A Taiwanese band that blends traditional scales and heavy riffs into songs about identity and myth.
For a quick sense of their sound, try 'Sail Into The Sunset's Fire' or 'Sing Linng Temple'. They frame the band's approach pretty clearly.
They've spent nearly thirty years folding Taiwanese folklore and traditional Chinese scales into a metal sound. Songs like 'Sail Into The Sunset's Fire' show how that blend works on record. Their focus on local themes has sometimes put them at odds with political pressures, like a 2012 ban from performing in China.
They formed in Taiwan in the mid-1990s and put out their first album, 'Where the Ancestors Dwell', in 1995. Later records like 'Bu-tik' in 2009 and 'Guardian of the Divine Mountain' in 2022 kept refining that mix of tradition and metal.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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