ACME (アクメ) - JROCK NEWS

ACME’s “Gekkouyoku” music video is serene with a heavy side

4 September 2021

ACME released their single Gekkouyoku on August 25 and upon its arrival, revealed the accompanying music video for the emotionally heavy rock number. This sees the band perform in a dark, foggy, and dimly-lit s...

Ex-Slipknot Joey Jordison passes, creates wave of emotions in Japan

NBT and Dorian

30 July 2021

News

Former drummer Joey Jordison, one of the founding members of the American metal band Slipknot, has passed away at the age of 46. The cause of death hasn't been made public, but Billboard received a statement fr...

ACME tours USA again with “Unbreakable Tour 2021”

Ziggy

10 July 2021

Tour

After a long pause from performing on international stages, ACME is back to reintroduce visual kei to the USA with a four-date tour across four states this fall. The "Unbreakable Tour 2021" takes ACME across Am...

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

Sizergyia

10 April 2021

Music Video, Releases

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...