Around 1500, Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on a sinner's bare butt in hell. 500 years later, someone transcribed and performed it. Now you can hear the original butt song from hell.
Heavy metal never dies…! These classics from @lovebites_jp are back in stock after being out of print for a while. Grab ‘em while you can! 🔥 🐺
Their brilliantly thrashy EP BATTLE AGAINST DAMNATION, the spectacular double disc live album MEMORIAL FOR THE WARRIOR SOULS (with english video on demand content available), and their mighty album JUDGEMENT DAY.
Get ‘em while they’re still hot off the press!
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Yuki Kamifuku will team up with her dog Zac as they face Shoko Nakajima & Pokotan at TJPW INSPIRATION on October 14th at TOKYO SQUARE in Itabashi.
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📖 UNDERSTANDING NOAH: 他流試合 (Taryū-jiai)
A term from Edo-period martial arts: a match between practitioners from different schools, not just different opponents, but genuinely different traditions and philosophies of technique. It carries real weight — unlike facing someone from your own background, you can’t predict what’s coming, and the result says something about whether your own training actually holds up.
CHEN steps into N-1 VICTORY as a true outsider to NOAH’s specific style, coming from a wrestling background built entirely elsewhere. This tournament is his taryū-jiai — the real test of whether everything he’s built translates here.
#noah_ghc
📖 UNDERSTANDING NOAH: 修行 (Shugyō)
Western fans often see a former champion in the opening match and read it as a demotion. That’s not really how it reads in Japan — because the idea behind it isn’t specific to wrestling at all.
Shugyō is a much older Japanese concept, rooted in Buddhist practice and applied across martial arts, traditional crafts, and apprenticeships generally: disciplined training aimed at real transformation, not just skill. A kendo student drilling the same strike thousands of times. A craftsman’s decade-long apprenticeship. The point isn’t proving you can already do something — it’s becoming someone through the process of doing it.
Kaito Kiyomiya’s current run is a clear example: after a rough stretch chasing the GHC Heavyweight, he asked to open the card himself.
That’s not a wrestler with nothing left. That’s a wrestler doing the work.
#noah_ghc