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 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)....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Germany's Blind Guardian is one of the world's foremost pioneers when it comes to power metal. With a catalogue of 10 albums going back to 1988 they have had time to perfect their craft in a way no other band...

Japanese band DIR EN GREY is no stranger to the United States. They've been playing shows across America for a little over a decade and thankfully call San Francisco one of their regular stops. The show...

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...

I'm going to be completely honest. I might go just so I can see "The Final Countdown" live. 1/19 San Jose, CA - Rockbar Theater 1/20 Anaheim, CA - City National Grove 1/22 Beverly Hills, CA - Saban...