The original post: /r/music by /u/DepthMagician on 2024-09-26 21:57:15.
These are bands/artists who had one great main release, and then disbanded/disappeared/died/whatever. In the somewhat messy world of music discography, this description opens the door to many ambiguities, so let me establish a few rules for qualification:
Things that count as a main release:
- LP or EP released by a label. If no LP or EP exists, an official live CD can also count as a main release.
- If the artist was never signed to a label, you can count a demo as a main release, but in that case the artist should only have released one demo.
- If the artist has no official releases, but there is a famous bootleg of them floating around, then you can count that as their one main release.
Things that don't count as a main release:
- Any releases where the artist's input is not large enough for the release to feel like a main release. This includes: an appearance in a multiple artist compilation, a single, a split with another artist where each side contributed 1-2 songs.
- Any release that only contains material that appears on a main release.
- If the album was released by a label, then any demos the artist released before that don't count as a main release (otherwise, this would disqualify a lot of signed artists).
In other words, an artist that made three demos, got signed, released one album that spawned a single, was featured on a multiple artist compilation, and there's a live bootleg of them that is quite popular, still qualifies as a one main release artist.
Here are my picks:
- Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights A Post-Metal supergroup with a fantastic vocalist.
- Woods of Belial - Deimos XIII Industrial black/doom with elements of noise.
- GREYMACHINE - Disconnected A side project by Godflesh and Jesu frontman Justin Broadrick. Dissonant, industrial. Noisy but still approachable.