Countries like China, Japan, Bangkok etc? I NEVER hear or read about metal bands from these countries! Why is that??? Are there any that anyone knows of? Especially black/death like I indicated in the topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M10ti9Jpyk

Chthonic from Taiwan. They're very good.
I like your avatar BTW. Welcome to the forum.

Oh yeah, and also: Anthelion, who I think are also from Taiwan, and Sigh from Tokyo, Japan.

BTW, Fonzbear, a really good way to learn about/discover new bands is to make a profile at http://www.last.fm/
You can read all about that in the topic Muller already made.
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=23852

Wait a second..were you asking for names of bands, or were you asking why no one on the forum makes topics about them?

sabbat! \m/

chthonic are ok, i watched them live live year, even when the speakers broke half way though and no sound was coming out they still carried on like a trooper. although i didint like the political stuff they were saying, especially when the dopey cool dude crowd agreed, when they didnt even understand..

There's lots of extreme metal bands from Asia, I don't see how one can "NEVER" hear or read about them. Check out the Indonesian scene, for example. I especially enjoy Kekal which are now avantgarde/post metal, but their early albums have a lot of black metal elements.

there is only one Sabbat and they sure as hell don't come from Japan!

Sorry, Slab, but actually:

Two artists share this name:

1) Sabbat is a British thrash metal band, formed out the ashes of two previous high-school bands, ‘Hell’ and ‘Hydra’, in May 1985, when vocalist Martin Walkyier and bassist Fraser Craske of Hydra ditched their guitarist (who wished to concentrate on a more melodic style of metal) and hooked up with guitarist Andy Sneap and drummer Simon Negus to form the first Sabbat line-up. After rehearsing for nearly a year they released the “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” demo, which was very well received, with immediate interest from several record companies and a two-page spread in Kerrang! magazine. After releasing a Warhammer-inspired Flexi-disc on the front cover of White Dwarf magazine, the band penned a deal with German Noise Records in mid 1987 (signing had previously been delayed because Andy Sneap was under 18 years of age and not legally an adult). The band travelled to Hanover in September 1987 to record their debut album, “History of a Time to Come”. It was well received, as was the follow-up effort “Dreamweaver”, however, tensions within the band began to mount, Some of the tensions related to Martin Walyier’s folk music direction and Andy Sneap’s long drawn out songwriting - 2 facts documented in terrorizer magazine,and Metal Hammer - However, the biggest pressure was simply financial - the band were broke, and completely unmanaged by their record label Noise.Simon Jones was first to leave in November 1989 during the Dreamweaver tour, Martin Walkyier left in 1990 along with Craske, with Walkyier going off to form Skyclad, with a group of others who shared his more folk orientated direction.

Though the band recorded one more album, “Mourning Has Broken”, they could no longer regain the essential chemistry that had made them what they were, and they split up in the middle of a supporting tour.

Andy Sneap went on to form the group Godsend but is now best known as a producer.

Martin Walkyier tried to reform Sabbat in 2001 - however he was blocked from using the name Sabbat by Andy Sneap for legal reasons, Martin formed “Return to the Sabbat” with Simon Jones on guitar, Frazer Craske on bass and Steve Watson on drums. This line up eventually broke up in 2003.

Sabbat have since reformed with various line-up changes and continue to tour.


2) Sabbat is a black metal band from Japan. It can be said that the story of Sabbat started in 1983 when a band called EVIL consisting of Gezol (bass), Ozny (guitar), Elizaveat (guitar), Valvin (drums) and Toshiya (vocals) was formed. Except for Ozny the rest of the guys had been playing together since 1981 in high school bands like ABURAMUSHI, HOT ROD and BLACK BEAST. With the high school bands the name of the game was mostly playing covers of NWOBHM acts like Iron Maiden and Demon but with EVIL the aims were immediately set higher. The band started to write material of their own and the first gig was played in August 1983.
Sabbat is still active. Released numerous ep’s, splits, albums, live gigs etc. They were so much appreciated that fans made their own label called evil records which releases older stuff of Sabbat on vinyl.


Edited by [deleted user] on 1 Apr 2009, 18:52
Sources (view history)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbat_%28band%29

http://www.myspace.com/officialsabbat

Can you possibly prove yourself to be any more of a mong? Of course i know there are two bands using the bloody name.

There still is only one Sabbat though, that being the UK's finest thrash band. The other silly nip band should be taken out, staked to the ground over fresh growing bamboo shoots for daring to pilfer the name Sabbat. If your band can't think of an original name then please go away and die.

P.S.
NEVER NEVER ATTEMPT TO LECTURE ME AGAIN!!!!!

I'd like to lecture you on the fact that your capslock seems to be stuck and you might consider cleaning your keyboard

I'll accept a lecture off you any time As last time i looked, you were not a buffoon

And while we're on the subject of lecturing it's actually "caps lock" NOT "capslock"