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Generich. and quin (九印) will be releasing a split-single on April 26th.

"Ryuumaku (龍脈)" features 3 tracks, one from each band, plus a collaborative opening track credited as JIKUIN (ジークイン). YUCHI, of Sukekiyo, was invited to play as guest bassist on the release (presumably on all 3 tracks, although I am having a hard time confirming that).

Ryuumaku will cost 3,000 yen, and will be sold as both a CD and an M-card. The cover art was done by kuin's Amano Yumihiko (天野弓彦).

M1.龍脈/ジークイン
M2.堕天/九印
M3.妖狐/Generich.

Puppet†Dim (パペットディム) have released their first music video for the song "PUPPET PLAY (パペットプレイ)".

They've also released a new demo song, "SECOND DOLL (セカンドドール)", on YouTube.

Puppet†Dim is the solo project of Karma (業-karma-), of Rands (蘭図) and AvelCain.

Their new release is their last single + a couple songs that didn't make it into the collection albums from after they disbanded.

"CRAZY MOTHER" is apparently a rerecording of "XxxX MASTER" and "Saijun" is a remake of "Gemini" with their second vocalist.

@Jigsaw I tried their best-of last night and was surprised by how many songs I was like "this is banger"

Idk if I'll post these every month, but if I do I'll keep it to one single thread. Basically, for the past 5 (?) years, I've been making monthly playlists for vkgy cataloguing and collecting new vkei music on Spotify (both new releases and newly added to the platform).

It's definitely a labor of love to hunt everything down / stay on top of news, but people seem to like that I do it so I'm cross-posting them here.

Here is the playlist for March. Feel free to discuss your highlights!

I'm glad that Hide-zou is also doing vocals, because he was really good in As'Real like 56402 years ago

Okeshou-kei band JACKS'N'JOKER have became available for streaming on April 1st.

You can now stream 3 of their albums: their 1990 self-titled, 1991's "INSIDE OUTLAW", and their best-of "THE VERY BEST OF JACKS'N'JOKER".

Michiru liked when I tweeted at him that he should just add all Loop Ash stuff to Spotify, so I guess he took his time taking it to heart but at least it’s happening lmao

I think the 2010’s were contentious for me. While it’s probably also my most collected (physical or otherwise) timeframe, as that’s when I started buying CDs frequently, I definitely remember having a love-hate relationship with it.

A lot of “THE Visual-kei” of the era didn’t really jive with me (Mejibray, ViViD, Royz, Lycaon etc), but I am an edgelord so I really enjoy the rise of homage-kei ripoffs. In general, it seemed like a period that was trying to grow and blossom into its own identity but was also combating a number of factors working against it; vkei’s tremendous drop in popularity domestically, its drop in popularity globally after download blogs got nuked and lastfm kept making the worst decisions it could in the face of K-pop’s wake, and the scene at odds with itself over “do we innovate” vs “well, it worked in the 90s so why don’t we just kinda do that again”. This definitely came to a head with COVID, which saw a lot of the scene evaporate with venues and specialty stores closing. Silver lining, though, is that the scene at large had to stop pretending digital consumption was something you could ignore.

Bands from this era that are special to me: Versailles (technically a late 00’s band but by this decade they were already established as a big name globally), Grieva, Megaromania, Lin, Dezert, Lynch (similar to Versailles — the 10’s is when they exploded), Kiryu, Gossip, Liphlich, Litchi Hikari Club, and probably a few more who I’m not recalling at this moment between work tasks I’m ignoring.

It’s cool that they’ve finally released this digitally! The original version is actually how I heard Machine for the first time

Somewhat old news, that's gotten an update.

The old:

MASK will be holding an event to celebrate 20 years since "graduating" (disbanding). The event will be a large-scale two-day concert series entitled "THANK YOU" and "FOREVER", held at Toyosu PIT on May 1st and 2nd, 2026.

The band even shared new promotional pictures, featuring updated looks for both of the band's lineups (including their original vocalist, Aoi, and original drummer, NANA).

Day 1 will feature performances from An Cafe, Aioria, Alibi, and Scissor. Day 2 will have performances from Penicillin, Dasein, Moi dix Mois, and Scissor.

The updated / new news:

MASK shared through VisuNavi that they will be making their song "Sakura" available on streaming services, starting April 4th. VisuNavi refers to this as their "meikyoku (名曲)" (eng: "famous work"), and it was a song released shortly before disbanding. April 4th marks 20 years since that song was released.

(Side note: this song was already released digitally a few years ago when they added their "best of" albums to various platforms. Maybe they forgot...?)

The article also teased that "additional MASK tracks" will be released digitally on that day as well, but does not mention which.

Lastly, the band has uploaded their music video for "Mirai e no Tsubasa" on their official YouTube channel. Checkout the osare goodness below:

I like their first single. Agreeing with his screams being unnecessary, but the rest of the song was great.

Kalen will hold a one-day revival in celebration of 20 years since disbanding

The event will be held on January 10th, 2027, at Osaka Muse.

Dokubari (毒針) have released a new digital single, "Dekiai PUPPET"

Rest in peace

CyberDope announced their formation on March 21st, 2026. Although they haven't shared any samples of music as of yet, the band is made up of members from the Kanazawa area.

Wow they get signed to Free-will and now they think they're the new X with all of these album delays

Re:ally excited for this, and there's a few items that I'd love to sn≒g