Life update & next project?
First of all, here is our little message (movie) we posted on our pages. We filmed it to say thank you!!! For all your support and listening to our music😀 この投稿をInstagramで見る Imari …
Imari Tones is a Christian Heavy Metal band from Japan 
Category: Updates
Thank you USA tour success
It has already been a week since we came back to Japan. I want to take this opportunity to say thank you once again to everyone who supported our USA tour. (These are photos from our final show of the tour at Bunk Bar in Portland, Oregon. We …
“Diary Of A Godman” album released!
Thank you very much!!! Now our new album “Diary Of A Godman” is released! We are here. We are alive and we are still rocking. It feels like a miracle, we’ve had another album out, playing music and touring. It’s a blessing. We say THANK YOU JESUS and we …
New Profile Photos with Kenshin
As you see, we did a little photo session at the church event on June 6th. It was actually the first proper photo session since Kenshin joined last year. Funny thing is I look very tired in these pictures. Because I didn’t have any sleep the previous night, working on …
3years since the fire
[This is something we posted on our social media pages in June.] It’s time for us to remember and give thanks. Now it’s been 3 years since the fire. On June 11, 2023, there was a fire in the apartment building where we (Tak & Marie) were living. …
Cupchairs Interview
A little while ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Wiley from Cupchairs. We first met Wiley in Austin, Texas, during the summer of 2024. He enjoyed our show, and we became friends. In this interview, we talked about the music of Imari Tones, the background behind …
Livestream for Heavy Metal Church vol.4
Tomorrow we have “Heavy Metal Church” event. It’s going to be epic for sure. It’s a very late notification but we are doing livestream. This time only on YouTube. It’s already less than 24 hours, so it’s funny we are posting this now. But we are doing this …
Love story of Rock & Faith
[Love story of Rock & Faith] Looking back, the history of the band Imari Tones began in the 1990s when Tak and Marie met in high school. Inspired by the presence of a special woman named Marie, Tak wrote many songs based on a personal love story. In 2004, …
Catching up Easter 2026
It may sound funny, but it’s been a while since we last updated our website. That’s because we usually get so busy updating our social media pages that the website ends up being the last thing on our list. So this is what we posted on social media on …
Unreleased Message Videos
One thing that’s been on my mind lately is the “message videos” I’ve never managed to release. In early 2024, roughly between January and March, I recorded around eighteen message videos. I used a church sanctuary, and I didn’t just shoot video — I set up microphones and properly recorded …