Tag: 🎵 コテ系 (Kote Kei)

コテ系 (Kote Kei) is probably the most recognizable subgenre of ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) because of it’s pleather, roses, spider webs, corsets, mesh and black teardrop makeup – all drawing influence from the mid-90s and early 00s gothic fashion. The term “コテ” (Kote) comes from the onomatopoeia “コテコテ” (Kotekote), and means “over the top” or “extremely” in English – something this genre can definitely be described as.
While often seen as the “original” subgenre of ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) there are still artists, “old” and “new”, who incorporate this style in their work to this very day.

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NETH PRIERE CAIN // 神の啓示、月光の聖女 (Kami no Keiji, Gekkou no Seijo): Why am I crying, without any light?

雪 (Yuki) 28 September 2025 No Comments
NETH PRIERE CAIN’s single “神の啓示、月光の聖女” (Kami no Keiji, Gekkou no Seijo) may have been released in February of this year already, but the single tells an interesting story of contrast that we do want to share with you.

For that reason 雪 (Yuki) took a closer look at the single and the music video for “オルレアンの少女～la Pucelle d'Orleans～”, and she’s now ready to tell you all about them in this review!

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クルエラ (Cruella) announces new digital single “お人形遊び” (Oningyou Asobi)

雪 (Yuki) 10 May 2025 No Comments
クルエラ (Cruella) will be releasing their second digital single later this month. In this post we’re telling you a little more about the single, as well as it’s release date!

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クルエラ (Cruella) // レミゼラブル (Remizeraburu): Collecting the scattered fragments of memories

雪 (Yuki) 23 February 2025 No Comments
“レミゼラブル” (Remizeraburu) is the very first single of クルエラ (Cruella), a band that’s emerged out of the temporary project 悪役〈C〉 (Akuyaku C) in September of 2024. The group released this first single about two months later, in which they combine the madness of the メンヘラ系 (Menhera Kei) style lyrics with a circus to create the three tracks we hear on this single.
雪 (Yuki) took a deep dive into the single to find out more about it, and she’s more than happy to share the results with you today!

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Schwarz Stein announces new album “DEMIGOD”

雪 (Yuki) 7 September 2024 No Comments
Schwarz Stein have announced that their new album “DEMIGOD” will be released on October 10, 2024.
When this news post was originally made there wasn't much known about the contents or availability of the album, but in the meantime we know a lot more so we have updated this post with the relevant information about scheduled live performances, the album's contents and how you can obtain it for yourself!

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David announces 6th Anniversary oneman live show “RE:BORN”

雪 (Yuki) 10 April 2023 No Comments

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

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David // Telling the Story of connection through Hexagramearth

雪 (Yuki) 7 June 2021 No Comments

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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THE SOUND BEE HD announces new best of album “DEAD MEMORIES”

雪 (Yuki) 26 May 2021 No Comments

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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David announces new concept mini-album “Gothculture”

雪 (Yuki) 26 January 2021 No Comments

Like I said in the previous article about SUI’s plans for January of 2021, he planned a large event spanning two days to celebrate not only his own birthday, but also the 4th anniversary of David as his solo project. Unfortunately the state of emergency was issued in Japan, preventing SUI from holding

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David announces live performances “Fragment & Reminiscence” for SUI’s birthday

雪 (Yuki) 1 January 2021 No Comments

For his birthday SUI has announced that he will be playing not one, but two live shows named “Fragment & Reminiscence” in 浦和Narciss (Urawa Narciss) on the 23rd and 24th of January.

Originally it was intended as a full live show which would also be broadcasted through TwitCasting,

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David announces pre-order tickets for the show in Paris

雪 (Yuki) 5 January 2020 No Comments

As from today (January 5) until January 31st you can pre-order tickets for SUI’s 3rd anniversary show on April 11 in Paris!

While the venue in Paris has not been announced yet, tickets are already available for €15,- (regular entry). For an additional meet and greet a ticket upgrade is available

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David // The embodiment of SUI’s ideals

雪 (Yuki) 6 September 2019 1 Comment

I first found out about David at a show of Versailles, of all places. At the entrance of the venue people were given a very small business-card sized flyer advertising SUI’s new project, and this seems like a rather strange place to promote a project that’s not even on stage that night, right? Well yes,

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David announces crowdfunding project for a 3rd anniversary live show in Paris

雪 (Yuki) 28 August 2019 No Comments

You might have noticed this news floating around over the web already, but in case you didn’t just yet…
SUI, the vocalist of Metis Gretel and Megaromania, started his solo project David in January 2017. Which means the 3rd anniversary for his project is coming up in January 2020.

To celebrate

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