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…
GYZE returns with The Rising Dragon, their first ever single release
After three albums and two EPs melodic death metal band GYZE will drop its first ever single this June. Entitled The Rising Dragon (or 龍吟 / ryugin), the single will…
Contagious Orgasm: Impregnate Mannequin re-release and new bandcamp store
Impregnate Mannequin, one of the earliest and noisiest recordings of Contagious Orgasm will finally get a CD re-issue thanks to the German label Raubbau! It was originally released in 1997…
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…
Merzbow’s SCUM project re-issued on vinyl and CD!
Just two weeks after the instantly sold out vinyl edition of Merzbow's Pulse Demon, another classic was reissued by Japan's god of noise. Italy's menstrualrecordings already re-released several old Merzbow…
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…
EU dates for noise legend Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro / C.C.C.C.) in June!
Hiroshi Hasegawa, best known as a member of seminal noise acts and Astro will play a couple of shows in Europe during June covering three countries: Austria, Slovenia and the…
Zombie-Chang gathers a support band and releases her 3rd album [Updated!]
A bit more than a year after Gang!, her second album and her first under her current label Zombie-Chang (aka. Meirin Yung) will return with a new full and with…
Introducing GLOSS, a new underground girl group
It seems that the J-Pop girl group revolution, that's been going on in the Japanese music industry these last couple of years is (fortunately) far from being over, and now,…