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…
Shoegaze, noise and psychedelia: an interview with Qujaku
Qujaku (formerly called The Piqnic) ranks amongst the most interesting acts to come from Japan the last couple of years and their heavy, noisy, yet trippy mixture of shoegaze, psychedelic…
Broken Doll: anniversary, new album and EU dates
Broken Doll is a pop punk band from Tokyo, that plays a typically Japanese version of melodic punk rock with high pitched, JPop-inspired female vocals. And now they are celebrating…
“Pale Blue” – The fin. premiers new track!
Just a month or so passed since dreamy pop-rock group The fin. uploaded a new track called Afterglow to soundcloud (and a bunch of other streaming services) and now they…