January 8, 2008 – 10:32 am
After covering Japan’s Goth scene for three years, I am kind of at a cross-road as to what I should do. I love the scene, but recent events in my personal life have kept me at home for a long while and I really only have had a chance to do event announcements and CD [...]
November 6, 2007 – 12:49 pm
[Taken from the original JGoth archives dated May 6, 2007]
My first overnight stay at Tokyo Dark Castle for over a year was damned exciting. The crowd was a bit different from what I remember with only a few familiar faces, but they were pumped up and ready to scream. Japan’s Golden Week is usually a [...]
By igor
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Also posted in Event Reports, Japan, Video Content
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Tagged Auto-Mod, Baal, Baal Japan, Dark Castle, Destruct System, Goth events, Gothic news, Japan Gothic events, japanese goth, Lloy, Mikito, Tokyo Dark Castle, Tokyo Goth Scene, U-tarou
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November 4, 2007 – 1:42 am
Location: Tokyo, Japan - Genre: Metal, Hardcore, Industrial
Gizenrou/Earth of Hypocrisy is a hot dark metal album I picked up from Agent Murder back in March 2006 and at the time decided to write a review of it on the old site. However, it still has the crisp hardness it did when I first reviewed [...]
By igor
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Also posted in Audio Content, CD/DVD/Etc. Reviews, Japan
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Tagged Agent Murder, DeeLee, Earth of Hypocrisy, Gizenrou, Goth reviews, Goth scene, industrial rock, Japan Goth, japan gothic, japan gothic music, Japan hardcore, Japan industrial, Japan metal bands
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Hey folks. Sorry for the long time offline. The last few weeks or months have been a bit scary and I have even avoided going online. Basically it seems as though somebody has been breaking into my place on a regular basis (daytime and night) and it has been going on for weeks despite improving [...]
My first overnight stay at Tokyo Dark Castle for over a year was damned exciting. The crowd set was a bit different from what I remember with only a few familiar faces, but they were pumped up and ready to scream. Golden Week is usually a pretty light time in terms of people turnout (because [...]
By igor
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Also posted in Event Reports, Japan
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Tagged Auto-Mod, Baal, Baal Japan, cybergoth, Destruct System, j-goth, japanese goth, jgoth, Lloy, Tokyo Dark Castle, Tokyo Goth, Tokyo nights
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December 29, 2005 – 10:50 am
[ January 21, 2006; ] Blood-stained gloves, gas masks and cattle prods greet the new slaves. Raw fear at the knowledge of their fate seeps into damaged brains. Re-animating the dead to serve the overlords of the final industrial revolution. Serving beyond the grave.
Death certificates already signed; the rights of the living are denied. Screams of the half-destroyed [...]
By igor
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Also posted in Japan, Poetics, Upcoming Events & Tours
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Tagged Baal, Baal Japan, Brain Scan Laboratory, Despair, Despair Nation, Junk Baptism, propaganda, Tokyo gothic scene, Tokyo nights
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The dark side is sexier, and it doesn’t come any sexier than Tokyo Dark Castle. Mixing the cutest gothic-lolitas with the harshest industrialists and everything in between makes TDC a dark fantasy like none other in Tokyo. The twelfth rendition of this hallowed underground event was huge delivering the hottest mix of bands covering Japanese [...]
By igor
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Also posted in Event Reports, Japan
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Tagged Agent Muder, Baal, Chronotrigger, Despair, Gadget., Goth news, japanese goth, jgoth, Sins of the flesh, Tokyo Dark Castle, Tokyo goth events, tokyo nightlife, Vexation
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