Following the lead of some others, I thought I would share a few bands I like to listen to. There are a couple I've looked into that others have suggested that I'll probably pick up in the near future. So I thought I'd return the favour.

I will take a slightly different tack than some others. I'm going to give a couple of links to songs from specific albums, for a couple of reasons. One, albums are what people usually buy (although singles might be available from itunes, but I don't use it). Giving at least a couple of clips to look at gives a little diversity as to what the band is capable of. I'll also only focus on a few bands at a time (I think I'll make this a semi-regular feature). I'll also make it clear that I know little about music lingo, genres, or whether stuff is technical or not; I just know what I like.

I was going to start off with some now-defunct Australian metal bands from the last decade, which I still think deserve to be heard, but they broke up before youtube was big, and no-one else has seen fit to upload videos. I'll look into doing that for next time.

I will start off with a local act, Mark of Cain. While I've heard some other songs and they have released stuff since, the only album I own is Ill At Ease, which is superb. Superb enough that I've bought it 3 times. I guess you would call it hard rock. Power rock? I don't know. I don't think it quite fits into a metal genre. This album was produced by Henry Rollins, and you can certainly hear his influence in their sound. The two videos I found sound a bit flat; the production on the album is fantastic, but these clips will give you a taste of what to expect.
Tell Me
LMA

When intending to go to bands and festivals (which is not very often these days) I tend to look up the bands who are playing that I don't know ahead of time, to see if there is something I should check out. This is how I discovered Battles, who played Big Day Out this year. They have been coined as math rock. The first couple of times I played their singles, I went "WTF is this?" It took a few listens to 'get it', and now I love it. While they have a 'singer', the vocals are fed through filters so that they sound like another instrument, not actual vocals. These tracks are off their album Mirrored.
Atlas
Tonto

Enter Shikari was another band that I discovered via Big Day Out, who call themselves trancecore, which sounds like an ample description. My highlight for the Big Day Out, higher even than Rage Against The Machine. They just had so much energy. Some screaming, clean vocals, some trance, some hard rock, and you get Enter Shikari.
Sorry You're Not A Winner
Mothership