I like decent Japanese metal bands. There aren't many but they do exist. does /mu/ know of any good extreme Japanese metal bands. Can be any genre as long as it's not too light.
Hard mode: Find one that sings in japanese
>>59640027
Dir en Grey!
>>59640037
OP
Just looked them up. Nice work! I like them already. I think I've heard mention of them too. Weird that I haven't heard them before.
>>59640131
Haha that's the only Japanese metal band I've heard. Their old stuff is heavy as brass balls though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdTJorsKDk8
Death:
Goats (tech/weird)
Vortex (tech/jazz-fusion)
Jenovavirus (slam/weird)
Defiled (sorta techy)
Catasexual Urge Motivation (lo-fi cybergrind)
Infected Malignity (slam)
Blood Stain Child (melodeath/trance/cheese)
Mergingmoon (melodeath, SYNTHS)
Intestine Baalism (brutal and melodic, SOLOS)
Power:
Galneryus, Versailles, Light Bringer, X Japan and other big names
Gunbridge (Yama-B's post-Galneryus project)
Skywings (Galneryus clone, but a good one too)
Balflare (Sonata Arctica but Japanese)
Unlucky Morpheus (Touhou)
Iron Attack (Touhou)
Albion (all-female)
Knights of Round (doujin/symph power)
Onmyouza (folk/power/heavy)
look at ~metalinvader665's rym, he has a lot more J-power rated
Prog:
Gonin-ish (eclectic, folky, weird female vocals)
Cyclamen (Sikth + Envy)
Alhambra (power/prog with amazing bass)
Dir en Grey (Crazy vocalist, awesome melodies)
DOOM (Voivod-y thrash, also check Gargoyle)
Black:
Misogi (Flute, sorta weird and proggy)
Magane (related band to Misogi)
Cohol (black/death)
heaven in her arms (blackened depressive screamo)
Followbane (Castlevania metal)
Doom/sludge/whatever:
Ningen-Isu (Rush meets Black Sabbath with some Japanese touches)
Zeni Geva (noise/math/sludge)
Tetsuo (brutal noise/sludge EP)
Congenital Hell (fucked up shit)
Birushanah (folk sludge with koto)
>>59640284
Dude. Fuck yes. Thanks man, I'm saving that list.
>>59640284
the zeni geva I posted above you is metal as your mama's kettle
>>59640305
sure thing
there's other bands of course, like sigh, church of misery, etc, but this list (i copied it from an old one i made a while ago) is more about looking at obscure artists
>>59640341
Truth. It is. Also one I like.
>>59640346
That's good because I usually try to look for the more obscure ones. You've made my life much easier. I hate having to spend so much time trudging through bands on Metallum.
>>59640341
MORE metal than your mama's kettle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7eJq-onGDE
>>59640372
rym charts are more useful
https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=esoteric&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=metal&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=japan&limit=none&countries=
here's some drone noise if you are interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmBbJ1ZvMw
