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…
GYZE – melodic death metal, ongoing European tour and upcoming album!
The melodic death metal band started back in 2009 in Hokkaido, under the name Suicide Heaven, but then they moved to Tokyo, changed their name to GYZE and that was…
Death metal group Defiled returns to Europe for a short tour!
After their shows in Europe and in cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi last year, death metal legends Defiled will go on a World tour yet again, starting in a…
Beyond Description: The Robotized World – new full length from the thrash / crossover group!
Beyond Description is a four-piece band, that formed in 1988 and that is known for its highly political, anti-capitalist lyrics and its shift from the early, more hardcore oriented sound…
Tokyo 2016 #11: Endon, Unarm, Collapse Society, Preparation Set, Belgrado (SP) @ Earthdom, 2016.09.17
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. In Japan (just as…