With 5,000 years of history, musicians have a lot to draw from when incorporating ancient Chinese culture into their musical output. He is routinely booked with metal bands to mixed results: at times, audience members may seem less than enthused, but others, they dance and scream along with his experimental take on metal. Donning a lab coat on stage, his live performances are backed by ear-grating electronic sounds, explosive guitar riffs, and unhinged vocalizations. If you catch a show, hang onto your girlfriends.īorrow the Sound is a mad scientist cooking up an avant-garde style of industrial metal. They’ve created hard-rocking, harmonica-tinged anthems such as “Tricky Boys Back in Town” and “Smoking Hot Baby” as well as ballads that inspire female fans to throw their bras and scraps of paper with their WeChat IDs onstage. The 80s style of teased hair, bandanas, and tight leather pants as seen in glam-metal bands like Guns and Roses, Motley Crue or Skid Row have returned with Los Crasher, who live by the rebellious mentalities of the genre’s predecessors. Here is where you’ll probably find the members of Los Crasher, clad in leather or denim, downing shots of tequila, and flirting with girls. The Beijing equivalent of LA’s Sunset Strip is perhaps Nanluoguxiang, a series of winding backstreets dotted by bars and live music venues. Photographer/摄影师: Douzi Photographer/摄影师: Douzi Photographer/摄影师: Douzi Photographer/摄影师: Douzi Los Crasher They recently rolled up a fat new EP titled Savage, and as the name implies, it’s a harder-edged version of the band’s sound, featuring chunky, sticky riffs that seem like the sonic equivalent of holding freshly harvested buds. Still, not lighting up won’t affect the audience’s enjoyment of a Never Before live show. Nobody seemed to have told Never Before, a band that harkens back to the greats of the genre such as Electric Wizard, Monster Magnet, and Clutch. Photographer/摄影师: 海淀阑尾 Photographer/摄影师: 海淀阑尾 Photographer/摄影师: 海淀阑尾 Never Beforeīeing that marijuana is illegal in China, stoner rock isn’t exactly a genre that’s thriving in the country. Their latest EP Conviction, with the inclusion of Egypt-inspired sounds in their brutal soundscapes, marks a new creative milestone for the band. With venues in Tianjin packed with fans to go ballistic, nobody gets the pits going like these maniacs. Formed in 2005, the Tianjin-based band creates songs across a variety of themes, ranging from oppression and brutality to animal cruelty. Slam riffs and the heaviness of brutal death metal mixed with monstrous vocals and Pantera-esque grooves are the sonic foundations that The Dark Prison Massacre is built on. So if you spot their name on the bill, don’t miss out. While they frequently play festivals in and around the Beijing area, their internet presence, especially an English presence, is minimal. The band’s bludgeoning riffs and Chris Barnes-esque, guttural vocal style come together to create a massive, suffocating sound that would impress any death metal purist. Inspired by Floridian death metal bands like Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, and Morbid Angel, Ready to Die was founded in Beijing in 2007 and hold the claim as the first band in the Middle Kingdom to utilize female vocals with a classic American death metal style. Photographer/摄影师: 耿由然 Photographer/摄影师: 耿由然 Photographer/摄影师: 耿由然 Ready to Dieįinding a quality old-school death metal band in China is something of a rarity, and Ready to Die is an even rarer breed, considering the talented female vocalist who drives their sound. In this edition of Neocha Roundups, we’re happy to present ten underground Chinese metal acts that we believe deserve some attention. No matter your taste, the burgeoning metal scene in China has something for everyone. Depending on your open-mindedness and mood, you could be listening to a blues-inspired metal band one night and a pornogrind band spewing the raunchiest lyrics you’ve ever heard the next. Today, a diverse variety of metal subgenres is on offer throughout the Middle Kingdom.
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