Japan Metal

[Tcoat]

Thanks to @Packofcrows I have now been exposed to a whole new genre of music.


After viewing a few snippets of the bands he recommended I have a pile of downloading and video watching to do!


X Japan* Great and right in my taste.
Luna Sea* Nope. Too U2ish.
Versailles Superb! This is my favourite so far. I can watch these videos all night (and just may).
Early Dir en Grey* Extremely variable, undecided.
Gazette Not sure yet. Hard to find much
L'Arc~en~Ciel* Don't like at all. Not sure what, just something doesn't appeal to me.
Girugamesh Alright but not top of the list.
D'erspairs Ray Good and will download some.

Don't understand a freakn' word but really enjoying something I never knew existed before. Any more of the heavy/glam type stuff anubody can recommend?


At this rate I will be watching anime and eating whatever the hell Pho is any day now.

[Tcoat]

Other than a couple of moments of serious gender confusion this video rocked my world!


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5827EPsAOis"]Versailles - The Revenant Choir - YouTube[/ame]

[cdrazic93]

I dont know what is right anymore

[Packofcrows]

haha you made a thread for this.

Pity...you dont like Luna Sea. I got a big smooch from a Japanese girl when the song "love song" played.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDjumx-mY-Y"]HIZAKI grace project - Race wish (guitar solo) - YouTube[/ame]

Stick through the first 2min.

Let me see my iTunes:

Seikima ii
They kinda like X Japan
Fav songs:
Stainless night
Adamu no Ringo

Rentrer en soi
Protoplasm
Stigmata

ClearVeil
A.R.S. <---my fav song from em
The dropping sky

Born
-Dust pain

La'miss Fairy
-Virgin <---fav song from em.
-Garasu Saiku No Kimi To Boku No Koe

Chariots
-Cold pray (or is it prey?)
-ablaze my sorrow
-Emily

Dio (distraught overlord)
-Anything is heavy as hell from em.

Moi dix Mois
-Unmoved <---beast instrumental but gets annoying. Wont $500 show 'battle of the bands' for playing this. We claimed it was our song...lol DMCA incoming
-Eternally beyond

Gackt
^^^looks homo but i love 'em. Takes getting used to.
-Returner
^^^fav song from 'em

Pleymo
Japanese band but sings in French/Japanese
New Wave

Try Dir en grey (old Dir)
Songs:
Machiavellism
Yokan<3
Jesus Christ R' n R.
C
Garbage <---good headbanging song lol
Undecided<---acoustic. Made my crush fall for me redoing this song on guitar as a softer and mellower song
(My fav albums are everything before Withering to death and that album)

OH MFGOD! I forgot Mucc! Try them! I saw 'em like in Japan years back. Bassist inspired by Flea from RHCP
Songs:
Daikirai aka I hate/you
Houkou <3 <---beast intro
Fuzz
Dilemma
...forgot more songs

deathgaze
^^^Anything they good too
-Insult kiss me

Maximum the hormone
Death Note anime guys
-Whats up people!?
-kuso breaking no breakin lily
-Policeman benz

Eternal Symphony
These guys more like 'pretty rock'
Songs:
Matenrou Opera Eternal Symphony (youtube it, not sure on name)
alkaloid showcase

X-Japan
Songs:
Standing Sex
Kurenai (theres 2 versions)
Rusty nail (2 versions)
Silent Jealousy
Week end (theres now like 3 versions)
Orgasm

Velvet Nightmare
Not a fan of this band's singing
Fahrenheit
Vanity

Screw
Death's Door
SRB

SaTaN
DE∀TH SONG (FROM THE STYX)

The Pillows
punk rock band, indie, jazz, alternative etc... normal stuff. From anime Fooly Cooly. Love this band. High school years getting laid.
Ladybird Girl
Little Busters
Crazy Sunshine
Last Dinosaur

Flumpool
^^^my college band to hit on Asian girls with.
-Hoshi ni Naegi wo

Mix of everything:

Mika Nakashima
-punk, pop, ballad...etc just look her up. Try "glamorous sky" My crush and dream wife.

Olivia inspi' Reira
^^^Anything from her. Similar to Evanescence

Nana Mizuki
^^^same as above.

Mr. Children
Same as The Pillows

Other bands (metal, death, crazy stuff):
Siva, Dali, Megaromania, Brodiaea, Lamina, E'm ~grief~


Non-rock

Rip Slyme
Song:
Super Shooter

^^^Gogogo watch anime "Gantz"

Orange Range
^^^girly cr@p band I liked after watching Japanese dramas

Nujabees
^^^not a band but a contributor artist. Rap+pop and has anime songs like for Samurai Champloo

Miyavi
Hes kinda like a nevershoutnever! plays acoustic but he is great.



Also, BIG fan of Japanese movies, dramas and same for Korean.


I leave you guys with this... lol

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@Tcoat

Unfortunately, Versailles broke up like 2yrs ago.


I'm tired of typing. That's like only 10% of my j-bands. Many are undergeround. Hope you can find them. Others just play local shows so they fall into the 'non-existant' category. But they do exist. I either saw them live, youtube'd them years back or x-gf's gave me demo cd's of 'em.

[Tcoat]

Sweet lord man that is enough to keep me going for months!


I can watch her play all night (and probably will).


Oh, there are threads made on way worse topics. I never even knew any of this existed so am curious and wanted to learn more.


Here is a probably unknown (there) Canadian band for you. It is my favorite Canadian band and we have hung out many times as my son did some work for them years ago.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol6C_KRDf4o"]Die Mannequin - Bad Medicine (HD Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]

[Packofcrows]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Sweet lord man that is enough to keep me going for months!


I can watch her play all night (and probably will).

Guitar girl in red is guy named Hizaki. Hes so ugly lol he dresses good. Should watch interviews. Hes from Versailles.

Forgot GOGO7188 my first punk/idk wth band in like 1997. I was 8 using a Mac os in 4th? Grade.

[Packofcrows]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Sweet lord man that is enough to keep me going for months!


I can watch her play all night (and probably will).


Oh, there are threads made on way worse topics. I never even knew any of this existed so am curious and wanted to learn more.


Here is a probably unknown (there) Canadian band for you. It is my favorite Canadian band and we have hung out many times as my son did some work for them years ago.

Double post...on tablet. Cant edit.


Thanks for CAN band. My favorite is Metric. Saw them live. <3

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Packofcrows

Guitar girl in red is guy named Hizaki. Hes so ugly lol he dresses good. Should watch interviews. Hes from Versailles.

Forgot GOGO7188 my first punk/idk wth band in like 1997. I was 8 using a Mac os in 4th? Grade.

I went back and forth as to the sex there about 20 times. Guessed wrong.

[mav1178]

X Japan can be summed up by this song, 30 minutes of pure musical bliss.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqmkgSeYjI"]X - Japan - Art of Life FULL song - YouTube[/ame]

Live version: 1993 Tokyo Dome

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrc2M7cNPWk"]X-Japan - Art of Life - YouTube[/ame]

RIP Hide (1998) & Taiji (2011)

Desert Rose
Why do you live alone
If you are sad
I'll make you leave this life
Are you white, blue or bloody red
All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand

The winds of time
You knock me to the ground
I'm dying of thirst
I wanna run away
I don't know how to set me free to live
My mind cries out feeling pain

I've been roaming to find myself
How long have I been feeling endless hurt
Falling down, rain flows into my heart
In the pain I'm waiting for you
Can't go back
No place to go back to
Life is lost, Flowers fall
If it's all dreams
Now wake me up
If it's all real
Just kill me

I'm making the wall inside my heart
I don't wanna let my emotions get out
It scares me to look at the world
Don't want to find myself lost in your eyes
I tried to drown my past in grey
I never wanna feel more pain
Ran away from you without saying any words
What I don't wanna lose is love

Through my eyes
Time goes by like tears
My emotion's losing the color of life
Kill my heart
Release all my pain
I'm shouting out loud
Insanity takes hold over me

Turning away from the wall
Nothing I can see
The scream deep inside
reflecting another person in my heart
He calls me from within
"All existence you see before you
must be wiped out :
Dream, Reality, Memories,
and Yourself"

I begin to lose control of myself
My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
Nobody can stop my turning to madness
No matter how you try to hold me in your heart
Why do you wanna raise these walls
I don't know the meaning of hatred
My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
I only want to hold your love

Stab the dolls filled with hate
Wash yourself with their blood
Drive into the raging current of time
Swing your murderous weapon into the belly
"the earth"
Shout and start creating confusion
Shed your blood for pleasure
And what? For love?
What am I supposed to do?

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Past and future prison my heart
Time is blind
But I wanna trace my love
on the wall of time, over pain in my heart
Art of life
Insane blade stabbing dreams
Try to break all truth now
But I can't heal this broken heart in pain
Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
Keep on crying

Close my eyes
Time breathes I can hear
All love and sadness
melt in my heart

Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my walls

You can't draw a picture of yesterday, so
You're painting your heart with your blood
You can't say "No"
Only turning the wheel of time
with a rope around your neck
You build a wall of morality and take a breath
from between the bricks
You make up imaginary ennemies and are chased by them
You're trying to commit suicide
You're satisfied with your prologue
Now you're painting your first chapter black
You are putting the scraps of life together
and trying to make an asylum for yourself
You're hitting a bell at the edge of the stage
and
You are trying to kill me

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love
in my dream

I'm breaking the wall inside my heart
I just wanna let my emotions get out
Nobody can stop
I'm running to freedom
No matter how you try to hold me in your world
Like a doll carried by the flow of time
I sacrificed the present moment for the future
I was in chains of memory half-blinded
Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams

Close my eyes
Rose breathes I can hear
All love and sadness melt in my heart
Dry my tears
Wipe my bloody face
I wanna feel me living my life
outside my mind

Dreams can make me mad
I can't leave my dream
I can't stop myself
Don't know what I am
What lies are truth?
What truths are lies?

I believe in the madness called "Now"
Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
Wanna to live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I haven't found what I'm looking for
Art of life
I try to stop myself
But my heart goes to destroy the truth
Tell me why
I want the meaning of my life
Do I try to live, Do I try to love

Art of life
An Eternal Bleeding heart
You never wanna breathe your last
Wanna live
Can't let my heart kill myself
Still I'm feeling for
A Rose is breathing love
in my life

[soulreapersteve]

Dunno if you'll like this but I listen to a group called "Babymetal". They are more j-rock than metal, I suppose? dunno.

Purists don't like them because of their "style" but hey, I love their songs and I find myself going way past the speed limit whenever a song comes on. I don't listen to metal though, so what do I know. haha

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NMZAUKGw"]BABYMETAL - メギツ� - MEGITSUNE (Full ver.) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GErGfHjHQ0"]BABYMETAL - ヘド�ンギャー��[ Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! ] (Full ver.) - YouTube[/ame]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

Dunno if you'll like this but I listen to a group called "Babymetal". They are more j-rock than metal, I suppose? dunno.

Purists don't like them because of their "style" but hey, I love their songs and I find myself going way past the speed limit whenever a song comes on. I don't listen to metal though, so what do I know. haha

I don't mind that at all and a least I can tell who is actually female (I think). My long night of video watching and research tells me I am more interested in the meta/glam music of the visual kei type. I have no idea how I never stumbled upon this stuff years ago.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by mav1178

X Japan can be summed up by this song, 30 minutes of pure musical bliss.

Live version: 1993 Tokyo Dome

RIP Hide (1998) & Taiji (2011)

Yes that was the one that hooked me.
Can't wait for the wife to come home from work and I am playing this.
I can hear her already "What the HELL is that?"

[Packofcrows]

Yo Tcoat try Rosier by Luna Sea. If you still dont fancy them, then ill never bring them up again.

[Special_K]

I don't know what to do with this thread.