I don't usually link reactions (but please feel free to do that if you like one), but these guys have a lot to say, and they're going through the full album. So I decided to post the whole thing here.

Sorry guys, I can't help myself, I'm just a huge Hanabie fan, hence the many posts. ;)

This video is from the "Knockin' At Heaven's Gate" concert which will be released on 2023-08-23 on DVD and Bluray. This is the first concert on Bluray with Fami on bass.

I will pre-order the Bluray in the next few days. i can't wait 🙂

80s Punk meets Speed Metal?

Sounds kinda nostalgic for some reason. No idea why.

Listening for the first time

I've been trying to post some content in this community, but I kinda ran out of bands I regularly listen to, or I might even have forgotten about some cool stuff.

Please let me know what you are listening to. I really don't want to bore people with my personal playlists ;)

Where the heck do all these new songs come from? ^^ Without any form of warning.

Can't wait for their new album to come out. Probably not hard to guess, given my user name ;)

The guitars in this song remind me a bit of Iron Maiden. Overall a pretty cool band.

Hadn't expected a new song before their new album comes out ;)

Only recently discovered this band. It's not something I'd put in my playlist, but I can see them having appeal for many people who have just never stumbled upon them.

I had heard this band name quite a bit but never checked them out. Which is nice, as I now get to listen to their whole catalogue.

Seriously underrated band that mixes a lot of styles.

Awesome metalcore band. Really cool vocalist, too. They just need more content;)

One of the longest running shows aboyt JP metal, always interesting to watch.

One of my favourite drummers

When Junna left I thought they'd have a hard time finding a drummer on that level, but there seems to be no shortage of great drummers in Japan.

Seriously worried about Mayu's voice. She sounds awesome, but seems to be a bit hoarse in almost every interview I hear her in.

Guess that answers the question from the other day.

Very heavy band, awesome sound :)

So much talent, they really deserve more attention.

This band slaps

What might that be about?

Pretty cool band, just discovered them myself.

While it's a bit hard to tell exactly how many members this community has now (I see different numbers when visiting it on my .ee, .world and kbin accounts), it's clear we are now more than 100.

So right now, we're a gig in a small venue.

Wouldn't it be cool if we reached Wacken levels? You can help us get there by contributing content, whether that's links to songs you like, links to articles, pictures of concerts, or just plain discussion.

People usually go where there's action, and who's better at this than we metalheads?

By the way, we also seem to be the biggest metal community around.

Let's rock!

Great channel for news about the Japanese metal scene, with a podcast.

Really digging this band. Fuki is an amazing vocalist, but everyone is extremely talented. Wish they'd have a breakthrough internationally.

Glim Spanky is a duo, making 70's style rock music. The vocalist has a very cool voice.

These ladies have so much energy, gotta love em.

I'm sorry that this community is currently looking like a Hanabie place, but their announcements just kept coming, and this one is pretty big.

I'm happy to hear about their new album, but SONY has a bad track record when it comes to YouTube reactions. Let's hope this goes well.

yay ;)

Link leads to a collection of links to their new song. Unfortunately no video (yet?)

Not much to say, other than grats ^^ Waiting for their new song.

Are there any you're watching? Which do you like best? I like "Frank Reacts" and "Just Another Reactor".

This is one of the original old Metal bands from Japan. Just when they were about to take off globally, Covid hit and shot them down :(

Really loving this band, especially the two vocalists.

So I went and checked out several instances, including Kbin. It seems that some of them can't even find our community when searching for it directly using the Community Finder, and our posts don't pop up in their feeds.

Amazed we still have so many subscribers here, but I feel this hinders our growth (and therefore the content posted here) a lot.

Really hoping Lemmy get this sorted soon. Please don't stop posting cool stuff here.

Maki Oyama released new album recently.

BTW, guess who is the bassist in the clip :-)

I added links to a few other communities to the sidebar. If anyone knows of any they'd like me to add, feel free to get in touch :) Preferably related in some way to our community... other music or band communities.