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Reol depicts unhealthy relationship in “Gekihaku” music video

Dec 20, 2018

Reol put out a new neon bright music video Gekihaku, extracted from her latest album Jijitsu jo. The music video is really a treat for the eye in terms of the vivid light work used which primarily consist of dr...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese acts of 2018

NBT

Dec 17, 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...

Vivarush shares comment on upcoming one-man live with JROCK NEWS readers

NBT

Dec 15, 2018

Entertainment, Tour and event

Vivarush is holding their one-man live show on December 23 and decided to give the readers and viewers of JROCK NEWS a little message!Don't forget to turn on the subtitles and learn more about the concert a...

Impressive line-up unveiled for anisong event “Lantis Matsuri 2019 ‘~ARIGATO ANISONG~'”

NBT

Dec 12, 2018

Tour and event

Music label "Lantis" has announced their massive line-up for their upcoming 20th-anniversary celebration concert! With the event being titled, "20th anniversary live Lantis Matsuri 2019 ~A・R・I・G・A・T・O ANISONG~"...

HAKUEI (PENICILLIN), now editor-in-chief at Japan’s biggest visual kei website, club Zy.

NBT

Dec 3, 2018

Entertainment

HAKUEI has always been an active forefront in the visual kei scene since the formation of PENICILLIN in 1992. To create a new paradigm within the visual kei scene, today on December 3, HAKUEI has taken the role...

Kizu joins the European label GANSHIN Records!

NBT

Nov 20, 2018

Band status

In a brief announcement made by GANSHIN today, it has now been revealed that Kizu has joined the family of the Europe-based record label, GANSHIN Records. What this essentially means is an increasement of avail...

sokoninaru Europe tour 2019 “The Japanese Riff Explosion”

NBT

Nov 17, 2018

Tour and event

sokoninaru recently reached out to a bigger audience with the first step of creating the new English website, now, the technical rock band has announced their European tour that will take place next year, in 20...

You can now fund Vivarush’s music video by… retweeting?

NBT

Nov 9, 2018

Entertainment, Releases

The cheerful band Vivarush just launched a campaign to fund their music video Natural Bicycle, and to support and fund it, all you need to do is retweet one of their tweets! That's right, you read it correctly!...

Interview: HIZUMI shares lifestyle as designer and UMBRELLA overseas expansion plans

NBT

Nov 5, 2018

Interview

HIZUMI who withdrawn from the music industry has been focusing on his design brand UMBRELLA the past seven years. Recently, HIZUMI and GANSHIN revealed a collaboration which meant UMBRELLA was finally expanding...

Survive Said The Prophet collaborates with Hong Kong band Supper Moment in “To Whom” music video

NBT

Oct 29, 2018

Music Video

Survive Said The Prophet revealed a new music video in collaboration with the popular Hong Kong rock band, Supper Moment, where we see Yosh sing in English and Supper Moment's vocalist Sunny sing in Cantonese. ...

Interview: Rides in ReVellion thirsts for overseas tour, unravels albums “Artery” and “Vein”

NBT

Oct 28, 2018

Interview

On a hot summer day in August at the music festival FEST FES 2018, we were able to grab the guys from Rides in ReVellion to have a casual talk about their tour life, and the new mini-albums Artery, and Vein whi...

YUI departs from BABYMETAL, but blessed by supportive fans

NBT

Oct 19, 2018

Lineup change

We're sad to break the news, but with the announcement made earlier today on BABYMETAL's website, it has now been officially confirmed that YUI (YUIMETAL) is leaving BABYMETAL after being in the group for eight...

sokoninaru embraces overseas fans with English website!

NBT

Oct 18, 2018

Band status

The progressive heavy-rock sensation, sokoninaru (そこに鳴る), has officially now launched their English website! While the announcement was short, it definitely was sweet seeing how this is a major step in their ef...

Haru Nemuri gives new side of “TOKYO” in celebration of her 2-year anniversary

NBT

Oct 12, 2018

Releases

Haru Nemuri, the singer-rapper-poetess, and hyphenate extraordinaire is celebrating her two year anniversary today with a special little tune called TOKYO (Ewig Wiederkehren), a digital re-release of the song T...

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