East Asian metal.
Esthete Sinistre - The best metal band I've heard -- it's too bad they've only ever recorded one track.
Ego Fall - folk metal from Inner Mongolia. (see also)
Kanashimi - Japanese depressive black metal. With a piano.
Pyha - Korean black metal. Pyha is mostly known for The Haunted House, which the guy apparently recorded when he was 14, but he has another album, Majbulnol-i, which deserves at least as much recognition, and which I'd call 'blues metal' if that didn't sound ridiculous.
Tengger Cavalry - Mongolian folk metal.
The Nine Treasures - More Mongolian folk metal.
There's also Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band, not to be confused with the Irish folk band Altan. (The word 'altan' means 'stream' in Irish Gaelic and 'golden' in Mongolian.)
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