Get ready to “roll initiative” everyone! San Jose’s Dungeon Crawl is back with a new song from their upcoming album, Maze Controller. The track, “+1 Mace,” showcases the band’s various influences from across the heavy metal player’s handbook, from thrash metal, death metal, power metal,… Read More »Track Premiere: Dungeon Crawl – “+1 Mace”
It’s a weird time to be a Kis-My-Ft2 fan. The group’s latest album (their first in four years) was easily their worst — a project I listened to once and never returned to. Yet after leaving the group, Hiromitsu Kitayama has unveiled a musical breadth… Read More »Song Review: Hiromitsu Kitayama – Comic
In connection with my desire to fully keep up with the J-pop industry, I’m planning to do a weekly round-up of any new releases that have caught my ear. Some of these may have been covered on the blog already, but my hope is that… Read More »New & Noteworthy J-pop of the Week (August 25, 2024)
Rather than contain my “Risers and Fallers” feature to a single post in June, I’m going to share a bite-sized version at the end of each month. This will let me account for more songs and make a nice lead-in to the monthly round-up post.… Read More »K-Pop Risers & Fallers: August 2024
If you’ve had any passing interest in the filthier side of punk coming out of the U.K. for the last, I dunno, 30 or so years, chances are you’re familiar with a gentleman named Michael “Scoot” Gladok. He’s been a part of some of the… Read More »Scoot Von Stickleback (Doom, Extinction of Mankind) Talks Four Decades of Punk and Metal that Lead to His New Band RETSU