Haino / Merzbow / Pándi trio, OOIOO & Afrirampo in Europe!
One of the best and most interesting Japanese noise release from last year was a trio recording, out on UK's Rare Noise by Japanese noise / experimental legends Merzbow, Keiji…
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 #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…
Merzbow, cows and the delayed final part of a Hypnagogia’s trilogy
Yet another Merzbow release! The sixth (!) for this year and this one comes from UK experimental label Hypnagogia, that started back in 1999 and released a couple of Merzbow…
Merzbow returns with a follow-up to 2015’s Wildwood
UK label Dirter already released several records from Merzbow in the last 20+ years and now they return with another one called Wildwood II. As the title suggests, it is…
Halalnihil / Yasuhito Fujinami – split cassette EP out mid-February
It seems that Balázs Pándi is not the only Hungarian who works more and more with Japanese noise acts, as it was announced recently that infamous noise / spoken word…
Merzbow: Aodron – another new album!
I posted about an upcoming Merzbow release, Muen a few days ago, but since then news came in, that there will be another one, even sooner. This one, titled Aodron…
Muen, the year’s first Merzbow release draws inspiration from medieval Japan
Merzbow is coming out with new material all the time, so it is no surprise that even though 2017 hardly began, the year's first Merzbow release announcement is already here.…
Endon: Through The Mirror – new studio album, mixed by Kurt Ballou of Converge!
In the very last hours of 2016 Daymare Recordings announced on its Instagram account that Endon will be back with its second studio album in March! The band that quickly…
Hijokaidan’s new joint project with ’80s idol pop singer Yoko Hatanaka
Hijokaidan (非常階段), one of Japan's most prominent noise groups really got into joint projects the last couple of years. These collaborations included some less surprising ones, like teaming up with…