NewsCrossfaith EU tour… starting today!
Last minute news: Japan's most popular metalcore band Crossfaith is launching its first post-covid European tour today! This current tour is mostly about festival appearances with a couple of club…
NewsMono to reissue their 2020 xmas single on vinyl + announces EU tour
At the end of 2020 Mono released Scarlet Holliday, a surprise digital only single through its Bandcamp page, which included two songs "written with the idea of new hope for…
FeatureA Year In Reviews: 2021 – The Index
This is an indexed table of contents to the series of reviews that was published throughout December 2021. Japan Vibe was somewhat neglected during 2021 and as an effort to…
ReviewsLinekraft: Asura / #2021reviews
Masahiko Okubo's Linekraft was never one of those extra-prolific industrial / noise / power electronics acts that drop new material literally every few weeks and in 2021 he only released…
ReviewsTokyo Jihen: Ongaku / #2021reviews
When you pick up a new release by Shena Ringo, be it one of her solo efforts, or like this one, a new album by her band, Tokyo Jihen, you…