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…
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 …
Envy is back! New video, new EP, EU tour in December and new album out next February!
As already mentioned earlier in the posts about the current EU tours of Mono and Boris, another Japanese heavy hitter will also visit Europe in December: screamo / post-hardcore /…
Crystal Lake is touring in Europe right now and announces another headliner tour for November!
Crystal Lake toured around Europe several times these past few years, but they were always either playing at festivals or touring around as a supporting act. This changed this summer…
Osaka punk / crust band Zyanose is touring Europe… right now!
Oh damn, I noticed this way too late (and just one day late to catch the Vienna gig), but the extremely noisy and chaotic Osaka based crust punk act Zyanose…
Crystal Lake: another European tour at the end of 2018!
After their European shows earlier this year metalcore act Crystal Lake will be back for another round next month. This time they will be joining Bury Tomorrow as one of…
PALM EU tour… happening now!
Hardcore group PALM is currently touring Europe along Friendship, a grindcore band from Chiba and UK's Kurokuma (the latter only joining them for the UK gigs). They started the tour…
Crystal Lake: The Circle – new single with two new songs and a remix
Just home after their summer EU tour and just in time for their huge, 15th anniversary festival (Sept 16, Tokyo), Crystal Lake returns with a new single featuring two new…
Crossfaith @ Dürer Kert, Budapest, 2018.06.26
Before their new album scheduled for August and the following EU tour, Japan's metalcore heroes Crossfaith embarked on a shorter European tour, that included some solo shows, but mostly saw…
Crossfaith returns with a new album three years after their last full length!
After releasing EPs for the last few years, Crossfaith finally follows up its latest album, 2015's XENO with a new full lenght on the 3rd of August! The album titled…