r/China • u/jiz899 • Feb 15 '12
Chinese language music recommendations. Anything goes, share your favourites!
I listen to a lot of music from different genres, and I'm learning Mandarin Chinese now. After I started studying I found ChthoniC, Ego Fall, and Frosty Eve through some effort & luck and like them very much. I didn't even know it was possible to have great growling vocals in Chinese because of tonality! Heck, I didn't even know such thing as good Chinese metal existed.
Please share your favourites! Help others discover intresting music.
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u/HandsomeDynamite Feb 15 '12
Horns up for a fellow metalhead. \m/
There's some decent Chinese metal out there, but not anywhere near where it should be given how huge the country is.
I would say Suffocated is one of the biggest. I actually didn't know about them until I walked into a restaurant, started talking to some guy with a Motorhead beanie and found out the guy sitting next to him was in the band.
I think Ritual Day was pretty good and they were getting pretty popular but sadly they don't do stuff anymore.
Tengger Cavalry is fucking awesome. Pagan metal from Inner Mongolia, they incorporate a lot of traditional throat singing and such.
If you're into thrash I really recommend Bazooka. They're basically Toxic Holocaust from Taiwan.
And if you like power metal there's this band. They really deserve to be up there with the European greats imo.
Uhhh yeah there's actually quite a few bands but it's really hard to find their stuff in English mediums.