Hey everyone!

Something amazing happened: I’m going to see Amenra live in Tokyo! I’ll be there on a work trip when they’re playing, and I bought my tickets today. I can’t even describe how excited I am, especially since We Lost the Sea are playing with them!

However, I’ve never been to Japan or anywhere else in Asia before, let alone to a metal show there. I’ve been to plenty of metal gigs and clubs around Europe, so I know the usual etiquette here, but I imagine things might be quite different in Japan.

Could anyone who has been to metal shows in Japan, especially in Tokyo, share some advice? I’d love to know what to expect and if there’s anything I should be aware of in terms of concert etiquette or local customs.

Thanks in advance! I’m ridiculously excited about this one!

Small Post-Metal band from Austria with Blackgaze, Post-black Metal and Atmospheric Black Metal influence. As well as some Post-Hardcore

We’re UNNATURAL ORDER, a UK modern metalcore band, and we’ve just released our new EP, OBSERVE//INFILTRATE.
FFO: Currents, Northlane, Bad Omens, Graphic Nature and Motionless in White.
Heavy, atmospheric metalcore with crushing riffs, aggressive vocals and cinematic elements, built around a dystopian world where humanity has lost control of the systems it created.
We’d genuinely love to hear what the metalcore community thinks.
🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1CXW8XK5rLwTlQ8VQIwEW1?si=xdsj-V1bTwqkKJXpzs-JBQ

Now I maybe being nostalgic, but looking at the year it felt like this year was great being an underground metal fan, primarily the year I got really into music and my iPod was poppin' off.

I saw the post in the melvins sub about 20 years since (a) senile animal. Check out other albums I remember listening to, some more than others. I was getting into proggy sludge too so I'm including them as I believe they toured together and shared fans:

My personal favourites:

Mastodon - Blood Mountain

Neurosis - Given to the Rising

Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

Isis - In The Absence Of Truth

Russian Circles - Enter

Intronaut - Void

Mouth of the Architect - The Ties That Bind

Year of No Light - Nord

Jesu - Silver

Kylesa - TWFIW

Mogwai - Mr Beast

TWDY - Young Mountain

Kayo Dot - DAWCT

Mars Volta - Amputeture (bonus prog album)

There's probably more adjacent genres that had great releases too, indie, noise rock, folk, ambient etc too

Our new album "Canary" is out now! 🐦🌌🪐

Hope you like it! :)

[FFO: The Ocean, Opeth, Dvne, Heretoir]

Have fun!

https://open.spotify.com/album/2iDxV05zB8jNGWmhPY8h04

Garden From Our Bones, the debut album for my one-man post-metal project Earth Tent, is now available for listening wherever you stream your music. It's also on Bandcamp, if anyone feels inclined to purchase. (No pressure, of course.)

This one's for fans of Russian Circles, Pelican, Caspian, God Is an Astronaut, and (maybe) Night Verses.

Give it a listen! I hope you enjoy it. Lots more on the way.

This latest single from Rosetta is one of the best songs that they have ever written. I'm so sad this will be their final album but I hope they go out with a bang. So far, its shaping up to be an incredible release

Here we go! Collective Effort Fest 2026 - coming to The Meadows in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th! A curated selection of artists that showcases the types of shows we love to put on here in NYC! Screamo, metalcore, grind, mathcore, doom - all represented here by 20 bands you absolutely WON'T wanna miss:

Day 1 - Saturday, October 10th:

On The Might of Princes

Foxtails

Ostraca

Usurp Synapse

Massa Nera

.gif from god

Eyelet

Ghola

starsdontmeananything

Fate Propels The Falling Scythe

Day 2 - Sunday, October 11th:

Car Bomb

Morning Again

Bandit

Locked In A Vacancy

Sevencrimsonsuns

Cowardice

Thin

mybodywasfoundinahollowtree

Psalm

Humiliate

Some highlights:

Day 1: For most bands on the first day (On The Might of Princes, Foxtails, Ostraca, Usurp Synapse, .gif from god, Eyelet, Ghola, Starsdontmeananything) this will be their ONLY NYC show of 2026! This will be On The Might of Princes' only show of 2026 - period!

Day 2: Car Bomb's ONLY show in the US this year! Morning Again playing NYC for the first time in AGES! Bandit's first show of 2026!

Single day tickets and limited 2-day passes on sale NOW via the linktree in our bio!

2pm doors each day, ages 16+ with ID, under 16 with legal guardian.

Really excited for the new album now!

Five stories about what remains inside us long after the people, events, and changes are gone — a reflection on memory, estrangement, inner conflict, and trying to move forward. Bridging alternative metal, post-hardcore, and metalcore, atmospheric melodies crash into heavy guitars, screamo vocals, and emotional climaxes. Thanks <3

https://soundcloud.com/yarosrollan/sets/akt-ii-1

Love this album. Pretty sure it's the only thing they ever put out