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FATE GEAR takes on Europe with “Battle Against Justice Tour 2022”

29 January 2022

The all-female steampunk metal band, FATE GEAR, is ready to once again take on the overseas crowd with a European tour! Dubbed "Battle Against Justice Tour 2022", these brave warriors will occupy 15 cities duri...

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu joins Coachella festival lineup alongside Billie Eilish

NBT

21 January 2022

Online Concert

The pop icon from Harajuku of all things kawaii, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, is set to perform at the 2022 "Coachella Music and Arts Festival" in California, US! She will be performing on the same day as the American si...

a crowd of rebellion features 3 vocalists in song “Re:Create of the Re:d” from album “ABANDONSYSTEM__”

NBT

12 January 2022

Music Video, Releases

Ahead of the 15th-anniversary limited mini-album release "ABANDONSYSTEM__" on January 19, a crowd of rebellion shared its latest music video "Re:Create of the Re:d" featuring a total of three vocalists! The ban...

SiM provides Attack on Titan’s heaviest theme song ever, “The Rumbling”!

NBT and Dorian

11 January 2022

Anime, Music Video, Releases

SiM performs Attack on Titan's opening theme song The Rumbling and switches to a new record label, Pony Canyon. In conjunction with the airing of the action anime "Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2" (Shing...

Spend Valentine with An Cafe’s vocalist Miku via online fan meeting

NBT

7 January 2022

Online Events

International fans of the veteran visual kei band An Cafe can rejoice to finally see new activity! In conjunction with the globally celebrated Valentine's Day, vocalist Miku will be holding an online fan meetin...

Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2021

NBT

31 December 2021

Entertainment

It was an amazing year of anime with many new adaptations like "Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi" and the awaited returning ones such as "Re:zero"! We also saw original anime like "Sonny Boy", showing how a seemingl...

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...

girugamesh teases something for year 2022

NBT

27 December 2021

News

girugamesh just shared a message via the YouTube channel, MAVERICK DC GROUP, teasing some kind of activity for February 1, 2022. The video titled "A Message from girugamesh" is quite vague when it comes to any ...

End-of-year giveaway: Signed Japanese music CDs from NeoKyo

NBT

26 December 2021

Featured

The Japanese proxy service NeoKyo just ended their CD signing campaign, so if you missed out, here is your chance to win signed goods out of the selected Japanese artists. NeoKyo will pick two winners at random...

ONE OK ROCK drummer Tomoya starts off new YouTube channel with nostalgia

NBT

24 December 2021

Entertainment

ONE OK ROCK's drummer Tomoya has started his solo YouTube journey through the newly created channel, TOMOYA STUDIO. With this, he intends to challenge himself with new things and states that he'll be posting va...

Get your CDs signed at Neokyo by Rides in ReVellion, FATE GEAR, MADKID, and more

NBT

22 December 2021

Entertainment

The Japanese proxy service NeoKyo is currently offering signed CDs and goods which you can take part in until December 25. The procedure is similar to just buying for example a CD, but now you can choose to get...

Aimer’s empowering rock song “ONE AND LAST” features Nishino Nanase (ex-Nogizaka46)

NBT

10 December 2021

Music Video, New Look, Releases

Today, Aimer cracked open a new emotional rock song ONE AND LAST, taken out of the upcoming album Hoshi no kieta yoru ni (星の消えた夜に). An album compiling a bunch of Aimer's B-side tracks, scheduled for January 26,...

Hatsune Miku livestreams “MIKU BREAK ver.0.9”, combines street culture and dance

NBT

9 December 2021

Online Concert, Vocaloid

Hatsune Miku is once again bridging together worlds with a new event MIKU BREAK. Set to take place on December 12, "MIKU BREAK ver.0.9" is an in-person and livestream concert combining street cultures, such as ...

Interview with NECRONOMIDOL: Vanguards of idols

NBT, Narine and Peertje

7 December 2021

Interview

NECRONOMIDOL is an idol unit with many unique qualities that make them stand out, especially among the cookie-cutter performers we normally come across. Describing themselves as an "ultra-dark" unit, there is a...

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