X Japan are Japan’s biggest ever rock band – but they remain a cult concern in the west. In 2015, Metal Hammer flew to New ...
Four of Japan’s biggest rock stars formed a new band, The Last Rockstars, in a race against time to preserve the spirit of rock music. “We’ve come together to start this challenge for the ...
which specializes in hard rock and heavy metal, was released to an aging and shrinking core readership. The musical genre has fallen out of favor among the Japanese public, and younger music fans ...