Heavy Metal

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Fippy]

War in metal land.
Metal invades your home.
Metal in charge: the make your music great again campaign.
What's going on in metal politics?
AI metal taking over.
What will be next in metal universe?
I built an AI metal Generator.

Oh please excuse me..just trying to match your needs here.
Will we get new interest now?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

War in metal land.

Metal invades your home.

What's going on in metal politics?

AI metal taking over.

What will be next in metal universe?

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Fippy]

I didn't know Bruce Dickinson had a song with Ayreon, learn something new every day.

 

[Theov]

They are amazing.
Their performance at Sonisphere 2014 is legendary.
Nearly no one in England knew them at the time. And there they stood; some teenagers (16 and 14 years old) from Japan shocking the crowd - who look bewildered at first.
But in the end they won them over and got them going.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Japanese are weird.

 

[PhroX]

While I think Babymetal are a pretty good band. and I can enjoy their music, I was not impressed with them at all as a live act when I saw them a few years back opening for Sabaton. I suspect some of it is due to langauge and culture, but they were just on stage performing their music as it is on the albums. No real crowd interaction at all. Which, to me at least, is a big part of live music. Even comparing to the other opener that night, Lordi - most of the people there only knew one Lordi song, but the lead singer spent a good part of the time working the crowd, getting us into the music, hyping up the other bands to follow, encouraging clapping and jumping up and down madly etc, and then when they did get round to doing Hard Rock Hallelujah as thier final song, they had us sing the chorus, which we did with gusto, and we we left fully hyped up for the rest of the evening. And of course Sabaton themselves took this even further, with great crowd interaction throughout the entire set, as well as doing songs even a bit differetly from the albums at time (extra solos, more [again] crowd interaction stuff like repeating chorus for us to sing etc). Babymetal were just....there....and while the music was good, the performance left the crowd rather flat.

They don't deserve the hate they get from some of the "trve metal" crowd, they're talented and definitely metal. But not a good live band from my experience.

Anyway, more Japanese women doing metal:

 

[Verbose]

If genre fidelity is important to one as a music listener (might be a thing in the US in particular?) then Japanese bands tends to throw people for a loop, since they seem to do a bit of whatever comes to mind.

Relative oldies by now, Maximum the Hormone, should be as good a place to start as any. (Then there is a whole development in Japanese music about broadening the spectrum of what acceptable modes of expression for female musicians in particular can be, at least since the 2010s.)

 

[Angst]

the quality of a live show does not relate to crowd work.

my favorite rock band literally doesn't look at the crowd when they play.

similarly, the quiet uninteractive culture we know in eg classical concerts actually isn't true for all of it, and was a culture shift in the 1800s i believe. before it changed, it was quite rowdy.

 

[Fippy]

I suspect some of it is due to langauge and culture, but they were just on stage performing their music as it is on the albums. No real crowd interaction at all. Which, to me at least, is a big part of live music.

Maybe because they look casted..put together by an agency, like boybands etc.
Normally metal bands come together by members knowing each other, and they usually also interact(ed) with the local community & clubs.
And we can see that when they perform live.

 

[Fippy]

AI pops up everywhere these days..
let's discuss such a song here maybe?
I randomly stumbled upon this..the creator says:

Yes, the core of the music is AI‑generated – but the lyrics, artistic direction and sound are mine. I reworked the stems and did the final mastering myself. I use AI as a tool, not as a replacement for creativity.

I'd say it uses refrains in a way that most pop artists do..make them stick in your brain as #1 goal.
I dislike that and think it's junk..but very interested in what others say

 

[Fippy]

But i should also post something real & good..a great song even imo.

 

[EvaDK]

What makes this even more epic, is sisters Floor and Irene Jansen singing backing vocals (this was recorded before Floor Jansen became recognized as one of the greatest female vocalists alive today)

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What makes this even more epic, is sisters Floor and Irene Jansen singing backing vocals (this was recorded before Floor Jansen became recognized as one of the greatest female vocalists alive today)

Floor Jansen does credit Sir Arjen Lucassen with discovering her and starting her career (and that's why she keeps coming back when offered a part in his projects).

 

[EvaDK]

Arjen Lucassen is a legend in The Netherlands. I swear, he can just call up Floor, Simone Simons, Sharon den Adel and whoever and they'll show up on his doorstep, no questions asked

 

[Josu]

I was introduced to metal with this song and band

After that, most of the bands mentioned in this post, arrived

 

[thetrooper]

Missed me?

No? Well, I’m back to annoy you.

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Broken_Erika]