Reports: Japanese Music Events

After a heavy metal hour with FAKE ISLAND, it was HighTechLowLife's turn to close the concert night at Abunai! 2019. An exuberantly pounding bass sound heralds the show, while the...

Does metal fit on Abunai!, for many known as an anime convention? After several performances by pop and rock musicians in previous years - we don't forget the loud rock...

As NECRONOMIDOL receive more and more attention from fans outside Japan, the world seems to be at the feet of the ultra dark idol unit. With tours through the United...

Paris, July 7th. The day itself already started hot, a warm breeze touching the skin each step outside the comforts of a bus or building. But not even the day...

2018 was a tumultuous year for BABYMETAL and their fans, between the tragic loss of guitarist Mikio Fujioka and the unexplained absence of YUIMETAL and her subsequent retirement from the...

Instead of the World Forum in The Hague AnimeCon had a new motto this year: “Goes South”, in the direction of Ahoy Rotterdam to be exact. For three days Ahoy...

To convince the audience as a solo musician is quite a big task and probably also quite scary. Haru Nemuri was for many an unknown name before she hopped on...

It has been a while ago that a Japanese band had the chance to enter the stage of Baroeg in Rotterdam. After Crossfaith, Church of Misery, Coffins, and a number...

Anybody who has witnessed a MUTANT MONSTER show live, will not be surprised by the following review, but if like some in attendance that evening, this is your first time...

Birmingham has seen a surge of Japanese music events in these past few years, hosting such groups as Necronomidol, 2& (Double And), Screaming Sixties and even BABYMETAL, but it's safe...

On the second Saturday of April, in the second largest city in the Ruhr area, Essen, Germany, people were greeted with gloomy and chilling weather. The city was relatively quiet...

The audience of De Zwarte Ruiter seemed ready for a night of rock and roll on Saturday, 23 February. The venue was already packed while the guys of garage rock...

Rock band Frederic (フレデリック) had performed for a sold-out Zepp Tokyo on the 20th of February already, but the day after there was another sold-out show in the same venue....

Who remembers D=OUT from the old days when they performed in Europe in 2009? To this very day, the Visual Kei band is still active with a lot of shows...

While it is raining cats and dogs outside, an interesting evening is planned in the cosy hall of The Kroepoekfabriek. It's a Sunday evening in February, but it doesn't bother...

On Thursday, 22 November 2018, the concert of G.L.A.M.S took place at the Dolhuis in Dordrecht. A small group of fans started lining up early already, some dressed neatly and...

16 November 2018, Amsterdam, the capital of The Netherlands. Most of the people are shopping, or eating in the city centre. Almost nobody who knows what is about to happen...

13 November 2018. In the same place as Crossfaith blew the roof off one month before this show, it is now their fellow countrymen LOVESBITES’ turn to shake up the...

On 8 November, Ikebukuro Chop was dedicated to November Heaven, a musical listening session with four performances by musicians from the visual kei world. November Heaven is part of the...

Shin-daita FEVER. That is the location for a school festival after school on a cloudy 7th of November in Tokyo and also the translation of the title of the event,...

Just at the end of the summer of 2018, PLASTICZOOMS announced that Tom Takanashi, guitarist and band member of the group for 6 years, will leave the band after a...

11 October 2018, in front of a small concert hall, stands a small group of metalheads, waiting for a night of hard slamming and moshing, because Crossfaith is in the...

In a city which has seen occupation by Spanish, French, and German invaders, a small festival for Japanese music, food, and culture went by seemingly unnoticed.  Passers-by within 500m of...

X JAPAN’s third-straight night of sold-out concerts — X JAPAN LIVE IN JAPAN 2018 THREE DEEP RED NIGHTS AT MAKUHARI MESSE — was suddenly cancelled on 30 September due to...