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- Made from Real Girl Scouts: A band made of current and former girl scouts.
- Mad Science Fair: An eclectic group of two that makes goofy albums meant to be played around Halloween.
- Magic Knight: A Folk Metal band from Wales who's whole theme is based off of Arthurian Legend and Magic: The Gathering. The lead guitarist cites Excalibur as their primary inspiration.
- Magic Music: A Japanese pop group who sing overly moe songs.
- Magic Skirt: All-female band where the members wear short skirts and sing fantasy-related songs.
- Mad Oracle: Five Cthulhu Mythos fans who play a strange mix between classic rock, techno and classical music.
- Made of Win: Hard rockin' 'bout the Internet.
- Madness Mantra: Over-the-top screamo with disturbing yet repetitive lyrics. Also a rival band to Moment of Awesome, releasing more often, but generally considered of lower quality.
- Magic-Powered Pseudoscience: Similar in style to the Cloudcuckoolanders, but with Heavy Mithril type lyrics.
- Magnificent Bastard: A Power Metal group that manages to win platinum sales through a combination of charisma, underhanded tactics, intellect, and style; even when they don't go platinum, they accept defeat with dignity.
- Make the Bear Angry Again: A deathcore/mathcore/noise rock hybrid from St. Petersburg with a shrieking male and female vocalist duo. Frequently labeled "screamo metal" much to the chagrin of the band and its hipster fanbase.
- The Mandatory Line: Dark techno music that's mostly instrumental, but has exactly one line of lyrics in each song.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl:
- Punkish indie-rock band who play hyperactive, annoyingly catchy songs. Their lead singer is a cute Perky Goth girl who writes Cloudcuckoolander lyrics full of Talkative Loon non-sequiteurs. Somehow she manages to come across as cute rather than extremely annoying.
- Alternately, Zooey Deschanel's next project, consisting chiefly of self-parody.
- Marshmallow Hell: Girl group that uses Bubblegum pop-like melodies with varying levels of Lyrical Dissonance. The lead singer is rather well-endowed, the others might be just faking it. Recently signed on the Bassist's younger brother as a drummer, and if the promotional photoshoots and their latest album cover are any indication, he must be one of the luckiest men on the planet.
- Maximum Fun Chamber: 900+ BPM speedcore/happy hardcore fusion. Became the center of great controversy when it was revealed that several synth fills in their songs, when converted into Morse code, translated into "LSD".
- Mechanical Monster: An Industrial Rock group known for their elaborate stages, one of which looking like the ominous factory from Metropolis.
- MegaCorp:
- Anarcho-punk. They always release their albums on the Internet and never sign with major labels, partly because that would be cooperating with the reviled megacorps, partly because nobody would like to sign with them anyway.
- Alternatively, a Mega Man tribute band mostly known for covers of The Megas and The Protomen, and a surprisingly well-done cover of "I Can't Defeat Air Man". Popularized the use of Metool hard hats as a fashion statement.
- Mega Neko: Formed by a former Sailor Earth drummer and themed after Tokyo Mew Mew. The band members dress as the Mew Mew while their dancers dress as the aliens from the manga. The dancer who dresses as Quiche/Dren is believed to be Andrew Rannells in disguise.
- Alternatively, a Cat Girl-themed kawaii metal band.
- Memetic Badass: A nerd metal band that think they're a lot more awesome than they really are.
- Memetic Molester: Humorous porngrind, with a lyrical focus on pop culture and internet in-jokes.
- Memetic Mutation:
- One of those weird bands with no discernible genre.
- Alternately, nerdcore rappers who often do covers of appropriate Weird Al songs. They became famous after their third album, with the fan favorite track "Meow If Chuck Norris Could Kill You", went gold in two weeks.
- Men Don't Cry: Emo all-male band.
- The Men in Black: Blues and blues rock, famous for the band's all-black Iconic Outfits and the persistent rumor that they don't actually exist.
- Menstrual Menace: An all-female metal band with a focus on gross-out and Satanic themes.
- The Merging Machine: 2000s band that plays electronic music.
- Metal Scream: Canadian melodeath/metalcore band fronted by twin vocalists Alissa and Bobbie McKenzie, and possibly the only band in the world to feature male and female growling vocals. Most famous for their single "Scare Chord".
- Metamorphosis Monster: A Death Metal group who's songs are all about the horrors of religion and biology. Their mascot is that of a butterfly that looks like it's made out of bone and human musculature.
- Mighty Whitey: A NS Black Metal Band.
- Mildly Military: A Boy Band specializing in remixing old war songs into lyric and/or dance music. Their stage performances always feature ceremonial uniforms that change every time.
- Millennium Bug: A Male Band, Female Singer dance-pop quartet relying heavily on Y2K aesthetics. The frontwoman is a Statuesque Stunner brunette who gives all interviews in a vaguely-Swedish accent despite hailing from the Atlanta suburbs. Have helped lead a Genre Relaunch for Eurodance music.
- Milkman Conspiracy: True to their name, they're one of them bands that writes nothing but songs about video games and nerdy things, and most of their repetoir is available for free download. Fans recommend "Girlfriend for a Day" (their loving tribute to Samus Aran) and "H Is for Pervert" (all you ever wanted to know about Hentai but were afraid to ask).
- Mind-Control Eyes: Trance music that's so hypnotic that the band-members have to keep a close eye on each other, as it can even get to them. Their music videos are filled with spirals and other hypnotic imagery.
- The Minneapolis Sound: 80s jazz/swing music.
- Mind Screw: Noisy techno band, describes themselves as a cross between Aphex Twin and Merzbow.
- Mind Rape: Their songs are Sensory Abuse to the point of Nightmare Fuel, and can cause nausea if listened to for more than a few minutes at a time. That is, of course, their whole gimmick. Currently on hiatus after they were sued by a man who nearly died from listening to one of their songs in full.
- Misanthrope Supreme: Blackened Brutal Death Metal band à la Behemoth or Hour of Penance with misanthropy and nihilism as their main lyrical theme.
- Misfit Lab Rat: A punk group composed of brilliant scientists.
- Mister Seahorse: Pop folk band run by a former marine biologist.
- Moe Couplet: A two-girls duet who sings healing-type J-pop, they are in fact an example of Moe Couplet.
- Moment of Awesome: A band which records new material rarely, but is widely agreed to have released some of the greatest and most awe-inspiring music of all time. Have been known to play music in every genre, but especially partial to soaring rock anthems and half-hour classical jawdroppers. The lead singer can rap at the speed of light.
- Mondegreen Gag: Progressive folk, with near-incomprehensible lyrics.
- Money Dumb: Comedy songs about what sort of stupid things the singer would buy if he had all the money in the world.
- Money Shot: A female rap trio challenging the boys' club of Hip-Hop. Nicki Minaj frequently collaborates with them in the near future.
- Monster Clown: A wannabe-metal high school garage band whose lead singer is terribly afraid of clowns. They never really get close to metal, just pop-punk.
- Monster Munch: A collaboration event between Monster of the Week and Ode to Food.
- Monster of the Week: A pop-punk with a really strong sound, especially where the bass guitar is concerned, but all of their songs have lyrics about silly subjects like what the members would like to do if aliens conquered the world, they won the lottery, inherited a zoo, etc. Formed by Monster Clown's guitarist and drummer after that band broke up.
- The Mood Swingers: Insanely neurotic, with many tone changes in just one song. Their "Song of Many Emotions" is a six-minute ballad that somehow switches tones with every verse.
- Moonburn: A Glam Rock band with various soft melodies to evoke romance, interrupted with various Hard Rock intervals evocative of Twisted Sister.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: A bar cover band, the members are mainly from and live in the United States, but their gimmick is celebrating the US's northern neighbor. They mostly do covers of well-known songs by Canadian musical artists (Rush, Alanis Morrisette, Celine Dion, etc.), they dress like Mounties, lumberjacks, hockey players, fur trappers, moose, beavers, raccoons, toadlets, etc. and between sets they talk like Bob and Doug McKenzie and drink Molson.
- Moral Event Horizon: Death/doom band out of Nova Scotia originally known as Rape The Dog. Although popularly rumored to have changed their name so Walmart would carry their first album, Names to Run Away from Really Fast, they actually changed it after discovering a Denver grunge band was already using the name.
- Moral Guardians: Sample-heavy, hyper-political electronica group. Known for their bizarre live performances in which they play in the nude, surrounded by huge masked guards carrying black censor bars.
- The Moral Substitute: A parody Christian rock band.
- Mordor: Straight up brutal death metal with technical influences.
- More Dakka: Speed metal! All percussion. All the time. Fifteen-hour drum solo! A Techno Power Metal band famous for the invasive plastic surgery each member has undergone. They are The Rival to There Is No Kill Like Overkill and have an Escalating War over whose concerts can be more spectacular (read: explosive).
- Most Writers Are Human: Affectionate Parody of avant-garde music acts.
- Motor Mouth: A small Rap Rock group known for the eponymous rapper, who writes more lyrics in the first verse than most power ballads. They don't bother with prompters because gibberish is more fun while performing live and nobody needs to call them out if they don't know the words either.
- Motion Parallax: Progressive chiptune metal band, noted for their overuse of canons and counterpoints
. - Movie Twist List: Nerdcore band that spoofs commonly used plot twists. Also known for spoiling movies within days of their release (which got them almost lynched after they released their number one hit Luke, I Am Your Father, a song about a farm boy who fights The Empire, but then finds out that The Heavy serving it... well, you get the idea.))
- Moving Right Through: Abrasive punk rock.
- Mr. Vice Guy: An Electro Swing solo act starring the fictional Mr. Vice Guy, his various songs and concept albums about his long history of Anti-Hero shenanigans, included his work as a Nazi-killing spy in WW2, orchestrating the Assassination of JFK as a means of keeping the Cold War from escalating, undoing a Satanic Conspiracy and killing the Mothman, all while doing every drug and sexual act you could imagine. Think Peter Weller playing The Thin White Duke with Rick Sanchez's adventures.
- MST3K Mantra: A Weird-Al-style parody band whose lyrics always make fun of various parts of American pop culture.
- Mugshot Montage: A Boy Band with a Prison-theme, their first album featured multiple mugshot pictures of each band member.
- Multiple-Choice Future: A French House duo that totally isn't Daft Punk that squeezes in droning beats and ambiance to create a "cosmic peace" when listening to them. People hear them and think that the minor differences in their songs as they listen to them is somehow a part of the Mandala Effect.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Strongly Emo-tinged hardcore, in the style of Alesana and Chiodos, with From First to Last -esque angsting and vocal style.
- Murderers Are Rapists: Straight-up deathcore a'la As Blood Runs Black or Suicide Silence. Their longest song is about eight minutes long and has no less than fifteen breakdowns.
- Muse Abuse:
So Bad, It's Horrible covers of Muse songs. - Mushroom Samba: Latin dance band with somewhat psychedelic touch.
- Music to Invade Poland to: Disco polo outfit from, well, Poland. Most of their music is a lampooning of the Nazis, and they wear authentic Nazi uniforms and wave Nazi flags on stage. Not for the easily offended.
- My Car Hates Me: Kooky indie/electronica band.
- My God, What Have I Done?: A Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club tribute band spearheaded by a man who was tricked into burning someone's house down and started the band to help pay for damages.
- My Hero, Zero: A playful, snarky Emo band with a self-deprecating sense of humor, with witty, joking lyrics about depression, isolation, and loneliness. Their debut album, "Big Toothy Frown", has been described by the lead singer as "the best-selling beer coaster in America."
- Myspeld Rökband: A metal cover band (mostly devoted to Hair Metal and Thrash Metal covers) whose members met in high school during after-school School of Rock classes (the drummer was a football player, the bassist wants to be a doctor, and the guitarist hopes to study astronomy). Currently playing wild teen parties up and down the eastern seaboard.
- Mythology Gag: A Progressive Rock band that made its start writing music for a Nickelodeon cartoon based off of Norse Mythology.
- Naginatas Are Feminine: Japanese idol group whose gimmick is dressing as onna bugeisha, using stand microphones designed to look like naginatas (with which they have mock battles).
- Name of Cain: A doom metal band whose lyrics prominently feature the topic of sin, divine punishment, and fratricide.
- Name That Tune: An instrumental-only group whose concerts repertoire consists of well-known songs played without the lyrics. The audience are encouraged to sing along once they work out where the chorus is.
- Nameless Narrative: Sad punk rockers strongly influenced by drone metal.
- Nature Is Not Nice: Crunkcore and nu-disco fusion. Their sole Top 40 entry was "Screw the Rules, I Have Money!".
- Necro Non Sequitur: Blackened death metal. Well known for their Word Salad Lyrics.
- Neon City: Mallsoft.
- The Nervous Tics: Never got off the ground, because it's rare that they can finish recording a song without having an anxiety attack.
- Never Gets Fat: The band members are all physically fit, and they snack constantly during performances. Moral Guardians accuse them of glorifying eating disorders, even though none of their songs are about that.
- New Game Plus: The "Final Fantasy" half of Extended Gameplay. Hate both Nightmare Fuel and later Nightmare Fuel, but not early Nightmare Fuel, despite the fact that all are freaky and disturbing.
- New Neo City: Nu Metal group with a love for Raygun Gothic art and cinema.
- New Weird: A Goth Rock/Post-Punk who churn out Concept Albums about an Artifact Collection Agency and the many Ancient Artifacts, Eldritch Locations, Cults and world-ending threats they encounter.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Pornogrind supergroup containing former members of Nightmare Fuel and Fetish Fuel.
- Nightmare Fuel: Some kind of metal-punk hybrid. Who may choose to always play the chord progressions of the 1989 PBS ident, before playing a power chord, where the last of the ident's chords would be, that leads into or begins their song.
- The remaining members of Nightmare Fuel after dumping their dead-weight lead singer. Their first album was recorded before they found a new one, so it's mostly instrumentals, and the few songs with lyrics, are either sung by a different band member each time or, in one case, shuttles between members. One of those instrumentals is their creepy metal cover of the 1989 PBS ident alone. Their second album was all covers; by that time, they'd picked up a lead singer with a really weird falsetto. Became Nightmare Fuel when the remaining members begin experimenting with Throbbing-Gristle-esque industrial and noise. With another cover of the 1989 PBS ident to boot. Do not listen to after the sun is down if you enjoy being able to sleep.
- Night of the Living Mooks: Hardcore goth, with plenty of Narm-filled lyrics. They occasionally "sample" the falsetto from the band above.
- '90s Anti-Hero: 90's Grunge band. They are very stereotypical, with as much angst as you can get, and all the members are jerks. They broke up in 1998 and have remained in obscurity until the bassist and rhythm guitarist joined Crisis Crossover.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A punk band whose lyrics would contain a lot of humor in the form of semi-obscure geek subculture references.
- Alternatively, an experimental band that fuses (sometimes contradictary) genres seemingly at random, and yet is still increadibly awesome in spite of (or maybe because of) this fact. Ninja, Pirate, Zombie, and Robot costumes are optional.
- Nipple and Dimed: All-female rock band who perform topless. On tour with Thong of Shielding.
- No Music Allowed: Just vocals. Absolutely no backing tracks.
- No Name Given: A band who does covers of songs that were written anonymously. All the members wear blank name tags.
- Nobody Poops: A mix of techno and orchestral, going for epic sci-fi so hard they fall into the bizarrely awesome domain: but the lyrics are about humanity's failures of imagination.
- No Export for You: An all-male trio who had a J-Pop/Electronica style and ended up being a huge hit in Japan. However, their label decided not to release their music anywhere else, deciding the music would not do well in other countries. The band tried to protest to get their music in other regions, but were quickly shunted off their label and replaced by a new band who plays off-key covers of their songs. The company decided to take the band's idea and sell the music in other countries, however the new band did not perform quite as well.
- Non-Entity General: A quasi-military hard rock band making use of brass instruments. Notable for their lead singer, "Lieutenant-General", never appearing in public, with his identity a complete mystery surrounded by many Epileptic Trees.
- No Such Thing as Space Jesus: Synthpop/techno fusion. The frontman used to head a Christian rock band (and, despite the name, is still a devout Christian, hence all the religious references in their music).
- Noodle Incident: An obscure indie rock band with a heavy progressive influence.
- Not Christian Rock (now defunct): Satirical anti-religious band. They got their current name when people mistook their songs for legitimate Christian Rock. Currently on hiatus after the lead singer was arrested for the murder of a pastor.
- Notorious Parent: The Notorious B.I.G.'s dad gets into music.
- Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice: Female duo who sing about how they're expected to be feminine, and how they want to challenge traditional gender roles.
- Not the Fall That Kills You…: A very dark punk band that, depending on which fan you ask, has gone a bit too far on the emo side.
- Not Wearing Tights: Comedy duo or trio who sing about pop culture.
- The Noughties: A UK-based spin-off band of Turn of the Millennium. While Turn of the Millennium mainly focus on celebrating predominately American culture of the 2000s, the Noughties celebrate UK culture of the 2000s. They mostly do covers of songs by artists who were huge in the UK during the 2000s (e.g. Coldplay, Sugababes, Girls Aloud, Arctic Monkeys, McFly and James Blunt). Their live performances include iconic imagery from 2000s British TV shows and media events being projected behind them on a big screen for certain songs, trivia contests and handing out iconic 2000s British snacks at concessions.
- The Nth Doctor: A comedic Doctor Who tribute band. Each member dresses as the Doctor and/or Companion of their choice. The leader singer is the Tenth Doctor, the guitarist is the Ninth Doctor, the keyboardist is Martha, the bassist is Captain Jack, and the drummer is Sarah Jane; sometimes they like to switch it up, though. Got some attention when the lead singer dressed up in the Twelth Doctor's official outfit well before it was known to the general public.
- Nubile Savage: Bongos, vocals, and occasionally some horns. They are all sexy, especially the singer.
- Nuns Are Mikos: An all-girl Christian Rock World Music band with Japanese instruments and motifs. The band members usually dress in their iconic nun veils with hakamas while performing.
- Oblivious to Love: A band which does pop songs and sings about their non-understanding of why their girlfriends love them. The band is made up of 3 people, all of whom are male.
- Obsessed with Food: All their songs are restaurant menus sung in a swing style. Often has Ode to Food appear as a guest artist.
- Obsessively Normal: A Doo-wop group that tries to be as harmless, wholesome and inoffensive to their parents as possibly. Ironically, they become very popular to the Hipster crowd, various critics believing their songs to possess incredibly risque messages in the lyrics.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Indie band from Indiana. They met while interning at the BMV in Indianapolis one summer; when they found themselves all working at West Lafayette City Hall upon returning to Purdue that fall, they decided to form a band. They dress in businesswear (the two guys in shirt-and-tie getups, the women in conservative dresses). Their signature song, "Application Denied", consists of the lead singer fantasizing about rejecting a hated ex-girlfriend's driver's license renewal.
- Obviously Not Fine: Alternative rock. Comes a little too close to Wangst.
- Ode to Food: Grand musical numbers about how versatile favorite food is. From winning over your crushes, placating your stress, providing comfort when you're sad, and providing an escape from boring conversations, it solves everything! Partners with Obsessed with Food.
- Ominous Television: A Garage Band somewhere between Hardcore Punk and Post-Grunge. The band is just one guy DJing all of the vocals and instruments Trent Reznor-style and displaying them on various televisions (both box and flatscreen). For extra hipster-points, it is all done on VHS tapes, a performative aspect of the show being that they exchange the tapes for others mid-song for a subtle shift between songs.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Doom metal. All of their songs chronicle the different means for all life on Earth to go extinct, usually from the point of view of the one causing the extinction. Currently on hiatus as all the members are in jail after it was discovered the band was secretly promoting a incredibly dangerous doomsday cult.
- One-Hit Wonder: Genre Mashup band whose discography consists of one Cover Album after another. Said covers are originally by different one hit wonders. Are themselves a One-Hit Wonder with their only original song, the title track of their self-titled debut album (1984).
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: Rock band. When a member gets shot, they postpone the same concert.
- One-Man Army: All rock band whose songs combine the use of every single possible instrument in an orchestra, but they're all played by one man.
- One-Mario Limit: Five Mario fans who play any genre and have everybody sing at least one song on their album. The two guitarists are brothers with mustaches (and the older, who plays lead and sings most songs, is fatter and shorter than rhythm), the bassist is a blonde girl, the keyboardist is strong and has wild hair, the drummer is a midget and they dress up like their respective Mario counterparts in concert.
- One of the Girls: A guy is the singer and the musicians are girls. Lyrics are about abolishing gender roles.
- One-Steve Limit: Punk band with at least two members who have the same name (even if Steve is a Non-Indicative Name).
- One-Winged Angel: Symphonic gothic fully-orchestrated power metal from Japan.
- Only Sane Man: A strange Genre-Busting garage band where the lead singer dresses like someone from The Hives while everyone else dresses trashy and over the top. While the band plays thrash metal the singer will have lyrical pieces and very clean-sounding speech (albeit with some cursing). Subject matter will probably involve how antagonistic the singer is to the rest of the band, even if they're all in on it.
- Only So Many Canadian Actors: An alternative rock band from Canada. The lead singer is a Shakespearian actor who has played various roles at the Stratford Festival, the lead guitarist did additional voices in Toad Patrol and What's with Andy?, the rhythm guitarist is a former child actor, the bassist was a stunt double on The X-Files, the keyboardist had a walk-on role on Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the drummer is a talent coordinator.
- Orion Drive: A fusion of power metal and heavy metal, sound kinda like Iron Savior meets Judas Priest, and some of the more dramatic songs are kinda Nightwish-ee or Meat Loaf-ish. Their album is a Rock Opera about a Generation Ship with a Nuclear Pulse Engine. According to a Word of God from both the bands, it's the Distant Future of the Cast from Hit Points-verse after the magic faded.
- Our Monsters Are Different: Hard rock band. No monsters of any kind feature in their lyrics at all, but do feature heavily in their album art and Animated Music Videos depicting the members as said monsters.
- Our Witches Are Different: A glam metal band from the 80s with three males and two females, a male singer, a female lead guitarist, a male rythm guitarist, a female bass guitarist, and a male drummer. Their music is inspired by glam metal giants such as Warrant, Def Leppard, Extreme, Dokken, and Mötley Crüe, with lyrical content inspired by horror films. The lead guitarist has a younger brother, with whom she's very close, even writing a song for him which she's never shared with anybody, not even her bandmates.
- Out Sick: Their first album was delayed because every member had a serious flu.
- Pædo Hunt: Comedy indie rock group, it's members take on on-stage personas of pedophiles on the run from the law. The band's lyrics mock both sides of the "should pedophiles be considered people too" argument, and their song "Convicted by Public Opinion" became an internet meme for a period. Regularly attract the wrath of the Moral Guardians.
- Pain & Gain: Punk rock.
- Paint the Hero Black: An alternative rock band that sings songs with lyrics that take the most heroic actions in history and try to vilify them. Famous for their hit single "Thirteenth Amendment Blues". While they pretend to be bitter enemies with What the Hell, Hero? it's all scripted for laughs.
- Paranoia Gambit: Industrial Synthetic Rock, advertises through propaganda-style posters.
- Parents Are Wrong: Rock music. A group of adults who sing about all sorts of lies they were told as kids to make them behave better. People who like them often enjoy The Abusive Offspring.
- Parody Sue: An all female pop group/spy team/superhero squad that fights evil with the Power of Love and is irresistible to the opposite sex (though their tragic abuse at the hands of their adopted father has left them scarred for life). They are the perfect musicians whose voices rival Freddie Mercury, and whose guitar riffs have been known to cure cancer. Universally loathed by the music community at large.
- Party in My Pocket: Cock rock, all their songs are full of double-(and single-)entendres.
- Paper Fan of Doom: Japanese pop/rock. Everything you never wanted to know about the shark-jumpingest new show's premise, in words you don't understand.
- Paperworkaholic: Mundane Made Awesome rock songs about filing paperwork.
- The Pastor's Queer Kid: Satirical Christian rock that sings about LGBT rights.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Parody band that covers Death Metal songs but replaces the lyrics with mundane whinging about dinner parties and office work.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: A heavy metal band with songs that deal with a variety of lyrical themes such as politics, history, fantasy, and horror. At one point, they released a cover of Genesis' Land of Confusion. Their stage shows involve them bringing out political and historical figures and battling them.
- The Peeling Potatoes: Unpopular kids band.
- People Sit on Chairs: A Progressive Rock group famous for their literal lyrics.
- Pet Baby Wild Animal: The songs are sung from the perspective of someone who tries to be psycho but is too friendly and cute.
- The Peter Principle: A four-piece indie rock group, not one of whom is named Peter. Described as the private-sector equivalent of Obstructive Bureaucrat, in that they are Midwestern and play indie rock and tend to dress in businesswear, but met instead while at internship at General Motors headquarters in Detroit. Despite the name, not one of their songs has anything to do with the workplace more than generically (e.g. "In Love With the Boss").
- Petite Pride: A Girl Group entirely consist of transgender lesbian little people. None of them undergo breast implant, only few amount of hormone therapy for a bit of boobs.
- Phone-Trace Race: Techno-pop music. Fast-paced, with sounds mixed in of phones beeping and music videos set to high-stakes Police Procedural style scenes.
- The Piano Player: One-man band that just plays generic royalty-free piano music.
- The Pious Monsters: Hardcore religious rock. The band members all wear white and gold uniforms, but their instruments are red and black.
- Planetville: A Zeerust-filled '60s pop band.
- The Plastic Bitches: Meant as a parody of mainstream pop, but sometimes gets confused for the real deal.
- Playable Epilogue: The "Warcraft" half of Extended Gameplay. Ever since Elves Versus Dwarves took them into a grudge match over the less-than-flattering Shout-Out in the Play Ep song Our Orcs Are Different, the two groups have been bitter rivals.
- Playboy Has a Daughter: Band that puts on an incredibly family-unfriendly facade, but has songs explaining their Hidden Depths and that they just want to be loved.
- Played for Laughs: A band that only performs covers of other bands. And by perform we mean misplay and fill it with hilarious mondegreens. Many bands stiuplate in their contracts not to let them use their songs as it makes their songs hard to take seriously afterwards.
- Poke the Poodle: Death metal, but the lyrics are about things like littering or illegal downloading.
- Police Brutality: A political punk band that sings from the persona of corrupt and abusive cops, while also singing about how tough being a cop is (but their songs about police brutality from the POV of the cops get them more gigs). Known for their breakout song "Right to Remain Violent". And to add Self-Deprecation into the band's ideology, every member, past and present, is a former or active-duty police officer.
- The Poorly Chosen One: A Progressive Metal group that starts off with the lights off and the fog-machine on, with the audio-clip "He has chosen… poorly" from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing before the lights turn on the band immediately starts shredding. Their managers bet everything on them becoming a hit. They did not.
- Porn Stache: A coed 70s rock/disco/pop cover band: pure, sexy, and dirty fun!
- Poverty Food: Comedy band that tries to be Food Porn, but describes the most disgusting-sound meals possible. Known for their albums Reduced to Ratburgers (2013) and Dog Food Diet (2015). At the start of all their concerts, they have their fans shout out "If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You!"
- Power Born of Madness: A Black Metal group known for their Lovecraft-inspired concept albums.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: The New '10s electronic music, like Porter Robinson. Heavy Musical Nods to Robot Buddy songs connect the two, implying a deeper connection; fans theorize that Robot Buddy's protagonist has since been absorbed into their robot.
- Power Source: The biggest strengths of Quote Source, Video Source, and Image Source, all rolled into one Moment of Awesome!
- The Power of Apathy: A Stoner Rock group that appeals to every Straw Nihilist edge lord you'd find in the YouTube comment section.
- The Power of Friendship: A Five-Token Band in a feel-good Slice of Life Harem Anime.
- The Power of Hate: An intense Black Metal group that does everything it can to look brutal. KISS make-up, screaming in the mic, "Hail Satan"s and all. Word of God says they're satirical.
- The Power of Love: A cover band whose members dress like Huey Lewis circa 1985 and perform "The Power Of Love" exclusively.
- The Power of Rock: Loud rock, duh. One of the earliest "over-the-top" bands,and Trope Codifier for awesome. Inspired Kill It with Fire and There Is No Kill Like Overkill.
- It's not a Rock 'n Roll band, it's the Rock 'n Roll band. All of their songs are about Rock, the influence it's had on the music industry, great rock and metal musicians of the past, and how Rock has changed the world. Only beaten by The Beatles in sheer popularity. There was once a a kid with cancer who, as his Make-A-Wish, asked if he could play a few riffs with this band. By the end of the first song, his cancer was cured and he had grown a beard. That's how awesome this band is.
- The Power Trio: Glam-rock band with a singer/guitarist as the leader, a sarcastic, intellectual female pianist as the songwriter, and a drummer who just likes to hit things.
- Precision F-Strike: True to the name, this band keeps their language very clean...except once on each album, in the least likely place.
- Predators Are Mean: The longer running Evil Counterpart to Furries Are Easier to Draw. Death/ doom Metal, and wear Savage Wolf costumes.
- Premium Currency: The New '20s indie band that mocks the rise in freemium games. Tends to use lots of sparkle effects in their live shows. Their songs include "Play Every Day" and "Bribing Your Way to Victory". A fan-favorite song of theirs is "Money, Dear Boy", which guest stars Real Money Trade.
- Pretty Freeloaders: J-pop Idol Singer duet with generic-sounding songs.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse: All-female Heavy Mithril band who perform dressed as fantasy princesses.
- Princess Classic: Obnoxiously cute girl pop group of skinny teens in way too much makeup and insanely frilly princess dresses. Created and promoted by the Disney Channel, naturally.
- Priceless Ming Vase: Chinese Screamo band whose act is notorious for their mistreatment of guitars.
- Projected Man: Techno.
- Psi Blast: A Post-Punk group known for using the feedback on their amps for effect. They go through a lot of amps.
- Psychic Powers: A neon-filled New Wave group who's band icon is an illustration of a human brain.
- Psycho for Hire: A seemingly insane Death Metal band, that actually deal with mental health issues.
- Psycho Pink: A Dark Parody Girl Group of P!nk.
- Public Domain Artifact: Indie rock.
- Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: A Power Metal band that does the usual High Fantasy content associated with the genre, but the albums alternate between that and Jazzy, eccentric interludes, one concept album being about a magician’s rabbit accidentally being sent into a magical world due to a mishap. The following concept art has the Rabbit come back to the real world, transformed into a monster with the desire for revenge against the magician.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Incredibly heavy rock, with extremely loud and emphasised singing.
- Putting on the Reich: Volk music. Accuse Those Wacky Nazis of selling out to the Jews with their heinous foreign "metal", introduced by communists to corrupt the patriotic music scene. However, off-stage the band-members are not interested in any politics and are anti-racism activists.
- Putting the "Pal" in Principal: A one-man band featuring the tap-dancing dean of a high school desperately trying to win the respect of his students.
