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Band profiles, venue guides, scene reports, and practical advice from 15 years inside Japan's metal, punk, and hardcore underground.
Coffins emerged from Tokyo in 1996, perfecting crushing death doom metal that caught Relapse Records' attention. Essential Japanese extreme metal pioneers.
Nepenthes emerged from Tokyo's doom scene in 2012 featuring Church of Misery veterans. Crushing atmospheric doom sludge metal with three devastating albums.
A comprehensive guide to Earthdom, the legendary Shibuya basement venue that has been the epicenter of Tokyo's doom, sludge, and experimental metal scene for over two decades.