Japan's Insane Punk Scene

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

Japan takes literally any existing scene and makes it extreme

[@DCSling]

I guess it's the cause and effect of dropping two atomic bombs on them, Japan hasn't been the same since.

[@kelechi_77]

They take anything the west has and makes it better

[@ethanmiller631]

half of them don't have sex so it's literally understandable

[@Lifesizemortal]

​@@ethanmiller631sex havers are too soft!!

[@shilohxo9291]

@@ethanmiller631what?😂

[@GavinPershey]

I like the thought that anxiety is the only thing holding many artists back from annihilating their crowds

[@sirjack528]

J-punk, J-metal, and J-rock each have a massive depth to them and its crazy how little the majority of people in the west don't know about.

[@RevStickleback]

It's the 2nd biggest music industry in the world, but it doesn't really market itself abroad, in general. J-Pop dominates though, making it very hard for bands in underground scenes to break out.

[@OddWoz]

Agreed. It’s crazy to me as someone who was into jpop, jrock, jmetal, & kpop back in the very early aughts seeing things now and the mainstream popularity of kpop. Even among j-music lovers/circles, K-pop was still rather ignored then…. But I had an early love of BoA kwon lol.

[@sorenjunkers3834]

yeah so crazy how those japenese rip off western music while having nothing original left

[@RevStickleback]

@@sorenjunkers3834I don't think they are ripping off western music any more than a western band playing that style is. They do very much do their own thing though. Other than the very mainstream boy band crap, they don't really sound exactly like western bands.

[@sorenjunkers3834]

@@RevStickleback wtf are you talking about boyband? we are not in the 90s. they are still ripping of every western trend with some delay. cultural imperialism ruined the whole world.

[@blackarican4523]

Imagine going to a punk show only to be run over by construction equipment

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

Should have mentioned those Japanese bands that were so influenced by Italian hardcore bands like Negazione or Declino they started singing in (very) broken Italian. The two most prominent ones are Isterismo and Tomorrow.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

​@@j.nagaraja1639Yeah. So?

[@BBWahoo]

Mama mia!

[@geoffaldwinckle1096]

I LOVE Negazione !

[@clamcake1564]

Cripple bastards is a good Italy band . Smart cops is another one

[@matthewackermanaski9687]

To anyone who is interested, check out Blue Vomit and Nerorgasmo, founders of the Italian punk scene from Turin.

[@trevor1550]

Hijokaidan and Boredoms are two bands everyone should really dive into, their discographies are dense with gold!!! You won't regret it

[@elongatedborzoi1160]

also boris !!!!!!!!!!!

[@jfxventas7735]

Seadrum is so good bro

[@drewp.weiner5708]

Gotta add Midori, Otoboke Beaver and Maximum the Hormone to that list as well

[@jackdaw0419]

@@elongatedborzoi1160 Its my favorite band, and for good reasons. Heavy Rocks!

[@kaydgaming]

Boredoms sounds like shit 😂

[@thingnumbertwo2]

Japan punk bands make nearly every other punk band throughout the world seem like a children's choir. I'd never heard Japanese punk (or music really) until I randomly saw Melt Banana perform in my city. It was like being hit in the chest with a missile. I then started searching out more Japanese punk and just kept getting hit with successively larger missiles.

[@yelmtree]

Sort of reassuring/inspiring to hear that Melt Banana are still at it. Had a similar experience at one of their shows about 20 years ago 🍻

[@thingnumbertwo2]

@@yelmtree Oh, this was back in 2000. I'm actually not sure if they're still together, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are.

[@costasiella0300]

@@thingnumbertwo2 They are still together! They did a recent collaboration with Cryalot (lead vocalist from KKB), and I believe that they are planning on releasing a new album.

[@thingnumbertwo2]

@@costasiella0300 This is good news. I haven't kept up on them for the past several years, but I'll have to check out that new album.

[@dezolatetrax]

omg this comment is 100% correct lmao, listening to japan pop punk , that's literally changes my ears to punk rock music and japan scene was the heaven with double pedal and fast riff

[@safefw6967]

...What if we kissed in the Hanatarash concert venue?🙄🙄😏 🚜

[@THE-REAL-MUFFIN-MAN]

UK Punk: We hate the government!! Japan Punk: Bulldozer go brr

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

TBF Members of Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten and Fad Gadget did tear down the floor of the ICA in London with drills and chainsaws.

[@amandaford8730]

You should do a regional punk scene series dude

[@andreholobiont265]

In Germany we have 2 punk bands - pisse (piss) - and - team scheisse (team shit). Check out = pisse - alt sein Team scheisse - Karstadt detektiv

[@keatonlusk3693]

I’ve heard Indonesia has a pretty significant punk scene as well, and some of the areas that are under sharia law have specifically targeted punks and arrested them

[@kip.e3000]

True, saw document not long ago here in YT. Indonesian metal scene is also suprisingly big.

[@Gonyos]

Those people with mohawk who have been caught are just a bunch of homeless people wearing punk fashion. I'm highly doubt they are educate themselves since most of them are just into the fashion or we can call them as posers. I know it since I often meet them on the streets and having conversations with them which I pretty much disappointing about what is in their mind and what they are doing. Edit: I'm not a gatekeeper. In fact most of them who has been caught now turned into just a bunch of normal kids who never feel threatened by anything at all. And sone of them are become fascist muslim extremist. But for the music, Indonesia has quite a lot of punk/hardcore bands. For today, I can say people here are making the same hardcore punk style as what they called "mutant hardcore" sounds like Gag, Zip, Scowl and similar like those in past 2 years in my hometown. If you go to Malang city, their music are more like metallic hardcore and beatdown/slam like that. They are rising massively in past five years.

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

We have them here but most are just posers and doing stupid things.

[@borgir9817]

thats not the whole indonesia, jakartan punk is so shallow, but the aceh punk scene is alot deeper because of the sharia law

[@trenwar]

​@@borgir9817Hell yeah, Aceh punk is the shit, i just went to their gig last week it was fun as fuck

[@DanHintz]

if you think japanese punk is insane, your brain will be completely melted by the japanese noise scene, which is exponentially more intense and outside the norms of a normal music scene.

[@eakwing1]

definitely can't say I've had an experience crazier than listening to Masonna for the first time, the noise scene is absolutely nuts 😁

[@yelmtree]

That's covered in the video, in the section about the Osaka scene, home to Hanatarash, Masonna, Hijokaidan (v2), etc.

[@sienared1998]

he spends half the video smearing the japanese noise scene for being 'degenerate'

[@yelmtree]

@@sienared1998 He does use the word "degeneration" at 3:47, but he uses snarky/derogatory adjectives throughout. I found it annoying, but more generically youtube-stupid than offensive in any meaningful way. And tbh, "degeneration" seems a fair description of what folks like Yamantaka Eye were deliberately trying to accomplish in the 80s.

[@franciscosoares2815]

Going steady and les rallizes denudes are petty good ging nang biys too

[@k4nd1incyb3rsp4c3]

you should totally do japanese metal next, that would be brutal.

[@klocc5627]

Punk has always been the thing in Japan. I think because Japanese are kinda crazy in their rite. In history it’s essence was harsher.

[@pennywiseRJ]

crystal lake what a blast

[@IHateMyAccountName]

Maximum the Hormone >>>

[@derionmukhztalfa7668]

​@@IHateMyAccountNameOnly OG's know X Japan is they law

[@pennywiseRJ]

@@derionmukhztalfa7668 only old school otakus

[@xerodelacroix5552]

You forgot Saveki from GISM pulling almost as insane shit as Eye, including, but not limited to: firing guns with live ammunition over the crowd, attacking the crowd with a chainsaw, setting himself on fire and jumping into the crowd, straight up burning the front row of the crowd with a flamethrower before being attacked.

[@andrewla188]

He did a little trolling

[@ssofttouch]

always some psychopaths that find comfort in these scenes (see GG allin)

[@benitolazio8193]

Nobody attacked any crowd with a chainsaw , just stop.

[@xerodelacroix5552]

@@benitolazio8193 ....there is literally video of it.

[@derPetunientopf]

@@xerodelacroix5552 I looked up the video. He came dangerously close to the crowed while he walked with it trough the audience BUT to me it seems that he did not actually tried to get anybody. Stupid dangerous, yes. Trying to hurt or kill people, maybe not.

[@bolillo5013]

Japan’s metal scene is kind of cool too, I follow some Japanese metalcore bands and they have great live energy

[@ellya3775]

Listen to Sabbat and Metalucifer. Best japanese metal bands hands down. Sabbat is one of the earliest too Some others: Magnesium, Casbah, Sacrifice (jp), Gorgon (jp), Abigail, Barbatos

[@MrGoldfish8]

​@@cinamonrollcutie2210Hanabie and Broken By The Scream are really good

[@kameronpan2939]

@@cinamonrollcutie2210 Paledusk is goated Saw them in Australia last year and even my friend (who doesn't even like their music that much) said that after the one show, they've become his favorite live band just from their massive and awesome stage presence. And to the person who recommended Hanabie., you're damn right. I'm hopefully going to see them this year and I already love their music, can't wait to experience Yukina belting it out live 🤘

[@kelechi_77]

So glad you mentioned the 1960s psychedelic Group Sounds scene, the Golden Cups cover of Hey Joe is mental.

[@labeandistort6213]

i remember discovering Gauze and GISM as a kid, 20years later still digging, so many gems! Japanese punk/hardcore/whatever is top notch! just like Italian, Finnish, Yugoslavian etc! Cheers!

[@uphoyy]

a visual kei video would be cool me thinks 🦓

[@funnystoneman5323]

first video about Hanatarash I've seen that correctly that correctly says its an excavator rather than a "bulldozer". Well done

[@mirapilates]

Cool to see SS included in this. So many to list but I feel Gauze are so crucial to Japanese punk/HC. Almost 40 yrs in the scene and breaking up recently. A huge influence on the UK crust scene with Chaos UK, Napalm Death.

[@johnnydepp4866]

In Japan, there is something called loud rock which is literally a blend of post hardcore, metalcore, emo, nu metal etc and it plays a large role in the Japanese hard rock scene. One ok rock literally comes from this scene

[@dagoblinwizard]

Anymore bands within that sound u can recommend?

[@johnnydepp4866]

@@dagoblinwizard fear and loathing in vegas, sim and coldrain are kinda 3 of the biggest loud rock bands right now, even my first story, crystal lake and crossfaith are of that sound

[@AlphaBravoDingo]

I love so much japanese music. Punk, rock, alt, metal.. it's so different and there is so much talent for a tiny cluster of islands.

[@Jinni_SD]

7:45 except, it did, just in a backwards kind of way. Look at bands like TRiDENT, or Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, or Passcode. There are plenty of popular Japanese bands that were clearly heavily influenced by pop punk, metalcore, and hardcore, all off shoots of punk. I'd even go as far as to say that musically, there's members of the Visual Kei scene that were influenced by pop punk. The key difference is they came up as influenced by the western versions of that genre, rather than growing from an internal scene.

[@LPTstudios]

Great video mate. Anyone watching who hasn’t heard GISM’s Detestation LP it’s worth a listen it’s absolutely crazy with distorted guitars and vocals with metal guitar solos such a great band. They also used to dress like KISS 😂

[@malfuul]

I was amused as I had a discussion some years back with a japanese guy at a punk gig in Finland. I already knew that e.g. Finnish hardcore punk band 'Kaaos' is very popular in Japan and the guy told me that in Japan there's at least one band that create similar style of music as 'Kaaos' and that they've learned Finnish language from the songs and uses that knowledge to write their own 😂 To point out the influence of 'Kaaos', even Max Cavalera has their patch in his vest ('Terveet Kädet' and 'Lama' are some of his other Finnish favourites).

[@lo0ser555]

i know theres more of those finnish inspired bands but Folkeiis and Poikkeus come to mind first.

[@villagepope7661]

There are a few Japanese hardcore punk bands that have Finnish names and also sing in Finnish. Some that come to mind are Äpärät (there's also a Finnish band called Äpärät), Poikkeus (like @lo0ser555 mentioned), Solpäätos, Varaus SS (I think..), and Laukaus. Incidently, Vaarallinen from Singapore also sing in Finnish.

[@lo0ser555]

@@villagepope7661 is Haava also finnish? just remembered them.

[@villagepope7661]

@@lo0ser555 I hadn't heard of them but according to discogs they only mention an electronic band from Finland called Haava while the one from Japan plays hc/raw punk.

[@xqu1c]

Japan's thrashscene is amazzing

[@AlexanderWahler]

Amazing channel. Just started bingewatching your videos!

[@jaimedeleon1194]

Your image that popped up for the Ramones is going to serve me well for personal chuckles for the rest of my life!

[@maxlhetvxhywxvxbm7645]

I would like to see you make a vid on the 80s Brazilian Metal scene cuz there were Brazilian proto death and black metal bands

[@Gottacacheemalll]

Sarcofago

[@jahwobble5214]

Have seen some brilliant young Japanese punk bands live in London over the years.. !! The energy

[@miguelll6846]

I realty wanted you to talk about bands like Midori and BLEACH amongst other women in Japanese Punk, but overall, great video. Hope you can talk about those bands somewhere in the future as they are pure gold

[@thereagauze]

I don't know these bands are they modern? When I think japanese all female type bands Kyah!, Boys Boys, Zelda, Nurse, OXZ are what pop to mind

[@miguelll6846]

@@thereagauze they are from the 2000s. Amazing bands that fuse jazz, punk, and funk. Midori is a personal fav of mine

[@cocoapixels]

Me toooo... so disappointed. I love Midori.

[@thereagauze]

interesting I guess there is enough different "punk" scenes now that there can be different ones that are kind of discrete elements from other scenes and even someone clued into japanese punk might not know about it at all.

[@thehearingaid]

ah hadn't heard bleach but enjoying it. :D Midori is great.

[@ZyanoseBiggestFan]

Thx to Japan one of my favorite sub genres of punk was created. Crasher crust is amazing. I love zyanose and gloom so much

[@thejapanarchocommunist]

Some other newer and/or better known bands from Japan that are worth looking at are Hazard, The Erections, Extinct Government, Warhead and Hat Trickers.

[@darylhellobear]

I've been listening to Japanese music for years (i'm based in the UK, thank god for the internet, as it's been a struggle). I always find that though Japanese bands/artists are mostly influenced by American or British music, they take that core and just spin it on its head and produce something magical. Literally ANY genre they dominate sound wise!

[@waseldo]

Can you drop some names pls?

[@spacecadet8843]

I disagree. In extreme metal Japan has nothing that compares to anything from Europe or North America. There's derivatives of Carcass, speed metal twist on melodeath, etc.

[@Davey-Boyd]

@@waseldo To name a few: Nemophila Maximum The Hormone Band-Maid Lovebites Otoboke Beaver Glim Spanky Gacharic Spin Hanabie Trident Greed Five Eggs Fish Diary Sentimental Puberty Brats Drops

[@kyo_qi]

Idk if their music is considered punk but its defo rock, anyways- Mass of the Fermented Dregs older music has stuck with me for years

[@iannelli2448]

​@waseldo Check out Gai, Gauze (Equailizing Distort), Confuse, Screaming Noise, and the absolutely most incredible Japanese music ever made... D-Clone (search this on KZbin and select the video with the pink album cover, it's a split with Nerveskade. Just listen to the first two songs at least.)

[@dumbmusorowan]

4:02 i wasn't expecting to recognise any of the bands in this video, but weirdly i know hijokaidan from their hastune miku noise music cover album called hatsune kaidan, lol

[@davidc573]

Now you should also make a video on their batshit psychedelic rock scene. Acid Mother's Templefor example.

[@inthiccwetrust5779]

Love les rallizes denudes and acid mothers, lsd march are also a rad group. Anything that played at the oz venue in japan is pretty much worth checking out

[@JaideBull]

@@inthiccwetrust5779100%

[@ciderpunk9666]

Really enjoyed this video the Japanese punk scene has always fascinated . I even re upload lost bands . A lot of the bands you mentioned are some of my favourites . I think anyone wanting to learn about the culture should watch this

[@dystopianmessiah]

I think I’ve come across your tiktok vids at some point, cool to see you here!

[@ciderpunk9666]

@@dystopianmessiah before my second account got banned a video of mine got 40 million views in a month . All I did was wash my crust pants cuz I spilled moldy beer on em 😆 I appreciate the recognition if ur intrested my older account is now my main and I’m doing small videos on different Japanese punk bands

[@Synerco]

You should make a vid on Cleveland's mid 70s underground music scene. It seems unlikely the Japanese punk groups had any knowledge of it, but they were definitely on the same wavelength as the electric eels, Pere Ubu, and Rocket from the Tombs. The argument could be made that the Cleveland scene was the first complete break with the "classic rock" tradition in America.

[@joshuaroberts5311]

That clip you inserted of henry rollins punching someone caught me off guard lmfao😂

[@nicorepetto5781]

I feel like this video will randomly get millions of views

[@Dotdotdot51516]

The Gero Geri Ge Ge Ge!

[@Bluezbreakr2]

Yellow trash bazooka

[@Dotdotdot51516]

@@Bluezbreakr2 ART IS OVER

[@Dan-sv3kz]

bro...Ive been to a live in Kyushu (Tenjin), it was CRAZYYYY. violent but safe people, awesome music, came home with a ringing ear that lasted a week! Even made a rando friend who was literally cutting an anarchy symbol on his chest on the spot shouting in my ear "daijobu dayou!"

[@iqbalmuhammad2920]

My music playlist these days (has been for the past 15 years or so): 5% Japanese pop, local pop 10% Western rock, hard rock, Japanese rock & local rock bands 10% Western metal (almost exclusively the 80s, 90s, early 2000s metal only) 75%? Japanese metal bands (from the 90s to current active bands)

[@DanPantzig]

I'm more on the pop-punk/Ramonescore side of things, but here's a short list of some of my faves in Japanese punk Nobodys Hi-Standard Polysics Peelander-Z Boobs Shit Kingons 50Kaitens SpecialThanks Balzac Wienners Grizzly Mach Pelican

[@Theylivewesleep827]

Despite The Blue Hearts not being as hardcore, signing to major labels and in time turning to alternative rock, their attitude of punk was still pretty solid even more compared to other well-knowned punk bands of the west

[@ewanarmstrong8050]

Also a huge musical and cultural influence on the Japanese hip hop scene, including large artists like Anarchy and underground like Shingo Nishinari

[@ZoiusGM]

5:00 In Wikipedia it says that they had a live show (it did not say whether it was their first live show) where they had a de'd cat and cut it in half with a machete.

[@coolea]

Yeah too risky for YT unfortunately, or fortunately lmao.

[@CheapResistance]

Japenese crust punk is some of the best, full stop. Gloom are essential listening.

[@s3thsational]

Kruelty is my favorite hardcore/death metal band from Japan. They put on an insane live show.

[@efwfew]

Japan also has an amazing heavy metal scene, in my opinion one of the best in the world. I feel like Asian countries suffer less of shitty pop/rap music that is blasted everywhere in western countries

[@aquarius5264]

lol not really

[@eltiogroudon]

Japan's mainstream is full of Pop/ Rap nowadays, especially when they are trying to compete with K-pop

[@aquarius5264]

@@eltiogroudon exactly, it's just as widespread as in the west if not more.

[@efwfew]

@@eltiogroudon Nah I disagree, and that's having lived for 11 years in south east asia. It's definitely there, but rap for example is way more present in the west. Depends on the country (most south east asian countries do not have a good metal scene, only indonesia probably) Japan is the only one with amazing bands coming out

[@TheSGEllie]

JMetal is not one of the best,its the best

[@criops]

I’ve seen The Boredoms, RUINS, Melt Banana, Invisible Man’s Death Bed, Ultra Bide, & a couple other Japanese bands. None were traditional punk, but it’s certainly an influence.

[@yelmtree]

Seen the first 3. Ruins & MB among the best live performances I've ever seen, & Boredoms the craziest.

[@bbqchickenwingsofredemptio449]

A country that's super conservative and up tight af, of course there's gonna a push back, a break out, a counter culture like punk was inevitable

[@pcz1642raz]

shoutout punik, they were fantastic!

[@mozz6344]

loved the video👍

[@jackmartin1704]

Love the video!

[@BeachSalad]

Dude I can't remember the song but there was this SICK Japanese punk band that was know for one song and it's insane

[@Citykid1982]

Gism, gauze?

[@BeachSalad]

@@Citykid1982 unfortunately no :(

[@dirtyrottenimbecile13]

hanatarash?

[@iheadbuttwindows]

paranoid?

[@allseeinglimbs]

The song is Karen Nash by LSD

[@rotunda_]

How tf does coolea only have 37k subs he needs more

[@AtZero138]

Thanks.. Cheers from Orange County California 🇺🇸

[@AReservoirDog]

I love Japanese Punk bands. many people have the idea that Japan is a completely rigid society where people keep their heads down and are always complacent to the rule of law and order - This is simply not true, yes it is a less individualist society than the West, but Japan's crazy history of youth rebellion throughout the 1900s proves they can be as loud, opinionated, and individually motivated as anyone else.

[@JaymeSplendid]

The 90s Japanese Crust Scene was CRAZY! KZbin the set of live videos called something like "Punks Spending Loud Night" (not a typo) I think there are up to four volumes. I've never seen a crowd go so wild, puts mid 80s early 90s NYHC crowds to shame.

[@severinkolb1062]

ive been looking and cant find them... do you maybe have a link or amthn?

[@ToasterDsG]

Japan's hardcore punk scene has a ridiculous number of high quality bands, especially metallic hardcore, crust and dbeat.

[@cinotaoat]

Visual kei is a really cool Japanese subgenre

[@pattobyo]

awesome video ^^ I got to see Endo Michiro (vocalist of the stalin) live before he passed away. It was amazing! I do need to disagree with the idea that punk never went mainstream in Japan. I might even argue that it is more mainstream here than in the west. Blue Hearts basically changed everything. It is just that the kind of punk that is mainstream is more in line with that of the blue hearts kind of sound, or even ska influenced, than hardcore or avant garde like a lot of the cool bands you mentioned here.

[@x3luh_]

There are 2 J-Punk bands i love, Four tomorrow(sadly they never got big and broke up) and The Ging Nang Boys. 2 Vastly different sounding bands

[@YegorLetov69]

SMH. Should have made a video on the Siberian Soviet Punk scene of the 80s

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

Japan scene is better. Siberian bands were almost all directly related to each other...

[@s3bast1aannn]

Viktor Tsoi

[@YegorLetov69]

@@Sergio-nb4hjso what? it still mogs

[@TheLegPumpkin]

I saw the Disccox at The Rat in Boston years ago, was a big fan of their oi and punk Scene, "Bull the Buffalo" was a great street punk band.

[@MettleHurlant]

You could insert any word in there: Japan's insane [blank] scene.

[@pepperbytez8128]

The more conformist the society is, the more extreme the punk movement is.

[@bozosaurus666]

GISM is my favorite Japanese punk band.

[@UOAPlays]

I feel like my attention span has been permanently harmed by the editing style of this video

[@Boronwyn]

Insane to see footage of the monk of Lützerath randomly popping up :D

[@timmocnik3458]

I thought the Yugo punk scene was wild but this one tops it lmao

[@brutanedda3107]

I think The Stalin is my favorite post-punk group, period. Like, it's not even about being japanese scene or anything. Of course there's Hüsker Dü and stuff, but nobody in the West ever made something so rough, "Stop Japan" and "虫" are two absolute classics, masterpieces of punk music.

[@ztmusic2789]

My favorite Japanese DIY punk bands are Conga Fury, S.O.B., Maximum the Hormone, and Melt-Banana

[@Pfromm007]

I can imagine a dude being like, "Woah! I loved that band! The lead singer punched me in the mouth back in 82!"

[@GutsScrambler]

Shout out NASCAR aloe for featuring some Japanese punks artist out of nowhere in his second-latest album.It’s gnarly as fuck but good

[@the_prince_of_thy_black_light]

Shit I didn't know he did that?!

[@Scyber_Official]

Melt-Banana is a good example of Japanese punk with their wild experimental noise influences!

[@Rosterized]

I feel like J-rock and J-pop goes heavily under the radar for western audiences. Most J-pop still incorporates the guitar in some way and they even still have guitar solos in their pop songs which is amazing compared to how bland and samey most western pop is nowadays

[@kameronpan2939]

Yes this is so true!! My exact thoughts when I listened to Eve for the first time

[@Miserycordya]

Still have the GISM cassette I bought as a teenager in the early 2000s .. i've thinned out my collection over the years, but it's sentimental reminder of my time in NJ post 9/11

[@BR-ci4ud]

GISM’s notoriety often overshadows their music, but their final album “Sonicrime Therapy” is peak insanity in musical form.

[@fertiloser1382]

look into ging nang boyz. Its like a pop rock/punk group mixed with the energy and noisyness of at the drive in and sometime even iggy and gg. Also the band at 6:58 is called SLANT from korea and they go hardd.

[@danframpt0n]

Sick ass video dude

[@SolvingOurKreation]

I've been binging your videos for 2 days.. I need to say, you deserve at LEAST 1 million subscribers. Your content is incredible! Also, do you think you might do a video on WEEN sometime?

[@bhristianbortes]

good vid, the band at 6:58 is called Slant, a hardcore band from south korea

[@ningboy3274]

Was just talking about how GISM and Disclose were some of the best punk bands, with some friends the other day. wonder if my data being sold has anything to do with this being recommended.

[@downallyourstreets]

GISM (1980’s) is the first I can think of but I’m sure there were others. When Teengenerate toured the US in 1995, anyone that saw that would have realized Japanese punk was on another level, and were breastfed on ‘77 punk with steroids.

[@thereagauze]

@@j.nagaraja1639 I went to Chicago Gauze show in Sept 1996 and there was maybe 100 people there and I think most came from out of state (I came from Rhode Island, guys from 9 shocks terror were there some friends from Canada, people from Georgia, etc)

[@ace15Nura]

You have to give it to Japan. The always takes things to the extreme in the most interesting or horrified ways.

[@theiakenyon]

Check out the band "Smash your Face". Great Japanese hardcore punk

[@MrLouis-of3yl]

Would've been interesting to hear about bands like Gauze, Lip Cream, and S.O.B. as well.

[@xerodelacroix5552]

Disclose.

[@MrLouis-of3yl]

@@xerodelacroix5552 pretty much all of Japan's D-Beat n Crust Scene in general deserves its own video lol

[@xqu1c]

S.O.B ❤

[@cachorrobanhista]

GAUZE is based

[@yeetkunedo]

Bomb Factory. One of my favorite bands ever. I’ve loved them for over twenty years, and everyone should listen to their music.

[@l4dl4dl4d]

the background music is driving me mental

[@Caesar_Online]

6:46 💀💀😭

[@matthewackermanaski9687]

Two bands that were punk that went mainstream in Japan were The Blue Hearts and Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, not sure if there's others but that's all i know.

[@venomxx2f399]

merzbow and hanatarash aren't punk especially now but they fit it to the coolest part of the Japanese punk scene.

[@WeslyBe]

These japanese punk bands r my favorite: hawaiian6, wanima, b-dash, dustbox, GumX

[@argozyy3588]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Bōsōzoku at all

[@dimasthehuman48]

You should check out, gingnang boyz, one of the craziest japan punk band i’ve ever listen to, their first 2 album (which released simultaneously) are so raw and really straight in your face, their stage performance really awesome, their music kinda fills my rage and anxiousness at the same time, it’s wonderful, highly recommended

[@Kneith]

they got some great grindcore too

[@hysterikole1]

The Blue Hearts and Star Club are great poppy punk before pop punk was a thing.Also, the Hanatarash side project UFO or Die is pretty cool. Like, noise with a beat?

[@6omni6draconian6]

Bro Japanese metal is something else

[@notgood38]

Swarrrm with Hatada on vocals was some of the hardest shit ever