She's been working really hard this last year and has had a lot of great things happen to her, and she deserves it. I hope things keep going well for her. She's also now slightly under 15k until becoming the fourth Phase member to hit the big 100k. I'm really happy for her.
With all the recent talks about our favorite
, it reminded me to check-in on a vtuber that does good metal stuff that isn't a
: Patra.
Somehow, I missed her guitar stream almost two weeks ago where she did a Summer festival of her playing guitar and singing. Currently watching the Lia + Pomu collab, so I haven't watched the whole stream yet, but will after this. I don't think anyone mentioned it back when she did it, but I wanted to mention it now because I listened to some of the songs, and it's awesome. She has a pretty solid line-up of songs that include covers from Pantera, Megadeth, Metallica, Exodus, etc. She doesn't sing every song, but she does for many, and it's great.
As I don't speak Japanese, I don't know the context behind much with her. Watching some of her previous guitar streams, I noticed she plays some of the same songs often, so I assumed she was practicing these songs on stream and trying to get better at playing them, but I could be wrong. However, if this is the case, you can tell in this Summer festival, she's definitely improved on these songs and has them down pretty damn good.
I know many of us lament that there aren't many vtubers within the English speaking side of vtubing involved in metal, and that the most prominent one is a
, but at least there's Patra on the Japanese side, and her guitar streams are probably the best "metal" content in vtubing. But enough of my own sperging, here's the stream: