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Birushanah releases new album and teams up with Monarch for a European tour!

Japan Vibe 2018-07-05 Birushanah releases new album and teams up with Monarch for a European tour!2018-07-06T10:25:25+00:00 News No Comment
Birushanah is a band that's not easy to describe or categorize: their sound has its roots in doom metal, but Japanese traditional music plays an equally important part in their…
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GRIM’s new release Primary Pulse is out on Trapdoor Tapes!

Japan Vibe 2018-06-11 GRIM’s new release Primary Pulse is out on Trapdoor Tapes!2018-09-12T22:36:36+00:00 News No Comment
Jun Konagaya's industrial project GRIM is back with a new release out on the Australian label Trapdoor Tapes. As the name suggests it is a cassette label and the new…
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R.I.P. Chu Ishikawa (1966-2017)

Japan Vibe 2017-12-29 R.I.P. Chu Ishikawa (1966-2017)2017-12-29T10:37:07+00:00 News No Comment
It was just reported on the official Der Eisenrost fb page, that Chu Ishikawa the internationally renowned industrial music legend died on the 21st of December. While he was mostly…
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Apocalypse Factory: a new CD from Linekraft!

Japan Vibe 2017-07-21 Apocalypse Factory: a new CD from Linekraft!2019-06-04T16:20:32+00:00 News No Comment
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!…
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Three new releases from Contagious Orgasm!

Japan Vibe 2017-07-11 Three new releases from Contagious Orgasm!2017-07-11T17:33:33+00:00 News No Comment
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…
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Grim’s Jun Konagaya returns with his third solo album!

Japan Vibe 2017-05-22 Grim’s Jun Konagaya returns with his third solo album!2017-05-22T11:35:09+00:00 News No Comment
Grim's upcoming 10" was only announced recently (as I posted about it last week), but it is already time for more new material from Jun Konagaya! Besides his ritual industrial…
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Discharge Mountain, upcoming 10″ release from GRIM!

Japan Vibe 2017-05-15 Discharge Mountain, upcoming 10″ release from GRIM!2018-09-12T23:04:27+00:00 News No Comment
After last year's LP called Orgasm released to coincide with GRIM's first European show at the Power:Electronics II Festival (check the live report here and the interview here), Jun Konagaya's…
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Linekraft returns with “Iwatsuki”, a limited cassette release

Japan Vibe 2017-03-22 Linekraft returns with “Iwatsuki”, a limited cassette release2019-06-04T16:20:51+00:00 News No Comment
Linekraft is a solo project of Masahiko Okubo, that takes noise and industrial back to its roots, mixing electronics with metal percussion and now he will drop a new cassette…
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Live Reports

Tokyo 2016 #12: Madame Edwarda, Rosemadder @ JAM, 2016.09.17

Japan Vibe 2017-02-28 Tokyo 2016 #12: Madame Edwarda, Rosemadder @ JAM, 2016.09.172017-03-10T00:38:46+00:00 Live Reports No Comment
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. Right after the Endon…
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Interviews

An interview with Jun Konagaya of GRIM

Japan Vibe 2016-07-01 An interview with Jun Konagaya of GRIM2019-06-04T16:20:49+00:00 Interviews No Comment
This interview, which I believe is the first ever English one with Jun Konagaya, the man behind Grim and White Hospital, was conducted right after Grim's first appearance overseas, a…
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