Share some of your favorite Japanese metal.
Terra Rosa, Sabbat, Metalucifer, Prowler, Hellen, Precious, Rommel, Crowley, Blaze, Vanishing Point, Volfeed, and Sabbrabells are just some of my favorite Japanese metal bands. I also love the first X Japan album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoS0QPhOG4M
judascrust on
GISM
gizter on
you know S.H.I. ? they got a simmiliar sound, obviously influenced by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJQXGKIo-o
the last Poikkeus EP also had a huge GISM/Zouo influence. i'd recomend it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRdw_N6APQ
Claudandus on
Rosenfeld's album is pretty sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UViEhYz4-38
PForx on
G.A.T.E.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxwGNAeojyA
I also really like Sabbat, Metalucifer, Abigail and Barbatos, but I feel like those are already pretty well known.
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Casbah !!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwKxgPnvQsQ
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Doom !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w09pTUILeA
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Sacrifice !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wG2xW5OH4E
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Genocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4k3VakPd0
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Jurassic Jade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt6KHZA1uC8
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Bellzlleb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzmxe5IDw_w
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Crowley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POh120f2w0U
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Front Guerrilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kVcJul6Xo0
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Gastunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al5HKtx8SmY
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Outrage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ij5_JzdI7M
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S.O.B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhqaiLK5KNo
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Shellshock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9sPVSCEVg ..... and the list can go on and on....
4649goroawase on
I'm not really picky with Japanese Metal bands. I like the usual ones like Sabbat, GISM, Sigh, Abigail, Barbatos, etc. Other than that I vigorously collect the Visual Kei stuff like X-Japan, Dir en Grey, The Gazette, Kagerou, and a bunch of others.
Early on Dir en Grey was very typical Visual Kei as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7v6HL_H3Qc
Recently they have a very Avant Garde kind of sound with some Progressive and Death Metal tendencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGW4b28wF80
This is my favorite song by The Gazette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnoFM9JR1LU
Zek on
The second demo from Rommel is pretty strong too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WslNdlyRc1c
Kathulex on
Gonin-Ish, Gotsu Totsu Kotsu, Sigh, Acute, Crow + others that were already mentioned.
Gonin-Ish especially.
gizter on
Acute!!! underated as hell. not metal though.
Taikon on
Swarrrm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvLFmKpVFcU
None will ever top the insanity of this band. Other excellent Japanese acts:
Shikabane
Assault
324
Mortalized
Those will probably only appeal to grindcore/death metal fans, though. For noisy rock'n'roll, there's Guitar Wolf and High Rise.
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Magnesium
powermetaller on
Gaisen March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20rFRSz4z2o
Sex Machineguns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDQAHrvfLw
Sheja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SktlWtCVZsM
DeathFuckinMetal on
Intestine Baalism are a great Melodic Death Metal band from Japan. If no one has heard of them i suggest you give them a listen, especially the album Banquet In The Darkness. A great album.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NtMxMt6Des
This one, along with Loudness (one of my favorite bands) and Blaze!
gizter on
seems no one has mentioned Anthem yet? i still need to get their albums someday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn67Nhj2mLM
nwobhmbanger on
Great band.
ProtoChaud on
Onmyou-Za https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-AhDYxAp0 (power/folk)
GxSxD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8k8OTr1IME (death)
Flower Travellin' Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L801uilwGPM (psychedelic proto-metal)
Those three are my go-to answers, though I also love Sabbat, Metalucifer, Gotsu Totsu Kotsu, and a lot of others (Japan has a great underground scene.)
overkill386 on
Surprised no one has mentioned Loudness thunder in the east......or I'm blind lol
war666 on
anatomia http://youtu.be/fb9o1pPNtnM
cutthroat http://youtu.be/WiigwYyjrek
cataplexy http://youtu.be/r-JjyjwKT6Y
cohol http://youtu.be/X6QYuLqJ8nw
darkcorpse http://youtu.be/ZUY5z_wNYg4
fastkill http://youtu.be/SKxnzvbdWEs
sex messiah http://youtu.be/RGdQhTqPIWM
terror squad http://youtu.be/1-MBK2Y4OCA
Tomathon on
Thanks. I used to play in Darkcorpse! The Honjoh Misako album '13th' is an amazing slab of traditional heavy metal. Arrangements by Akira Takasaki. Birth Ritual are an incredible band from Hokkaido. Brob, Sobbed and SU19B are amazing grindcore bands. Nepenthes features members of Church Of Misery and are producing some really heavy tunes now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7kh_aUlDlk
war666 on
wow then are you in retch now? birth ritual is awesome btw
Tomathon on
That's right. Kraahl/ Rich Dc's singer was moved back to the states hence we had to lay it to bed. We are hoping to get Birth Ritual down to Tokyo for a concert.