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July 2026

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 07 Band of the Day Savage Greed Are Fukuoka's Best-Kept Hardcore Secret
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 Boredoms Are the Most Important Noise Band You've Probably Been Sleeping On
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 29 Band of the Day Band of the Day: Nunchaku (ヌンチャク) — The Kashiwa Kids Who Redefined Japanese Metal
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 23 Band of the Day Hanatarash: Osaka's Noise Terrorists Who Rewrote the Rules
May 23 Band of the Day Band of the Day: WRENCH
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 Survive: Japan's Secret Weapon You Haven't Heard Yet
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

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