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Alien weaponry is a metal band from New Zealand that has a lot of songs at least partially in Maori

From Canada, in fact from my city, The Dreadnoughts! Their first three albums are punk gold. (Later stuff, they started having fun and doing polka etc. But whenever I see them in concert, they mostly rock from the first 3.)

If you're only going to listen to one, Polka's Not Dead would be my recommendation.

(Full credit to the Real McKenzies for paving the way, Chip would be their most famous song.)

Swedish punk:

• Björnarna
• De Lyckliga Kompisarna
• Mimikry
• Västerbron
• Asta Kask
• Ebba Grön
• Charta 77
• Lastkaj 14

Forgetting a bunch because it's 05:00 here and I'm tired, but these are the ones that first come to mind.

From the Netherlands: HANGYOUTH . One of their big hits is translated as "You don't hate mondays, you hate capitalism".

From Germany Die Ärzte are great and their hit from the 80s or 90s Schrei nach Liebe is pretty much on topic.

Die Toten Hosen are their long time "rival". Die Ärzte got a pretty good start when they were the first act at a Tote Hosen concert.

Check out the netlabel plainly named ‘Russian Post-punk’ for some of that genre from various post-Soviet countries.

Some more from Eastern Europe:

Russia:

• NOM, e.g. ‘Entertainers choir of the conductors reserve’ — 90s ironic punkish rock, often mocking popular kitsch and consumerism. Now doing some metal-y songs with commentary on current events.

• Nol — 80s-90s bayan folk-punk. Later Fyodor Chistyakov recorded some moody interpretations of classical music on bayan, and currently lives in the US and has released English versions of his old songs (but they suck, because he's old now and because the songs don't translate well).

• Mango-Mango — 90s comedy-rock with splendid ska-ish instrumentation

• Nogu Svelo — 90s absurdist rock

• Boney Nem: e.g. ‘Heavy Nagila’ and ‘Chito-grito-margalito’ — mostly parodying cheesy Russian pop music in thrash and death metal. The 2003 album ‘День Победы’ (‘Day of Victory’) is full of bangers.

• Lemonday — acoustic-ish low-fi somewhat absurdist anti-folk. Their best stuff is these old videos on YouTube.

• Inturist — jazz/post-punk fusion

• toska po domu — electronic post-punk (Russian, based in Tel-Aviv)

• My friend tape recorder — very danceable post-punk, oddly lyrical

• margenrot — post-punk/post-industrial with some Arabic motifs

• Beskultura - noise-rock

• Megapolis — retro rock (the linked song is actually a cover of a 1958 song, but with different lyrics)

• Egor Letov / Grazhdanskaya Oborona — 90s psychedelic punk (fun fact: Egor's brother Sergei Letov is a jazz saxophonist, famously having played in Sergei Kuryokhin's band)

• Straw Raccoons — 90s absurdist noise-rock/punk

• Zemfira — 2000s inscrutable Russian alt-rock with pretty good instrumentation, afaik all written by the titular lead singer and leader of her band

• Anatoly Nikulin's ‘Russian Music’ is a bunch of prog-rock/electronic covers of early-20th-century classical music that was influenced by the folk tradition back then

5'nizza — 90s Ukrainian reggae-rock

Воплі Відоплясова — Ukrainian folk-rock

The Hypnotunez — Ukrainian, playing some kinda Balkan-ska/swing

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra — a rather obvious recommendation for Serbian/Balkan folk-rock

Zdob și Zdub — Moldovan, playing Balkan folk-rock

Đorđe Marjanović was a popular Serbian/Yugoslav singer of the 1960s with rock'n'roll songs among other stuff

Demolition Group — Slovenian post-punkish rock, known for inclusion on the ‘Trans Slovenia Express’ tribute compilation by Laibach

the VAPE (Petr Válek) — hilarious Czech noise

A Hawk & A Hacksaw — USian, but mixing Balkan, Jewish and Turkish music

Elsewhere:

Die Toten Hosen — German bar-punk

Sexy Sushi — French electroclash / synth-punk (picks up with the forth track in particular)

Hedningarna and Värttinä — Nordic folk-rock

Garmarna — Swedish folk-rock

Ulver's ‘Kveldssanger’ is an acoustic album of sorta Norwegian folk-rock, made between two raw-black-metal albums

Tappi Tíkarrass and Kukl — Icelandic, punk/post-punk bands in which Björk was before The Sugarcubes

(Perhaps check out the 1982 concert/documentary film ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’, from which the Tappi Tíkarrass footage is taken, for more Icelandic post-punk/new-wave bands.)

‘Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968–1974’ and ‘Cambodian Rocks’ — brilliant compilations of garage-ish rock of Vietnam and Cambodia from back in the day

Pungo — Japanese jazzy post-punk/folk (see ‘Waltz’ in particular)

Garage Chanson Show — Japanese dark-cabaret

Melt-Banana — Japanese noise-rock

Ruins — Japanese prog/noise-rock

Faye Wong — Hong-Kong pop, check out the cover of ‘Dreams’ from the film ‘Chungking Express’

Mammals — Chinese noise/math-rock

Mimilocos — most probably Argentinian, coldwave

Molotov — Mexican rap/alt-rock

Dane here.

Skalar is a great Ska Punk band, but they're so punk that most of their stuff has never been released as albums. They just play live. You can find a lot of concert recordings on youtube though.

Rock is a broad genre, and "best" is highly subjective. Personally, I'd highlight things like Dizzy Mizz Lizzy who had an interesting sound going back in the day.

Disneyland After Dark is always a classic. The Savage Affair if you're looking for something more ballad-y perhaps.

Stoner rock with blues notes? Baby Woodrose might tickle your fancy.

If you're looking for something more psycadelic, The Savage Rose could be an option.

Operation Ivy

Dead Milkmen

Rancid

NOFX

(US)

Kind of fitting the punk attitude and rock-ish in sound is a Finnish band called Ursus Factory. I love them, seen them live a few times, such energy. And it’s just two blokes, nothing more. It’s so surprising they make it work live too, since in studio releases they tend to have some backing tracks, but it just somehow works.

Bio in eng: https://ursusfactory.net/ENG-Bio

Not sure if it’s as good if you can’t pick up the lyrics, but here’s a few of my favorites:

• Sadetakin pintaan: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Jrvlp6oSsvE
• Mitä luolassa on: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=3vAxM_1XHW8
• Oletko siellä: https://lordag.ffm.to/oletkosiella
• Tuun tuun tuun: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=E0B0mzOxcc4
• Mitä mies mitä äijä: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=EcbO3SBrxbY

Seriously suggest checking out!

Edit: For tidal users, I made this playlist to quickly check those five out: https://tidal.com/playlist/545e800a-1f64-4a2d-a536-1de2267ec40f

Dutch punk:

• Hang Youth
• Tusky*
• John Coffey*
• Ploegendienst
• Gewapend beton
• Heideroosjes
• ZOEKHETUITMAN
• TAXITAXI
• Bongloard*

If you like something more ska/funky:

• Politie Warnsveld
• Gijsjaradijsja
• Doe Maar

Can't really add links right now, if I remember to I'll see if I can tomorrow. Bands with an asterix have english lyrics, the others have dutch lyrics

German here. I once made a playlist of my favorite german punk songs, 'cuz it's my main genre. The playlist isn't up to date anymore because I quit using Spotify, but maybe you can find some cool songs from there!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jwsKqzd6Dt4brzfzIinel

Female fronted Doom from Japan:

https://magdaleneju-nen.bandcamp.com/album/jingai-kitan

Female fronted stoner from Italy:

https://frayle.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-witch-ep

First nation's Yolnu Surf-Rock from Australia (English and Yolnu matha):

https://kingstingray.bandcamp.com/album/king-stingray

Argentinian punk:

https://loscripis.bandcamp.com/album/goldfish-ep

For German you may also want to check out !linkemusik@feddit.org

punk scene in Ireland started up the north late 70s with bands like the Undertones, and Stuff Little Fingers In the 90s you'd have Ash (alt rock) and Therapy? (punk/metal crossover) The only current punkish one I can think now are Fontaines DC and Murder Capital

Here are some from France :

• the historical one, Bérurier Noir
• the currently biggest one, Tagada Jones (though those have accusations of misogyny in the people around them i believe, notably their manager or something like that)
• one of my current favorite, POÉSIE ZÉRO

I see Belgium is missing, let me add a few bands / songs off the top of my head:

• The Kids (Fascist Cops)
• Belgian Asociality (Morregen)
• De Mens (En In Gent)
• Channel Zero (Black Fuel)
• SardoniS (Entering The Woods)

Ku de Judas, from Portugal. They were a cult band in the 1980's. Most members have already died.

Mata-Ratos is another. They still exist today.

Danish person here. I see the other Dane in the thread recommended some old goodies, I will give you some young guns:

Paragraf 119

Ponny

Pleaser

Jakobe

And although they are not Danish (they're belgian) i highly recommend Maria Iskariot. I recently saw them warm up for Tropical Fuck Storm, and they blew the roof off the venue.

Here's some Aboriginal Australian metal

Russian/CIS rock:

• Melnitsa

tl. Windmill. Folk rock with a very unique and not direct (literary) lyrics

• Louna

1 word: protest

• Splean

Very lyrical, often describing slice of life situations

• Korol i shut

tl. King and Jester. Punk/horror folk rock.

• DDT

Feels like late-soviet bard rock

I made this "radio" for Brazilian punk, hardcore, crust and thrash, you can skip and download songs there https://brpunkplayer.neocities.org/

海闊天空 - The most popular Cantopop song, I think almost every Cantonese speaker knows it.

Beyond (Hong Kong Band) also has a lot of other cool songs

Well for the US, at least the industrial inland rust belt part, I think it has got to be The Armed.

https://thearmed.bandcamp.com/music

Annem eteğimi vermedi by padme. A trans anthem in Turkish

From Germany: Die Ärzte
From Austria: Frei Wild