Japan

Japanese death metal act In Nothingness turn back time to the New Wave of Swedish Death Metal on new streaming track “Black Sun Funeral”.

Monnier unleash hyperspeed grind madness on their self-titled compilation.

Decibel and Japanese heavy metallers Significant Point team up to fight Kaiju using their new album, Into the Storm, as the soundtrack.

It’s a clamorous clash of titans when Taiwanese black metal wolf Inferno Requiem takes on Japanese black street metal legends Abigail. Hear the full split in its entirety right here.

Sigh get (stay) weird with a new animated video.

Bridging the gap between the Japanese extreme metal scene and the rest of the world.

White Halo — the seven-years-in-the-making third full-length from Tokyo quintet Heaven in Her Arms — is a fierce and lush amalgamation of post-metal atmospherics, classic screamo, black metal, prog rock, and trad metal sure to trigger metalgaze haters even as it subverts and expands the boundaries of that sub-subgenre. 

Deathrash Armageddon is a Japanese label that releases a number of raw thrash and black metal bands. 

Oozepus (members of Coffins and Linekraft) craft noisy death-doom on “Farmers,” from their upcoming debut EP, Your Limit. 

MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.

MONO have spent the past almost-two decades crafting vibrant soundscapes and instrumental rock albums. The upcoming Requiem for Hell, MONO’s ninth studio album, treads similar territory.  In a video for the title track, the Japanese instrumentalists tell, visually and audibly, an exhilarating yet terrifying story. The entirely black and white video features a man running…

Stream the title track from the upcoming doom opus from Japan’s Funeral Moth. 

Church of Misery has toured Europe seven times, but this summer marks their first ever visit to America. Considering that much of their oeuvre consists of love letters to American serial killers it’s a long overdue trip. COM appeared at the Maryland Deathfest (if you had a chance to see them, tell us about it…