Crystal Lake is back with a live music video!
Legendary hardcore / metalcore act Crystal Lake just released a brand new video for the title track of their latest album, last November's True North and it captures the band…
Crossfaith: Freedom – new EP from Japan’s most popular metalcore band!
Crossfaith have not released any new material since last summer's New Age Warriors single, but now they finally return with a new EP dropping on the 2nd of August! Freedom…
Metal from the frozen north: an interview with GYZE
Melodic death metal outfit GYZE is one of the most promising emerging acts in Japan's metal scene nowadays and besides getting more and more popular at home, they also have…
Boris European tour in August!
I recently posted about the amplifier worshiping band's upcoming album, due out mid-July and since then they announce that they will also return to Europe to support the album! The…
Heavy metal meets visual kei: an interview with Matenrou Opera
A few days ago, just about the same time this email interview was to be published, Matenrou Opera announced that they are cancelling their European tour. So, for a while…
Visual kei band Matenrou Opera will finally return to Europe this summer! [Update: Tour cancelled!]
Just before the end of their current tour with Versailles (read my interview with them here) French tour promoter company B7Klan announced another visual kei band for this year: Matenrou…
This summer Boris celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new album
Boris released its first album called Absoltego in 1996 with one hour long track. And now, 21 years later and 25 years after their formation, they came full circle and…
Her Name In Blood returns from the ashes with new EP and music video!
Last thing we heard about metalcore band Her Name In Blood was that, shortly after their first EU tour their drummer and founding member Umebo was arrested for possession of…
Endon: Through The Mirror – complexity meets brutality
Talking about the differences between their first album, Mama and their brand new follow up, Through The Mirror, Endon's singer, Nagura Taichi said in a recent interview with The Japan Times…
Tokyo 2016 #13: FOAD, Make My Day, Last Day Dream, Gokuraku Jodo, Hone Your Sense @ Cyclone, 2016.09.18
Tokyo 2016 is a 13 part series of photo & live reports from September, 2016, documenting a deep dive into the city's various underground music scenes. For the last evening…