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  Metalchicks - We Are The Warriors
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These chicks want to play Metal - but on the dance floor. Heavily-fuzzed speed-metal riffs and kick-heavy drums are all there, but so is a palpable New Wave influence, with oddly catchy grooves and synthesizers lending an added depth and variety to their mostly instrumental tracks.

Having been active in the Japanese indie rock scene for years -- suGar Yoshinaga leading the band Buffalo Daughter (Grand Royal), and Yuka Yoshimura drumming for OOIOO (feat. Yoshimi of Boredoms) and DMBQ, respectively -- the duo first united to play "heavy metal" in late 2000.

Metalchicks' first gig as a two-piece was at a small club in Osaka, Japan in December 2002. Their amalgam of classic metal/rock/drum'n'bass/electro-synth music instantly appeals to both the hipsters and the heshers in attendance. Word of the band quickly spreads across the sea to New York, and two months later Metalchicks were chosen to open for Sonic Youth in Tokyo. In 2005, the band releases its first album, Metalchicks on Japanese indie Music Mine. It charts number one that summer on CRJ-TOKYO. The band would also add fans to their growing legion while playing Canadian Music Week '05 in Toronto.

The second album, St. Wonder was released in July 2006. It serves as the original soundtrack to director Issei Oda's live-action film based on the '80's Japanese manga "Warau Mikaeru (Laughing St. Michael)," by Izumi Kawahara, about three schoolgirls endowed with super-human powers who battle evil forces at their private school, St. Michael's. The movie is slated to open nationwide in Japan in the summer of '06.

The band has been just back from CMJ Music Marathon 2006 in New York, where they shared the Knitting Factory main stage with Jason Forest Band and The IV Thieves.
The other bands recently shared the stage with were The Fucking Champs (a Metalchicks favorite), Swedish electro-pop artist Andreas Tilliander, DJ Mani from Primal Scream and BEZ from Happy Mondays.
Metalchicks accompanied Buffalo Daughter on their summer tour of Japan, and appeared at Fuji Rock Festival 06, one of the biggest rock festivals in Japan.