is a Japanese

music critic ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...

and

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, also known as Seisoku Ito and Masa Ito. His work is specialized in heavy metal and

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, and he is known as the leading music critic of Japan in this field. He has been quick to introduce new heavy metal bands to Japan, through writing for magazines such as ''

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'' and putting them on the air. Ito wrote the initial story draft of the 2022 film , based on the story of Japanese thrash metal band

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Appearances

TV

* ''Itō Seisoku no Rock City'' (

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) * ''Itō Seisoku no Rock TV!'' (BS Fuji)

Radio

* ''Power Rock Today'' ( Bay FM) * ''Rockadom'' (FM Fuji) * ''Rock On'' (

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) * ''Rock the Nation'' (Date fm) * ''Kyō wa Ichinichi Maru Maru Zanmai'' (

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)

Bibliography

* ''Yes Kamigami no Kyōen'' (Shinkō Gakufu Shuppansha, 1979) * ''Michael Schenker Flying V Densetsu'' (Shinkō Gakufu Shuppansha, March 1982) * ''Cozy Powell Kagirinaki Chōsen'' (Shinkō Music, November 1983) * ''Heavy Metal no Gyakushū'' (

Shinchosha is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: ''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (1985), ...

, April 1985) * ''Sēsoku no Housoku Jōgai Rantō Essay'' (Shinkō Music, March 1986) * ''Tsumi to Batsu: Official Ozzy Osbourne Story'' (CBS Sony Publishing, June 1986) * ''Dangen'' (Shinkō Music, February 1993) * ''Dangen Sono 2'' (Shinkō Music, February 1999) * ''Mokugeki Shōgen Heavy Metal no Shōzō'' (Gakken Publishing, July 2013) * ''Mokugeki Shōgen 2 (Heavy Metal: Tamashii no Tabiji)'' (Gakken Publishing, August 2014)

References

External links

Masanori Ito
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Masanori Ito's Rock City (Ito Masanori no Rock City)
Masanori Ito's show on tvk 1953 births Japanese music critics Japanese radio personalities Japanese music journalists Living people People from Hanamaki, Iwate Senshu University alumni Writers from Iwate Prefecture {{Asia-journalist-stub