10 Killer Rock Music Bands With No Guitarist

Back in the early 2000s, while Royal Blood were still making macaroni art and drinking PVA, Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger formed Death from Above. Using only a bass and drums in the creation of some seriously catchy rock tunes, the Canadian rock and dance punk duo have been finding creative ways around the guitar gap for most of the past two decades.

Sometimes and otherwise known as Death from Above 1979 (thanks to an ongoing flip-flop of name changes first inspired by a cease and desist letter from the Death from Above record label), the duo have laid down only four albums to date, thanks to something of an initially patchy output and a six-year breakup. After putting out You're a Woman, I'm a Machine in 2004, Keeler and Grainger managed about a year and a half of touring before they fell out and went their separate ways.

Nonetheless, 2011 saw the band reunite and begin a full-on assault on our earholes, leaving behind most of the all-too-obvious Queens of the Stone Age influence from the first record and forging ahead with a dirtied-up version of the UK's indie/garage rock sound from the previous decade. They have continued to adapt ever since, with a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club edge to their third album, and their most recent effort - Is 4 Lovers - pivoting towards the likes of Closure in Moscow. And still no guitar in sight!