Hammer Head Shark Archives

Hammer Head Shark – “Midnight In Naked”

Published August 14, 2024August 14, 2024

Every once in a while I remember that I will be seeing Hammer Head Shark not once but twice in a couple months when they come to town as part of Next Music From Tokyo, and get super-excited. More excited than my single post on the band to date would imply. So to properly increase […]

Hammer Head Shark – “Blurred Summer”

Published April 22, 2024April 22, 2024

“Influenced by Kinoko Teikoku” is basically a J-gaze subgenre – or maybe a synonym – and one of the current leading lights of that style is Hammer Head Shark, a Tokyo quartet especially good at their forebear’s combination of sonic aggression and angsty vocals, with a healthy dose of snotty youthful rebellion added for good […]