Metal stuff

[Alex K]

More rock than metal but screw it. Give it a listen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-Maid#Image_and_music

- The japanese with English snippets thrown in sounds funny

- I like their (incredibly Japanese) concept of presenting themselves as coffe maids playing hard rock/metal

- The way their songs are written, they would only have to slightly up the aggression and their sound would fit into contemporary Modern Metal/Metalcore crowd in my opinion.

- If only they would drop the Autotune. But they are Japanese, they need some acoustic plastic


That you posted a Japanese act reminds me of another aspect of the discussion with @FaithNoMore who was complaining about the clichéd artwork and image of some metal bands

Ooh, an upside down pentagram. How original.

That's one of my major complaints about metal. The themes metal acts use were horribly cliche by the turn of the century, but they still use them and think it's edgy.

(Sorry, I don't mean to bash metal, but like I said, I've been watching videos about it in part to try and understand it. And I just do not get it.)

There are dark/black metal bands in Asia who do not come from a Christian background. I find it really interesting to see what their take on the Genre and style is.

Chthonic from Taiwan for example mainly deal with history and politics:









I first saw them on tour with Arch Enemy, incidentally.