Unlucky Morpheus Archives

Unlucky Morpheus promises sophisticated yet wild album “evolution”

2 March 2022

Unlucky Morpheus has announced a new album titled "evolution" which goes on sale on April 27! This is the band's first album in about two years since "Unfinished" was released back in 2020. With the recent reve...

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...

Unlucky Morpheus’ explosive “M” Revolution music video expands the “M”-series

NBT

22 May 2021

Doujin, Music Video, New Look

After previously releasing the music video Top of the "M" from the latest album Unfinished, Unlucky Morpheus brings yet another explosive video "M" Revolution that is the second work in the "M"-series. "M" R...

Start the new year with these Japanese livestreams in January

Midnight

1 January 2021

Online Concert, Tour and event

If your new year's resolution is to watch more live music events, you're in the right place. We've rounded up as many Japanese livestreams as we could currently find; however, like last month, more streams will...

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...

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...

Buying music at Comiket, Japan’s biggest fan convention

NBT

25 September 2019

Doujin, Entertainment, Review

Earlier this summer, the JROCK NEWS team headed over to Japan's largest fan convention, Comiket, a biannual event focused on doujin (self-published) goods. This may include work by illustrators, authors, techni...

METAL MATSURI is London’s first all-Japanese heavy metal festival

edoh+

3 September 2019

Tour and event

METAL MATSURI boasting a huge collection of Japanese bands on October 4–5, 2019 at O2 Academy Islington London, headlined by Mary's Blood on the first day then Unlucky Morpheus on the second. Special guest host...

SYU from GALNERYUS puts Fuki on vocals for “Reason”, an explosive power metal extravaganza

NBT

23 January 2019

Doujin, Music Video, Releases

Guitarist SYU from the band GALNERYUS reveals his new masterpiece Reason in form of a music video, featuring strong vocals by Fuki who is a big name in the Japanese doujin metal scene. The music video was relea...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese acts of 2018

NBT

17 December 2018

Entertainment

It is the time of the year where we once again take a look at all the great music contributions. This time around we have done it slightly differently. Instead of solely using sales numbers to determine the ord...

The 3 best brutal metal bands from the doujin scene

NBT

3 July 2017

Doujin, Entertainment

In this edition of our metal doujin compilation we want to shine a light on three darker kinds of metal groups that ignited our senses! Some of the releases here are recent releases, some a bit older, but what ...

Jyo metal singer, Fuki to perform at HYPER JAPAN winter market

edoh+

25 October 2016

Tour and event

As well as our beloved HIZAKI performing at this year's HYPER JAPAN, HYPER Live stage will also be the stage for jyo metal singer Fuki. “Jyo metal” is a subgenre of J-metal consisting of bands either fronted by...

Unlucky Morpheus’ “Satsuriku no miseria”

NBT

6 September 2014

Doujin, Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhzq_yCeU54 Great power metal song by Unlucky Morpheus! The same vocalist of DOLL$BOXX, Light Bringer and Dragon Guardian. Members: Vocals: Fuyuki Tenge Guitars: seiya ...