JROCK NEWS — Japanese Rock Music News

18 November 2018

Music Video, Releases

Live report : [ALEXANDROS] at Gramercy Theatre 2018

Zephyr

18 November 2018

Exclusive, News, Review

Codomo Dragon take shelter from the rain in “Sousou” video

17 November 2018

Music Video, Releases

sokoninaru Europe tour 2019 “The Japanese Riff Explosion”

17 November 2018

Tour

DEXCORE lose their sanity in “Brain Washing” music video

16 November 2018

Latest News

Interview : Guitar god HOTEI talks Fist of Northern Star and David Bowie

Narine

12 November 2018

Exclusive, Interview, Review

Hotei Tomoyasu (布袋寅泰), internationally famous for his music in Kill Bill, is a musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning over 35 years. Playing alongside legendary names including The Rolling Stone...

Visual kei, a deal breaker for westerners? – JROCK ONSEN Ep. 9

11 November 2018

JROCK ONSEN

So, I am sure the spicy headline caught your eye. In this month's podcast, we're keeping in-line with last month's formula, we're sticking to one topic and hashing it out while giving a few small stories here a...

Roselia’s Rinko Shirokane finds her new voice in Kanon Shizaki

10 November 2018

News

Roselia fans, Rejoice! Rinko Shirokane has found a new voice in Kanon Shizaki! On November 7 the BanG Dream! official website released the information on the new cast member. This news follows the recent sad de...

You can now fund Vivarush’s music video by… retweeting?

9 November 2018

News

The cheerful band Vivarush just launched a campaign to fund their music video Natural Bicycle, and to support and fund it, all you need to do is retweet one of their tweets! That's right, you read it correctly!...

Develop One’s Faculties’ “Schadenfreude” music video preview is simple but effective

8 November 2018

Music Video, Releases

Develop One's Faculties released a song preview for Schadenfreude, their most recent single that hit stores on October 10. However, now they have taken it upon themselves to reveal its rather late music video p...

RagDöllz returns with deliciously sweet “Die Or Die” metal music video

7 November 2018

Music Video, New Look

After not seeing RagDöllz release any new videos in a year, the female metal trio is finally back with an all-new music video called Die Or Die, for your ocular and aural enjoyment. Regardless, Remi's screams a...

DADAROMA keeps tensions high in “dadaism#4” album preview

6 November 2018

Releases, Videos

October was met with DADAROMA returning from their hiatus with a plethora of announcements! This included new drummer Ryohei, the music video for 'Tululila', mini-album dadaism#4 out on November 14, and dates f...

Interview: HIZUMI shares lifestyle as designer and UMBRELLA overseas expansion plans

5 November 2018

Interview

HIZUMI who withdrawn from the music industry has been focusing on his design brand UMBRELLA the past seven years. Recently, HIZUMI and GANSHIN revealed a collaboration which meant UMBRELLA was finally expanding...

Photo report : DIR EN GREY at Electric Ballroom London 2018

edoh

4 November 2018

Exclusive, Review

Written by Ziggy and Edoh. Photo credits to Narine at JRN. When you witnessed the number of fans DIR EN GREY summoned to the city on a Tuesday night, you couldn't help but feel the pulse of the Japanese rock s...

November 2018 — release schedule

Midnight XII

1 November 2018

Monthly Release Schedule

We've compiled a list of (hopefully) all the releases for November, and we can't think of a better way for you to kick off the month than with the release schedule. Date Artist Release Title Release T...

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Recent Releases

DADAROMA keeps tensions high in “dadaism#4” album preview

6 November 2018

Releases, Videos

October was met with DADAROMA returning from their hiatus with a plethora of announcements! This included new drummer Ryohei, the music video for 'Tululila', mi...

RAZOR dine on banquet of roses in “Keiai Naru Kimi e” music video from “KNOT INVISIBLE”

31 October 2018

Kizu dress head to toe in black for single “0”

31 October 2018

New Look, Releases, Videos

TRNTY D:CODE take to the empty streets in “[HELL]hound.” preview

30 October 2018

Codomo Dragon drapes forest in red for single “Sousou”

25 October 2018

Tours

sokoninaru Europe tour 2019 “The Japanese Riff Explosion”

17 November 2018

Tour

sokoninaru recently reached out to a bigger audience with the first step of creating the new English website, now, the technical rock band has announced their E...

DEVILOOF discloses EU-tour plans, second album, 3 singles, and more!

7 October 2018

Releases, Tour

Azusa Tadokoro declares restart in her music career

30 September 2018

Anime, News, Tour

Anisong World Matsuri brings thrilling line-up to New York

Zephyr

4 September 2018

Anime, Tour

X Japan to perform 3 shows at Makuhari Messe this September

edoh

23 August 2018

Tour

New Bands

DIAURA’s alter ego band Dioora releases “blind memory” before commencing hiatus