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Witness Alba Sera’s extremely powerful song “Messiah”, composed by Yuyoyuppe!

20 January 2024

Alba Sera is hard at work with a tightly packed release schedule for the coming weeks. Nevertheless, before all of this, on January 17, she unveiled the exceptionally powerful song Messiah composed by Yuyoyuppe...

WagakkiBand enters indefinite hiatus at year’s end, marks 10 years of activity

NBT

10 January 2024

Disband/Hiatus/Revive

WagakkiBand, the traditional Japanese rock band, announces an indefinite hiatus that will take effect on December 31, 2024, coinciding with their 10th-anniversary year. The announcement was made on January 7...

Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2023

NBT

30 December 2023

Anime, Entertainment

In 2023, we witnessed long-awaited anime continuations, such as the six-year-awaited Masamune-kun no Revenge R, alongside impactful conclusions, i.e., Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). As a spoiler though, ...

Takanori Nishikawa sings his love for McDonald’s beef stew pie in parody commercial

NBT and afaenia

19 December 2023

Entertainment, Videos

Takanori Nishikawa, the frontman of T.M.Revolution, joins forces with the fast-food giant McDonald's to create a delectably enchanting commercial. This collaboration serves as a comedic lyrical parody of Takano...

NANO teams up with Grammy-nominated artist on “Oblivion” song, embarks US tour 2024

NBT

16 December 2023

Releases, Tour and event

NANO joins forces with Grammy-nominated songwriter Seann Bowe for the upcoming song, Oblivion. The new work is scheduled for January 12, 2024, and will be NANO's first release in about a year! Prior to this, NA...

RYUJIN (formerly GYZE) unleashes “Gekokujo”, heaviest single yet!

NBT

8 December 2023

Music Video, Releases

Metal samurais RYUJIN, formerly known as GYZE, puts out Gekokujo, their "heaviest single yet", as exclaimed by the band. With the single unleashed on December 7, it serves as a precursor to the full picture—a s...

Crossfaith drummer Tatsuya joins YOASOBI

NBT

3 December 2023

Lineup change

Drummer Amano Tatsuya from the metalcore band Crossfaith, has entered the role of support drummer for the world-renowned group YOASOBI. Tatsuya marked his debut appearance as a support member during YOASOBI's h...

Interview with SARI: Japanese artist now living in Sweden

NBT and Kay

24 November 2023

Interview

At NärCon Summer this year, Northern Europe's largest anime convention, we had the privilege of sitting down with SARI, the versatile Japanese artist who recently made Sweden her new temporary home. Delving int...

THE LAST ROCKSTARS postpones LA concert due to “unforeseen circumstances”

NBT

19 November 2023

Tour and event

The powerhouse band, THE LAST ROCKSTARS, regrettably announced that their Los Angeles performance has been rescheduled due to "unforeseen circumstances". This was the band's sole US show in their fall 2023 "Psy...

Neko Hacker’s 1st co-written EP project “Neko-Write”, new frontiers in kawaii future rock

NBT

11 November 2023

Releases

The "kawaii future rock" sensation Neko Hacker is back with a new energetic release, its first co-written EP titled "Neko-Write Vol. 1"! Formed in 2018 by Sera and Kassan, Neko Hacker is on a mission "to spread...

Interview: Marty Friedman on gifting Jpop to the world (part 2)

Nori and NBT

10 November 2023

Interview

Welcome back to our conversation with guitar legend Marty Friedman! For those who missed the first half, you can find part 1 here. In part 2 on the interview, Marty delves into the prominence of female-led J...

Interview: Marty Friedman on gifting Jpop to the world (part 1)

Nori and NBT

31 October 2023

Interview

It’s not every day an international guitar hero replies to our cold call with a resounding yes! But Marty Friedman, formerly of the “big four” GRAMMY-nominated thrash metal legend Megadeth, emphatically welcome...

Sennzai’s charming song “Prologue Yori” paves way for album “REPELACHE”

NBT

18 October 2023

Music Video, Releases

At the upcoming autumn convention "M3" on October 29, Sennzai will be unveiling her eighth album, REPELACHE, and you can catch her at booth "え-10b". As a prerelease offering, she has made the album's third trac...

Interview: YOSHIKI’s mission to shatter music boundaries worldwide

Erica, Nori and NBT

5 October 2023

Interview, Tour and event

YOSHIKI, one of the most influential musicians in Japan, has made an enduring impact in both the rock and classical music realms. He's renowned as the founder of the globally beloved rock band X Japan and the l...

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