ACME (アクメ) - JROCK NEWS

ACME’s trippy “Come Back To You” video features representation for black women in visual kei

10 April 2021

ACME released their most ambitious creation, Come Back To You, on March 29 and the lead up to this single saw the reveal of the CD artwork and the music video preview, leaving fans wanting more. We didn't ha...

ACME’s most ambitious single “Come Back to You”, produced by Grammy-nominated songwriter

NBT

15 March 2021

New Look, Releases, Videos

ACME is climbing up the ladder with its most ambitious creation "Come Back to You", a digital single produced by Grammy-nominated Seann Bowe. Catch it on March 29 when it releases! A song said to transcend t...

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Interview with CDawgVA: Becoming a visual kei star with help of ACME

NBT

19 February 2021

Interview

The Youtuber CDawgVA, also known as "Connor", recently shared a very interesting video that introduces visual kei. But for him to actually get a good grasp of the whole movement, Connor ended up becoming a visu...

Youtuber “CDawgVA” joins ACME for 2 days, and on stage!

NBT

7 January 2021

Entertainment, Videos

The British Youtuber who now lives in Japan, "CDawgVA", or also known as Connor, recently joined ACME for two days in order to discover more about this thing called "visual kei"—I bet you never heard of it befo...

ACME takes us sightseeing around Tokyo in “RISING SUN” music video

Sizergyia

7 December 2020

Music Video, New Look, Releases

ACME released their single RISING SUN on November 18 as part of the band's two-month consecutive release with the first being single GIFT. So what better way to keep that hype rolling by revealing a music video...

Japanese livestreams to check out in December

Midnight

5 December 2020

Online Concert, Tour

We apologize for running late with this month's roundup of livestreams. As a note, you can still watch past-streams thanks to the playback feature which allows you to view "dead" streams days after a concert ha...

ACME rocks out on blustery rooftop in “Usogao” music video

Sizergyia

13 March 2020

Music Video, New Look, Releases

ACME had a rough start to the year, as their merch was stolen during their US tour. Despite that, the band pushed through the hardship and were able to release their digital-only single Usogao on March 4, and i...

ACME robbed during US-tour, opens GoFundMe in relief efforts

NBT

6 January 2020

News

Today we have to unfortunately share the heartbreaking story of ACME's tour van and trailer being broken into overnight during their US West Coast tour. This led to the band losing equipment and most of their m...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2019

NBT

26 December 2019

Entertainment

With our end-of-the-year artist ranking, we've always tried to stay somewhat objective in which bands we include. However, this year we decided to reach out to you, the people reading this right now! We asked y...

ACME channel ’90s visual kei for “WE ARE VISUALKEI” indies best-of album

Sizergyia

19 December 2019

New Look, Releases

ACME has confirmed that they will release an indies best-of album titled WE ARE VISUALKEI on January 22, 2020, and will feature 13 songs in total. It will, unfortunately, be live and distribution limited so you...

ACME keeps it heavy and emotive in “WONDERFUL WORLD” music video

Sizergyia

8 November 2019

Music Video, Releases

It was early on when ACME announced single WONDERFUL WORLD for an October 30 release, bringing style and class alongside a playful design in their artist photos, monochromatic music video preview, tracklist, an...

ACME take to US West Coast for 2020 tour

Ziggy

25 October 2019

Tour

ACME has made the wonderful announcement that they will once again be heading to the west coast of the United States this coming January, 2020. Hitting the new decade off with international shows gets us hopefu...

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

Sizergyia

14 September 2019

Releases

ACME announced the release of single WONDERFUL WORLD out on October 30 and with that, revealed new artist photos showing off their costumes made in collaboration with fashion brand maxsix. Now the band has t...

ACME envisions bleakness in “WONDERFUL WORLD” video preview

Sizergyia

28 August 2019

New Look, Releases, Videos

ACME is on a roll this year with three singles already under their belt, but now the band will release its fourth one titled WONDERFUL WORLD on October 30. In anticipation, they have also uploaded a music video...