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Jun 23, 2023 · Japanese Metal Update - LOUDNESS 40th Anniversary Live video available for streaming exclusively on the TOKYO MADNESS Streaming Service!! Take a sneak peak o...
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- The Heavier Japan
Feb 9, 2024 · In this episode I dive into the exciting melting pot of Japanese metal music, exploring its expected further rise in the year 2024. In this interview, I sat down with David Örnberg from Rokku...
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Loudness is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese metal act signed to a major label in the...
- Shinda Saibo No Katamari 死んだ細胞の塊
- Needle Contaminated Pork 注射針混入豚
- Invictus
- Lethal Incendiary
- Mortify
- Strangulation
- Abort Mastication
- Desecravity
- Neuroticos
- Inferno Hades
This mass of dead cells, as the name translates to, personifies the new sickness brewing in Japan’s brutal death metal scene. Proverbial sons of the butcher, Shinda’s records have been distributed by Butcher ABC founder Narutoshi Sekine’s Obliteration Records. Ostriched Existencetakes the pun literally, displaying ostriches stuck in the void on the...
Donning a gas mask and hazmat suit (perfect stage attire for the Covid-era), Needle Contaminated Pork is a one-man slamming brutal death metal act from Niigata conceived in 2006. A concert setting is truly the place to appreciate the contaminated one, as the riffs become the focal point in a cyclone of drum samples and gurgled vocals from behind hi...
There are more bands named Invictus than you probably think, and more than two of them are death metal bands. This particular Invictus, though, from Nagano, Japan, blast all the others away. The Catacombs of Fear, released on Obliteration Records, could stand alongside the great efforts from genre legends Coffins (who Invictus have shared the stage...
Just like in The Village of the Damned, just because they’re young doesn’t mean they’re wholesome. In fact, a hail of bullets in the worst trench of war you could possibly imagine is what Lethal Incendiary aim to sound like with their all-out blast of brutal death metal. The band has played such festivals as the Taiwan Deathfest (where they were jo...
Get your maggot jackets out from their meat drawers, because it’s about time for a urine burial. Another Obliteration Records’ prodigal son, Mortify don’t fuck around with song lengths, keeping them mainly grindcore-length, though their suffocating riffs and even more stifled vocals put them firmly in death metal territory. Check out Stench of Swed...
“Nothing like a good old strangulation to get the circulation going.” Strangulation, formed in 2016, offer no frills, no cheap costumes and no shitty humor. Like the black-hooded murderer on their album cover for Display of Escalated Perversion, Strangulation simply kill it, then move onto the next track, kill it again, and so on. Best enjoyed duri...
“Psychopathic grind” is what Abort Mastication wrote on their album cover for 2019’s Dogmas, and there was clearly a good reason. Dogmas sounds as though it was recorded in a white room, instruments laid out and the straight jacket carefully taken off one of the more “active” patients of the Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital. “Let’s just let hi...
Technical excellence and Japan go hand-in-hand. Anyone who has been to Tokyo will tell you that the subway system there is a complex mind map that, under the control of another urban planning team, would most likely end up being a catastrophic failure. This technical savviness bleeds into the musicianship of bands like Desecravity, who meticulously...
If in need of a band to help you summon demons or open hell’s gates, Neuroticos are taking orders. The Portuguese band name was inspired by the members’ original home of Brazil, though they now live in Hiroshima. Vocally, Corpsegrinder is likely a spiritual influence, though Neuroticos frontman Bruno needs a few more years of windmilling to get his...
The five gore-minded boys in Inferno Hades spent time in bands like Fecundation, Implicated Order and Crypt before igniting their own blaze in 2016. What you’ll hear on their 2018 debut album, Discreation Stabilized, is a back-to-the-basics, old school sound of a band who are simply glad to give your ears a relentless beating. Bangkok’s Swallow Vom...
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Nov 12, 2016 · The Japanese heavy metal band Loudness recorded live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 05/12/1984. At the time of the "Disillusion" album. Check out my webzine for...
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