Olympos16
Olympos16

Artist Profile

Olympos16

A real all-offence-no-defense, no-nonsense group of angry and hungry hooligans, consisting of 11 members including doctor, university professor, cartoonist, and entrepreneurial CEO. Unlike conventional bands with fixed and always-on-standby members, Olympos 16 optimize "the major and minor system" whereby whoever is most suitable (and available) for gig occasions takes the leading performing role, enabling the infinite sustainability and longevity for the band. Characterized by such distinctive features as bizarre-but-curiously-unison chorus created by mandatory backing-singing forced to all performing members (and audiences); aggressive, brutal, pounding beat; shameless, audacious, and often offensive and politically-incorrect lyrics and MCs; stage performance resembling unleashed hungry beasts; shredding and grinding guitar solo; cover songs undergone the process of dismembering, disfiguring, and deforming... And above all, the band is most notorious for its compulsory post-live drinking carnage which all audience members are forced to participate. All members of Olympos 16 are mostly "performers" and bluntly admitting of seeking no musical influences from others, thus allowing them to be one-and-only. Aside from live performance averaging 30 annually, each of which generating about 140 audiences, the band makes eager appearances in movie, TV, radio, and magazines.

Genre: Hardcore Mixture
Active area: Tokyo
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