All-girl groups in metal are rare and are typically limited to mall-friendly crap like KITTIE or DRAIN STH. One all-girl group, however, has arisen from an unsuspecting place with an unsuspecting sound. Tokyo’s GALLHAMMER combine the raw sounds of HELLHAMMER proto black metal, AMEBIX crust punk, and subtle new wave/alternative influences. Most [...]
GALLHAMMER is a most unique musical entity consisting of a trio of Japanese girls with only death and hopelessness on their mind. Dressed like crusty, black metal vixens, these unsuspecting ladies serve up an unfiltered blend of only the most primitive, HELLHAMMER-inspired nastiness on their second album, Ill Innocence. GALLHAMMER summons the nihilistic, [...]
Japan’s SIGH have completed recording their seventh studio album titled Hangman’s Hymn - Musikalische Exequien at Studio Moopies with engineer Takamichi Osada. The album is currently in the mixing stages, and is set for a 2007 release through The End Records.
Frontman Mirai Kawashima comments on the album:
“SIGH have finished recording the new album Hangman’s Hymn [...]
