Japanese Metal... who is this???

tripping around you-tube... who the heck is this????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNEh0sdd90


wild costumes but the music seems pretty kickin....

haha, pretty cool!!

Ultimate Black Mass is what it says

Here they have Peter Criss on guitar!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzDU4CXKb7s&NR

That is a band called "Seikima-II" and they rock! Legendary in the land of the rising sun.

Sure does look like Peter Criss' makeup on that guitarist. I wonder how much his makeup was inspired by Criss.

Saxon, do you have any of their CDs?

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Wow, I remember this band!! When I was in college there was a Japanese guy living on my floor in the dorm who was a HUGE fan of Seikima-II. I remember him showing me some of their concert videos...I couldn't understand a word they were singing, of course, but the makeup and stage show was like a combo of KISS, "Star Wars" and Godzilla! I believe the band's name loosely translated to "End of the World" or "End of The Century" or something like that, they had some kind of apocalyptic sci-fi concept running through their lyrics and art work.

If memory serves, one of the guitarists eventually came to the US and was in the short lived glam band "Cats in Boots"

Yeah - I have a really rare one called "Worst". Very good album!

Just did a quickie Google search on Seikima-II and came up with this info for those who are curious:

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEIKIMA-II

Apparently these guys were so huge that they even had their own video game in Japan, here's a review of it from a gaming site:
http://www.dreamdawn.com/sh/features/seikimatsu.php

All in all, they sound like they were even stranger than I remember!!

you just never know what you'll find on the 'net eh????

trippy stuff.... i found a couple more clips. they're actually a six piece... 3 guitarists...

was taht song in english and japanese?

KissinMaiden wrote:

was taht song in english and japanese?

About 95% in Japanese. A lot of bands in Japan will use an occasional English lyric or phrase in their songs (Loudness' early albums were the same way, mostly Japanese but once in a while an English word would pop up)

Fat Freddy wrote:

KissinMaiden wrote:

was taht song in english and japanese?

About 95% in Japanese. A lot of bands in Japan will use an occasional English lyric or phrase in their songs (Loudness' early albums were the same way, mostly Japanese but once in a while an English word would pop up)

;Movies are orften like that in Asia too. Especially in India, but I've seen Japanese movies that do it too.