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Interview: Chris Broad (Abroad in Japan), Youtuber who spent a week with HYDE

22 January 2020

Last month, Youtuber Chris Broad from the channel "Abroad in Japan" gave the world an extensive look into a Japanese rock star's life, and that rock star was no other than the legendary HYDE—famously known for ...

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Report: Hatsune Miku excites fans with metal performance!

NBT

15 January 2020

Review

Hatsune Miku who ended her first European tour in London 2018 is picking up from where she left off. With Miku Expo 2020, she started the tour in London, O2 Academy Brixton on January 11 and that’s exactly wher...

ACME robbed during US-tour, opens GoFundMe in relief efforts

NBT

6 January 2020

News

Today we have to unfortunately share the heartbreaking story of ACME's tour van and trailer being broken into overnight during their US West Coast tour. This led to the band losing equipment and most of their m...

Hatsune Miku and BIGBANG to perform at Coachella

NBT

4 January 2020

Tour

The line-up for this year's Coachella has been revealed and to our surprise, we were able to spot Hatsune Miku and the massive Korean boy band BIGBANG on the promotional material. Both of these acts are schedul...

Golden Bomber might have licked your newly bought album “Mou kohaku ni dashitekurenai”

NBT

28 December 2019

Entertainment, Releases, Videos

Golden Bomber keeps surprising us with shenanigans every time they release new music, and this time is no exception! To promote their latest album Mou kohaku ni dashitekurenai released today, December 28, the b...

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...

Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2019

NBT

23 December 2019

Anime, Entertainment, Music Video

Considering how hard it is to narrow down the greatest anime songs (anisong) every year, we decided to expand this year's list from 20 to 25 instead! It's been an amazing year of anime so to our best of abiliti...

British Youtuber spends a week with HYDE

NBT

22 December 2019

Entertainment, Videos

The YouTube channel Abroad in Japan, by the British youtuber Chris Broad, was lucky enough to spend six days with HYDE throughout his Zepp Tokyo concerts. In his journey condensed into 25 minutes, Chris manages...

Kenshi Yonezu’s “Lemon” hits 500 million views on YouTube

NBT

17 December 2019

Entertainment, Vocaloid

Kenshi Yonezu (米津玄師) who began his musical career under the name "Hachi" (ハチ) has over the years released an incredible amount of hit songs, appearing in commercials, drama series, anime, and much more. Regardl...

MAKE MY DAY’s 2nd album “Mind Haven” is mosh worthy!

NBT

13 December 2019

Music Video, Releases

The Tokyo-based post-hardcore and metalcore band MAKE MY DAY has announced their second full album Mind Haven for a January 29, 2020 release. The upcoming album features some heavy songs which fans have already...

KAMIJO’s fierce and brave single “Symbol of the Dragon” depicts Napoleon majestically

NBT

12 December 2019

Releases

KAMIJO is preparing for yet another dramatic release with the single Symbol of the Dragon, the second release out of the planned trilogy. Like the first act of the theatrical series, TEMPLE -Blood sucking for p...

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...

DIR EN GREY’s Kyo features members of 6XT7 for “Madara Ningen” fashion brand

NBT

7 December 2019

Entertainment, New Look

Madara Ningen is the fashion brand by vocalist Kyo of bands: DIR EN GREY, and sukekiyo. In the latest clothing line-up, we are pleased to find the duo unit 6XT7 (sixty-seven) appearing as models for the printed...

L’Arc-en-Ciel opens YouTube channel and teases important announcement!

NBT

4 December 2019

Music Video, News

Fans worldwide can now enjoy L'Arc-en-Ciel's content through their newly launched YouTube Official Artist Channel. As of writing, the channel has gained about 100 thousand subscribers in just a day, with videos...

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