D4 succinctly sum up their musical manifesto in the title of the first track of their debut album. It's called "Rock 'n' roll Motherf**ker" and, when you consider the album, "6Twenty," also includes cover versions of originals by Guitar Wolf and Johnny Thunders, you can guess at the extent of the aural bombardment you're gonna get at their upcoming Japan shows.

D4 mutilate the blues by revving it up to breakneck speed and there's very few bands -- if any -- in the current garage-punk pantheon that play faster and harder rock 'n' roll than these four New Zealanders.

What makes the shows even more unmissable is that instead of having to hear garage-punk music being sucked into the sky at one of the summer festivals or larger halls such as Blitz or Ax, here we're getting it where it demands to be heard -- in the sweaty confines of a small club where it can bounce off the walls and revel in its power.

At live shows D4 go for the kill from the start. They'll detonate a wall of sound and cram in as many blistering two-minute songs as possible in the 40 minutes or so they'll be on the stage, with few, if any, pauses.

It's likely there will be more than a few mosh-pit casualties, and cotton-wool in the ears is highly recommended -- you'll need it to stem the flow of blood when those ear drums explode.