Japanese Metal Forum is a tight-knit, active and friendly community of worldwide metalheads who take interest in the heavy metal and hard rock of Japan. To date we're 700 members strong. We have discussions on many bands, Loudness, Sigh, Aldious, Ningen Isu, Loudness, Sabbat, Lovebites, X Japan, you name it. We have interviews (one of our staff members has translated numerous articles from Japanese to English), including some of our own exclusive interviews, a whole bunch of album and gig reviews, plenty of news updates, a growing marketplace, exclusive articles, and other fun features. We also have a sub-forum discussing various metal bands from other east Asian countries. We also broadened to include band-specific sub-forums for a handful of our site's most popular topics of discussion too.

If you're a fan of Japanese heavy metal or are merely curious about discovering some heavy metal from the Land of the Rising Sun, we invite you to come check out Japanese Metal Forum today at: http://japanesemetalforum.com

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I think I'll give this a bump for you. I help moderate over at JMF with TadakatsuH0nda. Anyways, we've really grown lately and have a pretty tight-knight group of dedicated regulars. We're at 27,000 posts with 162 members, and there's always room for more. If you're interested in Japanese rock and metal at all, I'd invite you to come take a look at http://jpmetal.org. It's a fun place with a ton of bands to check out.

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Is JMF still active? It's just that the forum isn't coming up.

Ah yes it is, we ran into a whole bunch of server problems with our current host. I'll pass it forward that you're locked out, sorry about that.

Could you (or anyone else blocked by the server) please send an email to "admin@jpmetal.org" along with your current IP and we'll contact the host and get you unblocked as soon as possible.

Update: We switched to a new and much more stable host, connection issues should be a thing of the past.

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