MIRAI // A message to “My Dear”

You might remember the interview I did in early January, in which I introduced you to MIRAI, Hideki, YURI, Shion and Rio’s work as Angels’ Temptation.
Angels’ Temptation is fairly unique in the ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) scene because despite all members being from Japan, their style

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David // Telling the Story of connection through Hexagramearth

In August of 2019 I shared a post about SUI starting a crowdfunding campaign with the intention to gather funds for the third anniversary of David, which he planned to have in Europe. Paris, to be exact. The crowdfunding ended up being a great success, even raising more money than the target goal. This

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Alpha999 // Live performance changed to studio live

It’s a little bit last minute, but TAKA and SYU have announced a change to their live performance that was scheduled for May 30th:

Originally planned as a live performance like we’re all used to, circumstances forced the guys to move their stage from a live venue to the studio. Rather than

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THE SOUND BEE HD // Celebrating 20 years of “DEAD MEMORIES” with a new best of album

Starting out as a Japanese gothic band and evolving into a more zombie-theme throughout the years, THE SOUND BEE HD have been gracing the dark side of the Japanese music industry for over 20 years now already. Quite the achievement for any band out there! To celebrate this milestone the band released

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MEME // Reaching fans of horror with more than just music

You said it would be awesome if I could do an interview with L from MEME. And yes, I agree. That would be pretty awesome. So I set out to do just that. I asked L if he would be interested in doing an interview, and as you can probably conclude from this article being here now, the answer was a resounding “yes!”.

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摩天楼オペラ (Matenrou Opera) // Overseas merchandise pre-order through FAKE STAR USA

You might have seen this small notification slide by on Twitter already, but in case you haven’t…

Do you remember the interview I did with the members of 摩天楼オペラ (Matenrou Opera) in late January of this year?
(If you haven’t read it, or need a quick refresher, you can find it here!)
One

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Mikaru // Second editions of radio and livestream performance with Yudai

You might have seen my previous posts about Mikaru’s radio show and online live performance with Yudai (G.L.A.M.S, guitar), but in case you haven’t, here’s a quick overview:
On March 27 Mikaru held his very first solo radio performance on YouTube in which he answered questions

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Alpha999 // TAKA’s live performance “Birth EraS 2021”

To celebrate his birthday TAKA originally planned a live performance for February 24, 2021. Unfortunately this performance had to be rescheduled to another date due to Japan declaring the state of emergency once again.
After a lot of planning a new date for the live has been decided: April 7.

The performance

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