Tang Dynasty (唐朝乐队) - 九拍 (Nine Rhythm) MV | Chinese Metal

From the album A Dream Return To Tang Dynasty (1992)

Tang Dynasty (Chinese: 唐朝; pinyin: Táng Cháo) is a Chinese ethnic-art rock and prog-metal band that is often credited as being the first heavy metal band in China.

Tang Dynasty rose to fame with their first major album "A Dream Return to Tang Dynasty" (1991/2). The album officially sold about 2,000,000 authentic copies throughout Asia and abroad, not counting the multitudes more of pirated copies. Their sound is part progressive rock and artistic metal and part traditional Chinese vocal techniques with lyrical poetry and musical arrangements meant to hearken back to the glorious days of ancient Chinese civilization; in particular, the art and cultural epitome of Chinese history as popularly represented by the era of the Tang Dynasty.

Tang Dynasty soon became the icon of Chinese hard rock music, and their lightning-fast guitarist Liu Yijun (刘义军), a.k.a. "Lao Wu", became the first rock guitar hero in China. However, tragedy cast a dark shadow over the band in 1995 with the untimely death on May 11 of bassist Zhang Ju, who was riding his motorcycle from fellow rock bassist friend Chen Jin's home, when an accident occurred involving a collision with a truck on the Zizhuqiao (Purple Bamboo Bridge) freeway overpass in western Beijing. This dealt a heavy blow to the band. Liu Yijun left the band in 1996 and was replaced by original founding member Kaiser Kuo, a Chinese-American who formed the band with Ding Wu and Zhang Ju in 1989.

In 1991, the band released its metal rock version of The Internationale in Chinese, which is still popular among Chinese youths and nationalists even to this day[citation needed].

The band's 1998 release "Epic" was their second album, 7 years after their debut record. Epic did maintain a level of artfully composed series of new prog-metal rock songs that helped bring success to their debut album, but may otherwise be described as a little bit more of a straight-ahead rock album with somewhat less ethnic orientation. The album received lukewarm reviews. Nevertheless, the album was still popular enough to elicit waves of unauthorized copies in the pirated market. In June of 1999, Kaiser Kuo again parted company with Tang Dynasty and later formed another well-recognized Chinese metal-rock band, Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu). Kuo was replaced for a period by former Iron Kite front man Yu Yang, and then by young guitar virtuoso Chen Lei, who joined the band in late 2000. In 2002, Lao Wu rejoined the group and Tang Dynasty is at its present five-man band form, featuring contrasting styles of Chen Lei and Lao Wu both exchanging and interplaying guitar work, and fattening-up their overall live sound with Ding Wu's occasional coloring in their sound palette with a third guitar. In January 2009, Lao Wu announced his second departure of the band due to "personal reasons" and "in cooperation with the idea of music with the band"; he is now working with an Austrian neo-classical rock artist on an album stated to be out by 2010. Ding is currently filling the spot of the second guitarist.[1] As of February 2010, Ding Wu has announced that the band is preparing for the fourth release due out later in the year[2]

Tang Dynasty released their third album "Langman Qishi" in mid-2008, featuring "Feng Shan Ji" as the album's lead track. [1] Tang Dynasty are featured in the documentary by Sam Dunn, Global Metal.[3]

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[zjfox43]

Need to learn Chinese. Can't even find the English lyrics online. AHHHHH!! This is too good and I don't know what they are saying!

[hilda1897]

惊艳……13club那帮人可以去打飞机了。

[thetram156]

*&^%$#@!(0+=-/.,><?;:"{[]}\|~`­

[c100m100y100k100]

@ltq19900310 這很正常啊!既使是歐美日等地區,也是這種情況,金屬樂盛世80­年代還是有許多失意落魄的樂團,搞音樂跟搞藝術一樣,好與壞差很­大!我朋友玩樂團,多幫唱片公司搞錄音,做伴奏樂師為業,(有機­會認識大咖音樂人)假日才作樂團,許多知名樂團也是這麼熬過來,­等機會的!

我猜想你因該也正在玩樂團,才會如此感概,90年是你的出生年吧­?你還年輕,來日方長啊~!

[ltq19900310]

@c100m100y100k100 现在中国摇滚乐的处境比90年代初还差些，这边搞乐队的都不是专­职乐手，因为根本无法靠音乐养活自己，杯具啊

[c100m100y100k100]

@ltq19900310 台灣也是如此,搖滾樂也是"地下"的產物,5月天也是地下出身的­,雖然現在他們很跟隨著市場走,另外閃靈雖享有盛名,但還是非主­流,搖滾,尤其重搖滾~金屬樂,本來就不媚俗,只走自己的路,要­成為主流,讓群眾來跟隨,本來就不易,就如狗尾巴要去搖擺狗一樣­!搖滾要當主流也不容易,像Nirvana以反主流起家,當他成­主流後,卻陷入極度的矛盾!

[ltq19900310]

@c100m100y100k100 可以这么说吧，那是中国第一次也是唯一一次摇滚真正走上了台面能­同流行音乐竞争，从那之后就一直转战地下了，很是遗憾

[c100m100y100k100]

@ltq19900310 有趣!當時中國確實正開始改革開放,這麼說唐朝也算是時代的產物­囉?

[ltq19900310]

@c100m100y100k100 没有禁，当时政府还将唐朝乐队视为中国文化开放的象征送去德国进­行音乐交流，那场音乐会你可以在YouTube上搜索得到，有兴­趣可以看看

[c100m100y100k100]

@ltq19900310 當時中國政府有禁這樣的玩意嗎?