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Tag: DIR EN GREY

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

Arlequin November 9, 2019 No Comments DIR EN GREY

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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DIR EN GREY – Twenty years of “Wearing Human Skin”

Arlequin April 29, 2018 No Comments DIR EN GREY

Last January DIR EN GREY dropped their absolutely MASSIVE greatest hits album which contained a total of 44 songs from their entire career so far, all of them being voted onto the album by the fans. The reason for this absolute beast of a project was the 20th anniversary of the band, and as an extra gift they

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NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST – Creating a new world with “ARGOS”

Arlequin June 17, 2022 No Comments

Following their “counterattack” in 2020 NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST released a new mini-album called “The Wasteland” as well as a single called “THE ONE”, both releases including their new guitarists Valtz and Yu-taro. The addition of these two guitarists seems to have filled the band with power and determination,

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3470.mon – “I started Visual Kei because I thought Visual Kei was the opposite”

Arlequin March 27, 2022 No Comments

Before we get to the actual contents of this post, we have to do a little bit of an introduction first. Since we’ll be doing something a little different than usual… The following interview was not conducted by us here at Arlequin Magazine, but by オザキケイト (Ozaki Keito) in late August of 2021.

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Clownus -“Call us clowns all you want, we’ll still do our own things”

Arlequin February 25, 2022 No Comments

The name “Clownus” is probably as much of a new name for you as it was for us, despite the band being around since 2018 already. As the title implies, this group very much does their own things at their own pace.

But who exactly are Clownus? Well, let me give you a very quick introduction before I let the band

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縁 (Enishi) – Connecting the past with the future

Arlequin January 30, 2022 1 Comment

Perhaps you’ve seen word going around about this small project on Twitter, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this managed to sneak by you entirely either.

縁 (Enishi) was originally intended as a one-time-only session band lead by SUI, existing out of former members of Megaromania,

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ANCIENT MYTH – A serving from Nyx with a side of Ambrosian Blood

Arlequin January 7, 2022 1 Comment

ANCIENT MYTH is a female fronted symphonic metal band based in Tokyo. However, they’re often categorized in the ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) genre as well due to their visual appearance and the wide range of the genre when it comes to music.
Consisting of vocalist Michal, keyboardist Hal, guitarist Kohei and

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TAKA & Syu – Lounge Room

TAKA and Syu aim to entertain through livestreaming with their project Lounge Room!

Want to know more about it? You can read an informative interview with the guys about it here, and you can find TAKA’s TwitCasting here.

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