Japanese Metal Bands?

[Ultimate Seed]

Ok i am a serious metal head but so far i havn't found any kid of Japanese metal bands ....If any exist or if u know of any please post the name of the band and if u do listen to them please also post ur fav song....TY

[aishiteru333]

Maximum The Hormone is pretty good. listen to the video on my signature, that's them. Favorite song is Billy in Despair.

[Ultimate Seed]

ah thats not bad at all...thats pretty awsome

[Ryth]

Sigh.

[daft]

Give The Black Mages a try. They're Japanese, they're metal, and really awesome to listen to; especially if you like Final Fantasy tunes, 'cause that's all they play... and they're pretty damn good at it.

>.> Oh, and their music is mostly just instrumental, except for maybe 1 or 2 songs. But still very good. ^ ^

[aristide]

Dir en grey, D'espairs Ray, Unsraw, Girugamesh, -OZ-, Mucc (kinda metal), there are SOOO many... these are the faves though =]

[Ultimate Seed]

Haha awsome ill go dawnload some now and c how they r.

[Bree_Brii]

Onmyouza is an amazing band. They sort of sound like Iron Maiden and Priest. I love how melodic their sound is, like old skool American and Euro rock.

[Yanagi Satan]

Dir en grey, D'espairs Ray, Unsraw, Girugamesh, -OZ-, Mucc (kinda metal), there are SOOO many... these are the faves though =]

I love all those bands! but mostly Dir en Grey xDD i love their new stuff its so different but i like it!

[Yanagi Satan]

Oh ya i forgot to recomend you should listen BLOOD STAIN CHILD...I really cant think of any! >.>

[Kawairashii hikari]

I though Dir En Grey was kinda like rock.... and D'espairs Ray... but whatever.

I did a quick search on Google and pulled some up, I'm not really into japanese metal like that, so idk if they're good or not, but i hope this helps you.

japanese metal bands: Loudness, Galneryus, Concerto Moon, Azrael, Double Dealer, Ark Storm, Animetal, Kadenzza, 403, Balflare, Dragonlance, Seven Seas, Pax in terror, Northwind SAGA, Argument Soul, Masterpiece, Black Masquerade, and Ezo.

[KillerDragonX]

yea pretty much the only one i can think of is Dir en Grey

[xXshinigamiXx]

Try Due'le Quartz, they're probably my favorite Japanese metal band, besides The Black Mages. The song "Rodeo" is really awesome.

[Ultimate Seed]

I though Dir En Grey was kinda like rock.... and D'espairs Ray... but whatever.

I did a quick search on Google and pulled some up, I'm not really into japanese metal like that, so idk if they're good or not, but i hope this helps you.

japanese metal bands: Loudness, Galneryus, Concerto Moon, Azrael, Double Dealer, Ark Storm, Animetal, Kadenzza, 403, Balflare, Dragonlance, Seven Seas, Pax in terror, Northwind SAGA, Argument Soul, Masterpiece, Black Masquerade, and Ezo.

Wow nice list...Ill defitly have a look for some of those

[Yanagi Satan]

Well Dir en Grey was considered rock but the recent stuff that they're producing is putting them under the genre of metal.

[Ehsivar]

Dir en grey isn't and never was metal.



X-Japan- Progressive/Speed Metal. Highly recommended for those trying to make a transition between VK to metal.

Sex Machineguns- Progressive/Power Metal

Concerto Moon- Neo-Classical/Power Metal

Galneryus- Power Metal

Touko- Folk Metal (If you find any significant amounts of it, tell me)

Misogi- Blackened Folk Metal (see previous parenthetic message)

The Black Mages- (mostly) instrumental Progressive Metal

D'espairsRay- Industrial Metal

Boris- Experimental/Drone/Sludge/Stoner/Doom Metal, Noise Rock. Highly recommended.


Just for the hell of it, I'll throw in some Japanese hardcore, electronica, and so on.

Envy- Post-rock/Screamo. Highly recommended. This isn't any of that crappy emo you hear on the radio. Keep an open mind, and give them a listen.

Mono- Post-rock. Heavy, with an ambient, experimental touch. This is instrumental.

Jun Chiki Chikuma- Electronica. I suggest getting the Bomberman Hero Original Soundtrack from www.gh.ffshrine.org.

Nobuo Uematsu- Symphonic/Electronic/various others. C'mon. He made the Final Fantasy soundtracks. I suggest the Final Fantasy IX OST above all others.

Melt Banana- Noise Rock. Not for virgin ears. This stuff is hellaciously noisy and abrasive.

[MomijiTMO]

Envy are a . . .. . . weird Post-hardcore band. .. . but heck soundscape galore.

Anyhoo try Shadow. Melodeath from Japan.

And my favourite band from Japan would be Gallhammer. It's an all female band that play a blend of black/doom with vocals that are similar to the suicidal black metal of Shining.

[daft]

Envy are a . . .. . . weird Post-hardcore band.

...that are totally awesome beyond awesomeness X infinity!

envy > anything and everything else

[Gandizzl]

And my favourite band from Japan would be Gallhammer. It's an all female band that play a blend of black/doom with vocals that are similar to the suicidal black metal of Shining.

Noooo! How is it possible to like Gallhammer? Ill Innocence was the most uninspiring black metal album I've ever heard. Their musical skills do not even exist. They try to rip off early Celtic Frost and it all ends up... simply boring.

[Ehsivar]

Vomit Remnants. New York-styled brutal death metal. They don't have a very expansive discography, and I think they may have broken up.

[KLMachinate]

I'm going to have to look up some of these bands sometime.

[Ehsivar]

Sigh is also imperative. Avant-garde black metal wackiness.

[Akihiko Yamamoto Hozagaki]

I don't really like metal, but I know a couple that you might be interested in:

44 Magnum
Moi dix Mois (metal-ish)
Sex Machineguns
X Japan (metal-ish)
Onmya-Za
Gallhammer (I think they're black metal)
Seikima-II (or Seikimatsu)

[Ehsivar]

Malice Mizer's pretty good. Most of their stuff is heavily laced with Gothic stuff, and Romanticism. I wouldn't call them metal though. Just semi-related.

[Datenshi]

Onymouza is the only Japanese metal band that I actually bought an album, so I'm going to recommend it on principle. Though I'm afraid it might not be "metal" enough for some metal heads.

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant is a pretty original hard rock band though it might not classify as metal exactly.