Merzbow’s legendary Pulse Demon finally gets a vinyl reissue… and sells out immediately
Pulse Demon is clearly one of the best known releases by Merzbow and also, while it might not rank amongst his best material, it is clearly one of the most…
Boris with Merzbow @ Roskilde Festival this summer!
Boris just finished its EU tour with Amenra (live report here!) and Merzbow also played in Europe recently, but they will be returning to the continent in this time together!…
Keiji Haino teams up with Sumac for a brand new album
Keiji Haino was always fond of working with others, just last year he released four collaborative albums and he is starting the new year with another one of and it…
Merzbow x Haino x Pándi @ Metz, France in February!
After playing a couple of shows last May, the trio of Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi and Japanese noise legends Merzbow and Keiji Haino will be back again together, this time…
R.I.P. Chu Ishikawa (1966-2017)
It was just reported on the official Der Eisenrost fb page, that Chu Ishikawa the internationally renowned industrial music legend died on the 21st of December. While he was mostly…
Melt-Banana @ Robot, Budapest, 2017.10.11
For me, this was the fourth time to see Melt-Banana live. A saw them twice in Vienna (2003, 2005) and then in Budapest, during their first and up till now…
Eartaker – new project by Goth-Trad!
Japan's dubstep guru Goth-Trad just announced that he formed a new unit called Eartaker with singer Daisuck and Masayuki Imanishi, known for his experimental / noise recordings. He also announced…
Games, pedals and weird lyrics – Melt-Banana interview
Melt-Banana is pretty much impossible to categorize, as their music is truly one-of-a-kind, but most people call them noisecore, which is kinda accurate actually. They've been playing their completely unique…
Karnage goes experimental on new release!
Karnage is back with a new release, but this time it is different from what we usually get from him. As instead of deep and heavy dubstep, now he dropped…
Merzbow: Kaoscitrone – a new album, out on Japan’s Slow Down Records
The first few months of the year were extremely busy for Merzbow with a truly incredible amount of new releases and besides all those that I posted about (see here)…