Metal Reviews

Great band from Japan! They've released 7 albums so far. Very unique in terms of lyrics (Japanese culutre and beliefs), vocals (well... ), image (just take a look at the photo at Metal-Archives).

Style: Heavy Metal influenced by bands like Iron Maiden, Accept, Judas Priest. However, female vocals can annoy the ones who aren't used to such way of singing.

Higly recommended!!! :twisted:

http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=18168
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onmyo-Za
http://www.onmyo-za.net/

How about some samples?

Well. That's more difficult case. As long as most of the stuff about them is to be found mostly at Japanese websites I can hardly find anything.

Here's some stuff from Russian site:
http://onmyoza.narod.ru/kasha_no_wadachi.dwg
http://onmyoza.narod.ru/tsukuhime.dwg

(After downloading, change dwg into mp3)

Few wmas:
http://www.jmignited.com/music/kirin.wma
http://www.jmignited.com/music/sougenbi.wma
http://www.jmignited.com/music/nue.wma
http://www.jmignited.com/music/tsukihime.wma

More to come (if I find anything)

EDIT:
http://www.kingrecords.co.jp/trial/japa ... youza5.asx
http://www.kingrecords.co.jp/trial/japa ... youza4.asx

What the hell? I'm not a fan of chick singers, but this isn't all that bad. I'll need to look further into this though, these samples don't say much.

The girl sings like in the good old Japanese anime

I found this sites:

http://mp3search.01-mp3search.com/top53-onmyouza.html
http://39mp3.com/musiclist/mmc_4080.htm

If you have DC++ there's a hub specialized in Japanese music JPope or sth like that. Check it. Their CDs are unfortunately expensive and their availability is limited.

The samples form this http://39mp3.com/musiclist/mmc_4080.htm
site are pretty damn cool. I have a couple pf albums downloading on eMule right now, thanks for the recommendation.

It's always nice to recommend a good band to the true metalhead

Enjoy!