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Evil Roll :: The Demons’ Three Nights of Hell

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November 1, 2007

Demons’ Evil Roll is a three day event featuring a lot of metal, industrial and hard rock. The event information is all below along with a couple of clips featuring Twisted Clock and Despair.

Where: Club Chop
Address: Floor B1, 2-46-3 Ikebukuro Toshimaku, Tokyo 171-0014 :: 〒171-0014 東京都豊島区池袋２丁目４６-３ :: Map

Date: Friday November 9
Bands: Apologist, Killer Chainsaw, Spike Honey, Mach Trigger and the Demons
Price: 1,500 yen advance :: 2,000 yen @ door.
Open: 18:30 :: Start: 18:50

Date: Saturday November 10
Bands: Dazzle, Skull Smash, Unholy the 13th Preachers, Twisted Clock (ex. Calmando
Qual) and Demons
Price: 1,500 yen advance :: 2,000 yen @ door.
Open: 18:30 :: Start: 18:50

Date: Sunday November 11
Bands: The Lechery from Mars, Der Eisen Rost, Despair (yay!), Shrine and Demons
Price: 1,500 yen advance :: 2,000 yen @ door.
Open: 18:30 :: Start: 18:50

Twisted Clock

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Despair :: Junk War Live

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Agent Murder & Suicide Squad @ Ikebukuro Chop

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November 1, 2007

Black metal from Agent Murder with white core from Suicide Squad plus three other heavy bands at Chop!

Where: Club Chop
Address: Floor B1, 2-46-3 Ikebukuro Toshimaku, Tokyo 171-0014 :: 〒171-0014 東京都豊島区池袋２丁目４６−３ :: Map
Bands: Agent § Murder, Suicide Squad, 白病, Dazzle & Cassandra
Price: 2,000 yen adv. :: 2,200 yen @ door
When: :: Open: 17:30 :: Start: 18:00

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Amy’s Arms live videos (Canada)

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October 31, 2007

A big thanx to Amy’s Arms for sending across a couple of CDs. The CD got a lot of playtime while I bided my time with all the other crazies in happy land. When I get on top of things I will start doing some serious reviewing. Amy’s Arms are a lounge Goth act from Canada and do a bang-up job with some dark emotional music. The members are Siren on vocals and Mr. Ratt on bass and programming.
You can find them at their Myspace locale with a few trax to get a taster including a hot cover of Wicked Game!

They are a great mix of Gothic Lolita with big-ass boots! Here are a few videos for you to check out.

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JGoth Redesigned :: New Forum & Site with Archives Online

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October 20, 2007

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 board it offers greater flexibility and more options, which is good for board members.

On top of that you will find that there is a stack of topics to cover more Japanese music scenes not to mention international sections to talk about various Gothic scenes overseas.

The board comes in five major sections. The lengthy list is:

  1. The Welcome board with FAQs, Polls and Suggestion box
  2. A smeg-load of boards covering J-Goth, industrial, other music styles and life in general in Japan. There are also special sections German, French, Spanish and Japanese.
  3. A European section for listing the 10 countries that I get the most visitors from including the U.K., Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Italy, Greece, Spain and Belgium and a board for other countries.
  4. Goth in the Americas with U.S.A. Canada, Brazil and Chile listed plus a board for other countries.
  5. Finally Oceania and Asia where the bulk of visitors come from Australia & New Zealand and China/Hong Kong.

If you are interested in giving the JGoth.com forum another try I’d be most appreciative. Because the password encryption is different from the last board you will need to re-register. That takes about one minute to do. Once in feel free to post away!

Remember the new board is located at:
http://forum.jgoth.com/

The archived articles for JGoth.com are presently located at:
http://xfactor.jgoth.com/

So that’s three places to keep in mind:
Board: http://forum.jgoth.com/
Archive: http://xfactor.jgoth.com/
New site: http://www.jgoth.com/

Thanks again for your support.

Cheers

Igor/Admin
forum.jgoth.com
xfactor.jgoth.com
www.jgoth.com

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September apologies

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September 27, 2007

I’ve been in hospital and it is generally impossible to access a computer (not that I really want to at the moment). JGoth should be back in order and transformed back to its old blog structure sometime in October or November (I hope!).

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August apologies

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August 31, 2007

Sorry, I have been under a lot of stress lately and haven’t had time to blog.

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JGoth – back online

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July 30, 2007

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 security a bit. I don’t know for sure – things are moved around a bit and lots of stuff looks like it has been rifled through on numerous occasions, but nothing physical has been stolen, yet. It has me a bit freaked because, apart from lots of small things hinting someone is around while I am out (or out like a light), there really isn’t much to show. I reached the conclusion this morning that either I am experiencing some kind of delusion (btw. the rest of the world seems just dandy), or there is a real pro (or experienced amateur or a group of pros) about. I hope I’m just jumping at my own shadows, but I am afraid that the shadows aren’t connected to my body.

Anyway, I decided that rather than obsessing about this 100% of the time, that I would try to get back in the scene as best I can. I don’t have the energy at the moment to go full-on event-handling (and I have to pick up the rest of my life too), so I’ll post Goth things when I can and try to keep the unknown fears at bay.

Hugs to all friends, family, acquaintances and people not invading my home.

PS – I *know* this sounds all very psychotic, but there are too many little weirdnesses going on for me to quietly sit in a corner.

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Club Inferno @ Bar Shifty Shibuya TOKYO :: Sun. 17 June

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May 22, 2007

[Club Goth – DJ] A monthly dose of Sunday-evening Goth with Inferno’s Khimaira and friends.

2,000 yen gets you entry, two drinks and a special mix CD.

Soundscape is Gothic, death rock, positive punk, dark wave, dark electro, technoiz and more.

Club Inferno (info) @ Bar Shifty Shibuya
Open/Start: 18:00
DJ’s: Khimaira, Satsuki

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Torture Technique #7 @ DayTrip NAGOYA

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May 21, 2007

It is nice to see that Nagoya has reached a point where every month has a nice event or two going on. Torture Technique is organized by Stigmatic. DoomSpider, the man behind Stigmatic, also fronts the loudest Goth band I have heard in Japan, Demonoid 13 who look forward to screaming at you! They will be joined by digital noise terrorists Utero ZZZ AAA, Smells, D.U.S., Comfortable Numb and ρEkullcrowρE

I am really serious about this point: Bring ear plugs! Seriously, the amps in Japanese clubs are way to powerful for the space and some people think MAX is the default setting! DoomSpider was even louder than my first experience of Scorpian Death Rock, which still left my ears ringing as I hid behind the sound-proofed doors at Area. Anyway… enjoy the sounds!

Torture Technique Vol. 7 by Stigmatic
Open: 18:00 :: Start: 18:30
Live: Demonoid 13, Utero ZZZ AAA, Smells, D.U.S., Comfortable Numb and ρEkullcrowρE
DJ: Xendat.

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Dungeon disconnected from the Inter-Web

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May 18, 2007

Shock, horror. I have lost Web access from the ferret dungeon. The little lords (them dang ferrets are higher lifeforms) are part of the reason why this site continues – I get to kill two birds with one stone giving you a regularly updated site and giving the little masters the activity time they need. Without the dungeon connected to the Web I have to choose between paying to go online at some smelly Internet cafe just to update the site or take care of the two fuzzy masters of JGoth towers. Fuzzies win every time.

Until I can get the dungeon reconnected, JGoth goes through another go-slow period. I will add a few more events for June when I can grab a couple of extra hours outside, but it will be quicker and dirtier than usual.

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