Members of The HU, a band that blends the traditional folk music of their country and heavy metal, educated some VIPs about their instruments — the tovshuur (Mongolian guitar), the jaw harp and ...

"The music had otherworldly-sounding vocals ... Like his bandmates, Gala, who is 30, trained on traditional Mongolian instruments at the Mongolian State Conservatory. Also like his bandmates ...

Mongolian musical culture is tied up with their pastoral way of life ... Make something new,” says Dashka, who spoke through a translator via Skype. It is not just their instruments that incorporate ...

Band member Nyamjantsan "Jaya" Galsanjamts, however, argues that traditional Mongolian music was already metal, both in the sounds generated by the instruments and in the epic subject matter.

He told us he was going to make some new music using traditional Mongolian instruments. How is it different performing for a Mongolian audience and performing for a European or American audience?

We would try to play Metallica songs on our instruments. This ‘hunnu rock ... the most important essence of our sound. Mongolian music is the foundation of our music, we just gave it a ...

One less known trace of Mongolian–Chinese cultural hybridity can be found in music, as both nations have a tradition of performing on bowed string instruments. To understand the links but also ...

One of the main instruments of Hunnu Rock is the morin ... don’t only play Mongolian music according to the group’s drummer, Odko. Find out when and why Mongolians first came to Australia.

Mongolian musical culture is tied up with their pastoral way of life ... Make something new," says Dashka, who spoke through a translator via Skype. It is not just their instruments that incorporate ...

Mongolian musical culture is tied up with their pastoral ... It is not just their instruments that incorporate traditional elements. In the band's first song, "Yuve Yuve Yu" (What's going on?), ...