JILUKA Archives

JILUKA unleashes intoxicating single “VENOM”!

29 September 2023

The visual kei band JILUKA unleashes its intoxicating single VENOM (VENΦM) today at the concert at Shibuya Spotify O-WEST venue, selling as a physical limited edition before hitting digital stores and streaming...

Visual kei pioneers JILUKA make North American debut at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2023

Astrid

8 August 2023

Tour and event

Cutting-edge visual kei band JILUKA joins the musical guest lineup for Anime Weekend Atlanta (AWA), held from October 26–29 at Renaissance Waverly and Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia. AWA marks the gro...

22 Jrock artists bring tarot cards to life in “Cartoromancy”

Erica

10 December 2022

Entertainment

Prepare to enter a world of darkness and mystery, with the upcoming "Real-Life Tarot Cards Project" Cartoromancy. The project, headed by renowned guitarist and producer Mana (Malice Mizer, Moi-Dix-Mois), featur...

Moi-même-Moitié gathers 6 visual kei artists for anniversary tea party

Erica

17 October 2022

Entertainment, Tour and event

Celebrating its 23rd anniversary, gothic lolita brand Moi-même-Moitié will hold an official tea party in Tokyo on December 19. The event, Moi-même-Moitié Official Tea Party -Gensouteki na Teien ni manekareta Se...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2021

NBT, Dorian, NoMusicNoReason, Erica, G Andrew White, Sizergyia, Mazohyst_Kyo and Ziggy

30 December 2021

Entertainment

We're not sure if the world has gotten any better this year, however, thanks to the amazing music and related activities that kept our spirits up, we're ready to move on to the next year! To end this unprece...

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

NBT and Dorian

30 July 2021

Entertainment

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...

JILUKA joins HYPER JAPAN ONLINE with concert and Q&A session

Ziggy

6 July 2021

Online Concert

JILUKA joins the ever-growing list of exhibitors taking part in HYPER JAPAN ONLINE with an offering of never-before-released concert footage followed by a live Q&A session on August 8. Alongside standard...

Chaotic Harmony holds free livestreams featuring JILUKA, ANONYMOUS, and more

NoMusicNoReason

6 February 2021

Online Concert

To celebrate the Japanese music promotion company Chaotic Harmony's 5th birthday, they are bringing concerts directly to your home via livestream! Get ready to rock out every Saturday in the month of February w...

Best Jrock music of 2020: JROCK NEWS staff picks

Sizergyia, afaenia, Dorian, Mazohyst_Kyo, Midnight, G Andrew White, NBT, NoMusicNoReason and edoh+

19 January 2021

Entertainment, Music Video

The year 2020 saw the coronavirus pandemic take center stage, making this year feel longer than usual as we isolated indoors for months on end. On the bright side, however, releases from our favorite artists ke...

JILUKA drops “Edifice” video from long awaited mini-album “Xtopia”

edoh+

20 October 2020

Music Video, Releases

It's been almost one year since JILUKA pushed out their previous release, but they've returned with a new mini-album Xtopia which just came out on October 14. From this, the band serves us a new music video for...

Sena (JILUKA) will help you improve your guitar skills in just 1 week!

Dorian

12 August 2020

Entertainment, Videos

Desperately struggling with your guitar during lockdown? No problem, Sena from JILUKA heard your scream of pain and recently shared a video on his YouTube channel, dubbing the video "The basic guitar practice r...

Interview: The uniqueness that is “JILUKA”

Dorian

10 August 2020

Interview

The technical metal band JILUKA has reached its fifth anniversary, celebrating years of amazing metal and consistent on-point visuals. Unfortunately, due to the times that we live in, the band hasn't been ab...

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...

JILUKA updates music video “Screamer -2019 XND-” for best-of album “XANADU”

Sizergyia

27 November 2019

Music Video, Releases

JILUKA was finally able to release their best-of album XANADU on November 13 and to accompany it was a new song Elice in slow motion complete with a music video. Following it up with the XANADU version music...