奥野高久

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Takahisa Okuno. Japanese music critic, who writes mostly for Burrn! magazine, focusing on thrash and death metal.

APPEARANCES +

Welcome To Hell = 地獄への招待状

Flotsam And Jetsam

I Am The Weapon = アイ・アム・ザ・ウェポン

Heaven Shall Burn

Invictus (Iconoclast III)

All Heads Are Gonna Roll = オール・ヘッズ・アー・ガナ・ロール

As Gomorrah Burns = アズ・ゴモラ・バーンズ

Tygers Of Pan Tang

Bloodlines = ブラッドラインズ

Heaven Shall Burn

Kalmah = カルマ

Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags = ウォーロックス・グリム&ウィザード・ハグズ

Live Around The World

2022, CD, Comp, Avalon

40 Years At War - The Greatest Hell Of Sodom

Graham Bonnet Band

Day Out In Nowhere

Grind Over Matter

Death Metal/Thrash

Mors Principium Est

Liberate The Unborn Inhumanity

Progressive Metal

Nocturnal Creatures

Royal Destroyer

Heresy II: End Of A Legend

The Nightmare Of Being

Contradictions Collapse

Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Mors Principium Est

Generation Antichrist

Thrash/Speed Metal

Path Of The Immortal

2019, CD, Album, Savage Messiah Music, Trooper Entertainment

The Infernal Pathway

Buckets Rebel Heart

20 Good Summers

From Days Unto Darkness

Suicidal Angels = スイサイダル・エンジェルズ*

Years Of Aggression = イヤーズ・オブ・アグレッション

Flotsam And Jetsam

The End Of Chaos

Out Of The Frontline Trench

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

The Door To Doom

Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

Death Metal/Thrash

Abandon All Hope

Reduced To Flesh

Imperial State Electric

To Drink From The Night Itself

Living The Dream

Speed Between The Lines

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

Cobra Speed Venom

Rotting Civilisation

Infernal Overdrive

Technical Death Metal/Progressive Metal

Cloaks Of Oblivion

Heavy Metal/Power Metal

Strength In Numbers

Black Star Riders

Weapons of Thrash Destruction

Mors Principium Est

Embers Of A Dying World

Across The Line

Love From With The Dead

As The Stages Burn!

Unleash The Archers

Systematic Annihilation

Game Over (15) = ゲーム・オーバー*

Claiming Supremacy = クレーミング・スプレマシー

Woe To The Vanquished

Concepts Of Math: Book One

War Eternal Tour: Tokyo Sacrifice

Brotherhood Of The Snake

Imperial State Electric

All Through The Night

The Whole Of The Law

In His Infernal Majesty's Service

Spiritual Beggars

Sunrise To Sundown

Breaking The Rock

Suicidal Angels

Division Of Blood

Lust And Loathing

Hammers Of Misfortune

Dead Revolution

The Violent Sleep Of Reason

Crossing The Rubicon Revisited

Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper*

Walking In The Shadows

2015, CD, EP, Trooper Entertainment,

Death Metal/Melodic Death Metal

Never Wanna Die

Destroy Erase Improve

Imperial State Electric

Raise A Little Hell

Paradise Lost = パラダイス・ロスト*

The Plague Within = プレイグ・ウィズイン

Captivity & Devourment

Straight Shooter

The Ride Majestic

Relentless Retribution

Disarmonia Mundi

Jess And The Ancient Ones

Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes

Sons Of Merrick

Tight Nerves & Suavity

Throne Of Scars

The Night Creeper

Silence & Tears

Demolition Train

Unleash The Hordes

The Essential Rob Halford

Black Star Riders

The Killer Instinct

Live In The Heart Of Helsinki

Live On The Sabaton Cruise 2014

Heavy Metal/Power Metal

Unleash The Archers

Time Stands Still

Power Metal/Heavy Metal/Death Metal

Luciferian Light Orchestra

Luciferian Light Orchestra

2014, CD, Album, RE, Spiritual Beast

Generation Kill

We're All Gonna Die

At War With Reality

The Beauty Of Destruction

Suicidal Angels = スイサイダル・エンジェルズ*

Divide And Conquer = ディヴァイド・アンド・コンカー

Death Is Not Dead

Point Of Impact

The Fateful Dark

Warriors Of Ice

White Devil Armory

Mors Principium Est

Dawn Of The 5th Era

Victim Of Yourself

Thrash/Death Metal

Imperial State Electric

2013, CD, Comp, Trooper Entertainment, Psychout Records (2),

Imperial State Electric

Reptile Brain Music

Ghost B.C.* = ゴーストB.C.*

Infestissumam = インフェスティスマム

The Mouths Of Madness

Spiritual Beggars

Black Star Riders

All Hell Breaks Loose

Blood Of Saints

The Circle And The Blue Door

Spiritual Beggars

Spiritual Beggars

The Sinister Supremacy

Scorpion Child = スコーピオン・チャイルド*

Scorpion Child = スコーピオン・チャイルド

Fleshgod Apocalypse

Jess And The Ancient Ones

Jess And The Ancient Ones

From My Cold Dead Hands

Kingdom Of Conspiracy

Fast Loud Death

Kataklysm = カタクリズム*

Waiting For The End To Come = ウェイティング・フォー・ジ・エンド・トゥ・カム

The Living Infinite

Pinnacle Of Bedlam

Curse And Chapter

End Of Disclosure

From Beer To Eternity

Dark Tranquillity

Melodic Death Metal

Christopher Amott

2012, CD, Album, Trooper Entertainment

Astro Khaos 2012 - Official Live Bootleg

2012, CD + DVD-V, NTSC, Trooper Entertainment

Imperial State Electric

Mors Principium Est

...And Death Said Live

Melodic Death Metal

Outer Isolation

Gentlemans Pistols

At Her Majesty's Pleasure

A Girl Called Cerveza

The Unguided = ジ・アンガイデッド*

Hell Frost = ヘル・フロスト

As Above, So Below

The Early Years

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Accept = アクセプト*

Stalingrad (Brothers In Death) = スターリングラード

Kreator = クリエイター*

Phantom Antichrist = ファントム・アンティクライスト

Warner Bros. Presents Montrose!

Suicidal Angels = スイサイダル・エンジェルズ*

Bloodbath = ブラッドバス

Zone Of Alienation

Dark Roots Of Earth

Hell To The Holy

Meshuggah = メシュガー*

Koloss = 伏魔殿

Spiritual Beggars

Return To Live - Loud Park 2010

2011, CD, Album, Trooper Entertainment,

Burning Leather

From Fear To Eternity - The Best Of 1990-2010

To Hell With God

Sounds Of Violence

The Wörld Is Yours

Mystic Prophecy

Dario Mollo / Tony Martin

Cradle Of Filth

The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh

In War And Pieces

Forever Abomination

Thrash/Black Metal

Madness In Manila (Shadows Fall Live In The Philippines 2009)

Juggernaut Of Justice

The Unseen Empire

Head Of The Pack

Welcome To The Morbid Reich

Thousand Men Strong

Lawless Darkness

Dark Tranquillity

Where Death Is Most Alive

Hammer Of The North

Bonded By Blood

Exiled To Earth

Crisis In Utopia

Heavy Metal/Power Metal

Cradle Of Filth

Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa

Carnival Diablos

Sonic Syndicate

We Rule The Night

Christopher Amott

Follow Your Heart

Alternative Rock

The Panic Broadcast

Imperial State Electric

Imperial State Electric

The Obsidian Conspiracy

The Guessing Game

Doom Metal/Heavy Metal

Exhibit B: The Human Condition

Suicidal Angels

The Ones I Condemn

Burn The White Witch - Live In London

2009, CD, Album, Pap, Rubicon Music

Girlschool = ガールスクール*

Hit And Run = ヒット・アンド・ラン

The Evolution Of Chaos

Daylight Deception

Skeptics Apocalypse

Unstoppable Force

Girlschool = ガールスクール*

Screaming Blue Murder = スクリーミング・ブルー・マーダー

Breaking The Silence

Let There Be Blood

Walk Through Fire

Carcass = カーカス*

Symphonies Of Sickness = 真・疫魔交響曲

Walls Of Jericho

The American Dream

Nuclear Assault

Game Over / The Plague

Nuclear Assault

Handle With Care

Twisted Into Form

Unnatural Display Of Art

The Black Swan Epilogue

Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

Enter Annihilation

Scream Bloody Gore

Spiritual Healing

Individual Thought Patterns

Girlschool = ガールスクール*

Play Dirty = プレイ・ダーティー

Bonded By Blood

Pleasures Of The Flesh

Fabulous Disaster

The Root Of All Evil

Thrash/Death Metal

Live @ Hard Rock Festival 2007

Darkness Descends

Time Does Not Heal

Beyond The Gates / The Eyes Of Horror

Dark Matter Dimensions

I Hate Therefore I Am

Rock Until You Drop

Mystic Prophecy

Gods Of The Earth

Death Metal/Heavy Metal

The Roundhouse Tapes

Stand Up And Fight

We Are The Nightmare

Tyrants Of The Rising Sun - Live In Japan

Thrashing Like A Maniac

Doom Metal/Heavy Metal

Modified Poison

Carcass = カーカス*

Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious = 屍体愛好癖

Metal Rendez-vous

The Hellacopters

See You In Hell

Light From Above

Obituary = オビチュアリー*

Xecutioner's Return = エクシキューションアーズ・リターン

Prog Rock/Classic Rock

Spontaneous Combustion

Turn The Hell On

My Arms, Your Hearse

Blackwater Park

Rock You To Hell

The God Of All Mistakes

The Incurable Tragedy

Municipal Waste

The Art Of Partying

Healing Through Fire

Forgotten Prophecies

Another Perfect Day

Beyond The Permafrost

Twisted Tower Dire

Nö Sleep At All

Mystic Prophecy

The Atrocity Exhibition - Exhibit A

The Berzerker = ザ・バーザーカー*

Animosity = アニモシテイ

Sonic Syndicate = ソニック・シンディケイト*

Only Inhuman = オンリー・インヒューマン

Rise Of The Tyrant

Nuclear Assault

Third World Genocide

Nuclear Assault

No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

Mors Principium Est

Liberation = Termination

The Omega Rising

World Domination

Completion Makes The Tragedy

Disarmonia Mundi

Prog Rock/Heavy Metal

The Essential Judas Priest

Live Vengeance '82

Black Wings Of Destiny

Christ Illusion

The Scattering Of Ashes

The Hours That Remain

Conspiracy In Mind

Terror For Sale

Mors Principium Est

This Godless Endeavor

Attera Totus Sanctus

The Empires Of The Worlds

Black Metal/Death Metal

Stabbing The Drama

Doomsday Machine

Accept = アクセプト*

Balls To The Wall = ボールズ・トゥ・ザ・ウォール

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Accept = アクセプト*

Eat The Heat = イート・ザ・ヒート

Reclaim The Beat

The Last Ordeal

Spiritual Beggars

Legion Of The Damned

Malevolent Rapture

Exodus (6) = エクソダス*

Shovel Headed Kill Machine = ショベル・ヘッデッド・キル・マシーン

Thrash/Heavy Metal

Overkill = オーヴァーキル*

ReliXIV = レリックス

Industrial/Nu Metal

Corrosion Of Conformity

In The Arms Of God

Metallic Attack - Metallica The Ultimate Tribute

2004, CD, Comp, Promo, Victor,

Thrash/Heavy Metal

Metallic Attack - Metallica The Ultimate Tribute

2004, CD, Comp, Promo, Victor,

Thrash/Heavy Metal

The Crushing Design

Outta Sight / Outta Mind

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - 25th Anniversary Edition

Megadeth = メガデス*

Rust In Peace = ラスト・イン・ピース

Armageddon, Mon Amour

Metallic Attack - Metallica The Ultimate Tribute

Thrash/Heavy Metal

Angels Fall First

Cradle Of Filth

Dead Eyes See No Future (Japanese Tour EP 2004)

Haunting The Chapel

2004, CD SHM-CD,

Exodus (6) = エクソダス*

Tempo Of The Damned = テンポ・オブ・ザ・ダムド

The Art Of Dying

9th Order Extinct

Cannibal Corpse

The Wretched Spawn

Machine Men = マシーン・メン*

Scars & Wounds = スカーズ・アンド・ウーンズ

The Dark Legacy

Heavy Metal/Power Metal

The Silent Republic

Strange To Numbers

Anthems Of Rebellion

Figure Number Five

Death Metal/Heavy Metal/Melodic Death Metal

Twisted Tower Dire

Crest Of The Martyrs

Cradle Of Filth

Damnation And A Day

Callenish Circle

My Passion // Your Pain

The More You Suffer

One Night In Bangkok

We've Come For You All

The Bitter Selfcaged Man

Arts Of Desolation

Natural Born Chaos

Suicide By My Side

Crossroad Message

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Faster Disaster

We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll

Flower Of Disease

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Expanding Senses

Burning Angel (Japanese Tour EP 2002)

Immortal Misanthrope

Hard Words Softly Spoken

A Predator's Portrait

Thrash/Death Metal

Grand Magus = グランド・メイガス*

Grand Magus = グランド・メイガス

Corrosion Of Conformity

Soulless & Proud

Slayer = スレイヤー*

God Hates Us All = ゴッド・ヘイツ・アス・オール

Slave To The Power The Iron Maiden Tribute

2000, CD, Album, Comp, Victor,

Hard Rock/Stoner Rock/Heavy Metal

Lake Of Tears = レイク・オブ・ティアーズ*

Forever Autumn = フォーエヴァー・オータム

Goth Rock/Doom Metal

Spiritual Beggars

Another Way To Shine

Every Nerve Alive

Theory In Practice

The Armageddon Theories

Symphonic Metal

Spiritual Beggars = スピリチュアル・ベガーズ*

Ad Astra = アド・アストラ

Cradle Of Filth

Reign Forever World

Dismember = ディスメンバー*

Hate Campaign = ヘイト・キャンペーン

Burning Japan Live 1999

Thrash/Death Metal

Celestial Hi-Fi

The Voice Of God

Embrace The Mystery

Corrosion Of Conformity

America's Volume Dealer

Praying Mantis (3), Tank (6), Samson (3), Trespass

NWOBHM 20th Anniversary Festival - Metal Crusade '99 = メタル・クルセイド’99

1999, 2xCD, Album, Canyon International,

Blues Rock/Hard Rock

Sins Of Omission

Burning Bridges

Libertine Humiliations

Disclosure In Red

Gathered Around The Oaken Table

The Chainheart Machine

Gandalf (4) = ガンダルフ*

Deadly Fairytales = デッドリー・フェアリーテイルズ

The Butterfly Effect

Wasting The Dawn

Time Is Progress

Presents Of Mind

Dance Across The Past

Ablaze My Sorrow

A Handful Of Nothing

Withering Surface

The Nude Ballet

Steel Bath Suicide

Thrash/Death Metal

Spiritual Beggars

Godless Savage Garden

Old Man's Child

Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion

Gates Of Ishtar

At Dusk And Forever

Frequencies From Planet Ten

Skyclad = スカイクラッド*

The Answer Machine? = ジ・アンサー・マシーン?

Folk Metal/Thrash

Threshold (3) = スレッショルド*

Psychedelicatessen = サイケデリカテッセン

Thrash/Power Metal

Arcturus (2) = アークチュラス*

La Masquerade Infernale = 地獄の仮面舞踏会

Gates Of Ishtar

The Dawn Of Flames

Black Metal/Death Metal

Threshold (3) = スレッショルド*

Livedelica = ライヴデリカ

Future Of The Past

Blackstar (4) = ブラックスター*

Barbed Wire Soul = バーブド・ワイヤー・ソウル

Black To The Blind

Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Tumuli Shroomaroom

Cholane = コレイン*

Black Box = ブラック・ボックス

Iron Maiden = アイアン・メイデン*

Best Of The Beast = ベスト・オブ・ザ・ビースト

Hallway Of Dreams

Exhibit B: The Human Condition

The Fateful Dark

Heavy Metal/Thrash

Screaming Blue Murder

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Another Perfect Day

Hard Rock/Classic Rock

Rock & Roll/Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Balls To The Wall

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

Spontaneous Combustion

No Sleep 'til Hammersmith