Metal/anime
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Kenneth R.
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rockmanxpr
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Anime: I'm old school, like back in the 1980's, 90's were ok til Cowboy Bebop showed up and I'm still up to date on the current releases. Hell back in the 90's I even did subtitleing, taking laserdiscs and adding subtitles to SVHS tapes.
X Japan: First heard of them when the anime movie X-1999 came out, and my first trip to japan I got their CD's, to me still good music every now and then.
I think this vid is good description from Marty Friedman on X japan
if it doesn't play just click on it
X Japan: First heard of them when the anime movie X-1999 came out, and my first trip to japan I got their CD's, to me still good music every now and then.
I think this vid is good description from Marty Friedman on X japan
if it doesn't play just click on it
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CantoX
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I would love to hear your explanation and reasoning behind that... thats like saying that I'm suprised that not many people know who Amr Diab is when hes one the most famous pop singers in the whole middle east... but why would you know? You don't listen to arabic music or are a part of the arab culture. Same thing, people don't listen to japanese music or are not a part of the japanese culture.. so why would they know of them? :Smug:
Kenneth R.
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I had to choose that option because there wasn't an option for "dislike x-japan even though I know who they are."
And they really have nothing to do with JP culture.
CantoX
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I'm not being a "prick" about anything. You still have yet to state your reasoning lol. Did you watch that video that rockmanxpr posted? Marty Friendman states that its not surprising that there are many people in Japan who don't know about Metallica.... a band who has sold over 100 million cds/records. That is surprising.. but why would people who listen to american/european metal just happen to know about a Japanese pop band?
Phanto
Alalalalalalalala.
He's making a point, not being a dick. It's not like X Japan were super big in any country other than Japan. Besides they weren't really that metal.
mark b
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rockmanxpr
High Speed Samurai
Phanto
Alalalalalalalala.
I'd guess with a statement. Something along these lines: "Everyone who listens to X Japan watch anime because they're the same bunch of queers."
I know it's not quite anime, but here's a music video I made merging Symphony X with a CG film:
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CantoX
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Lol check this one out.. saw this one like 3 years ago and still remember it..
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I don't know that much X Japan, but from what I've heard they rock pretty hard. As for anime, I like a few that I've seen. Neon Genesis Evangelion is the coolest story ever, and Cowboy Bebop rules for the soundtrack alone. A few of the older ones like Ghost in the Shell are pretty righteous, too.
Do I like X-Japnan? I guess you could just look at my forum name and figure out that I do.
@Zach: So I wasn't going crazy the other night when you seemed to be drunk and randomly quoted a line from the song "Endless Rain" in the thread I made?
Anyway, I have said it many times before here in the past that X-Japan is basically the reason I not only got into SyX but metal in general. So even though I don't listen to their stuff as much anymore unless I get some kind of urge, I do and will always have huge respect for them for paving my way to a deep love of music. I also think there is no other band like them in that their music has sounds of rock, metal, classical, and even a little pop. The only thing that really angers me about them is that they don't have very much music at all for a band that was around a good 15 years.
Supposedly they "got back together" about a year ago without their lead guitarist who passed away not long after they first disbanded in 1997. They made a new song for the movie Saw IV, which brought back some memories for me but still wasn't very good. They had 3 HUGE concerts for 3 nights in a row at the Tokyo Dome with different guest guitarists filling in for the passed members role. Of these "guests" two of them were Wes Borland and that guitarist from GnR (can't remember name....Forneus or something?). I just hope they not only make a full new album but that it actually is good and brings back a lot of the classical/speed metal influences of their past; however, it probably will never happen like that.
About the anime thing. While I do watch some anime I am not some super anime freak who watches like craploads of it. Even so, my knowledge of X-Japan has nothing to do with anime. My theory is that a lot of people who like anime know of X-Japan because these are the types of people who know of things in japanese culture in general. I actually discovered X-Japan from a friend of mine who knew someone online who was into prog bands like Dream Theater who had told him about them. So its not really a matter of X-Japan and anime having some kind of direct correlation.
And to whoever said that X-Japan is only big/known about in Japan, that certainly is not so. X-Japan is huge all around the world except here in the United States. They are very popular all throughout Asia and even in South America. Europe isn't as much so but still a lot bigger than the U.S., where there still are plenty of fans. Just to give an idea about world popularity, when they released their new song about a year ago that was used in Saw IV (the one that isn't very good really) it was the #1 iTunes song in the world I believe.
@Zach: So I wasn't going crazy the other night when you seemed to be drunk and randomly quoted a line from the song "Endless Rain" in the thread I made?
Anyway, I have said it many times before here in the past that X-Japan is basically the reason I not only got into SyX but metal in general. So even though I don't listen to their stuff as much anymore unless I get some kind of urge, I do and will always have huge respect for them for paving my way to a deep love of music. I also think there is no other band like them in that their music has sounds of rock, metal, classical, and even a little pop. The only thing that really angers me about them is that they don't have very much music at all for a band that was around a good 15 years.
Supposedly they "got back together" about a year ago without their lead guitarist who passed away not long after they first disbanded in 1997. They made a new song for the movie Saw IV, which brought back some memories for me but still wasn't very good. They had 3 HUGE concerts for 3 nights in a row at the Tokyo Dome with different guest guitarists filling in for the passed members role. Of these "guests" two of them were Wes Borland and that guitarist from GnR (can't remember name....Forneus or something?). I just hope they not only make a full new album but that it actually is good and brings back a lot of the classical/speed metal influences of their past; however, it probably will never happen like that.
About the anime thing. While I do watch some anime I am not some super anime freak who watches like craploads of it. Even so, my knowledge of X-Japan has nothing to do with anime. My theory is that a lot of people who like anime know of X-Japan because these are the types of people who know of things in japanese culture in general. I actually discovered X-Japan from a friend of mine who knew someone online who was into prog bands like Dream Theater who had told him about them. So its not really a matter of X-Japan and anime having some kind of direct correlation.
And to whoever said that X-Japan is only big/known about in Japan, that certainly is not so. X-Japan is huge all around the world except here in the United States. They are very popular all throughout Asia and even in South America. Europe isn't as much so but still a lot bigger than the U.S., where there still are plenty of fans. Just to give an idea about world popularity, when they released their new song about a year ago that was used in Saw IV (the one that isn't very good really) it was the #1 iTunes song in the world I believe.
Oh, and speaking of anime and metal! I have recently watched most of this short anime series called "Detroit Metal City"; it is so hilarious, especially for people who are into metal. It is basically about a kid who loves soft pop/swedish pop and goes to the city to pursue his music career; however, he ends up somehow becoming the lead masked/costumed guitarist/singer of a death metal group called Detroit Metal City (DMC). When he is dressed as bandmember "Krauser" he lets his emotions get the better of him and he acts crude and wild. Some of the most hilarious things in the episodes comes in the form of the lyrics....they are very much a stereotype of metal lyrics but kind of in an over the top and outlandish way.
The opening will give you an idea as to the lyrics I am talking about and they are subtitles in english:
The opening will give you an idea as to the lyrics I am talking about and they are subtitles in english:
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