is a monthly Japanese magazine for fans of

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, published since September 1984. It is the major publication on heavy metal music in the country. As of 2013, it is published by Shinko Music Entertainment in

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. The magazine's content is in Japanese and largely focuses on Western artists, while the covers are predominantly in English.

History

Despite being a Japanese magazine, a Japanese musician was not featured on the cover of ''Burrn!'' until the January 2016 issue featured

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on its cover. This does not include the separate ''Burrn! Japan'' magazine, which was published for six volumes between 1987 and 1990 to focus on Japanese artists, before being revived in 2016. This has been said to have been the policy of ''Burrn!''s editor-in-chief from 1984 to 1993, Kō Sakai. ''Metallion'' is a special issue of ''Burrn!'' first published in 1986 before being suspended in 1991. It is now published irregularly since 1999. In a now-infamous November 1985 review, Sakai gave Seikima-II's debut album, ''Seikima-II ~ Akuma ga Kitarite Heavy Metal'', a rating of 0. For the next 35 years, the band did not have any contact with ''Burrn!''. At the end of 2020, current editor-in-chief Kazuo Hirose went to a Seikima-II event and offered to interview them for the magazine. They were subsequently featured on the cover of and interviewed for the March 2021 issue.

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Shinko MusicInterviews and articles in Burnn!
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