I'm thinking of a song...

April 18, 2008 12:59 PM

Hopefully this won't be too obscure... There was a pretty popular Japanese rock band that had a song which was basically a rocked out heavy metal version of Dies Irae from Verdi's requiem. I think the CD is from the early 90's or so. What's the name of the band? (and no, it's not from the Battle Royale soundtrack. That was a purely orchestral version)
posted by edjusted to media & arts (10 comments total)

Oh, and there were no lyrics. It was an instrumental piece.
posted by edjusted at 1:00 PM on April 18

I was unable to find the track, but I did a search for Japanese rock from the 90s in WorldCat. The results look pretty ugly, but maybe you can find the artist(s) (listed under Authors, Primary) or album title and go from there.

Authors, Primary ----- Title Primary
Anonymous ----- GS aishiteru GS I love you : Japanese garage bands of the 1960s
Anonymous ----- Karuto GS korekushon Vol. 1
5, 6, 7, 8's ----- Pin heel stomp
5, 6, 7, 8's ----- Bomb the twist
5, 6, 7, 8's ----- The 5.6.7.8's
5, 6, 7, 8's ----- The 5.6.7.8's
Beavers (Musical group : Japan);Carnabeats;Spiders (Musical group : Japan);Voltage;Mops;D' Swooners;Bunnys;Golden Cups;Savage ----- Monster a go-go
Boredoms ----- Super roots 6
Checkers;Checkers FAM ----- Oops!
Dreams Come True ----- Best of Dreams Come True
Dreams Come True ----- Delicious
El Caminos ----- Reverb explosion
Gaia ----- This one
Gaia;Yumefuda;No Real;Honey Bee;Bone Crusher (Musical group);Gurento;Sink;Melt-Banana ----- Japankore omnibus. Hardcore mess. Volume II
Garlic Boys;Super Junky Monkey;5, 6, 7, 8's;Love Pigs;Corn Hole;Cocobat;Surf Coasters;Lance of Thrill;Blood Thirsty Butchers;Jasons;Flamenco A Go Go;Gumboil;Guinny Vamps;Wrench ----- Japanese homegrown Vol. 1, Hardcore, punk & junk
Glay ----- Beloved
Golden Cups;Beavers (Musical group : Japan);Mops;Carnabeats;D'Swooners;Jaguars (Musical group : Japan);Spiders (Musical group : Japan) ----- Big lizard stomp
Gunn,Denis;Altered States;P.O.N;Koenji-Hyakkei;Tipographica;Bass Army;Doom;E-Trance;Demi Semi Quaver;Dissecting Table;Optical*8;Royal Squeezit;Ground Zero;God Mountain Orchestra ----- Neu Konservatiw
Haino,Keiji;Ozawa,Yasushi;Takahashi,Ikuro;Fushitsusha ----- Fushitsusha
Hamada,Shogo ----- The door for the blue sky
Happy Family ----- Toscco
Happy Family ----- Happy Family
High Rise ----- Psychedelic speed freaks '84-'85
Himuro,Kyosuke;Tra-bryu;Lindberg ----- [Collection of Japanese pop music]. 1
Igarashi,Mitsuru;Every Little Thing ----- Everlasting
Kadura ----- From the depths of the other space
Kato,Hideki;Kazuyoshi,Kimoto;Masahiro,Uemura ----- Bass army karada wa oto o dasu mono
Kina,Shokichi ----- The best of Shoukichi Kina Peppermint tea house
Kishimoto,Ichiyo;Voice from Asia (Band) ----- Voice from Asia
Komuro,Tetsuya;Trf (mucical group). ----- Brand new tomorrow
Matsutoya,Yumi ----- Kathmandu
Merzbow;Vinyl Communications ----- Hybrid noisebloom
Neon Knights;Magick Lantern Cycle ----- Al-Kitab alf laylah wa laylah. The knight and the wizard
O'Duffy,Paul Staveley;Swing Out Sister ----- The Best of Swing Out Sister
Oguro,Maki ----- La, la, la
Outcast;Mops;Savage;Sharp Hawks;Sharp Five (Musical group);Voltage;Golden Cups;Spiders (Musical group : Japan) ----- Slitherama!
Pizzicato Five ----- Combinaison spaciale EP
Pizzicato Five ----- The sound of music
Pizzicato Five ----- Made in USA introducting Japan's coolest combo to U.S. and the whole world
Pizzicato Five ----- 5 x 5
Pizzicato Five ----- Made in USA introducing Japan's coolest combo to U.S. and the whole world
Pizzicato Five;Matador Records ----- The sound of music
Sakamoto,Ryuichi ----- Smoochy
Shonen Knife ----- The birds & the b-sides
Shonen Knife ----- Knife collectors
Shonen Knife ----- Let's knife
Shonen Knife ----- Shonen Knife Shonen Naifu
Shonen Knife ----- 712
Shonen Knife ----- Secret no. 712 : from Japan
Shonen Knife ----- Shonen Knife
Sugar Plant ----- Hiding place
Super Junky Monkey;Mad Capsule Market's;Jasons;Audio Active;Pugs;Cowpers;Melonman;Shonen Knife;Nunchaku;Melt-Banana;Friction;Noiseramones ----- Japanese homegrown, Vol. 2
Theatre Brook ----- Afuredasu bakari
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant;Nihon Koromubia Shikibutsu Kaisha ----- Thee Michelle Gun Elephant chicken zombies
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant;Nihon Koromubia Shikibutsu Kaisha ----- Thee Michelle Gun Elephant high time
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant;Nihon Koromubia Shikibutsu Kaisha ----- Cult grass stars
Tube ----- Bravo!
X Japan ----- Ballad collection
Yamashita,Tatsuro ----- Torejazu Treasures
Yazawa,Eikichi ----- Anytime woman
Yellow Magic Orchestra ----- Kyoretsu na rhythm
Yoshida,Tatsuya;Masuda,Ryuichi;Ruins ----- Burning stone
Zeni Geva ----- Desire for agony
posted by cog_nate at 2:31 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]

Merzbow?
posted by dyoneo at 3:01 PM on April 18

Loudness? Only fairly-big 80s metal band from Japan that I know.
posted by medeine at 3:41 PM on April 18

There's a J-rock band called Dark Moor that apparently did a metal version of Dies Irae. But it has lyrics.

Take a listen to this and see if it's at all close...
posted by Jeanne at 4:25 PM on April 18

Apologies, that is the Battle Royale version.
posted by Jeanne at 4:28 PM on April 18

This is probably way off, but Japanese black metal band Sigh did a track that used 30 secs of Dies Irae as an intro.

youtube
posted by thedaniel at 5:10 PM on April 18

Oh, also, that sounds like the kind of stunt Seikima II would try. Wasn't them was it? Otherwise the most popular early 90s metal band from japan was X-Japan, and I don't think they did a cover of Dies Irae (I am not 100% sure but I do have their entire discog in various forms and I hope I would remember)
posted by thedaniel at 5:16 PM on April 18

I'll have to check out all the guesses so far. I'm trying to remember the entire song...I think if you listen to this...if I remember correctly, at around the 30 second mark, the song starts becoming heavy-metal-ish.
posted by edjusted at 8:52 PM on April 18

i listened to "that", and i think it is actually from the start of a dragon ash album? just a hunch
posted by edtut at 11:20 PM on April 18