Melt Banana live in concert.
ON TOUR

Melt Banana

30
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

77
%
Based on 
30
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
75
%
Based on 
4
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Based on 30 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Melt Banana is rated as an entertaining live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Melt Banana concert reviews describe live shows and performances as exhilarating, cerebral, and delightful.

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Latest Release

3+5 (23 August 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
Tokyo, Japan (1992 - present)
Bio
Melt-Banana is a Japanese noise rock group founded in 1992 by friends attending Tokyo University of Foreign Language. Their hyperactive music palette draws influences from experimental rock, grindcore, no wave, psychedelic, hardcore punk, and post-punk.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

The Skinny (UK)

September 13, 2024
80
%
Three decades in, Melt-Banana remain a mesmeric, powerful unit, and a force to be reckoned with

Leftlion (UK)

September 3, 2024
%
Melt-Banana with Arch Femmesis at Rescue Rooms

The Skinny (UK)

June 14, 2017
100
%
Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK on June 12, 2017

Buzz Magazine (UK)

June 7, 2017
80
%
Wales, UK

Exclaim (Canada)

May 25, 2015
90
%
It was a delightful surprise then than the crowd absolutely adored the strange cerebral group the only participant in the fest who played with a drum machine.

Consequence (USA)

November 14, 2013
%
Chicago, USA

Exclaim (Canada)

October 26, 2011
%
Yasuko Onuki is still every bit the flame-haired firecracker she was back on their first seven-inch 1994's Hedgehog.

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Image Credit

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