New “Cuts” album from the Merzbow / Pándi / Gustasfsson trio
In the fourth installment in their Cuts series (which started with Cuts in 2013 and was followed by Cuts Of Guilt, Cuts Deeper in 2015 and Cuts Up Cuts Out…
Controlled Death’s new releases in 2020
Back in January I already posted about Controlled Death, the current project of Maso Yamazaki (of Masonna fame) and this year turned out to be extremely busy for him with…
Crystal Lake: new album with old gems, a recent single and membership changes!
Metalcore band Crystal Lake returned with a new album which is not really new actually, as it contains re-recorded songs from the band's early releases. They started back in 2002 …
New split single from The Gerogerigegege!
After 15 years of silence one of the most infamous acts coming from the Japanese noise scene, The Gerogerigegege returned a few years ago and started to release both new…
Online streams this weekend by three young rock bands straight from Tokyo!
This whole covid crisis is turning pretty much everything upside down and it hit the live music scene especially hard. Musicians however try to adapt to the situation creatively, which…
NO, a new album from Boris out later this week!
Later this week Boris will release a new full-lenght titled NO: out on the 3rd of July, the album will contain eleven tracks, including a cover of Fundamental Error by…
New Linekraft album out on SSSM
In just a few years Masahiko Okubo's Linekraft became one of the best known and busiest Japanese noise / industrial / power electronics acts and obviously there is no stopping:…
Several new dubstep releases + an international tribute to Naoki DSZ
Almost six months passed since the last time we checked what's up in Japan's deep dubstep scene, so it is time to look around especially as there were several great…
Two new beat tapes from Grooveman Spot!
A Japanese boom bap label, the Okinawa based Honey Records just released two digital exclusive beat tapes from the mighty Grooveman Spot yesterday. Titled Lost Beat Tape -Pianoman- vol.1 and…
New split cassette from Government Alpha!
Recently Government Alpha, Yoshida Yasutoshi's prolific noise project teamed up with Portuguese noise artist Ogata Tetsuo for a split cassette: the untitled tape is out on Slovenian label Debila Records,…