Well John Zorn is a true innovator and knew how to mix all of the vanguardism stuff with the punk/grindcore scene, it's something completely natural if you like to listen to music that breaks boundaries.
It’s tough to say whether they are obscure or not, they are “obscure” in the West but I believe all these artists are moderately well-known in Eastern Europe: I love Воровайкии, Uamee (Hardbass) and Молчат Дома, to be fair I think Molchat Doma is kinda known in the West also bc of Sudno memes.
Comrade, I am so happy that you enjoy Hardbass. In the west, the whole genre may seem obscure, however, it was (maybe is) popular in UK (called Scouse House, maybe not exactly Hardbass but very similar), it is very popular still in Spain and Basque Country, still known in Poland (sadly, less and less, but we have good DJs like Clubbasse or Gopnik McByat), they are some good DJs from France. There are excellent DJs active, but the best club player for me is Sonic Mine from Sankt Petersburg, now sadly not active much. When I will have some spare time, I will upload somewhere his podcasts which I downloaded from some obscure Russian website, which is down now probably.
Awesome! I liked Gopnik McBlyat but I thought the name was a tad on the nose lol. It’s like if an American artist was named “Hipster O’Yankee” so I figured they weren’t actually from Eastern Europe, I’m glad to be wrong about that one 😂
That's a hard one because the majority of my music taste is pretty obscure, I am a huge music nerd. Here are a couple:
Comus - First Utterance fucking dope dark/psych/acoustic folky band from the early 70's. Think like, evil Jethro Tull. One of my favorite albums, highly recommend
Elizabeth Color Wheel - Nocebo Seen this band 3 times and they always make me cry, so good. Heavy noisy wall of sound chaotic melodic hardcoreish goodness. If you like My Bloody Valentine this might be up your alley, they are heavier.
Pinnochio - S/T Fast, fun, femme vocal punk rock that makes you wanna pogo
I really like Danny Schmidt and Satellite High but the Nightvale Weather Report has some 240 very high quality songs each from a small group or individual musicians. Might be worth a look on shuffle and you'll likely find a couple small artists you really enjoy. Jerusalem and "Bill and Annie" have completely different vibes to illustrate how diverse the playlist is.
Definitely found a few artists I listen to often from WTNV! Weirdly enough, I saw Caged Animals open for Darwin Deez a good 7-10 years ago, loved them, then saw them become involved with WTNV / Night Vale Presents. A fun coincidence!
I would also throw out that Dane Terry, aka the guy behind Dreamboy on Night Vale Presents, was in an amazing band from Columbus called Swarming Branch (fka Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch). Can't recommend them enough.
Made somewhat popular by Pyrocynical from his use of their song Beachwalk in his outro, along with Whitewoods revolutionizing Vaporwave by basically founding the genre. However many of their songs are extremely obscure and I assume that absolutely no one knows who they are.
There is this super obscure Australian prog metal band (in a King Crimson kind of way, not the Dream Theater kind) called Serious Beak that released this awesome album 9 years ago called Huxwhukw. It's some early djenty stuff in there too, I think it sounds amazing. I've always tried to get people into it but with no luck.
I don't know how obscure they are, but the band Naked City made quite an obscure album called Leng Tch'e (not the band called something similar) that I simply love. I wouldn't call it easy listening, but there's just something about it that hits the spot for me. I can recommend Naked City in general if you're down for some jazz-grindcore-surfer-metal. Yeah, they don't really fit into any one genre, or any five even.
I listen to a lot of metal and some of the genres and bands I like are kind of obscure to people who aren't familiar with the genre. I really like Mongolian folk metal (i.e., Nine Treasures) but Vvilderness released a great album I basically listen to on repeat lol
I loved Slugabed's and Samuel Organ's collaborative project Peter Talisman. There's only one album out though and I don't know if they're going to make more. I've never heard music like that and so hasn't the Internet, because neither spotify, youtube or last fm is able to give me something similar to it.
Probably Nothingface. I feel like my music taste is mostly stuff that’s avant-garde in a popular way (say Limp Bizkit, or Xxxtentacion). That’s why I’d say nothingface, because it’s like what I generally like, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it, irl or online (I found it in a search result for the word communist). In additions Sankara’s great, and only known online.
Too add some Indian indie flavor to the mix, MALFNKTION is relatively obscure, the guy samples dialogues from old Bollywood movies to make funky electronic tracks.
Hmm, not sure how obscure some of these are but excluding super well known artists, I still have a huge list of oddball stuff, here's just some of them:
Atari Teenage Riot (and Alec Empire's solo stuff, in spite of his politics),
Ayria,
Black Dresses (and both girls' solo work)
The Birthday Massacre,
Chiasm,
Corlyx,
Darling Violetta,
Das Präparat,
Dead When I found her,
Electric Six (and Dick's solo material),
Gost,
Information Society (specifically Don't Be Afraid),
Kælan Mikla,
The Mad Capsule Markets (and Kyono's subsequent solo stuff - Wagdug Futuristic Unity and KYONO),
Night Club,
Patriarchy,
Perturbator,
Rabbit Junk,
The Unquiet Void,
Velvet Acid Christ.
As you can see it's mostly dark, synthy, industrial stuff, sometimes very loud punky things like ATR or MCM, and E6 as a weird lighthearted rock band cause those guys just rock.
Oh and since I completely failed to answer the question, probably the most obscure artist I listen to regularly would be May Leitz, who does uh... a weird mix of rock, metal, indie, electronic... stuff. She also is a youtuber and a novelist.