[FreddoCinquante]

Does anybody know any good Korean heavy metal bands?

[Izzie]

I think you'll get more response in the underground forum.
sorry I don't really know one that's good

[RACETRAITOR]

Heavy metal is huge in every Asian country. There's a Korean band called Blackhole that adds everyone on MySpace. http://www.blackholemetal.com

If you can handle metalcore or hardcore, try Vassline first:

http://www.vassline.com

If you can handle tough-guy skinhead hardcore, try Samchung and Knockdown.

http://www.samchung.org

http://www.knockdown2000.com

There's also plenty of great grindcore and various other cores in Korea, but I think this is straying more away from your area of interest.

[tokaebi]

If you're more into newer style metal there are bands like Pia or Schizo. And there's Hollow Jan who kind of deftones-esque....not really metal persay, but heavier than a lot of other bands.

[RACETRAITOR]

Hollow Jan rule. I would call them screamo, but I've been wrong before.

If you like them, then I also recommend 49 Morphines, but I haven't seen them around lately.

[tokaebi]

^

Labels are labels...all that really matters in the end is weather or not they are good (which Hallow Jan is). Also thanks for the recomendation, I'll have to check out 49 Morphines.

[RACETRAITOR]

Speaking of labels...

http://www.gmcrecords.net
http://www.townhallrecords.com
http://www.btrecords.com

[Anrui]

If you like them, then I also recommend 49 Morphines, but I haven't seen them around lately.

Do they have a website? All Ive ever found of them is their daum cafe (and that doesnt help me very much)

[RACETRAITOR]

Do they have a website? All Ive ever found of them is their daum cafe (and that doesnt help me very much)

Yeah, to too many Korean bands, a Daum Cafe is a website. I don't think they realise that foreigners can't join. We're out of luck.

[internetwarfare]

what is daum cafe anyways? like a blog?

[Anrui]

what is daum cafe anyways? like a blog?

No its a site...I cant think of an English site to compare it with.......They have news and....You know cyworld? They have clubs sort of like that. A lot of bands main page is their daum cafe, and you have to be Korean to sign up because you need a residence number

Yeah, to too many Korean bands, a Daum Cafe is a website. I don't think they realise that foreigners can't join. We're out of luck.

Figures.........I wish cyworld clubs were more popular so more bands would use THOSE clubs

[tokaebi]

Yeah, to too many Korean bands, a Daum Cafe is a website. I don't think they realise that foreigners can't join. We're out of luck.

I was under the impression that foreigners could join Daum services if they jumped through all sorts of hoops (mailing copies of passports and junk like that).

[Anrui]

Or you can sign up as a child or something?

Anyway, its all a whole lot of work to join if either are true. I always thought eventually they would just let the rest of us register like other sites are doing.

[RACETRAITOR]

Or you can sign up as a child or something?

I wouldn't bother to sign up for a kiddie account. Insulting.

I was trying to register on SayCast using my foreigner ID so I could join a friend's music chatroom, and it kept accusing me of being underage. So I gave up. If Koreans don't want us on their websites, I'm not going to go out of my way.

On the brighter side, it looks like Hanmail now allows foreigners to send e-mail to Hanmail accounts.

[Anrui]

I wouldn't bother to sign up for a kiddie account. Insulting.

You've a lot of pride dont you? Ive my own reason for not trying (lazy)

On the brighter side, it looks like Hanmail now allows foreigners to send e-mail to Hanmail accounts.

I didnt know you couldnt before??? That seems a little..............Stupid. If only they let us GET accounts, that would be helpful

[RACETRAITOR]

[quote name='Anrui' date='Nov 1 2005, 03:55 PM' post='518007']
You've a lot of pride dont you? Ive my own reason for not trying (lazy) [/quote]

An equally good reason. But would you really want to post on message boards with a kid's account? It would seem a little condescending.

I didnt know you couldnt before??? That seems a little..............Stupid. If only they let us GET accounts, that would be helpful
[/quote]

For quite a while, it was impossible to e-mail any Hanmail addresses from Hotmail. I also tried Yahoo and gMail. But it seems to work fine now.

There are all sorts of strange restrictions on the Internet here. Sometimes it is impossible to access Angelfire from inside Korea for months on end. I also had trouble with Dot.TK, no explanation ever given, and I know they worked for people in other countries.

Anyway...metal!

[tokaebi]

^

Yes...as for metal I remembered a couple other bands that metalheads may wish to check out.

There's Holymarsh and Niflheim which are both kind of death metal or doom metal or (insert some other word about distruction here) metal.

Niflheim can be found here: http://www.nifl-heim.net/
Holymarsh's website seems to be inopperational at present.

[hahamysock]

Heavy metal is huge in every Asian country. There's a Korean band called Blackhole that adds everyone on MySpace. http://www.blackholemetal.com

what's their myspace url?


thanks for the links

[RACETRAITOR]

what's their myspace url?
thanks for the links

http://www.myspace.com/blackholemetal
When you add them they'll post a goofy-ass thanks picture in your comments.

PS) Kudos on the sig.

[mrkwang]

Does anybody know any good Korean heavy metal bands?

Imagine US music market. Even if Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey are (or were) there, there were also Metallica or Megadeth. Korea is similar. Just the problem is, Korean Metal group can't sell many as Metallica.

You'd better point WHAT KIND OF METAL BAND you want. Even if Korean scene is much smaller, there exist almost every kind of metal band.

mrkwang recommends Moonshine first, if you NEVER experienced any K-metal before.
http://www.purevolume.com/moonshinekor