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KAMIJO streams online world tour “Queen of Versailles -LAREINE-“

4 February 2021

KAMIJO reveals the date and time of the live broadcasts constituting his online world tour "Queen of Versailles -LAREINE-". The performances will happen on March 26 and March 27 across various time zones. Th...

Interview: The origin story of HIZAKI (Versailles/Jupiter) part 2

Dorian and afaenia

13 October 2020

Interview

This interview was originally published by “club Zy.” in Japanese. JROCK NEWS is partnering with club Zy. with the aim to popularize Japanese visual kei globally. Learn more about our partnership here. In the ...

Interview: The origin story of HIZAKI (Versailles/Jupiter) part 1

Dorian and afaenia

5 October 2020

Interview

This interview was originally published by “club Zy.” in Japanese. JROCK NEWS is partnering with club Zy. with the aim to popularize Japanese visual kei globally. Learn more about our partnership here. HIZAKI,...

VERSAILLES postpones single “EMPEROR” due to COVID-19

Midnight and afaenia

7 May 2020

Releases

The rise of COVID-19 and safety concerns have caused VERSAILLES to postpone the release of their 10th single EMPEROR. The band planned to release the single on July 15 alongside works from vocalist KAMIJO and g...

VERSAILLES rules as “EMPEROR” with first single in 8 years!

Midnight

21 March 2020

News, Releases

VERSAILLES has announced it is orchestrating a new single titled, EMPEROR, scheduled to arrive on July 15! This will be the first single in eight years since the release of ROSE in 2012 before the band went int...

KAMIJO to launch trilogy of singles illustrated by Castlevania artist

edoh+

26 July 2019

Entertainment, Tour

KAMIJO will release a trilogy of singles from October to 2020. So far there isn't any more information on the dates they will come out nor what will be included, but we do know that Ayami Kojima (小島文美), who is...

Visual Aesthetics: Lovely Lolita

xLIZ4

3 July 2018

Entertainment

One of the most important aspects of visual kei artists are the looks. In Visual Aesthetics, we will highlight specific hairstyles, costumes, accessories, makeup, body art and other styles which are either very...

The legendary Visual Kei Oyaji, Seiichi Hoshiko

edoh+

22 January 2018

Entertainment

Simply dressed in thermal sweats or sometimes a plain t-shirt on warmer days, you'd be forgiven if you overlooked this casually dressed gentleman named Seiichi Hoshiko (星子誠一). Throwing his classic two thumbs up...

Top 15 visual kei and Japanese acts of 2017

NBT

4 December 2017

Entertainment

The year of 2017 is no exception when it comes to our tradition of looking back on all the greatest visual kei and Japanese acts of the year! What we have for you today are two lists compiling the best acts we ...

Versailles add new dates to world tour, now heading to Canada and Chile!

Zansouki

1 September 2017

Tour

Versailles announced quite a while ago that they would take off on yet another world tour, and their first since their return from hiatus. Having already toured Europe, this new tour had exclusively only Asian ...

Versailles to take off on world tour beginning September!

Zansouki

7 June 2017

Tour

Versailles recently traveled Europe in order to give fans some rocking lives, and now they give Latin Americans and Asians a chance to hear them live, as it has been announced that the band embark on a new worl...

Versailles reveal music previews for their upcoming album, “Lineage~Descendants of the Rose~”

Zansouki

27 January 2017

New Look, Releases

Versailles had already let us know that there was a new album coming this year, and just a few days ago the band released details on the album (they say album, but it's really a mini-album). For starters, the a...

Report: HIZAKI performs short but exciting set, prepares Versailles fans for next year

Sizergyia

10 December 2016

Review

After releasing his first solo album, Rosario, in just over a decade on August 3 and with Versailles Philharmonic Quintet reuniting as well as touring Europe early next year, the announcement that guitarist and...

Kamijo singing in Spanish!? Versailles explore new possibilities with comeback

Zansouki

9 December 2016

Entertainment

How would you feel about hearing some Versailles songs in Spanish? In a recent interview with JpopAsia, the band talked about what came next for Versailles now that the band was back, and one of the things ment...

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