Vampillia + VMO in Europe!
If there is a band, that is really very difficult to describe, it is Vampillia, with its totally weird mixture of music genres, maybe calling them an avant-garde black metal…
T.C.L – hardcore / metal group, featuring some local legends is back with its 2nd album!
There was a band called The Mad Capsule Markets, active between 1990 and 2006, which, after its early punk years, started to cross hardcore and electronic music, did quite revolutionary…
Indie rock group Helsinki Lambda Club’s first full album is out this week!
Helsinki Lambda Club is one of the most charming indie bands around nowadays and they are coming out with a new album this week, called ME to ME. It was…
KK. Null & Balazs Pandi: upcoming album and EU tour!
After his recent tours with Merzbow and Keijo Haino, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi will travel around Europe with yet another Japanese noise legend, KK. Null. By far the longest of…
Charisma.com goes Pop Art!
In the previous news post about them, I was already going on about how is the probably the strangest JPop duo out there nowadays (well, OK, besides FEMM), with extremely…
SA: WAO!!!! – new album and video from the punk veterans
So, I mentioned in the post about Razors Edge, that there are a lot of old, still active punk rock bands in Japan and SA formed even earlier than Kenji Razors'…
Razors Edge releases anniversary Best of with… 44 tracks!
Japan's punk scene is huge, with countless bands (and so many good ones!) and while there are many, many new groups that come and go, there are also several big…
Legendary rock group The Yellow Monkey is back with its first new single since their reunion!
Let's start this with a short history lesson: One of the most successful Japanese rock acts of the '90s was the group called The Yellow Monkey, that played a mixture…
Babymetal gets its own US animated series!
When (just after the RHCP news) you thought that Babymetal really can not surprise you with anything even more unexpected in their journey towards World domination comes the announcement from…
New album from Crystal Lake in November!
Crystal Lake, one of Japan's longest running metalcore bands (they formed back in 2002!) will release its forth full length album at the end of November. The release date ()…