Our coverage of visual kei festival “MASKED 2026” begins here with a live report for DAY1!

This is vkgy's history of visual kei, covering its 1970s roots, its 1980s precursors, its start in 1990, and its evolution through 2025.

Every day, there are more and more visual kei bands on Spotify. Although it's great to have access to vkei on streaming services, it's increasingly difficult to keep track of what is available where. We hope that this page can help you find vkei music more easily.

DEXCORE bassist 澄 -TO-RU- has passed away.

Welcome to the 5th installment of the New Releases Playlist for 2025, featuring Phobia as the cover band ♫. This playlist contains new music, as well as music newly added to the platform. Several artists have added material to Spotify for the first time, so be sure to check out new streamable releases from artists like style, ZIGGRAT (ジグラット), Plazma-X, and more.

DEXCORE's second full album “WE WERE HERE” is now available on multiple streaming platforms. Spotify link below.

The quick definition of loud kei

This month's featured artist is: BUCK∞TICK!

This month's featured artist is: Kagrra,!

Nagoya-based metal-core band DEXCORE have released their first new song in almost a year.