Melt-Banana: European tour in Sept / Oct!
The incredible Melt-Banana brings its trademark noisecore madness to Europe yet again for another long tour, this time mostly covering the southern and eastern part of the continent, playing in…
The fin.: new digital and 12″ EP with two new tracks and a couple of remixes!
As I wrote about it earlier chillwave group The fin. recently released two songs exclusive to streaming sites, first Afterglow in May and then Pale Blue a month and now…
Bridear’s third EU tour is coming up this autumn!
Japanese all-girl metal and rock bands are getting more and more exposure in Europe recently and one of these acts is Bridear, a five piece power metal outfit hailing from…
Debut album from PKCZ with an all-star LDH featuring cast
Last year when I wrote about how LDH and their acts are changing the face of JPop (which eventually turned out to be the second most popular post on the…
Napalm Death Is Dead offers you Meat of Slave
The amazingly insane and noisy grindcore act Napalm Death Is Dead is back with a new, single-sided 7", out on the Polish The Child With No Name label: Meat Of…
Crystal Lake is back with a live music video!
Legendary hardcore / metalcore act Crystal Lake just released a brand new video for the title track of their latest album, last November's True North and it captures the band…
Apocalypse Factory: a new CD from Linekraft!
Shortly after Iwatsuki on Italy's Old Europa Cafe and Kikai Dansou on Portugal's Narcolepsia, Masahiko Okubo's noise / industrial project, Linekraft is back with another release on another European label!…
Crossfaith: Freedom – new EP from Japan’s most popular metalcore band! [Updated]
Crossfaith have not released any new material since last summer's New Age Warriors single, but now they finally return with a new EP dropping on the 2nd of August! Freedom…
Metal from the frozen north: an interview with GYZE
Melodic death metal outfit GYZE is one of the most promising emerging acts in Japan's metal scene nowadays and besides getting more and more popular at home, they also have…
Three new releases from Contagious Orgasm!
Hiroshi Hashimoto's industrial / noise / experimental project Contagious Orgasm is very active nowadays with three new releases out in a matter of a few weeks: a new tape, a…