too bad bands of such concentrated talent tend to fall apart so quickly.
Bands that make it have 1-2 talented dudes and a bunch of hacks (metallica)
I don't think Maximum the Hormone sounds like SikTh at all, more like SOAD, Tool, RATM etc. put in a blender and mixed into amphetamine. Crazy band. The bassist has some nice chops too.
The only "Japanese SikTh" I know is Cyclamen, but that's a solo project of a Japanese guy living in Britain:
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Shy of The Depth... pretty awesome except for the vocals!![]()
Ha! That's the same thing I thought when I first heard Sikth! But they grew on me. I'm not sure if Shy of The Depth will really grow on me though. Kind of one of those situations where it's like "I liked them better when they were called Sikth." I'm not terribly fond of the genre though. Sikth was kind of an exception for me.