Shanghai
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Shanghai (上海)
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General information
Venues
Check out our extensive list of places to go in Shanghai.
Bands
Check out our extensive list of artists in Shanghai.
The scene
The scene in Shanghai is - different from Beijing - not as active (i.e. not as many concerts), but also with a higher influence rate by foreigners; consider the websites Gigshanghai.com and Shanghaistreets.net compared to the number of bands).
The heavy metal scene in Shanghai is pretty small with only a dozend bands sharing guitarists and drummers focusing mostly on death or black metal and a few progressive ones. Metalcore has not yet arrived in Shanghai (as of 2006) in contrast to Beijing (2004-2006).
Therefore there is a stronger rock scene with more than 100 bands. However as of 2006, the actual release per band ratio is still poorly. Despite numerous self-releases there had been only 4 real major releases as of 2006.
