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Tang Dynasty
12+ albums
heavy metalchineseProgressive metalchinese metalmetal
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Tang Dynasty (唐朝 - Táng Cháo), formed in 1988, is often credited as being China's first Heavy Metal band. The music of Tang Dynasty was in their beginning mostly melancholic, partly depressive, lost in the try to escape into a imaginary dreamworld and full of contrasts. It expressed what Tang Dynasty saw as their way to show honesty and true feelings. Tang Dynasty had four initial band members: Ding Wu, Zhang Ju, Kaiser Kuo and Andrew Szabo. Ding Wu, lead vocalist of Tang Dynasty was born on December 30th 1962 in Beijing and has spent most of his youth in the northern province Heilongjiang before he returned to Beijing in 1972 to start studying at the Industrials Arts Academy. After his graduation he was working at on of Beijing's colleges, where he had his first contacts to foreign Western rock music. In 1981 he bought his first electric guitar on which he immediately started practicing. In 1984 he joined the the band Bu Dao Wang. In 1986 he joined the band 黑豹 (Black Panther) for a short time. Zhang Ju was born 1970 in Beijing as youngest of three children. He started learning guitar from 1984 on and switched to bass in 1986. In 1988 Ding Wu, Zhang Ju, Kaiser Kuo (US) and Andrew Szabo (US) met at a party and decided to form Tang Dynasty. They played several gigs on smaller parties, but had to abandon touring plans after the Tiannamen incident 1989. Kaiser Kuo and Andrew Szabo returned to the US. But in autumn 1989 Ding Wu and Zhang Ju met Liu Yijun (Lao Wu) and Zhao Nia
