Despite being a Japanese magazine, a Japanese musician was not featured on the cover of
Burrn! until the January 2016 issue featured
Akira Takasaki on its cover. This has been said to have been the policy of
Burrn!s editor-in-chief from 1984 to 1993, Kō Sakai.
Burrn! has held a readers poll annually since its founding in 1984. In 2019,
Mari Hamada become the first Japanese musician to top the vocalist category in the poll's 36 year history.
Metallion is a special issue of
Burrn! first published in 1986 before being suspended in 1991. It is now published irregularly since 1999. 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. ==References==