Retro Spotlight: Ningen-Isu – Shurabayashi
Retro Spotlight: Nigen-Isu – Shurabayashi (2003)
SHOW REPORT: Kamijo (Los Angeles, California)
It’s not every day that a Francophile vampire from Japan with an unhealthy obsession with roses decides to put on a concert in the United States… Live at Beyond the Stars in Glendale, California on June 4, 2015.
An Intermediate’s Guide to the World of Japanese Power Metal
I mentioned that Japanese power metal could be bizarre and off-putting back in my Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Power Metal. But for all the bands I mentioned and described, there really wasn’t that much in the realm of bizarro. Pretty much all the bands had rather accessible music with little to no genre experimentation. I’m […]
A TMO Interview With Ningen-Isu
Dubbed by their countrymen “the Japanese Black Sabbath”, Ningen-Isu has been active in their homeland since forming in 1987. Despite the band beginning to gain worldwide acclaim, their name is still not commonly known among metalheads outside of Japan. The Metal Observer was recently granted the opportunity to interview these Japanese legends on the heels […]
A Beginner’s Guide to the World of Japanese Power Metal
It can be bizarre. It can also be off-putting. But it’s an entirely new realm of the sub-genre that can afford some great new bands and masterpieces to listeners. The power metal scene has really blossomed since the arrival of X Japan in the ’80s, and since then it’s been taken to new heights and […]
FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Inferno 2014, Day 4 (Oslo, Norway)
Inferno Day 4, April 19th 2014
FESTIVAL SPECIAL: Inferno 2014, Day 2 (Oslo, Norway)
Inferno Day 2, April 17th 2014
