World's End Fruit Basket

Completely unknown to me. But this surprised me a lot. Incredible nu-metal, with some more experimental parts here and there

World's End Fruit Basket is a typical Japanese take on nu metal. Like fellow countrymen Dhidalah (spac-rock) and Bo Ningen (noise rock) the music goes through a meat grinder and something weird comes out. The songs and album go in every direction and the dynamics change a lot. It's a bit messy and unconstructed at times. Still It like the original result.

Holy shit! I did NOT expect this. It does have no metal flavor, but this is a lot more than that. This actually good metal.

Meh. This is not my genre, but I do appreciate that this leans straight into the Japanese stereotype of finding something, learning how it works and then honing it to absolute perfection.

Diverse sound, really cool metal to pretty push and pull, but it missed something for me. Maybe I would like it better if I could understand more than just the occasional mother fucker

Lot more verve and creativity than I feel like I usually get off of nu-metal stuff. Had a good time with this one

Boomhauer on the vocals. Loved how weird this is. Not something you'd expect from a Nu Metal album. Some of the songs on here are bordering on Post-Rock/Post-Metal. It's not the most consistent album ever (definitely too long), but one thing it's definitely not is boring, and that already puts it in the top 10% of the albums on here. So many Japanese gems out there. Waiter, more stuff like this, less BABYMETAL please.

Cool discovery! A bit long (just 2 minutes under the limit for a cd disc, can you tell this came out in the 2000s?) but the shifts in sound gives it a unique structure.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Last/exodus

World's End Fruit Basket. Japanese nu metal, sure. I liked it for what it was, nothing spectacular, but also not rubbish. Gets a 3 because it went fucking hard at times, but it does not need to be 78 minutes long ffs.

Never heard of this band, so I had no idea what to expect (particularly after the first track). Japanese death metal was not one of the things I would have thought of. Surprisingly good, given that I'm not a fan of death metal.

Intenso. Mezcla de un tanto rock gutural, algún tema más tranquilo. Guitarrero, con rabia. Aún siendo un poco de mi género, no le he encontrado la motivación especial.

Very odd, and a lot of fun

Death metal, nu metal. Por momentos me ha parecido a Marilyn Manson. Ni fu ni fa.

Japanese counterculture always hits different somehow. It seems perhaps more genuinely crazy, though that might be some kind of cultural disconnect. I thought this was was interesting and a lot of it very good, though it did start to wear on me at its considerable length.

I saw nu metal and thought bleghhh. But then saw japanese and thought yayyyy. Sadly, nu metal is not good from any country.

Death metal, nu metal. Por momentos me ha parecido a Marilyn Manson. Ni fu ni fa.

Delightfully weird occasionally goes hard.

Something different, I like it

Given this started off sounding like the musical equivalent of Finnegan's Wake, I fully expected to hate this listen. There's something about the different cultural lens on nu-metal here though that kept me around for the whole extended runtime – once I understood the LP's groove, it started to fly by. There's some interesting chaotic arrangements, the instrumentals are well-done and come through the roughshod production, and even the vocals grew on me a bit. The switch-up in dynamics at the end showed some range as well. Great add, don't know if I'll return to this one but regardless I love when out-there albums I would never have found on my own pop up here.

I hated this but also dug it. I do not enjoy nu metal, but somehow ported through the Japanese lens it works at times. The vocals are a bit all over the place and since it's in Japanese I have no idea what is being said probably helps. It's also way too long. Nonetheless, it's kinda more what I want to listen on this user list. It didn't work for me but I am happy to have listened to it. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight yes.

Weird mix of just about everything

Favorite Track: Celeb Hunter

Not a fan. Some of the quiet loud quiet dynamics are typically what I like, but this one didn’t do it for me

Interesting take on nu-metal, but was never gonna convince me to.invest (waste) more time in the genre

Didn’t really do it for me musically. Periodically I checked in on lyrics. Also didn’t do it for me.

I don’t really know what this was. It confused me.

Everything before I clicked play made this seem like it would be cool and then it was a really long metal album

I think I might be glad I didn’t get all the lyrics… the Cookie Monster vocal delivery style made the question of whether they were singing in Japanese or English moot. I’m not into this metal style much, although there were occasional diversions into other styles - but I’m afraid this album was just too long and started to feel quite punishing to listen to. While I have grown to respect the harder styles more in this project, I just couldn’t get into this one.

Good to see the Japanese were not immune to nu metal

nah

Didn't care for the death metal screams.

Dated Numetal not my cup of tea.

nah

Japanese nu-metal. Sounds like Korn/Slipknot by times. Interesting to hear the Japanese's take on the genre. The almost rapped lyrics are sung by someone who seems to have marbles in his mouth, so you can't really make out what he's saying. Plus half the lyrics are Japanese, and the screaming sounds like Call of Duty Zombies lol. They like to do that thing Korn does where they almost whisper lyrics, which is immediately followed by a violent beat drop and a lot of growling. Overall, an interesting listen. I like it better than American nu-metal. This album does suffer, however, from being way too long. Favourite songs: Celeb Hunter, oDdEyヨ, Ichigo-philia, きみよし, Last/Exodus Least favourite songs: Black Apartment, World's End 2/5

Now that's a jolly, happy go lucky album artwork, ain't it? The delirious, cult-like chants of the first real track "Celeb Hunter" are somewhat refreshing for the nü-metal genre, I'm gonna give Ikd-sj that. I suppose what makes the user who suggested this very confidential record so enthusiastic about it is how unhinged the project's vocalist comes off here -- like a demented corner preacher announcing the Apocalypse, or like a psych ward inmate in a straightjacket looking daggers at you. You could tell me the "mastermind" behind this album went on a killing rampage a couple of years after releasing it, I would barely raise an eyebrow... Let's face it though, fifteen years after the first Korn album, it's not as if this Japanese act was reinventing the wheel either, right? And yes, that assessment also includes the totally different ambient tracks sprinkled here and there. Worse, on a compositional standpoint, some of the main songs (including that nine-minute-long post-rock cut "Lemon Lumpen") are clearly unfocused or extended for no discernable reasons. And the album's sound is so paper-thin to boot, probably because of production budget issues... So for me, there's nothing in this interminable LP that can possibly justify including it on this list... Now can someone get me out of the 1001 Albums Generator Psych Ward, please? Or at least find me a "skip" option for the users' list? Please? I'm begging you... 1/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (4.5/5 for the musicianship and production values + 1.5/5 for the artistry) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 108 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 117 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 255 (including this one) ---- Émile, *quatre* nouveaux messages pour toi au dessus, du *Solid State Survivor* de Yellow Magic Orchestra au *Atrocity Exhibition* de Danny Brown

Än är inte den sista idioten född. Hur i helvete kan man nominera något så uselt? Jag blir arg! Jättearg! Argare än argast! Jag blir även ledsen! Jätteledsen! Ledsnare än ledsnast!

Nu-metal is also bad in other languages. Really disliked this.

I listened to the first four tracks and then admitted boredom.

Just noise. Horrid noise.

Just what this project needed - another bang average metal album. To go with the 40 others in the user picks.

I couldn't get through this.

Rock, Metal: Nu Metal, Grunge, Experimental. Miedo, voces, ruidos. Es desagradable hasta la portada.