✨ Interview 🎵 ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei)

龍-RYU- // “I don’t want to be a part of the masses, I want to be unique.”

雪 (Yuki) February 2, 2020 No Comments

Near the end of 2018 I spoke to 龍-RYU- about his now former project “OROCHI”, a project he had started 15 years ago to combine his love for music and traditional Japanese culture into a “samurai rock” band which had their first performance here in The Netherlands all the way back in 2011. (And various other

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✨ Interview 🎵 ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei)

ice // “I was attracted to the Visual Kei genre because of the visual expression and ROCK.”

雪 (Yuki) December 31, 2019 No Comments

You might recognize ice from “Black Gene For the Next Scene”, a rather well known ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) band lead by the former bassist of ヴィドール (Vidoll), Rame. Black Gene For the Next Scene, often shortened to “BFN” due to the length of the project’s name, combined electronica with pop, rock and a twist

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DIR EN GREY // A view into “The World of Mercy”

雪 (Yuki) November 9, 2019 No Comments

Last year DIR EN GREY delighted the fans with new material in the form of the “人間を被る” (Ningen wo Kaburu) single and the full album “The Insulated World”, of which the latter was a great example of DIR EN GREY’s “shock value”, even after so many years of them

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✨ Interview 🎵 ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei)

TAKA // The creation of an Alphamily through Alpha999

雪 (Yuki) November 4, 2019 No Comments

Alpha999 (pronounced as Alpha-three-nine) is the solo project of vocalist TAKA, the former singer of LEG’end PRIMe. Aside from being a vocalist TAKA also works as a model, and he has been the DJ of the popular radio show “DOUBLE BILLION” for a while as well. All of this adds up to quite an impressive portfolio

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VII ARC // Halloween in Dordrecht (Powered by Songbirds 078 Festival) at DOOR

雪 (Yuki) October 28, 2019 No Comments

During the “Halloween in Dordrecht” event VII ARC came to DOOR in Dordrecht on October 26 to play their show for the fans, but in a different outfit than they normally wear on stage…

We also went to check out their performance, and took some photos while we were there. You can find these photos on our

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ソメイヨシノ (Somei Yoshino) // ZEROSHIKI Euro Tour 2019 (support) at Musicon

雪 (Yuki) October 10, 2019 No Comments

During the “ZEROSHIKI Euro Tour 2019” ソメイヨシノ (Somei Yoshino) was the support act for ZEROSHIKI during their stop at the Musicon in Den Haag on October 7, where they played their show for the fans who had been waiting outside for most of the afternoon already.

We also went to check out their performance,

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ZEROSHIKI // ZEROSHIKI Euro Tour 2019 at Musicon

雪 (Yuki) October 10, 2019 No Comments

During their “ZEROSHIKI Euro Tour 2019” ZEROSHIKI stopped at the Musicon in Den Haag on October 7 to play their show for the fans who had been waiting outside for most of the afternoon already.

We also went to check out their performance, and took some photos while we were there. You can find these photos

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NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST // “UNLEASH” the beast

雪 (Yuki) September 19, 2019 No Comments

After the departure of guitarists Cazqui and Daichi NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST disappeared for a little while, but a little more than a year after their last physical release the group returns, this time with Rin as a new guitarist, and a mini-album that -based on the music video that was released earlier already-

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High Tech Low Life // De Dordtse Matsuri at Bibelot

雪 (Yuki) September 13, 2019 No Comments

Especially for “De Dordtse Matsuri” High Tech Low Life came to the Bibelot in Dordrecht on August 31st to play their show for the fans and visitors of the event.

We also went to check out their performance, and took some photos while we were there. You can find these photos on our portfolio, Arlequin Photography,

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Remy & Tone // “We want to warn you for a dystopian future with High Tech Low Life.”

雪 (Yuki) September 13, 2019 No Comments

High Tech Low Life is an international unit that formed in Okinawa, Japan. The lineup exists out of a mixture of American, Canadian and Japanese members, and together they have some unique features. For example, they have not one main vocalist, but three of them. Of which one happens to be the producer

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