In just a few days time, PassCode will begin their first US tour. PassCode, as a whole, has been around for a good ten years and was founded back in 2013. They will now make the jump to American shores.

The band has gone through multiple iterations and currently consists of Nao Minami, Kaede Takashima, Hinako Ogami, and Emily Arima. Three of the members have been part of the group for upwards of eight years, with Emily being the more recent addition in 2021.

The group's most recent release is the GROUNDSWELL EP from June of this year so I would expect a number of songs from it.

They'll be making stops in Dallas, New York, and finally, Los Angeles.  For links to tickets and more info, please check out the official website here.

Like a lot of groups of this nature, you can describe them as being female-fronted metal. The four members do not play instruments themselves but do handle vocal and dance duties. If you had to make a comparison, Babymetal is apt, if only because Western fans of Japanese media are well-acquainted with them. Much like Babymetal, PassCode performs with a backing band. PassCode, in comparison, does have more harsh vocals than Babymetal does, and features more electronic elements and effects as opposed to "pure" metal.

Earlier in March, the group participated in Japanese band Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' Mega Vegas festival alongside Love Live's Liella!, MAN WITH A MISSION, ROTTENGRAFFTY, SiM, RAISE A SUILEN, Maximum the Hormone, and coldrain, amongst others.

I will be making the flight down from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where and one of my colleagues and I will be making our way to The Echo. Towards the beginning of the year, we saw NEMOPHILA at the same venue.

Tour is as follows:

9/3 Dallas, TX - The Cambridge Room
9/5 New York, NY - Gramercy Theater
9/7 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo