Hey,

I'd like to name a few great underground metal acts of various sub-genres, since it's pretty difficult nowadays to get attention, if you aren't hailing from some metal stronghold, such as Finland, Norway or Sweden.
Especially countries like Japan, Korea etc. often remain unnoticed by many metalheads and are not even taken serious.

I'm getting pissed off when I see people just talking about the metal that is in the media, such as In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Trivium, Children of Bodom and so on. There aren't many people that really know about the underground, although there are many bands that sound just as good as the big ones.

So please help those bands getting noticed and rewarded for their good jobs. Support them when they do a gig near your town, the prices are very low (usually 3€-10€) and the concerts are just as much fun. It just sucked when I was on a Born From Pain gig last time and the band was frustrated as fuck on stage, because the hall was almost empty.
Help foreign bands to get the attention they need, even if their discs aren't available in your country. They will become available as soon as there's demand for it. Download the music, spread the word and buy it as soon as it's available!
AND: There are good bands from any country, fuck the prejudices!

This counts for all bands, I'd just like to name a few I know so far:



Sex Machineguns - Heavy Metal from Japan (similar to Iron Maiden, Annihilator, Running Wild)

陰陽座 (Onmyo-Za) - Female fronted Heavy Metal with Visual Kei and Progressive influences from Japan (similar to X JAPAN, Dir en grey, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden)

Dauntless - Deathrash attack from Finland (similar to Deathchain, The Crown, Amoral)

Words of Farewell - Melodic Death Metal with Doom Metal influences from Germany (similar to Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Insomnium, Opeth)

Stereochrist - Doom Metal from Hungary (similar to Black Label Society, Cathedral, Candlemass)

Cripper - Thrash Metal from Germany (similar to Slayer, Kreator, Sodom)

ChthoniC - Symphonic Black Metal from Taiwan, already getting more attention through their appearance on Wacken '07 (similar to Dimmu Borgir, Dissection)

Blood Stain Child - Melodic Death Metal, later with Trance influences from Japan (similar to In Flames, Children of Bodom, Mors Principium Est)

Sigh - Avant-Garde (Black) Metal from Japan (similar to Dimmu Borgir???)

God Dethroned - Death Metal from the Netherlands (similar to Slayer, Deicide)

Shadow - Melodic Death Metal from Japan (similar to In Flames, Arch Enemy)

Intestine Baalism - (Melodic) Death Metal from Japan (similar to In Flames, Dismember)

Galneryus - Power Metal from Japan (similar to Sonata Arctica, Blind Guardian)

Impaled Nazarene - Black Metal from Finland (similar to Darkthrone, Mayhem, Marduk, Slayer)

Lost Eden - Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Japan (similar to Fear My Thoughts, As I Lay Dying, Blood Stain Child)

Noumena - Melodic Death Metal with Doom Metal influences from Finland (similar to Swallow the Sun, Insomnium)

Pain Confessor - Melodic Death Metal from Finland (similar to Diablo, In Flames, Slayer)

Profugus Mortis - Melodic Death Metal with Symphonic Metal influences from Canada (similar to Children of Bodom, Eternal Tears of Sorrow)

Volcano - Thrash metal from Japan (similar to Slayer, Kreator)

King's Evil - Thrash Metal from Japan (similar to Slayer, Kreator, Sodom, Deathchain)

マキシマム ザ ホルモン (Maximum the Hormone) - Hardcore Punk from Japan (similar to ???)

METAL SAFARI - Hardcore/Thrash Metal from Japan (similar to Hatebreed, Born From Pain, Pantera)

contagious - Heavy Metal with growl parts from Germany (similar to Iron Maiden, Cathedral)

Veroxity - Death Metal from Germany (similar to Dying Fetus, Dismember, Pig Destroyer)

Suffocate Bastard - Death Metal/Grindcore from Germany (similar to Dying Fetus, Rotten Sound, Napalm Death)

Scartown - Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore from Russia (similar to Children of Bodom, Killswitch Engage)

Imperanon - Melodic Death Metal with Power Metal influences from Finland (similar to Children of Bodom, Sonata Arctica)

Cerberus - Death Metal from the USA (similar to Slayer, The Crown)

Coffins - Death Metal from Japan (similar to Six Feet Under, Obituary)

Phazm - Death/Black Metal from France (similar to Carcass, ???)

Falchion - Viking Metal from Finland (similar to Ensiferum, Turisas, Elvenking)

From Exile - Melodic Death Metal with progressive influences from the USA (similar to Scar Symmetry, Dream Theater, In Flames)

Ruin - High speed Melodic Death Metal from the USA (similar to ???)

Hacksore - Death Metal from Germany (similar to Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus)

Hacride - Death Metal from France (similar to The Haunted)

Lyzanxia - Melodic Death Metal from France (similar to The Haunted)

Empylver - Folk (Black) Metal from China (similar to ???)

Alarum - Death Metal/Jazz Fusion from Australia (similar to ???)

Magane - Black Metal from Japan (similar to Darkthrone, Carpathian Forest)

Prophesia - Heavy/Power Metal from Japan (simlar to Sonata Arctica)

Burden of Grief - Melodic Death Metal from Germany (similar to The Crown, Nightrage)




These are just a few, I could name dozens more.
You may PM me and ask for my ICQ for more informations.




AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL

UNDERGROUND!!!




STAY BREWTAL!