Hijokaidan

Decades into their reign, Hijokaidan remain the King of Noise, and Live! Destroy Noise Symphony catches them in the form that long ago succeeded their performance-art beginnings: four players fusing into a single, overwhelming mass of sound.

By the time of this recording the early spectacle had hardened into method. Jojo Hiroshige works the guitar in his unmistakable throttling style, Junko delivers the relentless voice that has cut through the band since 1982, Toshiji Mikawa handles electronics, and Futoshi Okano drives it all from the drums. No solos, no foreground, no hierarchy - just each member generating as much density as humanly possible until the parts dissolve into one continuous wall.

It is Hijokaidan distilled to their essence: live, unrepentant, and obliterating. Issued by Alchemy Records, Jojo's own label and the institutional heart of the scene he helped create.