Top 15 Weirdest Bands In The World Of All Time

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Bands from outer space. Bands of corrupt cops. Bands fronted by animals. They're all here as we select the 15 weirdest music bands of all time.

The List Of Top 15 Weirdest Bands of All Time

1.Stalaggh/Gulaggh

2.Rockbitch

3.Pink Floyd

4.Marilyn Manson

5.NME

6.Mayhem

7.Radio Werewolf

8.Roky Erickson

9.Father Yod & Yahowha 13

10.Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza

11.Zolar X

12.The All Sports Band

13.Caninus

14.Impaled Northern Moonforest

15.Teddybears

What Are The Weirdest Bands In The World of All Time?

1.Stalaggh/Gulaggh

An amalgamation of musicians from the Dutch and Belgian black metal scenes, what took this lot way beyond the norm was that they used genuine mental patients on their three albums, released between 2002 and 2007. Apparently, one of the band worked in a mental hospital and somehow got permission. The idea was to have genuinely dark despair in the music. Crazy!

2.Rockbitch

No simulated sex here. Rockbitch went all out onstage in their commitment to making the whole experience as real as it could be. They also added in the occasional pagan ritual, just to spice things up even further. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the band would hand out what they termed a ‘golden condom’ to one lucky male fan every night. That allowed them backstage for… adult fun!

3.Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd was an English progressive rock band formed in 1965 in London, England. They achieved international acclaim with their progressive and psychedelic music. The band consisted of 5 members - David Gilmour (Vocals and Guitar), Syd Barrett (Vocals and Guitar), Nick Mason (Drums), Roger Waters (Vocals and Bass), and Richard Wright (Vocals and Keyboard). Barrett was replaced by Gilmour in 1968.

Their critically and commercially successful albums are The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). They also recorded A Saucerful of Secrets (1968), Ummagumma (1969), Obscured By Clouds (1972) and their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), created after releasing some singles.

4.Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is an American rock band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Formed in 1989 by frontman Marilyn Manson and Daisy Berkowitz, the group was originally named Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids with their theatrical performances gathering a local cult following in the early 1990s.

The name of the band comes from famous sex symbol Marilyn Monroe and famous criminal Charles Manson. Manson joined these two names together because he wanted a name combined with good (Monroe) and evil (Manson). The other members of the band have their stage names combined with the first names of famous sex symbols and the last names of famous serial killers.

5.NME

This pioneering punk-metal band from Seattle was one of the first “extreme metal” bands in the US, and not just because of their music. Frontman Kurt Struebing was convicted of murder in 1986 when he chopped his own mother into pieces with a hatchet. When he was released, he simply got the band back together. He committed suicide in 2005. Now that’s heavy.

6.Mayhem

Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, regarded as one of the pioneers of the Norwegian black metal scene. The band is also known for the infamous events surrounding them including the 1991 suicide of vocalist Dead (in which former guitarist Euronymous took pictures of Dead's corpse and used one of them as the front cover for one of their live albums) and the 1993 murder of Euronymous by former member Varg Vikernes, of Burzum.

7.Radio Werewolf

Formed during the height of “Satanic Panic” hysteria in mid-80’s America, Radio Werewolf was once considered “the most dangerous band in the world”, largely due to the notoriety of their vocalist, Zeena Schreck. Zeena, you see, is the daughter of Church of Satan founder Anton Levay. Heavy flirtations with Nazi imagery, necrophilia, serial killers and mysterious cult rituals only added to the madness.

8.Roky Erickson

The “Werewolf of Woodstock” first made a splash with late 60’s Austin proto-punks Thirteenth Floor Elevators but his career was stalled by frequent trips to the psyche ward. While Roky never quite returned to reality, he still managed to create decades of seriously far-out rock n ‘roll, usually with lyrics that reflect the hallucinogenic horrors of his paranoid schizophrenia.

9.Father Yod & Yahowha 13

Father Yod was the founder of the Source Movement, a spiritual commune/cult that flourished in Hollywood in the early 70’s. Yod used the earnings from his Source health food restaurant to buy a mansion in Hollywood Hills which he filled with hippie chicks and long-haired musicians. They plugged in, they turned on, the kale salads and drugs flowed freely.

10.Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza

Complete lunatics from Philadelphia who sorta played hardcore punk but really just wanted to beat themselves, and their audiences, to a bloody pulp. Which they did, every night. True and utter rock’n’roll mayhem at its most savage and dangerously reckless. How this band got away with destroying so many venues and injuring so many paying customers is a mystery.

11.Zolar X

Lots of bands claim to be from outer space, but Zolar X might have been the most convincing. Arriving in that hazy mid 70’s netherworld between glam and punk, not only did Zolar X dress like silver-suited, antenna-headed space surfers, they talked in their own alien language. They delighted and confounded Hollywood until they vanished in a puff of green smoke in 1981.

12.The All Sports Band

Sound engineer Tracy Coats (Frampton Comes Alive, Kiss Alive I & II) came up with the genius/crackpot idea of a hetero, sports-based Village People. The result was the All-Sports Band, which featured a boxing drummer, a football and baseball player on guitar and bass, a race car driver keyboard player, and a karate kicking singer. What could go wrong?

13.Caninus

A deathgrind band formed in 2003, who had two vocalists. The difference being that the pair were Basil and Budgie, two female pitbull terriers. In a way, Dan Lilker of Nuclear Assault started this trend, when he sent a joke demo to labels, with his dog on vocals. But Caninus have taken it further. Sadly, though, the band have split up after both dogs died.

14.Impaled Northern Moonforest

Acoustic black metal? Yeah, right, that’ll work. Excep;t it does, because Impaled Northern Moonforest are not only weird, but effective. They were allegedly started an an offshoot of Anal Cunt, and decided to go acoustic to avoid disturbing someone slumbering close by. Whatever the truth of that story, their songs all feature a solo acoustic guitar, knee slapping percussion and wholly unintelligible vocals. Nothing sounds as bonkers.

15.Teddybears

Formed in Stockholm in 1991, Teddybears signalled their otherness with their very name, a concerted rebellion against Sweden’s prevailing death metal scene cliches. This quirkily abstruse hardcore cult built a subsequent career mangling and splicing a wide array of hip sounds and styles; duetting with Neneh Cherry, remixing the Bee Gees and wangling Intel commercials, whilst wearing massive bear heads.

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