The Absent Trail of an Echo and My Future Plagued by Surrender

I have nothing at all against drum machines. That's not to say I've always been into them, but between Anaal Nathrakh and Agora...

The Last Place are an emotional hardcore band from Saitama. They just dropped a new demo for 2012 on bandcamp and it's pretty dang ...

Here's an odd little compilation that I got from Nitro Mega Prayer when I did a trade with them. It's a weird amalgam of metalc...

I originally picked my copy of this up while I was studying in JP during 2002. Like I said in my previous NMP post , I did carry them f...

There's a weird divide in the Japanese underground scene. I guess I can get a little more specific and say "Japanese screamo...

First, an explanation. I didn't really want to write a separate post for each one of these, because there's only one song on ...

Time to X up, boys and girls, and get your dancing shoes on. It's moshing time! Today we're listening to Capture the Sky, who hav...

I picked this demo up recently, and totally enjoyed the epic, metal-influenced screamo hardcore mashup. It's really hard to describe ...

There are quite a few metalcore bands in Japan. The success of State Craft and western bands like Converge have made it a staple in the J...

These guys were some of my good friends from Kyoto while I was studying in Japan during 2002. At the time, there was only three (guitar, v...

Do I know a lot about this band? No. Did my scanner do something weird to the colors of this cover because it was printed weird? Yes. Wil...

I've already written a bit about the group I hung out with during my study in Japan. My main friends were Kazushi, Masa, and ...

The year is 2000. You are in a Japanese band releasing it's first full length on a renowned international record label. What do y...

Staple... oh Staple. This band... this CD... I've listened to this CD so many times, but I still don't know the lyrics! Not that ...

Atlas the Alone was a band the played one of the most amazing shows I saw while I was studying in Japan. It happened at this weird pract...

A random demo I picked up in 2003. I didn't know what to expect, but Nervous Light of Sunday play some awesome melodic, new school ha...

In my memory, which is admittedly shaky these days, this was the first item in my distro. When I found my first sampler CD , I realized...

During the heyday of the I've Come For Your Children distro, I was trying pretty hard to up the Japanese stuff I carried. It was alwa...

The first CD I bought in Japan. I picked this up in Tokyo at around 9am. My new friend, Vanessa, and I had just arrived via overnight bus...