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…
Giga Noise – an overview of the next generation of Japanoise from Alchemy Records
Back in May a mini festival called GIGA NOISE took place at Tokyo's Akihabara Goodman club featuring mostly lesser known noise acts from all over Japan as part of an…
New live recording from Merzbow & Balázs Pándi’s duo out on Cold Spring!
This was totally out of nowehere: about two months ago, when Merzbow and Balazs Pándi did a short UK duo tour (that I wrote about here), their gig in Manchester…
VMO is back with another bizarre music video
VMO ( Violent Magic Orchestra), the experimental black metal band, which (together with its "big brother" Vampillia) will be on tour in Europe soon, is back with another extremely bizarre…
Vampillia + VMO in Europe!
If there is a band, that is really very difficult to describe, it is Vampillia, with its totally weird mixture of music genres, maybe calling them an avant-garde black metal…
KK. Null & Balazs Pandi: upcoming album and EU tour!
After his recent tours with Merzbow and Keijo Haino, Hungarian drummer Balázs Pándi will travel around Europe with yet another Japanese noise legend, KK. Null. By far the longest of…
Boris + Endon: Eros – out on vinyl in November
One of the most exciting releases from last year was by two of Japan's heaviest bands, Boris and Endon, who joined forces for a cassette only mini-album with five tracks,…