Satou Kazuma Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 if not for their exposure in the U.S. and globally, there would not be an implosion of other idol propped metal groups. but i do have to say that the gimmicky type of metal isn't really my cup of tea. so after what 3 years passed by since the introduction of BABYMETAL, i stumbled acrossed LADYBABY/LADYBEARD from an imgur post, which led me to search for that group, who in fact turned out to be one of those gimmicky metal but a bit more metal with the growler. thus i went down the rabbit hole and discovered my new favorite band, BAND MAID, an actual rock band without the gimmicks, of course it also lead me to other types of Japanese heavy rock/metal groups i've gave a listening to for the past few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 Church of Misery is my favorite Japanese metal band. Stoner / doom metal. I hate to say it, but their album with the 1 Japanese guy and the 3 white American guys is their best album. >_> They're back to a full Japanese line-up now, though. I don't know if you're interested in Black Sabbath worship, but if you are, you really need to check these guys out: I do have to warn you though, they do have somewhat of a gimmick, if you can call it that. All of their songs are about serial killers, mass murderers, etc. That could be seen as a gimmick I guess. But lyrics aside, these guys are legit. Flower Travellin' Band is a good proto-metal / heavy-psych band from the early 70s. Me being a metal head and Sabbath freak, I favor their heaviest album, Satori. Loudness is pretty good heavy metal band from the early 80s that achieved moderate success in the states in 1985 for their album Thunder In the East and it's single Crazy Nights. My first exposure to this band was the video for Crazy Nights on VH1, and by the looks of it, you'd think they were a hair metal band. I was like, "Man, Japanese hair metal is so much better than American hair metal!" But when I made that comment online, I was told that Japanese hair metal was just as bad or even worse than American hair metal, and Loudness weren't really hair metal despite how they dressed. Despite me really liking Crazy Nights, I didn't really like the rest of the album when I heard it. Of the CDs I have, I think The Birthday Eve, their debut from 1981, is their best. They put out their latest album, Rise to Glory, earlier this year, and I liked it quite a bit when I downloaded it, but I haven't gotten around to ordering it yet. At one point I was all set to order it with a couple other CDs from one of my favorite music webshops, but it was out of stock! It'll have to wait... Starting in the 90s, much of their material has been compared to Pantera. I'm not much a fan of these albums that I've heard, but I'm not the biggest Pantera fan around. The new album has much more of an 80s metal sound rather than Pantera influence though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satou Kazuma Posted June 7, 2018 Author Share Posted June 7, 2018 i'm not opposed to gimmicks but i couldn't take babymetal serious with their over the top produced idol metal choreography. otherwise, i'll still occasional listen to it if i come across it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunStarHero Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 I liked Ladybaby but once Ladybeard left I was out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 1 minute ago, Hachiman said: i'm not opposed to gimmicks but i couldn't take babymetal serious with their over the top produced idol metal choreography. otherwise, i'll still occasional listen to it if i come across it. I hate Babymetal, not necessarily because it's gimmicky. But I really don't like the saccharine j-pop vocals, and then the metal part of the equation is just completely generic and uninteresting. In my opinion LadyBaby was infinitely better, in part, like you pointed out, because it was more metal with the growls. But there is more to LadyBaby being infinitely better than BabyMetal. In the LadyBaby video I saw, the Japanese girls were not at all singing saccharine pop, it was kind of atonal and menacing, despite sounding exactly like kawaii Japanese girls. And finally, LadyBaby's guitar riffs were just far better than any of BabyMetal's guitar riffs. LadyBaby is definitely not something I would be interested in listening to more than once, and it is a huge gimmick (really more of a parody), but musically there's just far more substance to it than what they are actually parodying. BabyMetal has literally nothing going for them but the gimmick. I can't imagine anyone other than weebs liking BabyMetal. If you're actually into metal, it should be easy to recognize their music has no substance, and if you're into j-pop, but don't normally listen to metal, why would you want to listen to j-pop backed with metal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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