NIGHTMARE Archives

NIGHTMARE tours Europe in 2025 for “The WORLD TOUR Kyokutou Ranshin Tengoku”

17 October 2024

Legendary visual kei band NIGHTMARE will set off on its first-ever European tour in January 2025! The tour titled "NIGHTMARE The WORLD TOUR Kyokutou Ranshin Tengoku" consists of nine shows in seven countries. ...

NIGHTMARE gets adrenaline pumping in “Re:Do” music video

Erica

3 March 2022

Music Video, Releases

NIGHTMARE releases its first new album in 7 years, NOX:LUX on March 16. Ahead of this highly anticipated release, NIGHTMARE treats us with a taste of the new album with the music video for "Re:Do". Re:Do is the...

NIGHTMARE’s first album in 7 years, “NOX:LUX”

Erica

3 January 2022

Releases, Tour and event

NIGHTMARE announced a new full album titled NOX:LUX is coming March 16, 2022. NOX:LUX is NIGHTMARE's first new album since reuniting in 2019. Its prior full album was Carpe Diem, released in 2015, making it the...

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...

NIGHTMARE’s Emergency Online Livestream hosts shocking guest

Erica

27 June 2021

Online Concert

On June 13th visual kei pillar NIGHTMARE announced an "Emergency Online Live", with only hours notice before cameras rolled. On June 15th they took to the virtual stage on Youtube, amassing thousands of viewers...

NIGHTMARE sounds the alarm for “Emergency Online Live”, to be streamed internationally!

Erica

14 June 2021

Online Concert

With only hours of notice, visual kei band NIGHTMARE sounded the alarm for an "Emergency Online Live" to be streamed simultaneously around the world on Tuesday, June 15, 19:00 JST, on their official YouTube Cha...

NIGHTMARE’s “cry for the moon” music video gives sense of velocity

Sizergyia

7 March 2021

Music Video, Releases

NIGHTMARE released their single cry for the moon on March 3 and accompanied it with a black and white music video full of flashing intersecting lasers. These lasers are matched with the dreamy and trance-like s...

NIGHTMARE reveals more details for single “cry for the moon” with gallant look

Ziggy

24 January 2021

New Look, Releases

NIGHTMARE has released further details for their upcoming single cry for the moon, revealing track titles and a bold gallant new look. With an impressionably dark and bold styling NIGHTMARE has appeared befo...

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...

Amazing visual kei designer items, when fashion meets music

Dorian

14 December 2020

Entertainment

If you are visual kei lovers just like us, chances are you have a strong interest in fashion and even Japanese apparel and accessories brands. What if we told you that your inner desire to express yourself thro...

NIGHTMARE expresses new emotions in “cry for the moon” single

Ziggy

11 December 2020

New Look, Releases

NIGHTMARE has announced plans for a spring 2021 tour and single release, giving further hope to fans of a permanent return from hiatus with the release of cry for the moon on March 3, 2021. With their latest si...

Japanese livestreams to check out in December

Midnight

5 December 2020

Online Concert, Tour and event

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...

NIGHTMARE’s “ink” music video has us feeling warm and fuzzy

Sizergyia

28 September 2020

Music Video, Releases

Can you believe NIGHTMARE has been around for 20 years now? No, nor can we. To commemorate the occasion the band will release single ink on October 7 and they now have a music video for the title track. W...

NIGHTMARE returns in splash of new color for single “ink”

Ziggy

1 September 2020

New Look, Releases

NIGHTMARE is bringing a splash of new color and life into its upcoming single ink. With the announcement, further tracklist details and colorful new artist photos have been unveiled for this single that is due ...