There are at least 4 bands called Orchid:

1) Considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the "screamo" sound, Orchid was first and foremost a hardcore band. Orchid combined a post-modern aesthetic with hardcore punk, releasing several now hard to find splits (with bands including The Red Scare, Jeromes Dream, Combatwoundedveteran, Encyclopedia of American Traitors and the grindcore band Pig Destroyer), a 10" record (Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! on Ebullition Records) and an LP (Chaos Is Me on Ebullition Records). Orchid's members more often cite the German bands Systral and Carol as influences, as well as the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! and Chaos Is Me were released together as a single album, also on Ebullition Records. The band's final release before their break-up was a self-titled album (commonly referred to as Gatefold) on Ebullition Records. Members went on to form the bands Wolves, Panthers, Ampere, Bucket Full of Teeth, and Transistor Transistor. Posthumously, a CD compiling all of their singles and split releases (Totality on Clean Plate Records) was released. The CD also contains compilation tracks and songs from the Dance Tonight... Sessions.

The band was formed while the members were studying at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in early 1998. Orchid played its last shows in a number of cities during the summer of 2002, the last of which was at the Advocate in Harvard Square in Boston.

The aforementioned Jerome's Dream split was a one sided 10" in the shape of a skull. It was pressed in red ink, black ink, and glow in the dark black ink, with one band's songs playing from the inside out and the other from the outside in.

Former band member Will Killingsworth opened his own label called Clean Plate records, which now is producing Orchid shirts again. This is being done due to bootleg shirts going for a lot of money on eBay, and the real shirts going for equal if not more amounts. in other words, this was to get rid of the high prices.

2) Orchid is an indie rock band from Poznan, Poland. They are curently working after debut LP. They have one EP Trakk_Soundsampler EP.Orchid was founded in January 2006, in Poznan - a city midway between Warsaw and Berlin. After they made their debut as a part of a nationwide charity action known as Wielka Orkiestra Swiatecznej Pomocy, they played several gigs around Poland.Their music is mostly simple, melodic, and sometimes schmaltzy.

3) The Orchid is a band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an album due to be released in August, 2007.

4) Orchid is an alias of Alexander Tooth, progressive house and breaks producer with releases on Gravitation Records, Hope recordings, Secret Planet & Silver Planet Recordings.