Top 10 Best Post Grunge Bands

Breaking Benjamin is a great band, I'll say that much, but Foo Fighters take the cake for best post-grunge band by a longshot. When Dave came off the Nirvana scene and headed to his own solo project, it was life-changing and revolutionary. He didn't realize he created a band with soon to be anthems such as Everlong, Monkey Wrench, Best of You, and Learn to Fly. Theyve countlessly sold millions of outstanding records, have amazing shows, great music, hell, theyve sold out Wembley for Christ's sake! A damn good band, 20 years strong, and still kickin' serious ass and taking names today!

These guys have gotten me through a lot of tough times, they have made a great influence on my art and have been the subject of bonding between my girlfriend and I (we've been dating for one year and going to two years as I type this).

I just gotta say Breaking Benjamin is the one band that will always hold a special place in my hear.

Ben if you are reading this, thank you so much.

Definitely the greatest Post-Grunge in my opinion! Breaking Benjamin has a great array of Nu-Metal/Grunge songs such as "Water" and "Home", but also surprises their fans with mellow soft tunes such as "Forget It" and "Rain".

Everyone that has been going through a tough time in their lives needed Three Days Grace (with Adam), their songs are so touching and Adam Gontiers voice is fenomenal, not to forget that the instrumentalists are great as well. The lyrics are relatable for everyone at a certain point in life and are interpretable in numerous ways.

The REAL Three Days Grace (it's not the same without Adam) is the best band ever! The lyrics of their songs are touching your soul, the voice of Adam goes under your skin and... Wait, why are you still reading this? Go and listen to them, you won't regret it, trust me.

Seether is lead by Shaun Morgan, who has one of the greatest voices I have ever heard. Too add to that, Seether can shine as a band in many different ways, be it the Heavy metal sound, or the Grunge sound, or the punk sound, or even, believe it or not, they have a few great acoustic songs. Take Broken for example. Also, for Grunge, Fine Again has risen to the top of many lists, while Like Suicide remains great with Metal, and Six Gun Quota is a nice Punk song, great change of pace for Seether.

Great band with consistency throughout their discography. Morgan is one of the most underrated writers of his generation and has an infectious way of combining heavy music with melodic hooks that no one else in the genre has seemed to capture.

I've listened to every song on their 6 albums. To me, half their songs are hits that I love listening to over and over again, and the rest besides maybe 2 are all good songs that I thoroughly enjoy. Whenever I don't know what to listen to on a long car ride I just shuffle all of Shinedown's songs with no complaints. By far my favorite complete band.

Now don't get me wrong I love Seether and Three Days Grace but this band plays music better than any other not to mention they do great cover songs such as times like these and one.

This band is the worst of the butt-rock bands that have been plaguing rock. This band hasn't done one thing that's original, and most of their songs are mediocre at best. They're just another band trying to be Nirvana and failing at it miserably. In addition, the singer has lip-synced in some concerts. The band's music sucks and they aren't a good live act, so they shouldn't be at number five or even in this list.

Staind should at least take Puddle of Mudd's current list rank of 5th place right here, right now. As much of theirs songs are grandly popular, some are mostly characterized as less meaningful and just for rocky kicks and ones as the opposite only on the least occasions. As someone had said best, they're "mediocre at best'. I'll admit that I listened to most of their songs (I even have one of their albums too), but as much as some of the songs were good and enjoyable that you could experience different fuzzy emotions from them, their conventional themes blended in with their musical genres are old and bland. What's more, Wes Scantlin, the band's singer, is dragging a lot of attention to his crazy, controversy-worthy antics that spoil opportunities for his band to continue their way of living, making new music material, releasing new albums, touring around the country to sold-out shows and venues, and all the more enjoying the perks of their success more than enduring the throes of its struggles to get where they are now. They're a good band, but not only do they need to make music the way THEY do, as in making their material content more ORIGINAL and NOVEL, they need to get rid of the fruit that got spoiled (I'm referring to Wes), get in a new fruit (as in a singer audition), and get it together to continue as a rock band. Otherwise, they'll stay below the popularity list forever.

P.S. Where Staind is currently ranked, which is Place #11, they should take that place or lower than 15.

I'm sorry but there is no way in HELL Nickelback is better than Silverchair. They made a masterpiece of an album at age 14. Their hit song "Tomorrow" had a demo version from when they were 12/13 years old. Freak Show and Neon Ballroom are complete works of art and Diorama is amazing. Young Modern showcases their HUGE style change and it is not very well liked but honestly, it can easily be appreciated when you can understand that they're older now and so is their music and it shows how much Daniel's health has improved. Best band ever.

All those who are not voting them are fools. They have one of the best vocalists and this gen's greatest guitarist in the world! Listen to any of their song

They should be higher and Creed as well if you deep dive with Creed they got some really good songs outside of their hits.

I'm not really sure if Alter Bridge is Rock, Metal or Post Grunge. All I know is it's the best band there is

Better than nearly all of the bands on this list. This band has some meaningful songs with a variety of melodys. Their songs don't sound all the same. They somehow manage to be fresh to your ear without changing the sound drastically. And theyve been consistent to their music and fans. I reccomend everyone to take a listen you'll be addicted within a couple of minutes. Should be in top three in my opinion.

Meaningful songs and an untouchable aggression pours out from this band. They need to be higher.

Nickelback is good loser since their a Rock artist, can be hard and not very soft. If you say/think anything to me that is not good but like rude and jerky than you are a loser with no life since I did not started it. People can like stuff and no one mess with my Rock music. Rock music is the best music. No one mess with how I like my Rock music. People do not have to this though. I do not call them names/rude jerky stuff for it.

Are you kidding me with seether being at number 1?! I don't disagree that they are a good band but come on they got succes by copying nirvana, they didn't brought anything new to the table unlike nickelback who is a game changing band and it's for a reason they are the most succesful post grunge band ever!

Why is Nickelback on number 2? All of these bands suck apart from Staind, Foo Fighters, Bush and them crooked vultures. Aaron Lewis is a talented person and has not just inspired from the legendary pearl jam, he also plays country music unlike Chad Kroeger who looks like a goat and thinks that stuff is either too old for him or is not mainstream enough.

Staind is the only band I know that can do heavy metal, and you cans still understand them. Aaron Lewis has a very beautiful unique voice. But the guy from breaking Benjamin sounds the same as many other post grudge and alternative bands

The Sales, popularity, and emotional balladry-quality of this band are unmatched even to 3 doors down. The lyrics and musical quality of this band are more than enough to supersede staind, nickelback, and puddle of mudd, however Nickelback is still a better band in terms of success and popularity, especially songs that are almost not post-grunge like Rockstar and This Afternoon. There's something about Creed and its resemblence to Eddie Vedder(slightly) vocally, and musically from the doors and Led Zeppilin. Although success was short-term for them, they deserve to at least be #8.

Candlebox's first album alone beats all the other bands on this list, I however consider Candlebox grunge, they came out of Seattle and released their first album (self-titled) in 1993, not even a full year after the release of Stone Temple Pilots' Core and Alice in Chains' Dirt.

Practically invented Post-Grunge, until Alanis Morrissette and Creed came along. "Far behind" is good enough to make them at least #15.

Still active in 2020s. Early 90s stuff was gold.

Throwing Copper is a great album but the rest isn't very good.

Shocked they're not higher on the list. I used to hear their songs on the radio all the time throughout the 2000s, and I always thought they were such a big name in post grunge.

They have the musical talent of nickelback if not more and Brad is a better singer than Kroger Also 3 doors down has better lyrical content than nickelback and have a more clean cut, distinguished sound to them. Listen to songs like not my time, when I'm gone, here without you, etc and you'll hear the difference.

Highly under estimated band, mostly known for their hit Kyptonite, but nobody knows about the other good songs like Time of My Life and When I'm Gone.

Easily one of the Best Post-Grunge bands of all time. Chris Cornell's vocals are unchallenged to even Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl. Deserves #1, with Foo Fighters #2.

How are they 33?! They deserve better than that

What!? Number 40th? This is an outrage

Collective Soul deserves to be a lot higher on this list. Their ability to successfully vary dynamics, true ballads to hard rock, and to expand beyond basic post-grunge sounds is very underappreciated whenever great bands of the 90s are reckoned, and they've kept making music since. Foo Fighters may have maintained commercial success, but musically I've always been a bigger fan of CS.

Like literally "gotta let your light shinedown" is the best line I've ever heard in music. The music's meshing with lyrics is amazing. #16 deserving.

Godsmack should be number one - hands down. They cut their teeth on the greats of grunge and IMPROVED it, making it their own. Erna is legit! Even his solo albums blow this list away!

Bad name, bad lyrics, singer sounds like a wannabe-James Hetfield loser. Is this even post-grunge?

Not only do these guys suck, but they're not even post-grunge.

Are you kidding? These guys should be on the top!

They have the song iris. That's better than any garbage band garbage

And I don't want the world to see me, cause I don't think that they'd understand