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SCANDAL

Scandal (スキャンダル) is a four-piece Japanese pop-rock and punk-rock band from Osaka, featuring HARUNA on vocals, MAMI guitar, TOMOMI on bass and RINA on drums.

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2020

NBT, afaenia, Mazohyst_Kyo, G Andrew White, Ziggy, edoh+ and Sizergyia
Dec 30, 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...

Rummaging for gold in CDJapan’s Black Friday sale

edoh+
Nov 21, 2020
Entertainment
It's that time of year we've all been waiting for to bag a bargain, so what does CDJapan have in store for us? They've started their Black Friday sale already, so we rummaged the pile of discounted goodies in t...

SCANDAL collaborates with animation team to produce “SPICE” single

edoh+
Jul 18, 2020
Music Video, Releases
Released on July 15, SCANDAL’s latest single SPICE is the product of collaboration based on the theme of courage and understanding. Joining them with animation project team X-FLAG—formed of members from animati...

SiM brings together 25 bands in “BASEBALL BAT” music video, from 5th album

NBT
Jun 4, 2020
Music Video, Releases
The fifth full-length album from SiM is finally up for grabs on June 17 after being delayed from its initial April 15 release. It of course retains its mouthful name "THANK GOD, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF WAYS TO Ki...

SCANDAL’s drummer Rina starts YouTube vlog channel

edoh+ and NBT
May 24, 2020
Entertainment
It's only been a few days since we wrote about SCANDAL's new digital single and we have more good news as drummer Rina has started a vlog channel on YouTube.With an adorable name, "tiny channel by rina"—ref...
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SCANDAL spins up home recording for “Living in the city” digital single

edoh+
May 22, 2020
Releases, Tour and event
Whilst many of us have had to stay indoors whilst wrestling with slow wifi and binge-eating snacks to fill the void, SCANDAL has been tirelessly crafting a new track titled Living in the city that will be out d...
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Review: SCANDAL revives rock roots in “Kiss from the darkness”

G Andrew White
Feb 23, 2020
Report and review
SCANDAL's Kiss from the darkness shines brightly with their former style of pop-rock in combination with strong rhythms and uplifting lyrics. They demonstrate the likeability and mastery that has made them a re...

Dance in the dark to SCANDAL’s “Tonight” video from “Kiss from the darkness” album

edoh+
Feb 12, 2020
Music Video, Releases
When SCANDAL's new music video for Tonight popped up on YouTube, we played it expecting to hear another aggressive girl-power track that'll get our hearts pumped—meaning another sleepless night for us—but boy w...

The decade of Jrock girl bands

G Andrew White
Dec 29, 2019
Entertainment
In the decade of 2010, there has been a noticeable "girls band boom" where Japanese female musicians have stepped onto the international stage to rock as hard as the boys do. This fascinating phenomenon of musi...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese rock artists 2019

NBT
Dec 26, 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...
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SCANDAL breaks into full sprint for “GeGeGe no Kitaro” anime with “A.M.D.K.J.”

G Andrew White
Dec 3, 2019
Anime, Music Video, Releases
Toei Animation selects SCANDAL's A.M.D.K.J. for the ending theme to spirit-monster themed anime GeGeGe no Kitaro (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎). The upbeat tune will be in the manga series starting January 2020. Yet little is known...

SCANDAL drops addictive “Saishuheiki Kimi” music video

NoMusicNoReason
Nov 14, 2019
Music Video, Releases
SCANDAL unveiled a visually stunning music video for their newest composition, a digital single titled Saishuheiki Kimi (最終兵器、君) which roughly translates to "final weapon, you". This is the second digital singl...

SCANDAL gets all “Fuzzy” with a summer romance

edoh+
Aug 9, 2019
Music Video
Don't mind the pun. Summer will be ending soon and SCANDAL has breezed in really casually to remind us how we're wasting our youth if we've not had a summer romance this year, but also incredibly smart because ...

SCANDAL celebrates spring love in “Mabataki” music video

Jennie
Mar 30, 2019
Music Video
SCANDAL follows up their previous heavy-hitting music video, Masterpiece, by embracing a softer side in the second half of this double A-side single, Mabataki. The single drops March 27. Where we were transport...
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