December 31, 2006 – 1:32 am
[Power industrial and beyond] When I first saw the announcement for this event, I knew it was THE MOFO of the month! First, there is some pretty cool heavily mechanical-trance industrial from Ruin Close Reptile. Then there is Destruct System, which is one of the hottest industrial heavy-rock bands in the Tokyo scene. Finally there’s [...]
December 30, 2006 – 2:20 am
[Gothic DJ Extreme] Just one week into the year and we already have a proper event going on! Good good. This is a very new permutation for TDC (aside from the early start) - there are no bands.
Definitely an event for Gothic clubbing (or bat caving or whatever), the night will feature the talents of [...]
December 29, 2006 – 2:07 am
One of the more interesting little death-related stories is the ongoing discovery of body bits of one fellow in the Shinjuku and Shibuya areas. The initial discovery was about a week ago when someone found a man’s torso dumped in a street a few hundred meters away from Shinjuku station. Without the head, lower parts [...]
December 25, 2006 – 4:20 pm
Have you been a good boy, a bad boy, or a really, really bad boy? Santa’s got something special in his sack…
Three of the four were convicted of murder and robber, and one for murder. Two of them were in their 70s, one in his 60s and one in his 40s. While they do have [...]
December 24, 2006 – 8:00 pm
Excuse the mess, I am still getting used to all the buttons and dials of the site since my return. This is the final scream for the new year events in Tokyo and Osaka. I was hoping someone had an idea in Nagoya, but after getting no reply on a BBS post I realized I [...]
December 22, 2006 – 6:00 pm
This is about the Visual Kei band called Phantasmagoria, not the gothy romantics under Aci. DON’T MIX THEM UP! Also, Aci’s taken the wise decision of renaming the band “The Royal Dead,” which makes things a helluvalot less confusing.
Anyway, onto the VK group… According to Mainichi:
The Osaka Regional Taxation Bureau has taken action against the [...]
December 21, 2006 – 6:00 pm
[Dark Cybernetic Rock] LAST MINUTE ADDITION! The title means something like “Using the neural dreams of corpses,” but all you really need to know is that all your cybernetic base belong to Psydoll! People from the UK should know Psydoll quite well after their tours in 2005 and a bit earlier this year - check [...]
December 19, 2006 – 11:30 pm
Tactical industrial assault is back with 2Bullet’s recent return to live action! The crew have slapped a few videos on YouTube to give you a taste of what it is like at an underground event. Imbeds and links to four videos are below…
Live movies available!!!
Drain People’s Blood -Cold war remix-
Pray For Me
Burn Their Flag (new [...]
December 16, 2006 – 2:50 pm
The hugest IPO of the year in Japan was Mixi, a Japanese social networking site (kind of like MySpace) that exploded onto the scene and now boasts some 7 million users. It is the darling of the new business world with buzz, buzz and more freaking buzz throughout the news media. However, a shocking incident [...]
December 15, 2006 – 2:50 pm
Japan Goth December scream out from JGoth.com
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