Electronicore-spliced loud rock enters Gundam-grade overdrive as Osaka vocal unit PassCode deploys AFTERGLOW, a 3:30 single released on August 10. The track serves as the open-beta theme for the arcade card game Mobile Suit Gundam Arsenal Commander ver. β, turning its...
Bluegrass-tinged indie rock performs some gloriously improbable acoustic sabermetrics on Galileo Galilei’s reloaded 青陽潮 (Aobishio, “Spring Tide”). Veteran mixing engineer Eiji Makino gives the fiddle-bright 2025 anthem an aerodynamic 2026 refit, while its beautifully...
Loud-kei Visual Kei gets a fresh magazine of ammunition as BLACK GROW BERRY fire SHOOTER, the first single from their new five-member formation. The 3:48 track chambers riff-heavy pressure and black-gloss melody like a breakdown pedal wired to a particle...
Visual Kei rock gets a champagne-soaked hangover on 曇りのち、 (Kumori Nochi,)’s さらばバブリー・ガール (Saraba Baburī Gāru – “Farewell Bubbly Girl” /international - SarabaBubblyGirl), a title that sounds like Japan’s bubble economy just wandered into a V-kei live house and...
Visual kei steeped in menhera-kei darkness and eroguro underground grime crawls out of the coffin on 毒針 (Dokubari)’s first EP 堕影惨重葬 (Daei Sanjūsō – “Fallen Shadow Gruesome Burial”). The title itself is peak V-kei linguistic vandalism: 惨重葬 appears to twist the sound of...
Hybrid rock gets another violin-powered firmware update as AliA unleash mate, an eight-track album where soaring J-rock melodicism meets piano, strings and enough emotional voltage to trip a small venue’s circuit breakers. The record collects previously released...
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