Metalchicks is a two woman duo from Tokyo, Japan, formed by Sugar Yoshinaga of Buffalo Daughter and Yuka Yoshimura, formerly of DMBQ and OOIOO.
If you took Boom Boom Satellites and slowed them down, Tomoyasu Hotei and sped him up, and added in a heaping spoonful of Boris' sludgy stoner rock, you'd have something close to Metalchicks. There are a sort of electro trance metal. The rely heavily on looped electronic drums and Yuka's tribal drum patterns, while Sugar chugs along with thick guitar riffs and electronic manipulation. There are also occasionally vocals, either robotic and run through a vocoder or whispered behind the wall of noise. They are also a bit like Boris in that they often drag out a particular phrase over and over, again in a very tribal, trance-like way, slowly building on it through the drums and synths.
Their second album St. Wonder was the soundtrack for the 2006 live-action school-girl sentai film Waru Michael. This is a natural fit, as much of the Metalchick's music is already instrumental and very soundtrack friendly.
In a way, that's what makes their name a bit misleading. While they are fueled by heavy guitars, they certainly are far from metal. Hard rock definitely, stoner rock perhaps, but not metal.
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St. Wonder
Official Site
MySpace
Members
Sugar Yoshinaga - Guitar, Vocals, Synths
Yuka Yoshimura - Drums
Releases
Metalchicks (2005)
St. Wonder (2006)
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Power to Girls (Live)
We Are the Warriors (Live)
Need Your Love (Live)
1 comment:
Cool!
The standard idea of "metal" doesn't seem to be what it actually is these days.
You have to actually play really hard music for me to consider you 'metal'.
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