First of all, Happy Thanksgiving. Good luck to all on your attempts at turkey and pie genocide, as I will be doing my own irreparable damage to those groups very shortly.

However, I do have a responsibility, and I intend to uphold it.



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Alright. I've been waiting to drop this one on you all for a while. These guys are one of my all time, undisputed, favorite guilty pleasures. There is no other band out there that sound quite like they do, some groups could be counted as inspirations, but no other group can say that they copy their style down to the finest of details in any way, shape or form. They are their own style, their own kind. They are awesome beyond measure, and prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that music is, in fact, the most universal language we as human beings possess.

They are Bomb Factory. And they're here to kick your ass with the power of raw sound.



- EVERYDAY LEGEND TOURS THE JAPANESE BOMB FACTORY -



In the beginning, I heard this song:

Bomb Factory - Exciter

This is the theme song for Tecmo's Dead Or Alive 2/DOA2 Hardcore. I remember picking this game up (not just for the boobs, but because I am a big Jeet Kune Do proponent, and Jann Lee is about the best representation of the style in a videogame) for the Sega Dreamcast and hearing this song tear my ears in half right on startup. That very day, I was out scouring the internet via whatever means I had at my disposal to find more music from this band named "Bomb Factory." I could only understand about half of what the lead singer was saying, but it didn't matter - the language of "rock your fucking face off" translated quite well enough.


Bomb Factory - Awaited Time

I do a lot of things to Bomb Factory's music. Work, play, gym, mowing my lawn, games, driving (GOD, I LOVE DRIVING TO BOMB FACTORY), you name it, I'll do it to Bomb Factory's tunes, no complaints there. This one gets me particularly amped, and I have no real reason why. It's most likely something about the boundless energy in this song that gets me ready to do anything. This is one of my all-time favorite songs ever, regardless of band, genre or age.


Bomb Factory - Down

Again, a song I could wreck faces to, no prob.


Bomb Factory - How Do You Feel?

One of the few tracks I've heard by them that have primarily Japanese lyrics. If you haven't brushed up on any Nihongo lately, don't sweat it, as it's not like you need to understand what's actually being said. A lot of folks I've tried to introduce them to (100% of them American) complain that they couldn't figure out what Jun-Ya was saying. It's irrelevant at best, as you really can't figure out what's being said in American modern metal music anyway, at least these guys try to make a sound that isn't like amplified phlegm removal.


Bomb Factory - Viper

One of their newer songs, and one of my favorites.


Bomb Factory - Break Up

Live, in France. I wish they'd play the southeast coast of the US, I'd go see them without fail. I'd love to meet these guys, actually. From what I have heard, they're all pretty fluent in English, and I'd jump at the chance to ask them how they feel about what I've basically based this entry on - why these guys are as good as they are and yet can't seem to get a major foothold established in America, where they deserve to get some serious airplay, in my opinion. I know they've had a compilation released here in the States, but that sucker needs marketing push behind it to not get lost in the shuffle. Someone high up somewhere, anywhere, needs to start pimping this band out here. There's ears that deserve them.


Hopefully this has served three purposes: introduced the band to people who have never heard them (or heard of them), gotten folks who had heard of them to take a chance on them, and brought present fans of them on Dtoid out of the woodwork to start pushing them to people here. They're HUGE in Japan. They're pretty well-known in Europe. But here, the West Coast has about the only knowledge of their existence that I've noticed. Here on the East Coast there are precious few of us who pack our iPods full of Bomb Factory jams.

Maybe that'll change. A man can dream, right?

- EL

Coming up:

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