News Posts

Japanese power metal quintet Lovebites signed with Napalm Records and straight away unleashed their new album ‘Outstanding Power’ digitally and shared a video for the track ‘The Castaway’ to celebrate!

Metal Blade Records have signed Japanese metal sensation Broken By The Scream, who are working on new music right now! Besides shows in Japan, they’ll be making appearances this summer at European festivals like Wacken, Summer Breeze and Reload Festival!

Japanese legends Boris are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark albums ‘Pink’ and ‘dronevil’ with special editions of both, coming October 17 on Relapse Records!

Japanese goregrinders Festerdecay signed to Relapse Records for the next chapter of their careers!

Japanese metal powerhouse Knosis is proud to release their new single ‘DOKUNUMA’, another track from their debut full-length ‘GENKNOSIS’ out in August via SharpTone Records!

Japanese metal powerhouse KNOSIS proudly announced their debut album ‘GENKNOSIS’ to be released in August via SharpTone Records and shared the single ‘SHINMON’!

Freshly signed to Century Media Records, Japanese band coldrain has unleashed a video for their debut single ‘INCOMPLETE’ with the new label!

Popular Japanese collective Man With A Mission revealed the artwork and tracklist for their upcoming EP ‘XV e.p.’, set for release in March via Century Media Records!

Global rock phenomenon “Samurai Guitarist” Miyavi has revealed details on his upcoming album ‘Lost In Love’, set for release in October via Rise Records and shared the new single ‘We Stay Up All Night’!

Japanese death metal icons Defiled are back, planning to leave a trail of bodies with their upcoming album ‘Horror Beyond Horror’, set for release via Season of Mist in September, and shared the video single ‘Smoke And Mirrors’!

Interviews

Japan’s most extreme Visual Kei deathcore force DEVILOOF is finally coming to Europe to bring their chaos to their fans there, kicking off tomorrow at On The Rocks in Helsinki, Finland! We talked to them ahead of the tour about their sound, influences, and what fans can expect.

A last short part of us talking with Oceanhoarse, this time about the music scene, merch, metal booze and their trip to Japan! Check it out!

We had the jolly bunch of Oceans Ate Alaska in front of us at Brutal Assault to talk about their latest effort “Hikari”, which turned in a quite hilarious chat…

A fun chat with our own super heroes Hootsman and Angus McFife!

We sat down with the man-wolves? wolf-men? of MWAM to figure out what their mission is all about…