ThePatchedVest Selection: Artists & Bands

This is an incomplete/curated selection of my favorite artists/bands from across genres and decades, titles in bold text are my absolute/essential favorites.

Please note that the inclusion of an artist is not an endorsement of their beliefs or support against any controversy, I'm merely discussing the music here.

If I'm only partial to a specific era of a band's sound/discography, I'll mark it in (parentheses) with a '~' denoting that I'm referring only to albums/releases before (~YYYY) or after (YYYY~) a specified year. 

• 7 Year B*tch
• Abandoned Pools
• Acetone
• Acid Bath
• Acid King 
• Ad*ckdid
• The Afghan Whigs
• Aimee Mann
• Akira Yamaoka
• Alice Donut
• Alice in Chains
• Ammonia
• Ani DiFranco
• The Appleseed Cast
• Artifacts
• Ash
• Audioslave
• Aus-Rotten
• Babes in Toyland
• Bad Brains
• Bad Religion (~1994)
• Bangs
• Bark Psychosis
• Beabadoobee
• Beat Happening
• Better Than Ezra
• Bikini Kill
• Billie Eilish
• Black Army Jacket
• Black Flag (~1987)
• Black Kronstadt
• Black Sabbath
• Bleed
• Bodyweb
• Bottom Feeder
• Brat
• Bratmobile
• The Breeders
• Brutal Truth
• Bugsy
• Built to Spill
• The Butchies
• Buzzoven
• Cannibal Corpse
• Capitalist Casualties
• The Cardigans
• Cat Power
• Charles Bronson
• Cherubs
• Chick
• Christie Front Drive
• Circle Jerks
• Citizen
• City of Caterpillar
• The Clouds
• The Cranberries
• Coke Bust
• Corrosion of Conformity
• Couch Sl*t
• Crossed Out
• Crowbar
• The Cure
• Cursive
• Dalek
• Daddy Issues
• Dag Nasty
• Dead Kennedys
• Death
• Death Angel
• Decendents
• Deftones
• Deicide
• Despise You
• Destroy Boys
• Deviated Instinct
• Diet Cig
• Dig
• Dinosaur Jr.
• Discharge
• Doom
• Down
• Downcast
• Dr. Colossus
• Driller Killer
• Drive Like Jehu
• Dropdead
• Drop Nineteens
• Duster
• Dystopia
• Earth
• Earth to Andy
• Elliott Smith
• Emily's Sassy Lime
• The Ending to This Story
• Entombed
• Eve 6
• Eve's Plum
• Excuse 17
• Explosive Noise Terror
• Eyehategod
• Failure
• Far
• Far Apart
• Feeder
• Filter
• Fistula
• Fleshwater (~2024)
• Flipper
• Floodgate
• Flop
• Foo Fighters (~2000)
• Free Kitten
• The Frumpies
• Fu Manchu
• Fudge Tunnel
• Fuel (~1998)
• Fugazi
• Fulci
• Galactic Cowboys
• Garbage
• Gaze
• The Get-Up Kids
• Gigolo Aunts
• Gin Blossoms
• The Gits
• Goatwhore
• Godflesh
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• GoGo Penguin
• Goo Goo Dolls
• Gravedweller
• Green River
• Grief
• Guster
• Hammerbox
• Hands Off Gretel
• Hazel
• Heatmiser
• Heavens to Betsy
• Helium
• Hellbastard
• Helmet
• His Hero Is Gone
• Hole
• Holly McNarland
• Hum
• Immolation
• Incantation
• Infest
• Insect Warfare
• Jawbox
• Jawbreaker
• Jeff Buckley
• Jerome's Dream
• Jesu
• The Jesus Lizard
• Jet Fuel Soda
• Jigsaw Youth
• Jimmie's Chicken Shack
• Jones Very
• Juliana Hatfield
• Julie
• Kaia
• Karate
• Karma to Burn
• Kerbdog
• Kills Birds
• King's X
• Kreator
• Kyuss
• L7
• Leechmilk
• Legal Kill
• The Lemonheads
• Letter to Cleo
• Liz Phair
• Local H
• Longstocking
• Love Battery
• Low
• Luna
• Lunachicks
• Lush
• Mad Season
• Magnapop
• Mammal Hands
• Mannequin P*ssy
• Man is the Bastard
• Marilyn Manson 
• Massive Attack
• Matthew Good
• Matthew Sweet
• Meat Beat Manifesto
• Meat Puppets
• Medicine
• Megadeth
• Melvins
• Mercury Rev
• Metallica
• Meth Drinker
• Milk Teeth
• Milly
• Mineral
• Minor Threat
• Misfits
• Mobb Deep
• Modern Color
• Moler
• Momma
• Monster Magnet
• Mother Love Bone
• Mudhoney
• Muse (~2007)
• My Bloody Valentine
• My Sister's Machine
• Nailbomb
• Naked Raygun
• Napalm Death
• Narrow Head
• Nasum
• Nausea
• Navtec
• Nine Inch Nails
• Nirvana
• The Notorious B.I.G.
• Nuclear Assault
• The Nymphs
• Obituary
• Onesidezero
• Open Tomb
• Opeth (~2003)
• Orange 9mm
• Our Lady Peace (~1999)
• Outlaw Order
• Overkill
• Pageninetynine / pg.99
• Pantera (1990~)
• Papercut
• Paw
• Pig Destroyer
• Pixies
• PJ Harvey
• Placebo (~2006)
• Pond
• Porcupine Tree
• Portishead
• Portraits of Past
• The Posies
• Powderfinger
• Power Trip
• Presidents of the United States of America
• Prong
• Psyched Up Janis
• Public Enemy
• Purity
• Pushmonkey
• Quicksand
• Quorthon
• Radio Caroline
• Radiohead
• Raein
• Rage Against the Machine
• Real Live
• Red Aunts
• Refused
• Ribbon Fix
• Ride
• Rites of Spring
• Rollins Band
• The Roots
• Rubberoom
• Samiam
• Screaming Trees
• Seaweed
• Select All
• Send No Flowers
• S*x Prisoner
• Sharp Nine
• Shellac
• Shift
• Shihad
• Shudder to Think
• Siilk
• Silverchair (~2001)
• Siobhan Mazzei
• Skating Polly
• Skitsystem
• Skiploader
• ASkySoBlack
• Sleater-Kinney
• Sleep
• Slint
• Slo Burn
• Slothrust
• Slowdive
• Softcult
• Sonic Youth
• Sorority Noise
• Soul Blind
• Soundgarden
• Spacehog
• Spazz
• Spitboy
• Split Chain
• Sponge
• Squirrel Bait
• Static Dress
• Steel Pole Bath Tub
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Subhumans
• Sugar
• Sugartooth
• Sulphorous
• Sunny Day Real Estate
• Superbloom
• Superheaven
• Swans
• Swervedriver
• System of a Down
• Tad
• Team Dresch
• Techno Animal
• Temple of the Dog
• Testament
• Texas is the Reason
• That Dog.
• Therapy?
• They Might Be Giants
• Third Eye Blind
• Toad the Wet Sprocket
• Toadies
• Toadliquor
• Tool (~1994)
• Tonic
• Toxic Holocaust
• Tracy Bonham
• Truckfighters
• T.S.O.L.
• Turtoise
• U-Men
• Unsane
• Unwound
• Urge Overkill
• Velocity Girl
• Veruca Salt
• The Wallflowers
• War on Women
• Water Torture
• Wh*res.
• Willard
• Wipers
• Yasmin Nur
• Yvette Young

And below, are some bands that are guilty pleasures and/or I have a lot of nostalgia for but grew out of as my tastes in music changed. 

• 3 Doors Down
• AC/DC
• Alesana (~2012)
• Alexisonfire (~2006)
• Alkaline Trio
• Aqua Timez
• Asking Alexandria (~2012)
• Avril Lavigne (~2008)
• Blessthefall (~2014)
• Breaking Benjamin (~2010)
• Bring Me The Horizon (~2014)
• The Color Morale (~2014)
• Eminem (~2004)
• Escape the Fate (~2011)
• Evanescence (~2007)
• Fighting for Ithaca (~2011)
• Funeral for a Friend
• Hawthorne Heights (~2008)
• Hollywood Undead (~2010)
• Killswitch Engage
• Linkin Park (~2010)
• Marianas Trench (~2010)
• Of Mice & Men (~2014)
• One OK Rock
• Nickelback (~1999)
• Papa Roach (~2006)
• Paramore (~2010)
• Pierce the Veil (~2013)
• Saosin (~2010)
• Senses Fail
• Silverstein (~2009)
• Simple Plan (~2008)
• Sleeping with Sirens (~2014)
• Slipknot (~2009)
• Stone Sour
• Sum 41 (~2006)
• Three Days Grace (~2007)
• Thrice
• Thursday
• Trivium

Stay tuned as I plan to do another one of these specifically focused on my favorite albums/EPs.