Three new releases from Contagious Orgasm!
Hiroshi Hashimoto's industrial / noise / experimental project Contagious Orgasm is very active nowadays with three new releases out in a matter of a few weeks: a new tape, a…
Japanese noise meets Italian ritual industrial on Merzbow & Qdor’s Biorhythm 12″
The God Of Noise is back with yet another release (it is already getting difficult to keep track, but if I am correct, it is his seventh this check the…
Linekraft returns with “Iwatsuki”, a limited cassette release
Linekraft is a solo project of Masahiko Okubo, that takes noise and industrial back to its roots, mixing electronics with metal percussion and now he will drop a new cassette…
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…