Lost in Translation - Japcore | My Chemical Toilet

Lost in Translation - Japcore

Over in Japan, they’re musically famed for two genres. That’d be the eye-stripping cartoonish J-Pop (more on that another time) and Japcore. Now, Japcore (a.k.a. Japanese hardcore punk) is fast-paced, bowel-moving rock. Originally, it came about to protest the social and economic changes sweeping Japan in the 1980’s.
G.I.S.M. and The Stalin are the founding fathers of Japanese Hardcore Punk, and aren’t too bad. However, the new breed, incorporating heavy metal, thrash, grindcore and d-beat (whatever that is) make a racket that will make you wish you were born without any sensory organs. Here are the delightfully named Little Bastards mashing up yer lugs.