Are anonymous bands too gimmicky?

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The colourful mayor of our beautiful hometown was recently caught on tape manning the decks at a local fundraiser -- and the video prompted the Guardian to joke that maybe Rob Ford is secretly Burial, the famously anonymous electronic artist. Which is stupid. Rob Ford is Buckethead, the famously anonymous guitar virtuoso.
Anonymity can be a powerful tool.
Concealing your identity can help you report crime without fear of retribution or protest the worldwide wrongdoings of a notoriously litigious church or call someone something awful on the internet.
And so in an era of constant over-sharing, it's become just as trendy to release music mysteriously, hiding your face in press photos and "leaking" singles and videos.
Artists like Ms Mr, the Knife, and Crystal Castles have all benefited from early speculation over just who in the hell they actually were. Sometimes this seemed engineered to create buzz, and sometimes it was because the truth was corny
This is a tough fact to source properly, but I'm going to go ahead and say that this all started with Zolar X.
Zolar X landed on earth in 1973. Insisting they were aliens and speaking their own language, the band never connected with a commercial audience -- even with cool-ass names like Qazar Quantor.
They found modern-day earthling champions in Jello Biafra and Nardwaur, who respectively re-issued and promoted their long-lost LP, but they are still not as famous as Klaatu.
Okay Klaatu are super fun. They're from Toronto, point, and in 1976, everyone thought they were the Beatles.
The origins of this rumour are murky, but it all stems from Klaatu's decision to credit their music and production under just their band name, no real names. And the same people who thought Paul McCartney died after making Revolver were convinced that this was the remaining members' secret way of honouring their dead friend. It was not.
Anonymity as a creative device seemed to fall off through the '80s and '90s. But it came back in a big way, especially in metal.
Lordi won Eurovision and no one knew any of their real names until their drummer died in 2012 -- and he was the replacement for a guy who was kicked out for attempting to reveal his identity.
I'm genuinely curious if Prozzak ever broke outside of Canada, but for a time, they seemed like the most popular mysterious fake-British band in the world. Everyone wondered who they could possibly be! And it ended up being two dudes from the Philosopher Kings!
Doom might be the best at anonymity. Everyone knows his real name is Daniel Dumile, it's pretty easy to figure out what he actually looks like, and yet he still sends out ringers in his trademark mask to perform for him sometimes. Literally you never know if you're going to see the real Doom. It's hilarious?
My notes for this episode were long as hell so I'll just play one more video from my favourite previously anonymous band, supposedly featuring secret superstar DJs

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@JudgeLazar 10 лет назад

People who think bands who wear masks and costumes are stupid for just that reason, have no imagination. I don't wanna pay 75 dollars to see a concert and watch a bunch of dudes in t shirts and jeans stand around looking all sad, when I can go and see a band actually put on a show.

@thisexists 10 лет назад

Judge Lazar Just saw KISS last week and I am solidly on your side.

@gabe_o_verse 8 лет назад

I think both things can be awesome...for one I love masked musicians with cool music, but a band that are only wearing a T-Shirt and Jeans are also able to make a great show with a super atmosphere (Ahab for example)

@AMPProf 7 лет назад

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

@Daniel.Liddicoat 9 лет назад

When Gorillaz first came out with their awesome animated music videos I had no idea who they were. Google was not the font of all wisdom back then. All I knew was that I liked them. Then when I found it was the guy from Blur and the creator of Tank Girl, it kinda made sense. I loved both those. I loved anything in 2000AD.

@Brax1982 9 лет назад

You did not recognize Damon Albarn's voice? Or did they have a different singer? They might have several, not sure right now.

@kylequinn6695 8 лет назад

What about The Residents? The band with almost 50 years of anonymity?

@Zephyrian1st 8 лет назад

Right....

@smiley19092 6 лет назад

Kyle Quinn exactly! The first and the best

@rosicroix777 6 лет назад

yours is the only comment here worth putting a like on, these guys forget to add a lot of great bands

@thekidfromiowa 4 года назад

An egregious omission indeed

@Milkbutter 8 лет назад

HOW DID YOU FORGET THE RESIDENTS?!

@chestrendy 8 лет назад

I was going to leave the exact same comment until i saw you beat me to it

@TheSonNamedSet 8 лет назад

I was really hoping you would talk about Ghost/Ghost BC :(

@devin65608 8 лет назад

Same

@Vrilic 8 лет назад

me too man

@thirdeyelandslide_ 8 лет назад

He clearly doesn't have everything ;)

@MooSaidChicken 8 лет назад

Fuckk thats the only reason I watched this video lol. Also nice pic ;)

@TheSonNamedSet 8 лет назад

Will Hush XD

@ODSTALCAPWNED 10 лет назад

no mention of "the residents?" anywhere? they should get the award for longest time anonymous.

@thisexists 10 лет назад

Trevor Hazen When I wrote this episode I had just covered the Residents here, but I get this complaint a lot: Video games with pop stars are insane

@ODSTALCAPWNED 10 лет назад

This Exists cool! thanks!

@Juquma 9 лет назад

Daft Punk deserved much more than a breif mention. Only 1 leaked image has circulated from recent years. Sure, you can find tons of pictures from the 90's, but it was the goddamn 90's.

@samtheking25 9 лет назад

Daft punk aren't really anonymous enough

@digotron2000 9 лет назад

samtheking25 He included Daniel Dumile so I don't see why daft punk wasnt included

@gregorythompson845 9 лет назад

these bands are vastly different than daft punk. the concept of masks didnt arise until the first album cought alot of steam and started playing alot of clubs or showing on french tv. they used it as a way to help with stagefright and to separate themselves from the music. they were ok with people knowing their faces, but it made being themselves on camera or in packed clubs easier.

@psychobilly42069 9 лет назад

Daft punk haven't publicly released a picture of themselves unmasked since 1999. I agree that they deserved at least a brief mention. They are also the most talented and polished masked musicians (or any musicians) in my opinion.

@seancrawford4786 9 лет назад

also Gorillaz and GWAR

@DesolatorMagic 8 лет назад

At least it keeps the drama bullshit of the artists' personal lives out of the media. That's the real silver lining :P

@dakane328 8 лет назад

You can't talk about anonymous music without talking about the residents

@Logan_Weasel 8 лет назад

right?!

@billiam5726 7 лет назад

or GWAR or TISM

@thatonedude9744 7 лет назад

Daniel Kane I was hoping for the residents to show up, especially considering they're still anonymous (as far as I know)

@michaelwatson7420 10 лет назад

What about the residents?

@thisexists 10 лет назад

Michael Watson Had just covered them a few episodes earlier: Video games with pop stars are insane

@drunkenwoodelf 9 лет назад

They're a bit weird.

@Kahrytes 9 лет назад

This Exists You didn't cover them, you mentioned them and didn't go into any aspect of them aside from their game. They totally deserved some part of this video.

@kwaal 9 лет назад

kevin van damme Especialy since they predate Zolar X, the band dude claimed "started the trend"

@eggnogthespacecadet3392 9 лет назад

Jenna Flynn A bit?

@darkvioletcloud 9 лет назад

Does Studio Killers count, even though they're animated? Nobody knows who the singer is. It's a really good band and their music videos are beautiful.

@FlutterheartReading 9 лет назад

WHERE THE FUCK IS GHOST??? i watched the whole video waiting for him to at the very least mention them, PAPA EMERITUS FOR PRESIDENT!

@Grolarg 9 лет назад

I was coming to the comments to say the same thing.

@johnfoerster9853 9 лет назад

That's exactly what I was thinking!

@ryanwatts7817 9 лет назад

I was thinking where is slipknot?

@Grolarg 9 лет назад

Ryan Watts Slipknot isn't anonymous, they just wear masks. A quick google search will tell you all their names. For bands like Ghost, the most you'll find is speculation.

@ryanwatts7817 9 лет назад

Ye I gess. But there is the new bass and drum player. But this was released before then.

@maibeid5112 9 лет назад

How could you do an episode of anonymity in music without mentioning the residents, 40 years making music and no one know who they are, and their music is amazing

@jacobm2625 8 лет назад

Did I miss Gwar or something?

@ZAPPED916 8 лет назад

Or the Residents...

@blazerix8 7 лет назад

yeah what the fuck. was the video edited or something?

@rebeccaabbott4530 7 лет назад

Jacob M'Boi R.i.p. Dave... God they're terrible now. Regardless if the new singer is a former member they suck anymore

@Scallycowell 3 года назад

@kevin willems GWAR died with Dave, now they just sound like an edgier version of WASP.

@intenttothrill 8 лет назад

"I'm curious if Prozzak meant anything to anyone outside of Canada" Are you kidding me? I'm in Texas, and I was utterly blown away that you brought them up. I remember hearing them literally one time on a super obscure video that I don't even remember the content of and trying to find their music only to find literally nothing about them anywhere. No one I've ever met has ever brought them up. Years later, at 7am when I should be asleep, some Canadian guy whose show I regularly binge watch, just blurts out "Prozzak" like it's no big deal and fills in all the gaps. Thank you, sir. You are a God, and you have pretty rad taste in music.

@Trex0110 9 лет назад

Slipknot GWAR Ghost KISS Residents

@silentnoah 8 лет назад

+LAS Guitars But it's easy to find who they are. He's talking about completely anonymous bands where listeners cannot figure out what the artist's actual identity is. You could go on the internet and find the identity of all the members of those bands.

@Trex0110 8 лет назад

***** not the residents

@silentnoah 8 лет назад

***** fine whatever, never heard of that band anyways, and I don't care to.

@6661313 8 лет назад

+Noah Harned it's easy to find who there are now, but not when they came out

@ricardobitterman1404 8 лет назад

+Noah Harned The Residents are fucking dope you're missing out.

@cristinawithoutanh6704 8 лет назад

I've found your channel today and I've kind of been on a "This Exists" marathon for the past few hours. Good job, man and good job to your team as well. I LOVE your channel. Your videos are high quality, your topics are relatively well researched and you deliver your lines pretty easily, thus making everything run smoothly. I love your channel even more for the fact that you post the links to the videos you're talking about AND your script in the description box. You're awesome. I really wish you all the best and I hope your channel will get more "popular"..more subscribers?..more views? You get what I mean :P

@Airbigbawls 8 лет назад

+CristinaWithoutAn H Same lol Iove it I just subbed

@eugenesis8188 8 лет назад

I'm surprised Buckethead wasn 't mentioned more. I mean, he has been releasing music at such a rate for the last few years, that I was convinced that he lost his mind after ten albums came out. Now he's on like 3-400 albums in the last few years. The craziest part is that he still manages to make songs that are really,really good, even though he's practically writing, recording and releasing them all in real time. Any time I listen to melting man Pt. 2(or others, that one came to mind though), I can't fathom that it wasn't written as the first single of an album, just something he wrote and recorded on a tuesday before lunch, and then the rest of that album after lunch. If there were any musician that was really 12 dudes in a mask or something, it's him. But his trademark tapping shit is so unique, I don't think there are many people who could duplicate it.

@billywhite6730 8 лет назад

Everyone else is mentioning that they were disappointed for not seeing The Residents mentioned, and I must concur. They differ from the other bands mentioned here in that were arguably the first masked/anonymous band: since 1969, meaning they've not revealed their identities for what's closing in on 50 years now. And secondly, I believe that The Residents did not choose to remain anonymous and masked purely to cultivate an image like is the case with bands like Slipknot and the majority of the others in this video. If you delve into The Residents' reasoning behind their anonymity, you will always see cited the so-called "Theory of Obscurity", a concept credited to The Residents' supposed mentor figure, a composer/musical theorist named N. Senada. The gist of this theory is that an artist supposedly will create his or her most sincere and "pure" creations if the influences and expectations of others are not taken into account, something which anonymous releasing or keeping the artistic work to oneself would especially facilitate. Since there is no record of this N. Senada person outside his affiliation with The Residents, the overall consensus is now that he never existed, or that N. Senada may just be a pseudonym for someone else, namely noted experimental/avant-garde composer Harry Partch. The Residents again exemplified and put their "Theory of Obscurity" into action with the recording of their album "Not Available". The story goes that the band decided to follow their theory to its fullest, to undertake a project that would be created in a manner that would ensure that it would be completely and utterly free of the conscious or unconscious influence of outside opinions and expectations--in that it was not to be ever released or heard by anyone outside of the band, or forever remain "not available". It was recorded in the early '70s and supposedly locked in a vault in a studio for five years or so until the band's label, antsy to release something from them (after their "Eskimo" album was repeatedly delayed and they had hit a short dry spell), found the master tapes and released the album against the band's wishes as they were legally contractually free to do. Anyway, I am a bit bummed that, given the topic of this episode, The Residents weren't even briefly mentioned and it's not like you will probably make a followup episode and retread the same topic. But since the overarching theme of this channel seems to be bizarre and/or obscure/esoteric subjects, with most episodes centered around music (The Residents being a perfect specimen of all this), I think the band could fill an entire episode themselves. There are tons of other oddball facts and aspects to them other than the masks/anonymity thing anyway.

@flamingfailureproductions3033 8 лет назад

Funny how you would quote Harry Partch, if I'd read your comment just last week I'd have no idea who you were talking about. Read about him in Songs in the key of Z by Irwin Chusid, a light read but nicely written, and you seem the kind of guy who'd enjoy it. I'd really love an episode on the Residents. I always thought they self-released that stuff, by the way.

@modelmajorpita 10 лет назад

R.I.P. Oderus Urungus

@broslh5999 10 лет назад

residents anyone? they were actually the first anonymous band, started in 1969 and they still bring out albums regularly. they're the pioneers on awesome avant-garde music and if you have time you should totally check em out

@blanceross 10 лет назад

I always thoroughly enjoy these videos, they arent really topics anyone I see from day to day discuss, and I enjoy your narrative tone Sam. Always look forward to a new video! Just wish you guys did more each week.

@samsthrlnd 10 лет назад

That's awesome, thanks! No way we could make more than one a week - between the researching and the editing, sometimes I'm worried we'll be late with just one. But that's really encouraging!

@andydrew6414 9 лет назад

i feel like artists with rocky histories could most certainly use anonymity to start doing what they love again with a fresh slate without people associating it with their past missteps or immoral deads. but i think anonymity can be used as a really fun tool as well, for instance, death grips used it to mess with people when they released fashion week, and it can also be a pretty good way to cut your past works from yourself and begin anew in the music world provided you're able to mask yourself really well and cover your tracks.

@barbicud 9 лет назад

It would've been nice to hear some commentary on Daft Punk since they're my favourite anonymous DJs but major props for mentioning Klaatu and Zolar X. This is why I love being subscribed! XD

@bubbletea1985 8 лет назад

Studio Killers are also fairly anonymous, they use animated band members and no one's sure if the main singer is male or female. There's popular theories about who they are, but all we know for certain is the animator's name. I think they even use a different voice for Cherry in all their 'vlogs', since she sounds English in their music and American in their videos on RU-vid.

@griffinstopsign 10 лет назад

that destroid shout out at the end, hell yeah, respect +1

@larryjohnson7429 8 лет назад

GWAR GWAR GWAR

@Thndrstrike 7 лет назад

The Residents, GWAR, Ghost, and Deathspell Omega deserve some recognition as well.

@femoman 9 лет назад

And yes, I'm sad Ghost wasn't on the list either. For those not in the know, they're a doom-metal/doom-rock band whos lineup consists of one guy dressed up as a satanic skeletal pope, known as 'Papa Emeritus', and 4 guys in black robes and masks who all refer to themselves as 'Nameless Ghouls', and otherwise differentiate from eachother by wearing symbols of the 4 elements on their robes.. They're pretty awesome, and their music is surprisingly mellow considering their image.

@michaelfear4801 2 года назад

Really hope sam never takes these videos down

@SamanthaPortUkulele 9 лет назад

I have no idea how I failed to comment on this episode before now, but Prozzak meant a HUGE deal to me in the early 2000s. I was in sixth grade when they had a song on the soundtrack of a Disney Channel movie starring Lindsay Lohan called "Get a Clue". As an eleven year old, I still got crushes on cartoon characters constantly. I had a gigantic crush on Simon. And the album they released here as "Simon and Milo" is still something I listen to all the time. I LOVE THEM.

@stars9684 9 лет назад

I remember them from Get A Clue as well as a kid and seeing them on this list was a huuuge throwback :)

@ConvincingPeople 10 лет назад

How in the hell did you manage to get through this video without a single mention of The Residents? REALLY?! I would also have mentioned Jandek, Cromagnon and Caroliner, but those are obscure enough to slip under most people's radar. But then, so are a lot of the acts that you brought up! I'm not so much annoyed as completely flabbergasted.

@HimeTakamura 10 лет назад

Studio Killers is another anonymous band. The singer for Cherry is widely believed to be Teemu Brunila but no official reveals have been made.

@adrienpiette6746 10 лет назад

Your episodes are getting better and better. And it's cool that you're Canadians.

@spectratio 6 лет назад

YOU FAKE ASS CARTOON is going to be my yearbook quote lol

@Beelzeblegh 10 лет назад

Awesome video! Love your Entombed shirt :)

@emanuelvillawolves8855 2 года назад

Does anybody know what is the name of the song at 2:03 ?

@thesaucypickle9866 8 лет назад

tbh can really appreciate anonymity in art it helps prevent the pop star/celebrity mechanic of the modern music industry from impacting everyday life of these often great artists

@RougeBlisters 8 лет назад

surprised Ghost isn't in here

@EmeraldFigment Год назад

PROZZAK!!!! I still listen to that album often. Having Much Music on satellite tv in middle America got me through the 90s. Also, Stardust had that one amazing video and included a Daft Punk member.

@Rockster969 8 лет назад

Subscribed. A very interesting channel that really does it's research, thank you.

@TheKidJake 10 лет назад

At 4:22 the band there is the ponies that made the song Destroid,I can tell by there logo.Excision,Downlink, and Spacelaces made Destroid.So at 4:22 that is Jeff Abel, Sean Casavant, But I couldn't figure out Who made Spacelaces, the last band that made Destroid,the song they were playing at 4:22. Just look up Destroid Logo.

@ZombieDragQueen 10 лет назад

Nice of you to mention two Swedish bands (iamamiwhoiam and The Knife), making me giddy, but The Knife haven't really been anonymous to begin with. Even since their debut album they've used their real names (Olof and Karin Dreijer). However what they have in common with "anonymous" bands is that they let the music speak for itself. In their music video for "Pass This On" another woman is performing Karin's vocals. When they were invited to play it live for the "Sen kväll med Luuk" (a sort of Late Night With David Letterman kind of thing) the girl from the video "sang" the song and Olof is the one that goes up on stage first and starts to dance. So it's a kind of anonymity in full view I'd say. As you've poignantly mentioned, this "anonymity" is more prevalent in the metal scene. One of my favourite black metal bands, Deathspell Omega, doesn't list band members or where the album was recorded and mixed etc in their booklets. They let the music, lyrics and artwork to speak unto themselves. And perhaps they are right. I myself have recorded a black metal demo ten years ago and used a "nome de plume". So there is perhaps an attempt to let the music and lyrics speak for themselves. But since we have a celebrity cult worshiping we tend to forget the material itself if the artists don't become more public, so to say. There can however be some sort of balance, like the Swedish band Ghost. In their home town Norrköping everybody knows who they are. In an interview they've said "Norrköping is such a small city that everyone knows each other and to deny being in Ghost would have only seemed pretentious and false." So it's like Fight Club: those that know about it don't talk about it. And even though I have friends in the Norrköping black metal scene and could find out the identity of Ghost's members, it doesn't really help or cheer me up one bit. Art must always stand on its own terms.

@EvaDark 9 лет назад

I am from Pennsylvania I have the Prozzak album Hot Show. I first heard the song "Sucks to be You" on a music station called Much Music

@JICM25 8 лет назад

1:20 what´s that music ?

@kenshin4113 9 лет назад

Captain Murphy was pretty anonymous, but FlyLo came out and revealed he is Murphy.

@CasyCatastrophe 7 лет назад

"Rob Ford is Buckethead" LOL XD

@superluigi121 10 лет назад

That Buckethead joke was brilliant.

@Frosty_CH 8 лет назад

Did anyone notice Zolar X's language is the Galactic Standard font from Star Wars?

@Zephyrian1st 8 лет назад

I looked into it, Its a Mix of Klingon and Galactic Standard

@Frosty_CH 8 лет назад

+Game Goofs Then where did they get Galactic Basic if it predates Star Wars by 6 years?

@Zephyrian1st 8 лет назад

4 years btw, and later amalgamation of Zolar Lyricals include Startrek and Galactic Basic, for the first 6 years it was unique , in 2004 a deluxe edition was released, although rumored that in the clean up the audio may have been altered and pieced together (im not a sound expert) Zolar seems to have used pre existing languages to create an amalgamation of languages to produce their lyrical work although never proven, i persoanly beleive these sci fi glam rockers, had a nerdy dirty secret after zory left of course.Cameron Holley

@JL0ndon 9 лет назад

The knife and Fever Ray are by far my favorite in terms of what they use their anonymity to try and achieve artistically. I also love the residents. I honestly listen to a lot of anon music now I think of it lol

@orsonmoniz 7 лет назад

what band/song is that starting at 01:16? a google search for '1/2 of Crystal Castles' leads to some canadian electronic artist by the name of crystal castle, definitely not the band from the video.

@thehauntedfisherman1792 8 лет назад

Great Episode!!

@avinashthamal 8 лет назад

Why wasn't the Residents mentioned

@Andrew_Byass 7 лет назад

Damn, I thought he was going to mention GHOST BC...

@gaylienz 9 лет назад

Studio Killers is a pretty awesome band that is pretty anonymous~

@Jonathan-nb9lc 6 лет назад

The alien script above the subtitles when zolar x is speaking is actually aurubesh from Star Wars

@MrDarthT 8 лет назад

Is that Zolar X clip subtitled in aurebesh?

@pvhep4036 8 лет назад

Great video! Love those masked bands! Well, not always their music, but the mystery appeals to me. Though a sad thing you forgot to mention The Berzerker from Australia. Maybe you can make a vid with some of the most brutal and aggressive bands in the world? Mention them and watch those sick masks! Cheers!

@jodroboxes 8 лет назад

Bob Log III, my favorite delta-blues one-man band spaceman.

@deadchannel877 9 лет назад

I got super happy when you mentioned Jello Biafra, I'm a HUGE Dead Kennedys fan.

@bythebeardofmatt 6 лет назад

One of my favorite anonymous bands is the one-man project Elysian Blaze, funeral doom metal from Australia. Pure gold.

@TheHumanCoke 8 лет назад

I guess rob ford is actually burial now

@VibesAntagonist 7 лет назад

good video, shame that there was no mention of Burial though...

@1358Paco 8 лет назад

The "alien" band at 1:45 is using the Disney Star Wars lingua franca. It says "harmana uva trania steburendom va itropovis"

@inurb4se 10 лет назад

With the ease of electronic music and how quickly things can become mega popular due to social media, I could see if someone would just not want a million people snooping into their life.

@huntersandell859 6 лет назад

You know, you're pretty brilliant. Well done, consider me subscribed.

@gaymanlover 10 лет назад

Rob Ford is everything. Rob Ford has achieved singularity. We are all part of Rob Ford.

@lunanlunatic 9 лет назад

There's an artist, and the character or persona they choose to use. Sometimes, anonymity merely helps the artist find and refine their stage presence through that guise.

@Scuziful 9 лет назад

Yo, someone help me out, cause this is bugging the hell out of me. But at 0:57 ; Who are those guys. I know I've seen them somewhere, but I dont remember anymore. One of them looks like Jared Leto.

@ilikedoom2707 9 лет назад

What Klaatu/Beatles song is playing during the newspapers?

@ilikedoom2707 9 лет назад

Also what is the first Excision song?

@M_K-Bomb 8 лет назад

I would have loved to hear the Australian electronica Alternative band TISM mentioned. I heard they tried to claim they were a collection of famous people.

@Swenglish 8 лет назад

Philemon Arthur and the Dung won the Swedish equivalent of a grammy in 1972, and that decision was protested to such an extent that the awards were canceled until 1987. Their identities are still a mystery.

@minheadroom2913 8 лет назад

Holy crap he mentioned Buckethead, damn this guy knows his stuff.

@SomeGuyNamedLex 7 лет назад

For the Zolar X video, those subtitles are in Aurebesh. Which is basically the Star Wars alphabet, for the uninitiated.

@ohyeah2389-samd 8 лет назад

The text used for the Zolar x people is the Standard Galactic Alphabet. It is used in Star Wars and Minecraft

@gamezharks 8 лет назад

zero mentions of ghost

@maximeteppe7627 8 лет назад

Ah, well, i didn't ;) but it's been years since i looked it up so...I stand corrected.

@sinistersam 7 лет назад

I love Klaatu! Like non ironically... it makes me happy when they're talked about. :)

@edwardtidwell2821 4 года назад

How do you make a video about anonymous bands and not mention The Residents?

@frhorizons 7 лет назад

This video introduced me to Klaatu. Thank you so much

@thecoldcell5363 9 лет назад

At 1:15 what band is that

@TheFightmaster22 8 лет назад

Didn't know Excision was in Destroid :O thx m8 :D

@SlimeShows 9 лет назад

That dubstep was sickkkk

@infectedzombieguy 8 лет назад

The alien text at 1:45 is just Basic, the main language of the Star Wars universe.

@Cykelpump33 8 лет назад

- Angerfist - Bloody Beetroots - Doctor Lektroluv - Mike Candys - Daft Punk

@TannonX 10 лет назад

That was Destroid. It's 3 Djs/producers. Excision, Downlink, KJ Sawka (a.k.a Space laces). Thats footage from their first show. It was in SF at the warfield. I'm in that video a couple times. HA! Nice.

@andrewvallee5738 8 лет назад

I remember seeing a bunch of people claiming that the members of Justice were Daft Punk. This is of course not true, but it's an understandable theory considering they are both House music duos from France and their music is quite similar but with Justice being a little bit more to the aggressive side. Also they both take endless amounts of time releasing music.

@rct3isepic 9 лет назад

first off how did you not mention daft punk as an example? they only came up in the end and also that was excision's dubstep band destroid. whom I love too

@celestinesky 8 лет назад

When Rush first appeared on radio in the early 70's, people in Michigan thought is was new Led Zeppelin music. Not that Rush were trying to remain anonymous, but when people found out it wasn't LZ, it clearly didn't destroy their career.

@BucketPukes1969 8 лет назад

Entombed shirt means I subscribe. Love all your videos

@deogenz 9 лет назад

You like Destroid?? Makes this show 10xcooler!!

@wtftode 9 лет назад

Destroid = Jesus

@kapwns 10 лет назад

wow prozzak, i had completely forgotten about them. i'm outside of canada and for a short time in my early high school years or 8th grade(i forget), i loved them and even got the cd. i had access to a canadian music channel called MuchMusic, i think they became Fuse, which use to air the videos along with other unheard of bands like Cyclefly and Kenna. listening to prozzak now though, i don't what the fuck i was thinking back then,

@michaelsenior1599 8 лет назад

I'm not surprised he hasn't heard of them but there was a anonymous Australian band called TISM (short for This Is Serious Mum) who wore masks and went by fake names. IMHO their best song is "Whatareya?"

@ShadowBunnyification 7 лет назад

scrolled down through comments just to find someone else who knew who TISM was! the sound of TISM takes me back to my teenage years.

@ThatGuyFromChemistry 7 лет назад

surprised that Ghost B.C. wasn't mentioned here, I love them and I thought they are pretty popular.

@BeauCo 8 лет назад

Excision is a massively popular dubstep artist. He's not anonymous at all as far as I know because he has his own record company and you can find his name on Google. The logo on the drum kit is pretty recognizable as well.

@Chewedbacca 10 лет назад

is it bad if i start headbanging to excision?

@tepetti 8 лет назад

Names of some members of Lordi were common knowledge in Finnish media even before Eurovision. After the Eurovision hype some magazines got pictures of the the members without masks. BTW, band called Kiss used to be "anonymous" before the 80's.

@looshkin66 10 лет назад

zolar x were not the first, the residents were together pre 73' , before that there was the masked cowboy (played by david allen coe), there was also the masked folk musician zaare in the late 60's new york......

@johngeldart7890 10 лет назад

Woah, Destroid was always credited to Excision, and Kj Sawka and Destroid were announced later, but they were never "annonymous"

@ThatRedDemon 9 лет назад

Umm... first example? No, there is a band called Th Residents that literally can mask themselves better than anyone, all because they arent popular, and are still anonymous sinse like 1969-2014. i would like to see a part two to this video, explaining how being an inventor or risk taker with no name is either artsy or just a fair way of having no copyrighted work.