Experimental artist Marqido has released three solo albums to date: Democritus, Democritus II and Democritus III. He is possibly better known in Europe for his work with the Korean experimental artist itta on the project 10. His career seems to be marked with numbers, so with this in mind, we decided to ask him a [...]

The JaME team currently includes over 100 people, all with different backgrounds, cultures and interests. Seeing as we are represented in almost 30 countries, you can imagine that it’s a colorful bunch with a lot of interesting personalities. We wanted to give our readers a glimpse of the team members, so we thought of holding [...]

This May 2nd marked the tenth year since hide passed away. JaME put together a special hide memorial theme in his honor and obtained comments from several musicians and industry professionals concerning the famous and ever-inspiring guitarist.
Also ANGEL-TAKA from NOIZ contributed, but was unable to meet the deadline, so here are his comments about hide [...]

On the 23rd of March, three impressive looking gentlemen arrived early at Finland to perform at the livehouse Gloria in the capital Helsinki. The concert was a success and looking tired but pleased, the band even held an autograph session for all their fans. Our scheduled interview began a little later than expected, but as [...]

GOTHIKA didn’t have much time for any spur of the moment activities as they were visiting Helsinki’s centrum only for a short while, yet regardless of the hectic atmosphere we managed to sit down with Yoshiki, andro and the new support member DeeLee at the same dining table. The authenticity of the Finnish restaurant Zetor [...]

After her second performance in Finland, JaME sat down with Kana to have a small chat about her European tour, her newest album and more.

This is already your second time touring Europe. How do you feel about that, and do you have any special expectations for this tour?Kana: I’m sure I’ll see a lot of [...]

From their single Beautiful Good-bye to their soon to be released first album Bouquet, everything seems to be about the letter “B” for the indie band Billy. Their first album release is a special occasion for the band, so we took this opportunity to talk to them about it … and other words starting with [...]

Syu is a guitarist that is known for his great skills. He has played in various bands, such as Valkyr and the anime and metal band Animetal. Currently he is playing in the metal bands Galneryus and Aushvitz, and also acts as the vocalist of the latter band. Having already interviewed him about his bands [...]

We first met the three members of the punk/rock band DUSTAR-3 in 2005 for an interview. Now, two years later and just after the release of their new album Oretachi ikemen, we decided to have a quick chat with them. Not being a usual band, we decided to give the mini-interview a little twist and [...]

We had earlier posted our chat with lynch.’s drummer Asanao, and now we’re giving you Yusuke’s comments about their new album THE BURIED!
When you recorded the new album THE BURIED, you played the guitar parts that Reo used to play before. Do you think it was difficult to play those parts, and what were [...]