D'espairsRay Archives

Interview with HAKUEI and Karyu: Wholesome talk between shy people

3 May 2023

This interview was originally published by “club Zy.” in Japanese. JROCK NEWS is partnering with club Zy. and Vijuttoke with the aim to popularize Japanese visual kei globally. Learn more about our partnership ...

Interview with HAKUEI and HIZUMI: Hardships as vocalists

Dorian, Rin, Peertje and afaenia

1 July 2022

Interview

This interview was originally published by “club Zy.” in Japanese. JROCK NEWS is partnering with club Zy. and Vijuttoke with the aim to popularize Japanese visual kei globally. Learn more about our partnership ...

D’espairsRay members revive session band Luv PARADE

Sizergyia and Dorian

2 April 2022

New Band, New Look, Tour and event

Former D'espairsRay members have after more than a decade revived their session band Luv PARADE, consisting of guitarist Karyu, bassist ZERO, and drummer TSUKASA! Vocalist HIZUMI formerly in D'espairsRay also m...

Karyu of ex-D’espairsRay begins mysterious solo project

Erica

10 February 2022

New Band

On February 7, former guitarist Karyu of D'espairsRay and currently-on-hiatus ANGELO officially launched his solo project, "Karyu". Karyu released artist photos and opened an official website, Twitter and Insta...

HIZUMI brings back scream vocals in “XStream”, NUL.’s first music video

NBT

1 November 2019

Music Video

It's been a long time coming, but today is finally the day we get to formally introduce NUL.'s music with their first music video, XStream! This is where you'll find vocalist HIZUMI's screaming voice in shape w...

Interview with HIZUMI: NUL., a conceptless band with infinite potential

NBT and afaenia

22 October 2019

Interview

After seeing and experiencing NUL.'s first performance on August 16, our minds were filled with questions! We decided to meet up with HIZUMI a couple of days later to get these questions answered. In case yo...

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

Nexus

25 May 2019

New Band, New Look

Former D’espairsRay vocalist HIZUMI will form a new band called “NUL.” together with Toshiyuki Kishi from abingdon boys school, and MASATO from defspiral! D’espairsRay were vigorously active not only domesti...

HIZUMI shares video message on collaboration with GAN-SHIN

NBT

22 February 2019

Entertainment, Videos

It's been a really long time since we last seen a video message from HIZUMI himself, the former vocalist of the legendary visual kei band D'espairsRay. This time around, HIZUMI is here to bring us a special mes...

Interview: HIZUMI shares lifestyle as designer and UMBRELLA overseas expansion plans

NBT

5 November 2018

Interview

HIZUMI who withdrawn from the music industry has been focusing on his design brand UMBRELLA the past seven years. Recently, HIZUMI and GANSHIN revealed a collaboration which meant UMBRELLA was finally expanding...

UMBRELLA by HIZUMI (D’espairsRay) collaborates with GANSHIN to produce exclusive goods

NBT

28 June 2018

Entertainment

HIZUMI who in the past partook as the vocalist in D'espairsRay is continually expanding his design and fashion brand UMBRELLA to make it more accessible worldwide! In a recent announcement made by the Europe-ba...

Interview: The current activities of HIZUMI, former vocalist of D’espairsRay

NBT

10 April 2017

Featured, Interview

Just hearing the name "HIZUMI" probably takes most of you back to the days when visual kei was blooming in the west, during the time when he was still active as the vocalist of D'espairsRay. Yes, those were the...

Jrockers Covering Jrock Songs

edoh+

10 October 2015

Entertainment

Edohsama cruising on the internet to bring you an interesting topic once again. Today I came across a video of GACKT covering L'arc~En~Ciel's STAY AWAY and Ready Steady Go. They even reproduce the dance from th...

Meet Hizumi (D’espairsRay) in Kansas, US This Spring

NBT

29 January 2015

Tour and event

It's been quite some time since we covered news regarding the former vocalist of D'espairsRay – who now works as a designer in his company: Umbrella. However, the big news this week was announced by the convent...

Tsukasa makes enka solo debut!

NBT

10 September 2014

New Band, New Look, Videos

TSUKASA of THE MICRO HEAD 4N'S is the first artist to incorporate visual kei with enka. A crossfade of his first single "Hitohira no sakura" was released and he actually sounds pretty skilled. https://www....