January 31, 2008 – 10:21 am
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 [...]
January 10, 2008 – 9:01 pm
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 [...]
November 28, 2007 – 11:19 am
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 [...]
By igor
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Posted in Audio Content, CD/DVD/Etc. Reviews, Japan
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Also tagged Deathwatch Asia, Demonoid 13, DxUxSx, Fixer-D, Goth music releases, japan gothic, Japanese EBM, Nagoya's Stigmatic, Sister Levi
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November 10, 2007 – 3:57 pm
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 [...]
By igor
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Posted in CD/DVD/Etc. Reviews, Japan
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Also tagged 2Bullet, Agent Murder, Aural Vampire, Baal, Bad Movie Disco King, Ballet of the Unhatched Fools, Despair Nation, Destruct System, Dmonoid 13, Drain People's Blood, Goth music, Gothic CD, Jet Pepper Tower, jgoth, Junk War, Little Abdoned Cat, Nocturnal Cabare, On the Surface, Psycho Dream, Satanic Panzer Unit, Satanyanko, Sins of the flesh, Speecies
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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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Posted in Event Reports, Japan, Reloaded, Video Content
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Also tagged Auto-Mod, Baal, Baal Japan, Dark Castle, Destruct System, Goth events, Gothic news, Japan Gothic events, Lloy, Mikito, Tokyo Dark Castle, Tokyo Goth Scene, U-tarou
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October 20, 2007 – 10:58 am
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 [...]
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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Posted in Event Reports, Japan, Reloaded
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Also tagged Auto-Mod, Baal, Baal Japan, cybergoth, Destruct System, j-goth, jgoth, Lloy, Tokyo Dark Castle, Tokyo Goth, Tokyo nights
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