Bands Whose Albums You Will Buy Without Listening To First

I am a huge music fan.  I try to listen to as much, and as varied, music as I can.  When I buy music I'll usually listen to samples of each song before I buy it hoping to get an idea of what to expect from the album.  But there are some bands whose albums I'll buy without sampling any of the songs.  These are the bands that I know will consistently deliver music that I know I'll enjoy.  Are there any bands out there whose albums you'll buy without ever listening to any of the songs on the album?  Who are they?
 
Here are my bands; 

Dredg

Radiohead and the National can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.

Transatlantic, Theocracy, Pyramaze, InnerWish, Rob Rock, Impellitteri and Dragonland. I love me some prog rock and power metal.

Let me add some to this already pretty solid list.
 
Symphony X, God Is An Astronaut, Katatonia, Oceansize (who recently just broke up...), King's X, Jakob, This Will Destroy You, Minus The Bear, Rush, Between The Buried And Me, Vanden Plas, Rosetta, and Mogwai.
 
Music is life.

Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Tokyo Police Club and Kid Cudi

i'll pretty much buy any album if it has a song that i like on it (if that counts).  
so pretty much anything 

@RollingZeppelin
 
I'll need to check Helios out.  The last Appleseed Cast, Sagarmatha, sounds a bit like Explosions in the Sky at spurts as well.
 
@Gnorbooth
 
I forgot about Minus the Bear.  I was going to add Oceansize until I went to their site and saw the bad news.  That really sucks.  I thought they were doing some of the coolest stuff with music I'd heard in a while.

" Transatlantic, Theocracy, Pyramaze, InnerWish, Rob Rock, Impellitteri and Dragonland. I love me some prog rock and power metal. "

"@Gnorbooth  I forgot about Minus the Bear.  I was going to add Oceansize until I went to their site and saw the bad news.  That really sucks.  I thought they were doing some of the coolest stuff with music I'd heard in a while. "

Converge, Mastodon and Cannibal Corpse.

Yes, all the PT love in this thread makes me happy. 
 
@JasonR86:  The Appleseed Cast shall be my next musical listening endeavour, for now, my bed is calling me. 
 
night all

Placebo, Kent, Coldplay and Radiohead.

Indeed.  PT fo' life!!!!!
 
I guess I should add Dream Theater and anything Devin Townsend to the list as well.  Devin Townsend might well just be God in crazy Canadian form.

Shugo Tokumaru 
Toe 
Mouse on the Keys 
The Mercury Program 
Murder By Death 
O'Death 
Hauschka
Kaki King 
Fleet Foxes 
CSS 
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 
Battles 
The Album Leaf
California Guitar Trio 
Dosh 
And absolutely anything by Kevin Moore: Chroma Key, OSI, any and all solo work

Heltah Skeltah and Metallica. 
 
Yeah, that's it.

"And absolutely anything by Kevin Moore: Chroma Key, OSI, any and all solo work "

All my favorite acts have disappointed me with one of their albums. The Beatles put out Beatles For Sale, Pink Floyd put out The Final Cut, Kanye West put out 808's and Heartbreaks, etc.
 
Only "good" bands (as opposed to great ones) are consistently good from album to album, as they don't try as many new things (and so they rarely go wrong.) As such, I'll probably pick up any Weezer, Cee-Lo Green, Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, The Strokes, or Foo Fighters albums that come out.

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

"And absolutely anything by Kevin Moore: Chroma Key, OSI, any and all solo work "

You sir, get my vote.  Kevin Moore is awesome.  Everything he has done, including the work he did with Fates Warning, is always pure class.  Chroma Key WINS so hard. "

" Radiohead and the National can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. "

Sabaton

" @Gnorbooth said:

" @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

"And absolutely anything by Kevin Moore: Chroma Key, OSI, any and all solo work "

You sir, get my vote.  Kevin Moore is awesome.  Everything he has done, including the work he did with Fates Warning, is always pure class.  Chroma Key WINS so hard. "

Wow didn't expect to find anyone that knew Kevin Moore. He not only is one of my all time favorite song writers, he IS my all time favorite singer. Some may find this as a strange thing to say given his very limited vocal range, but there is something so mellow, so smooth about the tone of his voice, it just kills me. "

Justin Bieber

Animal Collective, probably.

1. rush
2. black keys
3. streetlight manifesto

Throughout my entire life, let's see... ZZ Top (man, that's been a while), Jack Johnson, Tom Petty (again, been a while - damn, I'm old), Black Keys, Dropkick Murphys, and Flogging Molly.  Bands that I will when they either release an album or I can afford it - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The xx, and Takka Takka. 
 
I also have a strange fondness for certain score composers, especially Bear McCreary, John Williams, and various others, and will often buy scores without hearing them first, but only if I really have enjoyed the composer's prior works.  Otherwise I've at least gotta hear a sample or three.

• Murder By Death
• Tool
• Opeth
• Necrophagist
• Grizzly Bear
• Dillinger Escape Plan
• Mars Volta
• Muse
  

None, I've never had a band that I like so much that I'd buy anything they made, except for Spice Girls which I was a huge fan off in my tweens. 
 
I don't generally buy a lot of music. Last album I bought was the Mass Effect soundtrack. Mostly I listen to music I bought years ago. I'm rubbish at finding new music since I don't watch MTV or listen to radio or anything like that.

@dagas
 
It is tough to find new music.  But, threads like this allow us to hear about new, good bands that may, or may not, be mentioned on MTV or the radio.  The majority of the bands I've seen on here wouldn't get air-play and wouldn't be mentioned on MTV.  But, because of threads like this, they can get exposure to a wider audience.

Napalm Death

The Main Drag, Junip, She Wants Revenge, Destroyer, Mike Patton, Arcade Fire, The Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, and Devotchka. 
 
EDIT: can't forget Sufjan Stevens or the Decemberists.

OK Go, Foo Fighters, Barenaked Ladies, Steven Page, Cake, The Decemberists, Lady Gaga, Modest Mouse, Electric Six, and anything by Trent Reznor or Jack White.

Nine Inch Nails.

@velucyraptor
 
Nine Inch Nails is still putting out new content?  I had no idea.

Deftones and Primus

@Ahmad_Metallica
 
I've wanted to try and listen to Opeth but I keep forgetting about them.  What's a good album to start off with?

Anything Jack White puts out, he has an ability to create music that directly appeals to me. No matter what it is. The Kills also but that may be a result of their recent return. (The Kills have an album out in april holy fuck thats awesome!)
 
Josh Homme is almost in that category but he's a little less reguarly awesome.

Radiohead. It's been the case with their last two albums. And with King of Limbs I bought the big newspaper edition.

" @Ahmad_Metallica  I've wanted to try and listen to Opeth but I keep forgetting about them.  What's a good album to start off with? "

Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, Rise Against and Foo Fighters. I could think of so many more but the list would be too long

Beatsteaks and Queens of the Stone Age.
I just bought the new Beatsteaks album on CD(!) like two weeks ago without hearing anything from it beforehand.
 
Also, if the collaboration ever happens again, Ellen Allien & Apparat.

I can't remember the last time I bought an entire album

Armin Van Buuren 
 
Tiesto 
 
they aren't really bands though.

Justin Timberlake
Disturbed
YellowCard
Mathew West 
Black Eyed Peas
Foo Fighters
Skillet
 Anamanaguchi
HANS ZIMMER

Tom Waits is the only one that readily comes to mind.