Tag Archives: japanese goth

Tokyo Dark Castle 2009 – Part 2

[ June 6, 2009 11:59 pm to June 7, 2009 6:00 am. July 4, 2009 11:59 pm to July 5, 2009 6:00 am. August 1, 2009 11:59 pm to August 2, 2009 6:00 am. September 5, 2009 11:59 pm to September 6, 2009 6:00 am. October 17, 2009 11:59 pm to October 18, 2009 6:00 am. December 5, 2009 11:59 pm to December 6, 2009 6:00 am. ] [Uber Goth-Industrial Live & DJ] Finally, the second half schedule for TDC. Tokyo Dark Castle (TDC) is the main event for the Gothic underground in Tokyo. Populated by the best-dressed Goths from all walks of life TDC delivers some of the best live acts and DJs in the scene. This makes TDC a must [...]

Stigmatic in Nagoya 2009

[ January 17, 2009 9:00 pm to January 18, 2009 6:00 am. March 21, 2009 9:00 pm to March 22, 2009 6:00 am. May 16, 2009 9:00 pm to May 17, 2009 6:00 am. July 18, 2009 9:00 pm to July 19, 2009 6:00 am. September 19, 2009 9:00 pm to September 20, 2009 6:00 am. November 21, 2009 9:00 pm to November 22, 2009 6:00 am. ] [Goth - DJ’d] The only regular Goth event in Nagoya, Stigmatic takes place on the third Saturday of odd-numbered months this year. That means you better turn up to every event, or you are going to be piking for 60 days for the next industrial-EBM-alt outing in Toyota land!

Soundwise the event’s master, DoomSpider, is harsh [...]

Club Walpurgis – Tokyo 2009

[ March 21, 2009 11:59 pm to March 22, 2009 6:00 am. June 20, 2009 11:59 pm to June 21, 2009 6:00 am. September 19, 2009 11:59 pm to September 21, 2009 5:59 am. December 19, 2009 11:59 pm to December 20, 2009 6:00 am. ] [Goth/80's - Live & DJ] Club Walpurgis is a quarterly Gothic event in Tokyo. Club Walpurgis began as a Goth/Punk club in the 1980’s and became a kind of underground mecca in its day. 18 years after the original club closed down Walpurgis returned as a regular event in 2005 with a heavy emphasis on [...]

Coming up: Reviews and Events

Please excuse my newfound interest in blogvertising – it not only helps pay the bills (believe me I really need the dosh for something special), but is also fun to do! However, before you throw your hands in the air in Despair, please note I am just getting prepped to do some of the more [...]

The Royal Dead :: Lycanthrope :: Review

The Royal Dead (ex. Phantasmagoria) released this Maxi-single CD way back in 2005 (and there’s a new full album out now so this review is behind the times!). The Maxi-single CD contains five tracks, but it is more like a three-track single CD with a prologue and epilogue added in. It is a concept mini-album [...]

Demonoid13 :: Gate of Death :: Review

This devastatingly heavy EBM release from Demonoid 13 (MySpace) comes to you professionally repackaged by the small, but quickly expanding, Deathwatch Asia label in Japan. The music comes across as hard, powerful dance tracks, which reflects the nature of lead man Fixer-D, a.k.a. DJ DoomSpider of Nagoya’s Stigmatic events. Aside from Fixer-D on vocals and [...]

V/A :: Dark Waters :: Review

With the growing interest of Japanese Gothic music over the watered-down Visual Kei (which is still often mistaken as Japanese Goth), so too has the number and quality of Gothic music releases increased. Perhaps the best way to get into this exciting avenue of the Japanese underground scene is through omnibuses of leading artists in [...]

Tokyo Dark Castle May 2007 :: Event Report

[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 [...]

JGoth Redesigned :: New Forum & Site with Archives Online

Good morning folks.
I am sorry for the JGoth.com site problems and general instabilities in recent months. However, things are getting worked out just in time for Halloween (okay, most parties have finished), but there is still TDC to look forward to:
http://forum.jgoth.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8
First up, the board has been re-launched at the following URL:
http://forum.jgoth.com/ Being a stand-alone [...]

Tokyo Dark Castle #29 :: Event Report

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 [...]