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Tokyo, Japan (1992 – present)
Melt-Banana is a Japanese noise rock group founded in 1992 by friends attending Tokyo University for Foreign Language. Their hyperactive music palette draws influences from experimental rock, grindcore, no wave, psychedelic, hardcore punk, and post-punk.
Melt-Banana has released 9 full-length albums, (Including a re-release of a very early improvised and studio tracks, and a compilation of EPs) and 23 EPs (a number of which are splits with other bands). In 1997 they created their own recording company, A-Zap, and re-issued all of their previously released albums, except Scratch or Stitch, which can be found on the noise rock record label Skin Graft Records. One month later Sudoh quit, and the band has had different drummers helping for tours and recordings since. They do massive U.S. tours yearly, do frequent European tours, and do smaller Japanese tours (traveling in Japan is quite expensive).
Melt-Banana’s music falls under what many call “noise rock” or “noisecore.” Both terms refer to music that blends rock, noise music, and other genres. Agata overlaps two different guitar riffs most of the time, and also belts out a seemingly spontaneously chosen selection of sound effects (or selected randomly by a computer program or even selecting snippets of tape from a black bag, but this is unlikely), almost all made through his guitar and large amount of effects pedals. Yasuko O.
Melt-Banana has released 9 full-length albums, (Including a re-release of a very early improvised and studio tracks, and a compilation of EPs) and 23 EPs (a number of which are splits with other bands). In 1997 they created their own recording company, A-Zap, and re-issued all of their previously released albums, except Scratch or Stitch, which can be found on the noise rock record label Skin Graft Records. One month later Sudoh quit, and the band has had different drummers helping for tours and recordings since. They do massive U.S. tours yearly, do frequent European tours, and do smaller Japanese tours (traveling in Japan is quite expensive).
Melt-Banana’s music falls under what many call “noise rock” or “noisecore.” Both terms refer to music that blends rock, noise music, and other genres. Agata overlaps two different guitar riffs most of the time, and also belts out a seemingly spontaneously chosen selection of sound effects (or selected randomly by a computer program or even selecting snippets of tape from a black bag, but this is unlikely), almost all made through his guitar and large amount of effects pedals. Yasuko O.
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Bambi's Dilemma
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Cell-Scape
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Scratch or Stitch
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Teeny Shiny
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Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold
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Cracked Plaster Cast
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Phantasmagoria
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Blank Page Of The Blind
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A Dreamer Who is Too Weak to Face Up to
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Slide Down
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One Drop, One Life
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Dog Song
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Plasma Gate Quest
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Chain-Shot to Have Some Fun
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Heiwaboke Crisis
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Cat Brain Land
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In Store
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Chain Keeper
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Shoutbox
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substancex wrote:
A lot of fucking squares became aware of Melt Banana a couple years ago because Tool chose them as an opening act. I'm sorry that your shit taste won't allow your brains to process this band's music, you cattle. :)
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Brutalex777 wrote:
mathcore
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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
Always a good reaction.
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secretlykaylin wrote:
THIS ISNT EVEN MUSIC, ITS DISGUSTING.
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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
Wow, my copy of initial t. just arrived. It's tiny! Both the case and disc are half the size of a regular CD.
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hotwaffles wrote:
Thats actually how I know of this band, years ago they opened for them. But to compare the two is literally apples/oranges - both fruit, but thats where the comparisons end
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substancex wrote:
Yeah, Jiffy_n00b is right... Melt Banana definitely can't hold a candle to fucking TOOL. Hahahaha... good one.
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johncibula wrote:
this is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllll your base is l;akjs;lk
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scrapyardbaby wrote:
Seeing them the other night was FANTASTIC and actually emotionally moving.
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kaitokid05 wrote:
Agata is an epic guitarist
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magishcock wrote:
I've never really listened to these guys much before, but I went to see them live last night and it was probably one of the best shows I've been too. So much energy. The female vocalist and bassist are cute as hell too, heh.
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exTerminatr wrote:
cool story bro
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Jiffy_No0b wrote:
I've heard good things about them for a while. I just listened for the first time. Worst choice I've made in the past 5 years. They've some of the most grating and unlistenable vocals ever. Everything else is average noise rock at best. A fucking pathetic effort to say the least.
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kneFX wrote:
love love love
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hotwaffles wrote:
Wowow, good stuff tonight in Pontiac MB. Rocked my face
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retorique wrote:
Biggest piece of shit I've heard in a while. Congratulations.
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NikaYbrf wrote:
!!! awesome
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Diminuendo_ wrote:
oh yeah and a pokemon cover ahahah what more could you ask for
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Diminuendo_ wrote:
was there as well... freaking amazing! quite the experience for first live show i've ever seen. i don't think other shows will be able to compare... spoiled already. i have barely been able to listen to music today my ears are still ringing
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JKIS wrote:
saw them last night... it was awesome
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High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI, United States
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Melt-Banana
The Picador, Iowa City IA, United States
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The Waiting Room, Omaha NE, United States
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News
Fun Fun Fun Fest.
8 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/azap
We just played at Fun Fun Fun festival tonight!We enjoyed playing there!!We also met many friends there, it was very nice!!We were too busy to load in/out, interview, setting up merch etc, so did not . …
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XDANIELX718X, ecqkch and DarkDemonia886 added Melt-Banana to their libraries. 2 hours ago
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Brutalex777 tagged Melt-Banana with avant-garde, experimental, japanese and one other tag. 4 hours ago
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kadonic and TyroneTheEar tagged Melt-Banana with seen live. yesterday afternoon
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boopermagic tagged Melt-Banana with seen live and noise rock. Monday evening
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facegodV2 tagged Melt-Banana with experimental, japanese and noise. Monday morning
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facegodV2 added Melt-Banana to facegodV2’s library. Monday morning
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