五人一首 - 五人一首(2000)

This band isn't known that much and really deserve all your attention cause they are simple OUTSTANDING! to me they sound as if Nuclear Rabbit (that stupendous band of crazy lunatics!) took on an even more violent form!

here's the explaination of the name they give on their website:
The name of Gonin-ish is named from referring to the Japanese classical literature “Hyakunin-ish”. Hyakunin-ish is the literature which contains hundred of poems. The poems are constructed by divided characters, and the dividing rule is 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 characters. “Hyakunin” means people of one hundred, and “Ish”means one poem. A man at A.D.800 selected 100 excellent poems from a lot of poems. For this reason, the literature was called “Hyakunin-Ish”, and these poems were inherited in the card game. The rule of this game is very simple. when introduction of poem was read aloud, players are to scramble for cards. In the new year, a championship of Japan is held for this game.
Refer to the above. A word "Gonin" (means five people) and "ish" (means one poem) were selected for a name of Gonin-Ish. We decided the name of “Gonin-Ish” which is a coined word, meaning to unite songs by five members.

music wise here the opinion of the band members about their music (and i quite agree with their descrition):
Gonin-ish is progressive metal band, the music futures "silence" and "chaos". To express these, we are careful about to manage beautiful melody, death voice, a delicate piano, a percussive piano, irregular time, tension chords and the techniques. When audience experience our shows, everybody expresses our sound as "Progressive Rock", "Death Metal", "Gothic Metal", "Punk?", etc. However, a division of a genre does not have a meaning.Songs of Gonin-Ish are bond to Japan, with lyrics, melodys and artworks. On lyrics, Anoji chooses words from Japanese classic literature which never use modern-day , and it is difficult for modern Japanese to understand the lyrics. This point is not handicap, because Japanese language contains “kanji” characters (They attain to Tens of thousands!). The “kanji” has many meanings by only one character, then Japanese are able to image something easy from lyrics.

五人一首 - 五人一首 (2000)
Genre: Avant-Garde Progressive Death Metal with a somewhat traditionnal Japanese ambience!
Tracklist:
1 狂骨の夢
2 経文刻印身体
3 二人遊び
4 月と半魚人
5 楼の主
6 経文刻印身体Demo1999

Let my ears bleed!