Greatest Asian Hard Rock/Metal Bands

zxm This list is a list of greatest Asian hard rock and metal bands from Asia .While about metal and hard rock bands of Asia most of the prominent bands are from Japan .So I had to add a lot of Japanese metal bands


Anyway add more if you like .

The Top Ten

1 Artcell Artcell Artcell is a Bangladeshi progressive metal band formed in October 1999. According to The Daily Star, a leading English national daily, Artcell is "one of the leading bands of the country".

Artcell is heart cell.

They totally deserve it

Proud to see artcell here.. I love all their songs

They deserve it obviously!

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2 X Japan X Japan X Japan is a Japanese heavy metal band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer Yoshiki and lead vocalist Toshi.

Asian heavy metal band from Japan.Probably most famous in Asia. - zxm

3 Boris Boris

Asian metal band from Japan - zxm

4 Warfaze Warfaze Warfaze is a Bangladeshi hard rock band. ...read more.

Warfaze is one of the best band from Bangladesh. Their music and lyrics are really unique.

Best Metal and rock band in asia for all time.

Asian hard rock/metal band from Bangladesh - zxm

Most unique and metal rock band is Warfaze in Asia and Bangladesh.

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5 Dir En Grey

Asian metal band from japan - zxm

6 Loudness

Asian heavy metal and hard rock band from Japan - zxm

7 Tang Dynasty

Asian heavy metal/rock band from China - zxm

8 Blood Stain Child

Asian Metal band from Japan - zxm

9 Aurthohin Aurthohin Aurthohin is a Bangladeshi hard rock and metal band formed in 1998 by bassist, singer and songwriter Sumon. He is the only founding member still with the band. Aurthohin are known for their mix of melodic acoustic numbers and extremely heavy metal numbers in their albums often containing lots of bass ...read more.

Greatest Asian band,no doubt!

Asian hard rock/metal band from Bangladesh - zxm

10 Underside

Perhaps the best metal band in the current scene.

The Contenders

11 BABYMETAL BABYMETAL Babymetal is a Japanese metal idol band. Their line-up consists of Suzuka Nakamoto as "Su-metal", Yui Mizuno as "Yuimetal", and Moa Kikuchi as "Moametal".

Thank god for BABYMETAL!

12 Mezarkabul Mezarkabul Mezarkabul (formerly known as Pentagram) is a Turkish metal band formed by Hakan Utangaç and Cenk Ünnü.

Metal from Turkey. My fave song is Bu Alemi Gören Sensin. - Metal_Treasure

Great recommendation from my friend Metal_Treasure. Check out also;
Şeytan Bunun Neresinde, Bir, In Esir Like an Eagle, Behind The Veil, Unspoken, Lions in a Cage, For Those Who Died Alone.

13 Junoon

Junoon or Strings from Pakistan. No Comparison. They weren't copycats like the rest, they were legends in their own. Pakistan seems to have the majority of stake in cultural musical talent globally.

Junoon is, without any doubt, the best rock band of asia ever

One of the best rock bands I ever met across

Pakistan most famous band and South Asia's biggest band

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14 The GazettE The GazettE The Gazette, originally known as Gazette, is a Japanese visual kei rock band from Kanagawa formed in early 2002. The band is currently signed to Sony Music Records.

Asian hard rock band from Japan - zxm

15 System Of A Down System Of A Down System of a Down formed in 1994 as an Armenian-American Alternative Metal group from Glendale, California. The band name is sometimes shortened to System or SOAD. ...read more.

They're armenian so yes

Are they Asian? - zxm

16 My First Story
17 Deadsquad

Very brutal band

Technical death metal from Indonesia

18 Maximum The Hormone

Monster energy hosted this

19 Fossils

Band based on Kolkata. rupam islam is the lead singer of this band.

20 Iron Cross

Iron Cross is a rock music bands base in Myanmar formely known as Burma. They have 4 main singers Lay Phyu, Ah Nge, Myo Gyi and Y Wyne. The band is now 26 years in active and number 1 rock band in Myanmar.

21 Orphaned Land
22 Darkestrah

A metal band from Kyrgyzstan - they play pagan / epic metal. - Metal_Treasure

23 Burgerkill

Death metal from Indonesia

24 One OK Rock One OK Rock One OK Rock, is a Japanese rock band, formed in Tokyo, Japan in 2005. The band currently consists of Takahiro Moriuchi, Toru Yamashita, Ryota Kohama, and Tomoya Kanki.

The best

25 Golpo

#international standard

26 Gotsu Totsu Kotsu Gotsu Totsu Kotsu Gotsu Totsu Kotsu is a Death Metal band from Tokyo/Kantō, Japan. Formed in 2000, they released 3 full-length albums so far, which all had success in the underground scene, but are still very little known in the metal community. Their band name comes from the name of an ancient samurai, which they also ...read more.
27 Versailles
28 Wormrot Wormrot Wormrot is a Singaporean grindcore band formed in 2007, immediately after the founding members had completed their mandatory two years of national service.

Best grindcore band ever!

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