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With the age of internet and stuff, i really appreciate all the access we have to other countries and their cultures.

Anyone want to share some foreign music , music videos that you guys enjoy?

I'll start with Hatsune first of the Vocaloids, while outdated, i absolutely love this song.

Sung by fan dedicated to a Program , i love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4v6FKMeGQ&feature=related

Serge Gainsbourg. Kraftwerk. Anything on Kompakt or Innervisions. Dengue Fever.

French Pop singer Alizee. That girl's the definition of cute.

Gothenburg-style black metal. They owe KISS massive royalties for the invention of rock-n-roll black and white face paint, not mention the on stage regurgitation of fake blood. Great background music, because even if they do sing in English, you still can't understand the words.

cafe duo, I think their German. Greebynog is right in saying Dengue Fever

stonefox wrote:French Pop singer Alizee. That girl's the definition of cute.

i agree she is one of the best female pop singer.

not only can she hold notes, she actually makes her singing like a work of art.

unlike most singers that can barely struggle to reach the notes.

I love Swedish death metal. Opeth and Arch Enemy in particular. Bolt Thrower, Black Sabbath and Motorhead from the U.K, Vader and Behemoth from Poland.

Also the German band Rammstein.

do you guys use youtube? can link some of your
favorite song lists.

What is foreign then?

Led Zepplin

LunaHound wrote:
do you guys use youtube? can link some of your
favorite song lists.

Yeah Youtube is MASSIVE if you want to listen to and discover new music, especially metal.

Although if you're looking for mainstream rock/pop, or pretty much all rock/pop, you're not going to find much that you don't know about already.

LunaHound wrote:
do you guys use youtube? can link some of your
favorite song lists.

Yeah Youtube is MASSIVE if you want to listen to and discover new music, especially metal.

Although if you're looking for mainstream rock/pop, or pretty much all rock/pop, you're not going to find much that you don't know about already.

The Philsonator wrote:What is foreign then?

Anything not from the US. No matter where you're from.

Americans...

foreign for me is anything out of n.america.

I especially love canada because we are proud of
our multicultural society. 99% of us arnt actually
native Canadians :"P

For me foreign is anything non western. (Aus, US/Can and UK being western), because there's no such thing as good music coming out of Aus... Except for Parkway Drive

The Polish make some of the best Death Metal.

Vader, Behemoth & Decapitated are all polish metal legends.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm8Un0iHgcI

^ vader

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1InmhnKyYHQ

^ decapitated

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhZ2LThpv4

^ behemoth


& obviously, if we're talking metal in general nearly everything from the norse countries will be good.

Gojira are french:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hTnpMp7UrG4

Necrophagist are led by a half german, half turk:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1DND8S_CF_g

I could go on...

The Philsonator wrote:For me foreign is anything non western. (Aus, US/Can and UK being western), because there's no such thing as good music coming out of Aus... Except for Parkway Drive

Yeah, I was puzzled by the OP because I can't think of a music scene that wasn't dominated by overseas acts. I've never had an Australian band as my favourite (though The Sleepy Jackson and The Panics were close for a while).

I kind of assumed we were meant to list our favourite foreign language acts, in which case it has to be Sigur Ros.

Death Metal =

Not too keen on Behemoth, EVERYONE seems to like them, i'm starting to think of them as mallcore.

Finnish/Swedish melo is OK, but not so much the scene stuff.

But American is the way to go

could anyone guide me to some silent hill ish music?

i believe.... they are normally labeled as:

Ambiance , new age

or something...

The Philsonator wrote:

Not too keen on Behemoth, EVERYONE seems to like them, i'm starting to think of them as mallcore.

Behemoth is actually a bit closer to Black Metal. I like Vader alot better but Behemoth is okay. When it comes to foriegn music Sweden takes the cake IMO.

LunaHound wrote:could anyone guide me to some silent hill ish music?

i believe.... they are normally labeled as:

Ambiance , new age

or something...

Im not sure what silent hill's music is like, but going off of 'ambient'

a couple of songs to try would be:

'The silver cord' - Gojira

'Building Steam With a Grain of Salt' - DJ Shadow

'Omens & portents II' - Earth

'Marooned' - Pink Floyd


Technically, theyre not 'ambient' per se, but theyre very atmospheric & create ambience in that sense.

I dont know if that helps at all

woo i sort of like the Gojira you suggested.

here is example of what im looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsbzP1AVS4k&feature=related

something melancholic and... weird i guess

Anyone else into Arch Enemy? That's some heavy . Best song in my opinion is Slaves of Yesterday or Hybrids of Steel.

Real fast shredding that only the Swedes are capable of and that's a fact.

EDIT: I forgot Sepultura from Brazil.

Mexico is in North America, so that makes Mariachi not foreign.

It's probably fair to say that the English speaking world is dominated by US and British acts, not to forget many important contributions from Canada, Oz/NZ, Jamaica etc.

I am sure most non-English speaking countries have a strong local music culture -- Japan certainly does.

I assume the OP is interested in non-English language music.

I highly recommend listening to rap/hip hop in foreign languages. Even though you can't understand the lyrics, the rhythms and rhymes are strangely poetical.

Music, the great communicator.

Qawalli is well worth a listen. Check out anything by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

I also like Perez Prado.

The Thousandth Son wrote:Anyone else into Arch Enemy? That's some heavy . Best song in my opinion is Slaves of Yesterday or Hybrids of Steel.

Real fast shredding that only the Swedes are capable of and that's a fact.

EDIT: I forgot Sepultura from Brazil.

The Swedes are sick at shredding, but there are better examples than Arch Enemy.

If you want heavy Sweedish death metal, check out Amon Amarth, they sound like they play in A!!!

The Thousandth Son wrote:Anyone else into Arch Enemy? That's some heavy . Best song in my opinion is Slaves of Yesterday or Hybrids of Steel.

Real fast shredding that only the Swedes are capable of and that's a fact.

EDIT: I forgot Sepultura from Brazil.

Arch Enemy are cool, but I prefer carcass. I find arch enemy's production is a bit too slick & in your face. I like them, but I dont think I could listen to a whole album.

I like Turisas from Finland - if only for their silly Folk Metal qualities, and because they feature a lead violin and accordian.

My favorite of their songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If_MeVNVcBE


On a non-Metal kick, I like the Yoshida Brothers from Japan. They're the shamisen players that play the song for the Nintendo Wii commercials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ron17xFNBf0&feature=related

and this song, which is used for this AMV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7FPL3J0-ng

The Philsonator wrote:
The Swedes are sick at shredding, but there are better examples than Arch Enemy.

If you want heavy Sweedish death metal, check out Amon Amarth, they sound like they play in A!!!

Yes I have heard them, they are heavy...very heavy.