Animetal
| Animetal | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Japan |
| Genres | Heavy metal, speed metal, power metal, anison |
| Years active | 1996–2006 |
| Labels |
VAP Sony Music Entertainment Avex |
| Associated acts | Anthem, Galneryus, Gargoyle, Zigoku Quartet, Pink Lady, JAM Project, Eizo Japan, Animetal USA |
| Website | http://www.compozila.co.jp/iron/ |
| Members |
Eizo Sakamoto Masaki Syu |
| Past members | She-Ja Mie |
Animetal (アニメタル Animetaru?) was a Japanese heavy metal band who specialized in metal covers of theme songs from classic and modern Japanese anime and tokusatsu television series.
They were composed of several luminaries of the Japanese metal scene, most notably vocalist Eizo Sakamoto, who has been involved off and on with Anthem (one of the first Japanese heavy metal bands to achieve name recognition outside Japan in the 1980s) as well as participating in various other projects including the pop rock group Nerima, the JAM Project, and a successful solo career where he also plays lead guitar as well as vocals.
As of 2006, the band is currently on indefinite hiatus. Sakamoto has since begun a similar project called Eizo Japan, but in 2013 he announced that he and She-Ja were reforming Animetal as Aisenshi (哀旋士?).
Their music can be classified as speed metal and power metal with a very high level of musical virtuosity, especially on the guitarists' (initially She-Ja for the first four albums, then Syu from Animetal Marathon V to the present) and bassist Masaki's parts. Masaki, in particular from Animetal Marathon IV onward, has shown an intensely active and aggressive approach to his instrument with fluid soloing, manic slapping and popping, energetic fills, and crashing chords for punctuation. The albums are structured as nearly seamless barrages of short songs woven into well-structured medleys that sound as though the band simply enters the studio and lays down virtually the entire album from start to finish in one go, with occasional overdubs and breaks in the action here and there.
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