Is the such a thing a J-Metal

[Marrow]

I am well aware of J-POP and J-ROCK but is there such a thing as J-METAL. I am sure there has to be. Does japanese metal just fall into the j-rock category or what? Well if someone knows the name of a J-Metal band let me know.

[Brooker]

Yeah there's lots. Some of the ones in the 80's were really popular, like "Guitar Wolf". I found several that I really liked while I was in Japan, most of them not well known, like "Eyes" from Nagoya and "Kobose" (which sounds kind of like Primus, metal?).

[Illaparatzo-sama]

http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2106

[xmattytronx]

Yeah there's lots. Some of the ones in the 80's were really popular, like "Guitar Wolf". I found several that I really liked while I was in Japan, most of them not well known, like "Eyes" from Nagoya and "Kobose" (which sounds kind of like Primus, metal?).

I guess you'd be right if you had any idea who Guitar Wolf were. Guitar Wolf are greasers who make dirty rocknroll that doesn't even closely resemble metal.

[Winter]

Real J-Metal does exist in Japan, but its so hard to find.

A gateway band to more metal would be Defiled...and if you're really hardpressed to find authentic metal, The Yellow Machinegun.

[RockLee]

http://www.actv.ne.jp/~atch/band.htm here you find a few...a while ago I came across a good site with japanese metal bands..I'll look it up when I have the time :-)



edit : found it, here ya go

http://kanazawa.cool.ne.jp/torme/JAPAN/

Sorrow of Tranquility (Death Metal, bilingual vocals)
NumB (Death Metal, Japanese vocals) picked this up too