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 delayed to an unspecified time. This is crushing news for X Japan fans but considering we’ve been waiting so long a few more months (or years) can’t hurt much. If the band plans to tour in support of the new album they will need to be at their best. X Japan had successfully completed a series of December concert dates in Japan.
Fans can console themselves with the upcoming release of the documentary “We Are X” that describes the rise of what is quite possibly Japan’s greatest international act. It will debut at SXSW in mid-March.
Get some rest, Pata.