God of Shamisen is a band from California, led by a master of the Shamisen, a fretless Japanese lute. The band involves elements spanning a multitude of genres, including progressive rock, metal, and funk.

Read more about our CD, Dragon String Attack.
 

NEWS:

October 7, 2009 — Thank you Atlanta!

Thanks to the Japan National Tourism Organization for having us play at JapanFest Atlanta this year! We had a great time and met a bunch of new fans!

Also - we now once again have more T-Shirt sizes (Small thru XL) finally available to order in our website’s store. Check em out!

September 11, 2009 — JapanFest and other Georgia tourdates!

Check out the top of our website to see the current tourdates. We have two shows performing at this year’s JapanFest in Atlanta, as well as various other shows in the Atlanta area. Kevin Kmetz will be performing a solo shamisen performance at Goergia State on Sept 16, as well as various acoustic workshops at JapanFest itself. Then the band has two 21+ rock club shows, one at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta and one at the Wormhole in Savannah. The dates and details of these shows are at the top of our website!

We hope to see our southern fans at as many of these shows as possible! Of course, we’ll have our CD, 7″ vinyl, and t-shirts (finally back in all sizes) for sale as well. See you soon!

August 6, 2009 — Geekbox Podcast

Kevin and Mark from God of Shamisen appeared on this week’s internet radio podcast, the Geekbox! You can check out Episode #26 here!

August 2, 2009 — New Music Video!

God of Shamisen recently unveiled their first promo music video for a studio track!

Check it out!

July 17, 2009 — Friday, July 31 in Oakland

God of Shamisen will come out of hiding and play The Fishtank at the end of this month - Friday July 31!

We’ll be joined by Shamalamacord, the shamisen + accordion duo, for their monumental CD release party!

The show will be ALL AGES!
Fishtank is located at 3405 Piedmont Ave.
The show starts around 8PM and will cost $5-20 donation.

Then later in August, expect an interview with GOS bandleader and shamisen master Kevin Kmetz on the awesome podcast The Geekbox. More details on that later…

June 22, 2009 — JapanFest Atlanta!

God of Shamisen will be performing at JapanFest this September 19 & 20 in Atlanta!
This will be followed by many tourdates in the South USA. More details will be posted here soon!

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