Dress Up Town and Deshima Sounds aren’t “new” names for the Japanese (anime) music lovers here in The Netherlands. Both have been part of the lineup for TomoCon (and TomoFair) and Abunai! before, but this time it’s not a convention that requires some entertainment…
JILUKA already hinted a little bit towards a possible overseas performance in our recent interview with them, but at that time they couldn’t reveal us anything more than a suggestive hint.
That hint turned out to be their US debut, in the form of a performance at Anime Weekend Atlanta (AWA), Georgia
Rides In ReVellion have only just finished their 8th anniversary oneman live show “∞-infinity-“ at GORILLA HALL OSAKA, and they’ve already announced both a new single titled “夜明け最前線” (Yoake Saizensen / Yoake Frontline) and a oneman tour titled “DAYBREAK FRONTLINE”.
The new single
DEVILOOF already dropped some hints a while ago through their official Twitter account, but it’s now official! The band will be visiting Mexico, Chile and Brazil between late May and early June of 2024.
At the moment only three dates have been announced, namely:
May 25: Mexico, CDMX
May 31: Chile,
Back in May we already speculated that NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST might release something new after their announcement of a live show titled “RELEASE PARTY” in clubasia. A name like that doesn’t leave much to the imagination, does it?
And it turns out that we were right! It’s right
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST have announced a new live show titled “RELEASE PARTY” at Shibuya clubasia on July 9 2023.
Not much information has been released so far, but it looks like the band is planning to release a new single* (don’t quote us on this, there is not enough information to fully
Versailles have announced that their new single “VOGUE” will be released on June 21, 2023!
“VOGUE” will be the first release for the group in 11 years, and will be released in three different types:
Limited edition A will contain a CD featuring two songs and their two instrumental
Recently we’ve mostly seen SUI work on 縁 (Enishi) while David’s activities were paused, but after the announcement of David’s 6th anniversary live show on June 8 SUI now surprises us all with the announcement of a first and last mini-album named “REMINISCENCE”.
The mini-album will be released on July
Okay, okay, we already hear you thinking: “this has nothing to do with ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) or J-Rock!”, and yes, that is absolutely correct. But we are interested enough in the project to bring it to your attention despite it not being our usual area of expertise.
ばんどごっこ (Bandogocco) is
David announced a pause in activities last year, but the 6th anniversary of the project is approaching quickly.
To celebrate this milestone David will have a oneman live show titled “VI Prophecy” at SHBUYA REX on June 8, 2023!
For this performance SUI will be joined by erina (@Erina163cm47kg