Epik High and Moonshine
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008여러분, 안녕하세요!
I was a happy little fangirl yesterday, because Epik High’s latest release, a mini album called LOVESCREAM, came out! I love it, it’s great! It’s got a couple of songs in their usual, upbeat hiphop style but it’s also got some instrumental tracks on there, really pretty little pieces that are melodic and somehow a little bit dark, similiar to some of the instrumental pieces on their Remapping the Human Soul and Pieces, Part One albums.
If you’ve got a Naver account, you’ll be able to listen to previews of the album over on Naver. You need to use IE though, the music player isn’t so friendly when you try using Firefox. And if you click the little orange TV icon next to 1분 1초, you’ll be able to watch the music video (or you can watch it on YouTube over here). I don’t actually like 1분 1초 too much, but the MV is so weird and backwards XD
KoME interviewed Moonshine recently, and like I always do when we interview an artist I know nothing about, I checked out some of their music. Moonshine used to be known as Deathrasher, and were one of Korea’s first death metal bands, formed back in 1993. I was a bit surprised to see that in such a long life, they only released a handful of demos and three albums, but then again the band has gone through many line-up changes. Interestingly enough, from what I’ve heard, the majority of their songs are actually in English, though they included some Korean tracks on their latest album Eternal, because apparently even some Korean fans didn’t realise that Moonshine are actually Koreans!
Funnily enough, this little hip hop and boyband lover used to be a huge metal fan about 10 years ago XD My musical tastes have expanded a lot since then, hahaha XD Moonshine, from what little I’ve heard, have some elements of the type of metal I used to like most, but also some of the elements that I hate most too, so it gets a bit of a mixed reception from me. If you’re into metal though, then you should definitely give Moonshine a try! Their official myspace has 6 tracks from Eternal that you can listen to. I really like the music for Moonshine Madness though the vocals don’t do too much for me, but I quite like Wake Up The Moon.
Posted by Taliana in Korean Music |
October 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
LOL when I first read the title Epik High and Moonshine I could never even imagine those groups coexisting outside of my music folder xP
I also used to be a huge metal fan back in my angsty teen years… I’ve mellowed so much. Now I love k-pop!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
I was, thankfully, never an angsty teen XD People used to laugh at me and think I was joking when I said I was a fan of bands like Cradle of Filth or Rob Zombie, because I didn’t look like some kind of hardcore metal fan or some kind of goth XD I was always wearing long, hippy/gypsy kind of skirts, plain tanktops, TONS of bright colours!