Petit Brabancon

Petit Brabancon are a five-piece metal supergroup bringing together vocalist Kyo (DIR EN GREY), drummer yukihiro (L’Arc-en-Ciel), guitarist Miya (MUCC), guitarist antz (Tokyo Shoegazer), and bassist Hirofumi Takamatsu (THE NOVEMBERS). The band grew out of Kyo approaching yukihiro about working together, eventually developing into a full group built around musicians with decades of experience across Japan’s rock and metal scene. Petit Brabancon made their first live appearance at Nippon Budokan in December 2021, the same month they released their debut digital single ‘Koku / Kawaki’.

At the centre of Petit Brabancon is a shared love of the heavier music of the 1990s, particularly nu-metal, pushed through the individual styles of all five members. The band themselves have used the word “extreme” to describe what they set out to create.

Their debut album ‘Fetish’ arrived in August 2022, followed by EPs ‘Automata’ in 2023 and ‘Seven Garbage Born of Hatred’ in 2024. Live performance has remained a major part of the project, with successive tours giving the band room to push their music into a rougher and more physical form. In 2026, Petit Brabancon returned with ‘haunted house’, first shared with fans attending their Tour 2026 “If You Just Stare Then Headbang or Die” before receiving a full digital release in April.