Reports

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...

The theme of Abunai! this year was focused on gaming, in particular, the kitsune (fox), which is also the main mascot of Abunai!. In Japan, a kitsune is seen as...

It is that time of year for us in the UK, Hyper Japan festival launched again in London. For those of you unaware, Hyper Japan is an event promoting all...

After the last edition in 2017 rumours were circulating already: is Animecon going to move to a bigger venue? A few weeks before the 2018-edition this was announced officially: Ahoy...

The Summer of 2018 will be remembered as the time Europe melted. Experts say that the reason it is so hot is because of reckless industry, deforestation, and our need...

Shortly before the performance at AnimeCon, the biggest anime convention in The Netherlands, NECRONOMIDOL had an opportunity to give a short performance in the city centre of The Hague. The...

BABYMETAL. The group that consists of three cute girls, being SU-METAL on lead vocals and MOAMETAL and YUIMETAL as background vocals. On 5 and 6 June, they played at Ronda,...

Moth in Lilac plays a very groovy, rhythmic style of metal. M9N (pronounced Mokkyun) on drums, NaluchaRos on base and Lisa-13 on guitar provide various pulsing beats. Lisa’s guitar style...

Garage rock power trio Guitar Wolf toured Europe last March and April, with shows in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany to show off their loud and noise-influenced...

Last Sunday, 20 May, the Rapenburg and the Groenhazengracht in Leiden from Japan Museum SieboldHuis through the Hortus botanicus to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden was dedicated to Japan. With a...

During the weekend of April 7 and 8 the 5th edition of TomoCon was held in Oss. And of course AVO was there to report. There was something for everyone again...

The final show of Takayoshi Ohmura’s METAL PARADOX tour started as so many concerts do; in a long line of people shivering in the rain and wind. Soon-to-be audience members...

One of the best parts of going to see a metal concert is that often, the headlining band is the only one I know, and there will be one or...

The Cherry Blossom Festival or hanami is an important party in Japan where it is celebrated that the Spring has come back. People come outside and picnic under the cherry...

On 23 February KYAS ART SALON was the location for the opening of the solo exhibition of the new works of artist Yoshiyasu Tamura. This artist has previously exhibited at the...

Did you know that the song Physical by Olivia Newton-John has been covered over 20 times in it's lifetime? The theme for YaYCon 2018 was Let's Get Physical and is...