is a monthly Japanese magazine for fans of heavy metal music, published since September 1984.
The magazine's content is in Japanese and largely focuses on Western artists, while the covers are predominantly in English.
Japan magazine, which was published for six volumes between 1987 and 1990 to focus on Japanese artists, before being revived in 2016.
In 2019, Mari Hamada become the first Japanese musician to top the vocalist category in the poll's 36 year history.
[6][8] At the end of 2020, current editor-in-chief Kazuo Hirose went to a Seikima-II event and offered to interview them for the magazine.