Dream Theater announce Fall 2016 Tour
Progressive metal band Dream Theater announced their latest tour set to begin in October. They'll be stopping by San Jose's City National Civic on November 20th. The double concept album "The Astonishing"...
Seven Kingdoms announces Kickstarter campaign for EP and new album
One of my favorite bands, Seven Kingdoms, will be sidestepping the usual distribution and funding methods by going with crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Their first campaign will be for the EP and will be...
Nightwish in San Jose – March 11
I posted about this a while ago but here's a reminder: Nightwish Sonata Arctica Delain San Jose Civic March 11 That's less than two weeks away. The weather says there's a good chance it'll rain (for...
Tracklist for BABYMETAL’s new album released
BABYMETAL's sophomore album, titled "Metal Resistance," has been highly anticipated by fans across the world. Before now only snippets smuggled out of the Yokohama Arena show were all we had to work with. As...
Exist Trace announces mini-album “THIS IS NOW”
Exist Trace is a band I've been listening to for about six years now even since 2009's "Vanguard." They're an all female Visual Kei band who have played in Europe and the US (not California, unfortunately)....
X Japan – Pata hospitalized, Wembley rescheduled
Recently it was announced that X Japan's Pata was hospitalized for a blood clot. The Wembley show in a little over a month has been rescheduled a year later to March 4, 2017. The album has likewise been...
ONE OK ROCK to take part in Monster Outbreak Tour 2016
The rock portion of Monster Energy's Outbreak Tour has been announced for this year. Japanese band ONE OK ROCK will be playing support to the bands Issues and Crown the Empire. They also play alongside Night...
BABYMETAL Announces West Coast 2016 dates
Japanese band Babymetal is a polarizing one for metal fans but they still have a die-hard fanbase. They're a combination metal and Japanese idol act; for those of you not familiar with idols it might be...
Japanese band The Gazette announces US Tour
The Gazette, first founded in 2002, is a visual kei band that has toured the globe but for some reason never quite hit the states. 2016 marks the year they fix that with four shows, two of which are in...
X JAPAN – “Born to Be Free” is the first single – 11/6/2015
We're just a few weeks out from being able to hear a studio version of a song that has only been played live throughout its existence. I know I said it last time but HOLY...