[Goth :: Very Heavy Rock :: Industrial] Feeling lucky, punk? Well do ya? Dubbed Nightmare Preachers by the organizers, Demons, this event promises a good dose of funked out Goth Rock from Speed-ID, evil metal from Demons, and industrial meltdown from Despair. Definitely worth checking out. Don’t ask me what the real @ door price is. Click here to find out why I just said that
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[Uber Goth – LIVE & DJ!!] Japan’s biggest regular live underground event featuring top class acts from the dark side of the nation!
Tokyo during Golden Week is the coolest time to go playing tourist. It is holiday season, but lots of locals have either gone to their hometowns or are stuck in traffic trying to get home. The town is quieter, the air is cleaner, and you can enjoy some of the more cultural places (temples, shrines, etc.) without so many distractions. It can also be dull during the night, unless you know where to go… And one of those places is Tokyo Dark Castle.
This month’s edition will deliver Baal, the dark industrialists who have assaulted Europe twice and promise a third coming later in the year, super hard industrial rock from Destruct System, underground veterans (and TDC organizer-band) Auto-Mod, moody acoustic-style from Lloy and a Gazelle. All this accompanied by DJ’ing from Taizo and Violet/Sisen.
While much of Tokyo’s nightlife will be shut down or just plain dead boring, TDC will be popping along quite nicely, so it is a perfect time non-Goths to go out and try a new flavor of night crawling – I know you will like it!
Tokyo Dark Castle (info)
Open/Start: 24:00
Live: Auto-Mod (info), Destruct System (info), Lloy (info), Baal (info)
and The Gazzelle (Asylum)
DJ’s: Taizo and Violet.
Note: Must be 18+ (ID checks) – 20+ to drink.
Lado went belly-up on April 5 leaving some 4000 students high and dry along with the foreign help. This comes just three days after the union representing teachers there won some concessions from them.
I actually read of some speculation that the union victory affected bankruptcy, which is crazy considering three days after agreement the company declared bankruptcy. A much more plausible explanation is that the company cracked under the high cost of licensing the Spiderman character and an ineffectual campaign. Hangon, did anyone ever see a Spidey commercial?..
Imagine burning things down and making a blog about it…
Hirata had referred to herself as “Kuma Eri,” due to her resemblance to the celebrity Yoko Kumada, and had aspired to become an idol. On her blog, she posted photographs of the buildings she had set fire to, and wrote comments on the fires, the court heard.
[Club Goth – DJ] Possibly the last of the late additions to April events… Inferno is a hot monthly event of Sunday-evening Goth with Khimaira and friends.
2,000 yen gets you entry, two drinks and a special mix CD.
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
[International Industrial] I overlooked the first two recommendations for this event, but after getting a third one I decided I better damned well add it! It looks to be an extravaganza of the forefathers of industrial music with such acts as Peter Christopherson (of COIL), COH, Robert Goerl(of ex.DAF) and esplendor geometrico(from Spain). Full details can be found here!
After a six-month hiatus, Awi and the crew are coming back to drill some more corpse-grinding speed metal on stage! I am not going to mince words here, I really loved (and still do on occasion) Agent Murder’s 2006 release, Earth of Hypocrisy, a brutal, vibrant, well-balanced black metal assault on the ears that just makes you want to grab someone and scream at them!
For those who don’t know Agent Murder… Just check out MySpace trax, or the Live vid-cast courtesy of Dark-Horse.net. The band’s Web site has been offline for a while after some script-dik (uh, script-kid) got a virtual spray can out, but hopefully that too will be back.
They will be playing at the super-overnight Urga Goth fest, St. Walpurgis Nacht with Aural Vampire, Destruct System (info), 2nd Effect, Preuve d’etre, and more on April 29. Details here
[Mental EBM nite] Thanks to Maya at Midnight Mess (info) for the heads-up on this event. The first event, Front 306 had Kohki of Destruct System amongst the DJ list, but this time features DJ Neu! from Neurotic Doll (info). Wait, wait, wait… There’s more.
Other DJ’s include Chisato from Soul Source and Shige from Die!!Die!!Color!!! and others. And there is a live show from TellMachine. Check the samples. And yes, like last month’s Front event this is free.
[Alt-rock etc.] Gadget. are back into live action again with another show @ Orgasm. It looks like the guys have gotten a new axman, Junpe (AKA Red Show). Gadget. have a sexy retro-funked out rock style going on and have done a number of Tokyo Dark Castle events. Definitely a band worth checking out.
Orgasm @ Live Freak
Open: 17:20 :: Start: 17:50
Live: Gadget. (info), B-Out, Flag, A Silent Spring, Soul Red Jam and more
Tokyo Perve, Tokyo Decadance and Alamode Night all rolled together in one night. Lots of live stuff including Lloy, Aural Vampire, Despair. Lots of shows including