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Entertainment

GACKT tortures Kiryu in performance contest!

NBT, Rin and Peertje
9 April 2021
Entertainment
Kiryu is not only a popular band but these days, the members are also active as YouTubers! In the recent collaboration video, the guys invited the one and only, the trolliest troll known to mankind, GACKT! U...

Tinuki – The new dating app for JROCKERS

Mazohyst_Kyo
1 April 2021
Entertainment
Lockdowns are settling down and it looks like we are finally pulling through this pandemic. Naturally, we all want to get back out there and meet new like-minded people. But where can you do that as a Jrocker? ...

Kizu joined by MUCC in dream collaboration project “Ichigeki”

NBT
26 March 2021
Entertainment, Music Video
Kizu's fourth-anniversary celebration continues with the recent unraveling of project "Ichigeki" (一撃), revealed to be a dream collaboration project that brings vocalist Lime together with six other respectable ...

Get to know nano on a personal level through new YouTube channel!

NBT
6 March 2021
Entertainment, Videos
The bilingual artist born and raised in New York City, nano, has launched a new YouTube channel "nano Official Channel (tentative name)" that gives fans a chance to know them better! So not only is nano a music...

nano appears on popular anime podcast “Trash Taste”

NBT
5 March 2021
Entertainment, Videos
nano makes an appearance on the popular anime podcast "Trash Taste" hosted by big YouTube names such as Joey “The Anime Man”, Garnt “Gigguk”, and Connor “CDawgVA”. You might remember Joey from our earlier cover...

Herman Li (DragonForce) invites BAND-MAID to Twitch stream

G Andrew White
23 February 2021
Entertainment, News
BAND-MAID guitarists Miku Kobato and Kanami will be special guests on Twitch with DragonForce's Herman Li this Friday. A few weeks ago, the guitarist and songwriter for British metal band DragonForce made an...

Ryo (girugamesh) adds English subtitles to all studio videos!

NBT
8 February 2021
Entertainment, Videos
Ryo has added English subtitles to all of his educational studio videos on YouTube. Besides sharing cover songs on YouTube, Ryo, the former girugamesh drummer, has also started to become more active in creat...

I took a vocal lesson with Japan’s first scream coach MAHONE!

Dorian
4 February 2021
Entertainment
Metalheads know it better than anyone: screams and growls require skills. But when self-learning isn’t enough, “Who you gonna call?”, scream specialist MAHONE! His motto? “Anyone can scream”! Today, I will ...

Interview: Day in the life of a Japanese translator

edoh+, afaenia and Dorian
2 February 2021
Entertainment, Interview
Can all the readers who can't speak or read in Japanese fluently put their hands up? If you're here, chances are you're interested in Japanese music and enjoy listening to bands who do not speak your native ton...

Ryo (girugamesh) invites to home studio room tour

NBT and afaenia
1 February 2021
Entertainment, Videos
We've seen Ryo—former drummer of girugamesh—do plenty of videos on YouTube, but for the first time, we get an in-depth look into what gear and tools he uses from a day-to-day basis in his home studio. After ...

Sono (Matenrou Opera) beautifully covers L’Arc~en~Ciel’s “winter fall”

edoh+ and afaenia
20 January 2021
Entertainment
Originally released in 1998, winter fall was L'Arc~en~Ciel's first-ever number-one single on Oricon charts, as well as being the first single with drummer yukihiro officially in the band. 23 years later after i...

Best Jrock music of 2020: JROCK NEWS staff picks

Sizergyia, afaenia, Dorian, Mazohyst_Kyo, Midnight, G Andrew White, NBT, NoMusicNoReason and edoh+
19 January 2021
Entertainment, Music Video
The year 2020 saw the coronavirus pandemic take center stage, making this year feel longer than usual as we isolated indoors for months on end. On the bright side, however, releases from our favorite artists ke...

GACKT trolls Youtuber “The Anime Man” in interview

NBT
10 January 2021
Entertainment, Videos
In 2019, we got a YouTube documentary with HYDE by the channel Abroad in Japan, and only a few days ago, Youtuber CDawgVA did coverage on visual kei with ACME. Surprisingly, today we were greeted by another Jap...

Youtuber “CDawgVA” joins ACME for 2 days, and on stage!

NBT
7 January 2021
Entertainment, Videos
The British Youtuber who now lives in Japan, "CDawgVA", or also known as Connor, recently joined ACME for two days in order to discover more about this thing called "visual kei"—I bet you never heard of it befo...
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