Tokyo 2016 #9: Nudge ’em All, Casablanca, Eichi Miyamoto @ Koenji High, 2016.09.12
Tokyo 2016 is a 13 part series of photo & live reports from September, 2016, documenting a deep dive into the city's various underground music scenes. While my last trip…
Systematic Death @ Obscene Extreme 2017! [Updated!]
While the World's best and biggest grindcore / extreme hardcore Festival, the infamous Obscene Extreme probably won't ever top last year's lineup of Japanese bands when Melt-Banana, Death Side, Palm…
Shadows announces new single, Chain Reaction and its first full album!
Shadows, the melodic punk / hardcore group formed by ex-FACT members (check out the in-depth interview with them here!) will be back with two new releases this Spring! First, they…
Sapphire Slows returns to Europe!
Just a few days after her set at Boiler Room Tokyo, Sapphire Slows will leave for Europe for a short tour with two UK and one French dates and a…
Akiko Kiyama, Sapphire Slows & Kyoka @ Boiler Room Tokyo! [Updated!]
The online stream site Boiler Room already broadcasted several great shows from Tokyo during the past few years, that featured acts like Muro, Merzbow, Boris, Goth-Trad, Broken Haze, plus the…
Halalnihil / Yasuhito Fujinami – split cassette EP out mid-February
It seems that Balázs Pándi is not the only Hungarian who works more and more with Japanese noise acts, as it was announced recently that infamous noise / spoken word…
Hybrid melodic punk and the legacy of FACT – an interview with Shadows
While Shadows - which plays a unique version of melodic punk rock with a bit of a hardcore and metalcore influence - is a pretty new band, that's only been…
Tokyo 2016 #8: TsuShiMaMiRe, Kinoco Hotel, Kids N Cats (AT) @ Fever, 2016.09.12
Tokyo 2016 is a 13 part series of photo & live reports from September, 2016, documenting a deep dive into the city's various underground music scenes. A week after the…
Galmet – the metal girls will be back in Europe in March!
All female metal band Galmet (stylized as G∀LMET) will go on a European tour for the third time (after 2015 and 2016) in the second half of March. The group,…
Merzbow: Aodron – another new album!
I posted about an upcoming Merzbow release, Muen a few days ago, but since then news came in, that there will be another one, even sooner. This one, titled Aodron…