4/16/2008

Weather bureau makes heavy metal song to plug earthquake early warning system
Mainichi News – April 16, 2008, SENDAI — The Sendai District Meteorological Observatory has produced a heavy metal song to promote a recently developed earthquake early warning system...more...

Singing the catchy, headbanging “Earthquake Early Warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho” *, here’s my special extended remix of the public service announcement.

Earthquake Early Warning, the death metal jingle (MP3, 1.5MB)

Listen to 15-second “Earthquake Early Warning” public service announcement provided by the official Sendai Meteorological Observatory (complete with a squeaky bimbo chorus).

And here’s an alternative way to download and listen to my special remix of the “Heavy Metal” verision of the earthquake early warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho.”href=”#cite1″ name=”footnote1″>* 緊急地震速報 means Earthquake Early Warning in Japanese kanji.