draw in the form of catchy songs.
- Artist and the Band: Genre Roulette band with lyrics that deconstruct whatever genre they're singing about.
- Artistic License – Biology: A band that spoofs sayings like "My heart is breaking" and "A lump in my throat" with songs about what would happen if that was literally true.
- Artistic License – Military: A controversial metalcore/crossover thrash band, where all of the band members are dressed in military uniform and army fatigues, and the lyrics are a bombastic satire of military traditions, hierarchy, and boot camp. They generally pal around with bands such as System of a Down and Dead Kennedys. Formerly entitled "You Fail Basic Training Forever", the managing label encouraged them (not too subtly) to change their name and suggested that they invoke a bit of "artistic license". The band evidently took their suggestions a bit too literally.
- Ascended Glitch: A two-man epic glitchstep band.
- Ascended Meme: A "Weird Al" Yankovic style band that chooses a meme and writes a song about it (songs that are already memes are covered). Hit singles include Our Enemies Hide In Metal Boxes and Nothin' like a Fistfulla Loitnin'. One song in an album is always Never Gonna Give You Up disguised as a different song.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The s-l-o-o-o-w-e-s-t and DARKEST prog metal you will ever hear. The band members play "live" concerts, in quotation marks: all the lights are turned off and the band members are behind the curtains.
- Ass Shove: A hip-hop artist known for a music video which shows him ramming various objects, including people's heads, into random people's asses.
- A-Team Firing: Another nerdy tribute band, this team for The A-Team. The guitarist is Murdock, the keyboardist/lead vocalist is Face, the bassist is Hannibal, and the drummer is B.A. All four members have concealed weapons licenses. Most notable for their spot-on Filk parody of "The Ballad of Serenity" (now "My Dog Named Billy").
- Ate His Gun: A comedy rock band dealing with whacky lyrical themes.
- Atomic F-Bomb: A heavy metal band whose songs always have at least one swear word that is being delivered loud. Really loud.
- Atop a Mountain of Corpses: As Black as Black Metal gets, absurdly popular in Norway, banned everywhere else.
- Alternatively, a Stealth Parody of black metal. They started out busking for a bit until they recorded their self-titled first album, which metal fans considered awesome despite the fact it was a parody.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: A recent group, unconstrained by genre; they'll play anything, for no longer than sixty seconds (if you're lucky). Early shows had light displays until they proved way too distracting... to the band.
- Attract Mode: Electronica by a nerdy-but-sexy girl band. They also released Remix Albums under the "Arrange Mode" label.
- Autobots, Rock Out!: Transformers nerd rock (Rockformers?) that started out playing classic and '80s Rock about various bits of the expansive Transformers lore. Gained a loyal following with their first album Truck Not Monkey (with the Title Drop song poking fun at the fans outrage over Optimus Primal in Beast Wars), and close every live performance with a cover of The Touch.
- Awful British Sex Comedy: A punk band from Great Britain known for satirical lyrics focusing how modern societies treat female on male rape, the idea that only people in love should do it, promiscuity, virgins, sexual minorities including but not limited to the LGBT community, and our obsession with sex in general. All of the members have been accused of homophobia at least once, whilst one former member became the new drummer for Alien Sky.
- Awful Truth: Indie retro sound, political satire lyrics.
- Ax-Crazy: A heavy metal band with lyrical themes dealing with warriors, soldiers, terrorists, and murderers, both fictional and historical.
- Baby Be Mine: Four guys who sing cheesy pop love songs.
- Background Music: A professional lounge and ambient artist who makes music for films and advertisements.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Began as a Pretty Maids cover band before writing their own material, which mainly deals with heroic warriors, both real and fictional, fighting, well, back to back.
- Badass Back: A rock group that plays all of their instruments facing backwards.
- Badass Bookworm: Rock, but full of references to classic literature.
- Bad Future: A punk rock band featuring a time-traveling robot guitarist... or someone in a really, really good disguise. Very involved in social activism. Do lots of charity drive concerts with Dark Is Not Evil.
- Bad Influencer: Hard rock that makes the Moral Guardians squirm.
- Bald of Evil: Chrome-domed heavy metal. Parody/Indecisive Parody of '80s glam metal.
- Banned in China: Australian hard rock band who sing songs about any kind of civil war, native uprising or anything the government doesn't want spoken about they can find. They haven't been banned in China yet, but they're working on it. Finally got Banned in China for talking about the independence of Tibet.
- Baroness:
- Female-fronted European act that combines elements of symphonic metal, dark electronica, and steampunk. Their lead singer is a classically trained operatic contralto who claims to be descended from German nobility and dresses like a high-class Victorian dominatrix.
- An actual sludge metal band from Savannah, GA.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: A Swag project by a freestyle duo with a rotating DJ/producer and frequent guest artists on their albums. Known for their grandiose stage personas and frequent sampling of superhero cartoon dialogue. Probably most famous for their Boastful Rap showdown: "It's an operating table... and I'm the surgeon."
- Battle Butler: Death metal and everyone dresses like stereotypical butlers.
- Battle in the Rain: Alternative rock with a dash of 80's pop, they tend to use water as a form of symbolism in their songs or videos.
- Batty Lip Burbling: A group of douchebags that enter the talent show banging indiscriminately on trash, call it dubstep and think they are being funny.
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: Psychedelic indie pop with Middle Eastern influences. (Imagine if of Montreal spent a year in Cairo or Tehran).
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Soft-rock group that shuns any instrument they can't play with their bare hands.
- Beam Spam: Electronic with epilepsy-inducing music videos.
- Bears Are Bad News: A Russian folk band best known for poking fun at President/PM Medvedev. Their best known song so far is "I Am a Merry Gnome".
- Beautiful All Along: Disney-sponsored teen actors trying to launch a singing career.
- The Beautiful Elite: combines rock, pop, electronic and techno. Widely loved as a band. All gorgeous, and none of them single.
- Beautiful Void:
- Metal with emo band with insane guitar riffs. Which are all beautiful.
- '90s One-hit-wonder (hit song: Ghost City) who have maintained a cult following since then. Pop rock with a dark undertone and a lot of lyrics about social issues. Did a lot of live shows, until their career was cut short after the lead singer died following their Nothing Is Scarier tour. As of 2009, they have released a comeback album with a new singer titled After the End.
- Become a Real Boy: Screamo. Known to many fans as BARB.
- Beef Gate: Hardcore industrial Noise Rock.
- Begin with a Finisher: They always open their concerts with the Album Closure track and then go in reverse order.
- Behind the Black: Former lead singer of a black metal band ditches his costuming and heavy makeup to go solo with Lighter and Softer unplugged versions of his former hits.
- Belief Makes You Stupid: Comedic Christian rock group. Think a cross between Stryper and Weird Al. Despite the name, the members are all devout Christians.
- Berserk Button: Nu-metal band whose songs serve as allegory for societal issues that tend to bend people the wrong way, such as 9/11, school shootings or spousal abuse. Think a cross between Anal Cunt and Weird Al.
- Better as Friends: Wholesome, G-rated pop music about friendship. Mainly specializes in Pep Talk Songs and Self-Empowerment Anthems.
- Better Partner Assertion: Parody of mainstream celebrity Break Up Songs. A Hopeless Suitor finds out that his ex is with someone new, and continually whines about how she should take him back because he's better. Their Signature Song is "Entitled to Have You".
- Better Than Canon (now defunct): A band that does fancy versions of classical songs. First single is a "better" version of Pachebel's Canon in D.
- Betty and Veronica: A female two-man band that does Hard Rock covers of various songs, including a cover of The Bee Gees's "Stayin' Alive" that's widely considered as good, or even better than, the original.
- BFS: Indie-Techno. Though they later came to regret the name after they gained popularity due to being confused with the OTHER BFS
- Big, Bulky Bomb: A Hard Rock group known for their drum solos, their music so loud they blow out all of their amps at the end of each show.
- Big Damn Heroes: Unpredictable, but very popular, rock. Alternately, a Firefly comedy band similar to The Nth Doctor and Adam Westing, with Mal on guitar, Inara on bass, Wash on keyboards, Kaylee on drums, River singing, and Jayne on tambourine and rain stick.
- Big Fancy House: Disney-style kids' pop with a lot of instruments utilized.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Punk or metal with Mind Screw lyrics.
- Big Boo's Haunt: Long-time opening band. Mainly does movie soundtracks from horror/thriller movies.
- Big-Hearted Bigfoot: A Psychedelic Rock band known for their slow, ambient beats. They went viral when one of their concerts were crashed by a guy in a Sasquatch suit, only for him to pull out a saxophone and start playing with them. It was their manager doing a bit and the whole thing was staged.
- Big "NO!": A band that was alternative rock back before there was alternative rock. Unless you have a cassette player, expect to search long and hard for any of their songs.
- Big "WHAT?!": Very surrealist band with nonsensical lyrics in every song and crazy outfits on the members.
- Big "WHY?!": Band whose members pretend to go insane from the weight of classic big questions like the meaning of life.
- The Bit Part Bad Guys: Chiptune artists whose tracks are named after villains from classic video games.
- Blade Enthusiast: Thrash metal artist. His tracks are named after different types of swords. "Naginata" features a guest appearance by Psycho Knife Nut. Was relatively popular until an incident during his Swipe Your Blade Off tour in which a "prop" sword turned out to be a real one from his collection, injuring an audience member.
- Blatant Lies: Grunge metal with a penchant for dark, depressing and nigh-on impenetrable lyrics.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: A heavy/death metal band whose vocalist always drinks hot sauce before every recording session or live performance.
- Blinded by the Sun: Sunshine pop that slowly becomes Darker and Edgier as the band puts out new music.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: Japanese band whose English lyrics have been run through Babelfish several times. They are frequently accused of being a Stealth Parody of Crystal Dragon Jesus, a charge that their lead singer vigorously denies.
- Bling of War:
- A pompous military orchestra using oversized brass instruments and heavy weaponry in their performances. Wear green costumes, Commissar Caps, and lots of regalia.
- Alternately, a hip-hop act, replete with bling, composed of US Army veterans.
- The Blofeld Ploy: Metal, mostly of the screaming variety, but with occasional forays into death metal territory.
- Blood Knight: Scandinavian Black Metal with a penchant for instigating excessively violent mosh pits.
- Blood Magic: Cast from Hit Points cover/tribute band. CFHP recently asked them to act in their latest music video, and open a few of their concerts.
- A Bloody Mess: Parody of gory rock.
- Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: Like Josie And The Pussy Cats, but they're a Stealth Parody of the Christian far right.
- Body Horror: KCMO based goregrind band known for their lyrical themes of parasites, surgery, mutation, body modification, testing on living subjects, and other biological themes. Their vocals are well pronounced and easy to understand, which is somewhat unpleasant due to the great descriptions of various body horrors. All of the members have biology degrees, and some study anatomy and parasitism. Their live performances have been banned in a few cities due to footage of parasites and surgery being projected behind them on a screen, and the various other gimmicks performed on stage (disassembling a dead pig over the course of the show and hosting a bbq afterwards, inviting audience members on to the stage for piercings, selling preserved parasites in jars after shows, etc.) i.e. Carcass. They weren't allowed to do music for Brütal Legend's Tainted Coil faction because they gave the dev team nightmares.
- The Bogans: 70s-80s style Australian pub rock, influenced by (and with several covers of) bands like AC/DC, Cold Chisel and The Angels.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Hard rock. Well known for their enormous amounts of drums and energetic, shouted singing style. Currently on tour with Hot-Blooded.
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Anarchopunk band with sarcastic lyrics about political issues, they also parody the popular culture image of anarchists as destructive maniacs.
- Boom in the Hand: Heavy Metal band doing music about stuff blowing up in people's hands.
- Bottomless Pits: Death Metal band who hold the record for the lowest tuning still audible by humans (also they sing about caves a lot...).
- Bow and Sword in Accord: A Folk Metal band famous for live-streaming their Dungeons & Dragons campaign and then writing songs based on their "quests." They're fans tend to ship their lead guitarist's character (a knight) and bassist's character (archer), something the band finds both creepy and hilarious.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Country/R&B/Punk/Emo crossover band.
- Brain Bleach: Plays electronic versions of baroque chamber music. When they formed, they picked the name to sell more digital downloads.
- Brain Chain: Concept Album about a society where genuises are imprisoned, and have to pretend to be stupid to get by.
- Brain Freeze: A softcore rock band whose demographic is aimed at the children's department.
- Brain in a Jar: A Thrash Metal band famous for using Mother Brain as their band's mascot. One of their albums — Mr. and Mrs. Mother Brain — is named after an episode of Captain N: The Game Master.
- Break the Cutie: An emo cover band that takes the darkest songs of the genre and re-writes the lyrics to make them seem cheerier. They originally started out doing this with Death Cab for Cutie songs, hence their name.
- Break the Haughty: Similar to Kill the Cutie, more punk than Break the Cutie. Best known for identifying the ironic hipster preps in the crowd and instructing the real fans to set them on fire with the lighters they're waving.
- Brick Joke: Rock music. Their albums drop in some weird lines that seem kind of out-of-place, but by the ending track, everything ends up making sense. Their drummer used to be in Running Gag.
- Broken Ace: A deranged yet fascinating mix of hyperactive Noise Pop with brooding old-school Emo and Hardcore. Loves Uncommon Time.
- Broken Aesop: Industrial band whose samples largely come from political slogans and evangelists.
- Broken Base: A band whose fan's can't decide if they are Alternative Rock or Pub Rock.
- Brother Chuck (now defunct): A project consisting entirely of Pete Bests and other former members of successful bands.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Mix of pop and rock — right now, the lead singer's in rehab, the electric guitar player's in prison for arson, the drummer's getting married, and the bass player's become an actor.
- The Burlesque of Venus: A Pop Group of Idol Singers that ramp up the sex appeal and claim that it is purely for artistic integrity.
- Burn the Witch!: Blackened-Death metal band who's songs mostly deal with witchcraft. Known to burn an effigy of a witch at every live show.
- Alternatively, a Heavy Mithril band who's lyrics revolve around witchcraft.
- Butt-Monkey: Silly indie nerd-rock band that goes through many personal crises. Currently, the singer has terminal liver cancer, the guitarist is going through a costly divorce, the bassist's parents died, and the drummer is in an asylum.
- Bullied into Depression: Emo rock and blues fusion.
- Byronic Hero: A popular, hardcore and fascinating rock band with conflicting issues with a hint of blooding old-school Emo personality.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: Epic metal or folk metal rock band.
- Calming Tea: Plays soft music suitable for young children, with lyrics about appreciating nature's beauty and all sorts of wholesome memories that remind you of home.
- Calvinball: Nobody's really sure what they are, because they completely change their style... and members... and name... at every single concert.
- Camp Gay: A poppy, glamorous, slightly punk quintet, with a highly polished sound, flamboyant stage performances, and a harpsichord as backup. The songs are all either sappy love songs or slightly angsty attacks on love and romance.
- Candle Jack: Gothic metal. Prominently displays a banner with its name at all of their shows. Also known for closing a show by saying "We're Candle Jack, sons of..." proceeding to quickly kill the lights to black out the stage.
- Can't Default to Murder: Alternative rock. The songs are, in-universe, sung by an angsty teen who wishes to inflict severe harm on the people who have wronged him... until others tell him it's illegal, at which point he comes up with sillier punishments.
- Captain Obvious Aesop: A Nerdcore band with lyrics inevitably preaching the truths that everyone already considers obvious. Their first single was a trap remix of Mr. Mackey's "Drugs Are Bad" line.
- Captured by Cannibals: A quirky blend of Prog Rock, Punk, and experimental Uncommon Time a bit reminiscent of Frank Zappa and Oingo Boingo. No hit songs but they have a fanatical cult following.
- The Cardinal Virtues: A four-person Power Metal band with a white and gold color motif. Most of their songs are about wars between The Armies of Heaven and The Legions of Hell, sometimes including the gods of Classical Mythology and Norse Mythology joining the war in an all-out cosmic event.
- Cassandra Truth: Borderline emo, every song predicts doom and gloom of the worst variety. The lead singer is legendary for her waily vocals.
- Cast from Hit Points: Dark Fantasy Heavy Mithril Rock Opera. Wear armor with built-in fireworks, so it looks like they're actually doing magic, and hooked up with pipes that squirt fake blood when the firework is launched (the arena janitors and their families are given the best seats at the concert, and Do Not Attempt! is emblazoned across the screen when they shoot at each other). Have understudy band members so the leads can hand off their instruments and duel without messing up the song. Work very closely with fantasy moviemakers (including an anime company) to make their Music Videos (a fusion of live action actors for humans/ humanoids and animated monster opponents, set in an animated environment). Famous for a grand finale pitched battle, mimicking an RPG battle screen, and Pet the Dog moments despite their Darker and Edgier story-singing. They also incorporate their sound tech and roadies into the show. Trying to get their Rock Opera made into a TV show (Ã la' Metalocalypse). The artists themselves are a Five-Man Band, with The Hero on lead, The Lancer on Bass, the White Magician Girl on keyboard, The Big Guy on drums, and The Smart Guy on "explosive instrumentation". Every so often, a Sixth Ranger shows up. He's considered to be the best out of all of them, and his appearance is quite rare, so it's considered a treat by all involved (in the vids, he acts as a Deus ex Machina, who only shows during their Darkest Hour). According to Word of God, shares a 'Verse with Orion Drive.
- Cast Herd: Electro-pop group that sounds very similar to Devo.
- The Catchphrase Catches On: Sings memorable lyrics that the band wants to catch on as everyday terms. Hasn't worked yet, but there's still hope...
- Catholic School Girls Rule: All-girl rock band, who perform in Catholic private school uniforms, complete with lollipops (the guitars, drums, etc. being painted in a pink-swirl lollipop motif), pleated skirts, knee-high socks and pigtails. Every single one of their songs is a three-minute (or whatever) Double Entendre. Every. Single. One.
- Cats Are Mean: Profanity-ridden metal and the members dress as cats.
- Celestial Deadline: Vaporwave (with vaportrap elements) band that makes music like a Crapsaccharine World: it starts nice and soft but it becomes Darker and Edgier as the time goes by.
- Chain Reaction Destruction: Techno death rock band.
- Chainsaw Good: Gore metal of the most brutal and horrifying kind, with lyrics about gore, blood, corpses, necrophillia... I think that's enough. Currently on tour with Cannibal Corpse. They often used actual chainsaws to generate sound in their songs. This has been seen considerably less often following an incident in which they attempted to grind two running chainsaws together. You gotta admire the bass guitarist for still being able to play now that he's missing a few fingers.
- Challenge Run: Before their concerts, they have viewers suggest different challenges that make their performances different. Examples include "no G notes", "sing the lyrics backwards", and "use the least amount of drum beats possible".
- Chaos of the Bells: Christmas death metal.
- Chaos While They're Not Looking: An Industrial-Power Metal band that goes out of its way to be as fast as possible to the point of ruining all of their instruments by the time the concert is over. Teenagers that listen to them with constantly switch between them and some random parent-approved media when their parents go up to them to complain about the noise.
- Chaotic Car Ride: Kids comedy album about an annoying family road trip. Tracks include "Are We There Yet?" and "Drive-Thru Antics".
- Chaotic Stupid: Avant-garde performance group whose albums are vastly overpriced and contain 30-40 tracks of absolute silence interrupted by an occasional "GIVE US A GRAMMY, BIOTCHES!"
- Character Name and the Noun Phrase: The main character is the frontman, while the Noun Phrases provide backing for their performance and motivations.
- Charlie Brown from Outta Town: A Scary Black Man rapper dresses up as Charlie Brown. His music videos are edits of Peanuts specials, usually to make them violent or preach hard truth messages.
- Cheerful A.I.: Wholesome stories about a boy and his helpful robot AI sidekick. Partners with Robot Buddy.
- Cheerful Child: Super uplifting pop about a little kid who can find magic in everything and loves his family and friends. Sometimes features choirs of children singing in the background. When the kids got too old, the band split up; the main singer went on to do Disappointing Older Sibling, the guitarist and drummer went to The Abusive Offspring, and the keyboardist is learning about electronic music so Powered by a Forsaken Child will hire him.
- Chemical Messiah: Cyberpunk Industrial Metal.
- The Chessmaster: A one man band who changes his sound based on the next big thing.
- The Chew Toy: A quirky electronic emo pop-rock group with extremely sad, introspective lyrics. Screwed over by every label they've been on.
- Chickification: A female pop group version of the Village People, consisting of a riveter, a Catholic schoolgirl, a warrior princess, a secret agent, and a softball player. Best known for their hit single, "Women's College". Interestingly, their biggest fanbase is among gay men.
- The Chosen Many: A Symphonic Metal group with a back-up orchestra where the main singer changes between songs, the tone of the song and the all around theme changing with each singer. Even the lighting of the stage and the content of the screen behind them changes for ambiance.
- The Chosen One: A Power Metal group the performs rockin' heavy metal ballads so fresh, so tasty, so face-meltingly sick that they could shatter continents. Usually has lyrics with a Fantasy theme.
- The Chosen People: A Black Metal group that uses bible quotes in their lyrics for Irony.
- The Chosen Wannabe: An Alternative Rock band that changes its genre and uniforms to fit what is popular, usually being one fad behind at a time, in order to try and bank on what is popular.
- The Chosen Zero: A Heavy Metal group that was considered "meh" during its time, but wound up garnering a huge following shortly after it breaks up.
- Circus of Magic: Happy Circus Music for people of all ages. For their concerts, everyone's dressed up as a different type of circus performer; the singer is the ringmaster.
- The Clingy MacGuffins: Scottish alt rock with surprising staying power. Everytime it seems like the band has finally broken up, moved on to other projects, or taken an indefinite hiatus, there they are again on another tour, releasing another album... you can't get away from them.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe:
- Anarchist rock band, everyone comes from a different country — the lead singer's English, the lead guitarist's American, the drummer's Australian and the bass player's Welsh. Their career ended after they died during a hunger strike in New York City.
- Alternatively: Christian pop group.
- Both of these exist; they just refuse to acknowledge the existence of the other band.
- Clark Kenting:
- Bespectacled pop rock band that write songs exclusively about DC heroes.
- Alternatively, a Philippine indie rock band whose songs are about call center woes. Their power ballad, "(I Want to Speak to Your) Supervisor" became a runaway hit, with covers and dub smashes posted all over YouTube. The band members themselves (who remain remarkably anonymous) work in the same company in Clark, Pampanga, whose main headquarters is in Canterbury, UK.
- Cliché Storm: A band that goes out of its way to have all the song cliches.
- Clock Punk: British Punk band who uses the Elizabethan Tower (most famously Big Ben) as the mascot. Topics of their songs include fighting Fascisms, blowing up parliament, Bonfire Night and watch repair.
- Closer to Earth: Soft, ambient New Age music with a green message.
- Cloudcuckoolanders: A band whose music style is almost impossible to pin down to one style. Their lyrics tend to have a lot of very random and badly translated foreign words and phrases as well as outright gibberish. Heavily influenced by the style of Polysics.
- Clueless Detective: Inspector Gadget Nerd Rock band.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Self Demonstrating
ArticleBand. Plays heavy metal and barely goes two lines without swearing. - Crucial Cross: A Christian Heavy Mithril/Progressive Metal band. Think of them as the Christian version of Cast from Hit Points. Their Rock Operas often retell stories from the Bible in song form.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes:
- We're not really sure what they are, but you can be sure their lyrics are full of snappy irony and general pessimism towards the human race.
- Indie band with a style somewhere between OK Go and R.E.M. They go heavy on synthesizers and acoustic guitars. They also write songs specifically designed for their fanbase, but are quite aloof to them in public.
- The Colored Cross: Light and soft Christian music.
- Colorful Contrails: Rainbow Brite-themed nerdy Power Metal band (though with some elements of Hair Metal).
- Colony Drop: Arena Rock.
- Combat Sadomasochist: Technical death metal meets breakcore. Have a spooky, possibly insane female vocalist with a penchant for screaming like a maniac in concert.
- Comfort Food: Light pop music. They're best known for "Companion Food", which details all the delicious food being served at a dinner party.
- Comical Angry Face: Musical humorist who grew up with a totally average childhood, and bases his songs on average childhood experiences that are deliberately blown out of proportion (such as turning a child's first time going to the bathroom into a yucky whirlpool adventure, or a first-time kiss that gets awkward because the kids' braces have locked).
- Comical Coffee Cup: The band members dress up as traditional White Collar Workers, but turn out to be rather silly during their concerts, where they do comedy skits under their exaggerated personas: the lead singer, Bob from Accounting, is pursued by some Plucky Office Girls. They debuted with an EP called Work Hard, Play Hard, and followed it up with a full-length album, Employee of the Month.
- Commander Contrarian: An IDM band, they take John Williams score-ish music and break the hell out of it. Vocal talents are handled by Basshunter (under a pseudonym.)
- Commie Nazis: Satirical ska punk band from the U.K. that sings Black Comedy songs about both sides of the "culture wars", especially those in the United States. The lead singer famously gives all interviews in the type of voice and accent you might expect from an American hipster Vice News contributor despite having been born and raised in Southampton.
- Companion Cube: A punk-ska band making songs about the half-life 'verse.
- Complete Monster: A Death Metal band that tries hard not to Cross The Line Twice or take Refuge in Audacity, instead keeping their lyrics as vicious and offensive as possible.
- Conflict Ball: Party rock with a lot of guitar duels.
- Conquering Alien Prince: Conquering planets and your earbuds, one concert at a time.
- Constantly Changing Name: That's their Fan Nickname, since they have a new alias for every album. Becomes an Ascended Meme when it's referenced in one of their songs.
- Consulting Mister Puppet : A psychedelic rock band whose members are represented by puppets on stage.
- Contemplate Our Navels: An otherwise-good ambient progressive band whose overly abstruse lyrics turn off all but the most philosophically-minded listeners.
- A never-released album by King Crimson that was meant to be recorded in 1974.
- Contractual Purity: A Riot Grrrl band that mocks manufactured female pop stars, particularly how their career often feels like a chastity belt. Broke up after they gained mainstream popularity, which they felt was Irony going against their message. The bassist went on to form Railroad Baron.
- Convicted by Public Opinion: An alt-rock band that sings about people on the run from the law. And true to their themes and name, every member, past and present, was convicted by public opinion for crimes that they were eventually deemed not guilty of committing.
- Convection, Schmonvection: Quite fringe but in reality very good. Reason for niche appeal is the fact their songs are nothing but rants about bad science in media put to music.
- Conversation in the Main Page: An new wave band based out of Santa Monica made up of 4 guys - two guitars, drums and synthesizer - and 2 girls - vocals and bass. Known for their 1984 One-Hit Wonder "Meaningful Rename".
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: A band with songs that parody prison songs.
- Cool Code of Source: A group of computer programmers who make music using algorithms and all wear hoodies with a black and green color scheme. Their 2019 album, Powers as Programs, was praised for its innovation (and sounding pretty darn good).
- Cool Old Guy: A band fronted by a retired eighty something grandfather, who goes by "Cool Old Guy" as a stage name and does almost everything that musicians half his age can do, but better! The other members of the band are his teenage grandchildren and their friends, who let him play a few songs with them just to be nice, but even they were blown away by his talents.
- Cool Old Lady: Punk band of elderly women who sing about how they're not just boring old biddies.
- Cool Train: Blues rock performed by five people: two guitars, bass, drums and piano: who clearly resemble the Rail Enthusiast. Their cover of "Peace Train" became a #1 hit in Japan but stalled at #3 in their native United States.
- Cop Killer: A punk rock band named after the Body Count song, which they covered for their self-titled debut album. Their lyrical themes deal with police brutality and police corruption. Their stage shows involve them bringing out cops and fighting and killing them in effigy. Currently on tour with Police Brutality.
- Corrupt Church: A parody of Christian rock bands. The lead singer and drummer have serious issues with organized religion. The guitarist is religiously confused, the keyboardist is agnostic but his/her parents force him/her to be Catholic, and the bassist just doesn't care.
- Cosmic Horror Story: A doom metal band whose songs evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The lyrics frequently contain references to H. P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos.
- Covert Pervert: An understated, pretty-sounding Indie Pop group with subtly groovy basslines and sly lyrics loaded with kinky subtext. Fronted by a pretty bespectacled girl of ambiguous age who, it is rumoured, once worked as a fetish model.
- Crash in Through the Ceiling: I'll give you one guess for how they open their concerts. Provided their injuries aren't that serious, they'll play some classical music.
- Cranial Eruption: Math rock and noise rock. Many of their songs are derived from formulas rather than from actual melodies (e.g. Garfield Music)
- Crazy-Prepared: Rap-rock group with an 80s punk influence that are infamous for actually playing "Freebird" when audience members shout it. All members are schizophrenic Boy Scouts, just so the name won't be meaningless.
- Creator Breakdown: An emo band that mostly sing songs about problems in their lives. Ended up becoming infamous for the Harsher in Hindsight after the lead singer committed suicide.
- Creepy Monotone: Slow-pop band who mostly do love songs rendered unsettling by totally affect-less lead singer and flat instrumentals.
- Criminal Convention: A Power-Death Metal Band riddled with creative differences between band-mates that just spells arrest them for drugs and car-wrecks written all over them.
- Crisis Crossover: A supergroup formed by members of Rogues Gallery, '90s Anti-Hero and Fastball Special.
- Cross Player: Pure solo artist who does Christian Rock. His guitar is shaped like a cross.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Funk rock, Skunk Anansie style, with lazy basslines and killer riffs.
- Cruel Cheerleader: A Glam Rock+Hardcore Punk band with zombie-like cheerleader dancers, both band members and dancers wear Uncanny Valley Makeup.
- Cruel Mercy: A talented Christian rock band whose songs are primarily about guilt and their unworthiness.
- Crying After Sex: A Boy Band that sings overly schmaltzy love-ballads that Camp Gay guys, teenage girls and their moms just can't get enough of.
- Crying a River: Emo parody.
- Crying Critters: Emo band with songs about animal cruelty.
- Cryptic Background Reference: Like Beatnik poetry with increasingly-pounding basslines, although the actual lyrics are closer to They Might Be Giants.
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: Japanese rock band with lyrics entirely in Gratuitous English. Mangled gratuitous English. Who also sound like a fusion of Shonen Knife and Godflesh, but with keyboards and really trippy, symbolism-loaded live performances.
- Crystal Landscape: A rock orchestra that focuses on soft, ambient noises, with bright pastel colors illuminating the stage to evoke a Fantasy world.
- Crystal Spires and Togas: A spin-off band of Raygun Gothic, formed by the keyboardist because he wished to pursue other musical directions. Accordingly, they have a less technical and not as heavy style. They tell a side-story to Raygun Gothic, involving a Red Shirt from the third album who got better and became the leader of an alien civilization. Both have played on stage together, performing their split four-disc album Crisis Crossover.
- Cue the Rain: A female-fronted acoustic rock band. Their songs are about death and loss of a loved one.
- Currency Conspiracy: An EBM group infamous for their first album cover, which featured instructions that, if folded in the included instructions, can be folded into the shape of a $100 dollar bill.
- Cute and Psycho: Seems like kids' songs, but then the vocalist starts screaming and singing violent lyrics.
- Cute Bruiser: The band that the lead singer of Boisterous Bruiser's little sister made. Plays mostly peppy metal.
- Cute Shotaro Boy: Teen pop band with extremely smarmy, hilarious lyrics and a very attractive (and very underage) frontman.
- Cuteness Proximity: Some pop band whose main selling point is that their lead singer is really hot. Or an eight-year old girl. Or * shudders* both.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Death Metal parody band who attempt to be ridiculous by turning the violence and Harsh Vocals up to at least 12. Broke up after everyone took them seriously and they became an extremely popular death metal band.
- Cyber Cyclops: Techno-iest techno group in the history of techno.
- Cyberbullying: Synthpop and rock fusion.
- Cybernetic Mythical Beast: A Dubstep group who's mascot is a cyborg-unicorn.
- Dance of Romance: Classical waltz music to get you in a romantic mood.
- Dancing Bear: Country band. Known more for their creative on-stage antics than their actual music.
- Dainty Little Ballet Dancers: Angelina Ballerina-themed nerd rock band. Their first album, "Opening Ballet" (2005), was a smash hit in Japan but went unnoticed in the States. And true to their source material, all members, past and present, are trained ballet dancers and were inspired to learn ballet after watching the show or reading the original books. Currently touring with Elegant Gothic Lolita.
- Dame with a Case: An attractive female noir detective. Sings jazz solos describing the different detectives she's worked with.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Goth metal band who donates 75% of their profits to orphanages, hospitals, and women's shelters.
- Do lots of charity drive concerts with Bad Future.
- Dark Fantasy: Do lots of songs about thinking about murdering people in terrible ways.
- Dark Messiah: Lots of average black metal songs done by ex-Christian rock artists.
- Dark Reprise: Snarky comebacks for upbeat/ inspiring songs. Or, death metal done by ex-children's singers. (Think Raffi if he got fed up singing to kids and turned evil).
- Darth Wiki: A Satanic Black-Death-Doom Metal band composed of the mindless, resurrected corpse of Adolf Hitler on drums, a clone of Hitler on bass, Joseph Stalin brought into the future with time-travel on the keyboard, Ivan the Terrible before he was sent into the past with time-travel on lead vocals, Cthulhu working the lights, the Son of Sam on pyrotechnics and the souls of the damned forced with various torture devices used to make them sing background. All of their songs involve incomprehensible growling that causes all men and women who hear it to ejaculate blood and miscarry respectively before being compelled to murder and eat their friends and family in a blind homicidal rage. If you listen to their songs backwards however, it sounds an awful lot like the discography of Sugar Wiki.
- Dead All Along: annoyingly catchy melodic post-hardcore/screamo band in the vein of From First to Last or Alexisonfire. Every member has a droopy fringe and the word "LOVE" tattooed on his knuckles.
- Dead Artists Are Better: A metropolitan philharmonic whose funding ran out, so they decided to become a touring band.
- Dead Unicorn Trope: I'm thinking some kind of dark rock-ish or power metal sound, with fantasy lyrics and an appreciation of metafiction.
- Deadly Hazing: A Death Metal band who's songs are all about the college experience and all the reasons why it sucks, actually.
- Death and the Maiden: A Neoclassical Symphonic Metal band that bases its concept albums off of famous public-domain vanitas paintings.
- Death by Falling Over: Emo parody where the members act clumsy.
- Death by Mocking: A death metal parody spiritual successor to Ten Masked Men
- Death by Newbery Medal: A nerdy death metal parody with songs about literature.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: Post Hardcore band whose lyrics express violent hatred towards unrequited love triangles and Geometry. Their debut album went by the title "SOHCAHTOA (Some Odious Harlots Can Always Hurt Teens Offering Affection)"
- Deck Clogger: Comedy band that performs sea shanties.
- Deliberate Under-Performance: They say they can play super well, but every time they hold a live show, nobody's impressed. Fans question whether they're doing it because of their name or if they really just aren't that good.
- Demoted Memories: Sad synth pop from The New '20s. Their 2020 debut album, Your Worst Memory, was a hit with the Simpsonwave crowd. "Crying at Your Birthday Party" is commonly used in remixes.
- Denied Food as Punishment: Light pop rock. Backs up Dinner and a Show at their concerts in case things get too crazy.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Any group whose first album contains entirely original material. The rest all consist of remixes and remakes of those songs in different styles.
- Derailed for Details: Their songs try to tell a story, but always get sidetracked in the end. Encourages Audience Participation, with the members riffing new responses to the audience's interruptions, so that no two shows are the same.
- Determinator: Rapper from Detroit. Got shot, didn't stop the show. Tended to rap over beats based on TV production music.
- Dethroning Moment of Suck: A really dark goth or emo metal band.
- Detonation Moon: Space rock known primarily for the band's elaborate pyrotechnics.
- Development Hell: A very popular garage rock band, touring all year round. Unfortunately, their schedule leaves them no time to produce their debut album.
- Their debut album was finally released in December 2018 after being promoted since 1987, under the title of Saved from Development Hell.
- Devil, but No God: Satanic-themed melodic black metal in the style of Dimmu Borgir.
- Don't Go in the Woods: Heavy Mithril band that uses a high school teacher and his after-school Dungeons & Dragons club as a Framing Device.
- Diabolical Mastermind: An electronic dance music producer with uptempo, aggressive sound who samples extensively from Surf Rock, Psychedelic Rock, and 1960s computer equipment. Whenever her songs have lyrics, they usually tend to revolve around the scientific advancements of The '60s (such as the early computers, the space rockets, and naturally, lasers)... and the ways to use them in world domination schemes. The producer is in her mid-twenties, often sporting partially or fully shaven head, and her signature gesture that was popularized with her second album cover is lifting up her right pinky to the corner of her mouth.
- Diagnosed by the Audience: A band that makes fun of society's depiction of mental disorders by having the members behave like exaggerated versions of stereotypical mentally-disadvantaged people. Known for their songs "Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!" and "Hollywood Tourette's". Their song "Hollywood Autism" was such an egregious example of Poe's Law that the UK's National Autistic Society called them out and urged the public to not stream the song.
- Diamonds in the Buff: A Glam Rock group known for their Gold and Gem-Encrusted visual motifs.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: HP Lovecraft parody band.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Hipster band, known for dressing in 1920's style suits. Only cut one album, which received mixed reviews but general praise for a good climax.
- Died on Their Birthday: Screamo rock quintet whose lyrics explore topics of teen angst, broken relationships, and depression.
- Differently Powered Individuals: Geek-Techno, all of their songs are about having superpowers.
- The Dilbert Principle: All the band members are dressed like Dilbert characters. They mostly cover Paperworkaholic songs.
- Dinner and a Show: Band members are dressed like an old-timey barbershop quartet, but they play pop. Live catering is always around the stage. Stay after their performance to enjoy some dinner! Due to the antics of Just Here for the Free Snacks, has hired Denied Food as Punishment as a bodyguard.
- Dirty Communists: Very similar in their unfaltering stage personas to Those Wacky Nazis. Often do covers of folk music. Musical style varies; it is an open secret that each of the band members has a different musical style (though premised on the same idea), and have been at each other's throats.
- Dirty Covers: An alternative rock band mostly covering others' songs because they're too afraid to experiment with their own style.
- The Dirty Kids: Every song has the most childish dirty jokes ever.
- Disappointing Older Sibling: Follow-up band to Cheerful Child that suffered serious Hype Backlash. It's just not as good as you hoped, you know?
- Disco Dan: Singer/composer who has been releasing music consistently since 1976, despite being way too old and having about a dozen remaining fans. Has an artist page over on OC Remix.
- Disco Tech: Electronic music band with fondness for making their own synths out of old equipment.
- Disease Bleach: Punk rock.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Psychedelic band covering Disney songs.
- Disney Death: A Death Metal band that only plays Disney songs. It's better than it sounds.
- Disney Villain Death: The Disney Villains from a Death Metal band.
- Disobey This Message: Truly edgy Punk Rock when it was first formed, but due to Executive Meddling after hitting the big time, shifted to much less controversial Pop rock, before a bitter break up. After the band broke up, each of the founding members formed their own band, none of which have enjoyed the same success as Disobey This Message.
- Dissonant Serenity: progressive death metal band that contrasts clean female vocals with brutally growled male ones. Guitar solos and keyboard solos range from fast heavy ones to quieter, lighter ones that always have a sinister air about them.
- Distant Reaction Shot: Very depressive Doom Metal.
- Ditzy Genius: British comedy pop-rock group known for having surprisingly profound views on life, although they're more well-known for...not being quite straight in the brain.
- Do I Really Sound Like That?: Deconstructive songs, but all of the band members are very self-conscious and insecure.
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Death metal band whose lyrics are liberally sprinkled with meteorologically-related puns and euphemisms.
- Doomy Dooms of Doom: Comedy.
- Door Roulette: A jazz fusion band from Detroit that's famous for doing a lot of Concept Albums.
- Door to Before: Genre Roulette; each of their songs is done in a different style and contains references to what was popular in a specific decade.
- Dork Knight: Heavy Mithril band that can't decide if it's an Affectionate Parody of nerdy power metal or the real thing.
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Beatlesque psychedelic Alice in Wonderland themed band. Popular for their covers of "I Am the Walrus" and "White Rabbit". Have preformed "Jabberwocky" and "The Lobster Quadrille". Their most famous albums are Off with His Head! (1967) and The Mad Tea Party (1968).
- Dragon Lady: satirical punk rock that often focuses on deconstructing the racial and sexual attitudes of modern society. The lead singer is an Asian-American woman.
- Alternatively, an all-girl DragonForce tribute band.
- Drama Panes: All-girls orchestral rock band whose debut album is a Rock opera about a pair of Star-Crossed Lovers who die at the end .
- Dreamville: Calming dream pop.
- Dr. Fakenstein: Faux gothic metal.
- Driver of a Black Cab: A Gothic/Doom Metal band that is known to be very politically active, often times stopping between songs to rant about today's society.
- Dynamic Entry: Pop band with a lot of acrobatics in their stage shows and videos. They tend to make use of extras who oftentimes show up from out of nowhere.
- Dysfunctional Family: The Loud House tribute nerd rock. Cristina Pucelli (Luan's voice actress) provides lead vocals (under a pseudonym.)
- Dystopia: Alternative rock band with some rather depressing tunes. Big Brother Is Watching (2003) is considered their best album.