HANZAISHA
War Metal Made In Japan
WAR METAL MADE IN JAPAN
Hanziasha is a war metal band hailing from Shiga, Japan.Hanzaisha started in the summer of 2023 under the name Gouniromech, after Black Infestation’s solo death metal project Aerst was abandoned. Black Infestation at the time, named himself “Red War Of The Blackened Mask”, and shortly after, the original second guitarist of the band “Seven Peaceful Lights Of The Three White Hearts” joined the band. This lineup eventually split-up on good terms in March of 2024, leading to Black Infestation changing his stage name, changing the band’s name to Hanzaisha, and recruiting Alcoholizer of Disisto as a live drummer near the start of 2025.From their very beginnings in that summer of 2023, they were among one of many extreme metal and hardcore punk bands to form in Shiga Prefecture, specifically in Nagahama City, a city not well-known for having a die-hard extreme metal inner circle. This ensured that only the most maniacal of metalheads and punkheads based within the prefecture would follow them.Along with By-Pass, Murdiena, Disisto, Premonitory Thrash, and a handful of other bands from Shiga Prefecture, Hanzaisha during their Gouniromech years, played a primordial style of punk-metal fusion influenced by powerviolence, grindcore, and thrash metal. Disisto in particular would lean towards crust punk and label themselves “crustviolence”, while Murdiena gained a local following for their intense thrash metal sound, and By-Pass gained their own underground following for their maniacal punk-leaning grindcore. Gouniromech would opt for heavy black metal and thrash metal influences with their crust punk sound, creating a style that nicely fits within that inner scene of punk-metal fusion in Japan.However, as time progressed during 2024 after the original line-up disbanded, and Black Infestation’s creative style was improving bit after bit, Gouniromech, during their transition into Hanzaisha, eventually transformed their earlier primordial style of black metal and thrash metal-influenced crust punk, into war metal, specifically a heavily crust punk-influenced variation of the Blasphemy and Revenge style, that also features the unique use of a noisier approach to songwriting that leans itself towards a heavier grindcore and powerviolence influence.This stylistic transition had evolved them from a simple black metal and thrash metal-inspired crust punk band, into an aggressive war metal machine. There are still a lot of punk-metal fusion undertones present in this new style (partially due to the fact that they still associate themselves with their earlier local scene of Japanese punk-metal fusion), but they have now stabilized on war metal with a greater focus on death metal, powerviolence and grindcore elements + strong undertones from D-beat, crust punk, and their earlier sound. Given the evil and over-the-top edge they exhibit, they now consider themselves the beginning of War Metal in Japan. The band had also found their own message, due to their great obsession with lyrical themes relating to the horrors of warfare trauma, political corruption, and societal problems. They also started to use a Satanic presentation of those lyrical themes, both visually and musically, which eventually made its way into the lyrical content of the music. This decision was perfectly suited to the band, who were taking influence from the Ross Bay Cult scene at the time.
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