CHERRY FILTER

Using heavy riffs to support pop melodies is nowhere near a new idea, but Cherry Filter's take on it is more energetic than that of many other Far Eastern bands, and the elements of rave and trance in their earlier work only spiced up their sound, helping them to score on the Korean rock scene. The band, whose name is said to bear no specific meaning, has been around since 1997, playing local rock clubs; their first break into the mainstream league came in 1999, when they did a song for the movie Ninko Jiio Yoshanashi, followed by another song for the horror movie Bloody Beach...