Today’s lesson in musical genres: samurai metal

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

There are a million flavours of metal (thrash, black, death, pirate, Viking, symphonic, NWOBHM, etc.) We can now add samurai metal to that list, courtesy of a Japanese (of course) band called Gyze.

I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. Could ninja metal be far behind? Or is it here and I just haven’t heard about it? (Via Loudwire)

Hey, whatever happened to Rebecca Black, the woman behind “Friday” (aka the most-hated music video ever)?
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