king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND

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King Ly Chee was put together in May of 1999 and the full story and details of the inception can be read in the various interviews we've put up on our site. One in particular would be the Fracture interview we did a few years ago...If anyone is familiar with modern-day Asian culture - you will know just how complex the circumstances are in our cities around Asia. Its hard to make sense of introducing an entire music-culture to a population whose main language is not English and therefore things need to be translated, written or sung in the most accessible language. For Korea - things need to be in Korean, in Taiwan - things need to be in Mandarin, for Hong Kong - things need to be in Cantonese.In general we focus on creating music heavily centered on social issues that may or may not be unique to our city (depending, of course, on the topic of the song). We have always been fans of message-oriented hardcore and less interested in the make-up, hair dye, mascara, rocking out to poetic gibberish "hardcore".
November 2000, we released our first album named "We Are Who We Are". In August 2002, we signed with a brand new local Hong Kong independent label called Polar Bear Production and released our second record "Stand Strong" in December of 2003. In January 2006, King Ly Chee independently released a split CD entitled Under One Flag with a European political punk band called Good Reason and followed the release up with a tour of Eastern Europe. In June of 2006 King Ly Chee got together with a bunch of other local Hong Kong bands and started a brand new record label called Start From Scratch Records! To find out more about this exciting new endeavor check out: www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk and www.myspace.com/startfromscratchrecords
In the last 9 years we have played throughout Hong Kong and have traveled to other countries including several times in Taiwan, Korea, China (including Beijing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou), and have completed two Southeast Asian Tours taking on the sights, sounds, culture of our bretheren in hardcore scenes of Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. We most recently toured as NOFX's Asian support band on their Asian tour in 2007
On January 30, 2008 we released are highly anticipated new EP called Unite Asia! This EP has been brought to you by our fellow Asian brothers and sisters at the following labels: Townhall Records, Dyslexia Records, One Voice Records, Sound Pollution, Unityhxc, Fast Youth Records, Start From Scratch Records, Take 4 Collective, and Painkiller Magazine. It is a totally FREE download EP and is available on our website: www.kinglychee.com
It means a lot to us when people outside of Hong Kong are into checking us out...especially fellow hardcore bands - it proves to us that hardcore is TRULY a global community, and not just based on USA.
Thank you so much for your time and interest in Asian hardcore...

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Music:

Member Since: 12/25/2004
Band Website: kinglychee.com
Band Members: pong: bass/backing vocals
man: drums/backing vocals
riz: guitar/vocals
brian: guitar

*****KING LY CHEE VIDEO: UNITE ASIA (Chinese)*******
King Ly Chee video consisting of recent Asian Tour 2007
Song name: "Unite Asia (Chinese)Ya Zhou Qi Yi"

*****KING LY CHEE VIDEO: UNITE ASIA (English)*******
King Ly Chee video consisting of recent Asian Tour 2007
Song name: "Unite Asia"

*****LIVE VIDEO OF KING LY CHEE!!!*******
King Ly Chee LIVE at YOS Fest 2 in Bangkok December 2006
Song name: Skinless

Influences:Our influences range from old-school hardcore to new-school...in the past 7 years we have been lucky to play with TONS of amazing Asian bands...and our Asian bands will always be our MAIN inspiration:
The Lovesong (Hong Kong)
Piledriver (Philippines)
Intolerant (Philippines)
My Precious (Singapore)
The Geeks (Korea)
Second Combat (Malaysia)
Born From Pain (Thailand)
5 Disciplines (Hong Kong)
Brain Failure (Beijing)
Unregenerated Blood (Beijing)
Reflector (Beijing)
Suffocated (Beijing)
Milkshake 7 (Hong Kong)
Embryo (Hong Kong)
Shepherds the Weak (Hong Kong)
Los en Found (Hong Kong)
Innisfallen (Hong Kong)
Hardpack (Hong Kong)
Brand New Sunset (Thailand)
Attention to Piss (Hong Kong)
13 Steps (Korea)
Vassline (Korea)
Johnny Royal (Korea)
xElevenx (Malaysia)
Restraint (Malaysia)
Dash Own (Malaysia)
and so many more...
Sounds Like: anything from King Ly Chee to King Ly Chee - we don't know what we sound like, we try to be ourselves...check out our songs and tell us what you think...
Record Label: Start From Scratch Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Back from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia!

What's up,Yes...as I'm sure you guessed...we had another insane time in KL - well at least I did! hahahaha...I have no idea whether or not Brian, Pong and Man had a good time. I went there early to ha...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:53:00 PST

SICK OF IT ALL CANCELLED IN MALAYSIA...but we are still playing a different show 25/5!!!

Dear all,This is crazy...Anyone that has been in a band knows that being in a band is full of ups and downs...constant ups and downs. Last month I announced probably one of the greatest things to happ...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Fri, 23 May 2008 09:01:00 PST

Riz on NOFX Backstage Pass!

Yo,Check it out...I didn't even realize I was on this thing! NOFX filmed all their tours last year and KLC played on the Asian leg of the tour. They didn't mention King Ly Chee ever though :-( Oh well...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Sun, 11 May 2008 08:45:00 PST

MALAYSIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!

Assalamwalaikum! :-)We'll be there in a few weeks my brothers and sisters!!! Can't wait to be back...every time we go you guys welcome us as if we're a band from down the road in Kuala Lumpur! :-) So ...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Fri, 09 May 2008 04:38:00 PST

GREATEST WEEKEND WRAP-UP (PART 2)

So the alarm goes off in our hotel room for 6am. We've slept a total of 2 hours since we got back to the hotel from Summer Slam. I immediately get up and go knock on Jun's door to see what time we nee...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:54:00 PST

GREATEST WEEKEND WRAP-UP (PART 1)

Okay...where do I begin...I don't even know where to start with everything that happened last weekend!!! Around Monday of last week we decided to print 1,000 copies of our Unite Asia EP onto CD. The ...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:23:00 PST

OFFICIAL ANNOUCEMENT: We are opening for SICK OF IT ALL MAY 25 in KL/Malaysia!!! PLEASE READ!!!

APRIL 24, 2008: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: OPENING FOR SICK OF IT ALL!!! Oh my god...here comes the news that I've been telling you about...the most unbelievable thing that is going to happen to King Ly ...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:28:00 PST

FREE UNITE ASIA CD’s AT SUMMER SLAM and NEW SHIRTS!!!

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!Just a few days left my Filipino brothers and sisters!!! We'll be there Saturday afternoon to rock the Summer Slam Stage at 11pm!!!JUST FOR ALL OF YOU - we are going to burning 1,0...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:58:00 PST

Our HK brothers EVOCATION - HK METAL - have released their debut album!!!

NOW!!! This may not be exciting news to people outside of Hong Kong...but for us Hong Kong-ers this is HUGE news!!! We don't have many underground bands releasing albums here...if it happens, it happe...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:43:00 PST

FREE SONGS UP NOW FOR DOWNLOAD!!!

What’s up everyone,To get ready for all the amazing shows coming up - we’ve decided to put a few of our UNITE ASIA EP songs up on our myspace!!! We’re doing this for ONE reason only ...
Posted by king ly chee ASIAN HARDCORE BAND on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:38:00 PST