by VMJ | Dec 22, 2025 | Headline
Zilqy: rise to liberation and global expansion On December 10 2025, in a packed Space Odd located in Daikanyama, a sophisticated and a trend forward residential and cultural district in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo, something unusual happened. It wasn’t merely the debut...
![NUL x Luv PARADE – “SYNCROSS” | Live-Report @ Shibuya REX, Tokyo [JP] (2025)](https://visualmusicjapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/LuvPARDE-REX4-2025.jpg)
by VMJ | Dec 14, 2025 | Report
It was a crossroads. A reunion without calling itself a reunion. A collision of futures shaped by the same origin. For one night, all these paths crossed and synchronized. Tonight’s SYNCROSS at Shibuya REX is a hybrid event in the truest sense — strange on paper,...
![TOOL | Live-Report @ K-ARENA, Yokohama [JP] (2025)](https://visualmusicjapan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TOOLcoversmall.jpg)
by VMJ | Dec 12, 2025 | Report
There are bands that tour Japan and then there are bands that seem to belong here. TOOL fall firmly into the latter category. TOOL and the Shokunin spirit, when mastery finds its home in Japan. Back in Japan for the first time in a decade, the US progressive metal...
by VMJ | Oct 31, 2025 | Editor's Special
I’ve lived through those extremes, times when everything looked perfect from the outside. The career was strong, the band was doing well, everyone thought I had it all together… but privately, I was falling apart. –– Daniel Ash Daniel Ash’s career has always been...
by VMJ | Oct 22, 2025 | Headline
꧁ GIVEAWAY ꧂ On August 5, 2023, the Japanese music world lost a truly singular voice — ISSAY, the enigmatic frontman of DER ZIBET. Yet even after his sudden passing, his voice had one more chapter to unfold. Now, in their 40th anniversary year, DER ZIBET releases...
