from Thailand:note: most of the (presumed) grindcore bands could be gore or noise and - according to the layout - must be related each other or with Swinging Corpse
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AweLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Grindcore? Noise?
Discography: "Rehearsal Demo 2001" Tape
https://imgur.com/Uka1x3f2)
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Camera EyesLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Progressive Rock / Progressive Metal (?)
Discography: "A Terrifying Obsession" Tape (mid 90's) + one more album
https://imgur.com/2zf4H3fhttps://imgur.com/sWOytLhhttps://imgur.com/usJzxDw3)
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CarcassyLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Grindcore? Noise?
Discography: "Rotten Corpse" Demo
https://imgur.com/3YmvlVy4)
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Carnivorous SkinLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Grindcore? Noise?
Discography: "Suffer Torture" Demo
https://imgur.com/26k4NdX5)
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Carve BrainLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Grindcore? Noise?
Discography: "Malevolence Through Molestation" Demo 2004
https://imgur.com/Waqrg2U6)
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ClimaxLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Alternative Rock (?)
Discography: "Alternative Rock" Ep 1996
As the album title says, it could be simple alternative rock, but you never know
https://imgur.com/5El1OpT7)
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EvenLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Black Metal
Discography: Demo (year unknown)
https://imgur.com/Hpp90Y78)
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Maelstrom 888Location: Thailand
Listed genre: Black Metal
Discography: Demo 2 (year unknown)
(second demo. Year and title unreadable)
https://imgur.com/3EUPb4q9)
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MassacretionLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Grind?
Discography: 1st demo (title unreadable) + "Gut Pussy Fuck" Demo
https://imgur.com/WAYjlR6https://imgur.com/R94qJ0I10)
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NosferatruxeLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: ?????
Discography: Demo 1 2003
https://imgur.com/B6M22xc11)
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Orgasm TortureLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Black / Death Metal
Discography: Promo Demo 2007
https://imgur.com/ZQ8tFW612)
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SubhumanLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Grindcore (?)
Discography: Rehearsal Demo 2002
https://imgur.com/FHsewcK13)
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Thanit Thepsitrakorn (Joe Deathguy)Location: Thailand
Listed genre: Black / Death Metal (?)
Discography: Demo 1998
it's unclear which is the actual name of the band
https://imgur.com/A7wCuBH14)
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The Power Head ProjectLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Heavy Metal
Discography: "Made in Thailand" Tape Ep 1999
This is the Neverland (speed metal from Bangkok, 1996-1998) who, under a new name, re-recorded their Tape Ep with a different line up except for the guitarist/founder
https://imgur.com/JDa0Od115)
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UngoonLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Thrash Metal
Discography: Tape Ep (title unreadable), mid/late 90's
https://imgur.com/l6eiJxU16)
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White MagicLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: ???
Discography: Tape Ep (title unreadable), mid/late 90's
They also have songs on a compilation titled "Rock Hits" and another one with 4 more bands (I have the tracklist but not the album title)
https://imgur.com/Vn8BrBb17)
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โคคำรามLocation: Thailand
Listed genre: Thrash Metal
Discography: "หลอน" Tape Ep, mid/late 90's
https://imgur.com/Wi2piHQ18)
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གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད (Yamāntaka)Location: Thailand
Listed genre: Black / Ambient (?)
Discography: "श्री भगवान् यमान्तक (Conqueror of Death)" Tape 2017
https://imgur.com/M9ot5Ru19)
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(unknown band)Location: Thailand
Listed genre: Death / Thrash (?)
Discography: unknown title / unknown year
I have ZERO information about this band.... on ONPA records but I doubt it does really exist
https://imgur.com/AoZvz7ihttps://imgur.com/M9ot5Rufrom Philippines:There are bands which LOOK metal but actually they are - in the best case - (good) hard rock such as early Wolfgang, Bonehead, Razorback, RP.... don't waste time, I already checked them all.
Scum was the first grindcore band from Philippines: they recorded (and distributed) one rehearsal demo tape in 1992 but I have never seen any image nor found any song even if it seems it got some distribution at the time.
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AskalsLocation: Philippines
Listed genre: Heavy Metal / Thrash / Hardcore / Punk
Discography: "Mga Asong Kalye" Tape 1994, "Takbo! Dapa! Ilag!" CD 2007, "Tunog Ng Alulog" CD (year unknown)
I know they went more punk in the following album, but the first one could be thrash/crossover
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/1173 ... song-Kalyehttps://imgur.com/IfSqNbjhttps://imgur.com/949iEzohttps://imgur.com/Gz9xIUZ3)
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NuklusLocation: Philippines
Listed genre: Hard Rock? Heavy Metal? Punk?
Discography: "Kasaysayan Ni Juan" Tape 1993 + Tayo'y Pilipino/Ano Ba Hoy 7" 1993
Ok, could be just hard rock. There are too few samples around to judge if they are interesting or not
https://imgur.com/vVUUDM5https://imgur.com/iWoUMuQhttps://imgur.com/arLr3QGhttps://imgur.com/01XTaFIhttps://imgur.com/EuH3xRm3)
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WarlakLocation: Philippines
Listed genre: Heavy Metal
Discography: "Rock Study" Unreleased CD 1997
Ok, it seems it's an unreleased album but I remember I found some songs off this recording years ago. They may have something else out
https://imgur.com/s6hxwgCfrom Timor East:Honestly I think the few bands listed here could be only shitty hard - if not even light - rock, but you never know. One of the most mysterious scenes in Asia... all these bands may have released several other stuff
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DestroyerLocation: Timor East
Listed genre: Heavy Metal (???????)
Discography: "Destroyer" Tape (year unknown)
https://imgur.com/OCvg3X02)
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InfernoLocation: Timor East
Listed genre: ???????
Discography: "A Luz Perpetua" CD (year unknown)
Quite a legend in their country. The only two link I found is just super shit music. But... you never know. It seems they released more albums.
https://imgur.com/AkybAomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAc-NB ... vaOfficialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hn4BuR ... TimorMurak2)
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Metal MaubereLocation: Timor East
Listed genre: ???????
Discography: "Festival Banda Muzika Moderno 2009" DVD 2010
just by the name. They may have released something on their own, too
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/8273 ... derno-20094)
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X-CrusLocation: Timor East
Listed genre: Heavy Metal (?)
Discography: "Inosente" CD (year unknown)
https://www.discogs.com/it/release/9385 ... z-Inosentefrom Nepal:I recentely spent 3 months in Nepal but I didnt find even a single music shop or a store selling physical music. I went to the archive of nepalese music where they scan, digitalize and restore albus but they do not share audios with the public. "Experts" from there are not even aware of the tapes I post here as most of them simply don't give a shit about heavy metal, so I couldn't find any useful info. I just post these bands according to the cover and artwork, being aware that it's an almost impossible task (but 1000 times easier than the Indian scene of the 80's and 90's which is absolutely impossible to discover and analyze, trust me that I have a list of no less than 50 demos and tapes released from the 80's to the late 90's with no info, pictures or samples at all). In general nobody has any knowledge about the history of heavy metal in Nepal except the few 10-15 names which popped out with Ugra Karma, Vhumi and onwards in the 2000's.
Who Duz released the album "Kebal timro lagi / The disaster of..." in 1992 who has a couple of heavy metal song but the rest is just boring rock.
Some bands who MAY look metal and you can see the images on Discogs of Facebook (Dr. Pilot, Scabbard, Crisis - punk - Banned, Crossroads, Newaz, The Gods, Matrix, The Sin, The Angels, The Bhomy Eyes....) are NOT metal so in case you come across them (good luck), just ignore. Other bands such as Atomic Bush and Karmavalanche ARE metal (progressive metal) but - as usual - it's difficult to find a proof of a physical release: my friends told me thay most bands are used to get burned CD-r sold on street stalls (and I worked in one of them in 2010 selling home made copies of everything) but I don't know if it could be accepted as a valid way to distribute an album. Anyway the Ep of Atomic Bush and Karmavalanche are metal and Holocaust (formed in 2002) released "The Gods of Death" album which is, obviously, unavailable but I had it back in 2010 on a hand-made CDr sold at some friend's shop. Plus Abattoir who released a CD in 2004, Nemesis a Demo CD in 2002 and the split CD Morgoth/Lost Onblivion "The Last Verse of Madness" in 2007.
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As well as other 100% metal (or speed/thrash) bands who existed in the late 80's and early 90's were Wrathchild, Archeoptry, Beyond, Criss Cross, Incarnation, Maneater, Matrix ("Swapna" tape album), Metal Cross (appear on the "Rhythm" tape, see below and released the album "Navin" in 1993 and "Pari Ba Ma" in 2002), Num Skull, Night Mare, Vegetarian Vampires, Vivax (who changed name into Parasite).....
Good luck. Maybe if I move again to Nepal on September I will try to sort somethig out, but don't expect much. India and Nepal simply don't care about their old production and their metal history, even in case there was (more than) one to tell.
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CobwebLocation: Patan, Nepal
Listed genre: Hard Rock
Discography: "Cobweb" Tape 1993, "Anjaan" Tape 1996
Ok, they made tons of album and they are super popular. But they could have been a little bit more "hard" on their first two album (the ones posted here), the only ones being totally unavailable for listening (at least there are 3-4 songs in total taken from their next 8 album). Just a blind guess, with low hopes:
https://imgur.com/WhHLmZIhttps://imgur.com/p6QwO9K2)
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FacetLocation: Pokhara, Nepal
Listed genre: Metal???
Discography: "Grenades in Grave" Tape (year unknown, late 90's)
I asked dozens of big collector and researchers while in Nepal: nobody has ever seen this tape even if it's definitively a nepalese band. The only one who has it is also the only one who will never share it with anybody else on the face of earth. Nice artwork, anyway.
https://imgur.com/eL6BQ993)
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Paromania Band (aka Pyromania Band aka Parohania)Location: Nepal
Listed genre: ?????
Discography: "Rest for a While" Tape (year unknown, mid/late 90's)
Same as No. 2: I asked dozens of big collector and researchers while in Nepal: nobody has ever seen this tape even if it's definitively a nepalese band. The only one who has it is also the only one who will never share it with anybody else on the face of earth. Another nice artwork, anyway.
https://imgur.com/iTrKufI4)
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ShristiLocation: Nepal / USA
Listed genre: Metal / Speed / Thrash
Discography: Two Demo Tapes
An interesting band, definitively described by his leader as speed/thrash. Apparentely he recorded everything by himself when he moved to USA for job in early 90's. Never shared anything even if some people in Nepal claim to have his two tapes. One song of them appears on the "Hope" compilation tape in 1993. On the same tape, also The Peace and Valiant were described as "hard and loud rock".... still waiting for a reply about a possible rip of all this matrial. Another song appears on the "Rhythm" compilation tape of the same year (see below). Definitively a must find.
https://imgur.com/PP5lQuhhttps://imgur.com/xjuRDT8https://imgur.com/xjuRDT85)
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The Bad KissLocation: Nepal
Listed genre: ?????
Discography: "Nashalu Hayan" Tape (year unknown)
Super funny artwork. So super funny that the 2-3 collectors who has it never agreed to send me I don't say a rip but even a handphone audio recording from a distance. And that's how knowledge is not shared with anybody. Looks promising
https://imgur.com/BWYPnzJhttps://imgur.com/UdA4BEH6)
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VileLocation: Nepal
Listed genre: ?????
Discography: "Andhakar Yatra" Tape 2001
Looks interesting. They also appear on the super-appetizing "Rhytm" Compilation tape in 1993 along with Metal Cross, Snowmen, The Crisis (punk/corssover) and The Move (commercial rock, who released the album "Shiram"). Could be one of the earliest examples of nepalese metal in early 90's. I asked for a rip by the owner: he never replied.
https://imgur.com/5BEmdiwhttps://imgur.com/xjuRDT8https://imgur.com/xjuRDT87)
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Who DuzLocation: Nepal
Listed genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Discography: "Kebal Timro Lagi / The Desarter of..." Tape 1992
Just a couple of songs are metal. Anyway I think the full tape is miracolously available on youtube
https://imgur.com/1sspxWShttps://imgur.com/FDI7b1Nhttps://imgur.com/FDI7b1N8)
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ZenithLocation: Kathmandu, Nepal
Listed genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Discography: "Chapter One" Tape 1992
They also released "Chapter Two": I lost the datas, but they were around 1995-1996. The first album was told me to be "very hard".... who knows what does it mean.... I hoped to judge by myself but the guy who has the tape (and all the others, by the way) do nos share audios, only cover scans or, in case of rare stuff, just sahitty photos.
https://imgur.com/IaHJQ2vhttps://imgur.com/IaHJQ2v(Spooky: have linked this post to your research list, accessible from the first post).