Ibaraki's Ronin

2022-03-25 by Fernando Alves | 26 Comments
Trivium's Matthew Kiichi Heafy side project Ibaraki shared another new song, 'Ronin', off his upcoming debut album Rashomon, out May 6th via Nuclear Blast Records. The track features guest vocals by Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) and Ihsahn (Emperor). Take a peek at the official music video below.



" 'A rōnin is a masterless warrior," shares Kiichi. "The final two full compositions on Rashōmon see a significant shift musically. The album as a whole — with the exception of the intro and outro — is actually presented in chronological order of earliest written to latter-most. The actual guitar and bass tracks are a time-capsule of sorts in that their parts — on the final album — is actually from the year they were tracked."

He continues, "One can begin to see the shifts as the years went on for the writing of the album. 'Kagutsuchi'/'Ibaraki-doji' being written and tracked in 2010/2011, all the way up to 'Rōnin'/'Susanoo No Mikoto' being written and tracked in 2016/2017."

As for his collaboration with Way, Kiichi shares, "Gerard Way has been a long-time inspiration for me — like Ihsahn and Adam Nergal Darski — I have looked to Gerard as a constant source of motivation to be creative. While Gerard and I may be from different genres than where Ibaraki and black metal stem from — outsiders of sorts — the spirit and intent of our performances is what unites our passion for pushing boundaries. "

Tracklist:
1. Hakanaki Hitsuzen
2. Kagutsuchi
3. Ibaraki-Dõji
4. Jigoku Dayū
5. Tamashii No Houkai (Feat. Ihsahn of Emperor)
6. Akumu (Feat. Nergal of Behemoth)
7. Komorebi
8. Ronin (Feat. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance)
9. Susanoo No Mikoto (Feat. Ihsahn of Emperor)
10. Kaizoku

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AmbushReality
March 25th 2022
87 Comments


Just absolutely unbelievable to me that that's Gerard Way making those noises. Its awesome.

Surtur
March 25th 2022
636 Comments


Not just Frank Iero doing black metal at the moment then haha

dachstheangry
March 25th 2022
324 Comments


His screams are pretty good. Didn't know he can do that.

Essence
March 25th 2022
6808 Comments


two notes:
1. i cannot believe that's gerard way
2. heafy's vocals are so terrible he should just have way do all of them

this album is going to be a dead even concoction of boring and interesting music

GreyShadow
March 25th 2022
8044 Comments


black metal mcr when

JohnnyoftheWell
March 25th 2022
64287 Comments


gerard way the masterless samurai of my HEART

Ryus
March 25th 2022
37885 Comments


"upcoming debut album Rashomon"

kurosawa rollin over in his grave rn

Aluktodolo
March 25th 2022
582 Comments


It sounds like two different bands, playing totally different music, spliced together. I don’t mean that as a compliment.

Nikkolae
March 25th 2022
6905 Comments


wait is that really gerard doing the screaming, i thought it was ihsahn holy shit

Cimnele
March 25th 2022
2527 Comments


*reads one book about japan*

Essence
March 25th 2022
6808 Comments


"It sounds like two different bands, playing totally different music, spliced together. I don’t mean that as a compliment"

yeah like I said it's gonna be 50/50 split of "cool" and "snore"

GodOfAtheism
March 25th 2022
41 Comments


This is so close to being awesome but these transitions are jarring. There's various interesting ideas here by themselves but they either don't or aren't molded well together.

FadedSun
March 25th 2022
3199 Comments


Ibaraki is just a prefecture in Japan haha.

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
March 26th 2022
18452 Comments


If this wasn't marketed as a "black metal album" people would actually be all over this. As a whole this is -almost- Shogun tier trivium. Singles are not a good rep of this album's big picture.

zaruyache
March 26th 2022
28600 Comments


i really hate how modern bm bands put the vocals overtop of everything else, accidentally highlighting how goofy harsh vox sound in a vacuum. first round of gerard skremz sounded goofy because they were put overtop of everything lol. I liked the proggy clean parts at the beginning but then it kinda just wandered around like Opeth at their worst.

Coldplaz
March 26th 2022
214 Comments


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derkaderka
March 26th 2022
207 Comments


Some of this works pretty good, the rest of it not so much. I liked a lot of the ideas presented in the first half of the song, but the second half really meanders on. The transition around 7:28 was especially bad. Gerard's vocals are definitely the standout here, that shit caught me off guard.



Pikazilla
March 26th 2022
32373 Comments


album gonna be a hard 2, y'all should stop lying to yourselves

Shiranui
March 27th 2022
1106 Comments


Love Gerard's screaming. Hate that songwriting like wtf is that second half supposed to be? Transitioning nonsense.

Beardog
March 27th 2022
6475 Comments


Yeah vocals are just way too fucking loud in this mix, it's so sad... Also yeah those transitions are weird af. Still excited about this record but it seems to be a let down...

nash1311
March 28th 2022
10532 Comments


Gerard Way is sick rest is whatever

zaruyache
March 29th 2022
28600 Comments


pika why are u like that

Ectier
March 30th 2022
4560 Comments


Jesus christ this is the guy from MCR..... outside of Gerard being suprisingly awesome. The clean vocals are repeated way too much and feels too bombastic for what the song is. This shits 9 minutes long wtf it really doeant feel like it deserves this length. Deadspace "woahs"

Jadari
March 30th 2022
88 Comments


Gerard's still got it, everything else sounded like empty Opeth worship.

Evreaia
March 30th 2022
5406 Comments


Song was terrible, way to long, and not enough happening. Which is ironic coming from a blackgaze fan.

but can we please get Gerard an actually good band. Pleasantly surprised about his screams.

ShadowOfTheCitadel
April 22nd 2022
567 Comments


Gerard's screams are absolutely filthy on here. Some of the really high high's give me Full of Hell vibes.



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