Georges Bataille’s Birthday Celebration 2025
Okay, folks, we got an event featuring SINO RE-BUILD PROJECTS on September 13, 2025.
SINO does a righteous dark mix of sounds, so definitely worth a look.
Other criteria are picked from the flyer are:
Sinister green-eyed cat – check.
A bowl featuring plucked eyeballs – check.
Yep, it passes for me.
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Darkside Rockers – Aug. 2025
Whew, finally found an event that might be of fancy for those in Tokyo seeking a bit of dark indie music. Darkside Rockers launches quite an interesting mix of bands. Hey, I don’t know much about the bands, but one did play at a Tokyo Dark Castle event, Club Chop is a good place to catch some gritty performances… and I ain’t seein’ sh*t for events I used to know for August. So, here’s a start. Worth a look if you have got some time so Darkside Rockers it is.
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Igor V. Goth Circa 2015
Yeah, you read the headline. Like a big-ass trade deal to keep the peace, this comes with many caveats, unclear details and could all fall apart and/or have you thinking “Really, I agreed to that? I thought that…” But we are not here to insert politics, right? This was, and may be re-become, a site diving into Japan’s indie/underground/goth scenes.
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Destruct System in Dark Side Rockers :: August 18 (Sun) :: Ikebukuro Chop
Hard-rocking industrial unit Destruct System will be infiltrating Ikebukuro Chop on July 18 (2013 guys), in Dark Side Rockers event.
If you like your BAAL (check out a full set live in LA), Despair (or let’s say… NIN for those who don’t follow Japanese underground music), then you will absolutely love these guys. Destruct System have played at the apex of the Japanese Gothic scene including many appearances at Tokyo Dark Castle.
Igor plans to do some screaming at this event… Let me know if you are going!
Where: Ikebukuro Chop :: Map
When: Sunday, August 28, 2013
Who: Destruct System, THETHEKURO, Magier Sexalice, Error:666, 餓鬼道
Open: 18:00 :: Start: 18:00
Price: pre-book 2,000 yen (+1 drink) :: @Door 2,500 yen (+1 drink)
Ho boy, have these guys gone far. From fighting in the clubs in Tokyo’s scene to Europe, Australia, and now the U.S…. and now with a record deal with Metropolis – awesome. Now you can experience one of Japan’s hottest industrial rock outfits at your computer!
An hour of glorious Japanese underground music recorded in high-quality video. Watch and SCREAM boys and girls!
Flyer for Tokyo Dark Castle’s last 2012 event (JGoth added question in red)
This blog entry is an update on the lack of overnight events this year in Tokyo’s dark scene.
In case you have not already noticed, iconic events such as Tokyo Dark Castle and Midnight Mess have gone strangely quiet in recent months. There could be a few reasons for this, but it seems one big issue is the re-enforcement of some old laws.
Tokyo has began re-enforcing a 60-year old law that makes late night dance activities illegal. There could also be some other re-animated regulations too, but that makes it hard to have the overnight events – especially lively events such as TDC.
Essentially, if an organizer wants to have late-night dancing, they need to have certification from a recognized dancing association to avoid the risk of them and their patrons being arrested. While it is possible to get certification for many standard dance styles, I do not think that there are any “disco” “mosho” dance associations out there, so it looks like the best of Tokyo’s Gothic night events have closed shop for a while.
Well, it seems that it was somehow connected with prostitution when it was originally installed – perhaps offering a venue for solicitation. However, nowadays in Tokyo, walking down any of the night district streets will get you more solicitations than you can point a stick at.
There was a case where one guy was beaten to death at a club last year, but that was more a case of gang members coming in with metal pipes and baseball bats, than being danced to death.
The end result is that overnight events are out for the time being. The early evening events appear to continue without problems, so if you are considering Gothing in Tokyo, an evening event may be the type of event to pursue…
Igor’s first Psydoll CD – I Psydoll from 2004.
After a few months buried under work Igor has finally got around to writing an update. Today, I’m just want to show off my Psydoll CD, which I picked up at the Artism Market in April when I got a chance for a chat with Nekoi Psydoll and the gang.
Psydoll are a concept band whose sounds are built around the idea of escaped rogue robots from a slightly darkened near-future Japan:
Japanese companies (including S#NY, Mit#ubishi, Hit#chi, S#nyo and P#nasonic) usually use the word “DOLL” to name their production robots for military, business and home use. However, PSYDOLL (Psycho-Doll) are illegal robots manufactured and remodeled without proper licenses and with enhanced abilities unlike other “DOLLs”. View full article »
Hello folks! Just a short note to let you know that JGoth is not dead, just in hibernation while I catch up with daytime work. Will get onto the blog in the next few weeks ahead.
To people mailing in stuff – thanks! I really like what you sent so will look into it more deeply when I get the chance.
Rock on!
I still have not had enough time to get into the site yet, but this event is too good not to mention! On Sunday March 10 from 3:30 pm, the Goths will be invading Ikebukuro Rosa Live Inn in Tokyo! Organizers are calling this Gothic 2013 SPRING FESTIVAL, and festive it is!
Featured bands include Psydoll, Vanished Empire (DJ Chihiro and 2Bullet’s Dee Lee), Suicide Squad, Dark Insanity, Zodiaque, Hernia_44, PeaceToPieces and Gothic Logic! There will also be DJs Chihiro, Wakana and tAk, along with exhibition space, fang makers, dancers and more! THIS IS NOT AN EVENT TO MISS!
Where: LIVE IN ROSA :: Map
When: Sunday MARCH 10
Start: 15:30
Price: Book/w flyer 3,000 yen (+1 drink) :: @Door 3,500 yen (+1 drink)
* If you want to book just do a quick search of the band and send them a mail – Psydoll or Vanished Empire (via 2Bullet’s Dee Lee) should be cool. Any problems? Buzz me and I’ll see what I can do!
Hey there folks. I got quite excited when I saw that David Bowie is releasing a new album. I got even more excited when he said it would be streaming for free on iTunes for a limited time (how kewl is that?!).
You will need to be on your PC or iPad to listen, but that is no hassle right. Okay, just go to:
http://itunes.com/davidbowie
And once your iTunes opens up to the DB page you will see an option to stream the album. This is a limited time thing so GO NOW young alt person!
