Basement death metal: Open Surgery “Absolute Destruction”
Old-school Florida death metal from Sweden. Finspång’s finest, Open Surgery, serves up glorious meat-and-potatoes basement death metal on its new album.
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Reviews
Swedish black metal: Devourer “The Wicked Ones”
This is music for those who drink their metal black and without sugar. It is another great album in Sweden’s proud tradition of black metal mastery.
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Angel: One helluva band on tour in Japan
47 years after their legendary Japan tour of 1977, Angel finally returned to Japan.
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Paul Di’Anno’s Warhorse
Former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno is back with a new album featuring Mercyful Fate’s Becky Baldwin and a Depeche Mode cover!
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Boom! Skindred got Tokyo to jump
Welsh rockers Skindred slayed Tokyo with a headline show in Shibuya.
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Anvil “One and Only”
Canadian heavy metal trio Anvil is back with its 20th album. “We are what we are and we do what we do. We have our audience who we play for and that is what we have focused on our entire career.”
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NWOBHM weekend with Demon, Tytan and Paul Gaskin
Japanese metalheads got to experience a weekend of NWOBHM love when three veteran British acts came to perform in Japan for the first time.
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How We End “How We End”
Excellent debut album from How We End, a modern multi-national European metal band featuring folks from Evanescence, Nervosa, Primal Fear, Amaranthe and Cyhra.
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Nemophila and Loudness in Shibuya
Nemophila and Loudness turned on the beast mode for a terrific night in Shibuya.
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Praying Mantis in Tokyo
NWOBHM legends Praying Mantis returned to Tokyo to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary on its farewell (?) tour.
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Kiyoshi “Seitansai – Oretachino Kiyoshi”
Japanese bassist Kiyoshi, who released six solo albums in five years, now showcases her best songs on a terrific live album that perfectly demonstrates why this artist is such a joy to experience.
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The Crows “Ready When You Are”
Freddy Villano is back. Grown-up American rock with British influences is what The Crows gives us on the band’s debut album.
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Wormwood “The Star”
Wormwood concludes an album trilogy about death with a magnificent new album full of atmospheric, melodic black metal with some melancholic folk metal parts.
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