KEEP IT TRUE JAPAN 2027 Names Its First Bands — CRIMSON GLORY, OMEN And VOID Come To Japan, With Advance Tickets From 21:00 On November 10

The main festival is at CLUB CITTA', Kawasaki, on November 12 and 13 — four bands come first

The main festival's first four are CRIMSON GLORY, OMEN and VOID from the US and SEX MACHINEGUNS from Japan. According to the organisers, it will be CRIMSON GLORY's first show in Japan since 1989, and the first ever in Japan for both OMEN and VOID. Which of the two days each band plays has not been announced.

The organisers present CRIMSON GLORY as a band of timeless US metal, OMEN as legends of epic metal, VOID, from Louisiana, as a young and uncompromising thrash and speed metal band, and SEX MACHINEGUNS as one of Japan's defining heavy metal bands.

Neither of the two CLUB CITTA' headliners has been announced yet, and the organisers say more bands will follow soon.

SABBAT at Koenji HIGH on November 11, SABBRABELLS at SERBIAN NIGHT, Kawasaki, on November 14

The warm-up show at Koenji HIGH in Tokyo on Thursday, November 11, the night before the main festival, has SABBAT, the Japanese black and thrash metal band.

On the last day, Sunday, November 14, the after-show is at SERBIAN NIGHT in Kawasaki, a three-minute walk from CLUB CITTA', with SABBRABELLS, whom the organisers present as cult figures of Japanese heavy metal of the 1980s.

The announcement's flyer says "and more.." under the main festival, the warm-up show and the after-show alike, so more bands are to come.

Advance tickets from 21:00 on November 10 — the 4-day passes are 100 at the early-bird price and 100 at the regular price

Advance tickets go on sale on CHROSH's web shop at 21:00 JST on Tuesday, November 10, which the organisers also give as 13:00 in Germany.

The 4-day pass, for all four days, costs 45,000 yen at the early-bird price (SHOGUN EDITION) and 47,000 yen at the regular price (SAMURAI EDITION), 100 of each. A 2-day pass for the main festival (RISING SUN TICKET) costs 35,000 yen, a 1-day ticket for the main festival (KATANA TICKET) 17,500 yen, the warm-up show (RONIN TICKET) 5,500 yen and the after-show (MIDNIGHT SUN TICKET) 6,500 yen.

Door and start times have not been announced yet.

Germany's Keep It True comes to Japan for the first time — at CLUB CITTA', where many live albums were recorded

Keep It True is a German festival devoted to old-school heavy metal. CHROSH announced on April 12, 2026 that it would come to Japan in 2027, and the dates and venues followed on November 6.

Of the main festival's venue, Keep It True says CLUB CITTA' is more than a concert hall, a piece of heavy metal history, and names live albums recorded there: VICIOUS RUMORS' "Plug In and Hang On", SAVATAGE's "Japan Live '94", RAVEN's "Destroy All Monsters", LAAZ ROCKIT's "Taste of Rebellion" and UFO's "Lights Out in Tokyo".

Keep It True says the Japanese fans' knowledge of heavy metal and their love of the underground are what the festival has stood for from the start, and invites fans from Germany, Europe and all over the world to make the journey to Japan.