God of Shamisen News

Please Donate to Japan

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:05:17 +0000

Please donate to the Japanese Red Cross Society, or other foundations, to help Japan!

Buy our second album: SMOKE MONSTER ATTACK!

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:34:15 +0000

Smoke Monster Attack is now available for purchase!

You can listen to previews and buy MP3 from CDBaby here.

Buy on iTunes here.

Or you can buy MP3 or high quality lossless FLAC from LobeFood here.

Check out our new album and let us know what you think!

We are also proud to announce that our first album, Dragon String Attack, is also finally now available in lossless FLAC format as well.

New Album! Smoke Monster Attack

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:36:22 +0000

Teaming up with producer Billy Anderson, God of Shamisen returns with Smoke Monster Attack, their second album. Featuring some new tunes along with some interesting video game cover songs, we run the musical gamut from an aggressive new arrangement of the traditional “Jongara Bushi,” to the Indian-inspired mellow breakdowns of “Last Shamisen Master Attack,” to a wild metal cover of the Star Wars theme. The album will be only available digitally, and will be available to download on iTunes, Amazon, and other online stores soon! More details soon.

Thank you, Kansas City!

admin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:37:28 +0000

Earlier this month, God of Shamisen played at the 2010 Greater Kansas City Japan Festival. Here’s some video from our weekend!

Coming this OCTOBER 2 - Kansas City Japan Festival!

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:09:45 +0000

Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, God of Shamisen will perform at the Greater Kansas City Japan Festival! More details on our appearance will be available soon. Read more about the KC Japan Festival on their website!

Thank you Atlanta!

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:01:57 +0000

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!

JapanFest and other Georgia tourdates!

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:34:03 +0000

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!

Geekbox Podcast

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:00:58 +0000

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

New Music Video!

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:39:51 +0000

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

Check it out!

Friday, July 31 in Oakland

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:14:08 +0000

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…