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Midnight Necropolis hits Tokyo!

Filed Under: Events, Goth/Industrial News, Japan Goth by Igor V. Goth — Leave a comment
October 29, 2008

Osaka’s main event will be making a one-night stop over on Sunday November 2nd (Monday’s a holiday) delivering DJ’s abound and a live performance of one of my favorite bands, BAAL! This Gothic festival of the night includes DJ Taiki, Non and Lucien from the Black Veil plus the live set from BAAL, Necro Girls and a CD shop booth. As the flyer says Osaka’s Absolute Gothic-Industrial-Electro-EBM Party. The event will take place in Marz Shinjuku from 23:30 Sunday evening. As this is an overnight event you must have a photo ID to enter.

Where: Marz Shinjuku
Address: Dai-Ichi Tokiwa Building B1F, 2-45-1 Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo :: 新宿区歌舞伎町2-45-1 第一トキワビルB1F
Tel: 03-3202-8298
Open: 23:30
Price: 2,500 yen adv. :: 3,000 @ door
Booking: mail@baaljapan.net


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Baal on Youtube

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October 26, 2008

This is just a test, but Baal is always a delicious band.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZkGVfrB9VU[/youtube]

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Midnight Mess :: Tokyo

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October 24, 2008

[Goth – Fetish – Industrial – DJ & Live] Midnight Mess is one of the main regular Goth events in Tokyo, taking place on the fourth Saturday of every month. Mess features a mix of entertainment including live bands, DJs and performances. The general sound-scape is Gothic, fetish, dark, experimental and industrial. It is recommended as a launch point for newbies and quite a nice place to go to on a regular basis. View full article »

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Back online again

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October 24, 2008

After doing a bit of cleaning up here at JGoth towers I now feel like to blog again. Man, am I out of shape for blogging. The last CD review was a really bad piece of writing, especially considering how much I absolutely love the CD. There’s not much I have on my mind at the moment except a possible text interview with a horror-movie director (totally cool) and putting out some propaganda for one of the events in Tokyo. Oh, then there is the event list that I need to redo and some research into other add-ons for the site. Hang on a minute, that’s actually a lot of work to do. Gadzooks! I better get my mind into gear ASAP. Anyway, it’s nice to be back…

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Review :: Angelspit :: Blood Death Ivory

Filed Under: Audio Content, CD/DVD Reviews, Goth/Industrial News by Igor V. Goth — Leave a comment
September 20, 2008

Angelspit Blood Death Ivory

After several months offline, Igor is back to talk about new music he likes!

This album by Australian duo, Angelspit, kicks ass with extreme electro-clash and grinding glitch beats laced throughout. Cutting through the layered noise are the spoken-word vocals. The sound structure and vocals have a hint of Combi-Christ, but this band is definitely something unique and downright addictive.

The first track, “Grind,” unleashes heavily distorted beats with anthem-like vocals, which delivers an insidiously addictive sound. “Paint Hell Red” is a powerful track with a quirky electro-glitch beat. View full article »

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More CD’s Are on Their Way!

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August 30, 2008

There are at least two CDs creeping their way across the seas towards Igor’s cave that will give me something new to rave about! Yay!

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JGoth becomes unstable again

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July 26, 2008

Ho-hum, the pages are doing strange things again. At least Gothers.com is pretty stable (knock on wood).

In other strange news I received a beautiful looking CD case, which I assumed would be for review. Unfortunately there was no CD in said case. Oops. I hope I’m the only one to receive this surprise!

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Glimmer Void Release From Dead Scarlet Records

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July 26, 2008

Glimmer Void

Dead Scarlet Records has just released Glimmer Void’s debut 5-track album “Souls Parade” in digipack cd, limited edition.
Glimmer Void is a band from Athens, Greece, that combine ethereal female vocals with dark atmospheric melodies, influenced by the Gothic, neo-folk and neo-classical music scene.

Bio
Originally formed in Athens, in September 2004 by Stelios Mastrodiamadoglou (keyboards, guitar), Thalia Makri (vocals, lyrics) and George Kokkoras (drums, percussion), Glimmer Void started working on experimental ideas to create songs that combine ethereal female vocals with dark atmospheric melodies.

The band felt completed only after Vaggelis Babadelis (guitar) and Diana Rahmanina (cello) joined in
The process of recording began no sooner than the year 2006 and the result of it was the debut album “Souls Parade” consisting of 5 tracks.
“Souls Parade” is now out thanks to Dead Scarlet Records.

At the present time, there are two new members, George Skoufas, (male vocals and bass guitar) and Dimitris Zannis at the guitar, after Vaggelis left the band.

Glimmer Void is now giving live concerts to the Greek audience and continues writing new songs for their next album.

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Million dollar failed community sites

Filed Under: General News, The Americas by Igor V. Goth — Leave a comment
July 17, 2008

Since Gothers.com is quietly reaching 600 members I was rather surprised to see this on WSJ.com:

Thirty-five percent of the online communities studied have less than 100 members; less than 25% have more than 1,000 members – despite the fact that close to 60% of these businesses have spent over $1 million on their community projects. “A disturbingly high number of these sites fail,” Moran tells us. Full article (subscription required)

A million dollar uber-flop with less than 100 users – sheesh. Meanwhile I’m just letting the old Gothers.com site slowly tick up to 1000. It is only a matter of time and patience and only cost a few hundred plus some amateurish coding to string together.

I guess I am not tied to satisfying customer (company) needs and dreams, just to what I think the user/member may like.  No need for fancy logos or company colors, just what I think or can do. But at a million dollars even a failure would need to pull in 1000 surely? Maybe not.

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Return of the native

Filed Under: General News, Japan Goth, Site News by Igor V. Goth — Leave a comment
July 9, 2008

It has been a while since I have blogged here at JGoth.com and even longer since I last updated the events list. It feels kind of weird treading this place again.

I guess since I have been persona non grata in the local Goth scene and launched the surprisingly successful Gothers.com site has taken me away from the ol’ JGoth site and the monomaniacal urge to write about local events has disappated. Not to worry, the major planned events are up and if you are already in the scene you probably have a lot more knowledge of upcoming events than I could put up here.

I miss the gigs and parties and people and vibrancy of this underground scene, but there is never enough time these days. I hope to get to a gig or two later in the year.

For now I just want to say hello to my blog and anyone who is reading it. And if you are looking for party information start by searching Tokyo Dark Castle or Midnight Mess in the search box. Or if you are in Nagoya look for Stigmatic and in Osaka, Dark Veil I think.

Fangs for the memories, I’ll be back soon.

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