Gay Japanese Metal -

[Nobue]

So, right now I'm obsessed with Versailles, and was hoping to find more stuff of the same sort, not counting the members' other projects. Any suggestions?

Also, Hizaki's getting fat.

 

[Epic Fedora Man]

TROOON! TROOOOOON!

 

[Nobue]

TROOON! TROOOOOON!

No, he just dresses up for business and being a homo that disappoints his famiry

 

[TFT-A9]

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[Epic Fedora Man]

No, he just dresses up for business and being a homo that disappoints his famiry

I don't believe you.

 

[TFT-A9]

I mean that's a pretty well-done look for the dude (dude?) on the right in the second thumbnail. Very "anime villain".

 

[Nobue]

I mean that's a pretty well-done look for the dude (dude?) on the right in the second thumbnail. Very "anime villain".

He even folds a frying pan to show his power level, then contains he can't afford a puppy.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Gonna name drop a bunch of Japanese metal bands to check out, a lot of old school acts mostly.

-Bellzlleb
-Anthem
-Outrage
-Dead End
-44 Magnum
-Loudness
-Raja
-Flatbackers
-Saver Tiger

These guys have more in common with thrash metal than the more glam or power metal. Recommend Outrage if you like Guilty Gear, same singer.

Obviously X Japan and Dir en grey for the visual kei stuff.

 

[Gensou Hadou]

Might not be gay, but:

 

[Radical Cadre]

Each one is legally fuckable now.

Each one has real armpit hair.

VERY GAY. INHALE!!!

 

[Solid Snek]

I once attended a Visual Kei panel at an anime convention. The theme was "Visual Kei Trivia: Name That Song". I thought I'd be all slick, roll up in there, impress all the dorks with my knowledge of gay Japanese metal.

NOPE.

Never heard of any of them. Didn't get a single song right, and I'd heard of maybe one out of every twenty bands mentioned that night.


Why is there so much gay Japanese metal...?

So, right now I'm obsessed with Versailles, and was hoping to find more stuff of the same sort, not counting the members' other projects. Any suggestions?

You probably know more gay Japanese metal than I do. I will say that X Japan is pretty good. Also Malice Mizer, which is like the Metallica of GJM; if you haven't heard them, I'd recommend giving them a listen next.

L'Arc En-Ciel is ok too, and somebody mentioned Dir en Gray, but they're more like gay Japanese numetal - if Versailles is your jam, then you might not like Dir en Gray as much.


Speaking of, how much of a stickler are you for the gay Japanese metal genre, specifically? I got tons of weird Japanese metal bands you might like, but most of them either aren't gay, or are gay in a very different way to Versailles.

Each one is legally fuckable now.

Each one has real armpit hair.

VERY GAY. INHALE!!!

I'm not sure how to rate you. I can't downvote Babymetal, but they aren't gay Japanese metal; they're Kawaii Metal. There's a difference.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Demon Kaka

Seikima II

 

[Ita Mori]

Visual Kei... Japan's answer to Latin America's reggaeton and the US's contemporary hip-hop.
As that DNC senator said; two nukes were not enough.

I'm not sure how to rate you. I can't downvote Babymetal, but they aren't gay Japanese metal; they're Kawaii Metal. There's a difference.

They may not be Visual Kei but they sure as shit sound gay.

 

[TFT-A9]

 

[Save the Loli]

A lot of the metal (and I don't mean "really heavy J-Rock" like Dir en grey or whatever) part of visual kei is mostly just guys ripping off Yngwie Malmsteen or the power metal guitarists inspired by him like Timo Tolkki of Stratovarius. They do it pretty well though and it can be entertaining. Most Japanese power metal, both the visual kei ridiculous costumes guys and the typical metal band guys, sounds similar because they all love X Japan, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Stratovarius.

L'Arc En-Ciel is ok too, and somebody mentioned Dir en Gray, but they're more like gay Japanese numetal - if Versailles is your jam, then you might not like Dir en Gray as much.

Dir en grey isn't nu metal except on like one album (which is somehow kinda good unlike the average Slipknot album or even more dire shit like Limp Bizkit). They blend a lot of different industrial rock, alt-rock, nu metal, metalcore, and even death metal into their sound. All you can really say is that's "abrasive" and the singer sounds like a lunatic and writes batshit insane lyrics. I think they're a lot more intelligent than you'd think they are.

 

[Nobue]

I once attended a Visual Kei panel at an anime convention. The theme was "Visual Kei Trivia: Name That Song". I thought I'd be all slick, roll up in there, impress all the dorks with my knowledge of gay Japanese metal.

NOPE.

Never heard of any of them. Didn't get a single song right, and I'd heard of maybe one out of every twenty bands mentioned that night.


Why is there so much gay Japanese metal...?



You probably know more gay Japanese metal than I do. I will say that X Japan is pretty good. Also Malice Mizer, which is like the Metallica of GJM; if you haven't heard them, I'd recommend giving them a listen next.

L'Arc En-Ciel is ok too, and somebody mentioned Dir en Gray, but they're more like gay Japanese numetal - if Versailles is your jam, then you might not like Dir en Gray as much.


Speaking of, how much of a stickler are you for the gay Japanese metal genre, specifically? I got tons of weird Japanese metal bands you might like, but most of them either aren't gay, or are gay in a very different way to Versailles.



I'm not sure how to rate you. I can't downvote Babymetal, but they aren't gay Japanese metal; they're Kawaii Metal. There's a difference.

I'm not too much of a stickler, as long as there are some musical similarities. It could be 110% hetero for all I care.

Each one is legally fuckable now.

Each one has real armpit hair.

VERY GAY. INHALE!!!

They're too old now. Also, the singer's all forehead nowadays.

 

[Andrew Neil]

Gonna name drop a bunch of Japanese metal bands to check out, a lot of old school acts mostly.

-Bellzlleb
-Anthem
-Outrage
-Dead End
-44 Magnum
-Loudness
-Raja
-Flatbackers
-Saver Tiger

These guys have more in common with thrash metal than the more glam or power metal. Recommend Outrage if you like Guilty Gear, same singer.

Obviously X Japan and Dir en grey for the visual kei stuff.

I'd like to add

- Sniper
- Rosenfeld
- Jurassic Jade
- Xenolith Oger
- Sabbat (not the Martin Walkyier Sabbat, the good one)
- Airraid
- Mephistopheles

to that list. Lot of good thrash/heavy metal came out of Japan in the 80s.

Bands like MERRY, Deluhi, DEATHGAZE etc. are fun if you're looking for Fey Lads Who Can Kick Off A Bit.

 

[Solid Snek]

I'm not too much of a stickler, as long as there are some musical similarities. It could be 110% hetero for all I care.


They're too old now. Also, the singer's all forehead nowadays.

Well, Babymetal would be my first recommendation, since they're awesome. You're already familiar with them so I'll skip the sales pitch, but if you've only heard a couple of their songs, then I would suggest giving them another listen; a lot of people hear they're a meme, assume it's a joke, and write them off, which is a shame because they're honestly one of the best metal bands in Japan right now. They're doing collabs with everyone from Corey Taylor of Slipknot, to Dragonforce, to the jazz-hipster metal band, Polyphia, so assuming you like metal, there's a little something for everyone.

Stuff like Malice Mizer and GACKT are probably the safest bet for you, though, since they're very similar to Versailles; same sound, same costumes, same shameful cressdressing. I don't know if they're mainstream anymore, but back in the 90s and 2000s, they were doing songs with Ayumi Hamasaki of all people (Japan's top-selling solo artist of all time), so you've got a lot of material to work with if you decide to explore the MM/G avenue.

Other recommendations, that aren't Versailles like:

Spoiler: Ladybaby stuff; they're like if John Waters and Traci Lords made Babymetal

Ladybaby - just watch the video.

Deadlift Lolita - Ladybeard, the cross-dressing prowrestler singer of Ladybaby, teamed up with a female boldybuilder and started this band after leaving Ladybaby. Possibly gay...?

Brats - another post-Ladybaby band, this one is an indie rock/punk/garage band started by the female singer and her sister.

Shades - ANOTHER post-Ladybaby band, this one's a djent band started by one of the final members to join Ladybaby before it disbanded for good.

Spoiler: GUITAR PORN, if you like that kind of thing!

SSH - crazy awesome guitar virtuoso, does loads of video game covers

Iron Bunny - Van Halen or Satriani if he were a Mecha rabbit.

Spoiler: General metal/rock stuff

The ALFEE - 70's metal; basically the Japanese version of Queen.

Ningen Isu - Japanese Black Sabbath. YT will invariably start recommending this if you get J-metal in your history, so might as well give them a listen.

BandMaid - they're a band! And they're maids! Oddly, in my experience, I've found old people tend to love this band for some reason (it was originally recommended to me by several Korean War veterans)

Waggaki Band - Japanese folk metal. There's a whole rabbithole of this stuff; Waggaki is probably the best known, but if this sounds good to you then definitely follow up on the genre.

I'd also double @Agent Abe Caprine 's recommendation of Demon Kogure/Seikima-II. They're a bit too campy and KISS-like for me, but they've got a long history and tons of street cred in the world of Gay Japanese Metal, so as a fan of the genre, I think you owe it to yourself to give them a listen (same would go for X-Japan and Loudness; iconic 80s J-metal that Versailles owes a lot to. Personally I DO like X-Japan, but regardless of that, they were key influences on Visual Kei and Japanese pop-metal in general).

A lot of the metal (and I don't mean "really heavy J-Rock" like Dir en grey or whatever) part of visual kei is mostly just guys ripping off Yngwie Malmsteen or the power metal guitarists inspired by him like Timo Tolkki of Stratovarius. They do it pretty well though and it can be entertaining. Most Japanese power metal, both the visual kei ridiculous costumes guys and the typical metal band guys, sounds similar because they all love X Japan, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Stratovarius.

Dir en grey isn't nu metal except on like one album (which is somehow kinda good unlike the average Slipknot album or even more dire shit like Limp Bizkit). They blend a lot of different industrial rock, alt-rock, nu metal, metalcore, and even death metal into their sound. All you can really say is that's "abrasive" and the singer sounds like a lunatic and writes batshit insane lyrics. I think they're a lot more intelligent than you'd think they are.

Well... yeah, alright, that's fair. I'm sorry. Maybe calling them numetal is unfair and hurtful, and while I wasn't trying to be dismissive of them, I think that's how it came off.

But you agree with the underlying spirit of what I was saying, right? Dir-en-Grey is quite a bit different from Versailles and that whole, post-Yngwie, post-X Japan, "Gay Japanese Metal" genre. They're Japanese, they're metal, and they're probably gay, but they aren't "Gay Japanese Metal", and just because someone loves Versailles, it doesn't follow that they would necessarily dig Dir-en-Grey too.

 

[tehpope]

X Japan nigga.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Dir en grey isn't nu metal except on like one album (which is somehow kinda good unlike the average Slipknot album or even more dire shit like Limp Bizkit). They blend a lot of different industrial rock, alt-rock, nu metal, metalcore, and even death metal into their sound. All you can really say is that's "abrasive" and the singer sounds like a lunatic and writes batshit insane lyrics. I think they're a lot more intelligent than you'd think they are

I dig their early stuff a lot.

Macabre and Vulgar in particular are very awesome albums.

The stuff from last ten years is hit or miss for me. Dum Spiro Spero just sounds like a big blur to me, but then Arche on the other hand is absolutely beautiful.

Kyo is one of the best singers of the nation and in general.