GUITAR WOLF, JAPAN’S GREATEST ‘JET ROCK’N’ROLL’ BAND, RETURN TO AUSTRALIA WITH MORE JET IN MARCH!

Shane | 17 February 2026 | Reply

GUITAR WOLF, JAPAN’S GREATEST ‘JET ROCK’N’ROLL’ BAND, RETURN TO AUSTRALIA WITH MORE JET IN MARCH!

The nonstop roar continues — Following insane Australian tours in 2023 and just a year ago in early 2025, Tokyo’s Guitar Wolf are set to return to Australia in March, dragging a new album.

Starting in Perth & Freo, the tour also takes in the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, Sydney and Wollongong, and Bendigo, Castlemaine, Melbourne, Frankston and Balnarring. Supports include Alien Nosejob, Split System and Itchy & the Nits with more to be announced,

Guitar Wolf’s first new album in 7 years, MORE JET! will be released locally on Sorcerer Records in time for the tour and available at the shows and cool indie record stores through Magnetic South distribution. It’s preceded by the first single “9PM Pornomag Planet”, which is available now from the band’s Bandcamp page. Guitar Wolf New Album after 7 years Release confirmed!!!

Once again, it’s Jet!

When Seiji shouts “Jet!”

A bolt of lightning crashes down on Guitar Wolf Seiji’s head with a ZGYAAN! His body sizzles and burns hot, A colossal power born, BOGYAN ZSHAAN JAKIN~!—enough to cover the entire galaxy in space！

From the heavens, dazzling lightning illuminations crackle and race over the roaring guitars, bass, and drums,
Sparking and smoke explode with a Gyo-in! Jet Rock ‘n’ Roll blasts forth!!

Yes! That’s right!

This album captures that very sound. It’s the ultimate jet. I always want to burst out, crackling and popping! The sound, the songs, the live shows, the after-parties! I refuse to settle for anything ordinary!

We’ve made an album so hot it’ll burn you.

I want to drive everyone crazy! No, I want to make them sane!

Wake up! This is the real rock ‘n’ roll!

– Seiji (Guitar Wolf)

Since forming in 1987 and releasing their first album on Memphis’s legendary Goner Records in 1993 (following their first appearance at Gonerfest), Guitar Wolf, who are fronted by the heroic Seiji and always clothed head to toe in black leather, have taken their wild and dangerous sound to the world, working with labels like Matador and Third Man in the process. They have released 12 albums and are signed to a major label at home in Japan. They first toured Australia in the late ’90s, when Seiji rode on to the stage of a packed Tote on the back of a borrowed motorcycle.

Inspired by the ultra-violent records of ’50s guitar wielding maniac Link Wray as well as motorcycles, the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, the Cramps and Joan Jett, Seiji has called their sound ‘Jet Rock’n’Roll’, but that has nothing to do with Joan. As Seiji explained in an interview in 2012, “I love jet plane. I love noisy music, too. So…there were records…many records…every record have no big sounds. So…easy to listen. I hate that! So! I add jet sounds. Bwaaaahng! Explosion!” (When asked by the same interviewer who came up with the term Jet Rock, Seiji replied, “Me. Yeah, yeah. So we are #1 Japanese Jet Rock Band”.)

Guitar Wolf are movie stars themselves too, having starred in the low budget sci-fi horror movie Wild Zero in 1999, a sequel to which they announced in 2024.

Despite a number of line-up changes – they are now onto their third bass player Gotz, having suffered the death of original bassplayer Billy (Bass Wolf) by heart-attack aged 38 in 2005, and drummer Takuro has only been with them since 2022 – Guitar Wolf are founded on a singular vision and continue to push forward just as they remain the same.

As stated in their Official Bio on their website, Guitar Wolf “single-mindedly pursu(e) an unchanging style and radiat(e) power that transcends time and space.”

GUITAR WOLF AUSTRALIAN TOUR MARCH 2026

Sat 14 – Perth, Seasonal Brewing Co. w/ Aborted Tortoise
Sun 15 – Fremantle, The Buffalo Club w/ Aborted Tortoise
Wed 18 – Gold Coast, Vinnie’s Dive Bar w/ supports TBC
Thu 19 – Nambour, The Ramp w/ supports TBC
Fri 20 – Brisbane, Season Three w/ Future Shocks & Evil Dick Industries
Sat 21 – Sydney, Factory Fusebox w/ supports TBC
Sun 22 – Wollongong, La La La’s w/ Itchy & the Nits
Wed 25 – Bendigo, Trash Cult w/ supports TBC
Thu 26 – Castlemaine, Bridge Hotel w/ The Freedom Wave
Fri 27 – Melbourne, The Tote w/ Alien Nosejob & Cujo
Sat 28 – Frankston, Singing Bird w/ Split System & DJ Centipede & The Worms
Sun 29 – Balnarring, Social Club w/ Cry Cyclops