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Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Ensa-アラガウ EP (2021)
Country: Japan
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Crust
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 8
Length: 13.15'
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Crust
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 8
Length: 13.15'
Ensa is a three piece band from Japan who formed in 2020, from the looks of things. Ensa play a vicious, scathing, and brutal as fuck style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, metal, and crust within their sound. Musically, Ensa can be loosely compared to bands such as Tragedy, His Hero Is Gone, Martyrdod, Holy Mountain, Planks, Gattaca, and other like-minded bands. アラガウ is the band's debut EP, which was released on April 25th, 2021. On アラガウ, Ensa offer up eight tracks of vicious, scathing, and brutal as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, metal, and crust. Overall, アラガウ makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
Saigan Terror-Anatomy Of Saigan LP (2020)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Thrash
Label: Triple B
Tracks: 10
Length: 15.0'
Saigan Terror is a band from Koenji, Japan who formed in 2018, from the looks of things. Saigan Terror play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, metal, and thrash within their sound. Musically, Saigan Terror can be loosely compared to bands such as Integrity, Powertrip, Ringworm, Judiciary, and other like-minded bands. Anatomy Of Saigan is the band's latest LP, which was released via Triple B records on January 10th, 2020. On Anatomy Of Saigan, Saigan Terror offer up ten tracks of raging and vicious as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, metal, and thrash. Overall, Anatomy Of Saigan makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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Kriegshog-Paint it Black/ White Out 7" (2019)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, D-Beat
Label: La Vida Es Un Mus
Tracks: 2
Length: 6.50'
Kriegshög is a band from Japan who formed in 2015, from the looks of things. Kriegshög plays a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, and d-beat within their sound. Musically, Kriegshög can be loosely compared to bands such as Halshug, Scumraid, Physique, and other like-minded bands. Since forming in 2015, Kriegshög have released three 7" and a thirteen song LP. Paint It Black/White Out is the band's latest 7", which was released via La Vida Es Un Mus records on June 30th, 2019. On Paint It Black/White Out, Kriegshög offer up two tracks of raw, ugly, and distorted sounding hardcore, punk, and d-beat. Overall, Paint It Black/White Out makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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Friendship-Undercurrent LP (2019)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Crust, Powerviolence
Label: Daymare Recordings
Tracks: 10
Length: 20.15'
Hailing from the Chiba prefecture of western Japan, Friendship are one of the most vile, antagonist, and visionary grind/powerviolence acts to have ever emerged from The Land of the Rising Sun. Their absurdly devastating music comes together as a collapsing black hole that devours everything with maniacal ferocity, sparing nothing from the plain of existence. In perfect adherence to the tradition of Japanese extreme music where everything is always taken to ridiculous and mindless extremes, Friendship's music is like a chain reaction that can not be stopped - the devastating consequence of an uncontrolled nuclear fission of Japan's most praised and iconic musical extremities embracing the full scale auditive terror of legendary American powerviolence bands like Nails, Column of Heaven, Man Is The Bastard, Iron Lung, and Hatred Surge, and the tormented sludge dirges of masters like Swans, Godflesh, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Dystopia. (Press Note)
*This is some harsh, abrasive, and vicious as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, crust, and powerviolence. Seriously, this absolutely rips. Undercurrent was released via Daymare recordings on February 9th, 2019. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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(JAP) Endon-Boy Meets Girl LP (2019)
Genre: Black Metal, Noise
Label: Thrill Jockey
Tracks: 8
Length: 28.30'
ENDON is a
band as mercurial as they are ferocious. Comprised of the quintet of
vocalist Taichi Nagura, guitarist Koki Miyabe, drummer Shin Yokota, and
electronics/noisemakers Taro Aiko and Etsuo Nagura, ENDON’s music is
contained chaos, bending and colliding genres into one another atop a
bed of thunderous distortion, feedback, and unearthly squeals. Vocalist
Taichi’s voice embodies an unreal number of personalities with wordless
howls seething one moment, and agonized cries the next, before desperate
gasps for air. It comes as no surprise that they have been credited as
the most extreme band in Tokyo. Boy Meets Girl finds ENDON relishing in
the unexpected and shifting with relentless force from pounding sludge
to off-kilter hardcore to synth-driven dance to utter oblivion.
Boy Meets Girl was envisioned as a soundtrack to an imagined horror film about love. Disparate influences such as horrorcore, Dick Dale, Joe Meek and the Dead Kennedys converge and erupt forth over the course of single songs. The warped story of the album unfolds in scattered motifs and references, with the titular “boy” being born from a womb of noise and dealing with the conflicts that arise when recognizing the world, and love, outside his own ego. The record takes an abstract approach to the subject of love and looks beyond the well tread romantic aspects in favor of an altogether more disorienting take.
ENDON set out to make fictional film score with “light music,” played by a much heavier band. The core of the ensemble’s song structures are often built around Koki’s fuzz-laden guitar and Shin’s drum bombast which propel torrents of hisses and squelches from Taro and Etsuo. Taichi’s largely lyric-less screams, moans, and whimpers are potent messengers of the songs’ emotional heft. Recorded by Atsuo of Boris, Boy Meets Girl is not entirely harsh and heavy. Sequencer delicacies are laced into pieces like the mammoth “Doubts As a Source.” The respite of “Red Shoes” lay bare ENDON’s ability to construct detailed arrangements, a trait shared with the album’s more eviscerating songs.
There lies an ecstatic, excited energy amidst the anarchic defiance ENDON’s music exudes. Born of the same Japanese scenes that gave rise to the likes of Merzbow and Boredoms, their sound is equally diverse and abrasive. Boy Meets Girl demonstrates ENDON’s singular faculty to produce music that is at once tortured and transcendent. (Press Note)
Boy Meets Girl was envisioned as a soundtrack to an imagined horror film about love. Disparate influences such as horrorcore, Dick Dale, Joe Meek and the Dead Kennedys converge and erupt forth over the course of single songs. The warped story of the album unfolds in scattered motifs and references, with the titular “boy” being born from a womb of noise and dealing with the conflicts that arise when recognizing the world, and love, outside his own ego. The record takes an abstract approach to the subject of love and looks beyond the well tread romantic aspects in favor of an altogether more disorienting take.
ENDON set out to make fictional film score with “light music,” played by a much heavier band. The core of the ensemble’s song structures are often built around Koki’s fuzz-laden guitar and Shin’s drum bombast which propel torrents of hisses and squelches from Taro and Etsuo. Taichi’s largely lyric-less screams, moans, and whimpers are potent messengers of the songs’ emotional heft. Recorded by Atsuo of Boris, Boy Meets Girl is not entirely harsh and heavy. Sequencer delicacies are laced into pieces like the mammoth “Doubts As a Source.” The respite of “Red Shoes” lay bare ENDON’s ability to construct detailed arrangements, a trait shared with the album’s more eviscerating songs.
There lies an ecstatic, excited energy amidst the anarchic defiance ENDON’s music exudes. Born of the same Japanese scenes that gave rise to the likes of Merzbow and Boredoms, their sound is equally diverse and abrasive. Boy Meets Girl demonstrates ENDON’s singular faculty to produce music that is at once tortured and transcendent. (Press Note)
*Seriously this is some seriously awesome experimental noise damaged metal! Overall, Boy Meets Girl makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy! Boy Meets Girl was released via Thrill Jockey records on February 15th, 2019.
Komusō-Luck Will Be On Your Side This Week EP (2018)
Genre: Post Hardcore, Emo, Screamo
Label: Zegema Beach/Adabana/Left Hand Label/Zilpzalp Records
Tracks: 3
Length: 10.15'
Komusō is a four piece band from Tokyo, Japan who formed in 2016. Komusō play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post hardcore, emo, and screamo within their sound. Komusō can be loosely compared to bands such as Daitro, Caetena Collapse, Funeral Diner, Who Calls So Loud, and other like-minded bands. Since forming in 2016, Komusō have released a self-titled EP in April of 2018. Luck Will Be On Your Side This Week is the band's 2nd EP, which was released via Zegema Beach, Adabana, Left Hand Label, and Zilpzalp Records on September 4th, 2018. On Luck Will Be On Your Side This Week, Komusō offer up three tracks of intense and volatile sounding post hardcore, emo, and screamo. Overall, Luck Will Be On Your Side This Week makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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夢遊病者 Sleepwalker-For This Time Only, Never Again EP (2018)
Genre: Black Metal, Experimental
Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Tracks: 6
Length: 22.30'
一期一会 (Ichi-go ichi-e): "for this time only, never again". This japanese idiom is the central theme of the new, second, unbelievable album of the same name by the elusive psychedelic/avantgarde black metal enigma 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker). Once again fusing drone, raw black metal, kraut/psychedelic rock, free-jazz, noise rock, and tribal ritualism to absolutely mind-melting effect, Sleepwalker's idea behind this new record was to take central superstitions that rule the rhetoric of eastern lore and funnel them through the prism of the modern world. The final result: the band's staple psychedelic black metal mind-fuck ritual gloriously preserved and burning brighter and more insanely than ever. Suspended between the visionary opposites of bands like Voivod, Zeni Geva, Oxbow, King Crimson, Ornassi Pazuzu, Lurker of Chalice, and Xasthur, with "一期一会" Sleepwalker have once again proven to be one of the most mind-expanding and visionary experimental black metal acts of our times.
(Press Note)
*Damn, This is some really awesome psychedelic raw black metal. I'm at a loss of words as far as explaining how good this is and what to compare Sleepwalker too. Highly recommended! Enjoy! For This Time Only, Never Again was released via Sentient Ruin Laboratories on May 25th, 2018.
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Fuck On The Beach/Terlarang-Split LP (2017)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Grindcore, Powerviolence
Label: Wooaaargh! Records
Tracks: 21
Length: 19.24'
Fuck On The Beach
If you don't know what to expect here I can't really help, this is brutal, lightspeed clattering blasts, razorwire treble drenched guitar and whirling layered screaming at it's finest. Plenty of ear splitting distortion, feedback, mics peaking and everything way too loud in the best way. This is fun loving fastcore powervioelce from Japan which I'm pretty sure even has a 'clap-track' on the self titled outro track. Fucking excelent. This side of the split is primarily hyper fast d-beats with the odd blast thrown in, so is sonically the inverse of the Terlarang side. For fants of Japanese style everything faster and louder style grindviolence.
Terlarang
Lo-fi to the
point of incomprehensibility this side of the split goes even further
down the slopes of treble-valley than Fuck On The Beach, sounding like
the guitars are physically tearing the speaker cones from the amp and
the rest of the band are trying frantically to hold them back in.
Everything here is fast, no slow at all on this side. Maybe one or two
slightly slower than lightspeed d-beat smashers floating about in there
but this is really all about the pace. The fast as fuck and don't care
nature is epitomised by the cats on the split cover and the last track
basically sounding like black metal but being called 'Stop The Hate' in
what seems to be a conscious rejection of the bullshit ideals of
traditional NSBM. Nice. If you don't know what to expect here I can't really help, this is brutal, lightspeed clattering blasts, razorwire treble drenched guitar and whirling layered screaming at it's finest. Plenty of ear splitting distortion, feedback, mics peaking and everything way too loud in the best way. This is fun loving fastcore powervioelce from Japan which I'm pretty sure even has a 'clap-track' on the self titled outro track. Fucking excelent. This side of the split is primarily hyper fast d-beats with the odd blast thrown in, so is sonically the inverse of the Terlarang side. For fants of Japanese style everything faster and louder style grindviolence.
This split is relentless and will hurt your ears in a charming way, fun frantic ear-splitters from start to finish. (Press Note)
*This is a killer split featuring 7 tracks from Japan's Fuck On The Beach and fourteen tracks from Malaysia's Terlarang! Absolutely devastating hardcore, punk, grindcore, and powerviolence. This split was released via Wooaaargh! records on December 27th, 2017. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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(JAP) Friendship-Hatred LP (2017)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Crust, Powerviolence
Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories/Southern Lord Records
Tracks: 12
Length: 23.05'
Hailing from the Chiba prefecture of western Japan, Friendship are one of the most vile, antagonist, and visionary grind/powerviolence acts to have ever emerged from The Land of the Rising Sun. Their absurdly devastating music comes together as a collapsing black hole that devours everything with maniacal ferocity, sparing nothing from the plain of existence. In perfect adherence to the tradition of Japanese extreme music where everything is always taken to ridiculous and mindless extremes, Friendship's music is like a chain reaction that can not be stopped - the devastating consequence of an uncontrolled nuclear fission of Japan's most praised and iconic musical extremities embracing the full scale auditive terror of legendary American powerviolence bands like Nails, Column of Heaven, Man Is The Bastard, Iron Lung, and Hatred Surge, and the tormented sludge dirges of masters like Swans, Godflesh, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Dystopia. (Press Note)
*This is some harsh, abrasive, and vicious as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, crust, and powerviolence. Seriously, this absolutely rips. Hatred was released via Sentient Ruin Laboratories and Southern Lord records on November 16th, 2017. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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Friendship-I&II LP (2017)
(Jap) Friendship-I&II Cassette (2017)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Crust, Powerviolence
Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Tracks: 12
Length: 23.7'
Hailing from the Chiba prefecture of western Japan, Friendship are one of the most vile, antagonist, and visionary grind/powerviolence acts to have ever emerged from The Land of the Rising Sun. Their absurdly devastating music comes together as a collapsing black hole that devours everything with maniacal ferocity, sparing nothing from the plain of existence. In perfect adherence to the tradition of Japanese extreme music where everything is always taken to ridiculous and mindless extremes, Friendship's music is like a chain reaction that can not be stopped - the devastating consequence of an uncontrolled nuclear fission of Japan's most praised and iconic musical extremities embracing the full scale auditive terror of legendary American powerviolence bands like Nails, Column of Heaven, Man Is The Bastard, Iron Lung, and Hatred Surge, and the tormented sludge dirges of masters like Swans, Godflesh, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Dystopia. (Press Note)
*This is some harsh, abrasive, and vicious as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, crust, and powerviolence. Seriously, this absolutely rips. I&II was released via Sentient Ruin Laboratories records on February 17th, 2017. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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Gleamed-Demo (2016)
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Powerviolence
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 4
Length: 6.0'
Gleamed is a four piece band from Tokyo, Japan who formed in the spring of 2015, from the looks of things. Gleamed play a vicious and brutal as fuck style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, and powerviolence within their sound. Gleamed mixes elements of modern powerviolence with early 90's metallic hardcore, which definitely is a different take on this style of music. Since forming in 2015, Gleamed have released four song EP demo in August of 2015 and a five song EP titled Misanthrope in October of 2015. This is the band's latest four song demo, which was released on September 11th, 2016. On their latest demo, Gleamed offer up four tracks of raging and scathing hardcore, punk, and powerviolence. Overall, this is a killer demo and should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
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Careless / Sans Visage / Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer-Split 12" (2016)
Genre: Post Hardcore, Punk, Emo, Screamo
Label: Through Love, Miss The Stars, Kakusan, Samegrey-Dingleberry, Zilpzalp, Structures//Agony, Don't Live Like Me, Rubayiat Records
Tracks: 6
Length: 19.0'
Here's a killer 3-way split 12" featuring new material from Sweden's Careless, Japan's Sans Visage, and Sweden's Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer. The first band on the split is Stockholm, Sweden's Careless. Careless is a five piece post hardcore, emo, and screamo band who formed in September of 2012. Careless play a tense, urgent, and somewhat melodic style of music that's reminiscent of bands such as Suis La Lune, Old Gray, and other like-minded bands. Since forming in 2012, Careless have released a four song self-titled EP in November of 2012, a five song 7" titled Recording Static in August of 2013, and a ten song LP titled I Wish You Away in February of 2015. On their side of the split, Careless offer up two tracks of killer post hardcore, emo, and screamo. The second two songs on the split come courtesy of Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer. Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer is a three piece band from Stockholm, Sweden who formed in 2015. Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post hardcore, punk, and screamo within their sound. Musically, Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer can be said to be influenced by bands such as Saetia, Caetena Collapse, Daitro, La Quiete, and other like-minded bands. Since forming in 2014, Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer have released a split 7" with mятеж, a split 7" with Coma Regalia, and a split 7" with Kotsuya Kaiden. On their side of the split, Det Är Därför Vi Bygger Städer offer up two tracks of tense, urgent, and volatile post hardcore, screamo, and emo. The last two tracks on the LP come courtesy of Sans Visage. Sans Visage is a three piece band from Tokyo, Japan who formed in early 2014, from the looks of things. Sans Visage play a chaotic and volatile style of music that incorporates elements of emotive hardcore and screamo within their sound. Musically, Sans Visage can be said to be influenced by bands such as Saetia, Orchid, Funeral Diner, and La Quiete. Since forming in 2014, Sans Visage have released a three song demo in March of 2014 and a second demo in March of 2015. . Overall, this is a killer split 12" and should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy! This album was released via Through Love, Miss The Stars, Kakusan, Samegrey-Dingleberry, Zilpzalp, Structures//Agony, Don't Live Like Me, and Rubayiat Records on June 17th, 2016.
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