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SAKEROCK are an instrumental band formed in 2000 by five (later four) former students of a private high school in Hannō, Saitama prefecture, Japan. Their compositions draw on various styles, from latin Jazz to Japanese folk music, but the band’s sound is immediately recognizable from melody lines played by a slightly off-pitch trombone. Their name is taken from a Martin Denny song. Members are Hamano ‘Hamaken’ Kenta (trombone, scat), Tanaka Kei (bass, hawaiian guitar), Itō Daichi (drums, percussion), and frontman Hoshino Gen (guitar, marimba). Nomura Takuji (keyboards) has left the band but still plays live and in the studio. Hamano...

1) Massgrave are from the northwest coast of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They play a mixture of crust punk and grindcore, similar to Disrupt, Warcollapse, Doom, Extreme Noise Terror, Napalm Death, etc. Lyrically they write about such topics as anarchism, marijuana, anti-war and animal liberation. They describe their style as "cannabis crust". 2) Noise punk from Japan with one tape out on Hardcore Survives, also featured in Heal compilation .

Grave Digger is a German heavy metal band formed by Chris Boltendahl (vocals), Peter Masson (guitar), Willi Lackmann (bass guitar), and Albert Eckardt (drums) in 1980 in Gladbeck, a small town in Germany. Their songs often display a power metal and speed metal ethos, with lyrics reflecting battle, destruction, and sorcery. The group's debut album, 1984's Heavy Metal Breakdown, produced some undying classics for them such as the Grave Digger anthem "Heavy Metal Breakdown" and the powerful ballad "Yesterday". After their second studio album, 1985's Witch Hunter, was completed, Eckardt left the band and was replaced by musician C.F. Brank....