Crossfaith EU tour… starting today!
Last minute news: Japan's most popular metalcore band Crossfaith is launching its first post-covid European tour today! This current tour is mostly about festival appearances with a couple of club…
Mono to reissue their 2020 xmas single on vinyl + announces EU tour
At the end of 2020 Mono released Scarlet Holliday, a surprise digital only single through its Bandcamp page, which included two songs "written with the idea of new hope for…
Crystal Lake adds new members, drops a music video and announces EU tour!
Crystal Lake made several important announcement recently, so let's see what's up with Japans metalcore legends: They started off by dropping a music video for a brand new track called…
Capsule: the club pop duo’s first new song and music video in more than six years!
Capsule is back with a new more than six years after their latest release, 2015's excellent Wave Runner album! The duo of Yasutaka Nakata (lyrics, music) and Toshiko Koshijima (vocals)…
Dig deep into the history of the Kansai area hardcore punk scene with F.O.A.D. Records’ new book!
These last few years we've seen a wave of reissues digging up rare gems from the endless annals of Japan's vast and insane hardcore punk scene, but Italy's Records, one…
A Japanese noise & experimental Who’s Who by Ochiai Soup
While the music industry and live music in particular was hit especially hard by the pandemic, there are also some great things coming out of all this and one of…
Dubstep goodies from the second half of 2020, with the reissues and rarities from Goth-Trad and a lot of new releases!
Even though 2020 was very strange, still it was a quiet busy year for Japanese dubstep: there weren't many physical releases, but other than that a lot happened since my…
“Kids Still Want A New Acid” – a new remix EP from Crossfaith!
Crossfaith was always very fond of the EP format, they released many of those throughout the years and they just dropped another one yesterday! This one is a digital only…
New collab album from Boris & Merzbow, inspired by 2020.
The first collaboration between Boris and Merzbow called Megatone was released back in 2002 and ever since then they drop a new joint album every few years. The new one,…
New collab album and cassette releases from Viviankrist
Viviankrist is the name Eri Isaka (probably still better known as Vivian Slaughter, singer / bassist of black metal band Gallhammer) started to use for her solo releases after she…