Maximum The Hormone. Amazing name, but dance choruses...with nu-metal verses and Japanese gibberish...?
And then...
Blood Stain Child, a Japanese In Flames with heavy trance elements. I love how the front man is wearing a toga. He even tries to match Anders' dreadlocks.
Dir en grey would be the equivalent of a Marilyn Manson...? If Marilyn Manson had grind influences and made videos that looked like The Ring.
When I was in Finland I met a girl who made a documentary focusing on the cultural impact between Japan and the Scandanavias. Scandanavian metal gets exported, anime/cosplay/pocky sticks/bento/whatever gets imported. It just surprises me when I find out from other Swedes that Dir en grey concerts are filled with 13 year old girls wearing cat ears screaming for "Kyo-sama." This would be the complete antithesis of emasculated Asian male figures in the American media.
Alex is getting his masters in Chicago. Maybe I should go back and get mine in Sweden. Or, better yet, I can just sit all day in front of YouTube and hope to one day mirror Marty Friedman's career.
Canned applause and all.
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