Today we have posted a new music video on the internet. The song is called “One Sheep” (or “一匹の羊” in Japanese). Let me tell you about the song and the video. Firstly, let me tell you why we made this song. We are going to release an “Acoustic …
Shout out to Kyle Bray, who wrote the book “The Shimabara Rebellion”. I was very surprised and honored at the same time to see this book is inspired by our album “Jesus Wind”. “Jesus Wind” is a concept album about Japanese Christian History. It’s a heavy metal album based …
So it happened. Some popular YouTuber has interviewed us and featured us in one of his videos. The YouTuber “Nobita from Japan” is making movies about Japan, social issues and people’s concerns in Japan, for the world audience to know. I think he is making many movies about …
This is a post from personal blog but it would tell you why we are playing Christian music in the first place.. .. So back in 1995 when we were in high school, I met this girl. I don’t talk about this teenage love story here, because it’s really …
So we released this song as a single on Spotify and other digital stores. This song, called “Spiritual Seeker” is a song from our “revised” first album and we already posted the music video on YouTube, sometime last year. But it’s a good song and thought it’s worth getting …
This is a throw back music video from 2004. Imari Tones, now known as “The First Christian Metal band from Japan”, was first formed as a band in 2004. (Even though Tone’s solo recording history goes further back in time.) We were NOT a Christian band back then. The …
In this video Tone and Marie talk about the current status of Imari Tones, during this COVID-19 situation. Here’s the excerpt of the story. – We finished making Nabeshima album. Probably we can release it sometime in 2021. – We are not playing live right now, because of coronavirus …
Over the course of our journey, a lot of people have asked me about Japanese Christian music. I wish I had a time to write a dedicated article about Japanese Christian music scene (if such thing exists, or it’s very small even if existed), but I don’t have enough time …
On May 9th Saturday 2020, we have finished the mastering work of “Nabeshima” album. 24 songs double album, Ultimate Christian Metal with Japanese traditional music, is here. Lyrics are half English half Japanese. Again, my hands have been tied for this. I had to focus on this until the …
Very special video for a very special song!! “LION ROAR” featuring Brinson Christian Rap and Japanese Heavy Metal (Video edited by Shinichi Ohara photoshin.com) I have posted about this collaboration a while back, but it’s finally up! Collaboration between Imari Tones, Japanese Christian metal band, and Brinson GodChaserz, …
