JROCK NEWS — Japanese Rock Music News

Hueye displays polar concepts in “Anesthesia” and “Rousoku to Black Out” videos

15 September 2019

Music Video, Releases

STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION’s first release in 3 years “Chronos” featured in anime “Shokugeki no Souma”

14 September 2019

Anime, Releases

ACME collaborates with fashion brand maxsix for “WONDERFUL WORLD” T-shirt

14 September 2019

breakin’ holiday’s Juri turns demonic in “Kaibutsu” music video

13 September 2019

Music Video, Releases

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Kenshi Yonezu belts out a ballad in “Uma to Shika”

12 September 2019

Music Video, Releases

Latest News

GARNiDELiA parts ways with Sony Music Entertainment

NoMusicNoReason

11 September 2019

GARNiDELiA, the duo formed by vocalist MARiA, and producer toku, agreed not to renew their contract with SACRA MUSIC, thus they will be parting ways with the label following the expiration of their contract. Th...

Report: DEVILOOF unleashes chaos upon RizM in Tokyo

10 September 2019

The August 13 "RYTHME OF X BEAT vol.1" performance at RizM was one shared by many talented acts, such as WING WORKS, CHOKE, DEXCORE, breakin’ holiday, and AIOLIN. Although there was a lot to be heard and some m...

04 Limited Sazabys collaborates with GUNDAM in “Puzzle”

10 September 2019

Four-piece rock band 04 Limited Sazabys has released a new single Seed after a year of waiting and its title-track Puzzle has been used to promote GUNDAM BATTLE: GUNPLA WARFARE mobile game. You can have a liste...

MAN WITH A MISSION drops “Dark Crow” EP featured in Vinland Saga anime

9 September 2019

Wolfmen MAN WITH A MISSION are back in town and this time they have a new single Dark Crow set for October 23. The title track will be aired as the new opening theme for Vinland Saga from the Sunday, September ...

THE GALLO find themselves charmed in “VITCH” video

9 September 2019

Music Video, New Look, Releases

When the release of THE GALLO's new single VITCH was announced, it had us second-guessing its song title that can allude to profane words and where the band's guaranteed humor was taking us for this release. No...

frederic’s EP “VISION” DVD takes us through a funky documentary of their 2019 tour

8 September 2019

Releases, Videos

frederic will release their second EP VISION tomorrow on October 9 that will hit stores in two editions and in turn, have revealed footage from the DVD featured on the limited edition! Here you can see snipp...

DEXCORE previews “DON’T BE AFRAID” single suggesting distinct but aggressive songs

4 September 2019

Releases, Videos

DEXCORE already took the time to reveal the beautiful but aggressive DON'T BE AFRAID music video before the single is out on September 11. Now they're right back at it, bringing more hype to the single with a s...

DEVILOOF collaborates with apparel brand ALTER VENOMV on limited parka

4 September 2019

DEVILOOF has announced that they have collaborated with apparel brand ALTER VENOMV on a limited edition parka! The design consists of artwork from the band's releases thus far and will be available worldwide fr...

Kuro UNiTE returns with traditional visuals for “Kuro no Houkou” mini-album

4 September 2019

New Look, Releases

Kuro UNiTE is back! The darker alter-ego to UNiTE returns with the release of their first mini-album Kuro no Houkou out on October 2 containing 10 tracks in total—the last five of which are instrumentals. ...

METAL MATSURI is London’s first all-Japanese Heavy Metal festival

3 September 2019

METAL MATSURI boasting a huge collection of Japanese bands on 4–5 October 2019 at O2 Academy Islington London, headlined by Mary's Blood on the first day then Unlucky Morpheus on the second. Special guest host ...

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Kenshi Yonezu belts out a ballad in “Uma to Shika”

12 September 2019

Music Video, Releases

Kenshi Yonezu's music video for Uma to Shika released on September 2 and it has garnered over 10 million views on YouTube in a week. At the start, we see the To...

GARNiDELiA parts ways with Sony Music Entertainment

NoMusicNoReason

11 September 2019

THE GALLO find themselves charmed in “VITCH” video

9 September 2019

Music Video, New Look, Releases

frederic’s EP “VISION” DVD takes us through a funky documentary of their 2019 tour

8 September 2019

Releases, Videos

DEXCORE previews “DON’T BE AFRAID” single suggesting distinct but aggressive songs

4 September 2019

Releases, Videos

Tours

MAN WITH A MISSION drops “Dark Crow” EP featured in Vinland Saga anime

9 September 2019

Wolfmen MAN WITH A MISSION are back in town and this time they have a new single Dark Crow set for October 23. The title track will be aired as the new opening ...

METAL MATSURI is London’s first all-Japanese Heavy Metal festival

3 September 2019

L’Arc-en-Ciel surprises with first tour in 8 years

3 September 2019

Mary’s Blood announce first show aboard in UK and international version of “CONFESSiONS”

1 September 2019

BABYMETAL sends you straight to hell in English version of “Elevator Girl”

23 August 2019

Music Video, Tour

New Bands

Ashmaze. arises out of members from LACK-CO., Far East Dizain, and BLESSCODE

22 August 2019

Music Video, New Band, Releases

Ashmaze. is a new band on the scene whose members' experience varies from long-time players to up-and-coming performers in the scene. The lineup consists of ...

Former VEXENT drummer LEVI debuts as rapper in boy group “ALTL code name:alice to tales”

16 July 2019

Music Video, New Band

Gossip members reborn as NICOLAS with 1st single “Mahiru no Shinkirou”

NoMusicNoReason

10 June 2019

Music Video, New Band, Releases

HIZUMI (ex-D’espairsRay) forms new band NUL.

25 May 2019

New Band, New Look

New band Rumbless. delivers beautiful “catastrophe”, with help of Ryo (girugamesh)

13 May 2019

Music Video, New Band

Entertainment

Jrock word-search level 3

16 August 2019

A big hand to everyone who completed the Level 2—Tora Mode word-search last week! Here is the leaderboard of the fastest...

Summer Sonic 2019 Tokyo to live-stream on YouTube

15 August 2019

Entertainment, Tour

Very soon Summer Sonic 2019 Tokyo will be live-streamed on YouTube and will cover the four main stages titled MARINE, MO...

Jrock word-search level 2

2 August 2019

Congratulations to everyone who completed the Level 1—Usagi Mode word-search last week! Here is the leaderboard of the f...

KAMIJO to launch trilogy of singles illustrated by Castlevania artist

26 July 2019

Entertainment, Tour

KAMIJO will release a trilogy of singles from October to 2020. So far there isn't any more information on the dates they...

Jrock word-search level 1

24 July 2019

Those who have been following us on Instagram stories will have seen our call for readers to submit the hardest to remem...

GACKT’s iconic song “Vanilla” turns 20

15 July 2019

It's the 20th anniversary for one of GACKT's most famous tunes, which means the singer, actor, and frequent gym-goer was...

Release Schedule

September 2019 — release schedule

1 September 2019

Monthly Release Schedule

September is now upon us. Here's your monthly list of what to look forward to this month! Date Artist Release T...

August 2019 — release schedule

9 August 2019

Monthly Release Schedule

Greetings! We apologize for a long delay with the schedule for August. If you plan to make a purchase worth 5000yen be s...