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Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2025

Mar 2, 2026

In 2025, the anime music world offered fans a great diversity of opening and ending songs, highlighted by a resurgence of rock-oriented sounds. We saw the rise of metal icons like Ave Mujica, who left fans brea...

Top 10 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2025

Erica, NBT, Jack, Mazohyst_Kyo and Jorge M.

Jan 19, 2026

Entertainment

Welcome to our annual JROCK NEWS Top 10 ranking! Each year, we strive to highlight the visual kei and Japanese rock artists who made waves, and 2025 was a fiercely competitive year. From ambitious worldwide tou...

Paledusk writes single “HUGs” as opening theme for “Gachiakuta” anime

Jorge M.

Jun 16, 2025

Anime, Releases

The anime adaptation of the trashpunk manga Gachiakuta has confirmed Paledusk as the performers of the opening theme, titled HUGs. This marks the metalcore band's first-ever anime song.Gachiakuta creators K...

Top 10 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2023

Erica, Nori, Astrid and Kayla

Jan 1, 2024

Entertainment

With pandemic restrictions easing, Japanese bands are now boldly crossing borders once again. Our 2023 top list celebrates exceptional visual kei and Japanese rock artists who not only transcended geogr...

Paledusk Rumble featuring Masato Coldrain

PALEDUSK’s electrifying music video “RUMBLE” inspires creative resilience

Kayla

Oct 21, 2023

Music Video

The ever-eclectic and experimental PALEDUSK offer a feast of the senses with its exciting new music video RUMBLE, featuring vocalist Masato from coldrain. The highly anticipated music video was released on Octo...

Interview with Jose Mangin: Metal Ambassador on Jrock and Jmetal

G Andrew White

Oct 18, 2022

Interview

During our coverage of Jrock bands at Aftershock Festival 2022 in Sacramento, CA, we sat down with the official host, Jose Mangin. He is regarded as the most distinguished personality in hard rock and metal tod...

TRiDENT levels up with electrifying single “Spoopy”, arranged by DAIDAI (Paledusk)

G Andrew White

May 24, 2022

Music Video, Releases

Japan's next-generation girls rock band, TRiDENT, digitally releases the single Spoopy on May 22, taken from their upcoming album D-X. With the song and music video taking on the theme “coexistence of horror an...