ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 The new Gacharic Spin single, “Mindset,” is both familiar and new. The song has the band’s traditional energy, passion, power and funk. But “Mindset” also has…
ページトップの「日本語」をクリックすると、本記事の日本語版を閲覧できます。 When a rock song stays in your head for hours after you have listened to it only once, you know that you have struck gold. That…
The first thing you hear is vocalist Saiki singing, “Let’s go! it’s show time!” What follows is an absolutely relentless aural onslaught. The rock riff that follows…
The sound is irresistibly poppy, yet relentlessly heavy. The brainchild of Unlucky Morpheus and UNDEAD CORPORATION guitarist Jinya, the band begins with a formula of memorable high-speed…
最近のこと Clocking in at a cool one minute and thirty-three seconds, the drums kick in the beat, and singer Arisa Ushimaru wastes no time in getting to…
In Disqualia, the vocalist and songwriter IBUKI, who previously guested on songs by Rie a.k.a. Suzaku and toured with DESTROSE, is backed by a formidable group of…
The band CYNTIA achieve something of the impossible with the song “幻覚の太陽” (“Genkaku no Taiyō”), from its debut album Endless World (2012). With an unusual lyrical structure and…
Hump Back’s “Kujira” (“Whale”) begins with a chord progression based on Gsus4 that is both sublime and gorgeous. The top notes of the chords in the progression,…
With the song “Cleopatra,” from the 2018 EP Ground Zero, Marina Hebiishi and Mardelas achieve apotheosis, in the classical sense of the term. Indeed, Encyclopedia Brittanica defines…
Not everyone appreciates relentless drama, either in life or in song. For those who are willing to live life in a state of high excitement, the band…
Singer/songwriter Remi Matsuo of the rock duo GLIM SPANKY has been effortlessly tossing off one classic rock song after another since the band’s debut EP, Music Freak,…