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October 2026
- Oct 24 Band of the Day MINOR LEAGUE at Thirty: Osaka's Twin-Vocal Hardcore Band, From 1996 to INVADE
- Oct 24 Band of the Day DESSERT: The Tokyo Hardcore Punk Band of Sendai Veterans, Back After Two Decades
- Oct 24 Band of the Day T.C.L: THE CHUNK LEGEND, Yokohama's Twin-Vocal Band With a MAD CAPSULE MARKETS Pedigree
- Oct 24 Band of the Day SOBUT: Shimokitazawa Hardcore Since 1995, Named After a Wrestling Kick
- Oct 24 Band of the Day redmammoth: Kadoma's Live Band, From Red Rock City Since 1992
- Oct 24 Band of the Day Deeper the Wound: The Japanese Band on Deathwish Inc.'s First Release
- Oct 24 Band of the Day IN FOR THE KILL: Tokyo Metal/Hardcore From the Ashes of METAL SAFARI
- Oct 24 Band of the Day CHRONOMETER: The Tokyo 'Post Mixture' Band That Switched to Japanese Lyrics
- Oct 24 Band of the Day AWAKED: The Heavy Band That Took Eleven Years to Make Its Third Album
- Oct 24 Band of the Day GOOFY STYLE: 'Asian Soul Heavy Groove' From Tokyo, With a Second Home in Taiwan
- Oct 24 Band of the Day BRIDEAR: From Fukuoka to Fredrik Nordström's Studio
- Oct 24 Band of the Day GIVEN BY THE FLAMES: Japan's 2026 Metal Battle Winners, Third at Wacken
- Oct 24 Band of the Day GUNGIRE: The Self-Proclaimed Angriest Band in Japan
- Oct 24 Band of the Day AWAKE: How UNDYING WORDS Re-Recorded Its First EP With a New Singer
- Oct 24 Band of the Day Art'emïus: Tokyo Deathcore With a Diaeresis
- Oct 14 Band of the Day VISCERA INFEST: Brutal Death Metal With a Steady Surgeon's Hand
- Oct 12 Band of the Day Birthplace: The Band the Shops Called the Leader of Tokyo New School Hardcore
- Oct 12 Band of the Day bless the birthplace which humanized us: A Tokyo Hardcore Debut, Remastered After Twenty-Three Years
- Oct 12 Band of the Day From Birthplace to Indication: One Tokyo Hardcore Family Tree
- Oct 12 Band of the Day SOLITUDE A SLEEPLESS NIGHTS: Tokyo Metalcore That Left, Changed Its Name, and Came Back
- Oct 12 Band of the Day The Eversolitude Years: When SOLITUDE A SLEEPLESS NIGHTS Became a Different Band
- Oct 12 Band of the Day Where to Start With SOLITUDE A SLEEPLESS NIGHTS: A Release-by-Release Guide
- Oct 12 Band of the Day State Craft: The 1990s Tokyo Band at the Root of a Whole Family of Hardcore
- Oct 12 Band of the Day To Celebrate the Forlorn Seasons: The One Album State Craft Made
- Oct 12 Band of the Day After State Craft: Where the Members Went, and Who Still Plays the Songs
- Oct 12 Band of the Day LOYAL TO THE GRAVE: A Timeline, From a 1998 Side Project to an American Label
- Oct 12 Band of the Day Koba of LOYAL TO THE GRAVE: The Bassist Who Became the Singer and Built Japan's Biggest Hardcore Festival
- Oct 12 Band of the Day Against the Odds: The Album LOYAL TO THE GRAVE Made After Everything Nearly Broke
- Oct 11 Band of the Day TMG: Tak Matsumoto's Hard Rock Supergroup, Twenty Years Apart
- Oct 11 Band of the Day HAGANE: Harmonic Metal, Rebuilt Around a New Singer
- Oct 11 Band of the Day VIOLET ETERNAL: A Japanese Guitarist, an Italian Singer, and Power Metal Across Two Continents
- Oct 11 Band of the Day 88Kasyo Junrei: Twenty Years Underground, Then the Budokan
- Oct 11 Band of the Day VALKYRIE ZERO: Old-School Thrash From Osaka, With No Slow Songs
- Oct 11 Band of the Day Rakshasa: Japanesque Metal, Back After Four Years
- Oct 11 Band of the Day Onmyo-za: Seventeen Albums of Yokai Heavy Metal
- Oct 11 Band of the Day PaleNeØ After the Debut: A Chart Album, a Sixteen-City Tour and a Run of Musical Titles
- Oct 11 Band of the Day Mardelas: Ten Years on a Major Label, and a Best-Of They Recorded All Over Again
- Oct 11 Band of the Day CHAOS CONTROL: The Power Metal Band That Took Twenty Years to Make Its First Album
- Oct 11 Band of the Day SLOTHREAT: Five Years to Form, Twin Brothers on Guitar, and a Second Album in 2026
- Oct 11 Band of the Day Mana Diagram: The Band Two Members of HAGANE Started Next
- Oct 10 Band of the Day EGO FIX and the Blunt Force of Japanese Hardcore-Tinged Death Metal
- Oct 08 Band of the Day ReVERSE BOYZ: Osaka's Self-Declared Neo-Ninja Hardcore
- Oct 08 Band of the Day Evilgloom: Fukuoka Metalcore With a Graphic Designer in the Lineup
- Oct 08 Band of the Day universe last a ward: Fukuoka Hardcore, Sung in Japanese, Back After Six Years
- Oct 08 Band of the Day VICTIMOFDECEPTION: The Tokyo Deathcore Band That Lost Its Singer and Carried On
- Oct 08 Band of the Day SAIGAN TERROR: Koenji Crossover Thrash, Twenty Years Between Albums
- Oct 08 Band of the Day FOR A REASON: A Tokyo Melodic Hardcore Trio That Takes Its Time
- Oct 08 Band of the Day makeshift: Tokyo Melodic Hardcore, Three Albums In
- Oct 08 Band of the Day BRAVE OUT: Osaka Youth Crew With Its Own Label and Stamps in Its Passport
- Oct 08 Band of the Day FALLING ASLEEP: From a Nagano High School Cover Band to Tokyo
- Oct 08 Band of the Day AFTERVOID: What Kenta Koie Has Built Since Crossfaith Went Quiet
- Oct 08 Band of the Day Blow Your Brains Out: New York Hardcore From Tokyo, in Japanese
- Oct 08 Band of the Day HIKAGE: Sapporo Hardcore With Grunge in Its Blood
- Oct 08 Band of the Day ヱヰ十 (Eito): Hardcore From the Chuo Line, With Two Singers and a Rap Legend
- Oct 08 Band of the Day KRUELTY: Tokyo Beatdown Meets Death-Doom, and the World Noticed
- Oct 08 Band of the Day AA=: What Takeshi Ueda Did After The Mad Capsule Markets
- Oct 08 Band of the Day heaven in her arms: Tokyo's Slow-Burning Post-Hardcore, Three Albums in Twenty-Five Years
- Oct 08 Band of the Day SHADOWS: The Band Three Members of FACT Started Next
- Oct 08 Band of the Day Endzweck: Tokyo Hardcore Since 1997, With Albums Named After Novels
- Oct 08 Band of the Day Azami: The Koshigaya Hardcore Band That Changed Singers and Kept Going
- Oct 08 Band of the Day C-GATE: From a Nagano High School to Tokyo Metalcore
- Oct 08 Band of the Day waterweed: Osaka Melodic Hardcore With a British Label and an Anime Theme
- Oct 08 Band of the Day Tive: The Osaka Hardcore Band That Let Students In Free on a 21-City Tour
- Oct 08 Band of the Day nervous light of sunday: Twenty-Five Years of Tokyo Hardcore in Japanese
- Oct 08 Band of the Day FIGHT IT OUT: Yokohama Hardcore That Fits 13 Songs Into 14 Minutes
- Oct 08 Band of the Day JasonAndrew: Yokohama Melodic Hardcore, Started in High School
- Oct 08 Band of the Day TRUE FIGHT: Youth Crew Hardcore From Ibaraki
- Oct 08 Band of the Day Good Grief: Tokyo's Self-Described Sad Pop-Punk
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Yukina of Hanabie.: The Scream at the Centre of Harajuku-Core
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Matsuri of Hanabie.: The Songwriter Behind the Chaos
- Oct 06 Band of the Day DAIDAI: The Paledusk Guitarist Bring Me The Horizon Called In
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Kaito: The Founding Voice of Paledusk
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Ryo Kinoshita: Leaving Crystal Lake, and What Came After
- Oct 06 Band of the Day The John Years: Crystal Lake's Overseas Frontman, 2023–2026
- Oct 06 Band of the Day YD: The One Constant in Crystal Lake
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Takuya of Sable Hills: The First Japanese Voice to Win Wacken's Metal Battle
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Rict of Sable Hills: The Guitarist Who Came Home From Wacken and Built a Festival
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Sota of Graupel: The Vocalist Who Walked Back Into Sold-Out Rooms
- Oct 06 Band of the Day PK of Prompts: The Fan Who Moved Countries and Ended Up Fronting Crystal Lake
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Kagami of DEXCORE: The Vocalist Carrying the Name Into Its Tenth Year
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Keisuke of DEVILOOF: From Osaka Deathcore to a Second Major Label
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Ray of DEVILOOF: Seven Strings, a Second Voice, and the Only Guitar Left
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Kacchang and Matsu of Phantom Excaliver: Down to Two, Then a Wacken Title
- Oct 06 Band of the Day SU-METAL: The Voice at the Centre of BABYMETAL
- Oct 06 Band of the Day MOAMETAL: The One Who Has Been in Every Version of BABYMETAL
- Oct 06 Band of the Day MOMOMETAL: Four Years as a Support Dancer, Then the Third Member of BABYMETAL
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Kenta Koie: The Crossfaith Frontman, After the Silence
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Masato of coldrain: English Lyrics, a Nagoya Band, and a Festival of Its Own
- Oct 06 Band of the Day MAH of SiM: The Reggae-Punk Singer Whose Attack on Titan Theme Topped a Billboard Chart
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Maximum the Ryo-kun: The Songwriter Who Sold an Album as a Manga and Franchised His Own Band
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Nao of Maximum the Hormone: Drums, the Other Voice, and the Big Sister
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Kyo of DIR EN GREY: Three Bands, One Voice, and Nearly Thirty Years With the Same Five People
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Die of DIR EN GREY: The Other Guitar, and the Band Where He Sang
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Takayoshi Ohmura: Solo Shredder, C4 Guitarist, and One of BABYMETAL's Kami Band
- Oct 06 Band of the Day BOH: A Six-String Bass, and a Band That Never Stopped Being 'Temporary'
- Oct 06 Band of the Day ISAO: Eight Strings, a Violin, and the Instrumental Duo soLi
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Li-sa-X: From an Eight-Year-Old's Viral Video to the Twin Guitars of KOIAI
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Ryoji Shinomoto of RYUJIN: Hokkaido Melodic Death Metal With Matthew Heafy in Its Corner
- Oct 06 Band of the Day IKUO: The Bassist Who Sang an Anime Theme and Joined a Three-Bass Trio
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Asami of LOVEBITES: From R&B and Ballet to a Sold-Out Budokan
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Miyako of LOVEBITES: Classical Piano From Age Three, Ritchie Blackmore From Her Mother
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Haruna of LOVEBITES: The Co-Founder Behind the Kit
- Oct 06 Band of the Day mayu of NEMOPHILA: The Founder Keeping the Band Going
- Oct 06 Band of the Day SAKI: Mary's Blood, NEMOPHILA, AMAHIRU — and a Solo Debut on a Major Label
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Hazuki: The Guitarist Between NEMOPHILA and KOIAI
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Ayasa: The Classical Violinist Who Went Looking for a Rock Band and Built One
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Akane Minato: The Voice of East Of Eden
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Fuki: One Singer, Four Names — Light Bringer, Unlucky Morpheus, DOLL$BOXX, Fuki Commune
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Shiren of Unlucky Morpheus: From Fan-Made Game Music to Charting Metal Albums
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Jill of Unlucky Morpheus: A Conservatory Violinist in a Metal Band
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Akira Takasaki: The LOUDNESS Guitarist Who Has Never Left
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Minoru Niihara: The Voice of LOUDNESS, Twelve Years Away and Back Again
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Naoto Shibata: The Bassist Who Is ANTHEM
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Syu of GALNERYUS: The Guitarist Who Named a Band After a Violin
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Masatoshi Ono: The Million-Selling Pop Singer Who Joined a Power Metal Band at 42
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Matatabi of Onmyo-za: The Architect of Yokai Heavy Metal
- Oct 06 Band of the Day Kuroneko of Onmyo-za: The Voice of Yokai Heavy Metal
- Oct 06 Band of the Day ANCHANG of SEX MACHINEGUNS: Serious Speed Metal About Oranges and Family Restaurants
- Oct 05 Band of the Day BLIZARD: The Metal Band Hiding Inside J-Pop's Origin Story
- Oct 05 Band of the Day DAM: Three Letters, No Mercy
- Oct 05 Band of the Day DEATHTOPIA and the Pleasure of Death Metal That Refuses to Blur
- Oct 04 Band of the Day STINKY and the Hardcore That Doesn't Explain Itself
- Oct 04 Band of the Day THE UNCROWNED and the Stubborn Art of Playing It Straight
- Oct 03 Band of the Day Damnation Alley and the Pleasure of Death Metal That Doesn't Explain Itself
September 2026
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: WRENCH
- Sep 30 Band of the Day GRAVAVGRAV and the Art of the Unglamorous Death Metal Record
- Sep 30 Band of the Day CATAPLEXY and the Beauty of Total Collapse
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: UNDYING WORDS
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: East Of Eden
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Knosis: Two of the Scene's Biggest Voices, Starting From Zero
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: kitsunevi
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: KIAZMA
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: PaleNeØ
- Sep 30 Band of the Day KOIAI: The Name Is a Pun, and the EPs Are the Map
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Little Lilith
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Take This to Heart
- Sep 30 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Damian Hamada's Creatures
- Sep 30 Band of the Day View From The Soyuz and the Hardcore Band That Swallowed Everything
- Sep 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: PARADOXX
- Sep 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: HETEROPSY
- Sep 29 Band of the Day Grave to the Hope and the Stubborn Art of Modern Heaviness
- Sep 29 Band of the Day BAREBONES and the Art of Saying It in Ninety Seconds
- Sep 28 Live House & Bars Namba Bears: Osaka's Underground Has an Address
- Sep 28 Band of the Day Each Of The Days and the Art of the Slow Burn
- Sep 27 Scene Decoded HOWLING BULL: How One Label Turned Japan's Underground Noise Into an Industry
- Sep 27 Scene Decoded The Ladder: Japanese Venue Capacities, and What Each Rung Means
- Sep 27 Live House & Bars Toyosu PIT: Capacity, Access and Why the Sightlines Actually Work
- Sep 27 Scene Decoded DEMENTIA: The Four-Year Band That Built the Future of Japanese Heavy Music
- Sep 27 Live House & Bars Club Citta Kawasaki: Capacity, Access and Everything a First-Timer Asks
- Sep 27 Foreign Eyes on Japan How Corrupted Became a Global Cult Without Saying a Word
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Why Does MAN WITH A MISSION Wear Wolf Masks?
- Sep 27 Band of the Day The Five Wolves of MAN WITH A MISSION, and How to Tell Them Apart
- Sep 27 Band of the Day MAN WITH A MISSION: The Questions Everyone Asks
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Where to Start With kokeshi: Two Albums, One Descent
- Sep 27 Band of the Day 冷刻: kokeshi's Nine-Track Descent
- Sep 27 Band of the Day kokeshi and the Sound of Japanese Horror
- Sep 27 Band of the Day kokeshi: The Newcomer's FAQ
- Sep 27 Band of the Day 亡無 of kokeshi: Four Voices in One Throat
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Where to Start With Corrupted: A Map for the Patient
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Why a Japanese Doom Band Sings in Spanish
- Sep 27 Band of the Day No Interviews, No Photos: The Discipline of Corrupted's Silence
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Llenándose de Gusanos: The Record Where Corrupted Became Corrupted
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Corrupted: Every Question a Newcomer Asks, Answered
- Sep 27 Band of the Day El Mundo Frío: Seventy-One Minutes, One Song, No Apologies
- Sep 27 Band of the Day Ghouls Attack! and the Joy of Hardcore That Doesn't Explain Itself
- Sep 26 Band of the Day Savage Greed Are Fukuoka's Best-Kept Hardcore Secret
- Sep 26 Band of the Day THUMB and the Blunt Force of Japanese Hardcore
- Sep 26 Band of the Day Pocketlife and the Art of the Band You Have to Work For
- Sep 24 Live House & Bars Shinjuku Loft: Where the First Tokyo Show Happens
- Sep 24 Band of the Day ABRAHAM CROSS and the Beautiful Weight of Japanese Crust
- Sep 24 Band of the Day COWPERS: Japanese Hardcore With the Edges Left Sharp
- Sep 22 Band of the Day BLOWBACK And The Art Of Wasting Nothing
- Sep 21 Foreign Eyes on Japan Thirty Years of Napalm Death Talking About Japan
- Sep 21 Band of the Day VULCHER and the Short, Mean Pleasures of Japanese Hardcore
- Sep 21 Band of the Day Cradle To Grave and the Long Burn of Japanese Hardcore
- Sep 20 Live House & Bars Osaka Janus: The Shinsaibashi Room That Just Keeps Going
- Sep 20 Live House & Bars Shimokitazawa THREE: A Basement Room That Punk Kept Coming Back To
- Sep 20 Band of the Day URBAN TERROR: Japanese Hardcore With The Bolts Left Showing
- Sep 19 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Nunchaku (ヌンチャク) — The Kashiwa Kids Who Redefined Japanese Metal
- Sep 17 Live House & Bars enn in Sendai: The Room Northern Japan's Heavy Kids Keep Coming Back To
- Sep 17 Live House & Bars Higashi-Koenji UFO Club: The Underground's Living Room
- Sep 17 Band of the Day ALHAMBRA and the Melodic Metal Japan Never Gave Up On
- Sep 17 Band of the Day C.S.S.O.: Death Metal With the Surgical Gloves Still On
- Sep 16 Band of the Day Concerto Moon and the Long Faith in the Guitar Solo
- Sep 15 Live House & Bars Shibuya CYCLONE and the Old Habit of Heading Downstairs
- Sep 15 Band of the Day COFFINS and the Art of Moving Slowly
- Sep 14 Live House & Bars BIGCAT, Namba: The Mid-Sized Osaka Room Worth Building a Night Around
- Sep 14 Scene Decoded The Club Room Pipeline: Why Japan Makes So Many Players and So Few Bands
- Sep 14 Band of the Day Eternal Elysium and the Long Nagoya Burn
- Sep 13 Band of the Day Defiled and the Art of the Riff That Refuses to Resolve
- Sep 13 Band of the Day Fastkill and the Art of the Blunt Instrument
- Sep 12 Band of the Day EXECUTE and the Blunt Force of Japanese Hardcore
- Sep 12 Band of the Day Abigail and the Art of the Split Record
- Sep 12 Live House & Bars Nagoya Club Quattro, and the Case for Breaking Up the Tokyo–Osaka Run
- Sep 12 Live House & Bars Kyoto MUSE: The Mid-Sized Room That Makes a Kyoto Night Work
- Sep 11 Scene Decoded Scene Decoded: Why Japanese Venues Decide How Hard You're Allowed to Move
- Sep 11 Band of the Day The Other Sacrifice: Finding Japan's Thrash Underdogs Behind a Crowded Name
- Sep 11 Band of the Day YOUTHQUAKE and the Art of the Slow Build
- Sep 11 Live House & Bars Shimokitazawa Shelter: The Basement That Made Shimokita Loud
- Sep 09 Foreign Eyes on Japan Why the World Is Already Watching Zilqy
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Vacant Throne: Zilqy's Opening Statement, Decoded
- Sep 09 Scene Decoded Japan's Female Metal Enters Its Supergroup Era
- Sep 09 Band of the Day The Two Lineages Inside Zilqy
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Toki: From Aldious to Zilqy, a Guitarist's Second Kingdom
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Miho: The Bassist Who Left a World-Conquering Band and Started Over
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Start the Fire, Rise, Repeat: Zilqy's Live Story So Far
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Anna of Zilqy: The Bilingual Voice as a Design Decision
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Zilqy: Every First-Timer Question, Answered
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Zilqy
- Sep 09 Live House & Bars Otsuka Hearts+: The Small Room Where Tokyo Hardcore Fits Just Right
- Sep 09 Band of the Day Aion: The Veteran Name That Keeps Turning Up in the Used Bins
- Sep 09 Band of the Day How to Hear Gargoyle: A Map Through the Weird Parts
- Sep 08 Band of the Day That Voice: What Jurassic Jade Built Their Thrash Around
- Sep 07 Live House & Bars Tenjin's Heavy Nights: A Foreign Fan's Guide to Fukuoka DRUM SON
- Sep 07 Live House & Bars Diamond Hall, Nagoya: The Mid-Sized Room Worth Building a Trip Around
- Sep 07 Band of the Day Second Pass at CASBAH: What the Riffs Are Actually Doing
- Sep 07 Band of the Day Forty-Plus Years of Not Slowing Down: United and the Art of Staying Fast
- Sep 06 Foreign Eyes on Japan Everyone Was In It, Nobody Cited It
- Sep 06 Live House & Bars Shibuya La.mama: The Basement That's Been Doing This Since 1981
- Sep 06 Live House & Bars Akasaka Blitz Is Gone, and Tokyo Still Feels the Gap
- Sep 06 Band of the Day The First Generation Problem: Outrage, DOOM, United and Why Nagoya Mattered
- Sep 05 Band of the Day Following Vivisick Through Other People's Record Bins
- Sep 05 Band of the Day FACE CLASHER and the Blunt Poetry of Japanese Underground Band Names
- Sep 04 Band of the Day ROMANTIC GORILLA: A Stupid Name Hiding Something Genuinely Mean
- Sep 04 Band of the Day SENSELESS APOCALYPSE: A Name That Works Like a Warning Label
- Sep 03 Scene Decoded How to See a Show in Tokyo: A Live House Guide for Foreign Metal Fans
- Sep 03 Live House & Bars Shinjuku Marz: The Room You Should Already Know About
- Sep 03 Live House & Bars Fukuoka Drum Be-1: A Loud Music Room Worth Seeking Out
- Sep 03 Band of the Day BREAKfAST: Japan's Underground Keeps Its Best Secrets
- Sep 02 Band of the Day EXCLAIM: Why This Name Keeps Coming Up in Japan's Underground
- Sep 02 Band of the Day Sailing Before The Wind and the Art of Making Metalcore Feel Personal
- Sep 01 Band of the Day Before My Life Fails: Japan's Underground on a Knife's Edge
- Sep 01 Band of the Day How Survive Said The Prophet Became One of Tokyo's Most Important Post-Hardcore Exports
- Sep 01 Band of the Day How to Actually Listen to DEXCORE
August 2026
- Aug 31 Band of the Day Her Name In Blood and the Art of the Japanese Metalcore Gut-Punch
- Aug 31 Band of the Day Knosis and the Weight of Japanese Hardcore Done Right
- Aug 31 Band of the Day Graupel: The Japanese Underground's Best-Kept Secret
- Aug 30 Band of the Day Earthists: The Japanese Metal Underground's Best Kept Secret
- Aug 30 Band of the Day A Ghost of Flare: How to Actually Listen to This Band
- Aug 30 Band of the Day What Niigata's a crowd of rebellion Does to a Room
- Aug 29 Band of the Day Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas: Kobe's Genre-Blurring Electronicore Machine
- Aug 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST
- Aug 29 Band of the Day JILUKA Are the Band Japan's Underground Has Been Hiding From You
- Aug 28 Band of the Day Band of the Day: DEVILOOF
- Aug 28 Band of the Day How Hanabie. Became One of Metal's Most Exciting Live Bets
- Aug 28 Band of the Day Paledusk Is a Catalog Problem (In the Best Way)
- Aug 27 Band of the Day Sable Hills Live: What Ueda's Bass Does to a Room
- Aug 27 Band of the Day How Crossfaith Became the Osaka Band That Conquered British Festival Stages
- Aug 27 Band of the Day coldrain and the Art of Crossing Over Without Selling Out
- Aug 26 Band of the Day How Crystal Lake Became Tokyo's Most Dangerous Export
- Aug 26 Band of the Day Band of the Day: OOZE
- Aug 24 Band of the Day AKBK: Japan's Underground Sends Another Signal
- Aug 24 Band of the Day Little Bastards Are the Band Japan's Underground Didn't Know It Was Waiting For
- Aug 24 Band of the Day Band of the Day: NAUSEA
- Aug 23 Band of the Day Multiplex Will Ruin a School Day (And You'll Thank Them)
- Aug 23 Band of the Day GIBBED: Japan's Underground Keeps Its Best Secrets
- Aug 23 Band of the Day SATANIC HELL SLAUGHTER: Japan's Underground Answers Back
- Aug 22 Foreign Eyes on Japan Lost in Translation, Lost in Genre: How Alternative Press Never Quite Knew What to Do With One Ok Rock
- Aug 22 Band of the Day Band of the Day: SABBRABELLS
- Aug 22 Band of the Day Sabotage Organized Barbarian: Why SOB Still Hit Like a Truck
- Aug 20 Foreign Eyes on Japan What Napalm Records Heard When They Looked East
- Aug 18 Foreign Eyes on Japan What American Doom Saw When It Played Japan
- Aug 18 Band of the Day Boredoms: Osaka's Noise Architects Who Rewired What Metal Could Be
- Aug 18 Band of the Day Hanatarash: The Osaka Noise Act That Rewires Your Brain
- Aug 16 Live House & Bars Hiroshima BACK BEAT: The Room That Held Western Japan's Hardcore Scene
- Aug 16 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Sacrifice (サクリファイス)
- Aug 15 Scene Decoded The Hidden Cost of Starting Over: How Japanese Metal Bands Actually Rebuild After a Label Split
- Aug 15 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Fact
- Aug 13 Scene Decoded Why Japanese Drums Sound Like That: Pearl, Tama, and the Hardware Behind a Nation's Metal Tone
- Aug 12 Live House & Bars Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO: Where the City's Best Rock Nights Happen Above the Noise
- Aug 12 Band of the Day Tears of Tragedy Are Doing Symphonic Gothic Metal on Japan's Own Terms
- Aug 12 Band of the Day Death Side: The Burning Spirits Hardcore Band You Need to Hear
- Aug 11 Scene Decoded The Used Bin That Built the Underground: How Disc Union Shaped Japan's Heavy Music Economy
- Aug 10 Scene Decoded Why SHELLSHOCK Got the Call: Japan's Opening-Act Aristocracy
- Aug 10 Scene Decoded Japan's New Melodeath Wave: A Field Guide
- Aug 10 Foreign Eyes on Japan Lost to Japan: How Western Metal Media Covered Marty Friedman's Departure and Disappearance
- Aug 10 Scene Decoded Why Japanese Rehearsal Studios Quietly Built One of Metal's Most Open Scenes
- Aug 09 Band of the Day TAIJI: The Genius Who Built X JAPAN's Foundation
- Aug 09 Band of the Day Yoshiki: The Man Who Willed Japanese Metal Onto the World Stage
- Aug 09 Band of the Day Toshl: The Voice That Survived Everything
- Aug 08 Foreign Eyes on Japan Through a Glass Darkly: How Guitar World Framed the Japanese Guitarist
- Aug 08 Band of the Day Bitoku: The Architect Behind Sailing Before The Wind
- Aug 08 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Lonesome_Blue
- Aug 08 Band of the Day Band of the Day: DOLL$BOXX
- Aug 07 Band of the Day PATA: The Stillness at the Center of X JAPAN
- Aug 07 Band of the Day hide: The Color in X JAPAN's Chaos
- Aug 07 Band of the Day HEATH: The Professional Who Made X JAPAN's Second Act Possible
- Aug 06 Band of the Day JURASSIC JADE: Four Decades of Thrash Without Surrender
- Aug 06 Band of the Day Koh Morota Was Too Good: DOOM's Fretless Prophet
- Aug 06 Band of the Day BASSAIUM Is Back: The Return of a Tokyo Extreme Institution
- Aug 05 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Unarmed Crowd
- Aug 05 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Ode to the End
- Aug 05 Band of the Day Band of the Day: A Ghost of Flare
- Aug 05 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Bathtub Shitter
- Aug 04 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Gorevent
- Aug 04 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Desecravity
- Aug 03 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Galundo Tenvulance
- Aug 03 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Desolate Sphere
- Aug 02 Band of the Day Band of the Day: METALVERSE
- Aug 02 Band of the Day Band of the Day: KOIAI
- Aug 01 Foreign Eyes on Japan Flyers Across the Ocean: How European Zines Remembered Japan's Tape-Trading Underground
- Aug 01 Scene Decoded The 22-Year Cliff: How Japan's Hiring Calendar Breaks Up Bands
- Aug 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Unholy Grave
- Aug 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Sacrifice (Osaka)
July 2026
- Jul 31 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
- Jul 31 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Unpredictable — Shellshock
- Jul 29 Band of the Day Vivisick: Tokyo Crust That Plays to Stockholm as Much as Shibuya
- Jul 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Swarrrm
- Jul 28 Band of the Day Balzac Are the Dark Heart of Japanese Horror Punk
- Jul 28 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
- Jul 28 Band of the Day Gargoyle: The Thinking Person's Japanese Thrash
- Jul 27 Band of the Day Infernal Revulsion: Japan's Slam Standard-Bearers
- Jul 27 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Mortalized
- Jul 26 Band of the Day GRUBBY on Record: A Hunter's Guide to an Out-of-Print Catalog
- Jul 26 Band of the Day Band of the Day: GRUBBY
- Jul 26 Band of the Day The Art of Mankind: Every First-Timer Question, Answered
- Jul 26 Band of the Day Where to Start With The Art of Mankind: A Listening Map
- Jul 26 Foreign Eyes on Japan Lost in Translation: How British Rock Press Frames Fuji Rock's Heaviest Acts
- Jul 26 Band of the Day Vomit Remnants: Japan's Brutal Death Standard-Bearers
- Jul 26 Band of the Day Gyze: Kabuki Steel and Northern Ice
- Jul 25 Scene Decoded The Split Record as Diplomatic Currency: How Japan's Metal Underground Uses Shared Wax to Build Bridges
- Jul 25 Band of the Day Metalucifer Are the Underground's Best-Kept Secret, and That's Exactly How They Like It
- Jul 23 Scene Decoded Paledusk and the New Japanese Heaviness
- Jul 23 Scene Decoded Fukuoka Made Paledusk: How a Port City Builds a Sound
- Jul 22 Foreign Eyes on Japan What Western Fans Get Right (and Wrong) About Paledusk
- Jul 22 Foreign Eyes on Japan How the World Found Paledusk
- Jul 22 Band of the Day Why Paledusk Hits Different
- Jul 22 Scene Decoded Why Japanese Outdoor Festivals Pay Heavy Bands Less — And Why Heavy Bands Keep Saying Yes
- Jul 22 Band of the Day Butcher ABC: Japan's Goregrind Purists Who Got There the Hard Way
- Jul 21 Band of the Day What Genre Is Paledusk? Wrong Question, Great Answer
- Jul 21 Band of the Day The Two Voices of Paledusk
- Jul 21 Band of the Day Where to Start With Paledusk: A First-Timer's Map
- Jul 20 Band of the Day What a Paledusk Show Actually Feels Like
- Jul 20 Band of the Day Paledusk: The Questions Everyone Asks, Answered
- Jul 20 Band of the Day Paledusk's Visual World: Why the Videos Matter
- Jul 19 Scene Decoded Why BURRN! Outlived Every Rival: Japan's Metal Press Survival Story
- Jul 19 Band of the Day Band of the Day: SPANAM
- Jul 19 Band of the Day SLANG: Sapporo's Hardcore Voice You Should Already Know
- Jul 18 Band of the Day Band of the Day: PUBLIC DOMAIN
- Jul 17 Band of the Day LOYAL TO THE GRAVE Are the Kind of Hardcore Band That Reminds You Why You Got Into This
- Jul 17 Band of the Day Minor League (マイナーリーグ): Japan's Hardcore Underdogs Who Mean Business
- Jul 16 Band of the Day Jigokuguruma Are the Kind of Hardcore Punishment You Don't Walk Away From Easily
- Jul 16 Band of the Day Band of the Day: GERONIMO
- Jul 15 Foreign Eyes on Japan What Anthrax and Megadeth Knew About Japan That the Rest of the World Didn't
- Jul 15 Live House & Bars Fandango: Osaka's Punk Institution, and Where It Lives Now
- Jul 13 Band of the Day Band of the Day: BASSAIUM
- Jul 13 Band of the Day Band of the Day: AT ONE STROKE
- Jul 13 Foreign Eyes on Japan What Mikael Åkerfeldt Gets Right About Japanese Audiences (And What He's Still Figuring Out)
- Jul 13 Band of the Day BAT CAVE: Japan's Hardcore That Hits Like a Closed Fist
- Jul 11 Scene Decoded No Tour Bus, No Problem? The Economics of Touring Japan by Bullet Train and Highway Coach
- Jul 10 Foreign Eyes on Japan What the Foreign Press Saw (and Missed) at Loud Park
- Jul 10 Band of the Day Betrayer: Japan's Thrash Underground Done Right
- Jul 07 Foreign Eyes on Japan How Kerrang! Learned to Read X Japan (And Why It Took So Long)
- Jul 07 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Crow
- Jul 07 Band of the Day Systematic Death Are the Real Thing
- Jul 04 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Hit or Miss — Cokehead Hipsters
- Jul 04 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Black Holiday — Wrench
- Jul 03 Band of the Day Ruins: The Two-Man Wrecking Crew Japan's Avant-Garde Underground Can't Shake
- Jul 02 Band of the Day Zeni Geva: Tokyo's Noise Rock Weapon
- Jul 01 Band of the Day Survive Said The Prophet Are Tokyo Post-Hardcore Done Right
June 2026
- Jun 30 Band of the Day The Mad Capsule Markets: Tokyo's Digital Hardcore Detonators
- Jun 30 Band of the Day Pay money To my Pain Are the Tokyo Metalcore Band You Should Have Found Years Ago
- Jun 29 Band of the Day Show-Ya: Tokyo's All-Female Heavy Metal Institution
- Jun 28 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Nothing Solves Nothing — Shellshock
- Jun 27 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Immortal Warriors — Survive
- Jun 25 Scene Decoded Kansai Grit, Kanto Grid: How Japan's Metal Scene Split Into Two Minds
- Jun 23 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Noise, Violence & Destroy — SxOxB Kaidan
- Jun 23 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums 825 — Rise from the Dead
- Jun 22 Band of the Day Shudan (集団) Are the Grindcore Gut-Punch You Needed Today
- Jun 21 Scene Decoded Why Japanese Grindcore Occupies Its Own Category in Every Serious Collection
- Jun 21 Band of the Day NEON ONI: Visual Kei's Teeth Are Still Sharp
- Jun 21 Band of the Day HOTOKE: Doom From the Deep End
- Jun 21 Band of the Day ASTERISM Are Proof That Three People Can Shake a Room
- Jun 20 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Hell Freezes Over
- Jun 20 Band of the Day Broken By The Scream Are the Band That Shouldn't Work — and Absolutely Does
- Jun 20 Band of the Day Sailing Before The Wind Are the Metalcore Act You Need to Know
- Jun 19 Band of the Day Terror Squad Are the Speed Metal Kick in the Face You Needed
- Jun 19 Scene Decoded Scene Decoded: How Sabbat Became Japan's Most Unlikely Global Black Metal Cult
- Jun 19 Band of the Day Phantom Excaliver Are the Japanese Power Metal Band You Should Already Know
- Jun 19 Scene Decoded You're Buying Your Own Show: The Noruma Ticket System Explained
- Jun 19 Band of the Day CASBAH: Japan's Heavy Metal Underground Has Been Sitting on This One
- Jun 19 Band of the Day DEXCORE Are the Band Making Visual Kei Feel Dangerous Again
- Jun 19 Band of the Day VOLCANO: Japan's Thrash Underground Has a Live Wire and Its Name Is VOLCANO
- Jun 17 Scene Decoded Cold Storage: Why Sapporo's Extreme Metal Scene Hits Different
- Jun 17 Band of the Day KANDARIVAS Are the Band You Should Already Know About
- Jun 17 Band of the Day MELT4 Are the Metalcore Band You Need to Know About
- Jun 17 Band of the Day Serenity In Murder Are Tokyo's Melodic Death Metal Secret Worth Knowing
- Jun 14 Scene Decoded Nagoya Thrash and the City That Refused to Follow Tokyo
- Jun 13 Scene Decoded Before the Kawaii Storm: The Hidden Prehistory of Idol Metal
- Jun 11 Scene Decoded Three Decades of Women in Japanese Metal, and Why It Never Stopped Mattering
- Jun 10 Scene Decoded The Line Hi-Standard Drew: How AIR JAM Built a Generation That Refused to Disappear
- Jun 10 Band of the Day Kokeshi: The Japanese Hardcore Name Worth Tracking Down
- Jun 10 Band of the Day Coaltar of the Deepers: Tokyo's Most Beautifully Broken Metal Band
- Jun 09 Scene Decoded Why Lovebites on the Wacken Main Stage Was Never Just a Big Deal — It Was a Structural Shift
- Jun 09 Band of the Day Unlucky Morpheus: Tokyo's Doujin Power Metal Secret Worth Finding
- Jun 09 Band of the Day E.Z.O.: Sapporo's Heavy Metal Export That Deserved More of Your Attention
- Jun 08 Band of the Day UNDEAD CORPORATION: Tokyo's Doujin Metal Outliers Who Actually Rip
- Jun 07 Scene Decoded Two Roads to the Stadium: How Loudness and Babymetal Conquered the World on Their Own Terms
- Jun 06 Band of the Day Band of the Day: GMF
- Jun 06 Band of the Day Band of the Day: RISE FROM THE DEAD
- Jun 06 Foreign Eyes on Japan How the West Finally Noticed Loudness (And What It Got Wrong)
- Jun 06 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Skull Thrash Zone I — Ground Zero, Rose Rose, Doom, Shell Shock, X, Jurassic Jade & Others
- Jun 06 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Metronome — Switch Style
- Jun 06 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Human Zoo
- Jun 06 Essential Japanese Heavy Metal Albums Far East Hardcore — Wrench
- Jun 06 Scene Decoded Sacred City, Savage Sound: Decoding the Heavy Underground Around Kyoto's ROTTENGRAFFTY
- Jun 05 Band of the Day TJ MAXX: Japanese Hardcore With Something to Prove
- Jun 05 Band of the Day United: Tokyo's Missing Piece in the Japanese Thrash Puzzle
- Jun 05 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Wrestling Crime Master
- Jun 05 Foreign Eyes on Japan When Two Worlds of Doom Actually Touched: Sunn O))) and Boris
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Band of the Day: a crowd of rebellion
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Aggressive Dogs: The Hardcore Lifers You Should Already Know
- Jun 04 Band of the Day ANIMETAL: The Band That Proved Anime and Metal Were Always the Same Thing
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Band of the Day: BACK DROP BOMB
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Brahman: Tokyo's Hardcore Lifers Who've Never Once Flinched
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Hanabie. Are Japan's Metalcore Secret Weapon
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Her Name In Blood Are the Japanese Metalcore Band You Need to Know
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Knosis: Japan's Hardcore Force That Demands Your Attention
- Jun 04 Band of the Day Slight Slappers Are the Grindcore Gut-Punch Japan's Underground Keeps Secret
- Jun 04 Foreign Eyes on Japan Lost in Translation: Reading Metal Injection's Japan Coverage From Tokyo
- Jun 04 Scene Decoded Shimokitazawa's Hardcore Kilometre: How One Walkable Neighbourhood Became Tokyo's Heavy Music Engine
- Jun 03 Live House & Bars Conpass, Osaka: The Underground Stays Underground
- Jun 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Carcass Grinder
- Jun 01 Band of the Day Defiled Are the Death Metal Force You Should Already Know
- Jun 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Indication
- Jun 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: NUMB
- Jun 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: The Stalin
- Jun 01 Band of the Day Band of the Day: UP HOLD
May 2026
- May 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: 324 — The Japanese Grindcore Force That Will Rewire Your Brain
- May 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: GARLICBOYS — Osaka's Heavy Metal Secret Weapon
- May 29 Band of the Day Multiplex: The Band That Breaks Your Life in Half
- May 27 Band of the Day Band of the Day: COKEHEAD HIPSTERS
- May 27 Band of the Day Band of the Day: CORRUPTED — Japan's Most Unsettling Doom Force
- May 27 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Merzbow
- May 27 Band of the Day Band of the Day: SUPER JUNKY MONKEY
- May 23 Band of the Day Band of the Day: GASTUNK
- May 22 Band of the Day Loudness: The Band That Kicked the Door Open
- May 21 Live House & Bars Zepp: Japan's Temple of the Mid-to-Large Metal Show
- May 20 Band of the Day Band of the Day: david stormer
- May 20 Band of the Day Band of the Day: hellchild
- May 20 Band of the Day Kamomekamome Are the Stylish Collision You Didn't Know You Needed
- May 20 Band of the Day Band of the Day: View from the Soyuz
- May 20 Live House & Bars Namba Hatch: Osaka's Gateway for International Heavy Acts
- May 20 Live House & Bars Roppongi EX Theater: Where the Scene Gets a Little More Dressed Up
- May 19 Band of the Day EEVEE (ミミレミミ): Fukuoka's Most Violent Jazz-Nightmare You Haven't Heard Yet
- May 18 Band of the Day Sigh Are Tokyo's Most Gloriously Unhinged Black Metal Band — and the World Is Finally Catching On
- May 16 Band of the Day Switch Style: The Kashiwa Kids Who Rewrote the Rules of Japanese Hardcore
- May 15 Band of the Day Envy: The Tokyo Band That Rewrote the Rules of Screamo
- May 15 Band of the Day Band of the Day: SOB – Osaka's Hardcore Punk Wrecking Crew
- May 15 Live House & Bars Antiknock, Shinjuku: Sweat, Hardcore, and Zero Compromise
- May 13 Band of the Day coldrain Are Nagoya's Best-Kept Secret — And the World Is Finally Catching On
- May 13 Band of the Day Outrage: Nagoya's Thrash Titans Who've Outlasted Almost Everyone
- May 12 Band of the Day Sable Hills: The Band You Need to Hear Right Now
- May 12 Band of the Day Thousand Eyes: Two Guitarists, Zero Limits
- May 11 Band of the Day Abigail: Japan's Black Metal Outlaws With a Global Cult Following
- May 11 Band of the Day Church of Misery: Tokyo's Serial Killer Doom Machine
- May 11 Scene Decoded Why Visual Kei Finally Got Its Metal Press Pass
- May 10 Band of the Day Band of the Day: COCOBAT
- May 10 Band of the Day Pulling Teeth, the NWOJHM Band Whose Name Is the Promise
- May 10 Band of the Day SHELLSHOCK: Japan's Technical Thrash Secret Weapon
- May 10 Live House & Bars Toyosu Pit: Tokyo's Go-To Room for International Acts
- May 09 Band of the Day Crossfaith Are the Osaka Outfit That Rewired What Japanese Metal Could Sound Like
- May 09 Band of the Day Galneryus Are the Osaka Power Metal Machine That Europe Didn't See Coming
- May 09 Band of the Day MAN WITH A MISSION Are the Wolf-Headed Band You Need in Your Life
- May 09 Band of the Day Ningen Isu: Japan's Doom Legends Who Rewrote the Riff in Their Own Language
- May 09 Live House & Bars Club Citta, Kawasaki: The Stage That Demands Everything You've Got
- May 09 Live House & Bars Shibuya O-East and O-West: Tokyo's Mid-Size Sweet Spot
- May 09 Scene Decoded Why Tokyo Underground Shows Cost What They Cost
- May 06 Band of the Day Crystal Lake, twenty-plus years of metalcore that survived its singers
- May 05 Band of the Day DOOM, Tokyo's 1985 thrash freaks who never sat still in a single genre
- May 05 Band of the Day ENDALL drag thrash into the present with a beer in each hand
- May 05 Band of the Day The Art of Mankind play melodic death metal that only Tokyo could write
- May 04 Band of the Day Paledusk pulled metalcore through a Fukuoka basement and out the other side