Japanese metal band BRIDEAR have just released their brand new album Born Again via Psychomanteum Records. To celebrate they have also unveiled the spectacular video for their new single ‘CULT’ one of ...

Boundaries have been broken and borders dissolved forever in the world of metal, but there tends to remain a stylistic East/West divide that few bands have convincingly bridged. BRIDEAR manage much ...

*This program was first broadcast on November 10, 2024. Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: BRIDEAR (a five-piece all-female heavy metal band with a growing fanbase in Europe) and Matsuura ...

Bridear are writing their own book of heavy metal on their fifth album. Musically, they’ve got more in common with the likes of Firewind than with Babymetal, but the all-female quintet from Fukuoka ...