中国摇滚乐 (China Rocks). As you can probably assume this part of my Asian Metal Bands-series is about chinese bands. Why do they rock? China has a pretty large rock/metal scene and slowly their are finding to an own identity

In the previous part of the series, I complained a bit about the fact that it was difficult to choose just a few bands from all those great bands, but I can assure you, in case of the chinese bands that task was even harder.

Ego Fall/Against Me:

The foundational line up of China’s first Metal Core Band Ego Fall came from the former inner Mongolian Grunge band called Subconscious (潜意识 QianYiShi) which was found back in 2000.

One year later, a new vocalist and a guitarist came into the band and led the music changed more towards metal style. In the beginning of 2004 the band name was officially changed to Against Me, and the music tend more into power metal. 2005 the initial vocalist and guitarist returned and brought their Melodic Death Metal influences into band. Now with two shouters on stage they also let different elements like industrial, NuMetal etc. flow into their music and mix it all up into nowadays Metal Core Style.

Up to date they released one album “Spirit of Mongolia” (2008) as Ego Fall.

The Rule in Troubled Times from Spirit of Mongolia

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I’m convinced that nearly each blogger knows that problem: you want to write an article about something that you discovered or expierenced and while doing some research or working on the article you get lost in the world wide web and/or the topic itself.

In fact I wanted to write this article a couple of weeks ago as I found a taiwanese black metal. The band is called ChthoniC and I found it by chance. While checking out some online resources, amongst others last.fm.

While browsing through the similiar artists of ChthoniC I had the chance to discover a few more asian black/death metal bands that I would like to share with you. In the end I decided to write a whole article series of at least five parts.

Each part will cover bands from a specific country, namely Taiwan¹, China, Japan and Korea. The articles will mainly focus on black and death metal bands and will also feature some gothic or doom metal bands as well as metalcore.

Here is the planned article list:

1. Part 1: Taiwan
2. Part 2: Korea
3. Part 3: China
4. Part 4: Japan
5. Part 5: Others

So stay tuned and come back for the first article which will be posted soon.

Reporters interviewed the students of the Guangzhou city elementary and middle schools about their career aspirations.

One first-year elementary school student (the girl with glasses at 2:03 min) spoke about her ideal and gave a very serious answer: “I want to be a government official.” When the reporter asked, “What kind of government official would you like to be be?” this students thought for a moment and then said firmly: “A greedy corrupt official! Because greedy corrupt officials have lots of stuff.”