New hide tribute album is out this week, featuring a massive line up!
2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of hide, who became a local legend first as the guitarist of X Japan, then on his own right as a solo…
New 7″ single and music video from Tricot
Tricot is back with a colorful music video for a new song called Potage. It was directed by Yasuyuki Yamaguchi and was made to promote their latest single that came…
Coldrain returns to Europe this autumn!
This will be a very busy year for the European fans of Japanese metalcore acts: Crossfaith will be in Europe twice, first in June, then in Sept / Oct, Crystal…
Crossfaith announces another EU tour, their first European headliner tour in years!
There are still a couple of weeks till Crossfaith's summer European tour will start,but they already announced another tour for this autumn! But while their summer tour will mostly consist…
Tsushimamire featured in Kids N Cats’ song about Japan!
The friendship between Tsushimamire and Kids N Cats goes back a few year: as described by Mari in our interview, it all started when the Austrian duo emailed them in…
New split 7″ from Minami Deutsch out on God Unknown
God Unknown Records is a UK label known mostly for its exclusive psychedelic rock / krautrock 7" split releases. They already worked with several Japanese acts before, such as Acid Mothers…
New album + free downloads from Shadows [Updated with music video!]
Last week, almost exactly a year after the release of Illuminate, their first full length, Shadows announced that they will drop their second album late May and as a preview…
Crossfaith: European tour in June, with festival shows and club gigs [Updated]
Crossfaith will return to Europe this summer and even though they did not announce their full tour schedule yet, seven gigs were already confirmed by different sources, so, let's see…
Crystal Lake returns to Europe this summer for a long, 18 date tour!
After Crystal Lake's first ever European tour last year, Japan's metalcore veterans will return to Europe for another, even longer tour! It will start at the end of June, will…
X Japan’s Toshi teams up with rapper AK-69 for an unexpected collaboration
It seems that lately Japanese singers try to outdo each other in unexpected team-ups. Just think about rapper Sky-Hi's song with hippie indie cuties Czecho No Republic (which turned out…