Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New Heavy covers 2024. We’ve teamed up with Bad Omens, Hanabie, Lorna Shore and Scene Queen to launch four very special ...

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While J-pop and J-rock currently dominate Japan’s mainstream charts, a louder, heavier countercurrent has been surging beneath the surface. Metal — along with subgenres like metalcore and nu-metal — ...

Erm, hello? Are you hearing this right now? I fear HANABIE. has done it again. Tokyo metalcore legends HANABIE. are back and out to destroy on their brand-new single, “Spicy Queen.” When was the last ...

When Hanabie. took the stage at Download Festival this summer, the Donington weekender’s trademark downpour fortuitously ceased. “The moment we came out, the sky cleared and we saw blue sky and ...

HANABIE., a four-member band that celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2025, has recently released a new EP, HOT TOPIC. When they formed the band, the members were still in their teens, but in the ...

Following HANABIE.'s debut Kerrang! cover at the end of 2024, we've teamed up with the Japanese sensations for this exclusive T-shirt and hoodie. Featuring exclusive photography from the K! cover ...

I admit it. I am one of those Western Japanophiles hypnotized by the history, culture, arts and many other things in Japan. Music has been, without a doubt, a big part of that. Among the Japanese ...

With their new EP Hot Topic coming out later this month, Japanese ‘Harajuku-core’ act HANABIE. dropped a frenetic music video for the track “Iconic”. Chances are, you either love HANABIE. or ...

Hanabie is like a kaleidoscopic storm. Colorful, loud, and unpredictable. The young women from Tokyo blend metalcore with J-pop melodies, rap, and kawaii aesthetics to create a sound that oscillates ...

Billboard JAPAN talked with the four members about their feelings on having celebrated their 10th anniversary and about their new EP. By Billboard Japan HANABIE., a four-member band that celebrated ...