L'Arc-en-Ciel Archives

Interview with HYDE: Revealing Jekyll to the world

18 March 2025

HYDE awaits JROCK NEWS in a private conference room near The Novo club in downtown Los Angeles. It's the evening before his HYDE WORLD TOUR finale, yet the legendary vocalist has graciously set aside time to s...

Report: “Inside” HYDE’s world tour finale in Los Angeles

Nori

20 December 2024

Featured, Report and review

Jrock superstar HYDE descended upon Los Angeles on November 30 with his haunting carnival, marking the ultimate stop of the HYDE LIVE 2024 WORLD TOUR. HYDE’s travels had swept him across Asia—to Taipei, Hong K...

Interview with Saki Rose: Emerging solo vocalist in visual kei

Erica and Nori

8 April 2023

Interview

In February, JROCK NEWS was on the scene covering THE LAST ROCKSTARS' debut in New York City. While in Manhattan for the weekend, we reached out to independent musician, Jrock Afficianado and local Brooklynite ...

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...

New band “Petit Brabancon” includes members of DIR EN GREY, MUCC, L’arc-en-ciel!

Erica

7 December 2021

New Band, Releases

Prepare to meet the next Jrock superband—or should we say, monster-band?Without warning, the new band Petit Brabancon was announced shocking fans across genres. Petit Brabancon brings together five heavy-hi...

L’Arc-en-Ciel streams 30th L’Anniversary concert worldwide

edoh+

16 August 2021

Online Concert

The first show of L'Arc-en-Ciel’s L'Anniversary tour, “L'APPY BIRTHDAY!” will be streamed to global audiences worldwide on August 22, 2021.Celebrated on May 29th—30th this year at the Makuhari Messe, their ...

Report: HYDE creates art in motion at Heian Shrine

Erica

7 August 2021

Report and review

HYDE celebrated his 20th anniversary as a solo artist with a two-day concert at Heian Shrine in Kyoto, on July 31 and August 1. The dazzling event entertained a live audience and was also streamed virtually wor...

L’arc-en-ciel’s first new song in over 4 years, “Mirai”

NBT

19 July 2021

Game, Music Video, Releases

After L'arc-en-ciel surprised with a soon-to-release anime theme song "Forever" for EDENS ZERO, the band throws in another punch with the new single "Mirai"! This makes it their first new song in about four and...

L’Arc-en-Ciel reveals “Forever” as EDENS ZERO anime opening theme

Ziggy

4 July 2021

Anime, Releases

L'Arc-en-Ciel has been revealed as the opening theme song artist for anime EDENS ZERO with their song Forever. The song premiered as the newest cool opening theme song on July 3 when the most recent EDENS ZERO ...

L’arc-en-ciel celebrates 30th-anniversary with exclusive footage

NBT and Rin

9 March 2021

Online Concert

L'arc-en-ciel has joined hands with the Japanese TV-broadcasting station "WOWOW" for a special collaboration in conjunction with its 30th anniversary that happens to coincide with WOWOW's 30th anniversary as we...

Sono (Matenrou Opera) beautifully covers L’Arc~en~Ciel’s “winter fall”

edoh+ and afaenia

20 January 2021

Entertainment

Originally released in 1998, winter fall was L'Arc~en~Ciel's first-ever number-one single on Oricon charts, as well as being the first single with drummer yukihiro officially in the band. 23 years later after i...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2020

NBT, afaenia, Mazohyst_Kyo, G Andrew White, Ziggy, edoh+ and Sizergyia

30 December 2020

Entertainment

I think we can all agree that 2020 has been quite a crazy year, right? There's a lot of canceled concerts and a whole load of things that affected the scene. Despite all the setbacks, we've seen the music indus...

Many concerts canceled in Japan upon government request to battle coronavirus

NBT

26 February 2020

Japan, Tour and event

As reported by NHK WORLD-JAPAN, major gatherings such as sporting, cultural, and other events have now been requested to be canceled, an initiative of the Japanese government to battle the on-going coronavirus ...

L’Arc-en-Ciel lets you stream 487 of its songs worldwide!

NBT

10 December 2019

Music Video, Releases

As promised by L'Arc-en-Ciel, the important news which they referred to last week has finally been unveiled! For the first time in history, L'Arc-en-Ciel has made 487 of its songs available on major streaming s...